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Non-profit, yes. But isn't this under the heading of commercial cache? Did these folks get permission from Jeremy, et al. before going ahead with this? And the most important of all questions: Who has found it so far?
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Steak and I have a babysitter lined up for a weekend and we are going to hit the Medford/K.F./Butte Falls area and cache our little brains out.
We thought we were PHAT when we did 12 in twelve hours... sheesh!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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The San Diego TB is currently in my hands and will be making a jump of 100 miles (or more) south this Thursday or Friday.
I will try and put it in a popular cache encouraging folks to move him further and further south!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Now, if Sean Connery, Mel Gibson or Kevin Costner (in that order0 placed a cache, no matter where it was, I'd be on the next transport in that direction! But heck... you could say that about any cache within a hundred miles of me!
So, who has written to Wil Wheaton to volunteer taking him Geocaching? I don't live anywhere near him, but I think he probably wouldn't mind it if the person wasn't a slavering idiot about the whole thing (not like me around the above mentioned male actors, right?).
Personally, I think that if we got The Shrub involved in geocaching, that would be fun... can you imagine the secret service guys out hunting in the wilds of Alaska for an ammo can?
*bzzzzt!* "Eagle Two, this is Eagle Four... have you sited the goal?" *bzzzt!*
*bzzzt!* "Negative Eagle Four, and the Boss Eagle is getting pretty uncomfortable in the limo... can you speed this up?" *bzzzt!*
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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We have a CACHE hidden between Grants Pass and Cave Junction. You don't have to drive to C.J. to get to it, and by now the roads should be nice and clear.
It has only been found once, and that person had to be begged to go by the owner of the TB for whom the cache is named. The Bug hasn't moved since, so what does that tell you? Nothing really...
I'm giving this cache 45 days to get some activity and if nothing happens I'll archive it and distribute it's remains... How about it Mailleman? Lazyboy? Lone Ranger & Tonto? Peanuthead? All of you other hard-core geocachers need to get out of your protective valley. We've got a multi-cache ready to release designed to get Valley cachers to come to the coast for a little hunt-and-seek fun.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Some folks here seem to think that those who go out and use their imaginations and search capabilities in order to log locationless caches are sub-cachers, regardless of the number of other caches they have logged, of ANY type.
How is it that a multi-cache is less of a cache than a traditional cache? Last year we hunted a multi that required puzzle-solving skills, math skills and a twisted imagination. It had six physical stages. How can it be LESS than a traditional drive-up, log it, drive-off geocache?
A micro, or offset cache shouldn't be separated because a few folks don't like and chose not to do them. The micro that is rated a 4/4 for difficulty that I log should make it cooler than that 1/1 traditional that you logged.
For that matter, if you want to separate all the caches out, why not give extra credit for extra difficult caches? fractal's Contact Cache was a 5 for difficulty because of the puzzle. Should I get more points for completing it WITHOUT THE CHEAT than the person who finished it using fractal's hints? Should the 4-rated terrain cache we completed the other day be worth more in points than that weak-assed micro that someone else logged?
The answer to all of this is: HELL NO! WTF are you people thinking when you try to dictate to others what constitutes a cache worth getting credit for? The day you chose for me what is an acceptible cache for me to log, brother you'd better be on the acceptance committee when these caches are submitted for approval. Otherwise, STFU! Only those who feel that their precious cache counts are threatened by those doing "lesser" caches are truly worried about this. Those of us who are having more fun just getting out there and geocaching could give a rat's *** less.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Alan2:Ok Ok Ok. Don't get snippy. So now I got one for you. who really is Redwood Red?
Well, I don't think that I resemble any movie star or famous person. You can see a photo of what I resemble HERE, but that is an older photo. I still look something like that, just, well, older.
As you can see, I come by the moniker RED honestly and if you look close enough, you might see the freckles and eyebrows that are tell-tales signs that I'm a true redhead. As for the REDWOOD part... well, I live in the Redwoods of Northern California. I have always thought that it was a fitting handle/nickname for myself. It beats the CB radio handle that I carried around for 20 years: Queen Of Hearts. Off with his head!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by rathkopf:I thought those $2 coins were called MOONIES. Because they have the Queen on the front, and her bear behind.
Oh Man! Now THAT is FUNNY! ROFLMAO!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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Originally posted by Alan2:I'm the guy who didn't know who this guy Wheaton is. Now Kevin Bacon I know. Wasn't he one of the Men in Black?
