Scavenger hunt:: the Reveal

@sohmageek Looks like a great team!!

@kadagan Between @marklog's finger and the staffer who volunteered for this madness, we'll be unstoppable!

@sohmageek

This is going to be awesome!

@sohmageek Since we have four members, can we get the next free agent who earns ten points thrown onto our team?

@christinewas It looks like I am that free agent. And we should definitely gain ten points.

@moose @christinewas @sammydog01 @marklog
If you guys want to get an email chain so we can do teamwork outside of the public forums, you can all email me (my username) at gmail and I'll start a group conversation. Just put something in the subject about meh or this scavenger hunt or something.. Once I get all your addresses, I'll send an email to you all, and we can just reply all for everything.

@kadagan I was thinking about something like this with a slack group. (We used slack for the meh gishwhes team and we're using it for mfladd's fantasy football league.)

@Willijs3 Just making sure you see @kadagan's message about outside communication.

@Willijs3 @sammydog01 @moose @marklog (and @shawn... she adds, hopefully), I've set up a slack group. You can send email addresses to christinewasmeh at gmail or to @kadagan and we will get you an invite to the group.

In case you haven't seen this, here's your team, @savvysapphire!

Team@moose Roster update:
@moose
@christinewas
@Kadagan
@sammydog01
@marklog
@Willijs3
@SavvySapphire
Your MVP is currently: @christinewas

@christinewas @sohmageek @moose wait. what am i supposed to do?

@marklog You should have a slack invite for the team. We've been using it for team communication. Let me know if you didn't get it or have any issues. And... you should continue to embrace your identity as the easy joke and star my goat quote submission(s)!

@sohmageek I'm happy to be assigned to the most well paid of the meh staffers.

@marklog You're bribing him? for this game? You sick bastard!

@sohmageek - Don't know if I should be responsible for failing other people.

What have I done???

@sohmageek I apologize in advance to my team. I suck at clue games.

@jaremelz - Looks like we're all in a sinking boat. Let's go fishing. It'll be fun!

@jaremelz and @kdemo are just trying to get our guard down. Obviously team @moose is the best, but... if team moose didn't exist, I'd call this the winning team without giving it a second thought. (@stardate820926 is a great asset too.)

@KDemo I'll go but only if we get to rescue cats
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/01/two-guys-went-fishing-and-rescued-a-pair-of-kittens-from-the-riv/21229908/

@stardate820926 - Aww, yes. As long as there are no catfish. I have been traumatized by a catfish incident.

@christinewas - Pay no attention to the team behind the curtain.

Problem is, old sad computer. I have to load every page multiple times to get there - Please @Sohmageek, no speed games.

@KDemo I'm in the opposite boat, I'm always on either my phone or tablet.
Wait , can we go fishing together from separate boats?

@jaremelz - Sounds complementary.
Now we all just have to be here when something happens.

@KDemo You got one of the speed questions :)

@sohmageek Well, there weren't many playing, so I had some time.

@Kdemo @stardate820926 @jaremelz @darksaber99999 I don't do participation trophies guys. I expect nothing less than a victory from Team MEHcus.

Hey, @stardate820926 @jaremelz @darksaber99999 - welcome @Pamtha and @brhfl to Team @MEHcus!! Good job on the extra utensil points, we're going for the gold!

@KDemo Yessss. We will relish the bitter tears of this we defeat! I mean, fun!

@MEHcus -I have a chance to win if we play hangman. Otherwise, I'll see you at team practice, Oh Fearless Leader.

@MEHcus @stardate820926 @jaremelz @darksaber99999 @Pamtha @brhfl - Does anyone know how to set up some kind of private group chat like moose's team? We may have secret stuff to share.

@KDemo I've heard talk of this Slack (mainly been taunted by @mfladd about it). Anyone on our team already savvy with it?

@jaremelz - I was at slack seeing if I could set up something, and someone took the name Team MEHcus while I was doing so. Was it you?

