The hider starts to relax. Nobody seams to have figured out her identity. she is always nervous that with so many people probing her clues trying to read her mind that they might find out who she is.
Shew wishes she could defend her clues... but she can't she can't tell anyone. she thinks about next year... the possibilites, optimist beach by West park in white bear lake would work well, lots of interesting refeerance points....she could misled them all opver the city, digging foolishly in hidden falls, thinking her words have some twisted significacance ah the trill of the power....HAAAhahaha h..haha...the fools they think they can find my medallon hahahahnono they must dream ands dig, hunt and search for ever under my control.....hahahhehehhaha.....
January 20th sounds like a good date to me. I'm not sure exactly how early in the month it will get before it jumps up to the following week. So the 27th is still a possibility.
Since we have nothing else to ponder until next year, maybe we should devote our collective reasoning abilities to figuring out who the clue writer is? I've already started by guessing we've had the same writer since 95, which does fit in with a few of the stories I've heard.
I just wish and wish the clues were as tricky and convoluded as people make them out to be. I've only posted to this board a few times over the past two years but the things I've read and heard and thought have always been more interesting than the actual. I think the clue writer should get a clue. Is it really a woman?
No, the writer isn't really stupid, they're just not skilled at puzzle making. Writing is more of their thing, and as far as the literal *writing* goes, they're fairly good. They have a large vocabulary and a good sense of rhyme and meter. They also seem to like little word games. So my guess is the writer is somebody who really does write for a living. I seriously doubt that this is all they do for the whole year, or that they do it professionally (ruling out an outside professional service (if there really are "professionals" at this sort of thing).
So what we have is someone who works at the PP as a regular staff member, someone who has worked for them since at least 1995, and probably as a writer of some sort, whether it be a reporter or columnist. Now the question is, does the clue writer continue their normal duties during the hunt? If not, whose name seems to come up missing around this time each year?
Allison, you have been my hero on this board...thanks for all the thought you put into all of this. i think you posted a bit back you work in downtown st paul. I do too...wanna play guess my employer?
But Laura Billings hasn't been with the paper that long as she? Or did she work for them before becoming a columnist? If it is her, it would be an ironic little joke that she wrote a column about the hunt and included a quote that said the clue writer was "stupid".
Yes, it does seem like a woman to give you a bunch of vague clues about something, including things that you thought were long forgotten, and then expect you to simply know what she was talking about! hehe
I think Laura has only been there two or three years--it seems like she moved here from far away if I remember correctly. She wouldn't really mind calling herself stupid, nor would she be offended it others thought that of her-given the reader letters she sometimes puts in her column.
Matt didn't have a theory. He was considering all the options still. I think he was more upset that I seemed to be using this to promote my club, but the only reason I have my club is so we can keep doing this stuff during other parts of the year. I don't actually gain anything off of it, except an audience when I want to do my own hunt. But the people who did it last year had fun with it too.
Hmmmmmmmmm,I guess vampires can do stuff like that..
Hey Allison,know where I can get a rubber chicken?
The Mall of America of course. You can get anything there. I'd suggets The Fun Shop maybe up on the third floor, by where the mini-golf used to be.
Yuck! I don't wanna go there... What about the shop on west 7th?
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Twin Cities Magic and Costume Shop? That's a good bet too. I think I may have seen them there.
Allison,what a silly question! You know it's part of the CoolerCrew initiation ritual!
As a matter of fact I think it would be a great logo for us.....
Initiation ritual list: 1 white towel 1 bottle rubbing alchol 1 rubber chicken
Hmmm, when I started I seem to recall it being a real chicken! I guess they just don't do things like they used to anymore.
Well if you recall,PETA didn't like us using the real chickens.....
And that tree stump was getting pretty nasty.....
That's what they said anyway. I think they were just mad because they didn't find the medallion.
You mean it was just a stump when you went through????!!!
I don't know what their deal was! We donated all the parts and feathers to charity!
Well ,I don't recall I was blindfolded,but afterwards their was just a stump.
I wonder if it had something to do with the barbecue afterwards? or was it the Chicken a la Boreas?
MMMMMMMM,Yummy, ::sigh:: the good old days!
I don't know, I just remember splinters in my butt.
Jor makin me hungry!
I'm gonna go get some lunch!
See ya later!:)
Talk about a treasure hunt!
Alright fine, be that way. Guess I'll go get lunch too so there!
Does anybody know when the Hunt starts next year??
I'm thinking Jan. 20th which would be a Sunday. What do you think??
Hi to all I'm sure you are all ginh through withdrawls like I am, hope to seee ya at the Rehash.....??