You're kidding, right? The "MIB's" are: Tommy Lee Jones and Will (Prince of Bel Air) Smith.
Kevin Bacon was "Hollow Man", among other things. Kevin is also famous for - though I don't believe he invented it - Six Degrees of Separation. The theory being that every actor in the U.S. is within six degrees of separation from having appeared in a movie with Kevin Bacon. He is starring in a weak TV commercial about Visa Checkcards that uses this theory as the commercial's premise.
At one time, there was actually a popular website called www.sixdegrees.com. I got bored with it pretty fast. It reminded me too much of MCI's Friends and Family sign up program.
Is that enough banal trivia for you?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by geospotter:If anyone would like some of their items placed in caches in New England, just email me.
If anyone from the Right Coast (or anywhere else at distance) would like cache items begun on a journey from the West Side, you can email me and I'll be happy to move them along.
After all, we have never hesitated to do distant caches.
Which reminds me... I still need to send some LotR CD's to Mike Chim... yikes!
And as far as Booty goes? Even being female, I too was subject to a twisted sense of curiousity when I opened this thread... no one is ammune!
Remember that much loved '70's song: "Shake, shake, shake! Shake, shake, shake! Shake your booty! Shake your booty!"
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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Originally posted by Eric O'Connor:Believe me, we talk about you all the time.
And YOU get talked about quite a bit here, as well... and are missed.
It has been my assumption for some time that Choberiba is somebody famous... or he'd post a picture of what he REALLY looks like... instead of teasing us with pictures of his overly large GPS!
I'm guessing that he is John Travolta... no, then he'd be spouting that L. Ron Hubbard stuff...
How about Robin Williams? No, he's funny, but not THAT funny...
Maybe Jerry Rice or Joe Montana... the area he lives in is right...
Well, Chobe? Am I even close?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by oregone:I've been struggling to come up with a signature item that both reflects my personality and doesn't offend the PMRC, the PTA, and PETA. The last thing i want to do is piss off Tipper Gore, Barbara Eden, and Belinda Carlisle.
Oh man! Why not? I live to offend that trio!
It must have something to do with their helmet hair...
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by oregone:I've been struggling to come up with a signature item that both reflects my personality and doesn't offend the PMRC, the PTA, and PETA. The last thing i want to do is piss off Tipper Gore, Barbara Eden, and Belinda Carlisle.
Oh man! Why not? I live to offend that trio!
It must have something to do with their helmet hair...
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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I want one! It is a great idea: a signature item in a small, waterproof container, with fish hooks (you could put masking tape or a small piece of cork over the barb), fishing line, an emergency/space blanket, waterproof matches or a flint/striker, snake bite or bug bite kit, small Avon-style packets of sunscreen, a tiny pocket knife (Wal-Mart: 88 cents) and maybe some water purification tablets.
Or a similar container with first-aid items in it. Small packs of neosporin, band-aids, a tourniquet (sp?)... etc. All with a small laminated card inside with first-aid guidelines and your name, logo and email address. Do you mind if I make a few of those myself? Pretty cool idea.
If someone went out for a tough cache, 3 or higher on terrain, and got lost going back to their car, or caught out in someway, or fell and broke their leg and needed to wait for help, a kit like that would really come in handy. Assuming that they were foolish enough not to have some of those things with them in the first place.
As for matches being dangerous: So would a coin be in a cache if you aren't supervising your small kids. As was mentioned, so are plastic bags, so are the plastic bags on McKid's toys, for that matter! They come with warnings. Most plastic shopping bags have small oval parts of the bag that come off when the bag is separated from the other bags. Kids get those and can choke. Hell, I've seen kids with noses so full of mucus that it is a wonder they don't suffocate! I can put Kleenex in my caches but it won't make the parents teach their kids the proper way to use them!
If you have kids, do you have matches at home? Lighters? If you think that by putting them out of reach of your kids you've made them immune to their own curiosity, you are in for a big surprise. Just as with guns, teaching children what is safe, what is acceptable and what is bad and will get them hurt or killed is essential in helping them to grow up in an adult world. My kids are more likely to get hit by an idiot while playing on the sidewalk in front of my house than to burn themselves with the waterproof matches I place in geocaches.
We found a 4/4 cache the other day that had been hidden for a year and never found. It had a small bottle of Sangria wine in it. Well-fermented wine now. We traded for it. We won't drink it - it will get poured down the drain, or used as marinade
, but I didn't want to listen to anyone else WINE about it later. Water would have been more appropriate considering the cache, but it wasn't about the contents, really.As for chain-gang road crews finding your cache... hell, if they can make weapons out of toilet paper rolls, what makes you think that that happy meal toy you left is any less dangerous in a hardened criminals hands? And what the hell is a geocache doing right next to the highway, anyway? It is more likely to be found and plundered by hitchhikers, and we all know how dangerous THEY can be!
Use common sense, people. I always put items in for trade that would be helpful or useful to someone hiking, camping or fishing. My pack is filled with fish hook removers, lures, emergency blankets, waterproof matches, rain ponchos, slow-burning candles and batteries (which will also explode if overheated, right?). If others are allowing their children to rifle through caches unsupervised, then it is they who are a problem and dangerous, not the folks that placed the useful articles.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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I want one! It is a great idea: a signature item in a small, waterproof container, with fish hooks (you could put masking tape or a small piece of cork over the barb), fishing line, an emergency/space blanket, waterproof matches or a flint/striker, snake bite or bug bite kit, small Avon-style packets of sunscreen, a tiny pocket knife (Wal-Mart: 88 cents) and maybe some water purification tablets.
Or a similar container with first-aid items in it. Small packs of neosporin, band-aids, a tourniquet (sp?)... etc. All with a small laminated card inside with first-aid guidelines and your name, logo and email address. Do you mind if I make a few of those myself? Pretty cool idea.
If someone went out for a tough cache, 3 or higher on terrain, and got lost going back to their car, or caught out in someway, or fell and broke their leg and needed to wait for help, a kit like that would really come in handy. Assuming that they were foolish enough not to have some of those things with them in the first place.
As for matches being dangerous: So would a coin be in a cache if you aren't supervising your small kids. As was mentioned, so are plastic bags, so are the plastic bags on McKid's toys, for that matter! They come with warnings. Most plastic shopping bags have small oval parts of the bag that come off when the bag is separated from the other bags. Kids get those and can choke. Hell, I've seen kids with noses so full of mucus that it is a wonder they don't suffocate! I can put Kleenex in my caches but it won't make the parents teach their kids the proper way to use them!
If you have kids, do you have matches at home? Lighters? If you think that by putting them out of reach of your kids you've made them immune to their own curiosity, you are in for a big surprise. Just as with guns, teaching children what is safe, what is acceptable and what is bad and will get them hurt or killed is essential in helping them to grow up in an adult world. My kids are more likely to get hit by an idiot while playing on the sidewalk in front of my house than to burn themselves with the waterproof matches I place in geocaches.
We found a 4/4 cache the other day that had been hidden for a year and never found. It had a small bottle of Sangria wine in it. Well-fermented wine now. We traded for it. We won't drink it - it will get poured down the drain, or used as marinade
, but I didn't want to listen to anyone else WINE about it later. Water would have been more appropriate considering the cache, but it wasn't about the contents, really.As for chain-gang road crews finding your cache... hell, if they can make weapons out of toilet paper rolls, what makes you think that that happy meal toy you left is any less dangerous in a hardened criminals hands? And what the hell is a geocache doing right next to the highway, anyway? It is more likely to be found and plundered by hitchhikers, and we all know how dangerous THEY can be!
Use common sense, people. I always put items in for trade that would be helpful or useful to someone hiking, camping or fishing. My pack is filled with fish hook removers, lures, emergency blankets, waterproof matches, rain ponchos, slow-burning candles and batteries (which will also explode if overheated, right?). If others are allowing their children to rifle through caches unsupervised, then it is they who are a problem and dangerous, not the folks that placed the useful articles.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Peanuthead:Upon finding the empty cache, the first finder called me a Cheezeball and the second wrote, "Of course, the road got smoother and next thing you know, we were at the cache! No problem finding it, but what happened to the contents? What? A keychain and two pens? After all of that fighting?"
Peanuthead, while reading this thread I was thinking of your cache! Not in a bad way, really
.If you had read the rest of my post, I comment on the difficulty of the road/trail/deer track on the way to the cache, the loud "conflict" that occured between the driver and navigator (me), and all of that, combined with the fact that in your cache description there was no mention of contents, made for a frustrating find with two small kids chasing Mom and Dad to the final cache site. I ask everyone reading this in all honesty to search deep and ask yourself, "If you go for a multi-cache, do you expect to find anything in the final container when you get to it?"
There are those out there who will adamantly state repeatedly that they never trade, don't care what the contents are and just T/N, L/N and logged their find in the book. When we take our kids along, we try and take them to caches were the end result is finding the "treasure". To a 5 and 8 year old, it was a bit disappointing. That didn't keep us from trading up, however. IMHO, if you had said that there was initially nothing in the cache, we would have been prepared and not disappointed at all.
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Now for my opinion on the subject: The baubles in the caches are mostly about the kids. Little Johnny and Jane like finding Hot Wheels and a Pez dispenser, and we like taking little Johnny and Jane along, so it's all good.Okay, and that enforces my point, I think.
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You can draw your own conclusions about my little experiment.Also, if you read my log at your CACHE, you will note that I looked forward to this cache after finding THIS ONE, which was so packed full of goodies that we had to limit what we put in. So, I enjoyed both of your caches, and will look forward to visiting the Valley again to do more. Hopefully I can encourage you and other Valley cachers to come to the coast to log some of ours. Not that you need to... you get three new caches to find every other day... sheesh!
I am performing a few experiments in regard to cache contents myself. My BookCrossing Cache is filled with nothing but sci-fi and fantasy paperback books, and I specify exactly what is in it and what folks can use to trade. It is themed. It makes sense to get specific. It doesn't mean that everyone has to trade brand-new Tom Clancy PB's or sci-fi/fantasy... I would encourage folks to put in kid-oriented paperbacks, as long as they log them on the BookCrossing website first. The same will be true of my Ultimate Comics cache when it is released: Only comic books and comics-related items should be traded.
I understand that not everyone is going to "follow the rules" I've specified for these caches, but I do hope that people will take the time, read the descriptions and bring appropriate trade materials for each cache. I have accumulated these brand-new comics and action figures over the past six months, but I have spent over $60 for all of them. That is one reason why I'll be doing something that I thought I'd never do: Make it an MOC for the first few months to see how it works. If somebody lets there kid put a not-too-abused Jughead comic in place of a new Spiderman... I will not be at all upset. It stays within the theme.
It's late... I'm rambling again...
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Peanuthead:Upon finding the empty cache, the first finder called me a Cheezeball and the second wrote, "Of course, the road got smoother and next thing you know, we were at the cache! No problem finding it, but what happened to the contents? What? A keychain and two pens? After all of that fighting?"
Peanuthead, while reading this thread I was thinking of your cache! Not in a bad way, really
.If you had read the rest of my post, I comment on the difficulty of the road/trail/deer track on the way to the cache, the loud "conflict" that occured between the driver and navigator (me), and all of that, combined with the fact that in your cache description there was no mention of contents, made for a frustrating find with two small kids chasing Mom and Dad to the final cache site. I ask everyone reading this in all honesty to search deep and ask yourself, "If you go for a multi-cache, do you expect to find anything in the final container when you get to it?"
There are those out there who will adamantly state repeatedly that they never trade, don't care what the contents are and just T/N, L/N and logged their find in the book. When we take our kids along, we try and take them to caches were the end result is finding the "treasure". To a 5 and 8 year old, it was a bit disappointing. That didn't keep us from trading up, however. IMHO, if you had said that there was initially nothing in the cache, we would have been prepared and not disappointed at all.
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Now for my opinion on the subject: The baubles in the caches are mostly about the kids. Little Johnny and Jane like finding Hot Wheels and a Pez dispenser, and we like taking little Johnny and Jane along, so it's all good.Okay, and that enforces my point, I think.
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You can draw your own conclusions about my little experiment.Also, if you read my log at your CACHE, you will note that I looked forward to this cache after finding THIS ONE, which was so packed full of goodies that we had to limit what we put in. So, I enjoyed both of your caches, and will look forward to visiting the Valley again to do more. Hopefully I can encourage you and other Valley cachers to come to the coast to log some of ours. Not that you need to... you get three new caches to find every other day... sheesh!
I am performing a few experiments in regard to cache contents myself. My BookCrossing Cache is filled with nothing but sci-fi and fantasy paperback books, and I specify exactly what is in it and what folks can use to trade. It is themed. It makes sense to get specific. It doesn't mean that everyone has to trade brand-new Tom Clancy PB's or sci-fi/fantasy... I would encourage folks to put in kid-oriented paperbacks, as long as they log them on the BookCrossing website first. The same will be true of my Ultimate Comics cache when it is released: Only comic books and comics-related items should be traded.
I understand that not everyone is going to "follow the rules" I've specified for these caches, but I do hope that people will take the time, read the descriptions and bring appropriate trade materials for each cache. I have accumulated these brand-new comics and action figures over the past six months, but I have spent over $60 for all of them. That is one reason why I'll be doing something that I thought I'd never do: Make it an MOC for the first few months to see how it works. If somebody lets there kid put a not-too-abused Jughead comic in place of a new Spiderman... I will not be at all upset. It stays within the theme.
It's late... I'm rambling again...
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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I am not sure if this has been discussed before. I checked the search and didn't find anything...
We have had a CACHE on our radar that would have turned a year old on May 10th without being found if we had not gone after it. As a crow flies, it was under 50 miles from our home. To get to it, however, took a 400 mile round-trip.
There is another dirt mountain road that might have made it closer, but it was (and usually is) closed due to snow.
Has anyone else made such a long trek for such a close cache?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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I have to add this:
Though the hider, Rocketman, had never found or hidden a cache before, this was very well done. Please have a look at the photos we took. The only thing at issue would have been that the bag surrounding the cache was filled with water, because of the way it was tied. Water seeped into the top of bag and down through the knot.
Steak tied a loop in the top of the bag to try and keep it from happening again. Other than that it was a great cache in great shape for having been there un-found for 365 days!
I have this to say too... If none of you has ever met Steak, he is a big guy. 31 years old, overweight with a prominant belly (which I love, BTW!)... and he hiked down that bugger and back up and then drove to dinner in Yreka and on to Medford. IMHO, He Is The MAN!
So you folks that are slim, trim and in good shape? There is no excuse ... get out there and nab that cache!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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Originally posted by The Artful Dodger:I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor !
Maybe it is just me, but I have always thought that A.D. looks a lot like Kevin Costner, what with those shades and all.
Is there something you want to tell us, Dodger?
Me, I've only masquerading as RedwoodRed. In real life, I'm Jessica Rabbit.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by The Artful Dodger:I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor !
Maybe it is just me, but I have always thought that A.D. looks a lot like Kevin Costner, what with those shades and all.
Is there something you want to tell us, Dodger?
Me, I've only masquerading as RedwoodRed. In real life, I'm Jessica Rabbit.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup:Yes, I'd take them out of the boxes. If you don't, chances are someone else will anyway.
I've seen people post photos of their dog chewing on a travel bug, with a comment saying, "Don't worry, he was gentle."
I imagine that over time, all of our travel bugs will start showing some wear and tear, just through the process of changing hands.
I have already taken Spiderman out of his container... he looked like too much fun! Yes, I'm just a big kid or I probably wouldn't collect comics and action figures!
Each of my sons got to spend 15 minutes with the WebSlinger prior to putting him in a safe spot on my desk until it is time to pack the cache. Of course, my youngest decided that it would be "mean" to make him a TB!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup:Yes, I'd take them out of the boxes. If you don't, chances are someone else will anyway.
I've seen people post photos of their dog chewing on a travel bug, with a comment saying, "Don't worry, he was gentle."
I imagine that over time, all of our travel bugs will start showing some wear and tear, just through the process of changing hands.
I have already taken Spiderman out of his container... he looked like too much fun! Yes, I'm just a big kid or I probably wouldn't collect comics and action figures!
Each of my sons got to spend 15 minutes with the WebSlinger prior to putting him in a safe spot on my desk until it is time to pack the cache. Of course, my youngest decided that it would be "mean" to make him a TB!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Markwell:heheheh.
I presume you know about the Challenge of the SuperFriends.
Silly man... we went through this discussion when I originally brought up the whole idea of my comics cache in this thread.
I have also been reading about how many of the SuperFriends don't seem to be getting around like they should, in the thread about TB's going MIA. Keep us up on this. Weird thing... a cache that I had already visited was recently home to Aquaman, I believe. I was real sorry I missed him... *sigh*
I hope some of the SuperFriends make it this direction. I'm sure that they would like the atmosphere of Red's Ultimate Comics Cache, when it is placed (just a few more days!).
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
Celebrity geocachers?
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You know, I hate to "strike back" here, but I think you're "chasing amy" on that one, Chobe. I mean, you sound like a "clerk" or a "mallrat" with this kind of speculation. You've been hitting your "secret stash" and spouting "dogma" again... I HATE that! I think your "view" is "askew", "Bluntman". Why bother? Your attitude is "chronic"!
'Nuff Said!
Comic books? Me? Nah....
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
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