SylvrStorm

Just tell them that geocachers go around hunting for souvenir rocks. Sorry, couldn't resist. Hopefully someone else can give you something a bit more helpful.

quote:Originally posted by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking:The person below me is scared my next cache will be all "girly" with pink stuff, lace and make-up. Ack! No! Not another cache like this one! (j/k - it's a good cache) The person below me absolutely loves the idea of a cache full of girly pink lace and make-up.

I agree - leave them there. Last week I found a cache where the previous find was over 11 months ago. Went home, logged it on line, and later that day learned that another cacher found it two hours after I did! What are the odds of that? It was cool. Unless there's another reason to remove them, I'd leave them alone. Who knows - someone could be planning to go look for them at this very moment. That said, I'm assuming you're sure they're still there and in good shape. A long period with no visitors sometimes means the cache is gone, and unsuccessful seekers decided not to post a DNF. Also, some seekers avoid caches like this just in case it's missing. I'd say if you haven't visited them lately a maintenance visit might be in order. If you they're fine, post a note so cachers know the caches are still there. If you've done all that, then just wait and somebody will eventually hunt them down. SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:The person below me gets aroused by lemmings. Yep, they wake me up nice and early on Saturday mornings to go caching. Not to step on Canadazuuk's toes or anything, but this was just too much fun to pass up. Sorry it's totally off topic for this thread, but hey, the relationship of the thread itself to geocaching is pretty tenuous. Besides, he started it. Frodo Baggins: The chicken must have felt crossing the road to be a terrible burden, but he did it anyways, because it was the right thing to do. Samwise Gamgee: The chicken had his own reasons for crossing the road. It's not for me to question, but I'll stand by the chicken through thick and thin, and make sure he gets across safely if it's the last thing I do. Meriadoc Brandybuck: If that chicken's crossing the road, I'm going too. Perigrine Took: Chicken? I like chicken. When do we eat? Galdalf the Grey: Yes, chickens sometimes cross roads, but this, this chicken is very old indeed. And if it's out crossing roads, there must be a very good reason for it. Gandalf the White: If the chicken is already across the road there's no time to waste. We must act swiftly, or we'll soon all be chickens. Gimli: <drawing battle axe> I'll teach that chicken to cross MY road! Let me at him! Aragorn: I'm too busy dealing with my own internal dilemmas to worry about some chicken. Boromir: If the chicken has a sharpe, er sharp, beak and claws, I say we should use it for our own purposes. No sense letting it cross the road and fall into the hands of our enemies. Legolas: Bet I can shoot an arrow through that chicken's eye before it gets all the way across the road. Bilbo Baggins: I'm done with chickens and roads. Elrond: An alliance with the chickens will never work. Just when you need to rely on them, they're all off crossing roads. Galadriel: A chicken once gazed into my mirror. It saw a road, but did not know if it was a road it had once crossed, or one yet to be crossed, or one that should not be crossed. Gollum: We likesss chickenses, don't we, Gollum. Yessss, tasssty little chickenses for munchings and crunchings. It thinksss it can essscape by crosssing the road. But we're too quick for it, aren't we, Gollum? Faramir: No chickens will cross the road to Gondor on my watch. Treebeard: Humhoom. Well now, hrummm. A chicken you say? Hooommharum. We will have to think on that. Harooommm. Saruman: We must join the chicken and cross the road with it. It's the only way. Why can't you see that? Sauron: I will destroy all the chickens! Then the road will be mine, all mine! Random orc: Crunch! *** The person below me: Chicken? In a cache? Crossing the road? Must be a travel bug. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by pater47:Think of it as a nice promo - now hundreds of people who've never heard of geocaching will go home, look up geocaching on the internet, and get hooked. But people reading the sign will lump geocaching in with all those other horrible things. The only new geocachers we get because of that sign will probably be miscreants who also litter, destroy vegetation, light fires away from barbecue grills, and swim.

quote:Originally posted by LoneHowler:X-men2 Is this everything in the cache description? If I were an approver, the first thing I'd want to know is why a physical cache couldn't be placed here. Not saying it could, just that you haven't addressed this.

quote:The person below me once committed an indescretion with a three legged goat. Yes, I admit it, I kept the Three Legged Goat travel bug for over a month before placing it in another cache. The person below me placed a micro cache disguised as a rock in a gravel pit that requires a 4x4 to get to, but rated it 1,1. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:The person below must have done at least 3 caches today, checked for ticks, washed up, filled the gas tank, before they can post. I've done the 3 caches, and don't have any ticks. Gas tank was already full though. The person below me has tried at least 4 times to find the same cache, that other people seem to have no trouble finding. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:The person below me writes personals ads on the Groundspeak Forums when he tries to get a datum. Hey baby, wanna come up to my waypoint? The person below me thinks ticks make good trail snacks.

quote:Originally posted by Divine: quote:Originally posted by Grapu etal:I am still working on the meaning of FTF and TFTC. Also, there was a previous log I was reading and it use WTG. Can anyone translate for me? FTF - First To Find WTG - Way To Go TFTC - Texas Fair Trade Coalition? TFTC = Thanks For The Cache Sometimes seen as TFTH = Thanks For The Hide On a serious note for a moment here, when I was a newbie it took a little while for me to figure these abbreviations (not acronyms) out too. Grapu or other newbies can find some of these terms here. (Thanks Markwell - your site has been very helpful from time to time.) SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:The person below me geocaches alone for a very good reason.... But you'll never find out what it is! The person below me paints his ammo boxes to look like easter eggs.

