I did three things tonight:
- Updated WordPress, which broke the universe and made me start fixing things one by one, which led to…
- …fixing the time and time zone of the server, which broke the current thread since new comments are going back in time.
- And since everything was cocked up anyways I just went ahead and started using a new, simpler theme.
There’s still some bullshit that doesn’t work (it IS still turdpress) but maybe I can get it working. Shrug. I dunno.
562 thoughts on Dungeon Gone
hell yeah so long smelly dungeon. hello winter wonderland cream town USA.
It helps acclimate the eyes for the hunt.
I watched the documentary “No Time for Cold Feet” as prep today.
There is a whole chapter on tools and different kinds for different jobs/weather. Mostly it came down to personal preference. I say give maddd his boner rod.
We should set up a hangout. I can show you everything I have in my garage. There is a load of shit that came with the house that is worth exploring.
I want this so bad: it’s a fucking coat
Bro- I fixed your link it didn’t break the cloud dungeon
qwerty
Way more than a coat, bro. Way more.
i prefer to piece out my winter gear…
snow pants, coat, face mask hood.
way cheaper too, bro. WAY.
$1000 coat is wacky
yo cal… let’s say you get your “automatic weapon bad”… (really a “catch mandate”… but whatever)…
but now someone just straps a spring onto the stock and lets the trigger bounce back and keep pulling itself.
how do you ban something like this?
ban springs?
you and your butt buddy jon stewart just need to SHUT UP. there is no “small changes” that change things in “small ways”. there is only breaking america and catalyzing new reactionary responses of the exact kind you’re trying to stop.
please move to london soon.
#balaclava
WINTER DUNGEON BUG REPORT: the comments on the homepage don’t update unless you hit refresh.
get your PRAGMA straight, homie.
1. Yeah, it’s snow, not clouds.
2. I’m ok with springs being banned
3. I thought you hated the USA? Why does cla have to leave for hating an aspect of it but you get to stay?
4. That’s not a coat. It’s a snow suit of ARMOR. Sometimes I go to the north face store and pretend to be the kept man of a French princess and try on all the goodies. I talk to myself in the dressing room mirror: “never cold again, never cold again.” And then I cry.
I’m going to vegas on Friday. My smart as fuck phone will place bets for anyone who texts it.
for a country whose first line of self description is “land of the free”, i hate what the USA is becoming as more and more freedoms are taken away with nothing to show for it except a lot of pissed of people shooting other people.
i don’t “get to stay”… there is just no one willing to attempt to make me leave. cal tried… even got a law degree… then ran back to his corner and cried.
#HATERSGETDEALTWITH
the land of the less free… home of the brave as cal.
#FUCKINGPATHETIC
Land of the norovirus.
Congratulations! You have successfully registered your 2013 Winter Carnival Button on-line!
#itson
1) that everest suit is pretty sweet. but I’m with madd on this. You need to cobble yourself a suit out of components found at target.
2) My one necessary item is SMART WOOL socks. most amazing invention ever to be invented.
#rappersneedchapstick
The rest is empty with no brain but the clever nerd.
The best emcee with no chain
ya ever heard.
Bro, I live in wisco. I even use the lighter dress sock smart wool.
I ordered two buttons last night at 4:00 am after I dealt with baby. One for me, one for maddddd. Just in case we want to go rogue.
Nice! We’ll have to determine how to divide up our booty when he find it… I want the fame more than the loot. But I’m down with loot too.
Sunday Jan 20, Sunday Jan 20, Sunday Jan 20
I’m on the hunt as soon as I step off the plane. HUUUUUUUUUNTTTT
I’m going to guess right now where it is:
BATTLE CREEK
please note I just picked the correct park 11 days before the first clue.
what if they stuck it at tony schmidt AGAIN. #crafty
Como
I fudged up over xmas and got the sisterinlaws to host my entire family the week after the hunt ends because I was looking at the 2012 rules. Damn 2013.
So it’s just me 25-27.
I can still stay at bobby and liz’s place but bobby is having the equiv of our UP that weekend at his place with his bros. So I can still crash with him or get a cheap-o hotel.
Or bunk up with freddy.
What do you want to do maddddddddddd?
Springer stopped by and farted 2x. That is super good luck.
Freddy!!!
totally freedy, we’ll be like in step brothers we’ll build forts. skeez you too
i was just napping and thinking that visualizing where the medallion is is something we have to do.
tonight, in bed, after greg nods off, put yourself in the place of reading the explanation of the clues after the hunt is over. from the infinite dimensions of the universe where we didn’t find the medallion. allow the clues and explanations to be absorbed by your subconscious. allow the location of the medallion to be known.
quietly chant: “como…….. como…….. como……. como……”
#HIDDENFALLS)(&^#!)*(!%^*()!^#
the cooler krew knows SHIT about THE POWER OF THE MIND.
#RETARDS
froggy fresh just dropped a new track
I like that! I’m doing it! FUCK YOU infinite loser dimensions! oooooooooooooom
WM, how do you make those cool tag lines appear in the search bar? It’s magical.
the browser does that automatically… it’s just pulling the first text displayed on the page the last time you loaded it.
cal, do you really think it’s smart to CURSE the infinite dimensions you are trying to woo into delivering information to you?!
#SODUM
dontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthinkdontthink
i wish someone on price is right, while spinning the big wheel, after drew carey asks them “anyone you’d like to say hi to?”, would say, “yes, i’d like to say hi to the devil and pledge my soul if i spin $1.00″
#REALTALK
#BANSCHOOLS
i think i finally figured out how cal pays for his wheat grass
He has a whole file on you.
i’m watching “the rainmaker” and updating my cal file.
I hope you like the button I picked for you. There were 4 choices.
My adult swim on demand has 1 boondocks. It’s the legend of catcher freeman one which is pretty much django unchained.
Well played, adult swim.
cal, if you’re not too busy apologizing to the infinite dimensions of the universe subset that you offended, could you please provide a… damn… what is it called when supreme court guys say what they think…. opinion? judgement? then they all get tallied and that is what a ruling consists of…. yes? opinions? whatever. give me one of those.
read, monkey… READ
I make all judgements based on appearance. Ponytail dude is lucky as shit he got tipped off that the coppers knew about his little banana tree operation. This dude has the iq of a bagle and is prone to violence. Lock em both up.
forever? ricky quotes that at $40,000 a year. is that worth it? maybe johnson’s was could power one of their plants from inmate farts.
i’m not saying hitler was right……………………. b…. well, i’m not saying but…………………………. b…. b.
#SAVESOMEMONEYHO
i like the “AND” in “cruel AND unusual punishment”…
as long as it’s business as USUAL, FUCK if it’s cruel.
#GENIOUS
i’ll leave this right here for mr. wwwwprejudizzzzzzzz
yo AJ, it’s a big day tomorrow. suck extra hard on that titty tonight, and dream about #JORDY
I’m just posting to help bury madd
its
my
gift
to
you,
homie.
i just found out i have to go to barcelona and london either the week after this upcoming week, or the week after that.
i’m going to flip off every camera on public property, and ask every d00d i meet “why are you wankers scared of guns like little girl babies?” what are they going to do? shoot me?
#DOUBTIT
I was about to say good get you some goddam culture then i remembered you’ve traveled and lived in like a million times more places than i have. jerk. but still: good.
ps try holding on this flight fucker. #streakover
*IT. try holding IT on this flight. dammit.
took me a long time to figure out what you meant. forgot all about my plane piss streak. i’ve never even stood up on a flight.
#GOODCITIZEN
came here to ask what alternate dimension i’m in…. was flipping around TV, and i see the rock on smackdown, and the big show is defending his belt???????
#BOOKERT
this big show match is actually very very good.
world heavyweight championship last man standing.
DEL RIO WINS)*(&#^!)*&!#%^)&*(!#%()*^(*)@#^!*(&!%#&*(!#%
window seat please. i’ll be leaning against the wall sleeping. take the armrest, neighbor.
#CALSUCKS
hangout goes live at kickoff.
#HOLLLLLLLLLLLARIT
Check it Skeez it’s your syndrome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
yes… i’ve also experienced it with marble saga.
hey, jerk, when are you flying in? i can either barcelona it from 21st-25th or 28th-1st… probably traveling during the weekends… when do you want me available?
i did a gear check today
i’m going with my poker, and a lightweight telescoping shovel.
Barcelona from 21-25 if possible i’m full-time hunt mode 25- 1st. your help would be appreicated.
looking more and more like i wont be around.
#UGGGGGGGGG
super dick move for the “president” to interrupt the price is right to talk down to americans about what the “debt ceiling” is, and how we’re “deadbeats” if we don’t keep spending more money we don’t have.
#RECALL
what if you were the person that went to the showcase and won? the entire 2nd half of the show was preempted, never to be seen.
#THEPRICEISWRONGBITCH
#JOWRIGGEDJOKE
#MINTTHETRILLIONDOLLARCOINALREADYMORONS
CAN I SUE?#^@)(&!#^)&*(!^()*_!^#
Do you even have a passporto?
I guess prob in the safe with your guns and rap cards.
You can still play ziggy from afar. You are best utilized in that role.
#noodle
No booze or boobs this vegas trip… bountiful gambling.
Timmer won close to 3k on penny slots. I’ll explain his “system” in a later comment. I almost got to play poker with Jose Canseco. We ate one of them skeezer seafood towers.
i don’t think i would have missed a plastic bag sitting in tony schit park.
#THEMEDALLIONTALKSTOME
and yes, i have passP… in an RFID blocking cast in a lockbox in my safe.
#BOOBYTRAPPED
i bought the HWK a mini hockey set… now she runs around the house saying “hoc…key…hoc…key…hoc…key” and she brings me the stick and stands in front of the goal.
while i was looking for something similar on amazon, i found this:
life size air hockey
i bought something like this
it was on clearance for $19 i think… couldn’t say no. 2 goals and 2 sticks and 1 goalie stick
some eurotards are trying to shake up the scrabble game
the scabble game? the game of scrabble? scrabble.
#RABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLE
hello? dungeon? i’ll be at G+ if you need me.
i saw a fat person on a medicare scooter outside of a hospital today…. wheels spinning on the ice.
#HAHA
mother fucking president fucking interrupts the price is right for the 2nd time in a week… and this time, after a rad d00d won a car, then hit a $1.00 on the wheel, then hit $1.00 on his bonus spin… HE WAS GOING FOR A PERFECT GAME.
SO FUCKING KING OSAMA COMES ON AND TAKES AWAY EVERYONE’S GUNS.
#FUCKAMERICA
SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE
FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL FUCK CAL
i’m pretty sure the king of england wanted to shield the revolutionaries from harm, too, osama.
also, hitler.
cal is hitler.
so, now, my 30 round clips in my basement are illegal and classified as weapons that cause destruction on a “massive scale”… weapons of mass destruction. good thing congress made all those laws that classify me as a terrorist now. good thing guantanamo exists to lock me up indefinitely without trial.
you all fucking suck. you’re fucking idiots and i hate you.
want to know why schools keep getting shot up? because the teachers and administration of those schools have FAILED.
#DIESLOW
if i don’t “NEED” a high capacity magazine because it’s a tool only for the “theatre of war”, and america is not currently in a war, then why are soldiers carrying around automatic rifles all over the world?
oh, right. because cal sucks.
#IGNORANTHYPOCRITES
the “right” to peaceably assemble in an aurora movie theatre was not denied by their murderers… the government that the victims put their trust in FAILED TO PROTECT their right. and because of that, they must FAIL again. they must FAIL FOREVER.
#FAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAIL
lets see how many people die next month…. if it’s more, then what? if a school gets shot up every day, then what? repeal the laws? of course not… we’d obviously need MORE laws, right cal? RIGHT? BAN EVERYTHING.
fuck you all.
FUCK. YOU. ALL.
you SUCK.
goddamned idiots.
you couldn’t legislate yourself out of a homeowners association meeting.
retards. you’re all fucking retarded.
#BOMBS
#IMPROVISE
hey, let’s legislate morality like the mali islamists…
IT’S WORKING OUT GREAT!
oh, you don’t think little girls should be gang raped? YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND YOUR OPINIONS. 100 LASHINGS WITH AN ELECTRICAL CORD, INFIDEL!(*&!#%&)*(^#!
i said… i said… THIS SCHOOL HAS NICE HALLS
DID THAT RAD FUCKING D00D WIN THE SHOWCASE?!#*()&%^*)(&!#^% DID HE WIN A FUCKING HELICOPTER?!*(#&^%)(&!#^%)&*(!#^
I’LL NEVER KNOW.
#THANKSOBAMA
1) OBAMA PLEDGES TRANSPARENCY
2) OBAMA NEWS BROADCAST OPAQUELY COVERS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
3) (*&!#%^(&*!#%^*(&!)(*!#%^*(*(&!#%^
Why do you even care? Just make one of your pipe guns.
hey! what’s up!
it’s cool that you believe i care!
did i trick you?
am i making pipe guns right now?
tootles!
i’m armed to the teeth and well informed… at what point do i become a danger? isn’t that point already too late?
i really really cared about that guy on price is right today. he was a good kid. got called down and won on his 1st bid. that’s hard to do. boom, new car: MINE. first ditz spins a .95 and thinks she’s hot shit… step out, bitch… i just put 55 on my 45, and drew put 10 folds in my benny clip. bonus spin: how about i leave that fucker dead center on the $1.00 for another 250 folds. #BALLLLLLLLLLLLLIN
***** WE INTERRUPT THIS PERFECT GAME FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT TO POSTURE AND PROPOSE TOOTHLESS LEGISLATION THAT WILL NOT BE PASSED BY THE DO NOTHING CONGRESS, AND EVEN IT WAS, NO LESS THAN 4 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WOULD RULE IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN CHALLENGED BY THE NRA… MANY MANY TAX DOLLARS SPENT TO SPIN WASHINGTON COGS.
BACK TO THE SOAP OPERA THAT YOU HATE *********
#FANTHEEMBERS
next time the teachers unions want to complain about there not being enough money in the coffers, just remember that it was all spent on droves of well paid government staffers and contractors to push meaningless papers back and forth and accomplish nothing.
but i guess just as much goes to the union staffers and contractors that are doing the exact same thing, so probably no one cares.
maybe licking some barceloney concrete will make me care
How long you gone? Barcelona kinda blows but Madrid is the poop, steaming hot awesome. I puked in one of their fine garbage cans.
Do you remember that girl Becky from our wedding? She lives in Madrid and she parties. Are you stuck just in Barcelona? At the very least fudge around with your ticket and get an Amstergoddamn layover.
probably just 1 week… and maybe just M-F, so i might not be able to get away.
when i go to florida we just go out to nice restaurants every night and sometimes get drunk with the local work crew, but pretty much no time to run off on my own.
the HWK greeted me today getting home from the sitter with a pamphlet: “You Can Be a Successful Single Parent!”
#subtle
I do the dailyjoke nba freeroll from time to time. I’m in turd place tonight. 3 bb baby!! Keep hoopin, homos.
Skeeze: bring the fam to st paul Jan 25-27. We got a room at the mall of america double tree for $122 (two nights plus all fees and taxes).
We go it off priceline. You could prob just cal them and demand the same rate.
i think i could sell that idea… we might be going up to spooner, though… i have to ask rach-o
saaaaweet family HUNT is ONNNNN.
Tuesday night at 12:55 AM. I decided I needed this for the hunt.
http://www.amazon.com/Streamlight-88033-Tactical-Flashlight-Batteries/dp/B003GXF9OA/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t/176-6225576-4647410
#skeezerimpulsebuy
#toomanywinecoolers
the one hunt necessity: HEADLAMP. I think I have two… but if you dont’ have a headlamp you are screwed. that flashlight is a front to pick up girls. true hunters rely on headlamps.
also. extra batteries. last year i ran out of juice and had to break to buy battereis #losttime
it was ok though #wrongpark
i have a headlamp… it has bright, brighter, brightest, and NIGHTVISION MODE. (red LEDs for night vision)
i’ve tested all the latest 2 AA flashlights… yours looks good… i found some that are cheaper and better… i don’t think they sell them anymore though.
this looks like their new version of it
i was so impressed with the flashlights that i would buy target out of them every time i went there. i was giving them out as gifts to everyone i would come in contact to for a while.
the ones i have were brighter than than my big ass MAG light that takes 4 C batteries… maybe it’s even 4 Ds… now for $12.99 you can get CRAZY good flashlights
here it is…
150 lumens! #BALLLLLLLLLLIN
i paid way less though… same as the knife guns, if i find a deal on a legit great product, i can’t help but buy way more than i need.
but your 120 lumens is fine… it should work out good for me, because once you wooo the ladies, i’ll step in and show my vastly superior product that cost less.
#MYBITCHNOW
also, i like the single button… either the fucker is on, and bright as it can be, or it’s off. no fumbling and adjusting.
why the fuck do you need a “STROBE MODE”???? now if you want to turn your silly light off you’ll have to click past strobe mode first, and fuck around and put all the hunters into epileptic shock…. but then again, that might help us. like men in black… just zap all those monkeys to sleep.
yeah this is my first foray into the flashlight game. did hours of semi-drunk research. mainly here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/
there is an incredible amount of information on flashlights in the world. I’m eagerly anticipating going OCD on flashlight information as soon as this one shows up.
I like your target move. You’re like Oprah. You get a flashlight and You get a flashlight and You get a flashlight! Everybody gets a flashlight! #baller
Bro, fuck spooner.
Skeezer, tell me which headlamp to buy. I have a drawer full of them but they are junk. I need a bright one, power of the sun and shit. Gander has a wide spread from $8-$80. Pick me the best one, please.
My goddamn buttons are not here yet.
Get a room with us. $122 for the WEEKEND. It has a pool for the shorties. And a bar. And cookies at check in.
#preperationsunderway
I have an extra button if necessary.
I ordered on the 9th and they said 3 days. I went to the website and it says my order is pending. Fuckin mn.
And you never got your b day gift. That was 30 well spent. Haters… How do I deal?
dude you let that nosendy dude off the hook? wtf; raise hell man.
it doesn’t matter that you didn’t get “proof of signature” or whateverthefuck. you bought something and dude didn’t send it. mail problem is HIS problem. just harass him. dude will send anohter or if this was a one of a kind thing he’ll refund you. #realtalk
if you want i’ll email him and say i didn’t get the thing bc i DIDN’T.
from,
cal, esq.
for the headlamp, again, i’m going with energizer
it is annoying with 4 modes… that means each on/off cycle is 5 button presses… but with a headlamp, it’s almost always a “turn it on, leave it on” situation, so no problem.
actually, i think i might have this one, but a way older model.
that other one only had 2 modes. i do like having the extra modes on mine. i have found the red light mode to be useful. then it has a bright spot, and a flood, or spot and flood at once.
i used to buy all this stuff like a loony, and found energizer LED lighting to be WAY good and WAY cheap.
#WHEREYOUATRAYOVAC
but, considering we’ll be in a slew of other hunters that won’t be so courteous to our pupil dilation, probably best to just go with tons of power. get this
“Boost mode drives light up to 130 lumens for up to 15 seconds”
#BEASTMODE
uggg… i don’t know about headlamps… i went on amazon and there are tons. this caught my eye
they are almost certainly lying about the lumen output though… and there is obvious astroturfing in the reviews… “another great product from fenix!!!” “my 5th lamp from fenix! would fuck again!” “fenix for the win!!!!11111″
the one i have is good, but it would be for scanning across a football field…. just looking 15′ probably. that’s probably all you need if you just want to see what you’re digging in, and use a flashlight for everything else… but i’d hate to miss the thing because it was just out of range of my puny light.
also not sure how mine would stand up to being at 10 degrees for a few hours.
Buttons are here.
Let me know when you know which one I should buy.
My button is registered. I’m official.
Madddd, I bought you one too. You need to register it. Ill text you the code.
save your pennies you don’t need a million lumens you only need the thing to shine a few feet. First Clue T Minus 2 days.
save your pennies you don’t need a law degree.
#IMSORRY
Bro, I need lumens. I’m a hunter, not a noodler. I will be deep in the shit.
i’m buying the energizer…
it specifiCALly says it’s for cold weather, and i trust the brand.
i also heard that fenix brand headlamps are only for retards and gay retards.
we really need FLIR, but that’s still going around $2,000 for something useful.
green lasers like the one i have were over $1,000 when i was in college… now, under $100… we just have to hope those chinamen keep polluting the earth and digging up rare earth elements and selling it under the table to the KOreans to make some FLIR for me on the cheap.
update:
It’s almost here ……. The first clue is in the Sunday paper, and an early version can be bought on newsstands Saturdays so it will be online Saturday too.
Then starting Sunday night: A scrambled clue will be online at 10:30 each night. The real, unscrambled clue will be online at 11:30 each night. Papers will be sold at The Original Gabe’s By The Park hot off the press each night, around 11.
Find links to our discussion board, the full rules and plenty more at http://www.twincities.com/treasurehunt.
the problem is the greedy jow flashlight makers know the tests for lumens, and they FUG up their lights to trick the tests.
sames as “contrast ratios” on HDTVs… some brands will get like 4000:1, or even 1000000:1 ratios by making their TVs process signals differently for the benchmark tests… so in the end, the TVs have a LOWER contrast ratio than if they didn’t muck with things.
some of the many reasons i hate everything…
i’m worried about china’s pollution problem… what if it kills all the chinamen and they can’t keep digging up my laser parts????????
#FIXITCAL
i had about 10 flashlights in my basement… all supposedly “high power”… that tiny handheld 2AA energizer one was by far the brightest. i’ve had it a year, use it often, and i’ve never changed the batteries.
#REALTALK
is CWS covering the copper mine ski jump tonight??
i’ve wanted to go the last 3 years and missed it.
we have a baby sitter lined up for tonight, and we’re going. i hope the organizers trick a bunch of amateurs into jumping and flying to their deaths.
#HOPE
Did you get my text? Is your button registered? I’m not hunting with some unregistered hobo. It needs to be registered today according to the pamphlet I got in the mail, Sunday according to the internet.
#toolegit
What’s up with spooner? Take her to forker the following weekend. Or knife-her.
#singleparent
Family day at the double d will rule. I’m in Friday night watch ppv and playing cards at the burrrrry. Saturday is all hunting.
#gambo
Sorry…
#2legit
Rules:
A new clue will appear daily through Thursday, January 31, 2013, unless the medallion is found prior to that date. Read the daily clues to search for the Pioneer Press medallion hidden on public land in Ramsey County. The medallion will not be hidden on the State Capitol grounds, at Como Zoo & Conservatory, under any skating surface, on a golf course, under or on any artificial turf surface or at any construction site.
If you find the Pioneer Press medallion, PROMPTLY return it to the Pioneer Press, 345 Cedar St., St. Paul, to qualify for the $2,500 initial cash prize. Win an additional $2,500 for bringing in all of the published daily clues, clipped or copied from the Pioneer Press or printed from TwinCities.com, and providing them along with the found medallion.
The Pioneer Press also will award an additional $5,000 to the finder if he/she is a registered 2013 Winter Carnival Button owner and has mailed an official entry form postmarked by Sunday, January 20, 2013, to the Winter Carnival office, or has registered online at http://www.winter-carnival.com by 11:59 p.m. on January 20, 2013
#PROMPTLY
I can get you from the AP if it’s past freddy’s bedtime.
