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February 10, 2007 - Florida State League (FSL1)
Brevard County Manatees News Release


How much would you pay for a cookie?

Last season the Manatees cookie was unofficially voted the ugliest cookie and then took top honors in the bidding with $125.

Tonight, at the annual Coffee and Chocolate Fundraiser benefiting the Brevard Achievement Center, the Manatees cookie generated $1,200. With other prizes donated by our partners at Duran Golf Club and Ovations, the official concessionaire of Space Coast Stadium, things got real interesting, real quick.

Just before the cookie bids were solicited a live auction cranked out some real collectible items such as a Brett Favre autographed Green Bay Packers cap, a Joe Namath autographed book, and other items. The shocker was the Barry Bonds autographed jersey that had a minimum bid of $400 and not one person submitted a bid. The room off 300-400 people stayed silent and the auctioneer quickly removed the jersey from the auction. A few minutes later the Manatees cookie and prizes opened at $500 and it was game on like Donkey Kong.

If you attended we know you had a great night. Our staff took photos and you'll be seeing them on our web site in the next day or so.

But now it's back to the business at hand. It's time to give those that have accomplished the task of finding the stone their final clue. Here's the way it's going to work.

Somebody is going to find the coin within the next 24 hours. There's no doubt about it. There are a lot of you that have gone as far as you can without the final clue. So here it comes, in two phases. First, there is a test below that requires you to take the certain number on the stone and begin subtracting numbers from it. All of the questions/statements below must be subtracted from your four-digit clue that is on the stone. When you are done you will have a three digit number. That is the number of steps away from the coin you will be providing you paid attention and are standing in the right place. The coin is not buried, not underwater, not anywhere that you can't access it 24 hours a day.

For everybody else wondering where to find this four-digit code, you're probably too late unless you re-read your emails and spend the night figuring it out. There are no less than eight (and we think 12) people we know of that are seriously in the hunt for the coin at this time and somebody will find it within 24 hours because what follows here will cut your search down to a very small area. And the next email will give you specific step by step directions using your pace count number that you will determine here in a few minutes.

Hopefully none of you had anything planned tonight because you're going to get to know Mr Google and Ask Jeeves very well. Or you can sleep on it and get going in the morning, but I don't think you will. You're going to start now and you won't be sleeping tonight...accept it and deal with it, America.

Here's Part I of your final clue:

You'll have to due some math

We'll get you the final equation

But before you suffer the wrath

Don't yet worry about yer destination.

Those four-digits will get ye goin'

Here's where yer subtraction comes into play.

Minus Betsy Ross' stars in her sewin'

And the hours in a day.

Minus, at Conry's Bar, the redheads that meet

And the women that sailed with Calico Jack in the end

In 1668, the ships in Henry Morgan's fleet

When England he did defend.

Drop the number of tons of The Adventure Galley Their flag a-tattered rag of stain.

And the two-digit year in the 1500s that

Lord Grenville fought the Spanish Main

If "He had fought like a man

He wouldn't have been hung like a dog,"

Said the lover of Calico Jack Rackham

Without the benefit of grog.

So subtract the two-digit year of his dying

In the early 18th century

Young lover Anne Bonney, she wasn't lying

Jack, alas, thy swingin' rope's for thee.

An' let us not forget the great Parrothead

Jimmy Buffet and his song

About a Pirate an' the number years too late

Being born, and man that's just wrong

Which gets us closer to the number

Of which you're going to need.

There's no chance to rest or slumber

'Cuz nothin's guaranteed.

You have a bit more math to do

So let's not waste yer time.

Subtract the number of ridges

That encircle a shiny dime.

And take the numbers of FSL teams

And MLB teams as well

Subtract 'em now, and you'll find it seems

Jackie wore that number thru hell.

And now we have one last clue

For those that be not fickle.

The final number to subtract for you

Is simply a double nickel.

Now you have a number, friend

Don't share with anyone

It'll take you to the end

Yer walk 'tis soon be done.

Get your calculator out and start learning some pirate lore, because it's the only way to get your four-digit code down to three digits.



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