@KDemo It was not me! But good to know someone's on it. So is it the Slack app in seeing, or a site, or either/or?

@KDemo I took all the team names...ill sell it to you for a years worth of VMP...and ill give you all my speaker docks too

@jaremelz - I'm not so good with this stuff, but it's here: https://teammehcus.slack.com. Looks like I need to get emails and send invites. Guess I'll work on setting up a separate email account. It may not be until tomorrow. Sigh.

@escowhat What? Please don't send speaker docks, I beg you!

@KDemo you can do eet.

@jaremelz At this rate, we'll have the whole community on a slack team by the end of 2015.

@christinewas And mayhem ensues. I mean, even more mayhem. Meh On Slack : The Mahemening

@MEHcus @stardate820926 @jaremelz @darksaber99999 @Pamtha @brhfl -
If you would like to try slack chat, send your e-dress to 333kdemo at
Include your meh username and a code word, then post the word here to verify you're on TeamMEHcus. (Thanks, @Thumperchick good idea to verify).

@KDemo Done, my email had a 'edge' to it, just so you know it's me.

@jaremelz - Cool, let's see if this works, invite sent . . .

@KDemo Whoop! Now please bear with me as I'll be completely clueless how to do anything on Slack. Maybe @christinewas will give me tips! (even if she's the enemy) (ooh I hate calling you that!)

@jaremelz I'm guessing you won't need any tips, but I'm happy to help if you run into issues. It's fairly intuitive. Being the enemy is very weird and wrong.

It's alive!

@KDemo code word Kawasaki! My kid got a "project" dirt bike. We have lots of parts, and even some we don't need.

@KDemo avocado

@KDemo code word tapir

@Pamtha So, it's like a puzzle with extra pieces?

@KDemo The opposite - there are holes in the puzzle that had been colored in with a marker. Parts are missing from the bike. Just, not there. And when we ordered said parts, company shipped us brakes for a full size 600 cc street bike, not a 125 cc dirt bike. Anyone need Suzuki brakes?

@brhfl, @MEHcus; heads-up - New caption contest in progress.

TEAM@mehcus your roster is:
@mehcus
@Kdemo
@stardate820926
@jaremelz
@darksaber99999
@Pamtha
@brhfl
@cinoclav
your MVP is: @jaremelz

@cinoclav Welcome to team MEHcus! If you'd like to join our slack chat, send your email to 333kdemo at
Include your meh username and a code word, then post the word here to verify you're on TeamMEHcus.

@KDemo treepants.

@sohmageek great, just the team leader we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

@sohmageek Did you mean @Bogie?

@sohmageek Also, I apologize in advance for being terrible at figuring out clues. Genuinely awful.

@Thumperchick yes... @bogie :) sorry

@Thumperchick Next quick round question: "#) what person did I type their name incorrectly and @Thumperchick called me out on it?"

@sohmageek The hell?! Teams, eh?... Guess I'll have to read up on this crap now.

@sohmageek

Q. How do you make a hankie dance?

A. Put a little boogie in it.

@medz ooh, we have the GIFmaker!

@JonT i now apologize for not sending in a wedding gift....Blame @mfladd and @sohmageek....hope the ceremony was mehmorable

@escowhat well part of it was under @mfladd's watch... but too bad... It's all my fault.

Team @JonT - @Bogie @MEDZ @zdunklee @escowhat
Do we want to figure out a group doc/chat? Hit me up at thumperchickwastaken at gmail. Put a number code in your email, and post it here under your account so I know it's you.

@Thumperchick Haha! Nice email address! Expecting fake team members, trying to get in on super secret team communiques?

@christinewas It's happened before. I am rather fond of the email address.

@Thumperchick BradPitt MorganFreeman KevinSpacey

@Thumperchick i will do this shortly

@Thumperchick my email is 21 at gmail dot com (do you have a banana for my panda?)

