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Sioneva, you are so TRULY EVIL that it is despicable, despicable, I tell you! You are so evil that you probably have a PhD in horribleness!

Lots of good advice here, so I won't add much, as it would be redundant. I do have one nagging question.. Would you have felt better about the the scenario had a fellow young punk had logged the SBA? No age group has a monoploly on flaky.

I just ordered two puffin coins, one in each color. I only pop into this forum once in while, and was very glad to see that these are still available. What a remarkably beautiful coin!

oops... double post.

Very humorously written But question - even the laminated ones? The ones I encounter here are never laminated. I haven't seen too many laminated ones. If they are clean and water proof enough to stay that way, I don't have a particular problem with them. They wouldn't particularily grab my interest as a sig item, but to each their own. Non-laminated cards, while well intentioned, usually end up looking like trash unless traded for soon after being placed in the cache. Given the number of yucky, messy cards found in caches, there don't seem to be too many folks collecting these items. If they were as highly sought after as some here suggest, the problem wouldn't exist.

I like you Moxie. Well written.

What I find curious is the enormous popularity of the "water color" look, where all the colors seem to wash together. It seems that folks who choose this design are also fans of the "distressed" look, where the paper seems be textured and torn. Sometimes this design even goes so far as to incorporate living organisms... slime molds and such. I appreciate the concept of living art, but when a concept is copied, again and again, the emotional impact of the art form is lessened. It appears that the people who choose these designs are looking to have their sig item stand out in a crowd. While this design of card isn't typical of most cards seen outside of caching, this design type does seem to be overused in the caching community. The "distressed slime mold" prototype is seen all too frequently.

Ah, but then they would be "anal-expulsives" to which Vinny has promised to dedicate a future thread. Actually, if you google images for "anal retentive", the images are rather benign, and most deal humorously with the psychological aspect. Mind you, I do have the "Moderate Safe Search" on.

I always thought psychology was family orientated. Given that the term anal retentive has been used in the common vernacular for several decades now, I don't think it conjures up non-family friendly images at all. The only image that comes to my mind is that of someone who is unusually rigid regarding any ideas, often used in the common vernacular, with which they don't agree. Oh... wait....

You're not squeezing these out like you should be. You're close, butt you've left some behind. Doo you want to get cheeky? I wouldn't want to see the cache log on those! I'm trying to restrain myself. I know if I get on a roll with this topic, I'm liable to be banished from the forums. I know my limits and am trying very hard to behave. It is not easy, I'm telling you!

Vinny, Vinny, Vinny.... Did you calll that number I gave you. Don't worry, this always happens when one "comes down"... You will be fine soon.... Gipsie, I ended up meditating about all of this, and an angel came to me and asked me to start a separate thread entitled "Anal Caching", due to the widespread interest in this topic that became apparent on this thread due to people who, like myself, had misread the title of the thread. And so, I have started a thread devoted to Anal Caching. What? No occult hand?

We have a hide which could fit into this category, although it is not a statue per se. (I wish the statues around here were as "detailed" as the ones you describe! It would definately open the door for some great hides.) People seem to really like it, although they sometimes comment how they feel funny putting the cache back!

I just don't get why people put so much energy in to whiiiining. If you don't like some threads don't post to them. What I find MOST interesting is how HIGH and MIGHTY some people get behind a computer screen. Get a life. So true! Love it! Thank you for doing the needful! . My pleasure!

I think it is very cool that you are putting more effort into your hides. Making a really good hide is very rewarding. But please don't think that you need to completely stop hiding micros. A well thought out, devious micro can be an excellent hide. I'm not talking about needle in a haystack types, but ones that make you think outside the box. Well thought out caches, as well as lame ones, come in all sizes.

I just don't get why people put so much energy in to whiiiining. If you don't like some threads don't post to them. What I find MOST interesting is how HIGH and MIGHTY some people get behind a computer screen. Get a life.

They're newbs. They'll eventually figure it out... maybe.

There is one that we meet frequently at the local geomeets. Once a group of us were talking about different types of hides, when he actually told us "You do the quality hides, I'll do the quantity". I had to bite the inside of my cheek for fear I would say something I would regret. Why, you might ask? Because it would be like kicking Winnie the Pooh in the shins. The guy is a happy, mellow sort of person whom I've never heard say a mean thing. He's a big teddy bear of a guy with sorrowful eyes that I can't bring myself to make actually full of sorrow. He has a few good caches, but the majority of his that we've found are the epitome of lame. He knows this, and actually states that the hide is lame on many of his hides. (Would that he did this on all his lame ones, so they could be weeded out.) This bear has the same look on it's face as the lame micro hider. It is a virtual body double. (Just add a plaid shirt.) What can I do?

Just happened! I'm sitting here, minding my own business, as usual, watching "Lord of the Rings" when this scene comes on. What should be feelings of fear & suspense, is instead replaced by yearning. Now there's a good cache spot! Even fooled the big scary muggle!

Bad luck. We're fresh out of all three today. It seems we're running short on answers, satisfaction, and retribution. If anyone has any of the above, please return them to this thread. Thank-you! God, I'm in a silly mood today!

I too, am disappointed that Vinny's threads were locked and/or moved. They were geocaching related. Strange, odd and peculiar, but then oftentimes geocaching is strange, odd and peculiar. I see no discrepancy.

As an astigmatic, (and I promise you, I do not carry this affliction with any sort of feeling of one-upmanship, and other than wearing glasses, I do not flaunt my affliction), I have no personal problem with the ALR on this sort of cache. However, I do feel your pain. Perhaps you could write the owners of these caches, to see if they would allow you to search for and log your finds, if you were to make the find using special astigmatism feigning techniques? Tell them you would only look for their caches while applying pressure to the sides of your eyeballs, thereby pressing them into oblong shapes, thus making your eyes unable to focus properly, and assuming, albeit temporarily, the effects of astigmatism. You could do this by squeezing your eyes between your fingers, or inserting wads of cotton into the eye sockets, until the desired effect is reached. After taking these reasonable steps, I see no reason why you would not be allowed to log these caches.

It seems that interfering with the offending members caches would be exacting revenge on people looking for the hides, more than the cache owners. Hacking into the cheat site would be more precise.

You could try using this to heat up a small saw. (The saw only! Not the cache or anything holding it) Pouring hot water around the outside of the cache might work, but if the ice is too thick and it doesn't release, you'll end up worse then when you began. In lieu of that, try duct taping a baggie over the hole to keep out moisture. While not total protection, it can only help until a thaw arrives.

You could end up with some "Needs maintenance" logs... "Cache in great shape. Cache area a bit odorous from nearby rotting corpse." Cito event anyone? Ok, maybe that wasn't in the best of taste, but the thought ran through our heads this past weekend. I had to climb a tree to find a cache. The climb up was fine, but the climb down was a bit more worrisome. Ppup (the one on the ground ) was joking around with the idea of simply placing a "Needs maintenance" log - to remove stuck geocacher! Some things are funnier from the ground! Seriously, as others have said, it would depend on the mindset of the person searching for the cache. Common sense would dictate that the responsibility is with the searcher, but then, common sense isn't as common as we'd like to believe.

Could be worse. The fallen tree could have been under two feet of snow. Times are tough when you have to find the hint before you can find the cache! (Note to self to start packing a shovel...)