JoeMerchant
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...hiding a geocache that isn't located in a parking lot, or tossed into the bushes 15 feet from the road.
You mean some people actually get out of the car when they cache? Who knew?
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BTW, here is a nice resource your you folks who might actually like to... you know... host an event...
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Loop, several of my sock puppets have PM status.
If'n you're willing to disguise yourself as an ol' fat crippled guy with a smelly hat, you could log in as one of them.
Given a big pillow and a smelly enough hat, I reckon she could pass. I'm just saying.
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Yeah, we do eat well up here.
Well, the pizza and chinese is top shelf, no doubt about it. But for breakfast, I'd rather wake up in Tennessee any day of the week.
Free Country Fried stake and Biscuits and gravy for anyone who drives from AZ or NY. You'll have to take pancakes if you fly though.
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Am I missing something here?
The event page is listed as a Premium Member cache.
The event itself looks to me like it's open to all cachers.
He's still got plenty of time to drop the Premium Member status and let everyone see the cache page.
Deane
AKA: DeRock & the Psychic Cacher - Grattan MI
I will pay for your breakfast if you want to show up as my guest!
-Tom
I'll chip in for the biscuits and gravy. Mmmmm. I'm hungry.
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Aww man...I wanted to go to this event but my 'Members Only' status has temporarily lapsed so I KNOW I would have been turned away at the door. Because everyone who is really anyone knows that that is exactly how NEFGA is...
I was gonna bring a pocket cache, too....oh, well, y'alls loss...
No doubt is is New Mexicans such as your self that NEFGA meant to exclude.
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I think it's a vast 'gubment' conspiracy. NEFGA is home to both the Ocala and the Osceola National Forests, which are both rife with sightings of alien grays, black Suburbans, New World Order troops, aluminum foil deflector beanies, (AFDBs), black helicopters, The Great Cthulhu, untimely Smurf deaths, Illuminati henchmen, cryptic codes on the backs of street signs, and all manner of other unimaginable horrors.
And Skunk Apes. You forgot Skunk Apes.
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BIG container and large mouth!!
I've heard that same thing said about IceCreamMan
hey quit dissing on ICM! He's a great guy but based on the posted comments I think JoeMerchant and Serial Finder are the the one's who sound like jerks.
No offense intended Joe, I'm just saying
Still undecided if I mean to offend Serial Finder or not but he's bright enough to read between
the lines 
when he reads this. On topic - I've found 100's of ICMs "egg jars" and they hold up well in the woods and in the city. He hides them in wonderful locations and fills them with great swag.
Thanks for the support Clan.
Joe, if you don't watch your step, my next post will be about "The Dames Point Incident".
DOH!
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I just think all you PB jar supporters are way to callous. I'm reminded of a tragedy of a national scale, that had a personal impact on me;
My home nation of Whacksmackistan was quite literally wiped from the face of the earth due to an allergic reaction. There was a fellow Whacksmackistani who had an allergy to trigazolicenic acid, a chemical compound utilized in the creation of certain products, including cellulose dinitrate, which is a primary component of 35mm film. This poor soul saw a cacher stuffing something under a lamp post skirt at the Whacksmackistan Wally World, and investigated, finding a film canister. His curiosity got the best of him, and he opened it up, removing the log. The log had trace amounts of trigazolicenic acid on it, since the mean cacher who hid the film canister didn't wash it out, and the poor young man suffered an immediate, violent and fatal allergic reaction. The histamine reaction was so severe that there were new enzymes and proteins formed during his decomposition, creating an airborne virus which resulted in a plague of biblical proportions.
The great scientist Vinny, of Vinny & Sue fame, was hired by the United Nations to come up with a way to stop the spread of this virus. After many months of painstaking research, he determined that the virus, (now called The Film Canister Virus by the media), could only be stopped by contact with dioxidetetrahydrothiofuran, a chemical used in military grade olive drab paint. In a bold move, Vinny surrounded Whacksmackistan with ammo cans, stopping the spread of the virus.
(hence, my sig line)
All that could've been prevented had the cacher picked a more suitable container.
BTW, I know this story is true cuz I read it on the Internet.
Aw come on... you just made that up.
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On topic - I've found 100's of ICMs "egg jars" and they hold up well in the woods and in the city. He hides them in wonderful locations and fills them with great swag.
Yeah sure. But that's just first hand experience. How many times have you posted about them? That's the key to true knowledge.
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BIG container and large mouth!!
I've heard that same thing said about IceCreamMan
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Here is a question for you. Why does he have to be a jerk about making his point?
Because he's a jerk. It's a well known fact in Northeast Florida. If the people who had criticized the caches here had actually done any of the caches here they would know that.
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I'm still trying to get rid of the mental image of Serial Finder with his nuts in his cold dead hand. Maybe they will store them in a PB jar.
