2005 Minbin.com and Minnesota Wild hunts

hmmmm, not sure if this means anything or it's just a coincidence, but for #3 Valhalla is a local band and That summer feeling is a song by a local artist who plays at First Ave...or was it Fine line....

probably nothing

yup

Woodroot

Better Wasted

B.W.W.Y

Wrong Tracks

Cirlces

On The Town

Kickin' Stones

Diggin' Dirt

Beautiful Imperfection

Dead Ant

Necro

Hero Zero

In The Hours

Times Forgotten

Shouldn't Say I Love You

Ice Cream Song

Devil Standin' There

Cabin Song

.M.L.S.

Tidal Waves

Punkarella

Saturday Nightmare

Get R Done

Dungeon

Little Secrets

Potato Bug

Rest High

That's their song list.

Band is called Vahalla Drive

ok one final silly thought, Whisker me away-wisk me away- Calgon take me away!!!

Gotta run, I have a poker tourney to win. Wish me luck!!

good luck mucky!!!!!!!!

and the Rockets in your pocket

Luck has been on your side..keep it goin! :smile:

I agree 'bout the river by the U...lots of ground down there

Couldn't #4 be Maple Grove possibly?

definetely

Think I'll focus on the maplewood and saint paul ones, less driving and I got good ideas for both. I'm outtta here!

OK I just got back from the Maplewood Community Center. That was the first thing that came to me. I walked around inside to see if anything stood out. Then I explored the grounds around it. There is actually a little park and large pond with trails that sits between the community center, city hall, and Ramsety county circuit court. Walked around the pond via the trails. Never knew those were there.

Stopped by Boca Chica Taco House on the way home. Fried Flour Tacos.....mmmmmmm :pbpt:

Ohhhhh, boca chica :frown:

I want boca chica :frown:

{insert whiney baby sounds}

Oh well. Good recon work!

I was thinking about Mouse 3 clue #1, "big brother" usually refers to the government's watchful eye. What gov't agency regulates internet web sites? Is the FCC?

I looked on the FCC website and said nothing about internet regulation.

Dept of Commerce?....some gov't agency has got regulate it.

donÂ’t throw me away

throw me away= we ram way hot

I think they ram way hot, don't you guys?

-heh-

Oh shit... Maple Grove :smile:

That would make since with all the growth thats been happening up this way.

Third clues

#1

Oh gross. I think a fish just farted.

#2

The magic word is our most famous falls.

#3

Loop to Loop in years gone by

#4

A place of shelter for picnics, parties or family reunions.

#5

Elizabeth called this the garden spot

#5 Eden Prairie

Author Elizabeth Fry Ellet was responsible for the naming of this community when she commented on the area's bluffs and prairies as lending to the area's description as a "garden spot".

http://www.homes101.net/minnesota-realtors/eden-prairie-c545/

FWIW, Eden Prairie was established on the same day the Minnesota became a state

OK...are we in agreement that #5 is Eden Prairie?

k, 4 is obvious....

but what about 1 a fish farting....GROSS

bubbles heh

4..Maple Grove or Maplewood?

# 3 loop to loop - allthat comes to my head is hot wheels cars....God I loved them

I,m torn on maple grove v maplewood too

Maybe #1 refers to the rather fishy smell of the Mississippi. Perhaps it's near the riverfront in St Paul.

hmmmm #3

Dub Specialists: Dub To Dub Loop To Loop 3

another local bands album

Ok, enough for now....off to work

BTW I sucked at poker yesterday

maplewood has a nice community center

Ooh...sorry. I hope you had fun, anyway

Loop to Loop: all I've found is reference to (computer) programming and fly fishing knots. PC stuff is out because of the "years gone by" references, and I don't know of any fly fishing going on in the cities.

MPR The Loop

Clue #1: Ethanol plant?

Clue #2: Minnehaha Falls?

Clue #3: University Avenue before 94 was built?

Good job researching #5, mucluck

Here we go loop de loop

Here we go loop de lie

Here we go loop de loop

All on a Saturday night

You put your right hand in

You take your right hand out

You give your hand a shake, shake, shake

And turn yourself about

Here we go loop de loop

Here we go loop de lie

Here we go loop de loop

All on a Saturday night

You put your left foot in

You take your left foot out

You give your foot a shake, shake, shake

And turn yourself about

Here we go loop de loop

Here we go loop de lie

Here we go loop de loop

All on a Saturday night

You put your right hip in

You take your right hip out

You give your right hip a shake, shake, shake

And turn yourself about

Here we go loop de loop

Here we go loop de lie

Here we go loop de loop

All on a Saturday night

You put your whole self in

You take your whole self out

You give yourself a shake, shake, shake

And turn yourself about

re:the falls

http://www.mplib.org/history/eh5.asp

Night-farting fish puzzle researchers

Bob Beale

ABC Science Online

Thursday, 6 November 2003



Click here for a sample of the farting sounds made by herring at night - scientists think the fish could be communicating (NOAA)

Herring fish have a secret nocturnal habit of squeezing gas bubbles out of their anal pores, producing distinctive noises like someone blowing raspberries, a quirky new study by Canadian and U.K. researchers has revealed.