Or you can have some mommy time.
What does E think about the hunt?
Madddddd,
“No time for cold feet” is a documentary about the hunt. Did I show it to you last year? I can mail it to you if you want or we can watch it at the Ho-tel if you grow a pair and make the trip.
i saw it in Kcar’s basement, surrounded by toy horses.
i’ll register button RIGHT NOW
#THANKS
Ah, I forgot we watched it when we thawed after ice fishing.
rach-o has OK’d the friday night madddddd swoooooop in…
i’ll probably go straight to canterbury and get a room around there. then join up saturday morning for all day hunt, then drive home with the medallion in my hands…
what do you think the paper would do? re-hide another medallion?
You can hobo in my room if you want.
i just plan to get shitfaced at canterbury, so i was hoping for something close…
maybe i pick you up on my way there, then you drive back to the hotel later. then no abandoned cars in the canny lot.
i’ll probably have the VUE… probably bringing my bike for quick park run through scans.
ALL DAY HUNT!!!
You could do that too. There is prob a poker rate at some flop house outside the track.
yeah, there is… probably like $80 for the night… i was happy to pay it…
but you’re certainly risking me waking up on saturday and having to balance easy access to limit cash poker, or getting to play with cal……. but i’m way to excited about that to flake.
do your best, clue writers. you’ve met your match.
#ITSME
canturbury basically has an attached hotel… used be to called the canturbury inn… now it’ slik e amerrrica’s best inn or something.
i took some good video at the ski jumps tonight…. CWS: #WHEREYOUAT
is it almost clue time/????!#%)*&!#%)*&(!#% WHERE THE SHIT IS CAL?!#%^&)
i just dropped about $125 on amazon for nothing but battery powered lights and pickled garlic. running into me next week has advantages.
#FULLONOPRAH
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
“reprise?”
SFEUTODD…
TUESDOD
USED DOT
#noodle
DOTS DUE
forgot the F… ugh… bad noodler
Look back at the last two years. Was there any info beyond: Here we go! and don’t break shit?
hmmmm…… reprise… sonata… cantata… can tata. tata. we need to go to a strip club.
weird… i commuted in deadlock CA traffic on a motorcycle every day for years… every day zooming between lanes… does it really terrify people???
i think “high tech” is a double meaning for “high” tech meaning modern electronics as well as “high” as in altitude. really really pissed i don’t have my FLIR helicopter or NFL style cable cam to deploy over parks.
i think there will be some clues this year that will be unnoodled via aerial imagery or perspective… maybe they’ll arrange garbage cans to form a giant arrow pointing to the correct park.
HIGH TECH
maybe we should arrange garbage cans to form a giant arrow pointing to the wrong park…..
1. Yeah, it scurrrred me. No big deal, but unexpected.
2. The high tech was prob a dig at last year’s Internet cheaters.
rach-o was just cooking dinner, and i had my headlamp sitting on the counter and she got pissed…
“i’m trying to cook dinner and you got your god damned lazer headlights on your face)(!&#^)(&*!^#”
cal, what’s your 20?
are you out scouring random parks yet? does it terrify you that someone else might be finding the medallion RIGHT NOW???????
(it terrifies me)
if we find the medallion, can we call ourselves the exCALvators?
I always liked the name, the eau clair honkies.
the cooler full of things cooler than the cooler crew crew
Your gun buddies marched around the capitol yesterday. I saw one dood eating pizza.
#truth
This is a long atriCAL that explains why the packers suck. It’s a good read.
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/packers-too-soft-to-join-nfls-elite-2b8e22l-187611511.html
Yo, cla. Where you at? Let’s chat clues, bro.
my gun buddies would never march. you’re seeing plants.
real gun fans just shoot people who disagree. only ignorant fools march. and sometimes february marches.
i regret almost every day not buying that framed pair of humpty glasses
also regret not buying a teardrop camper i saw for sale on craigslist for $1200…. it had a propane heater and electric hookup.
#SHEDSAREFORRICHPEOPLE
now i can’t find as good, and the shitty ones i do find all cost over $5000….
who the fuck is going to pay that? ugggg. #MESODUM
i bought a HDTV from best buy today because of the crazy deals i saw… got it home, IT SUCKS.
packing it back up now.
don’t buy TVs from best buy… they are selling SHIT.
everything “NEW” sucks.
#A2K4LIFE
WHAT THE FUCK. it’s 10:33… there is suposed to be a scrambled clue online.
WHO IS RUNNING THIS JOW RIGGED JOKE(*^!#L!#^?!#^*&()!#^)&*(!#^
i am 6 minutes into this mess, and i’m FURIOUS)*&!#%)&*!^#)&*(!^#&()*!^
#FUCKINGLIES)&*#^@)&*(!#^(*&)!#^*(&)!^#&*(!#^~&*(!^
with clues to jumble clues turned
a giving song for apology a in
mixing wrong humble stick very away so
out quite we’ll the to so be
happy hunt but alone the to
decides holidays like council find or finder
can puck whom famous only luck
with for pair share that one
THOUGHTS:
puck = pond hockey
pair = 2 parks close by
humble stick = cal’s crotch
“como” is the spanish word for “like”…
CAL: I DEPLOY YOU TO COMO
ACKNOWLEDGE…
here is a “pair” in como…
anything nearby that might work with “share”?
pair of baseball fields next to a picnic shelter…
WHERE BETTER TO SHARE THINGS?????
CAL. YOU FUCKING GUY.
WHY DID YOU FLY HERE? GET ON MY HUNT TIP AND LET’S GET RICH.
“out” = baseball
also like this “pair”…
what could “holiday” mean? there are amusement parks in como…
I’m ready to cut cal out of our team. I’m driving up now.
Mutiny! Company? Como? I’m confused its too late I need to sleepy these new clues. Happy pair? Who is the happy pair?
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Ok this is the whole clue…
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
CounCIL is weird… Should be counsel right? Council is like city council… Hmmmmmm… I like the two parks close by idea… BasiCALly council = government… Happy holidays pair? # Noodling
Peeps on Allison say CROSBY. Not sury why yet…
Famous happy holiday pair = Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye in White Christmas or Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Holiday_(song)
)(*&!#@^&*()!#^)&*(!#^*()!#^
LIKE (como) the “happy holidays” pair: PAIRy como……
GOD DAMN IT CAL0*(&#%!&*()!#^&*)(#^!
GO.
TO.
COMO.
can we get a N00D HUNT thread?
I HATE COINCIDENCES
skynet has been given executive exemption
i’m hung up on “council”… typo?? how embarrassing.
i can’t find a dictionary that includes “council” as a verb meaning to form and execute a council, which is what it seems they mean…
even “counsel” would be wrong… counsel is an act of giving, not receiving.
#COMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMOCOMO
telling my sister to buy this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Golden-Tee-99-Tournament-Edition-Arcade-1999-/181062675689?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a282d2ce9
WOW! look what i found:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-GOLDEN-TEE-2K-COCKTAIL-TABLE-ARCADE-2-player-LOCAL-PICK-UP-/310568634280?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item484f5547a8
I love the Perry Como idea. #genius
But I don’t understand the issue with counCIL. I’m not saying it doesn’t mean something sneaky, but I read it just as saying find it by yourself or with “an assembly of persons called together for consultation, deliberation, or discussion,” which is the first definition of council and the first definition of Cal, Scientist & Whazz searching for the thing.
Nice one O’neil! Def. points to crosby. Mom had an interesting idea. three or so years ago they hid it at Hidden Falls. and some jerk found it on the second clue. it had just snowed and he was out snooping around and he followed tracks in the snow and it led him right it… so she thinks “reprise” may mean that they are hiding it at Hidden Falls again… I think Crosby is our strongest bet. Your como is not very persuasive i’m afriaid……
good! peapods keep noodling! you and o’neil can solve this better than me and these jerks can. we are the boots on the ground.
I’m intrigued by council. isn’t council a noun? and counSEL is a verb? maybe red hearing… #noodling
OK regroup. here’s what we have to work with so far:
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
for those of you who were not obsessed last year, they did this stupid thing where people “sang” the clues online… or something dumb… the first two lines of clue 2 reference this…
yes, “hunt with council” makes sense… but “council for” doesn’t make sense.
they forgot to say “WITH”… OR ARE THEY BLUSTERING AND BLUFFING?#!^()&!#^)&*(!#^*()!^
“council” and “reprise” are just very odd choices. they MUST have meaning! I’m sort of convinced clue one gives us zilch and same with the first stanza of clue 2. so the money is here:
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
#makemoney
“more reprise” = more of the same… the medallion has been found at como 7 times… the highest of any park. the next highest was 5.
i am insulted that you are not seeing the COMO light… it seems obvious to me… but i will bluster along and try to help.
i’m very nervous some idiot is going to find this thing. i just learned that you won’t be here until friday… WE WONT HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND UNTIL FRIDAY????? SO FAR AWAY)&!#%)&(*!#^*()!#^*()
St Paul Area Council of Churches – Merriam Park – St Paul, MN
#noodling
the “happy holidays” pair is crosby….. but it’s NOT crosby… it’s LIKE crosby.
perry como is LIKE crosby… he covered the same song.
the word LIKE is translated to spanish as COMO.
NOT PERSUASIVE???
and music duets would always be referred to as “DUOs”… not as PAIRS… and the d00d is named perry… PAIRy…
#CONTEMPT
highland park also has a council
st. anthony park also has council
some local politics shake up in the parks council
cheesmen??? a reference to wisconsin males finding the medallion? can we call ourselves the cheesmen??
hmmm…. another hit for st. anthony park
they have a COUNCIL and just had a pot LUCK event….
#ALONE
Even if this is Como, we cannot just search an entire park of that size. We need more info.
yes there are too many variables. we are going to have to wait for more clues.
i emailed amy with st. anthony park and asked nicely whether or not the medallion was there…
#HIGHTECHTOOLS
i already narrowed it down…….. “SHARE”……. THE PICNIC PAVILIONS. near the PAIR of baseball fields (OUT)
Hunt Alone or Council for Luck. is a messed up sentence. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?????
from mom:
not a typo. I ws just looking up the Girl Scout Council..thinking might be in a girlscout cookie box or wrapper. but coming up empty with council. It HAS been in Mirriam park before…but then no connection to Holiday clue…. I’ll keep looking.
she also warns:
make SURE your friends don’t post anything…but just TAKE! haha. council is a good thing.
#duh
meaning post anything to the hunt message boards. like we would be so stupid.
#take
actually madd you should go post your como crap there lolllllllllllllllllllll just KIDDING actually i’ in interested in your PAIRy COMO ideas…
Yeah, none of them st paul boners know about the snow dungeon.
we should publish a fake paper with fake clues
#ideas
if they ever found their way here we’d be ruined.
after the last time the medallion was in tony schmidt park, the following year it was at “State Capitol Mall”….
so, more reprise suggests it would be back there….
and what better place for “councils” than the state capitol??????
hmmm i put “st. anthony luck” in google:
Saint Anthony, Patron of Lost Things and Missing
i tried to start a G+ “community” for all our noodling, but some of you jerks wouldn’t join… and then wwwwwhazzzz started an insurgency and blew the joint up.
it’s multi-threaded and secure… we should really be there.
reposting clues #thumbhurts
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
this just in:
no real park in St.Anythony park… it’s just a neighborhood… scratch that…
ok i need to get off the noodling train. check in later.
G+ is way better for thumbs… it rearranges everything to the top and lets things be organized by topic.
#FLUSHTHISTURDPRESS
more about langford:
#DINGDINGDING
don’t tell your mom any of this… but see what else you can get out of her. LIE TO HER IF YOU HAVE TO.
‘fraid not homie. check out langford on a map… it’s tiny. they would never hide it in a tiny park. it draws too many people… on the final clue hundreds of fools converge on the park… what would happen at langford? lawns would be destroyed and COMPLAINTS would happen. gotta be a BIG park…
BLUSTER: indignant…. rage…. storm….
good noodlingmadd … i’m glad they arent’ makeing it obvious early… we need them to keep giving out vague clues!!! the more vague clues the better! that way all the idiots stay home!
somewhere around clue 8 or so they give away the park. then it’s over. we need to figure out the park BEFORE all they idiots have it handed to them on a silver platter and come running.
so keep the vagueness coming!
madd i like your idea of G+ but it’s tradition to noodle on whzzmaster. #thumbscroll.
plus what would wm do when he takes baby breaks? he would be sad.
mom:
plus it is freezing. I looked up the WOMAN singing. with bing and fred. she was Marjorie Reynolds who played Linda Mason. all means nothing.
#allmeansnothing.
focus on knowing that SOMEONE knows.
that someone will feel your focus and BREAK.
the medallion will be OURS.
#MINE
organizing things by topic is RACIST.
let’s stay ALL WHITE.
#BABYBREAK
“quite humble” = small park
“stick to mixing”… a long fork??? LANGFORD
#DONTTELLYOURMOM
“we’ll stick”…….. puck hidden in a tree branch node?
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
http://photos.twincities.com/2013/01/20/photos-treasure-hunt-through-the-years/
pic #7 1955 stuck on the bottom of a mailbox.
I looked at all 64 this morning. Way annoying to click the button 64 times. But I liked the pics.
I wanted to re read the 2012 clues with explanations. The artiCAL was down so I used my library database access to retrieve it without paying. Here she is:
2012 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt clues explained
BYLINE: Pioneer Press
SECTION: PP CARNIVAL TREASURE HUNT
LENGTH: 1331 words
Clue 1
The time has come around again
For using all your cunning and ken
To unravel Boreas’ befuddling clues
Circulated in the PiPress news.
Within our realm explore and search.
No private properties besmirch.
The treasure rests in a public park.
On a course for golf, please leave no mark.
“Come around again” hints the treasure is hidden in a location where it has been hidden before. “Circulated in PiPress news” refers to the Pioneer Press circulation area and the word “explore” suggests expanding the search beyond St. Paul into all of Ramsey County. “Circulated” also refers to clues printed in the paper and to actual treasure hunt “news” that has in years past been printed in the paper. The treasure is hidden in a public park. Treasure hunters are advised not to damage private property and golf courses.
Clue 2
It’s time to get this off our chest:
Mix treasured lore into your quest.
Triple score provides a clue;
So do the colors red and blue.
The key to unraveling this clue (and future clues) is “treasured lore” – including, but not limited to, Treasure Hunt lore. “Chest” suggest the first hunt in 1952 when the treasure was concealed in small metal chest. “Off our chest” means 2012′s medallion is NOT in a chest. 1952 to 2012 makes 2012 the 60th or “Diamond Jubilee” year of the hunt – a clue to how the treasure is camouflaged – in a “Diamond” company bag (see Clue 3). The colors red and blue, when “mixed” create Viking purple – more treasured Minnesota lore. The Vikings are seeking to build a new stadium in the City of Arden Hills, where the medallion is hidden and was hidden in the past in Tony Schmidt Park.
Clue 3
Crack the nut and find the treasure.
There’s a place to cook and a place for leisure.
A road there is that’s interfacial.
Bag the treasure if you are able.
“Bag the treasure” reveals the medallion is in a bag; “crack the nut” describes the bag as a bag of nuts. Combined with the “diamond” reference in Clue 2, the medallion is hidden in a Diamond nut (pecan) bag. Lake Johanna Blvd is the “interfacial road” that divides the Tony Schmidt Park recreational area – it separates the Lake Johanna beach front from the trail area where the medallion is hidden. “There’s a place to cook and a place of leisure” refers to a picnic pavilion in Tony Schmidt Park with a kitchen that is near the medallion location.
Clue 4
“Woof” says the dog. “Babble” says the brook,
And here is wisdom on which to make book:
When in Rome you should do
Exactly as a Roman should do
The words “Woof” and “Babble” are onomatopoetic – imitatingthe sounds made by a dog and a brook, respectively, and suggest that sound is important in this clue. The last line of the clue – “a Roman should do,” evokes another reference to the Vikings Arden Hills stadium effort – Vikings wide receiver Devin “Aromashodu.” “Woof” sounds like the last name of Vikings owner Ziggy “Wilf.” (Also the previous time the puck was hidden in Tony Schmidt Park, it was camouflaged in almond (nut) “bark.” “Babbling” about a stadium is what politicians have been doing for some time. “Make book” references gambling – a suggested funding source for a Vikings stadium.
Clue 5
If it’s treasure you’re trackin’
Stop chattin’. Get crackin’.
As the sun will lighten up your day,
This clue will brighten up your way.
“Chattin’,” “crackin’” and “brighten way” refer to Chatham Court and Chatham Ave, McCracken Lane and Brighton Way. All are streets north of Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills. The medallion is hidden north of “interfacial road” in Clue 3 – Lake Johanna Blvd.
Clue 6
Let us stop the haw and hem
And get you looking for the gem.
Incorporate thinking outside the box.
Sort it out as you like it – opportunity knocks.
The medallion is hidden outside the city of St. Paul – “outside the box”– in an “incorporated” Ramsey County city. “Gem refers to the “Diamond” Pecan Bag holding the medallion. “Sort it out as you like it” refers to Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It,” which contains a scene in the Forest of “Arden.”
Clue 7
Search the land through darkest night;
Follow the crowd to the treasure’s site.
Wear warm clothes, and don’t come to harm.
And bring along your good luck charm.
This clue quotes Mike Madland, who found the treasure in 1988, in Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills. He found the treasure late at night by “following the crowd.” His advice to hunters was to “dress warm,” and he believed his son, Donny, was his “good luck charm.”
Clue 8
Many there are in many a park;
Find the right one, and you’re close to the mark.
Think big, and you’ll be right in the game
When you spot a place with a special claim.
The “many there are in many a park” refers to picnic pavilions/gazebos. “Think big” describes a larger structure with a kitchen (a “place to cook” from Clue 3) on the “big” hill in Tony Schmidt Park. Near the pavilion is a playground where children get “in the game.” Reference to a place with “a special claim” refers to the handicapped parking in the nearby parking area.
Clue 9
From miles around they came to stay
A night or two, then on their way
To reap the riches fall can yield -
The delicacy of a watery field.
The earliest known history of Arden Hills and Lake Johanna is as a resting place for the Dakota people on their trek to harvest wild rice in other places. The medallion is hidden on the Lake Johanna (south) side of the railroad tracks running through Tony Schmidt Park.
Clue 10
If you are now taken aback,
Then you are, my friend, on the right track.
Benches, tables, gazebos galore
To sit and admire the view from the shore.
But yours is not to sit or rest;
To scramble and search will serve you best.
Respect the land where people dwell.
But follow your nose to the nearer end smell.
The key is reversing the scene in the first stanza – the beach at Lake Johanna looking out to the lake. “Taken aback” means look away from the lake toward the treasure site – across Lake Johanna Blvd – the “interfacial” road from Clue 3. Don’t “sit or rest but “scramble” the phrase “nearer end smell,” an anagram for Elmer L Andersen, namesake of the trail head near the large pavilion in Clue 8. “Respect the land where people dwell” refers to all the private homes visible from the lake and along parts of the Elmer L. Anderson Trail.
Clue 11
Read the right sign then look up to the sky;
You’ll be wired in then and won’t go awry.
You’re getting close, you’re doing just fine.
With what you will see, this rhyme should align.
The “right sign” is the marker for the Elmer L Andersen Trail (the anagram in Clue 10). Looking up, one sees wires. Follow them up the hill past the pavilion (Clue 8). The “what you will see” that “aligns” with the rhyming words “sign,” “fine” and “align” is two groves of “pine” trees. The medallion is hidden near one of the two groves.
Clue 12
In Arden Hills, in Tony Schmidt Park
Is the treasured place to which you embark.
Here at last will end our tale -
Up hill from the Elmer L. Andersen Trail.
Follow the trail past pavilion and slides
Just in the woods the treasure hides.
Keep well away from marshy lands,
And do not dig in playground sands.
The wires are up, the treasure is low,
Your back is up against a pole.
You see the pines near dead ahead?
Six paces from them in a leafy bed.
A Diamond bag, pecans it once held –
Now with the medallion, the bag is jelled.
Grab the medallion – make your egress,
And hustle on down to the Pioneer Press.
The medallion is hidden in Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills up the hill from the post marking the head of the Elmer L. Andersen Trail. Follow the trail past the large pavilion (with kitchen) and the children’s playground. The medallion is hidden in the woods just off the trail –NOT in the sand around the playground equipment and NOT in the marshlands off the lower trail. Near the pavilion are poles supporting overhead power lines. Standing by the poles supporting the lines, one can see two groups of pine trees “dead ahead” The medallion is hidden six paces north of nearer group; it’s hidden “low”- on the ground frozen in a wrap of leaves in a Diamond Pecan Bag.
Way hard to read, sorry. But a good reminder that the clues mean way less than you think.
Also, the fact that clues refer to what it is hidden in are not helpful. I mean, the whole nut bag thing is just silly. I’m on the hunt for a bag of nuts… in a park. Easier to just find a puck than a gd bag of nuts.
In the past it’s been hidden in an iron man sock jammed in an empty box of dove soap. They also make the iron man and dove clues kinda relate to parks, so it’s really hard.
i think cal said Tony Schmidt was too small of a park last year…
amy got back to me from the st. anthony park council…….
“is the medallion hidden in st. anthony park”
if it was, i think she would know.
she lies
sometimes the clues mean way more than you think….
a good measure of looney noodlin is required.
Agreed… Loony noodle away. We should get a good one tonight #scramble
i think a bike ride around como with stops to pick up anything that looks out of place would not be time wasted.
it might be buried in a pile of leaves, but it might be sitting in a box of thin mints stuffed in a small bush… but i’m thinking it’s in a pile of STICKS.
What about Lilydale Park? Is that sizeable?
My thinking is this: Holiday Inn. I liked Madd’s point that it is “like that famous” pair and not actually the famous pair. So, assuming the famous pair was Crosby & Reynolds, the pair like them would be Astaire & Dale. Dale’s character’s name is Lila. Liladale = kinda like Lilydale. #wayoff
Also, AO reports Lilydale = next door to Crosby so maybe like it in that way? And a pair of parks? #waywayoff
I didn’t realize it could be anywhere in Ramsey County. I thought it was just STP. My bad. #amateur
Now, I’m thinking maybe Cherokee Park could be a contender. “Council” made me think something tribal. And it’s near Lilydale. Pair. And both of them seem to have bluffs, a word which stuck out at me in the first clue. #alone
Yes lilydale is a big one. My mom had a theory re holiday inn… There is a holiday inn on a street that runs through or near battle creek… I like the noodling keep it up
Is noodling really ok? It sounds bad.
battle creek bluffs
#REPRISE
i’ve been noodling all day.
#RAW
Ten minutes til the next clue… Stay tuned
Clue #3:
Walk your dog or jog a bit.
Grab your honey, park and sit.
Ride a bike; exercise the kids;
Winter allows what summer forbids.
so here are my thoughts:
1) Park with a dog park.
that is all. wtf! what does winter allow that summer forbids? honey? excercise the kids? noodle!
ps i was wrong i thought the new clues came out at midnight. turns out it’s 10:30 your time. get crackin.
Winter allows ice skating. And all other things snow. But I would think a park with ice skating or some such thing might be in the running. Summer definitely forbids standing on a lake.
Do you think a dog park is a given? When I take Gracie to the dog park, I don’t think of myself as walking her. I think I’m walking her really only when she’s on-leash.
