SlytherinAlex

Here's an easy one. Queen Liz II is the third longest reigning monarch of Great Britain & United Kingdom. Victoria was the longest, but is the current number two?

Indeed - which ones? Steve Winwood. He wrote "Gimme some lovin" but I don't think he was actually in the movie. a.

This one was probably the first.

What was Yorkshire's First? a.

I think this was asked, but the other way round so to speak, before so I'll go for Uzbekistan and Lichtenstein Wow, well spotted. (Post 4000???)

Quite a few (well, at least 3) famous people - can you narrow it down a little...? No, you have to guess which one he is thinking of. Isn't that they way it works??

Yes, but you still live in Rugby.

Well good for you. That told us, didn't it!!!!!!!!

I can remember the good old days when people could leave a kit-kat in a cache and nobody went ballistic about it.

At least one of the TB sticker vendors will make you one to any size you want. Up to 36" high at least.

And we had tea and cucumber sandwiches afterwards. It was a very gentile pastime on those days. Which also reminds me of when we did our 500th cache in Feb 2003 (first to 500 in the UK by the way), the cache owner sussed us out and left a bottle of champagne by the cache. No prizes for guessing who that was.

Don't think so.

Isn't that why we all cache? Because it's fun. I have only been caching since 2005 so I guess that makes me a relative newbie but I still get the same buzz when I find a cache as much now as I did when I found my very first cache....and yes that includes finding the micro's. the cache and dash's For fun as opposed to "for numbers"

As a "real" old timer here's how things have changed since I started in 2001. In the "old days" just about all the cachers in the UK knew each other. It was a nice time where everyone got on with each other. Nearly all caches were traditional and thoughtfully hidden. If you did five caches in one day you had done REALLY well. As the thing grew more people became involved, geocaching lost a lot of its cosy feel. Micros started to crop up and it started to become a numbers game. I'm as guilty of placing micros as the next man. I placed 55 in one week in the town where I live now in Texas. The reason being cost more than anything else. A micro costs less than a dollar, a traditional cache if you stock it nicely at least $15. The same cost consideration applies in the UK. But really the killer is cache availability. Early on I hauled myself up mountains, perched on clifftops and up trees filling out logs. Read the logs for Fossil Transfer - a classic in its time. There are people who wondered how the hell I got up there. But there were only 30 caches in the north of England at that time so you just did did. Petrus, I was up there twice. For me, some feat. Nowadays, 50 1.5/1.5 caches is a five mile radius in most places, you just don't NEED to do the tricky ones any more. Probably like most, I got lazy and just picked off the easy ones. That was the point that Mrs Slytherin quit. Not having time to spend in some of the great places we found because we had another 15 caches to find that day. So its all about the numbers. Number chasing has spoiled the thrill of the chase. Take Finds totals off cache pages and from Profiles. Take the competition away and some of the fun might come back. I just cache for fun these days. I only log DNFs for the info of the cache setter. And I DO still have fun hiding those micros in tricky places...

Must be close to Page 80 now.

Staying slightly off topic. The last thread was closed when it reached 80 pages. We are now on 79 pages with this one. It will be interesting so see what happens when we get to 80. a.

You can't claim OP on this thread. You merely continued a thread started by The Golem that got shut down when it received the maximum amount of posts allowed by the forum software.

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Ah, but you gave a correct answer too, just not the right one. In that case shouldn't your question have been "What do I think a Melchior is?" If you set a question that turns out to have multiple answers, you should take the first correct one. Not wait until someone comes up with the answer that you had in mind.

It will be interesting to see where (if at all) some of them turn up. By about 2pm on the day of the event there were almost half full boxes of TBs and geocoins in the "America" boxes. By 4pm the America geocoin box was totally empty and the TB box had around four or five bugs in there. As all the items were presumably marked as headed to America and as far as I know there were only two US residents attending the event I was pretty surprised that all the items had gone. Presumably the other US cacher took them all. (or not) It looks like a huge chunk of those left over on the Event page are Edinburgh Walker's geocoin collection.

GS has a long established policy that its their game, play it their way or don't play at all. If you have principles, sometimes you just have to take a stand. Perhaps this is the view of the cachers who archived their caches. a.

I certainly was told that, in no uncertain terms some months ago. a.

You could have always asked me. I always have loads of those things in stock. a.

An excellent example of UK reviewers interpreting the cache guidelines in a positive way. Well done.

And this one isn't an Event. It's a meet-up to go and do caches. That is not allowed under the definition of an event cache. Or am I wrong in my interpretation of that?