Discuss the 2005 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt here.
tim_the_hunter
Well I don't really think it was my idea (unless I am crazy and made the whole thing up in my head), but I think it was discussed previously in some thread somewhere, and I think it's a good idea as well. We need someone to volunteer to step up and take control of this thing since AW might not even be coming to the PDG and he was the one that previously managed it. (looks around)
I can print off some numbers and help organize it if someone else wants to manage the money. How many did we have participate last year?  23 @ $5 a guess?
We might get more than that being that everybody has an equal chance of having their number picked first to guess the more obvious parks. All I know is that if I'm even picked 20th, and Cono is still available (which of course it won't be) I still wouldn't pick it. It's like picking Green Bay to me. It just doesn't seem ethical.
(and with this post, the word CONO has been officially added to my spell check words approved for this site)
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Jan 10, 2005 at 05:31pm.]
CM, I'll help organize with you. Need to come up with a time to draw the numbers so that anyone who might be showing up "after 7" knows the critical time for the drawing. I don't want to handle the cash though.
Living all the way over here makes that a liability to the winner :).
Yeah, I don't like handling the cash either. Speaking of cash, the wife just called and said she's currently watching the Antiques Road show that took place in St. Paul and there's a guy there with a Mpls Millers baseball jersey that he bought for $50 that turned out to be Willie Mays' jersey he wore when he played for them for one year. He even found a picture with him wearing it with the exact tear in the shoulder that his shirt had.  $80,000.00
                               The Hider
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Early January, a cold front moving in, the perfect time to scout out my next job. It really isn't that important of a job. The most important part is not to be seen when I hide it.  Nobody knows who I am so it doesn't have much prestige. But the power, oh the power over so many foolish hunters. They try to pick my mind from afar, to look for any pattern, they think they can see through my eyes... But NOOOO!!! I am the hider AND the clue writer. The power I have over them makes me laugh. With one simple word I can send them running from the houses, diggin in the flowers, diggin in the snow, diggin through bags of dog poop.. Oh I love to see them stand next to the puck and look around in circles, stunned like a deer in headlights, only to get that crazed gleam in their eye and run away from the sight to their cars and drive to a park accross town.. there to dig, dig, dig. How I love cold toes, and sore backs. The sleepy faces of diggers waiting in line to get the next clue...Oh they mock me and criticize me, but I can make them dig and noodle, oh the hours they noodle, every word, even every letter they analyze and debate. They google, anagram and philosophize. My words to them are a theocratic puzzle, a riddle from the gods they have no hope of understanding. Â
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      At last 20 below. Cold enough that no one will stop to wonder why I am in the park. My trusty co- conspirator, Rex my sister's dog, is the perfect cover. His thick fur keeps him warm, and no one looks where someone seams to reach down with an apparent empty plastic bag to dig a little in the snow and appears to pick up Rex's noble output. It is so fool proof. I just place the puck in the bag, reach under the thin snow and place the puck in its hiding place. Even if someone was watching, they would have no idea of my deception. I pace from the point of the flower garden, 27 paces towards the big cottonwood. and then wait.Â
   It is a lot like planting a seed. First I bury it, and wait, first a few come into the park then it grows into several people, and soon a flood of people bursting all over the park. Many branches of the hunt leading in wrong directions, some closer some farther.Â
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I do many things, but for two weeks I direct a play that has many scenes. But no one, including myself, knows the ending..and only I know the setting at first. And strangest of all, I can tell no one. I can't share the near misses with those I spy all so tantalizing close. No one can know who the writer is ,, some times I loose myself in the play and then remember. I am a writer, sometimes hunted, and one day a year,                                        a Hider
I was watching that too, CM. I didn't know Mays played in Minneapolis. I also heard tonight that rumor has it that Cher and Billy Crystal have been to the Valentino's on Concord. I have a hard time believing that, but hope it's not true! Cher two blocks from my house and I didn't even ask her over for coffee! Somehow I think my dad would be turning over in his grave to see what's become of his old office.
I kind of helped set up the thread last year for the "what park is it going to be in pool" I could do that again or help out with whatever CM or whoever else helps out needs.
just some interesting info....for those of you who saw the winter carnival collage that I did that me2 won at the mock hunt last year....I've been commissioned by the 2004 West Winds to do a custom collage for them. I'm pretty excited!!! I'm meeting with one of the wives to get all the photos and stuff tomorrow.
I'll try to keep my camera with me more this year (I don't want to have it out in the cold too much!) and possibly put together a cooler crew collage for next year. hell, if it's good enough for the west winds, it's good enough for us!
also, if anyone makes it into the Landmark Center to check out the memorabilia (which is AWESOME for anyone who hasn't seen it), the wife of the guy who collects everything purchased the winter carnival collage at the Highland Art Fair last year and said she'd put it amongst the collection this year.
AND....I'll find out tomorrow if I was accepted into the Winter Carnival Art Exhibit, which is also displayed in the Landmark Center. If I am, there will be an artist's reception on Feb 2nd with past royalty and other muckity mucks of the carnival and you're all invited (if I can invite people...I'm not sure of the deal yet)
Well I don't really think it was my idea (unless I am crazy and made the whole thing up in my head), but I think it was discussed previously in some thread somewhere, and I think it's a good idea as well. We need someone to volunteer to step up and take control of this thing since AW might not even be coming to the PDG and he was the one that previously managed it. (looks around)
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Jan 10, 2005 at 03:41pm.]
woo hoo!!! a project
very cool !
I have 12 projects
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Ian, I have Boreas coins to share with you.
I'm breakin with tradition and gonna say Highland this year. I got this feelin...course it could be my foot just fallin asleep..
I can print off some numbers and help organize it if someone else wants to manage the money. How many did we have participate last year?  23 @ $5 a guess?
We might get more than that being that everybody has an equal chance of having their number picked first to guess the more obvious parks. All I know is that if I'm even picked 20th, and Cono is still available (which of course it won't be) I still wouldn't pick it. It's like picking Green Bay to me. It just doesn't seem ethical.
(and with this post, the word CONO has been officially added to my spell check words approved for this site)
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Jan 10, 2005 at 05:31pm.]
CM, I'll help organize with you. Need to come up with a time to draw the numbers so that anyone who might be showing up "after 7" knows the critical time for the drawing. I don't want to handle the cash though.
Living all the way over here makes that a liability to the winner :).
Yeah, I don't like handling the cash either. Speaking of cash, the wife just called and said she's currently watching the Antiques Road show that took place in St. Paul and there's a guy there with a Mpls Millers baseball jersey that he bought for $50 that turned out to be Willie Mays' jersey he wore when he played for them for one year. He even found a picture with him wearing it with the exact tear in the shoulder that his shirt had.  $80,000.00
                               The Hider
Â
Early January, a cold front moving in, the perfect time to scout out my next job. It really isn't that important of a job. The most important part is not to be seen when I hide it.  Nobody knows who I am so it doesn't have much prestige. But the power, oh the power over so many foolish hunters. They try to pick my mind from afar, to look for any pattern, they think they can see through my eyes... But NOOOO!!! I am the hider AND the clue writer. The power I have over them makes me laugh. With one simple word I can send them running from the houses, diggin in the flowers, diggin in the snow, diggin through bags of dog poop.. Oh I love to see them stand next to the puck and look around in circles, stunned like a deer in headlights, only to get that crazed gleam in their eye and run away from the sight to their cars and drive to a park accross town.. there to dig, dig, dig. How I love cold toes, and sore backs. The sleepy faces of diggers waiting in line to get the next clue...Oh they mock me and criticize me, but I can make them dig and noodle, oh the hours they noodle, every word, even every letter they analyze and debate. They google, anagram and philosophize. My words to them are a theocratic puzzle, a riddle from the gods they have no hope of understanding. Â
Â
      At last 20 below. Cold enough that no one will stop to wonder why I am in the park. My trusty co- conspirator, Rex my sister's dog, is the perfect cover. His thick fur keeps him warm, and no one looks where someone seams to reach down with an apparent empty plastic bag to dig a little in the snow and appears to pick up Rex's noble output. It is so fool proof. I just place the puck in the bag, reach under the thin snow and place the puck in its hiding place. Even if someone was watching, they would have no idea of my deception. I pace from the point of the flower garden, 27 paces towards the big cottonwood. and then wait.Â
   It is a lot like planting a seed. First I bury it, and wait, first a few come into the park then it grows into several people, and soon a flood of people bursting all over the park. Many branches of the hunt leading in wrong directions, some closer some farther.Â
Â
I do many things, but for two weeks I direct a play that has many scenes. But no one, including myself, knows the ending..and only I know the setting at first. And strangest of all, I can tell no one. I can't share the near misses with those I spy all so tantalizing close. No one can know who the writer is ,, some times I loose myself in the play and then remember. I am a writer, sometimes hunted, and one day a year,                                        a Hider
I was watching that too, CM. I didn't know Mays played in Minneapolis. I also heard tonight that rumor has it that Cher and Billy Crystal have been to the Valentino's on Concord. I have a hard time believing that, but hope it's not true! Cher two blocks from my house and I didn't even ask her over for coffee! Somehow I think my dad would be turning over in his grave to see what's become of his old office.
I kind of helped set up the thread last year for the "what park is it going to be in pool" I could do that again or help out with whatever CM or whoever else helps out needs.
[Edited by on Jan 10, 2005 at 06:23pm.]
that was one long post.
soo.. it's actually in the bag of dog poo this year?
I can buy some pretty good soap with $10,000. Do your worst clue writer :)
just some interesting info....for those of you who saw the winter carnival collage that I did that me2 won at the mock hunt last year....I've been commissioned by the 2004 West Winds to do a custom collage for them. I'm pretty excited!!! I'm meeting with one of the wives to get all the photos and stuff tomorrow.
Thats way cooler Big G go get em
I've been commissioned by the 2004 West Winds
Thats pretty cool!
Awesome Big G!
I'll try to keep my camera with me more this year (I don't want to have it out in the cold too much!) and possibly put together a cooler crew collage for next year. hell, if it's good enough for the west winds, it's good enough for us!
also, if anyone makes it into the Landmark Center to check out the memorabilia (which is AWESOME for anyone who hasn't seen it), the wife of the guy who collects everything purchased the winter carnival collage at the Highland Art Fair last year and said she'd put it amongst the collection this year.
AND....I'll find out tomorrow if I was accepted into the Winter Carnival Art Exhibit, which is also displayed in the Landmark Center. If I am, there will be an artist's reception on Feb 2nd with past royalty and other muckity mucks of the carnival and you're all invited (if I can invite people...I'm not sure of the deal yet)
now you can bitch me out for bragging. hehe
I've been commissioned by the 2004 West Winds to do a custom collage for them.
YEAH!
Congrats Big G!
now you can bitch me out for bragging. hehe
your art is stupid and stuff
Don't listen to him G you go girl
very mature, tim
don't worry esd, I don't take tim seriously...he does pilates....HA!
very mature, tim
That's my next tagline!
here's another tagline....how's your v-sit coming along, tim?
That's not funny. Tim and I do pilates together.
I bet you two are in on the kitten thing together too.
[Edited by on Jan 10, 2005 at 07:06pm.]
hehehe
okay, queer eye for the straight GIRL?!?! That's just stupid. Note to reality shows, DON'T do spinoffs.
Big G, I'm sorry but I just couldn't resist.
I love your art!
Yeah... thats it.
Great news BG!! Grats!
Excellent story Daddy! Very strong visual. Especially knowing we have tundra weather on it's way
yeah, and you're cool...yeah...that's the ticket...
I think Me2 said we had to be entered by Dec 1st so I'd say it's not gonna happen.
crap. all my dreams of being a princess on a float are dashed.
oh G, you don't need a float to be a princess.
(slowly crawling out of whole I dug for myself?)
Why don't you dust off that poor kitten you were laying on while you are at it.
I saved that kitten and you know it.
Tim just saved the kitten so he could be a princess in it's eyes.
LOL! You're not in a hole, Tim, and it's okay if you want to be a princess.
Damn you all!
So many tagline options, and only one tagline. You guys are making this tough.
Hey! Maybe instead of "it's at como", I'll have the window cling say "Tim's a princess"
AM I on the right site? Your all LOCO LOL. GLAD TO BE BACK.
Hey! Maybe instead of "it's at como", I'll have the window cling say "Tim's a princess"
Why not both?
Or maybe a qualifier type deal...
If it's at Como, Tim's a princess.
I LIKE IT!!!!
Tim's a princess and damn straight I'm a master artist.
As long as I'm not in a hole, you can be whatever you want to be.
How about I make a special "cono" batch just for you?
Oh and I'll handle the money for the pool if no one else will. ;)