“Winter allows what summer forbids.” = SKATING
whoops… peapods noodled faster
“skating”, as in skateboarding and inline skating, is forbidden in the summer
GRAB YOUR HONEY
D00D()*&!#%^&)*(!#%^()*
EVERY FUCKING CLUE SAYS COMO.
we need to be scanning como. do they flood the pair of soccer fields that i linked to in my original guess?
AND LAST YEARS SPELLING BEE WAS AT COMO)(&!#^)&(!^#M
BEE)(*&#%&(*!#^*()&!#^()*!#^*()!^#*()
HONEY#)&*(^*()^!#)(*^!()*!^#()*
CAL)(*&@#^)&(^)&*(!^)&(*!^#)*(&
Whoah.
I like it. Honey. Skating. especially skating… I was thinking of other winter activities but you DEFINITELY cannot skate in the summer.
So we need a lake is como near/on a lake? i can’t remember….
excellent noodling… We need the weather to stay COLD and the clues to stay VAGUE until we get out there… GOOD JOB!
mom:
Dog park. .. jogging paths.
Grab your honey, park and sit. ??? why honey? why Park and Sit.??? like a park and ride? odd wording..
Ride a bike: bike paths and exercise the kids.
in winter you can walk on the ice. means Lake Phalen.
So now maybe but could be COMO or Phalen. check out clues to fit Lake Phalen. although there are two “lakes” at Crosby..but not real lakes more like swamps but you can now walk on the ice. but exercise the kids..no playgrounds or ball fields at Crosby. .. pointing to Como. with Perry Como connection which was weak at best…
Here’s a thought… some doods on teh message boards think there’s a hockey theme… long shot… check it:
9986.4 in reply to 9986.3
I was also thinking hockey stick and the CW also uses the word puck in clue 2. I know puck commonly refers to the medallion, but maybe the CW thinks people will over look this because of it.
I was also thinking Holiday Pair could be the colors red and green. Which is also the Wild colors.
hmmmm:
The song “Happy Holiday” sometimes “Happy Holidays” was first sung(debut) by Jane & Robert Newell at the St. Paul winter carnival in 1941(at Como Park). Newell park tomorrow. I can’t tie the 3rd clue to Newell in any way. Why is hunt #49 not on the map?….
#noodleyoodle
mom:
Well we need more clues and it is still 100 below 0 cold here which is GREAT! not so many hunters. no one could find it yet. I hate these clues by the way. my clues for the golden ticket were much much much much better…when I wrote them!
Out of what we have got so far I can pull Phalen, Cherokee, and even Battle Creek out of them. The Car parking lovers lane type of places used to occur very often at Mounds and Cherokee because of its view of the city. The taking your honey and sitting is very similar to a clue from 2004 at Phalen and clue 3 might be refering to ice fishing as well plus they harvest the ice for ice castles out of Phalen so any of those 2 could be the winter do, summer dont clue. Then you have the holiday light show at Phalen.
Battle Creek you got the pair of Holidays with a Holiday Inn that borders one end of the park and a Holiday gas station that borders the other, you have upper Afton Road then you have Lower Afton Road, you have skiing( the winter do and summer dont), you have the rec area for the kids and the sledding hill, then you have the dog park.
thats not all i got on all of those parks but its late and im tired. Another reason I like Phalen or Keller is because there are golf courses there (2 to be exact so you got another pair) and it is due to be back in a park with a golf course as it hasnt been in one in 9 years
good message board:
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/listsf.asp?webtag=kr-tcitiesother&gfc=1&sts=1%2F4%2F2013+12%3A12%3A19+PM
Looks like Como has a pair of ice rinks.
I also saw that there was a wandering goat for awhile by Battle Creek. Exercise your kids?
NICE NOODLE
excellent work with the kids. here’s what mom says:
COMO fits everything. okay did YOU think up the honey/beekeeping link? excellent. too cold to hunt but Como really good. stay off golf course. kids playground and amusement park and zoo and HONEY and park (Como Park) and Perry Como singing the Holiday song (which was a red herring and clue 2 said crosby last year and they are just doing it again) and ski and walk on the water (can’t do in the summer) maybe somewhere on the side of the lake. It was VERY warm the day it was hidden..so it wouldn’t be on Como Lake..it wouldn’t be anyway. but it certainly could be along side it. because you park yourself on a bench and look at the lake. I will go tomorrow and scout it out as I have some free time tomorrow. oxoxo me
whwzz wtf you refuse to noodle this early in the game? saving your brain? where art thou.
I don’t know how she thinks she knows when the medallion was hidden… prob thinks the day before the first clue? but that is a good angle. warm day where would you hide? KEEP NOODLING
i like that wwahzz lured skeez into the game and now goes missing. bait and switch. #letseatgrampa
so good that it is super cold. the winter gods look fondly upon the snow dungeon.
BLOW winter winds! BLOW from the North!
no one is forbidden from skiing… if you can walk on water, no one is telling you that you can’t…
skating is specifiCALly forbidden in all parks. that one seems obvious to me.
what is forbidden about skating in all parks? I don’t get it.
Rollerblading, I assume. Usually you can’t rollerblade in city parks.
I got yelled at one time in the arboretum. #embarrassing
whoa message boards.
The Louisiana purchase was a large chunk of land including parts of Minnesota. It has always been said that this land was “bought for a song”.
I cant believe you people aren’t eating this up. There is land within Ramsey county which was part of the Louisiana purchase of 1803. West of the Mississippi(technically south). Harriet is still #1 in my book with all of the hockey references, assuming they’re correct. I guess it doesn’t bother me, you and your avatars should go park your cars though. Nobody has found the medallion on the Internet, yet….
ICE skating right? or what?
Does anyone remember when we were kids (well, I was a kid, you folks probably weren’t even in utero yet) and there was this book that had clues that would supposedly lead you to some treasure in England? And the book may have just had pictures. And I feel like the pictures were mostly of rabbits. [It's possible I'm confusing this with Watership Down; I'd place the possibility at about 20%]. I feel like the person who found it just found it when his dog peed on it. Anyone remember this?
I do not remember this. I think Wwhaz has gone rogue. he’s out there.
I just want to put in another plug for Lilydale. People hunt for fossils there. Sometimes the hunt alone. Sometimes they hunt in groups.
*they
And they take ice from Pickerel lake to use at the carnival.
You have no idea how satisfying this is. I must have really improved my Google skills since last I looked for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28book%29
trippy
doin some noodlin and i’m taking a look at Hidden Falls… Winter allows you to see the falls… you can’t see it in summer bc of the trees, foliage etc.
Also there is a Summer st. very near Hidden Falls…
Hmmmmmmmm
the river road goes right by that park… lots of senic overlooks to park and sit… also a bike path along the park… noodling…
also the year it was found on like, day two, it was at hidden falls #reprise
SKATEBOARDING = SKATING
ROLLERBLADING = SKATING
INLINE SKATING = SKATING
ICE SKATING = SKATING
)(&#^!&)*(!#^)&*(!^#*)(!^#&*()!^#*&()!^*()&!^#
you are not FORBIDDEN from seeing the falls… it’s just hard.
infrared would let you see through the leaves.
skating is FORBIDDEN.
#UGGGGGGGG
“With about 6.7 miles of paved trails, the park provides a beautiful setting for an afternoon’s walk, run, or ride.”
Walk dog/ jog a bit/ ride a bike
http://www.stpaul.gov/facilities.aspx?page=detail&RID=42
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
Clue #3
Walk your dog or jog a bit.
Grab your honey, park and sit.
Ride a bike; exercise the kids;
Winter allows what summer forbids.
i am still 100% on como… and i don’t see anyone else on message boards saying como… BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO GIVE IT AWAY.
Someone on the boards said this is about the time to start looking for street names… I did see Brown Bear court or something like that in Como… could be the honey thing… that clue annoys me… same with “happy holidays” pair….
Does Como have bluffs? Is it up high? I reread the thread and I liked your idea that the “high tech” might reference altitude, too.
HIGHland park crossed my mind… not sure about the altitude of como… will check out
Como Park began its life as a public park in 1873. In the 1840s, Charles Perry, a native of the Swiss-Italian Alps, owned the land around Lake Como and grew potatoes on it.
#perrycomo
maybe “high tech” means mountain climbing gear.
i keep thinking it’s at the #2 historiCAL image of a bunch of girls on top of a 50′ rock face… maybe the medallion is half way up and you half to climb the wall
they wont make you climb walls or trees. it’s not over your head… dug into the ground, or hollow tree or something at eye level.
I CAN’T WAIT TO START HUNTING!!!!!!!!
worded that weirdly, i mean it’s not over your head FULL STOP it’s in the ground or in a tree or somehow at eye level… dude wait til you start hunting. every dead decaying tree on the ground holds a million hiding places… #work
alllison wonderland:
Battle Creek, Cherokee, Harriet Island, Phalen, Hidden Falls, Como, Crosby, Swede Hollow, and Mounds as they all have some kind of bluff/overlook, a set of stairs, and trails and all have been used before. At this point I still haven’t decided which is my favorite.
“all have been used before” = reprise
i think the paper has somebody watching the spot to make sure that the “finder” is the one that turns it in because of all the new rules geared around selling more buttons.
all we have to find is a creep watching the park a little too close.
i like it
what about “NO CHEAP STUNTS”…
were there any high profile stunts done at any parks? maybe ones with a big cash prise?
i think you’re mom really liked my beekeeper link, and she’s onto you passing it off as your own. she is not proud of your lies, cal.
give me her # so we can TXT.
!#^(*&)&*(!#^)*(&!^#
YOUR.
but, you are a little gurl, so i guess “you are mom” isn’t that wrong…
uggggggg.
cheap stunt refers to last year controversy the dudes hacked the system by changing the numbers in the URL to get the scrambled clues early #genius
if fessed up to the fact that i did not indeed come up with such a brillant noodle #skeezerpower
it’s good i’m 2000 miles away i’d be combing como #graspingatstraws
this weekend however #nosleep
it’s it supposed to warm up? #pleaseohplease
weather reports warming trend. AOK by this wkend.
I WANT TO HUNT
the clue writers like DOUBLE meanings, so obviously the stunt is a direct reference to the stunt…. but ENTENDRE’….. THERE COULD BE DOUBLE TROUBLE)(#!^()*#!%*)(!#^%)*(!^#*()!#^
true true
i wish the next clue referenced whazzmaster. something like:
If you wish to find the puck
bla bla bla you’re out of luck
bla bla bla bla bla the ‘dom
bla bla bal whazzmaster.com
or better yet:
bla bla bal whazz still sucks.
Long year for the mad scientist…
puck.
I am a preditator and the puck is my prey. I need to hunt. I can’t be locked away in this bay area. jfkladjfdklajfkldasjfklasdjfasdklfjdaskljfklajfda
good anagram creator:
http://www.anagramsite.com/
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
Clue #3
Walk your dog or jog a bit.
Grab your honey, park and sit.
