nonaeroterraqueous

GC.com could always go the way of National Public Radio. Pleeese give us money. Please, oh, please! If you email and contribute within the next half hour we'll send you the coordinates to Joe Cacher's greatest hides. Just ten more contributers to go before the end of the hour; just ten more. (Next hour it's just ten more, again) We only block access to the web site for two weeks out of the year to spam you like crazy, blah, blah, the government is cutting our taxpayer-robbed funding...we need upgrades...to our paychecks....

Here's a take that no one else seems to have brought up yet: If, by some strange magic, you visit a religious cache and it actually wins you over to that religion, then are you going to complain that it did? If you visit a religious cache and it does not win you over, then has it really done anything to you worth mentioning? If it converts you then you'll be happy about it. If it doesn't convert you, then it's no harm/no foul.

I call it sun spots. It's freezing cold here in Southern California, and it's usually about 83 degrees in the winter. What do you call that?

Said using a computer-enabled message, powered by a huge fossil fuel-burning powerplant some place where we can forget about it. (back on topic) Sure, they logged their own finds. I just hope that doesn't knock the fun out of it for them and make them stop playing altogether.

Funny, because L. Ron...... Naaaaaaa, it ain't worth the warning. Yes, folks, if you're not offended yet, just stay tuned. We've got plenty more where that came from coming at you in mere moments!

On the one hand, it would seem that a book-based puzzle cache would best be done with a book originally written in the English language, so that there would be only one version. As far as this inane fear of the Bible is concerned...get over it. No one is forcing you to suppress your beliefs. Why are you trying so hard to make them to suppress theirs? Freedom of religion is about letting people be who they are (on the other hand, if it means letting GC.com reject caches that go against it's ground rules, then that's fair too). Now, let's sing: I've got to me me...

I used to feel the same as the OP... until I became a paying member. I still don't have any MO caches of my own, but it was nice to make the change-over and suddenly have a few more caches within easy reach. All free caches are more than you deserve. Seriously, what did you do to earn them? Just be happy for the free ones. If you really want the Members Only caches, then you'll just have to decide if it's worth the $30 a year.

Do you normally play with debris? Seriously, if you do, then I've got a dumpster you can just have a real ball with if you want. I'm beginning to think you may be responsible for those notorious MAGNETIC DUMPSTER CACHES. Might as well call all artificial objects debris.

Well..at least we know you don't get banned for flaming.

You beat me to it. Heck, it's just the city. What does anyone really expect?

No, really, tell us how you feel. Don't hold back. You're in a safe place.

Sounds like you found Burden Hand, by Happy and Skippy. Been doing the power walk?

Would you really eat anything you found in a box sitting on the ground outside?

Fantastic

That's actually a pretty good question. If it were in book form I'd think it would be a pretty big book, considering the size of each map. I can't imagine quartering each map and doing a ThomasGuide thing, because then you would have a killer of a time trying to triangulate with it, which is primarily what they were made for in the first place. Controlling the zoom level on the Topo maps programs isn't too difficult, but I've never tried printing them out. My GPS is the only topo map I really need.

I wonder what goes through the cache owner's mind when he sees someone deposit the key travel bug into the cache that it opens? It would make for an interesting April Fools joke to falsely log it in as a drop-off, but correct it the next day.

You'll get used to it. At least it's a name people can actually say.

Are you sure you only found six out of the seven? Your profile says you found seven today, unless you went back out after posting this.

Twenty feet isn't very long. Chances are good that they'll find the locked box first. Even so, is the string really necessary? I always thought I was cynical, but even I would think people could walk the extra twenty feet to put a key back.

It goes both ways. If you merely found that old thread and added to it they'd say something about you dredging up an old thread. You start a new one and they tell you it's been done before. Either we can end all discussion on these forums, or the people who are tired of hearing the same things can leave. Ah, but they're still participating, so they're probably not tired of hearing the same old stuff. Pssst...just between you and me, pal: I think they just like to show off their years of experience. Don't tell anyone, but I hear they keep around a database of all their favorite old threads so they can whip out the links and impress everyone with their great expanse of knowledge . Cheers. Happy New Years Eve.

Oh, they're out there. I doubt any of them could be as good, though . You might try the terracaching website if you can gag down the elitist front page.

Three are growth hormones. The remaining one causes fruit to ripen. You can solve this one. I know you can.

There are lots of ways for a cache to go missing. Muggles (the first choice) Serial mugglers (prefer stealing the cache over logging it. Very rare) Total newbies who don't realize that they're not supposed to take it home Acts of God (sometimes the cache eliminates itself by falling into its own evil bottomless hole) As for the fake cache nearby, that's just something that happens sometimes. Is it put there by people who just have to log a find?

We've had this topic recently. In a nutshell what it boiled down to is that you can probably expect someone to remove the batteries or cut the wires or the like. Don't do it if you know you're going to get very upset and commit geocide or something when someone tampers with it.

Looks like fratermus did all the foot-work for you. That pretty much sums it up. Aren't people so nice sometimes?