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57 cents a week? $2.50 a month? C'mon...give up one tricky coffee or bar-drink or bring your lunch to work once each month, and you will more than pay for the "premium" membership. In the one MOC I have visited, the cache was in better shape, and the trade goods were nicer (no bottle caps or pennies). My area is so cache poor that I wouldn't place a MOC yet, but in a while I plan on it, to give something back to people who give something to gc.com. nfa

Hi, Move it by 100 yards, and change the listing...leave a "cache" for the kids in the original location with some McToys in it, and hope that they don't find the new location. nfa

Oh My God... I think that there must be a meth lab in my sister-in-law's apartment... It often smells like cat pee... The 3 cats are probably sharing profits from the lab for their cover activities... I'm going to call the police right now... nfa

you should definitely put the money back, and email me with the coords, I'll keep an eye on it. nfa

Hi, I sought and found 5 caches yesterday, it snowed in the morning, I tipped my canoe looking for the 1st cache of the day, but it was a great day of caching. Today was another story, I was all set to chase a longer cache, and set out by 7am. I was walking in cache-country by 8am, and realized I was on the wrong trail by about 830...I walked on that trail until about 9am hopiing it would cross the correct trail (it didn't), before heading back to my car. Disgusted with myself for not finding the correct trail, I headed for home (I make it a rule never to cache angry, especially angry with myself). Even though I didn't find the cache I was looking for, I had a wonderful walk in beautiful woods, and was home in time for an early lunch followed by an afternoon cache hide and some serious lawn-mowing (it is memorial day after all). nfa

hi, I often leave buffalo nickels, steel 1943 pennies, and NFA coins in caches I visit...they seem to get picked up. nfa

depends what's inside... nfa

Who makes a $138 drug buy? nfa What would be a normal sum? I don't know, but back in the days when I, I mean this guy I know, used to buy drugs, they were priced like: "$10-bag" nfa

I'm proud of the fact that despite the fact that it was snowing this morning, I went swimming for a cache anyway. This was the first of 5 caches I found today. I'm not so proud of the fact that I went swimming only because my canoe tipped over while I was climbing out onto unstable bog-ground... I am proud however, that I ignored incipient hypothermia and went on to find the cache, make a log entry, and trade items before paddlng back to my car in the chilly wind. nfa

hi, mine is at http://northern-forest-archipelago.org/geo.html...the link is also contained in my signature below. nfa

Who makes a $138 drug buy? nfa

Hi, Going out this morning to find a few caches I've been wanting to try for a while, I noticed that it was snowing! May 29th and snowing! The snow accumulated on my deck while I ate a quick breakfast, and stopped as I strapped my solo canoe onto the roof of my jeep. nfa

They can? Well, if they did, that would drastically reduce the number of caches worldwide....... Or did you mean prior to approval? Still, I don't see that happening, either. Being pointless or lame, to my knowledge, isn't a qualified reason for non-approval, or for archiving an existing cache. Any approvers care to comment, as I may be wrong (again)? Edit: After re-reading your post, I'm thinking that maybe you made this as a suggestion for listing guidelines, right? It didn't hit me that way at first. Either way, I don't like that idea. hi, Wrong...actually, I wasn't suggesting it as a new listing guideline, I wouldn't presume...I just made a mistake, I thought that approvers could archive a cache that consistently got bad reviews (and BTW, why can't they?). To address another point you made...they are of course making judgements all the time about caches they believe to be lame or pointless (it is just talked about using the words "WOW factor" or "Coffee Table Worthiness" instead of lame or pointless). I think that the rest of my thoughts still hang together somewhat, but find that I don't particularly care...TPTB will do what they want vis a vis virtual and locationless, and who am I to call their judgement into question? nfa

ok...here's an opinion (or at least a rambling set of thoughts): 1) geocaching is about the hunt, not the prizes 2) virtuals provide an opportunity to hunt for a waypoint that someone feels is interesting 3) there are lame virtuals, micros, traditionals, multis, puzzles, etc. 4) cache finds can be (and often are) logged online 5) virtuals require a question or other log enter-able proof that the cacher found it 6) approvers can archive a cache that proves to be lame or pointless The 6 statements listed above would be hard to challenge (from a logical standpoint), and would seem to lead one to the conclusion that there shouldn't be a problem with listing virtuals since they could add to the game without costing it much... There is obviously a problem listing virtuals, so one must assume that TPTB don't want to list virtuals... Continuous discussions concerning the listing of virtuals quickly become circular in nature because although there may be good reasons for being able to list virtuals, if TPTB don't wish to, it won't happen... hence my earlier "yawn" nfa ps - have a nice weekend everyone

and why on earth would anybody care about their forum post count? nfa

Hey, if you've got nothing useful to add to the discussion, feel free to just up your post count. Does anyone ave anything useful to add to this discussion, or has it all been said...again and again and again

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Hang on a sec...who doesn't like the term "muggle" and why? nfa

yawn

Mumble loudly about black helicopters, poodle guacamole, tofu encyclopedias, and "where did I leave those damned intestines and ears?"...they usually walk in the other direction. Seriously though, I have been cache-hunting a number of times when I found myself in close proximity to a single muggle or a muggle herd (pod, pack, flock, gaggle, etc.). I just act as though I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, and they do the same. Once a person asked me what my GPS unit was, and I told them about geocaching, and they followed along with me to the cache. nfa

Hi, American Science & Surplus has a pill container here that is watertight, with a gasket, 1.5"X0.5", and comes attached to a keyring, for the incredible price of $3.75 for 3 of them (and no, I'm not working for them...I just bought some and thought they were cool). nfa

hi, no...I like the "golden" dollars they rank a lot higher then the dead batteries and bottle-caps I find in many caches nfa

hi, who makes the 15 minute recharger and batts? nfa

Hi, I could have sworn I posted on this yesterday, but... People tend to type quickly when they are posting to the forums because they wish to post their message in a hurry...this does not lend itself to spell-checking. The cache listings seem to have better spelling, so it seems to be a choice to not pay as much attention to the spelling in the forums...there are numerous fixes for individuals (browser spell-checkers, typing the post in a WP program and then pasting it into the forum, slowing down, editing the post after noticing an error, etc.) nfa

somebody needs a nap nfa