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2003 ThoseMedalingKids Mock Hunt

Submitted by ThoseMedallingKids on

Here is all the pertinent information on the hunt:

The TMK mock hunt will start on Wednesday, September 17, and end on Sunday, September 28.

Clues will be released at 9 pm each night.

There will be 12 clues in all.

The treasure will be hidden on public land in Ramsey County (stay out of the fairgrounds, off the indian mounds)

The treasure will not be hidden in a spot that will endanger hunters (along a cliff, under an electrical box, on the water of a lake/river, etc)

If there are questions or concerns, please try reaching me by email or egram. I will have my cell phone with me, but while I am at work it will be off. I will check messages during breaks though.

Prize will be announced. Donations are welcome.

OT

Did you guys see I got a Joe! A kilojoe! I was so proud.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 6:51 PM Permalink
OT

I'm going to be leaving here soon to go and watch Queer Eye. I'll be back when it's over. Maybe something profound will occur to me while I'm gone.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 6:53 PM Permalink
Terry

Hello!!!

Finally home from work and done slogging.

The water part seems obvious - but with an eye could be waiter that serves you well - or eye water which would be tears.

The one time the PP medallion was at Cherokee, there was a water clue and it was a fire hydrant. Water can be anything.

Waiter could mean a restaurant nearby.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:03 PM Permalink
'mom'

Hello!!

I was told a WEEK ago that this hunt would be going, and I keep forgetting to even check in!!

I have to say the clues pretty much have my head spinning. From the things I can make sense of though, I'm thinking Mounds. The caring home is the Marian Center, the third clue I'm not too sure about, although if you wanted to, you could make THORN street be the thing that gets under fur. The 4th clue's reference to a New England band's cd could be 10000 Maniacs "In My Tribe". There are tennis courts and the high/low thing also could be being able to see (eye) the water from both high and low ground.

That's all I've got for now, and I certainly have NOT ruled out a lot of other parks, but the most things make sense to me in Mounds right now. Hopefully, now tomorrow I can get out and take a look-see before dark!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:05 PM Permalink
Terry

Hey Mom! Glad you made it! We could use a new set of eyes on these clues!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:12 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

Good noodling mom. A lot of people have a lot of good theories and reasonings. Too many to choose from right now.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:12 PM Permalink
Terry

One thing that hasn't been mentioned - and maybe it's because who knows where it might lead - or not lead....but it's dander that resides under fur.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:14 PM Permalink
regman

It would be cool if you could hunt!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:15 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

joe

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:17 PM Permalink
Terry

I've got a couple things to take care of around the house - tomorrow is garbage day and so I'll be back in a few.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:18 PM Permalink
medallionis venator

"There are bits and pieces that need to be brought together to help you figure out the place." -This is a post from TMK

I said earlier that the clues are made up of 'bits and pieces' from previous clues. Check that post and you will see what I mean.
I still like Langsford. Hey AW, I 'reassembled' for a devil of a good time line from the clue and took out a few letters and came up with Langford. I like that Harrison Ford to ME2. Right now i'd say Lansgford my second choice would be Cherokee. I narrowed it down to two :)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:45 PM Permalink
OT

You can reassemble "if with a keen eye you can see a caring home", remove some letters and get Cherokee too.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:55 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

Can I ask what you reassembled to get Langford?

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 7:55 PM Permalink
OT

I think he left. He reassembled "for one devil of a good time" from clue #5.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:02 PM Permalink
OT

But keep in mind you have to remove several letters to get there.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:03 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

"Computers using the Athlon MP helped Scooby and his pals uncover villains; they also fought the dark side during the production of 'Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.' "

Does this mean anything? Probably not, but I thought I would throw it out there and see if anyone can make it mean something.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:04 PM Permalink
OT

So far I've only come up with phantom.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:09 PM Permalink
OT

hat on MP. Any military police around? Wearing hats? Thanks for the challenge though. It gives me something to do. :)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:11 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

well right now I am confident that even if I somehow came upon "the answer" I wouldn't believe it myself

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:13 PM Permalink
medallionis venator

Just sometimes I try to hard and try to make things fit. Must of my theorys are way off base. However, some of them are kinda close. I just proofread some of these clues for grammer. They really dont make much sense to me so I know there is something with the way the clues are layed out. Like OT notice "tennis courts" I just know they have to yield some kind of meaning. :)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:14 PM Permalink
Terry

That's half the problem. Even if you hit on the right answer - there's at least a couple other ways of going with something and until you get to the right place and it all fits, you don't know if you're right or wrong.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:15 PM Permalink
OT

Looks like the Arnold is going to be the new governor of California.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:16 PM Permalink
OT

I went over to Cherokee this afternoon and realized after I got there that it isn't even the hunt itself that I'm hooked on. I couldn't care less if I found it. I would just like to be able to say I figured out some of the clues. So I pretty much just took a nice walk around the park.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:18 PM Permalink
Terry

It's the thrill of the hunt - not the finding that keeps us at this stuff.

If it was the finding - I would have been out of this years and years ago.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:21 PM Permalink
medallionis venator

I have been looking back and the early nineties clues and locations on 8m site and noticed there a lines that seem to match TMKS' clues. It was the year they found it at Langford Park. Thats my thought process for now :)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:27 PM Permalink
OT

I agree MV. That's why I think there is probably more to clue #7 than we've culled so far.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:27 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

OR maybe TMK was the clue writer for Ma Press in the early nineties...

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:28 PM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

Tim, in the early 90's I was younger than you are.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:38 PM Permalink
OT

No darn it! He still hasn't posted the second part of that last clue! Just kidding Kids. ;)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:38 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

TMK- I know, I know. It doesn't really make sense, but neither do your clues.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:39 PM Permalink
OT

Is that the clue you posted this afternoon AV? I can't remember what it was and meant to ask you where it had been found that year. That could be huge!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:40 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

(At least not to me)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:40 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

I GOT MY TREASURE HUNTER'S GUIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:47 PM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

You guys want more hints? Dream on. I don't want to give too much out and basically tell you where it is.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:48 PM Permalink
OT

Well, a girl can try. Even an old girl. ;)

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:50 PM Permalink
Terry

I've been reading some old PP clues.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:55 PM Permalink
OT

Well, I think I'm going to go hit my fringed pillow. ;) I'll be back on tomorrow to rework these clues.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:55 PM Permalink
OT

Somewhere in an earlier post today by MV, he quoted a clue from an earlier clue and it was almost word for word. Did you see that? I went looking for it but couldn't find it.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:56 PM Permalink
OT

Night Reggie. You crack me up Reg! When ever you give your one word posts and I see your picture of Bobby Zimmerman it seems like the words are coming out of his mouth and it seems so sad! He looks so sad in that pic!

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:58 PM Permalink
Terry

There are parts of just about any clue that could be word for word of 50+ years of PP clues. No pattern that I'm finding though - at least not yet.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:58 PM Permalink
OT

Oh sure, right after I talk about his one word responses he comes back with two sentences! But really Reg, the one he quoted was really close! I might stay up now and try to find it.

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 8:59 PM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

I'm picturing Reg's avatar with him saying "sup?"

Tue, 10/07/2003 - 9:02 PM Permalink