The flatulent fish are known to respond to underwater sounds but their apparently unique sound production method is a scientific surprise, report a team led by Dr Ben Wilson, from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in today's issue of the Royal Society's Biology Letters.

"We know they have excellent hearing but little about what they actually use it for," says Wilson. "It turns out that herring make unusual farting sounds at night."

The report describes experiments in which wild Pacific and Atlantic herring were caught off the Canadian and Scottish coasts then transferred to laboratory tanks. Sound and video recordings were made to assess if and when the fish made sounds and how they responded to changing conditions and the presence or absence of predators.

Apart from revealing their sound production for the first time, the most significant finding was that an individual herring produces more such noises when it is in company with other herrings, suggesting that the sounds play a role in social communication. Infrared video recordings at night showed that the bubbles emerge in fine streams, accompanied by characteristic "raspberry" sound.



Waveform of a typical FRT sound (Biology Letters)

"Pacific herring produce distinctive bursts of pulses, termed Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT) sounds," the scientists write in their report.

The sounds consisted of "trains" of rapid broadband pulses lasting from less than a second to almost eight seconds. Most were produced at night, regardless of whether the fish were well-fed or hungry, and the fish could make them even when they did not have direct access to the air.

"Digestive gas or gulped-air transfer to the swim bladder, therefore, does not appear to be responsible for FRT sound generation," the researchers say. "Atlantic herring also produce FRT sounds and video analysis showed an association with bubble expulsion from the anal duct region (i.e. from the gut or swim bladder). Sound production by such means has not previously been described."

The scientists concede that the FRTs may have no purpose and are simply incidental to an expulsion of gas from their swim bladders - although it seems unlikely that they would do so mainly at night if it were simply a means to control buoyancy - but the fact that they make them more often when school densities increase implies that sound may be more important for herring than previously thought.

"The presence of high-frequency components and absence of low frequencies makes these sounds unusual when compared with other fish sounds," report the scientists.

The FRTs are near or above the known auditory range of most predatory fish but well within the detection capabilities of marine mammals: herring are important prey for many whales and seals.

The discovery opens up new possibilities for locating and studying herring through sound monitoring, the researchers note. As well, if herring do communicate with each other by sound it will mean that the potential impacts on them of human-generated sounds at sea will need to be re-evaluated, say Wilson and team.

I'm only half paying attention to this hunt, but I thought you'd find this funny.

Mouse #1) Saint Paul, possibly close to the riverfront since there usually seems to have a stinky fish smell there. Possibly near the state fish hatchery that sits between Mounds and Battle Creek.

Mouse #2) U of M Minneapolis campus, Posslibly near St. Anthony Falls. Minneapolis was first known as Saint Anthony. Saint Anthony village still is there but I'm not sure whether it's a separate city or not.

Mouse #3) ???? " big brother" Valhalla is MINBIN's parent company. I've been trying to figure out which Gov't agency regulates the internet. "Loop to loop" usually refers to a stretch a road that people like to cruise up and down. University Ave., or any of the metro lakes - Phalen, Como, Nokomis, Harriet, etc.

Mouse #4) Maplewood or Maple Grove. A school nearby, or sports field. A park with picnic shelthers or pavillions. Elm Creek Park Reserve has a branch to goes by Maple Grove High School. Maplewood has about a dozen parks with shelters.

Mouse #5) Eden Prairie. EP has about a dozen lakes. (good research Mucky!)

That's all noodling I have so far.

Thanks Leelabell

What do you know....I learned something today :pbpt:

Good noodle on the fish hatchery tater!!

A couple other things:

Loop to loop is also a train term.

St. Anthony Village is a suburb of Minneapolis

I used to think clue 2 was about the U. Now, I am not so sure. Little rodent in the big city could just mean that we are looking for a mouse in Minneapolis.

Magic words are please and abracadabra. I don't know that the phrase "magic word" means anything other than here is what you are looking for.

Lastly, fish farts could be a bubbling place along the river or in a lake. The Xcel plant sends out hot water which makes the river bubble. Como has an aerater in their lake. There are probably other things going into the river which makes it bubble in places.

I am not huting for this today and won't have time in the upcoming week, so I hope this helps.