Ride a bike; exercise the kids;
Winter allows what summer forbids.
madd can you help me? I’m trying to find a list of places where it’s been hidden… not just the list of the parks but WHERE in the parks… near the entrance, on a playground (it’s NEVER on a playground and everybody searches the hell out of those) etc. help?
you are the worst n00dler ever. i’ve stumbled on that list like 1000 times. you’ve never seen it?????
http://www.coolercrew.com/treasure_hunt
Year General Location Pinpointed Location Concealer
1952 Highland Park Leland & W. 7th Street Treasure Chest in a clump of weeds
1953 Cherokee Park Near the tennis courts at Delaware St. and Cherokee Ave. Snow and dried leaves
1953 Minnesota State Fairgrounds Near the Poultry Building Near the base of a tree
1954 Hidden Falls Park Inside the park entrance by the Ford Plant Inside the base of a dead, hollow tree
1955 Downtown Saint Paul Underneath a mailbox at 7th and Robert Streets Magnetized under the mailbox
1956 Como Park Near the Old Stone Fireplace Inside a Hollow Log
1957 Battle Creek Park Near the county workhouse farm Above ground in a clump of roots
1958 Keller Park Under the Highway 61 bridge between Phalen and Keller Parks In a gallon of milk frozen around the medallion
1959 Warner Road Near the railroad signal structures Between leaves in a tree
1960 Harriet Island Park In the woods in the west end of the park In the heel of a rubber boot
1961 Highland Park Near the ballfields at Montreal and Edgecumbe A clump of grass and weeds
1962 Mississippi Street Freeway Near a survey marker for the soon-to-be Interstate 35E, near the intersection of Mississippi St. and Lawson Avenue Hard-packed snow
1963 Bounded by Farrington and Louis Sts. and Rondo and Carroll Aves. On the ground near a hollow stump Loosely tossed in the snow
1964 Beaver Lake Park Near the intersection of Edgewater Blvd. and Geranium Avenue A gold colored brick
1965 Como Park 100 paces east of the Larry Ho plaque A block of printer’s lead
1966 Harriet Island Park Between the baseball diamonds An old-fashioned clothes iron
1967 Minnesota State Fairgrounds Between the Judging Arena and the KTCA booth A horseshoe
1968 Highland Park Near three oak trees up the hill from the intersection of Lexington Pkwy, Montreal Ave., and W. 7th, St. A piece of plasterboard
1969 Interstate 35E at Victoria Street On the bridge of the then-future highway intersection Frozen rocks
1970 Battle Creek Park On the 50-yard line of the football field on Upper Afton Rd. A cast iron vise
1971 Wakefield Park Near the Southwest edge of the lake A baby buggy wheel
1972 Marydale Park South of the westenmost manhole cover Attached to a gold-painted gooseneck water trap
1973 Phalen Park Near Light Pole # 13 on the Pavillion Parking Lot Cemented into a closet rod bracket
1974 Cherokee Park Between a large oak tree, and a grove of pine trees and large rock directly in line with Winona St. Inside a Coca Cola can concealed within a White paper bag
1975 Mears Park Near the intersection of Sibley and 5th Sts. In a Bull Durham tobacco sack wedged in a picnic bench
1976 Keller Park Underneath the roots of the first tree south of the bridge to the island In a “Y” shaped tree branch
1977 Irvine Park On the ground amid eight trees Inside a cigar box
1978 Harriet Island Park Midway between the road and the pavillion building Frozen in a ball of milk and ice
1979 Marthaler Park Near the tennis courts. Attached to a piece of tree bark
1980 Como Park Near the Schiller Statue Covered in plaster, made to look like a stone
1981 Acorn Park Across the walking path from the skating rink Stuck between a pair of leaves
1982 Wakefield Park Near the sledding hill on Prosperity Ave. Wrapped in a newspaper
1983 Phalen Park Near the picnic pavillion In a bag of Oreo’s; it replaced the filling in one of the cookies
1984 Newell Park Near the southeast corner of the park Attached to a piece of a broken Elvis Presley 45rpm record
1985 Kellogg Park Underneath a boulder near the Robert. St. end of the park Tucked inside a White Castle box
1986 Highland Park Near the old Highland Park swimming pool Inside a pipe cap
1987 Indian Mounds Park In the block bordered by Mounds Blvd., Mounds St., and Clemont St. Hidden in a clump of clay and grass
1988 Tony Schmidt Park Between the parking lot and domed shelter across the street from Lake Johanna Embedded in a chunk of almond bark
1989 State Capitol Mall Between the hedges south of Constitution Ave. In a pair of earmuffs
1990 Como Park Pointed at by the torpedo monument In a clump of clay and grass
1991 Langford Park Near the intersercion of Knapp Pl. and Knapp St. Inside a Hostess Sno-Ball
1992 Cherokee Park Near the bend in Cherokee Ave. as it makes its way towards Smith. Ave Hidden in a White Mitten
1993 Hidden Falls Park Between the bike path and the entrance road downhill from the North entrance Concealed in a baby diaper
1994 Highland Park Near the Police Station Inside a wooden box
1995 Battle Creek Park Near the picnic shelter on Winthrop St. Wrapped in a knit yarn pouch
1996 Harriet Island Park Near the picnic shelter Inside a Skoal Tobacco Container
1997 Como Park Across Estabrook Drive from the frog pond, in a stand of 27 trees Wrapped in a bandana stuffed in a Curad bandage box
1998 Cherokee Park Near the woods at the south end of the park Inside an “Old Navy” brand sock
1999 Conway Rec. Center Across the street from 459 Ruth St. in the Northwest corner of the park Inside a crocheted pouch
2000 Newell Park Between the bench swing and baseball diamond Inside a box of Ace brand playing cards
2001 Como Park Downhill from the park’s West Picnic Grounds. Inside an “Iron Man” sock, stuffed into a “Dove” soap box
2002 Merriam Park On the ground in the middle of a baseball diamond Stuck to a tortilla chip can liner
2003 Como Park In a wooded area north of the old fireplace Frozen in ice
2004 Phalen Park In a wooded area, in the area between Phalen and Round Lakes, not unlike the 2003 location Loose in the snow in a green-iced donut
2005 Crosby Farm Park Under a fallen tree branch Attached to the bark of a tree
2005 Indian Mounds Park Under a tree in the Eastern end of the park
2006 Battle Creek Park Amidst some tall grass near a stand of pine trees on the sledding hill behind the recreation center Inside a Nut Goodie Wrapper, wrapped in a red and black garter and frozen in ice
2007 Hidden Falls Park Along a line straight South of Cleveland Avenue Encased in ice, with the UAW Local 879 and Ford Logos under some logs
2007 Central Park – Roseville Near the base of a tree, close to a footbridge to the playground Nothing
2008 Indian Mounds Park Underneath a fallen tree Plastic-covered packaging from 3M Highland brand invisible tape
2009 Swede Hollow Park Near a tree at the end of the spring whose water crosses the eastern walking path. The Pioneer Press Hunt logo with red lipstick on the bulldog was affixed to the medallion
2010 Lilydale Park Tucked in a footprint in the snow near an uprooted tree, across the river from grain silos and a circular piling in the river. Plastic bag, with a depiction of the Pioneer Press’s two Pulitzer Prizes.
2011 Battle Creek Park Near the remnants of the former ski jump site Clear Newspaper Wrapping
2012 Tony Schmidt Park Near a stand of pine trees just off the Elmer Andersen Trail underneath the overhead power lines A diamond brand nut bag wrapped up in a blue hair binder
2013 TBD TBD TBD
hmm this is good:
http://www.whaletime.net/medallion/hiding_list.html
doesn’t give me where in the park but something anyway
it’s nearly always in something that looks like trash #mentalnote
FORMER SKI JUMP.
can someone say……. STUNT.
i hate you so much.
another thing… the thing is tiny. like the size of a half dollar. not what you think of #easilyhidden
battle creek. como.
the “loosely tossed in pile of snow and leaves” are the most terrifying
if there was still snow on the ground when they hid it, and it was tossed in the snow, that shit would be frozen solid by now.
the “hide it in garbage” / “toss it loose” argument will probably never die.
#DEFERTO2NDHALFOFHUNT
the diaper scares me. but if i find a diaper i will search it.
do you have any idea how much it sucked finding that geo catch bs? PUCK PUCK PUCK!!! GEO..CATCH???JFDAKLJFDKLAJFKLDAJFKLDAJFDKLASJFDKLASJFDASKLJFASDKLJFDSKLAFJDASKLFJDLASK
I’m back at work. Jobs, homie. And my computer phone blows up when I try to whazzz because there are too many comments. Once it goes over 200 comments, I’m locked out.
By the time I get here there are 60 million comments to read with 1000′s of interpretations.
My advice:
Maddddddd, reread the official rules and think about this from a law perspective. Shit has got to be way safe.
Como is the most convincing argument thus far.
Otherwise, this all sounds good and bad. But what do I know: I am a foot solider. I put on 100 miles a week searching mushrooms. I am built to scan and search. It’s in my DNA. If I had my $1000 coat, I’d be invincible. Point me in the right direction and I will earn my keep.
Oneils, you should drive up to MN and join us! Cheap rooms in that shitburg. Though I guess we did ask you to watch our dog… we can find other options. Consider it.
My only noodling thus far was messing around with that “holiday pair” shit and looking at the character’s names and last names in the movie. Nothing came of that. I also thought of the “holiday pair” of Xmas and new years but again, nothing came of it.
IN 2004 (loose in snow year) it was supposed to be in some dounut but some animal ate the donut so it was just loose… anyway it got down to the final clue and there were HUNDREDS of people in this field turning over snow with a helicoptor overhead with a spotlight and nobody found it. then the next day some dude was walking his dog and found it.
yay! he’s back to noodle! #oldfriends
“i think the paper has somebody watching the spot to make sure that the “finder” is the one that turns it in because of all the new rules geared around selling more buttons.
all we have to find is a creep watching the park a little too close.”
There is a chapter in the movie about “spotters”
that would seriously be hard. since there are random people all over the parks the spotter could easily blend in.
I hate the holiday pair clue. it sticks in my craw.
we need to find it this weekend. if we dont’ it’s anybodys bet. the masses converge! we need to beat them to it!
G+ works crazy good over computer phones.
#SHILL
people who are trying to watch other people and also not be seen by other people are dead easy to spot.
watch the mentalist.
didn’t that “college” teach you anything?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google+/id447119634?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus
here is an interactive map of the medallion locations:
http://www.twincities.com/ci_11444963
#N00D
new clue T Minus 3:24
Pro t waggle that didick. I want to see some tASTEFUL nudes.
THREE minutes!!! i’m so excited!!! get ready to NOOOOOODLEEEE
dammit it’s the scrambled clue… have to wait another hour for the real one. anyway here’s the scrambler:
and well and for downs rice worth all
treasure the not are fun mashed see ups
is clever rhyme some can’t you’re your hunt
one story glory for the time if yellow
hmmm well it’s another shorty clue… two in a row.. strange… rice? yellow? mashed?
Hey daddy day care. not to upset you in your vulnerable early baby stage but we need a nude post. this is like killer thumb death.
throw down an update on baby AJ. hows momma spacebee? where you think the medallion’s at? #NOODle
yellow treasure? what other noun above could yellow modify?i
gold? yellow treasure is gold right? this is so dumb. why am i noodling a scrabled clue this early in the game. DUMB.
Clue #4:
Ups and downs are the Treasure Hunt Story.
Fun for all, for one some glory.
If you’re not clever and can’t see the rhyme,
Yellow mashed rice is well worth your time.
#craziestclueever
Yellow Mashed Rice has to be an anagram?
yellow mashed rice
well searched Moyi
search well yomed
search well demoy
damn!
ok so they had this thing last winter called “red bull crashed ice” maybe they are doing it again this year. anyway it was downtown and it “rhymes” with Yellow Mashed Rice…. it’s all over the boards… I don’t think it pinpoints a park however…. still I don’t like it being so obvious… could be a distractor as well…
gotta cut my noodling for the night. god speed.
that little d00d does not allow any whazz time. there will never be another n00d post.
i’ll be n00dlin at G+
yo yo. here is the deal.we have no idea where the thing is. but nobody else does either. #patience
yo wwwwwhazzz, what do you think of this d00ds gear?
he’s got the onesie coat.
sort of a dick move by the paper to leave in the shot of him tripping over himself.
if that’s our competition, the medallion is already ours…. but man… he’s out there… already…. in the cold…. alone…..
so dum. blowing his load early. unless he can go all week……. man… now i’m scared.