quote:Originally posted by Huntnlady:Why would they have 10 No Tresspassing signs still up if they wanted people on the land? No, I do not believe these cache owners are in contact with the Land Trust. You've gotta be there, but is obvious that these No Tresspassing signs mean business. Should I contact the Napa Land Trust? Just an idea, but it might help the admins see the true situation if you have any way to post pictures of the signs. Could help to clear up any ambiguity for those who can't visit the site in person. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

Found out about this and thought it might be interesting to the GPSr crowd. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:The person below me is hiding weapons of cache destruction. Hey, guns don't trash caches, people trash caches. The person below me logs finds on their own caches for maintenance visits.

Gotta have that energy to get those FTF's! The person below me heard you shouldn't leave food in a cache, so now they just leave the empty wrappers.

quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:More Americans would rather watch Jerry Springer than a PBS special on extinction. Of course, as a Canadian, I'd rather watch a PBS special on the extinction of Jerry Springer. (Sadly, I suspect we Canadians are just as bad about stuff like that, though I can't fathom why. I watched under 2 minutes of it once, and that was enough to convince me that it was worse than a waste of time.) SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

... and other times, in the fourth person. (Yeah, I know, but his post didn't make any sense either.) *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

If anyone's interested, here's a news story about this. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by Sissy-n-CR:Quite frankly, if anyone really wanted to know the opinion of the majority of the members the poll should have been posted on the home page. There is practically nothing involved with setting up a small poll script. You really want a response? Put it in their faces where they can see it and act on it. CR Nice idea, but it wouldn't work. Most people who regularly use a web site know where to go to get what they want, and go straight there. The front page is mostly for first timers and casual visitors. Most regular visitors wouldn't even notice. But you're right. To get a true representation of public opinion, you'd have to put it somewhere that you can get everyone's attention focussed on it. For geocaching, that probably means having it come up first when you do a cache search, and doesn't let you through until you answer the question(s). But I don't think this issue is anywhere near important enough to do that. Personally I'd like to have the list of watchers completely public, but it's just not a big deal. There are more important things to work on. Now, if it's a feature they can throw in easily while making other changes, they might as well, if they want to. I don't see a poll like this as a definitive statement of the public will, but rather like dipping your toe in the pool of public opinion. Ultimately, Jeremy and his minions will do what they like with this site. The fact that he even bothers to ask questions like this just shows that he cares about what we have to say, and is trying to fit the site to our general desires. And as far as keeping cache watchers hidden, what's the big secret? Privacy? If it's that big a deal to not let others know which caches you're interested in, don't put them on your watch list. If it had been set up originally so that you could see who was watching a cache, would anyone really be pushing to hide that info? SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by Team Shibby:Hmmm...Goose refers to just one, while geese refers to many! Maybe I'm wrong but I have always referred to them as Canadian Geese, after all they are from Canada! When I order breakfast, should I be asking for Canada bacon? Kar Doesn't matter how many there are. Canada Goose for one, Canada Geese for more. 'Canadian Geese' would refer to any geese from Canada, regardless of species. 'Canada Geese' is a species of bird. I'm presuming it's the latter that is actually meant. As for your breakfast, that's Canadian Bacon. But that reminds me of a funny story. When we were on our Caribbean cruise honeymoon (many years ago), we were sitting with another couple from Vancouver for breakfast. The guy ordered 'Canadian Bacon' because he assumed, being Canadian himself, that it would be the same thing he commonly knew as just 'bacon'. When it came, he complained because he thought they'd given him ham. "No sir, that's Canadian bacon." "I'm Canadian, and that's not bacon where I come from." *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by leatherman:I wouldn't swim in any of the Canadian Goose doot puddles we have around here. Nitpick: It's Canada Goose, not Canadian Goose. *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by umc:I used to think it was ok to log your own moving/traveling cache as found as many times as you wanted as long as someone else hid it. I don't really agree with that any more either. Any particular reason? Is it the multiple finds on the same cache, or the temporary nature of travelling caches, or something else? What do you think of multiple finds on a travelling cache, with other hiders in between, if it's not the owner? This is another one of those "I don't really care either way" things for me, but I'm still curious about other peoples' reasoning. SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by sbell111:Does anyone think that it _is_ appropriate to log one's own (non-moving) cache as found? No, but I don't care enough to complain about it either. SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

quote:Originally posted by carleenp:That post isn't from an approver. Instead, it is from another cacher using a sock puppet account to complain (notice the 0 finds). For the record, cache-advance is an approver. (S/he's approved some of my caches). It's my understanding that several of the approvers are now using official sock puppets for that purpose, to keep their admin-type activities separate from their regular caching activities, and to cut down on the undeserved abuse they've been known to get. SylvrStorm >>>Oops - simultaneous with TrimblesTrek *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***

Not debating, as I don't really care whether or not other people log multiple finds on events; just noting something that might be interesting in this discussion. If you log multiple finds on an event cache because you found multiple temp caches there, do you also log multiple finds on a normal multi-cache? I'd log both as a single find. Basically the same principle to me. But I could see how the same logic people are applying to event caches could be applied to multi-caches, and wondered if anyone else thought of it that way. SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. ***