BulldogBlitz
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Other than that, I think a nano power trail in that park would be in order (good luck convincing the Park Ranger though).
Actually if you could show that there wouldnt be damage done to the forest the ranger might let you. I would keep them on clearly marked trails that interconnect so you could just have them running all through the forest for a day trying to get them all. Just dont put out what size they are, and make it a mixture of micro and nano sizes. That way they will be searching hard all day. I could probably create a formal letter if you want to give to the ranger. They are very easy to create.
...and with them out there all day, just sit and wait for the guy/girl running around like a chicken wearing a hemp shirt that says something about "mother earth"...
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What happens if I run across a kitchen sink?
one... why are you runnning through the woods?
two... consider making a drain plug cache container.
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I'm mostly ticked off about broken beer bottles. If the forest drinkers left them intact at least they could be CITO'd out and a few cents could be collected. So why do FDs feel compelled to smash glass beer bottles?
where do you expect bears to drink?
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Technu is about to become your new best friend.
It won't solve this week's problem, but once you learn to recognize what PI looks like, an application of technu within 2 hours of exposure will seriously minimize the reaction.
i got a bunch of that stuff for free at the conference i was at this week. good to know it works!
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Or you could simply express yourself verbally, using colorful and descriptive verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain managed to make do without cute little pictures to let people know what kind of emotion they were attempting to convey.
I'm no Mark Twain, but I manage.
sorry... but this is a game about smilies... not a game to see who can be the next jd salinger.
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ANY hide in a holly bush.
Why do people think this makes for fun?
those suck. i prefer to have hides disguised as poison ivy leaves.
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So basically, I can start logging all the caches my friends find if I have them sign my name? I can't believe that so many of you care so little, but then again, that's what's wrong with most of the world nowadays. No one cares, it's not their problem, they don't have time, it's not important. How many of you who don't see a problem with this, have quality hides? Something that you spent longer than one day to create? A cache that everyone finds something to like about, one that you put your heart and soul into? Any of you? I do it on every one I hide. I take pride in the location, the container, and any challenge I can work into it. If someone feels the need to steal a smiley for their greedy little numbers infatuation by having someone sign their name in my logbook, I will delete it, and it will stay deleted. I have done it in the past, and I have sent messages along asking them to put my caches on their ignore list. If you have no respect for me and my caches, I don't want you looking for them, let alone finding them. By the way, one of a couple ways I know that one person signed for two people. 2 people drove 70 miles on a FTF run. One was dropped off, and entered the woods at a night cache at 10:30 am(both online logs note the time)and took 4 1/2 hours to complete it. The other was trying for FTFs on three of my own caches. A friend of mine called me to say that two cachers were looking for my new cache at 11:10am on the same day.(the cache is across the street from her house) The DNF log that one cacher left, states that she met the cacher in question at this cache. She also confirmed the time. I also know the cheating cachers physical abilities. I have done this night cache twice myself, and confidently say, there's no way the cheating cacher made it through the terrain involved in this cache. Someone once told me "You'll get nowhere by looking for help on the forums." I'm beginning to believe them.
all this drama because someone is cheating in a game to find tupperware in the woods for a little pixel smiley? as for the ALR stuff, i actually try and play along with the CO on those... but that is a personal choice. we have a sacred cow in the area that believes he is the one true defender of all that is holy within geocaching and the letter of the law is the only thing that must be accounted - i.e. he refuses to do even a silly picture as an ALR...and doesn't mind threatening the CO on behalf of GS.
oh...and that was a wise person who told you that about the forums. just fill in the blank _______ forums are of no use, just snarky off topic stuff.
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i spent two days at an environmental conference... i filled up on can coozies...rulers... pens... and a bunch of random stuff that looks a notch above what i normally see in caches.
i even got a connection to find places for CITO.
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1. this particular blogger has no life outside of porn photos of mushrooms.
2. now, this particular area can have a new cache every 528 feet.
3. all those caches...should be disguised as mushrooms. after the 1,395 cache disguised like a mushroom with a big F-U log inside it, this person might get a hint....
as i told the woman at the grocery store yesterday when she asked "paper or plastic"...
which one harms the environment more?
the person hunting for a geocache...or the person hunting for fungus to take pictures of.
**oh...forgot to add, replace that sheet with one just for them.
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What else would you do with it if you could?
put it on a business card and hand them out to people telling them it will get them "10 free wings" at hooters.
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It requires the person to climb out onto a downed tree, through the limbs, and over a body of water (cache is zip-tied to a branch in the canopy).
TFTC. sorry i didn't sign your log... but if you like, i'll explain exactly where it is.
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sure it will get too popular.
i'm kinda surprised some company like rei doesn't already plant a puzzle cache at each store. to try and get you to come
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Maybe we need a heated topics board where the circular yelling debates can go on.seen it on several forums.... a hidden forum, or regulated entry (one forum it was based on gender, and let's just say one gender was always boring)...
it never ends well, as someone always ends up getting their one true feeling hurt. ...and really, just as with the grammar nazis, there are some people who will bang their heads against the brick wall making dadgum certain that their point is the one surviving at the end of it all.
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I've always believed that find counts should be visible only to the account holder. Perhaps that's a good idea for post counts as well. Neither find count nor post count should be used to evaluate a geocacher.
nah...the good, the bad, and the ugly....
post history is important, no matter the forum. as someone(s) pointed out above, this forum is like many others. i know for sure, sarcasm does NOT translate well - there are some people who have such a good filter for it that they have no ability to read it.
then... there are some, who might look at a persons post history to determine if they were actually joking (because there are some like me that don't always use the appropriate smiley... or any at all).
i saw someone's GC profile the other day. i was in awe. if i remember it right, he only had about 56 finds and had been caching for about 6 or 7 years. all of his finds were mountain tops.... or crazy spelunking type adventures. i think that's a really good geocacher. heck... who knows, it may be a secondary account, so he can look kool while he gets his fill on LPCs and forum antics.
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...on more than a few threads you can easily rack up your post count and you will then be in with the clique. Your words will suddenly take on an air of wisdom and respectability.
...or one can stay on the outside, just on the edge of darkness wreaking havoc on multiple threads baiting all the forum police into mass hysteria.
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there are certain tools that one should carry in their geovehicle.
geo-chainsaw.
geo-pruning sheers.
geo-pruning saw on an extension.
geo-grinder.
geo-bolt cutters.
geo-duct tape.
geo-scuba gear.
nothing is too tall, you just don't have the right tool to reach it.
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There haven't been actual toys in Cracker Jack (not "Jacks") for decades.
Same goes for gum in baseball cards, at least not in Tops anyway. Then again the gum was intended to entice some one to buy the cards, not the other way around like cracker jack and kids meals.
I bought a box of garbage pal cards about 4 years ago and the first thing I noticed was they didn't have any crappy gum in them, I was kind of bummed.
The gum in card packs was the worst. You could break a tooth on it. Super Bubble was the best, with Double Bubble and Bazooka in the middle, and card pack gum at the bottom of the barrel.
I used to like Big League Chew..lol..Wonder what that was promoting?.."spit"..
i liked it too. i also liked candy cigs. i also grew up playing those horribly violent atari 2600 video games and listening to all that heavy metal (and other) music. i have yet to try smokeless tobacco. i actually try to avoid standing next to anyone who is smoking a cig because it bothers my eyes and i want my lungs to be pink when they fry me for the as yet to be committed violent crime. while i don't like the reasoning as i've described above to be applied wholesale, i do think there are some people who are a bit closer to the edge of the cliff and it just doesn't take that much persuasion to get them over the edge. do we really need to protect them from themselves? i thought that was what darwin's law was for...
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That's a good one. Be sure to read all 10 or 11 or 12 pages...
What's a troll?
a dude that lives under a bridge.
so.... it's a homeless guy.
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i don't have any sort of fun story like that...
i've had two experiences that stand out for me, both happened outside of work. my place of business is 40 miles away from my house. in this town, all it takes is about a one mile drive either direction from the highway to get into pretty rural areas. recently, i went out, with my hardhat and reflective vest (both related to where i work, not special gc purchases). a winding rural road with little traffic.... a cop saw my car stopped and he stopped and was turning around as i stood up from a crouched position by the fencepost. as i looked to be examining the natural gas line that was near, he did another u-turn to continue on his way. at least that's what i think happened since he didn't speed off.
the other... similar winding rural road that looks as if it is close to becoming a dirt road. micro in a bush, so i am there hunting... pretty much the only 4 people that could possibly use that road came through and each one asked me if i was "alright" and if i "needed help". NO!!! i'm looking for a secret container containing a piece of paper which i must sign in order to get a smiley on the internet!!!! that actually was a very long day for me, as everywhere i seemed to go, i found extra traffic for the remote locations.
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How many caches did it take before you got your vision?
After more than 1000, there are still caches that stump me. And I hope it remains that way
i'm with you... there are some that can just keep me puzzled even though i see all those logs talking about what a nice PNG it was...
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Finally he put out a real cache with trade items listed. Woohoo! He's learned his lesson and started putting out decent caches, think I.
This one came out about 9 p.m. less than a mile from my house so I leapt into the cachemobile and was FTF.
I get to the abandoned mall parking lot and the coords tell me that it's 40' down a steep hill, and it is obvious that folks have been using this place for a dump.
The hill is too steep and slick to walk on so I'm sliding along on my butt amidst the refuse that's been dumped down this hill, broken glass, pieces of metal, busted shopping carts and plastic bags full of foul-smelling no-telling-what sort of garbage.
I found the plastic mayonnaise jug under a piece of sheet metal, signed the log, pondered the situation a bit and took it home with me.
seems there is a fine line between his fun and yours, especially if you slid all the way through trash intent on getting a pixel and bragging rights. shoulda' encouraged the boy, you might be king of alabama now if you had.
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...only if there is government (i'm sorry...gubmint) healthcare. at this moment, i don't think anyone other than me and my insurance (or just me when i was uninsured) has paid for my ailments.
You could not be more incorrect. You do not understand how insurance works.
Everyone who buys into a health insurance policy pays a part of every claim made by anyone against that policy.
The healthier the overall policy participants, the fewer the claims thus the lower the cost for everyone. And the reverse.
And it's not just the health of the overall policy holders which determines how much your particular policy costs, it's things like frivolous lawsuits (which is why we need tort reform) and many other costs to the insurer (private jets, lavish conferences). Every policy holder pays part of every judgment and over-indulgent cost paid by the insurance company.
Surely you didn't think the insurance company paid for these things? No, we policy holders do. That's why there is no incentive for insurers to keep costs down. Whatever costs arise, policy holders will pay for them in the form of higher premiums.
The premiums that you personally pay for health insurance over your lifetime will likely not cover the costs of a single major surgery should you have to undergo one... premiums from the overall pool pay the rest.
Thus the kids depicted above. It appears likely that they will incur above-average medical costs over their lifetime. It is doubtful that they will ever be able to pay enough in premiums to cover their expenses, so you and I will pay higher premiums to cover their medical expenses.
Given that this is how insurance really works, do you still disagree that we all have a vested interest in making this a healthier nation and reducing health care costs?
BTW - Every President I can think of has tried to enact some form of exercise and fitness program to improve Americans fitness and thus reduce health care costs. Most of those programs have been defeated.
Demand your freedom and pay your premium, they go hand in hand!
so basically.... you are on blue cross blue shield... and your premium goes to pay MY healthcare - on aetna (or whatever non-BCBS)?
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I suppose it is a sin that I have to confess...
I went out after a cache that had zero logs on it....
I wound up being the first. Instead of me running home to log the cache, I went to work. Someone else left their house with complete determination in logging (yet another) FTF only to find that I had been there several hours earlier.
This is one of those sins where it really isn't clear until afterwards that it is considered a sin to ______.
Maybe we need a heated topics board where the circular yelling debates can go on.
what do you do if you can't reach the cache?
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not only are you wrong, you are stupid looking too with that motorcycle cop outfit.