Clue #1
So last year’s hunt proved pretty tough,
Filled with red herrings, bluster and bluff.
Expect more reprise in this year’s hunt.
Use high tech gear, but no cheating stunt.
The outer limit is the Ramsey line;
On public land you’ll do just fine.
Don’t hunt in a place where you play a round.
Don’t dig deep holes or tear up the ground.
Clue #2
Giving the clues away for a song
Turned out to be so very wrong.
So, with apology quite humble,
We’ll stick to mixing clues in a jumble.
Hunt alone or council for luck,
But only one can find the puck.
Finder decides with whom to share
Like that famous “Happy Holidays” pair.
Clue #3
Walk your dog or jog a bit.
Grab your honey, park and sit.
Ride a bike; exercise the kids;
Winter allows what summer forbids.
Clue #4:
Ups and downs are the Treasure Hunt Story.
Fun for all, for one some glory.
If you’re not clever and can’t see the rhyme,
Yellow mashed rice is well worth your time.
told mom the plan for saturday she says:
okay. good. will they need hunting stuff.? also I have to teach but I can be on call and drive and get FOOD for you guys or bring dry clothes or more rakes etc etc etc #backup
Mom had a good noodle:
I just figured out what it is in. a BIT O HONEY wrapper. it says..walk your dog or jog a BIT grab your HONEY park and sit.
#NICE
Dear whazz,
Is this game fun? It looks pretty.
http://kentuckyroutezero.com/
Maybe it’s in a Red Bull can in the snow (on ice).
Was that already covered? Sorry. I’m behind. I’ve got PTSD from argument in Chicago & class tonight.
AO says we can be the behind-the-scenes crew this weekend. Is this true? And, if so, will we have headsets?
I see wwhazz did not like my Holiday Inn first name/last name idea. Lilydale. Fair enough. No one else did either. I’ll stick with my day jobs.
keep noodling!
Yeah, noodle away with this company of folks. I’m not gonna solve shit.
I hunt. I dig.
I’m impressed you at least did something with it. I only got to saying that there might be something there.
Dude’s gear looks warm. Perhaps just some deer hunter shit is as warm as my $1000 coat. But I doubt it.
Lilydale is one of the few parks with ice climbing.
Clue 5:
Nature does what nature wills
And gobbles up man’s silly frills.
“Don’t fence me in” might be the song,
But spotting a fence won’t lead you wrong.
ice climbing. it gets warm. ice melts and gobbles up the water.
frills: Informal Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury.
Ice climbing
i know where it is. SATURDAY IT SHALL BE MINE! MINE!
do you need a fishing license in the winter? summer forbids???
genius:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/fishing.html
free when fishing through the ice!! summer forbidden!!
it’s only free when you’re in a STATE park…. not a region park in the state.
and summer does not necessarily forbid ice fishing… it’s just unlikely
Don’t Fence Me In sung by Roy Rogers, married to Dale Evans. Lilydale.
lilydale is adjacent to crosby farms… uggggg. i don’t know if i’m going to go to como or crosby now… and if i go to crosby, not sure if i’ll play the west side + hidden falls or the east side + lilydale.
TOOVAGUE
Ice climbing uses high tech gear. Or what I think of as high tech.
Yeah, and maddddddd already pointed out the pun aspect with “high.”
Some unsolicited baby advice for the pennymoney’s”
Try to poop when the baby is pooping.
there is a pawn shop in view over the river from lilydale…. “SEE A FENCE!”
Would they really want to CAL the pawn shop a criminal? I always see a lot of noodling chat about loCAL biz that fit the clues, but does it ever pay off? I Honestly cannot remember.
I’m starting to dream about searching.
#tetriseffect
As a kid, I would use my paper route cash to buy a ticket Noah’s Ark just to swim around with my goggles all day and look for lost change and earrings.
I’d work a 9 hour shift to flip my $16 ticket into $17 worth of nickles.
#lotsofbandaids
I will not stop hunting.
Meth would be a nice helper.
I’m bringing a flash of peppermint schnappster and a flask of brandy.
Nature does what nature wills:
“Historic…floods left a soggy legacy, marking the beginning of the end for the historic immigrant neighborhoods on the City’s West Side Flats.”
In comes…Lilydale!
why does this white dungeon not automatically update the comment pages and homepage after a new comment?
your caching is messed up, homie.
post a comment, then go to homepage… comment not there…
if someone else posted a comment and you refresh homepage, then click on the comment, it doesn’t take you to the comment.
#TURDPRESS
i’m watching law & order… episode “thrill” from 1997… excited about a new “it’s always sunny” episode coming on later tonight, and BOOOOOM… fucking rob mcelhenney is on the stand with a cute little baby face.
how can there be so many law & order episodes that i watch like 5 a day and have never seen this????????
mind blown.
i think TNT ran the episode today on purpose.
#GORON
I’m confused. can someone summarize the lilydale arguments for me? bonus points to summarize both lilydale and crosby…
i completely missed O’neils noodle:
Don’t Fence Me In sung by Roy Rogers, married to Dale Evans. Lilydale.
?????????????????
DALE….. lilyDALE.
you are blowing your noodle, cal. take a nap.
sorry… in case you’re still confused…
DALE evans…. DALE… lilyDALE
lilyDALE i see.. I thought you had a lily somewhere as well.. just a Dale seems a bit tenious but i like the noodling.
Thoughts from Allison Wonderland Dude:
Thoughts so far Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:45 am (PST) . Posted by: “David Allison” allisonwondrland I know last night’s clue has a lot of people back at Crosby. I’m not there myself. That’s primarily because of Clue 4 which I believe refers to the Crashed Ice event which doesn’t relate to Crosby at all. Although granted the medallion could be wrapped in a Crashed Ice flyer so some such thing. But even then Clue 3 doesn’t quite sound like Crosby in that I don’t see it as a place you go to exercise the kids. But it could be. And while Bing Crosby may have sang last night’s song, it’s really considered a Roy Rogers song.
Hidden Falls and Swede Hollow both seem to mostly fit the clues though again they lack a specific connection to the Crashed Ice event. Last night’s clue sounded very much like Swede Hollow as it referred to nature reclaiming what once was composed of manmade structures. But that could also be describing Lilydale. I think it also fits Harriet quite well as Harriet is periodically literally gobbled up by the flooding river.
I’m still thinking Harriet myself. There are those very prominent “stairs” going down to the river. There are lots of trails and a playgfround for the kids, or you might just park there and take in the view of downtown (including the Crashed Ice event). There are certainly plenty of fences around. The song references may actually be hinting at the musical stage there rather than who sang them being important. Harriet was my vote for the last couple of days and I think I am going to stay with it today.
my n00dle says that is 100% misdirection
What you say? Bro, I can’t hear you. I can’t hear you.
babies shittin pants… babies shittin pants….
my baby shittin pants.
i aint got no time to whazz
#NWORDA
AJ says como.
srsly what DOES aj say? goo goo ga ga? AJAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IN THE HIZZY.
He thinks reprise means it’s in a diaper again.
nice noodle AJ!
On iPad does not let me post to gplus.. We need direction. Over. I am in MN we don’t know what park over. MADD cal if u want to join up. Full stop
PLEASE GO BACK TO HARRIET AND UNROLL THE SLEEPING BAG IN THE HOBO CAMP THROUGH THE WOODS RIGHT DOWN THE STAIRS FROM THE BRIDGE THAT GOES OVER THE NORTH END OF THE PARK BY THE 1st BUILDING.
MEDALLION IS THERE)(&!#^)(&#!^()*&!#^)*(!^#
make sure to use the G+ app… not the safari or any other web browser.
N00D POST)*(&#^%
hang the wang
#nude
Hunts over. Let us back in.
NORM!(*#%()&*!#%)*(&!#%
Let us in. We are cold. So cold.
please?
your shorty looks rad… i imagine his inner monologue something like “WHOA! what’s the F stop on that thing? 6.8?!”
Will you have me back? #prodiCAL returnith
Yeah, old pancake tits is back. Let him in.
i was scooping up baby formula to put in my coffee maker this morning… almost dumped it in, but i caught myself.
#BABYLIFE
NEW HUNT: FIND WHAZZMASTER. MAKE HIM POST.
471 comments homie. thumbs are falling off.
#RELIEF
fuck it… i’m going for 500.
#N00D
poop poop FART!
#BUTT
WIPING BUTTS WIPING BUTTS, NO TIME TO POST, I’M WIPING BUTTS
Sleep when the baby sleeps.
Poop when the baby poops.
Jerk it when the baby jerks it.
Whazz when the baby whazzes.
Pi gets on my iphone from time to time. She shot a video of a ceiling with belly’s and changed my alarm from barking dogs to crickets chirping.
Those are some good results, baby.
AJ bird looks like a doll in that latest photo.
Any idea how mindblowing it is to see madddddd and cla’s mom hanging out?
Cal’s new hobby is building survival kits. MAddddd and cla had some interesting conversations about survival strategies and supplies. Cla gifted scientist one of the kits which contained, I shit you not, homemade hardtack.
Later the conversation shifted to the master survival kit cal has at home for when/if the shit really hits the fan. It pained cal to admit it but he told madddd he’s been contemplating adding a gun. Madddd started to advise him on small pistols and cla cut him off, “no. An assault rifle.”
Madddd’s only response, “whoa.”
Another magic moment: we took an idiotic side trip way off trail (it’s where I found the mole). When we hit the river, we started playing hockey with our ice chunks. Maddddd took a HUGE slap shot and biffed it HARD on the ice.
Later at the car, I complained that my legs hurt. Madddddd chimed in that he felt great but his hip hurt for some strange reason. I had to remind him about the fall.
Pods and oneil: did you like that movie? Did it make you want to hunt or turn you off?
Are you impressed we met Jake?
Our code word for finding the medallion was pancakes. You were to say, “I need to break. Let’s get pancakes.” Or something like that to signal you had it.
Later it was changed to pancake tits.
cal said “machine gun”… i guess that’s probably assault rifle, but it could be an uzi.
still not sure if he was serious… he didn’t seem to know why he wanted it. killing rabbits?
also didn’t think i hit so hard… thought i took the bump like a champ… but then i remembered i had zillion dollar computer phone on me… was too nervous to check on it until i got back to my car. it was fine.
i felt like i could have done that 3 days straight easy. no fatigue at all… it was almost better that it was cold out.
i’ve been looking for other hunts nationwide… thinking of going pro and getting on the tour.
a 5 shot .45 revolver is a good survivalist utility handgun.
a ruger 10/22 rifle is a good small game hunter.
anything more than either of those, and you might as well get a glock with a 30 round clip, or an AR/AK
#IODINE
cal’s survivalist kits include 2 pictures of greg.
#TWO
100% fun fact: as i approached wwwhazzz and cal and cal’s mom on homer elway sliced, i was confused… why is bellygirl here? someone else watching the kids? brain is confused… right then a glowing cal welcome…. SCIENTIST! MEET MY MOM!… i’m still thinking it’s BG for some reason and 40% like “haha, yeah right” and 60% looking closer.
i was 50+ feet away and everyone had giant goats and scarfs and hats…. so i’m looking closer… at 40ft i still had a good portion of myself convince that was BG and confused at cal’s stupid joke and confused where the babies were….. OH RIGHT, IT’S CAL’S MOM.
#DELIGHTFUL
Look on allison. He does his own practice hunt in, I think, march. It looked ok.
100% fun fact. As madddddddd approached homer elway slice he was all bundled up.
My first thought?
Shit, here comes another fucker I need to toss down the ice climber pit.
#interfacial
i am embarrassed to report that i never once even thought about thinking about killing you or cal.
#EVERYONEELSETHOUGH
We liked that movie a lot, and impressed you met Jake. Kate got way into the hunt. I got very frustrated by the clues and wanted to give up. We are thinking of coming next year.