The hider starts to relax. Nobody seams to have figured out her identity. she is always nervous that with so many people probing her clues trying to read her mind that they might find out who she is.
Shew wishes she could defend her clues... but she can't she can't tell anyone. she thinks about next year... the possibilites, optimist beach by West park in white bear lake would work well, lots of interesting refeerance points....she could misled them all opver the city, digging foolishly in hidden falls, thinking her words have some twisted significacance ah the trill of the power....HAAAhahaha h..haha...the fools they think they can find my medallon hahahahnono they must dream ands dig, hunt and search for ever under my control.....hahahhehehhaha.....
January 20th sounds like a good date to me. I'm not sure exactly how early in the month it will get before it jumps up to the following week. So the 27th is still a possibility.
As you can see I don't think the hider is stupid, just mentally unbalanced...
Since we have nothing else to ponder until next year, maybe we should devote our collective reasoning abilities to figuring out who the clue writer is? I've already started by guessing we've had the same writer since 95, which does fit in with a few of the stories I've heard.
I just wish and wish the clues were as tricky and convoluded as people make them out to be. I've only posted to this board a few times over the past two years but the things I've read and heard and thought have always been more interesting than the actual. I think the clue writer should get a clue. Is it really a woman?
Hay, All!!!
Don't forget to email mfibison@knightridder.com about if you're gonna be in the Torchlight parade!!!
No, the writer isn't really stupid, they're just not skilled at puzzle making. Writing is more of their thing, and as far as the literal *writing* goes, they're fairly good. They have a large vocabulary and a good sense of rhyme and meter. They also seem to like little word games. So my guess is the writer is somebody who really does write for a living. I seriously doubt that this is all they do for the whole year, or that they do it professionally (ruling out an outside professional service (if there really are "professionals" at this sort of thing).
So what we have is someone who works at the PP as a regular staff member, someone who has worked for them since at least 1995, and probably as a writer of some sort, whether it be a reporter or columnist. Now the question is, does the clue writer continue their normal duties during the hunt? If not, whose name seems to come up missing around this time each year?
Allison, you have been my hero on this board...thanks for all the thought you put into all of this. i think you posted a bit back you work in downtown st paul. I do too...wanna play guess my employer?
It's Laura Billings!!!
I do work downtown St. Paul. Let's see, who is the largest employer down here? Maybe Wells Fargo?
And its always nice to be someone's here. Sorry I didn't do better for you this year.
Hay, nosnow!!!
Don't know... Yust my guess - that ittiz a woman this year - due to "wonderful," "our," and "beloved."
Those are touchy-feely kind'a words... I think words a woman is more likely to use than a person o'the opposite gender.
But Laura Billings hasn't been with the paper that long as she? Or did she work for them before becoming a columnist? If it is her, it would be an ironic little joke that she wrote a column about the hunt and included a quote that said the clue writer was "stupid".
Wrong. Think big and local.
I just felt bad for you when "Matt" was berating you over the AA theory...Oh my, was he thinking Como at that time?
Yes, it does seem like a woman to give you a bunch of vague clues about something, including things that you thought were long forgotten, and then expect you to simply know what she was talking about! hehe
I think Laura has only been there two or three years--it seems like she moved here from far away if I remember correctly. She wouldn't really mind calling herself stupid, nor would she be offended it others thought that of her-given the reader letters she sometimes puts in her column.
Matt didn't have a theory. He was considering all the options still. I think he was more upset that I seemed to be using this to promote my club, but the only reason I have my club is so we can keep doing this stuff during other parts of the year. I don't actually gain anything off of it, except an audience when I want to do my own hunt. But the people who did it last year had fun with it too.
Ecolab?
allison, there's a reason i'm not going anywhere within a hundred yards of scribe :)
You're still afraid of that ritual? I guess you'll never make it into the Freemasons either then.
Wrong, Local Local Local--yet internationally known....
Funny. Very funny, Allison... NOT!
GEEZ!
LOL!!!
The best defense izz a good offense, Allison. Think could be Laura. But I'm not convinced that Mom Press doesn't hire it out.
Well, as dear Eags says, "I'm off like a prom dress!" Catch you guys later!!!
you betcha, allison :)
bye green--love that saying about the prom dress-I've been saying that to my 6 year old---he just doesn't get it?
besides, it's not so much the ritual, as the performer thereof :)
Hmmm, who else is downtown? Daytons?
Of course you realize the ritual has to be performed under the light of a full moon, so if you meet her otherwise you should be safe.
nahh...Let's see, here is a feeble attempt at a clue.
You'll be liable to see the building from the King Boreas realm.
is sunday a full moon? that's when she was gonna have thx do it :)
St Paul Co's?