THE HERALD HUNT

The World Famous Herald Hunt will take place tomorrow (Sunday) in downtown Miami, and you should definitely go. It's easy: All you need to do is gather together a team of unbalanced fun people, get a copy of Sunday's Miami Herald, and be in Bicentennial Park at noon. For more information on the Hunt, check out the official site, and also the excellent archives maintained by Andy the TropicHunt.com Guy™. I'll be there along with Tom Shroder, who is the co-designer of the Hunt and the person responsible for anything that goes wrong. When the Hunt is over we'll explain it and you can boo us, and then everybody can head over to the post-Hunt festivities at a place called Bongos. The winners of the Hunt will receive a fabulous trip to Amelia Island Plantation, courtesy of Visit Florida.

Comments

[random thunking]

*wallows in self pity, stuck in The Tri-State™*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Gasp! Bongos is a CLUE!
That must be where they're hiding the beer. Quick, Robin - to the Batmobile Weinermobile!

[Cheryl Howard]

*Wonders if tri-state tastes anything like tri-tip?*

[random thunking]

No Cheryl, sadly it tastes like a cross between chicken and fumunda.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

See you all there!

[Margaritaville]

Dave will be the one in the blue shirt getting booed. The blue shirt joke just never gets old!

[kimberly]

i wish i could go, but sadly, have to pick up a friend from prison 2morrow. wait, maybe i can bring him.

LOL

nah all he will want then is sex.. :P

kimber

[Annie Where-but-here]

Kimber - we can't let you miss the Hunt. You go on. Siouxie offered to pick up your buddy.

[Annie Where-but-here]

...because that's the kinda gal Siouxie is.

[WriterDude]

One weekend a year, I wish I lived in Miami rather than Denver. This is that weekend.

Have fun, y'all.

[diverdowndoc]

We will WD! You'll be here in spirit!

[Siouxie]

um...thanks, Annie. That's just who I be.

Anywho. We are still waiting for NotSoShyJan who finally had no choice but to drop "Wanda" off and continue the trip down to Miami without her. She will be here shortly and we'll head out to do something tonight and then rest up for the Hunt!!!

*Wanda is her Winnebago who's been trekking cross country and just could not make it to Mijammi. The old gal needed a rest or an RV margarita*

[Not My Usual Alias]

Wishes Naperville would have a surprise Hunt event... and is sad.

[Renee (the First)]

Jan, you poor dear. You always have travel troubles on the way to Hunts! Hope you make it the rest of the way safely. All of you have fun without me . . . *sniffle*

[Siouxie]

JAN IS HERE!!!!! and havin a glass of vino!

[Just Ducky]

*flaps in for a moment*

Siouxie, NSSJan, ddd, et al, please have some wine for me, too. Wish I could be there and get drunk have fun with y'all!

*flaps off to drown sorrows in vat o' vino*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Have fun, youse guys. I'll toast Wanda the Wanderer tonight.

[diverdowndoc]

having a wonderful dinner- wish y'all were here!

[danceswithvowels]

[Check. Check. 1. 2. 3. Is this thing on?]

You know it, Alias. If The Hunt were anywhere within 500 miles of Naperville easy for lazy people to get to, I'd totally hit that.

*Snork* @ Annie's (Rob-in the) Weinermobile

[crossgirl]

we wanted to be there, but frankly, we just couldn't stand the thought of bearing witness to andy missing by thismuch yet again.

[diverdowndoc]

SusyQ told us all to say something because we don't have enough things to laugh at.

Come on, folks- blogbar is open!

[Siouxie]

Hi from Suzy Q blogging from Siouxie's laptop. Confused yet? Yeah, so am I. Also, we are drinking. So there is that.

Looking forward to the Hunt tomorrow, hoping for no rain

[Siouxie]

She's drunk

[NotSoShyJan]

Where is everyone? Hey, wake up, West Coast people!

[Siouxie]

Ok..this is funny. We're all sitting on my couch with laptops (except for SuzyQ who apparently did not get the memo to bring hers).

Geekness much?

*waves @ ddd and NSSJan!!!*

[diverdowndoc]

*waves at Siouxie*
See my blog for picture of Siouxie's comment above.

[PirateBoy]

I still think this is totally unfair to we West Coast dwellers. Think of what a California Hunt could offer everyone:

Clue #1: Count the foreclosed homes in this 4 block area, and divide by 20.

Clue #2. Attempt to order a jelly doughnut from Donuts 'R' Us. What flavor did the clerk actually give you?

Bonus points if you can identify his country of birth.

Clue #3: How many fires are burning near Malibu at any one time?

Clue #4: How many homeless people hit you up for change at Sunset and Highland?

Clue #5: How many songs, other than "Smoke on the Water", are ever played at the Guitar Center on Sunset by wanna-be head-bangers?

See? We have culture, too!

[PirateBoy]

I still think this is totally unfair to we West Coast dwellers. Think of what a California Hunt could offer everyone:

Clue #1: Count the foreclosed homes in this 4 block area, and divide by 20.

Clue #2. Attempt to order a jelly doughnut from Donuts 'R' Us. What flavor did the clerk actually give you?

Bonus points if you can identify his country of birth.

Clue #3: How many fires are burning near Malibu at any one time?

Clue #4: How many homeless people hit you up for change at Sunset and Highland?

Clue #5: How many songs, other than "Smoke on the Water", are ever played at the Guitar Center on Sunset by wanna-be head-bangers?

See? We have culture, too!

[PirateBoy]

Um, sorry about that, chief.

[Suzy Q]

Oh, hai!

I am back in my home, away from that nest of Laptop-Americans which, dare I say it?, discriminate against us remaining PC-Americans. To that I say...Hmph!

Just because they can all be in the same room on separate laptops whilst still communicating via blogs does not make them special.

Hmph!

*waves at the poor deluded Laptop-Americans*

[Suzy Q]

To PirateBoy:

#1: Don't even try, you wimpy sprout-eatin' Californian. Florida is Number One in home foreclosures in the entire country, and we are damn proud of it!

#2: It had better be raspberry...or else. Krpyskstan.

#3: There is no number 3.

#4: 17

#5: One: "Stiarway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.

So, what did I win?

[Clean Hands]

Dayam, but I wish I could be there for the drunken partying festive puzzle solving. Y'all have fun, and don't do anything I wouldn't get caught at do.

[diverdowndoc]

Wish you could be here too, CH. Would you please come turn off this f**&^% car alarm that has been going off for more than an hour outside Souxie's house?

[diverdowndoc]

Thank you. That was quick!

[CJrun]

I knew it must have been something disturbing to waken anybody at that House of Inebriaty, 'doc.

Here, it'w fweezing, but I see it's in the 70s in MyJammies, so y'all have fun!

[daisymae]

Has it really been a year?

Oh well...

a'huntin we will go,
a'huntin we will go,
hi-ho the derry-o,
a'huntin we will go!

Have fun tropichunters!

[PirateBoy]

About three years ago, Mrs. PB and I were discussing a possible trip to Florida to see and participate in the Hunt in person. But after reading all the clues, *and* the answers the next day, I think I've only solved/understood one question.!

What can I say? I'm a product of the Kalifornia educational system. And we all know there's no logic to be found there.

Good luck, hunters!