the front of the park could be anywhere... i think the for was just used to rhyme with door so we could get the key part of it... of course if anyone knows where the true front of cherokee park is i'd love to know :-) !!!!

"Zach....." (said in a soothing voice) Look, it's only Monday... We've a few days left. Now, JMHO, tonite the clue will give objects or something-or-others to zone in on... Like, make you think about the area around/between/in relation to something else, that's already (I'm betting!) kind'a been pointed out/to in previous clue(s). Try not to give up hope... "we've many miles to go before we sleep." (DAMN!!! LOL!!! That is just TOO literal!!! I'm so tired I was dozing off at work today!!! Gotta be sick to put yourself thru this, but it's the funnest sick I've ever had!!!)

Anyway, statistics are on the side of The Diggers! In what? Forty-six years (not real sure when this all started, but seem to 'memeber '52...) the Med has only NOT been found once!!!!

Be of stout heart!!! The Diggers will prevail!!!

I guess you could say I'm up, this guy/women is driving me crazy W & I.

I know but as his phychosis evolved he later dropped the "artist fomerly known as"

I see Itsy isn't formerly anymore.

Nathan -nobody took you up on your "will ride for beer " idea????

OK, lrt's get a grip, what is the next real clue going to mean, like the sign in the park that says "no golfing", can't believe those Mounders. Sound like frog pond anyone

Just checking the time, I thought it didn't come out at Pioneer Press building until 12:00 midnite. PLEASE REPLY!!!

ive got a ride coming at 8 i think... it's my friend though and it's pretty much a given that he will want some beer!!! And when i get to cherokee im gonna yell THE WATER COOLER RULES so we can combine forces and beat this thing!

I think the medallion hider got confused and put the med in Cherokee Parks' basketball shoe and he is in Cleveland!

Nathan: YELL LOUD so I can hear you.

where are ya at Tomski???? Wisconsin?

Yes Mr. picture, yell loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

: Maplewood,

hey Woman and I ???? IS the PP a madhouse at 11 or not??? Do they post it on the door???

We have been at the pioneer press that last couple of years, it is a madhouse, people line up a couple block long, most of them with cellalur phones. Each person has to buy there own paper.

For all of us that were in the cooler last year, can you believe how many more posts this year. I printed all the posts last year, this year I can't afford the paper.

aw screw that then... i'm gonna leech off someone at the park when they find it out

Sage: Ditto from this tired old brain. Note there are no people talked about this year as there have been in so many years past. All buildings, structures, objects. I'm of the opinion the folks at the Press are in some saddistic pool - all the writers switch off over the years, think up hiding places/clues... and take bets on us Cooler-junkies as to who's the silliest!!!! I feel like a rat in a glass testing cage!!!! I keep wondering if i'm gonna find my piece of cheese!!!!

Nate: Been thinking the same for about 2.5 days, but didn't want to voice it. Folks are *still* laughing at me about all my "double" stuff, but... at least to me, it's all so obvious!!! Hey, well. You speak it, better be able to put up with the rejounders.

(hi-fiving Jim) Too funny!!!

NewDad: You've totally lost me... What cat? Anyway, zap my "fat mouth man" and e-mail with any questions you got. Will be happy to answer all and discuss showing... *However*... NOT NOW!!!! "I Got A Med On My Mind,"... Great name for a song, think?

Got, it BW... but, like I told Dad... Kind'a ain't got time for anything but that damn disk rite now. I've kept your address (thank you) and will be in touch. Have no idea where that child is!!! She called me at work today, we chewed some ideas and she thought she'd stop by CP on her way home from work. She was thinking she'd get off about 6:00 p.m. I, too, am a bit worried. I wish to 7734 she'd get in touch w/me as I've another double division that goes hand-in-glove w/our telly conver earlier today. I've enuff gray hairs w/o her adding to them!!!! LOL!

Hold your hand up very high and cry VERY loud for "PPMCC" logo wear in the coming years!!! ("Pioneer Press Medallion Cooler Club") OOOOHHHH!!!! 'Nother thought!!!! Pins for winners each year!!! Like that guy that won twice? He'd have two to put on his hat!!! The pins could match the WC Pins!!!! Oh!!! Neat!!!

Just stand by someone with a cellalur phone and when they start running toward something, just follow them. How many years have you been hunting, Nathan??

Just checking the time, I thought it didn't come out at Pioneer Press building until 12:00 midnite. PLEASE REPLY!!!

I was told the clue couldn't be picked up until 12:00 midnight at the Press building and 11:30 on the net. Am I wrong?

since 89... im only 21 that's why its hard for my friends to get convinced to come with.... i love it! i was 10 feet away or maybe less when it was at harriet 2 yrs ago... at least it's not 20 below this year

Green I can't wait for the three mouseketeers I will have more than one car or less than one husband to take the one car. Has anyone ever come up with a bumper sticker or button that says "I'd rather be hunting (digging)? Sounds like the begining of a money maker. Let me know if there is anything I can help with from The Cathedral Side.

and last year i was stuck in nashville where they rarely even see snow let alone dig up parks on a crazy treasure hunt

Nat, my man. You talking to moi? I've my years screwed up? Wouldn't be surpised. The past five days seem like just one big long one. When you take in as much info as some as us have during this time... It all seems, sometimes, to turn to jello in the head.