@Thumperchick 77985!

@Boogie @MEDZ @zdunklee @escowhat @thumperchick

@Thumperchick 49401

Team @JonT - @Bogie @MEDZ @zdunklee @escowhat - I have all team members emails confirmed. I guess I should do something with that, eh?
@JonT - shoot me a message with what email you want me to use for this?

@Thumperchick I shoulda went with

58008 typed into calculator....hold upside down

@MEDZ @zdunklee @escowhat - you should have received an email with an invite/link to a google doc. Let me know if you can't get in for whatever reason.

@JonT does that guy's shirt say 'eat derp'?

TEAM@JONT your roster is:
@jonT
@Bogie
@MEDZ
@zdunklee
@escowhat
@thumperchick
@juststephen
@cengland0
your MVP is: @cengland0

@sohmageek Woo! I've been placed on my gishwhes... er Meh team!

Uh on. I don't know what is going on. I haven't had time to follow up with all these contest threads . What does it mean if I'm a MVP and what are my duties? I'm so confused.

@cengland0 It's a game, where you do things. Currently: One is to find the email address in my riddle. One was to get a math problem. One is to post plastic utensil. Search the forums for Scavenger hunt the ones from me are the ones you want. I'm starting the threads with that.

@cengland0 & @juststephen - shoot me an email with a code word (your choice) to thumperchickwastaken at gmail. Then post the code word here. I'll add you to the team Google doc and all will be revealed.

@Thumperchick Chocolate. I like chocolate.

@juststephen Me too. Now I want chocolate. Damnit. Also, check your email in about 5 minutes.

@sohmageek alo.

@connorbush ALO?

@sohmageek What if I'm not a team player? What if I don't pull my weight?

The pressure! The pressure!

@connorbush yay! i was only picked second to last! i'm moving up in the world. as a service to my team members, i give you my 2.5 year old's current favorite song:

@sohmageek like hello with an accent. Ah-low phonetically.

@connorbush

@sohmageek Nice. What up, team!

YO TEAM @HOLLBOLL RUNS THIS SHITTTTT @Djslack @connorbush @carl669 @lisaviolet

wait or are we going for a proper Victorian aesthetic?

TEAM HOLLBOLL SHALL BE QUITE SATISFACTORY INDEED
┌─┐
┴─┴
(ಠ_ರೃ)

@hollBoll
@Djslack @Lotsofgoats @connorbush @carl669

Hey, team, if you haven't posted a plastic utensil in the plastics thread, go do it. Three points for posting a plastic utensil.

@lisaviolet thanks. Already knocked it out this morning. Segregation post.

@lisaviolet already done as well

@lisaviolet Done, plus 3 bonus points for awesomeness! GO TEAM @hollboll!

@Djslack @Lotsofgoats @connorbush @carl669

I just set up a private forum on my rinky dink old style cgi forum. You'll need to register.

http://www.catler.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID114&conf=private

@lisaviolet I'm denied access. :(

@lisaviolet we have a secret clubhouse?!

@hollboll I have to give you access. We were on our morning walk. You can get in now. (After logging out then back in.)

@Lotsofgoats You can get in now. You'll have to log out, then back in to see it. The forum will be at the bottom of the list.

@hollboll And I just made you moderator so you can do pretty much anything in the forum that I can do. Like give access. I think. (It's been so long.)

@lisaviolet registered. but, access denied. :(

@carl669 Log out, then back in. I've given you access (I'm assembling a telescope we got a million years ago, so long ago that the assembly instructions are on VHS).

@lisaviolet would something like Slack be easier?

@hollboll I have no idea what Slack is.

@hollboll If you want to set something up, that's okay with me.

TEAM@HOLLBOLL your roster is:
@hollboll
@Djslack
@Lotsofgoats
@connorbush
@carl669
@lisaviolet
@curtise
your MVP is: @Djslack

@lisaviolet joined the forum. I do think slack would be easier though.

