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So I was playing in mud monday afternoon...

How many people can start a story like that and all people do is check the name at the left and say to themselves, "Oh, okay. Nevermind." :)

...Anyhoo... I ended up gatting tackled in rather spectacular fashion and landed on something hard and unpleasant buried in the mud. It was an old G.I. Joe toy. A 'Water Moccasin" toy boat. Complete with action figure. They had seen better days, and lord only knows how long they had been buried there but we all had a good laugh about it.

It also reminded me of my lost High School class ring. See, back when I was nineteen, I made the mistake of wearing it when I went frog hunting(Back then, 'froghunting' was an excuse for playing in mud. :) ). I got well and truly covered with mud and I was standing by the swamp scooping handfuls of it off myself and flinging it into the swamp. Well, with one such handful, off pops my ring and it flies off into the mud.

Well, I searched for a while, but I knew right away It was lost. I never found it again. I had a new class ring made about six months later. To this day, I keep telling myself that one day I'm going to get a metal detector and see if I can find that lost class ring. :p

good luck

So I was playing in mud monday afternoon...

How many people can start a story like that and all people do is check the name at the left and say to themselves, "Oh, okay. Nevermind." :)

...Anyhoo... I ended up gatting tackled in rather spectacular fashion and landed on something hard and unpleasant buried in the mud. It was an old G.I. Joe toy. A 'Water Moccasin" toy boat. Complete with action figure. They had seen better days, and lord only knows how long they had been buried there but we all had a good laugh about it.

It also reminded me of my lost High School class ring. See, back when I was nineteen, I made the mistake of wearing it when I went frog hunting(Back then, 'froghunting' was an excuse for playing in mud. :) ). I got well and truly covered with mud and I was standing by the swamp scooping handfuls of it off myself and flinging it into the swamp. Well, with one such handful, off pops my ring and it flies off into the mud.

Well, I searched for a while, but I knew right away It was lost. I never found it again. I had a new class ring made about six months later. To this day, I keep telling myself that one day I'm going to get a metal detector and see if I can find that lost class ring. :p
know whats sad, yet amusing? I was thinking "no one else could say that without odd looks" as I started reading...

anyway...back a few years ago, me and my friends were doing mudfest (i think) '00, and I managed to get a necklace wrapped around my leg. It wasn't any of the girls I was with, but we still wonder how it got burried. Our best guess was that it had been on top of the dirt we used for mud. It wasn't particularly valuable, but I still have it sitting around somewhere.

I suggest playing in the mud in the place where you think you lost your ring...you'll either find the ring or replacement decals for your GI Joe boat.

Ahhh, class/grad rings are overrated. A bunch of my friends got them this year 'cause we're graduating and all and the spent like $500 on a hunk of metal to remember a day that millions have people have been through. I'm gonna go skydiving with the money I saved.;)

I suggest playing in the mud in the place where you think you lost your ring...you'll either find the ring or replacement decals for your GI Joe boat.

YAY! :)

Ahhh, class/grad rings are overrated.

Someone explain to a poor ignorant Old Worlder like me what a 'class/grad ring' is, please?

I buried a bottle of run once, because I had no other good hiding place. I wonder if it's still out there?

Someone explain to a poor ignorant Old Worlder like me what a 'class/grad ring' is, please?

Can you not guess from the name?

Someone explain to a poor ignorant Old Worlder like me what a 'class/grad ring' is, please?

An overpriced ring that usually has your birthstone and some other mementose (spl???) things embedded/engraved in it as well as the year/class in which one graduated.

Can you not guess from the name?

I can work out some of it, but such things as cultural significance are harder to work out. I assume they are vaguely similar commemorative rings worn by members of a class which graduates. Are they wide spread? Are they all similar? Are they worn longterm or only during education? Are they issued by educational establishments? Such like questions...

I buried a bottle of run once, because I had no other good hiding place. I wonder if it's still out there?

How well does diarrhea keep in a bottle?

