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OT

I think CM's Valley Of Death shot says it all.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:00 AM Permalink
ares

Now I will have a pictorial version of WC that maybe they will "get" why I'm so wierd.

until they've experienced it for themselves, vino, no one ever "gets" it. :smile:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:02 AM Permalink
KITCH

:frown:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:04 AM Permalink
Liquor Lady

I'm curious to see how many people at my new job even know about the hunt, it's kind of a mixture of people from the cities and country folk :wink: I suppose I will have alot of explaining to do this year :eyeroll:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:10 AM Permalink
KITCH

they know about it...

might not care...

but they know.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:12 AM Permalink
Liquor Lady

we'll see after I get done with them :smile: :sillygrin:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:15 AM Permalink
KITCH

where r u working at now??
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:16 AM Permalink
Liquor Lady

A place called Bolt industries, used to be riteway precision machine, it's in bethel, we make medical stuff. basically a machine shop.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:21 AM Permalink
KITCH

sweet...

you are a third of the way to st. paul.

heh
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:22 AM Permalink
THX 1138

I never knew about it until I stumbled upon the Cooler Crew from the news threads over at PP.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:25 AM Permalink
Liquor Lady

I will probably only hunt over the weekends, I don't get off work til 3:00 am and I have to get LIl' Roaster up for school at 6:30 but I'm off Fri-Sat-Sun and we have NT's mom and dads house to stay at so all is good :smile:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:25 AM Permalink
Liquor Lady

and on that note I didn't realize what time it is, have to shower for work, will be back before I leave if I have time :smile:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:27 AM Permalink
Love4Vino

True that.

But after sending out my invites with the rhyme on there - I got several calls of WTF is up with you and this poem?

so far, I just laugh and say - you will see. you will see.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 12:14 PM Permalink
Wicked Nick

you should wear a vulcan outfit...

and chase people around, trying to draw a V on their face....

It would look even more insane
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 12:24 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

naw, smudge 'em the old way!
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 12:45 PM Permalink
Liquor Lady

or just cop a feel :wink:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 12:46 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

The best-known practice of the Vulcans - marking people with grease paint as a sign of allegiance - has drawn some complaints over the years, especially from women who did not want to be marked.

In the past, Vulcans wore grease paint on their cheeks and gave women a check-to-cheek "smooch" or "smudge." After complaints in the 1970s, the smudge was largely abandoned. Now, the Vulcans use grease paint sticks to mark participants, mostly children, with a "V."
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 12:49 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

From the 1965 clues courtesy of cooler crew.com

The Vulcan and his men utter many whoops and yips,

As they smooch the lovely girls and smudge them with their lips.

Some distance from the hiding place and high up in the air,

Are stacks, that pour forth sooty smoke by more than just a pair.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 1:01 PM Permalink
KITCH

wasn't the world all sex in the 60's

:pbpt:
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 1:03 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

They still wore the grease paint in the 80's up to at least 1991 in the Little Canada Day's Parade.

My mother has plenty of photos of me bawling my eyes out after being smudged from them.

of all things to be afraid of as a child - men with facial hair... or apparently painted on facial hair.

When I got a little older, they would still chase me through the front yard and grab me and smudge me during the parade.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 2:05 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

ahhh. those were the days, being chased through your grandma's yard by a man in a bright red jumpsuit.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 2:06 PM Permalink
diggin4it

I recall my youth, going to Kolachke days in Montgomery with my grandmothers family and watching the parade. When I would here those sirens coming I would run away, CRYING, so deathly terrified of the Vulcans. I honestly believed they were the devil!
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 2:36 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Funny you should mention that. I was reading some history on the vulcans today and they originally had horns on their heads. Then they changed them to feathers. Then later they lost the feathers and went to a single thing. (mohawk shaped ridge?) Can't remeber the verbage used to describe it now. But they must have looked like devils when they had horns.

Vulcan History

edit-Heres the link
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 3:43 PM Permalink
Wicked Nick

we used to chase them down, when we were lil kids.... at the Payne Avenue Parade....

the "V" was too sought after to stick around in any one place for any amount of time, or else they'd get mobbed by tons of us little kids...

I also believe that, it was after one of those parades... 1994 or '95, which was where we first got the idea to steal the ICP paint design....