ROFLMAO
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Of course you disagree. That's how you have close to 1400 posts compared to my 60 or so, yet we joined about the same time.
Nope. I have more time here than you.
It is also worth noting that i have never posted because of that stupid number to the left. Besides the occasional humorous post i would say most of my posts have substance to them.
I cant understand why that bothers people so much.
I'm not sure anyone said it "bothers" them. It was mentioned as an observation. Perhaps I missed the post where someone said it bothered them.
Why does it bother people to have their post to find ration mentioned?
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I like this one better
But this one is my favorite...
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It's messed up anyway, and it actually proves the comment I made earlier. Even if you just look at my logged finds, that's over 900. For those that DO play the stats game, there are only about 4000 out of over 1 million cachers in the world with over 900 finds. In my state, there are only 25 cachers over 900 finds. My true find count puts me WELL into the top 10 cachers for my state. Even my logged finds puts me in the top 1/2 of one percent of all cachers. Yet apparently, in certain parts of the country (coughJAXcough) 900 finds is so easy to do that one with so few finds is considered "inexperienced".
Thanks for proving my point.
Thanks for the numbers that clearly prove that numbers don't matter.
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Snarky? I'm not embarrassed to say I had to look that up.
Don't worry Joe, I had to look it up too, when Criminal labeled me as Snarky. I consider it a term of endearment.
I long for the day I get verbally attacked by Crimanal (sic). You're just not a cacher until you been called names by the master.
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So if the alergy can only be trigered by contacting a microscopic portion of the oils does this mean we need to buy a microscope for geocaching?
Yes, that's the safest way. Here's what I use...
Takes up room in the back pack, but what the heck, I can never remember to bring all them travel bugs along anyway.
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Looking at your stats (2,278 posts/1226 finds/20 hides) you might want to reconsider offering advise on hiding caches. But, you're definitely the go to guy for advise on posting.
Please tell me that you forgot to put the smiley on your post.
Nope, can't say I ever really considered a smiley, but then I don't have the experience posting that many of the folks here do. You think it might dress up my post a bit? BTW, since I now have cracked the 50 mark on posts, you reckon I can start giving advice on forum posting?
Is it your position that someone with 1226 finds and 20 hides doesn't have a right to discuss cache hiding?
He's got the right to do what ever he wants, and the question wasn't about "discussing" cache hiding, it was about making pronouncements about what a "reputable" container is.
Further, I think your snarky comment is pretty ironic considering that you only have 1007 finds (51 of which were events) and 20 finds (Conicidently, the same number of finds as the person you jumped on).Snarky? I'm not embarrassed to say I had to look that up. Yep, I've only got 20 hides. That's why I'm not cranking out twelve hundred posts giving advice on what containers are "reputable".
BTW, advice on where I should have inserted smilies would be welcome from a poster of your experience.
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we've used a few peanut butter jars in the past with the only problem so far is paint adhesion.
I use Fusion paint for plastic. It will scratch off with enough provocation, but it doesn't flake off. You can pick it up at any Ace or Walmart. They have a "River Rock" color that closely matches khaki, so it's easy to then move on to the darker colors of ultra flat cammo paint with that as your base. BTW, "Sissy" and "CoyoteRed"? Would that be Sissy & CR? That happens to be where I got my stencils.
You might want to read the tag line on that post ICM...
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Since when does the number of hides someone has anything to do with their opinion on using a peanut butter jar as a cache container?
I agree. Since when is knowing what you're talking about a reflection on the quality of your posts?
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You should apologize. (Yes- i am serious.)
Well, I'll have to take some time to consider a sufficiently contrite apology. You all be sure and wait up for it now.
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...if you cannot afford the $5 Lock n Lock, maybe you should reconsider hiding caches...
After reading your post I reconsidered whether I should continue hiding caches.
After much consideration I decided that, yes, I will continue hiding them. 
And I will do so based on my own cost/benefit analysis rather than yours. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks for informing me. It's good that you can afford a GPSr, and the gas money/bicycle to get to the cache, but can't spring for a reputable container. Glad you're not in my area. Hey, I had Chinese food over the weekend. Should I send you some Chinese food containers? They usually last at least a week.
Looking at your stats (2,278 posts/1226 finds/20 hides) you might want to reconsider offering advise on hiding caches. But, you're definitely the go to guy for advise on posting.
the 
when he reads this. 
And I will do so based on my own cost/benefit analysis rather than yours. Just thought you'd like to know.
Members only event?!?
in General geocaching topics
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In the interest of heading off additional drama so that we can focus on breakfast meats, from the rules of the North Florida Challenge Quest:
3. All cache types count for the Florida Challenge Quest except events (CITO included).
No need for the folks in Outer Mongolia to concern themselves that there will be any cheatin'
going on in Florida.