# Treasure Hunters 7/17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951 "2006-07-18T01:07:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/41 "2006-07-18T21:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=FlightlessBird] But now I have a question, weren’t there 6 masks? a 6-pointed star? hmmm [/QUOTE] There could have been one mask at the center, and then another at each of the points. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/42 "2006-07-18T22:30:13Z")
[QUOTE=Avarie537] Why yes, yes she did! While her dad was digging his eleventy-third hole, she kept telling him to go dig somewhere else. He said that he would, after he was done with the hole he was digging … that had an “artifact” at the bottom! Damn good thing he didn’t listen to her. [/QUOTE] Didn’t she also start out by saying that he should dig deep but not wide, then change and tell him he should spread out and not go deep? WhatEVER. Stomp. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/43 "2006-07-18T22:53:22Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Or “creek,” for that matter. (I’m a “crick”-er, myself.) [/QUOTE] That’s just _adorable_. I didn’t think anyone said that outside of a Ma & Pa Kettle movie. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/44 "2006-07-18T23:10:23Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] That’s just _adorable_. I didn’t think anyone said that outside of a Ma & Pa Kettle movie. 😉 [/QUOTE] Were Ma & Pa Kettle Pennsylvania Dutch? Because I am, and that’s my problem. I even _know what the word is_, and I still say it wrong. It’s sad, really, and it’s probably part of the reason why I had to give up a lucrative career in broadcast journalism for … _whatever the hell_ it is that I do for a living these days. _Le sigh_. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/45 "2006-07-19T01:28:36Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] I even _know what the word is_, and I still say it wrong. [/QUOTE] Hmmm… I grew up learning–while tromping through woods and pastures following Dad or Grandpa–that a creek and a crick are two different things. [This article by one of my favorite humorists explains the difference pretty well.](http://www.finefishing.com/1flyfish/humor/howtofishcrick.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/46 "2006-07-19T02:31:09Z")
I can somewhat sympathize with Kayte, because I did do a five day hike when I was in worse shape than I am now and was a complete and utter whiny bitch about it too. Pretty much like her, only I like to think I wasn’t _quite_ so bad. (Bad, but not as bad as she.) I’d like to think I’d be holding up better than she at the moment if our places were reversed though. My goodness girl! Try to remember the camera man that’s hanging around you and that this is being broadcast on tv! I wonder how many parents will want her as their children’s teacher after watching her be so whiny… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/47 "2006-07-19T02:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Were Ma & Pa Kettle Pennsylvania Dutch? QUOTE] Taking the question at face value…they were some kind of generic hillbilly. Actually, they were characters in the movie _The Egg & I_, who got spun off into their own series of movies. But before that, they were characters in the book of the same name, which was a semi-factual memoir, and set in Washington state. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951/48 "2006-07-19T11:27:41Z")
[QUOTE=Tangent] Hmmm… I grew up learning–while tromping through woods and pastures following Dad or Grandpa–that a creek and a crick are two different things. [This article by one of my favorite humorists explains the difference pretty well.](http://www.finefishing.com/1flyfish/humor/howtofishcrick.htm) [/QUOTE] That article actually explains a lot. I grew up around cricks as the writer defines them, so my “ignorance” is justified. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-17/364951.md?page=2)