@djslack you're in. If you want to set up a slack account, that's okay with me, I'm just not familiar with it. Never heard of it until today.

@hollboll @Lotsofgoats @connorbush @carl669 @lisaviolet @curtise having failed to get into @lisaviolet's forum (it still tells me I'm denied) I've set up a slack channel. I have to invite you, let's steal kdemo's method. Email me at my username at metaphorce.net and send me a code word. Post that code word here for confirmation.

@djslack You should be able to get in now, I have to admit you (which I did last night) then you have to log out, then back in.

But I'll send you an email for slack entry.

@lisaviolet Ohhhh! That's what I was missing, logging out and then logging back in! I'll try again, we can use whichever everyone thinks works best.

Code word received, once confirmed here I'll get an invite out. Thanks!

@djslack Okay. Pinwheels

@lisaviolet you're in!

@djslack Rusty Shackleford.

@connorbush you're in!

@djslack tilapia

@carl669 I didn't get an email from you, I need your email address to invite you. You can email me at my username at metaphorce dot net or post it here if you don't care if people see it.

@connorbush did you get the invitation?

@carl669 Invite sent!

@djslack cats.

@djslack noodler

@hollboll invite sent!

@Lotsofgoats didn't get your email

@djslack oopsies

@sohmageek golf scoring obviously

@sohmageek is this metric or standard units?

@sohmageek I may have forgotten to tell people... only 1 per person, but when you post the plastics... I give 3 points... I don't think everyone has posted a plastic, go steal some disposable silverware!

@sohmageek So, do I actually do anything or just cheer on my superior team that is going to mop the floor with those other chumps?

@Moose If you want to do something you may, I'm not going to stop you guys from participating. :) Cheer them on, or help solve the puzzles. It's all your choice! :)

@Moose Glory in our awesomeness as we crush the others in your name.

@sohmageek Can the staffers also post plastics and any similar future items?

@christinewas They can, if they wish. I don't see why not. It's all good in my book! :) I mean, I tried to get a staffer to send toilet paper!

@sohmageek am I on a team? :8

@juststephen Did you earn points yet?

@sohmageek Did @JonT post some plastic for us?

@Thumperchick yup! He did.

@juststephen Do something to get points and you will join a team. :)

@shawn Team Moose wants you because...

@christinewas

Or, better yet... @Shawn could do as many tasks as possible for @Moose's team. We like you, @Shawn.

@christinewas @Shawn would be a great addition to team @Moose! We are even willing to share the name.. @MooseAndShawn (Or @MooseAndSquirrel? Doesn't reflect on @Shawn, but it's a great name!)

@kadagan Team Moosh?

@MEHcus: @Moose will get points, but the rest of you should just cheer your teams on.

@kadagan

@MEHcus You can get points also :)

@sohmageek is like a gwishes meh style?

@looseneck It's not all that hard... just find the topics with Scavenger hunt... :) I think the hardest was the quick rounds so far... oh or maybe the find the email address...

@looseneck Woo!

@sohmageek The hardest ones have math in them. It's been 40 years since I had to do math and it's a lot different now than it was back then.

I officially designate myself our team COW. (Cranky old woman.)

@lisaviolet It's been not as long since I was in school... This Common core... It makes me think of homeschooling.

Let's go Team @mehcus!! If you haven't signed up for our slack chat yet, see @kdemo's post above for instructions

@sohmageek way to go team Moose!! Especially @christinewas!

@sohmageek Team @JonT - holdin' it down in 3rd place... steadily.

@sohmageek I'd be off of the computer, but one of our clients claims the hydraulic link he bought leaks down inches in minutes and my husband explained to him how to test if it's the valves or the link (it's usually the valves; to test you just disconnect all connections that go through the valve, hook straight to the tractor (I think)). Guy said he did what he was told to do for testing and sent it back. Brian hooked it up with one implement and after four hours, it hadn't moved. So, he switched out the implement, hooked up a Gannon that weighs a thousand pounds and I set up the video camera. Ran the video for an hour and the thing still didn't budge. I'm downloading the video now and will do the fast video thing so the customer can see there's nothing wrong with the link.