Checked on a new doo yet?

I have been looking for this dam thing for almost 20 years, I have been within 5 feet of it about 6 or 7 times. This is the first year, I have been online, it is FUN!!!!

Charlie Pride: The clue is released at about 11:00 p.m. from the Press building only. At 11:30 p.m. they post it on the Planet. Patrick Budion: Even with all the annoying posts from Joe Medallion and his many alter-egos, this year's Cooler is much livelier than last year. The Press must be drooling at the potential this group has. I had a chance to talk to Casey Trauer and he said it was by far the most popular Water Cooler room last year. My guess is it could equal all other conversations combined this year.

Nathan - go to the park about 11:00 or so. Have someone call you on a cell phone with the clue when they get if online at 11:30. We did that Sat. night.

The last time the medallion was found in CP, people picked up the papers from the pioneer press and were going between 50 and 75mph down West 7th Street. It was really something to see!!

im goin to the park as soon as my idiot friend gets here... so cherokee is really dark as a pit at nite??? i havent ever been there at nite...

Greenslvs2, Here I am. Was at the park at 6:00. Walked home about 7 and have been reading ever since.

AMD, shoveling the walks is NOT the block club's responsibility, it's Park and Recs and they say they don't have the money. Yeah, right.!

Hi BW.....

FYI, ran into itsinmy at the park, surprise surprise by the "lucky" sign.

Oh, and LUV the Cooler Club pins, count me in!

Maybe we should all get together, throw in $20 a piece, and start our own business selling cooler ware.

BW!!!! GREAT IDEA!!! Not only "I've a Well-diggers (referring to it being cold,*usually* when we dig!!!) @ss As I Do The PPMD," or something like that, LOL!!! But bs's for all diggers that "register," like here or something. We can ponder that.

Buttons!!! Yes!!! Buttons!!! Buttons (the sellin of!) could fund the PP prize... Or... the proceeds from the buttons, bumper stickers, hats, other neat junque... ALL THAT could be a new donation to charity... IN ADDITION TO the xtra $1,000 that PP gives the Med winner. A "double" (RISLOLWMP!!) whammy!!! A win-win for everybody!!! And, I'm willing to bet, having gotten to know lots of the "CCC" members... The Diggers would be thrilled (well, the adult majority!!!) to donate proceeds to charity!!!!!!

(That thought is from me feeling bad about someone (me and C????) finding the Med and then Charity not getting it. I feel kind'a crummy for being greedy.....)

Thinking about heading out to the park - have to get my car, it was a shorter walk home, than back to it by the time I got to the nord side.

Green, where are you.....:(

Black Widow, are you there???

Mr. Tom: OH!!! Yes!!! Is this NOT the greatest!!! This is my very first year... And I'm having the biggest blast of all time!!! I'm so worried tho the kids - the rotten ones, not the nice ones - will ruin it and PP will throw their hands up in disgust. Purrsonally, I think if *we*, the PPMCC Members try and police "our" spot and keep the heat off PP - they have GOT to get tired of that crap - then maybe the PPMCC will continue. I'll be really unhappy if it doesn't. Med aside, even!!!

Side note: I'm learning wonderful history of my adopted state, learning how to get around the cities better, meeting and making new friends (waving to BW and C!!!), and getting a better appreciation for the businesses in the area. This is like a big Trival Pursuit game, but on line and MEANINGFUL.

Does anyone think it might be on the east side of Smith? or at least closer to it?

C!!! Can you get me again AOL??? I've another double divsion you need to know about!!!

Green I know where you're coming from with feeling bad about the charity thing. The couple of nights that I did go out and hunt my friends and I had decided that if we found it (there was three of us) that it would be easier to split $3000 by three so we had planned on giving the other $1000 to one of the shelters. I think we need to talk to someone to see if this venture would be possible. INMHO I think they would love the ideas if a portion were going to charity....

BW and green, I third that motion.

Green, just sent other.

Cheryl, what do you mean on the other side of Smith?

Just got back from Cherokee and a policmen was anouncing over

his speaker that the medallion has been found. The placed cleared

out in a hurry. I wasn't to sure, maybe he got some bad information,

so I decided to drive by the Pioneer Press bulding. When I walked

up to the door there was that dang sign that gets me every year saying the medallion had been found. :( This really stinks. Oh well

I'm really glad to have met so many people here on Water Cooler and

can't wait until next year. Hope to see you all then.

Ah, well, ladies... (slinking like a dirty mongrel...) Can we wait 'til next year???? I *need* the cash.... Oh, crap.

Yea, me too!!!! At least I've more than so many.

Now, C, if we're gonna give some to charity, we gotta find it first. Get Hubs up away from the tv and have him AOL me again!!!!

IGNORE, ALL!!! Casey's the guy to believe. He's not said anything and this is a quote from earlier... 4:00 a.m.?... of today. Believe in Casey. He won't let us down.

Message sounds just like the other phony baloney this am.....re: found

I have been sending to you green, will shut down and try to resend if you don't get it soon.

We ready to rumble.......er, I mean head to the park:)

Hows hunting everyone?