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talusman

02/13/2011 07:02PM

I just drove through Two Harbors this evening. The "Voyageur without pants" was lying, decaptitated, on a flat bed truck. Not a very dignified end for an icon in Two Harbors.

He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone; He's a man who won't fit in.

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tremolo

02/13/2011 07:08PM

??????????????????????

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gutmon

02/13/2011 07:10PM

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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Savage Voyageur

02/13/2011 07:25PM

Hey where am I going???

"So many lakes, so little time."

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Bannock

02/13/2011 07:39PM

Bummer! He was an icom. I am saddened.

Bannock

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marsonite

02/13/2011 07:39PM

Relax, it's not the end, thank God. Just going for a ride. He's getting a new home, a mile to the west.

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gutmon

02/13/2011 07:50PM

This guy retired and moved and is doing fine.

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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Savage Voyageur

02/13/2011 08:09PM

quote marsonite: "Relax, it's not the end, thank God. Just going for a ride. He's getting a new home, a mile to the west.

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Hope he gets his paddle back.

"So many lakes, so little time."

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BWPaddler

02/13/2011 08:39PM

How'd ya like to report what you did that day at work... Severed the body from the pants of a giant voyageur... I can hear it now.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau

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Amok

02/13/2011 08:42PM

quote gutmon: "This guy retired and moved and is doing fine. "

maybe. but I am probably one of the few people who actually miss not having the chance to take my kids to visit him :( I remember "Paul Bunyanland" as a child.

Trust, but verify. The Lord will provide !!!!

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kiwifish

02/13/2011 09:20PM

Isn't it obvious??? It's actually a trojan horse type cell phone tower being used by AT&T - they are just moving it a bit...can you hear me now?

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alpine525

02/14/2011 07:37AM

kiwi - Too funny!

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Dalai Lama

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inspector13

02/14/2011 09:31AM

I wonder if it will be harder for pranksters to tie pink balloons under his tunic over at the Earthwood.

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Bannock

02/14/2011 11:56AM

quote marsonite: "Relax, it's not the end, thank God. Just going for a ride. He's getting a new home, a mile to the west.
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Will it still be on HWY 61?

Bannock

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marsonite

02/14/2011 12:02PM

Apparently the owners of the earthwood inn are buying him. Read about it online at the Two Harbors News Chronicle. I'm on my phone or I'd post a link.

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inspector13

02/14/2011 12:15PM

Bannock, you should be able to see it from both the expressway and scenic 61. Here is a link. You might have to register to view.
Chronicle Pierre story

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snakecharmer

02/14/2011 01:00PM

I wonder if cowdoc has "visited" Pierre :)

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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schweady

02/14/2011 03:33PM

We may need to lobby the new owners to ensure that Pierre is re-outfitted with a paddle rather than an axe. In the article, Eric Potts and Sandra Fritz talk about restoring Pierre to his original glory, but then this:

"Fritz said there is still debate going on with her husband about bringing a paddle back to his right hand. It was stolen a few years ago. She said he might look odd with a paddle on dry land, and suggested an axe."

Perhaps she needs to read some of this site's axe/no axe posts...

"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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mooseplums

02/14/2011 04:27PM

quote snakecharmer: "I wonder if cowdoc has "visited" Pierre :)"

Not sure about that, but I did, and yes he was anatomically correct..(drawn in with a sharpie)

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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mr.barley

02/14/2011 04:31PM

You got a photo of that, plums?

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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mooseplums

02/14/2011 05:21PM

quote mr.barley: "You got a photo of that, plums?
"

I didn't want one

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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cowdoc

02/14/2011 07:42PM

I have my limits.......(better close yer mouth MP)

"What could happen?"

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mooseplums

02/16/2011 05:44PM

Anyone know how old "Pierre" is? I remember an old photo that my mother has, that was taken when she was a kid. I'm guessing circa 1950.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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thebotanyguy

02/16/2011 05:58PM

In the book "The Colossus of Roads, Myth and Symbol along the American Highway" (Marling, Karal Ann. 1984. University of Minnesota Press), Pierre the Talking Voyageur is dated to 1959. There is also a color photo of him holding a paddle. Unfortunately, there is no back story provided in the book. On the internet, there is this blurb. .

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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inspector13

02/17/2011 08:02AM

quote mooseplums: "Anyone know how old "Pierre" is? I remember an old photo that my mother has, that was taken when she was a kid. I'm guessing circa 1950."

When the lot it stands on was first sold, there was a story in the Chronicle telling the history. The story has been archived but from what I remember was that Pierre was being built it 1959. It was placed next to the long gone roadside stand in 1960. The companion story to the one above also said 1960.

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inspector13

02/17/2011 01:06PM

Here is the latest story from the Chronicle covering "Pierre". Looks like a paddle is coming back. Pierre

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schweady

02/21/2011 09:44PM

An update on Pierre:

We were traveling through Two Harbors on Saturday and stopped to check on The Voyageur With No Pants. He seemed to be resting comfortably, even without his head (inside, similarly reclining) or feet (destroyed in the move). Since I was with the Mrs., I did not feel it prudent to risk the inevitable comparisons which were sure to follow a verification of Pierre's private anatomical features...

"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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schweady

07/13/2012 04:36PM

June 2012 update:
We were traveling through Two Harbors again last month and noted that Pierre, the Voyageur With No Pants, is now upright and has been provided with new feet, a paddle which is very true to the original, and half of a tiny birch bark canoe. The light pole behind him is annoyingly obtrusive, but he does sport a fresh coat of paint and is looking quite handsome. The Earthwood Inn website announces: "Now with a spinning head and glowing eyes!" (I continued to respect my wife's demands that I not perform a more intrusive examination, so that feature remains known to Pierre alone.)

"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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Savage Voyageur

07/13/2012 06:23PM

quote schweady: "June 2012 update:
We were traveling through Two Harbors again last month and noted that Pierre, the Voyageur With No Pants, is now upright and has been provided with new feet, a paddle which is very true to the original, and half of a tiny birch bark canoe. The light pole behind him is annoyingly obtrusive, but he does sport a fresh coat of paint and is looking quite handsome. The Earthwood Inn website announces: "Now with a spinning head and glowing eyes!" (I continued to respect my wife's demands that I not perform a more intrusive examination, so that feature remains known to Pierre alone.)

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Hey cool I got my paddle back.

"So many lakes, so little time."

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Basspro69

07/13/2012 09:18PM

Im always just a little sad when I see an Amok post in a thread, I miss you buddy .

" I want to know Gods thoughts , The rest are details " Albert Einstein.

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rookie in 03

07/13/2012 09:46PM

I noticed that too Brad. Made me stop and think a little while.

rookie in 03

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Frenchy19

07/13/2012 11:46PM

Some thread titles sound like band names to me...this one sounds like an the name of an album.

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious." Yogi Berra

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The Great Outdoors

07/14/2012 05:05AM

When I first read this headline, "Voyageur without pants," I figured someone caught John or Lynn from VNO going to the bathroom in the woods!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :)

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