It's most likely his valve set up. But I'm stuck here for another half hour waiting for the video to download.

@sohmageek I don't understand how you haven't been goat before now. Maybe it gave you more time to plan and scheme. In any case, I'm glad @marklog nominated you and @mfladd sabotaged my efforts to re-goat him. (Though, no promises that I won't try to re-goat mfladd again.)

@christinewas I am not starring^^^^^^^^that, solely because you spoke of re-goating.

@mehbee Go post a picture of your speaker dock in the let's make a deal thread (or do something else worth points) and you'll be assigned to a team!

@sohmageek is this for yesterday and today?

@lisaviolet yes the currently running tasks haven't been added in. (caption contest. or the fancy plastics... I think I started that and stopped... I'll probably add them again, if you get counted twice it was for being so damn prompt.

@sohmageek Will we get to see the scores per contest?

Welcome, @oldcatlady. Not sure when this happened, but I'm sure glad to have you! (email christinewasmeh at gmail if you want to get in on our super secret team communications. And, since the other teams have made me paranoid, please leave a note here letting me know that the person who emailed me was really you.)

Sorry team. I'm really letting you guys down this weekend. I cannot keep up with these speed-round ninjas! (And I need to start focusing more on FESUSGL, so it's probably going to get worse from here. My brain is about to burst into flames.)

@christinewas I think you're doing great! There will be more... and other fun stuff revealed next week... :)

@sohmageek I'm completely hooked.

@christinewas no, no - you keep going. I am going to enjoy watching your draft. :)

@mfladd Whatever. You'd die a little on the inside if I couldn't bring my a-game. It only makes still losing to me that much more shameful. (And... in the unlikely event that you beat me, it wouldn't be as satisfying.)

@christinewas Please make him cry like a baby. He really needs it. And you'd occupy an even bigger space in my heart!

@jaremelz Oh, I will. I will...

@jaremelz @christinewas if you enjoy deep dark haunted places.

@christinewas Extra points if I can watch

@mfladd Takes one to know one

@christinewas What is this: FESUSGL?

@sohmageek You wouldn't like it. It's the football.

@sohmageek - It's the stupid goat league fantasy thing.

@sohmageek What is this FESUSGL of which you speak? Look right at me.

:)

@mfladd poof I like tater tots! Woah! How is that nice goat @mfladd doing?

Whoa... I think you went a little too strong on that one, @mfladd. @sohmageek just called you a "nice goat". I think he lost most of the last month!

@christinewas I hear @mfladd wants a 2nd term as goat!

@sohmageek Yeah, he does! @mfladd wants it so badly he's embarassed to admit it. He might even try to convince you that he doesn't. He did that the first time around, and repetition is to be expected with this one.

@dashcloud I just checked the teams and confirmed... you're not in the hunt! Seems like you would enjoy this. You should come join all of us, if you have the time. As further incentive, most (if not all) of the teams have slack chats going!

@christinewas I'm really me, and I emailed you anyway. Hi!

@sohmageek go us!

@connorbush Yeah. Go us!

go @lisaviolet and @Djslack! way to carry the team! boo @carl669 for only having 3 points.

@carl669 Caaaaaaaaaaarl I found a thing for you. Now seems appropriate.

@mfladd the perfectness of this is unwordable.

@carl669 I hope you know I have been sitting on that for some time. You make me smile for some fucking reason (yet I have no reason why :)

@carl669 go make a suggestion today in the perfection thread to up that count! Throw some stars too!

@lotsofgoats @curtise @hallmike @hollboll you can join our team's slack chat by following these instructions right here if you'd like.

@sohmageek Well, we crawled out of 3rd for a minute.

@Thumperchick yes, The game is pretty close right now... I mean I have been throwing out 1000 point things here and there... that's all that is really between most of you guys.. Team @moose's newest member really gave them a much needed boost! @Christinewas was carrying the team this weekend before... :) See why weekends are good to be active... I need to come up with something for tomorrow now... cause it's almost here! :)

@sohmageek So grateful to have the new teammate! Sleeping at night and not during the day would also be helpful. (Today, I mostly just skipped sleep. But still ended up missing something when I napped.) I think my performance is going to keep dwindling throughout the remainder of the month. But I'm never going to be able to give up!

@christinewas I'm really sorry you're feeling crummy.

Will sleep help? What are we going to do with you and @jaremelz?

@KDemo Thanks. Sleep always helps. It's just hard to get. My body likes to resist the thing it needs most. I'm thinking I should leave the forum for the night before I start saying really crazy things, though. I feel like I'm starting to slip in that direction.

@christinewas Night.

@christinewas Night night! Hope you feel better tomorrow.

@jaremelz @kdemo Thus far... I am not doing a good job of leaving. You ladies are awesome, though, and I will do my best to get some good sleep. I hope you feel much better, as well, @jaremelz! No more bug!

@Thumperchick @jont Sorry that I've not been near as active as I planned. I've been sicker than a dog, so I'm sorry I'm letting the team down.

@juststephen I'm tellin ya - poison on the keyboards. I'm sick today, too. Hope you feel better soon. Besides, there's a whole month of weekends and games - I'm sure everyone will get a shot at participating at some point.

@Thumperchick You too? Our whole family has been hit with something... Raylan's out today :(

Go jaremelz!!! Team MEHcus rocks! All of you other teams are pretty good too, congratulations!

@KDemo you even got a little boost from @humper! ;)

@sohmageek YES!! Sorry, um, for yelling. Go team! I Don'tcare who knows it, I love you guys.

@sohmageek - We didn't know. Welcome, @humper.
Does @Thumperchick know you're over here? We won't tell ;-)

@KDemo I had to tell him he scored points. He's still not quite sure how that happened. Then I pointed out he got your team points for starring my reviews.

@Thumperchick We value those points! He's a valuable member of the team, hope you don't mind.

@Thumperchick I didn't add them in yet... :) I had to make sure you guys were on different teams... :) I mean why not? Add a little who can beat who here... @Thumperchick is doing all the work and @humper is still winning ;)

@sohmageek Are you trying to sew marital discord?

@Thumperchick nope. The wife and I love a little competition where we are on different teams! Keeps us on our toes.

@OldCatLady I had a late start to today. Raylan and @tiwanaku let me sleep in today. We were up at 6AM. Sleep was not sound last night. I go up to go to bed a little after midnight last night. Raylan wakes up and has me up till 1:30. Then disturbing dreams. So no. Not a restful sleep. Wife went to bed around 10. Up at 3 for Raylan. Then up again at 4:30 for the day. I'm not the morning person. But I live with 2 of them!

@sohmageek so today I had some things planned. But a sick kiddo is going to keep me busy. I'll try to post something tonight. :) aka today's activities are delayed. But there are a few things you can do to continue to participate. :)

@dashcloud Go star something on the contest post- you need points to be on a team. Hoping for team Moose for you!

@sohmageek - I take it the answer is no.

@KDemo it's going to take me some time to add it all up again. The points page got lost in my upgrade to El Capitan gm. :(

@sohmageek -
Don't even bother. Team @MEHcus is likely so far out front that I'm sure you don't need to count. ;-)
Thanks for a month of crazy fun. Some members of our team have bonded and plan to be lifelong friends, so we got something really valuable from all of your machinations. Again, thank you!

Oh, and I never never ever plan to write another essay (or SA) unless I go back to school. ;-)