When I was at Uni, I got a week-long job helping to renovate an old villa, built in the 1880s. I had two jobs:
1. Digging out around the piles, as they needed replacing. They also wanted to extend a small room there. I found dozens of old bottles and an old oak sea chest, which had "Settler's effects" written on one side and "SS Pakeha, London to Auckland, New Zealand" on the other. Not knowing how valuable the bottles were, I gave them all to the carpenter in exchange for him driving me and the chest home. I still have the chest - once cleaned it was in excellent condition.
2. Ripping the panelling off the walls. Unfortunately some idiot had covered the walls with plaster panels back in the 60s or 70s and as a result the superb Kauri and Rimu wooden panelling had all rotted (Kauri and Rimu are two of the best wood you can get. They're now protected trees, so they frigging expensive). While doing this, I came across a whole lot of old newspapers from the 1890s to the 1920s, which was fun to sit and read through (especially the adverts). And I found a gold ring with 4 ruby inserts. Which was really cool. I got it cleaned up and gave it to my mum as it was her birthday only a couple of weeks later.

During that week we swapped treasure stories. One chippie said he'd come across a bag full of S.African gold coins behind the wall when renovating a house after the owner had died - the family wanted it fixed up to sell. No-one knew they were there, but since the old guy was S.African, they figured he had hidden them there. Very honest of him to hand them over, I thought. The family were asses though - didn't offer anything to the chippie for his honesty.
Another one said he had to clean out a garage full of junk a horder had collected over the years. Behind all the old newspapers, magazines, bottles, cans and the various shite these horders hold onto was a 1920's model Indian motorbike, in pristine condition. None of the family knew it was there. He was still kicking himself that he told them.

That's my hidden treasure stories.

So I was playing in mud monday afternoon...

Where do you get the time, and the mud, to do this?

An overpriced ring that usually has your birthstone and some other mementose (spl???) things embedded/engraved in it as well as the year/class in which one graduated.


Shit man when I graduated(a word that means left school) I took off the shcool tie and ripped it up before pokeing it down a drain, dumped all my books along with the plastic carrier bag holding them, in the bin, went home, talked me Dad into taking me down the pub, and the very next Monday moring walked right into my first job.

Not as exciting as playing in the mud, or losing rings from school(why?) but the pub was quite nice.

Went walking yesterday in the woods.. found an old clorox jar.. and one shaped like a clown..

I lost a good luck ring playing ultimate frisbee in the mud a few years ago (which, by the way, is very fun!). It wasn't really expensive or anything, just a cheapo 25 cent trinket you get out of one of those machines at the grocery store. But it was from a good friend, and had lots of sentimental value. Looked for it forever, but for all I know it's still on that field somewhere. :p

I can work out some of it, but such things as cultural significance are harder to work out. I assume they are vaguely similar commemorative rings worn by members of a class which graduates. Are they wide spread? Are they all similar? Are they worn longterm or only during education? Are they issued by educational establishments? Such like questions...
Class rings are very widespread, at least in my experience. Even if not everyone I know has one, they all had the chance to get one. All of the class rings I've seen have been rather oversized, ostentatious, and, well... ugly. But it's a tradition. Schools usually have a representative visit from one of the companies that make the rings; they are not issued by the school. Actually, I can only think of three big companies that make them. As for how long they are worn, most people I know wore them their senior year in high school (or college, if it was a class ring from university), and not very long thereafter.

What do they look like? There are different kinds, but I would say mine is fairly typical so I'll describe that. It has a stone in the middle - mine is green because it was my school colour, other people got their birthstones. It has my school name written around the stone, my name on the left side, and my class year on the right side. Underneath my name is an image of a swimmer, and underneath the class year is an honours torch - those were just the images I chose for my ring, there were a lot of them to choose from. My name is engraved on the inside of the ring. You can see some examples here ( http://www.ringcompany.com/RingInfo.aspx?Ring_Type=001&Menu_ID=1).

An overpriced ring that usually has your birthstone and some other mementose (spl???) things embedded/engraved in it as well as the year/class in which one graduated.
And don't forget--it's clunky and godawful ugly. Its only real use, so far as I can tell, is for breaking someone's jaw in a fight.

Where do you get the time, and the mud, to do this?

If it's important, you make the time.

As for the mud, I know where all the good local mud is. :cool:

wash off the toys, you can probably get a pretty penny for em.

*snip*

What do they look like? There are different kinds, but I would say mine is fairly typical so I'll describe that. It has a stone in the middle - mine is green because it was my school colour, other people got their birthstones. It has my school name written around the stone, my name on the left side, and my class year on the right side. Underneath my name is an image of a swimmer, and underneath the class year is an honours torch - those were just the images I chose for my ring, there were a lot of them to choose from. My name is engraved on the inside of the ring. You can see some examples here ( http://www.ringcompany.com/RingInfo.aspx?Ring_Type=001&Menu_ID=1).

My god, they are fugly! :eek: