BillsBayou

editted and closing my rant.

Are you talking about caching? Or your time in prison?

My thoughts exactly. Allow me to quote chacher 30/90 from his "Marconi Heights (GCQ7H9)" from August 23, 2005 I once searched for a cache under a foot bridge which crossed a canal near a school. There was no one around that morning. However, in the 5 minutes I searched, someone did arrive: The School Crossing Guard. She was ushering children across the street and across the bridge. I appeared like the troll under the bridge wearing business clothes. "Are we getting a new bridge? I've been asking for one for years." "That's what I'm here to check out." "Oh good. This one's falling apart." "I'm putting that in my report. It'll hold for now, though. You have a good day." It's nice to blend in.

I just ran the Micro Spew Rating for all three cities. I used the first Zip Codes listed by the Post Office lookup for each city and a radius of 50 miles. Biloxi (zip 39530) 59/176 (33.5% Spew) Mobile (zip 36601) 53/190 (27.9% Spew) New Orleans (zip 70112) 253/492 (51.4% Spew) I'm covered in splooge, apparently. However, Biloxi has more Micro-Spew than Mobile, Mr. Kettle. However, with 239 non-micro caches in the area (more than either Mobile or Biloxi) there is still plenty of caching to be done that doesn't involve offending the micro-haters in the crowd.

I'm guessing Mississippi (Biloxi in particular) must be ammo-can-quality-swag heaven to have to knock the nearest large city areas in neighboring states Alabama and Louisiana.

Yeah, but did he HAVE to say New Orleans? I'm puttin' up ma dukes!

Wow. Not only do you want to offend the newcomers, you want to offend the region as well. Facinating post. Well, as a newcomer from New Orleans, I would put my caches up against anything you refer to as "spew." I *would* but I won't. Bill New Orleans

Kentucky? For a moment there I thought this was going to be a K-Y Geocaching Weekend. That'd be like TOTALLY different. But then again, it IS Kentucky.

I'm packing up to go place a cache and I'm wondering what I would say to the police if I'm caught hiking to my destination with the following in my army surplus knapsack: Cordless drill w/spare battery Spade drill bit with extension Screw and wrench bits for the drill 1 ft of 1-inch pipe Ammo can Metal box to house the ammo can (padlocked shut) 5-inch lag bolts and assorted washers and screws Cans of spray paint GPS receiver Digital camera Just how suspicous do we really look when we're heading out to place our caches? (by the way, the location chosen is a-ok for my cache)

Took Something-nice, Left Something-garbage, Soaked Log-in rainwater

If I go to the trouble of going out there to see if it is still there, still ok, etc, then that's maintenance. If someone posts anything in the logs to which I feel I must respond, it's a note. Not that I practice what I preach, but those seem to be the basics for me.

This explains what I saw when I went out to check on a cache: This must be Mtn-Man's PuppyMonkey

I make at least two trips to a cache site before making the final trip to place the cache. I only have 9 hides as of this time, so you can see I'm not a "Stash-n-Dash" Cacher. I go through a couple of steps to make sure I get it right: 1. Check my satellite page to see how many signals I'm getting. I want at least four good ones with a 3-D fix. 2. Check my Estimated Positional Error (EPE) reading to see if I can get it below 60 feet. 3. Do a quick waypoint just to get a feel for the spot. 4. Set up the GPSr on a rock or hang it in a small tree to let it run an average of at LEAST 100 points. 5. Take the GPSr and walk away from the spot and come at it from three different directions to see if I'm homing in on the waypoint I just saved. 6. Come back at least a day later and repeat the process. But that's just me. I also turn off the lights in my room three times to make sure they're off; touch my daughter on the forehead when I leave her at daycare to make sure she's actually there; and trim my check pad with a razor to make sure there's no check-stubble left over because it looks so untidy. (Ok, so the last part's a joke, but steps 1-6 are not)

I've been working on my next puzzle cache for two months. (last night I finally poured the concrete for stage one) I'm not sure even I remember what the coordinates are!

YES! Be very careful about violating this seldom used rule. No two stages of ANY multi is allowed to be farther appart than 12450 miles. *edited for grammar *edited my edit comment for spelling

they won't put your pieces back. Other than that, go for it.

I think we all need to just relax and get in touch with our inner children. rrrrRRRRROOOOOOOOWWWWWWRRRRRRrrrrrr Where's that cache? OOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO What's going on here? You letterboxing? RRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrmmmmmmm*pishhhhhhhhh* Excuse me officer can you help me? You need to wait over there until I'm done here. EEE OOO EEE OOO EEE OOO EEE OOO EEE OOO EEE OOO EEE OOO Take a number bud.

On the Administrative side, you should have the mission statement for the club. Schools tend to like it when school organizations put something up about why you're doing what you're doing and what it has to do with the school. It should be something like: Mission Statement: To foster an environment of learning, and mental growth among our members within an activity that promotes critical and lateral thinking skills; to be good stewards of the activity as we promote responsible and ecologically sound behavior; and to encourage members to get off their lazy butts, stop playing X-Box, and get outside where the fun is. You can put a link to your mission statement on your home page. It adds a sense of maturity and professionalism to a site. On the Activity side, you'll have a gallery of photos of the group out in the field; a calender of upcoming meetings (as well as specific meeting topics "Container construction, hiding methods, CITO, etc"; a contact page; links to your caches (if published here or elsewhere); an "About Geocaching" (or "What is Geocaching") page; and maybe an article or two written by members.

When caching near the airport, I recomment driving up to the cache in STYLE! If "Men With Guns Come," just tell them: "mmmmmmwwwwwwWWWWRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmm... Meep! Meep! Mittah! I'm twyin' ta wand!"

It's more like the Ray Liotta's "Henry Hill" snitch character in "Goodfellas." Captain Chlorox is your Witness Protection Program name.

Oh yeah, and my neighbor's Boy Scout troop was bragging about all the caches they've been muggling and replacing with bags of DOOT.

Since there's no where else to do this, I'll just pile it all up here: Can someone help me pick a new GPS? The person below me knows Cher in the biblical sense. Parrot Rob got the last TBAG, so I'll start the next count at 3. What's a good way to cammo an ammo can? The bomb squad found another cache. At least they didn't blow it up. Take the "Which Brady Are You" (I'm Sam the Butcher) Does anyone know where my wife is? What's a good site on the Internet for Bison Tubes? Why is it called Markwell? All nano caches should be banned. All ammo cans should be banned. and finally:

well, gee, that might explain the death of the Cheers thread, and the current problems we're having getting into the forums.

I'm here because I searched for my name. by the way, above the posts, I see this: "Groundspeak Forums > > Geocaching.com Web Site" shouldn't there be something between the greater than signs?

My tongue has been firmly planted in my cheek since the start of this thread.