Nice.
Madddd, you had a face mask and hat and coat… I didn’t know it was you, bro. I thought you were another fool with a shovel.
Also, should there be a shotty in the mix for survival? Or more than one? 12 gauge for sure, I’d say.
I vote butterfly knife and brass nuks.
There are some impossible to win freerolls on joust. Set the bar to free and fart off.
I need a new clue.
i was way impressed at the distance cal committed to welcoming me.
long sighted vision… short sighted world view.
#GUNS
or, was he welcoming everyone as me, so he knew who to kill?
i’m definitely bringing some form of firearm next year.
we’re over 500… i saw a thumb along the trail to the dungeon.
i beseech you dungeon overlord… PLEASE… relief to the thumbs.
ed koch is dead…. MCA is rapping about him
IT WAS GREG’S THUMB!!!!!!
i’ve got a new case for a cal…
i’m watching law and order: special victims unit… the storyline more than once brings up the topic of adolescents getting together for pill parties where they “skittle” which is then immediately defined as taking a bunch of fruit flavored cold medicine for recreational purposes…. dextromethorphan… most OTC forms also include another drug that makes you puke if you take too much… a drug that provides nothing to your body (your body that will reject it in any sizable dose)… that drug is forced onto you by drug manufacturers just to protect you from yourself trying to get a buzz going. anyways, pretty much only robotussin offers the “DXM” without the puke additive, so the common term for using the drug is “robotripping”…
there is only 1 other major manufacturer that sells straight DXM without the puke additive… and they are the ones that make the fruit flavored candy flavored pill versions… DELSYM… they even tried to make their brand point out… “HEY! THIS IS DXM… when you think DXM… think DELSYM”…. they couldn’t compete with “robotripping”… so they invented “skittling” and paid the writers of law & order: SVU to write a how scene around young people having fun at a “skittles” party, and then paid USA to replay the episode with an ad for their product right after the scene.
cal, SUE THEM. finance my HIGH TECH GEAR for next year’s hunt.
the show was on at 5pm… kids home from school watching TV… learn about a new “legal” way to have fun, and then sold the product in an AD. come on.
the most #BALLER way to end a haiku: “a man is now dead”
a man is now dead, way dead
Aeropuerto. Thumbs hurt.
You about to go international?
#pooptime
Cleaning out the basement before the remodel, I found a box of old handwritten letters. Some of them were from high school friends sent to me my first year in college. In the world of zuckerfuck it’s odd to think that casual pals would take the time to write me a letter. In one of them the writer talks about email. And I remember that my class in college was one of the first to have email. I remember thinking it was super dumb…
And I also had a bunch of letters, REAL LETTERS, from when I moved to Louisiana. Email was the real deal in 2000 but we were still writing. I had letters from CLA, whazzmaster, Jen H, Cheryl, freaking SCUBBY took the time to write me a letter and include an xpac sticker.
Ah, the past. A future archaeology dood will be able to learn a lot about my monkey ass if he finds this special trash bag in a landfill one day.
Cla was complaining about winter and homework and a bunch of crap.
WM told me about mcteaue and bellman stuff.
Jen talked about hangovers and poetry.
Scubby complained about paul and todder.
I remember a quote from the jen h letter:
“I saw oneil walking today. He looked rough. No smiles.”
I bet he looked adorable.
There was also an oneil roommate letter. It was the night after I helped him home from the dice and he was asking for some help piecing the night together.
In another Cheryl told me about seeing my sister.
I really need more of these types of updates. Please write me if you see anyone that I know.
butthole
dickhole
intheypussyholeonexthunt
Shit! Almost!
One more try…
This is our next treasure hunt
Bro, I’m way hacking today.
Here is cla’s penis
Shit, no worky.
Ok, ok. The big news is I wanted to hunt pythons in FLA. And Cla’s penis was a link to the Kirby Puckett wikipedia page.
we got international skeezer: NUDE!!!
1) HOMELAND i’m hooked on HOMELAND.
2) LETTERS i can’t believe letters. that was probably the last letter I ever sent #reverseA2K
3) I don’t want a machine gun that a was a joke, but I can’t deny the appeal of an old timey cowboy six shooter at the bottom of my survival kit. I am picturing THE ROAD. If i’m going to survive the zombie apocalypse or whatever happened in THE ROAD I would like to have an old timey gun. that said I don’t REALLY want one. It was creep me out sitting down there under the emergency ponchos. I will stick blunt instruments to kill zombies #flowerpotsmash
4) for about a month I went survival kit krazy. I spent weeks lurking in weird survival web forums and shopped many “99 cent” stores to amass my survival items. I ordered tons of shit from hong kong via ebay too. anybody wants one send the word. my standard size is small plastic tupperware that I found at a dollar store, however, I also dug out various tins from around my apartment. You see, the size of the tin dictates what goes inside. It’s a fun hobby. My favorite survival kit is an altoids tin or a little larger. Madd got some hardtack because he had a size up. When the zombies have you cornered and you survive by sucking on my hardtack you will be be glad you met me. whoa sucking on my hardtack sounds vulgar. I can assure you I meant no such offense. I take my death by zombie defense very seriously.
5) I should have found that medallion. I hunted LIKE AN INSANE PERSON that last night. I probably walked over it a dozen times. It kills me knowing this. Regardless, I quite enjoyed the hunt. That last night I wasn’t going out and instead rest up and get out early but Madd convinced me thank god. At 10:30 when the scrambled clue came out my phone got blitzed with CALs and texts and I sat in my car and tried to puzzle out what to do. It was incredibly fun. I put my head down and dug until 3:00 AM and then drove a half mile to a gas station for coffee. I was feeling fine. I was out of my mind but so far beyond fatigue that I felt amazing. I imagine it is something akin to what ACTUAL HUNTERS feel like when they go hunt actual things. What the predator felt like hunting Arnold. After that I hunted for another 1/2 hour and I wanted to stay longer but knew my mom would want to go out early the next morning and the latest could put her off would be 8:00 AM or so and I thought I should get at least four hours of sleep. So I called it night.
What if I had found it? I could EASILY have found it. If I had I am afraid I would lose perspective on the absurdity of the thing and actually think i was cool… For spending countless hours digging up a plastic disc hidden under snow in a park. I’m not sure I want a historiCAL record of that pursuit. but I could use 10 Gs or whatever i get after taxes and splitting it however many ways. at one point the last night there were these mexican dudes hunting next to me and it crossed my heavily fatigued mind that if I found it I would slip it over and let them “find” it. That thought was followed by a second thought that I just blew it and now would not find it for having such thoughts. In the end the chick with the lymes disease found it and said she was going to use the money to pay for her mediCAL treatment becasue her insurance doesn’t cover it all. That’s not such a bad thing. And I don’t really care that I didn’t find it because I’m reading all this zen stuff lately about purposeless waiting capacity. I prefer just digging around like crazy for no purpose. THAT is how I’m going to find it.
The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target. -Zen proverb.
I guess I’ll deal with all these questions of lymes disease and mexican dudes when I find it next year. And I do plan on finding it.
Wait. Wwhazz, you threw out the letters?
The letters sleep with the krifto pumpkin.
I’m not suicidal but I am throwing away everything. I almost sold an Atari I’ve been lugging abound for 30 years. Timmer stepped in and wants it. So if the zombie apocalypse happens, we can rebuild video gaming up at this place. Doomsday prepping, bro.
I have so much old, weird shit. It’s time for it to go. I want to trim my book collection, BURN my comicbook and baseball cards… I still want my garbage pail kids
I’m keeping my legos.
All my star wars crap can go. Kcar? Want a goddamn Lando still in the goddamn package?
I have like 800 collections. I might be a hoarder. There was so much shit from high school.
I like wrestling medals because they remind me that I can kick cal’s ass if I need to. But all the little baby pins you got everything you pinned a dude? Ug, I saved them because they were so much fun to collect, like scalps, but really they soulda gone out with the letters.
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I’m all for purging. Actually, your account of what is in your basement is stressing me out. But letters from Jen H (whom I don’t know) relaying she saw AO business-serious seem hoard-worthy.
It was a true lol moment reading that.
I’m pretty sure I saw that rough look a couple of minutes ago when he announced he was off to the post office.
the skeezers i meet, make me soooooooooo…. short-short
i hate this fucking stinky shitbox of a country.
#USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAGESARESAUSAGY
Come one, bro. Enjoy the culture. They have good ham, right? What about the booze– tasty,no?
Give us some more. I want to hear the adventures of an american maddddd scientist in barcelona. Did you poop on the plane? Did you watch a movie? Do you like how they all lisp?
Gras-th-as.
One more HUNT post:
Medallion is under the big splotch on the left. The red line south was my coffee run.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/269821777
Harriet with Mom:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/269821801
Homer Elway Slice:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/269821818
To get the full Homer Elway Slice experience go to “Player” and follow along step by step…
Ahahhahaa that was rich.
It captures our homer/elway overshoot and it includes our trip to the river.
I won a side bet and get to name cla’s team in fantasy baseball. Last year I lost the bet and he named me “needle dicks.” Here are a few ideas. I really like the morons but he requests a Russian themed name. Any feedback is appreciated.
Vladimir Bukkake
Vladimir Pootang
Vladimir Ballsack
St Paul Morons
Cosmonutz
Cosmonutsacks
Vladimir Pootang lol. gimme that
Ok, enjoy. Let me know if it’s too long.
A fantasy baseball writer I like has a guide to fantasy and his draft guide for sale. It’s 14.95. Not bad, it’s 100 plus pages and has good advice on commishing and rules. Plus I read his blog (free) and don’t mind supporting that. So I went to buy it and there was a deal:
Deposit $10 in a daily site (not joust, some other) and get a free $10 and the guide.
So now I spent $10 instead of $14.95, I have the guide and $20 in that account. Sure, it’s a ploy to hook me via problem gambo, but I am happy.
cool. vlad poontang. sounds like a champ’s name. in other news i’m afraid we need to have a talk about the fate of the G League. #vacate
i mean pootang
I know you love the G League just don’t think you’ll fill it
g league rolls with or without you, bro. I want to play roto and aint paying yahoo rake. I have several player pools to mine.
#sukit
last year killed me. 5 leagues, zero dollars. #idosukit
this year i might put everything i got into the Main League. #sukitggu
i’ll take cal’s spot in the G league.
#idontevenknowwhatthatis
watching you dig in the exact spot very thoroughly and not finding it is very disheartening. that’s when we need the high tech gear. not sure if flir would help… that is probably why they prefreeze it in dirt… hard to get a distinguishing signal out of that.
the mobile phone convention starts here this friday, so today the hotel turned from a quiet sanctuary where i could drink all the coffee i wanted, to an infestation of chinamen who drank all the coffee before i could get any.
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That aint hospitality, bro.
5 leagues is too much. I agree.
2 is perfect: one h2h and one roto.
Our overlord is coming back to us. I had a vision of a glorious noood post.
Dizam, I thought we’d be up to 6 hundo by now.
fuck the overlord… i’m trashing the place
fuck yeah. where’s the party at? RIGHT FUCKING HERE.
you see that lamp over there? TRASHED.
BOOM. i’m kicking things.
you see those things? DESTROYED.
#KICKKICKKICKKKKKKKICKIKCICKCICIKCICKICKICIKCIKCALSUCKSSSSSSBBQ
Get out of this post. NOW
get out of YOUR FACE)(&!^#)(&*!#^()&*!#^
BREAK)(&!#%^)(&*!#%^ CRASH)!^(*)!^#)(&^#()*
thing…….. BROKEN THING)!(#^)*(#^!)*(!#^!^#!(*)*()#!^%
SMASHSMASHSMASH.
ow. #THUMBS