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Offline koduck

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Wacky South Pole Expedition 2025
« on: February 03, 2025, 08:05:34 AM »
As some of you may remember, our resident explorer Brian L. (Brute88), spent time at the South Pole a couple years ago to spread the word about Wacky Packages and has recently returned on his second tour! Here's some pics of the historic event, featuring Brian stamping some classic Wacky Packages with his Expedition's emblem.

















The only thing left now is to climb Mt. Everest and stick some Wackys on the summit!


Offline Joe G.

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Re: Wacky South Pole Expedition 2025
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2025, 09:20:45 AM »
Wow just historic!  Thanks so much for sharing this Neil!

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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2025, 10:11:45 AM »
This calls for a celebration with some Frosted Ice Krunkles!  :)
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2025, 11:29:01 AM »
We can play poker with Icicle playing cards!!

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Re: Wacky South Pole Expedition 2025
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2025, 01:18:06 PM »
I'm sure many here probably remember John Neuner (The Wrapper King). John worked for ConEd in NY and worked on the construction of the World Trade Center. He left a Wacky stuck to the ceiling of an electrical closet at the top of one of the towers. I always thought that might be one of the "coolest" places (pun intended) that someone stuck a Wacky.

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Re: Wacky South Pole Expedition 2025
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 06:56:10 AM »
Oh, wow! That would be amazing to see pics of that!

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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2025, 09:32:28 AM »
Oh, wow! That would be amazing to see pics of that!

I’m not sure he ever shared a picture with anyone. John told me about it when I was visiting his home in Queens to view his collection back in 1980’s.

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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2025, 10:23:44 AM »
I'm sure many here probably remember John Neuner (The Wrapper King). John worked for ConEd in NY and worked on the construction of the World Trade Center. He left a Wacky stuck to the ceiling of an electrical closet at the top of one of the towers. I always thought that might be one of the "coolest" places (pun intended) that someone stuck a Wacky.

I think my vote would go to the Wackys that went into outer space! Don't I remember a thread about someone getting some carried on a shuttle flight? Can anyone refresh my memory?

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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2025, 02:56:52 PM »
I think my vote would go to the Wackys that went into outer space! Don't I remember a thread about someone getting some carried on a shuttle flight? Can anyone refresh my memory?
We don't particularly like to talk about this. Patrick gave one of the astronauts on the Columbia shuttle a white back Crust to take into space. This is the shuttle which exploded in early 2003. The thread on the other forum is here.

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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2025, 03:21:27 PM »
you beat me to it Tom, I was just about to post about that. I've been on work travel for a week and off the boards.

The great part of the story is that an OS Crust sticker was launched into space on Jan 16, 2003 and then orbited the Earth for over two weeks inside space shuttle Columbia.
The sad part is that Columbia and her crew were lost on the return from space on Feb 1.

A good friend of mine worked with and trained Laurel Clark for years on a number of bio-science experiments that were flying on that STS-107 mission. Astronauts can bring a small amount of personal effects onboard for a flight, and in her items Laurel brought along a CD of songs sung by my friend, as a token of appreciation for all time spent training. Inside the CD jewel case I was able to tuck in a WB Crust.

 

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