One of the ladies down at Twin Cities Magic & Costume on W. 7th, told me a couple years ago, that they were the store that those guys purchase most of their grease marker things from.... they get some kinda "vulcan discount" or something.....
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 4:41 PM Permalink
Wicked Nick

my dog dragged me out past the mosh pit again today.... I got some pics with my new digital cam.

will post them soon, hopefully.... if I can get the camera and the computer to get along with eachother....

the pit itself looks the same, only with snow... kinda surprising, since this summer it was so overgrown, it just looked like a thick forest.... snapped a couple of that.... along with one of "ClueMaster's crop circle" area.....and a few others..
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 4:47 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

Diggin - I am right there with you!

I was soooo afraid of them. One year I ran and got the hose and said if they got any closer I'd dowse them.

looking back - it's funny.

then, it was terrifying.
Thu, 01/05/2006 - 11:36 PM Permalink
me2

those stories should be in Scribes winter carnival stories thread -thanks for sharing your Vulcans memories - nice
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 5:25 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Hey me2

I got to read some of the stuff Scribe brought home.

Very cooler. Especially the one about ripping the park field apart.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 5:30 AM Permalink
me2

is that something she got from MHS or with me?

we had fun messing with the intern :wink:
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 5:38 AM Permalink
THX 1138

She might have said MHS.

My bad.

I'll scan it sometime and show you.

It was Maplewood complaining about the hunt.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 5:43 AM Permalink
OTiS

That sounds pretty funny and interesting too.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 5:44 AM Permalink
me2

ah yes, Ive seen those. I think we have it in our files too. I think we have the letter from the city of Maplewood (or someone told me they have it) ---oh thats it...Don Boxmeyer was telling me that they got the letter from Maplewood telling him he couldn't put it there. funny
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:24 AM Permalink
me2

Reminder:

Cooler Crew Poker Tonight - 7 pm ish

buy in: wine and $

I have crackers and cheese, chips, pretzels, m&m's, I even made chili

oh, you dont have to play poker to come hangout- but bring something to drink
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:25 AM Permalink
KITCH

hmmm....I wonder if she "lifted" something

bwwwaaaah.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:25 AM Permalink
THX 1138

$0.35 a copy

I know this cuz the said damages were supposedly 4 pages long, and she said (@ $0.35 a copy, I didn't have enough money on me).

:smile:
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:26 AM Permalink
me2

Reminder:

Cooler Crew Poker Tonight - 7 pm ish

buy in: wine and $

I have crackers and cheese, chips, pretzels, m&m's, I even made chili

oh, you dont have to play poker to come hangout- but bring something to drink
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:28 AM Permalink
KITCH

Would be cool to have the letter from maplewood framed and on my wall.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:31 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Give me $0.35
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 6:54 AM Permalink
KITCH

ya right....

Can I do it???

photo copy it....put the copy in the archives...

and lift the real one....... 35cents :wink:
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 7:18 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

I want a copy too. BTW whatever happened to that historical paper on st. paul trees? Never got that either...
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:12 AM Permalink
me2

I have that- show up tonight and pick it up KC :wink:
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:14 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

can't, I got plans... that's probably why I haven't gotten it yet...

Hey didn't I still need to take a field trip over to someplace to look at some old plat maps?
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:19 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

was that Tim that said he had access to some plat maps?
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:33 AM Permalink
OTiS

I think he said pops does.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:37 AM Permalink
OT

Can't anyone look at old plat maps in Ramsey County. I did some free lance work for the Dakota County EPA once and needed to look at maps and just had to sign in at the desk and state why I wanted to look at them and in I went.

I spent part of my time there looking at maps from around where I lived.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 11:58 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

nah.. I thought I got an invite from me2 to to look at some somewhere...
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 12:51 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

me2- I don't think I can make it tonight, I have another kidney stone and I think I'm going straight home after work because I was at the ER last night from 1am-630am. sorry, I was looking forward to it.
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 3:20 PM Permalink
KITCH

not afraid of me r u??

might be for the best :eyeroll:
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 3:30 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

you are going?
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 4:27 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

Sorry to hear about your pain Timmers.

My uncle used to have those all the time. I remember hearing one he passed was the size of a walnut.

I'll keep you in my thoughts!
Fri, 01/06/2006 - 4:35 PM Permalink