nonaeroterraqueous
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Something is going to kill me sooner or later. That's pretty sobering. It's a 100% chance of a fatality in my future. 
I'm going to die! Aaaah! Maybe if I stop geocaching. Or...maybe if I stop getting out of bed. Darn it! Why do I have to die?! Oh, well
I guess I was destined to become a buried cache one day. -
Crudability? Has geocaching become so complicated that we have experts now? Thought the forums were just idle chatter for the most part.
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Mile Square NOLF, a home-made molded plastic cache. The owner emailed me about how they made it and I was floored.
Eucalyptus Line a film container disguised as a knothole in a tree. Unbelievably realistic.
"Revenge" I don't know how I can talk about my favorite micros without giving them away. The best ones are those that are ingeniously constructed to blend in with the surroundings. I also enjoy them better if I haven't seen them done that way before. There's more to micros than hide-a-keys.
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This isn't all small town newspaper mind you... its a big city paper
The good news is that said person has only listed one cache... the one in the newspaper
Okay, now this doesn't sound hypothetical anymore. Do you have a link to this story or more information?
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It reminds me of the way I can goad my mother-in-law into a passionate arguement of cotton versus polyester. No matter how harmless the subject, there's always someone who can make an issue over it...
...and I'm always here to watch
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[Noooooo! No Hitler references. Now Goodwin's law is invoked. Besides, The OP is supposed to bring him up.
Well, you know... Nazi references seem to be all in vogue in the forums today. I couldn't resist.
Please stick to ice cream analogies. Ice cream analogies are much better than Holocaust analogies when posting on the internet.
I was waiting for you to say that. Incidentally, Godwin's law refers to analogies, which are mere symbolic references. That would be saying something like, "you're acting like a Nazi." The statement "Hitler was Darwin's biggest fan," is not of a symbolic or analogous nature, and, hence Godwin's law does not technically apply. One might argue the historocity of the statement, but it was not meant to make a metaphorical or analogous point. Even so, I must admit I just said it to see if I could get my name in a quote box. It's been a while and I'm anxious for attention.
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Darwin once opined that a species too stupid inattentive to survive rarely does so. If you are so stupid inattentive that you can't engage in a task which 40+ people somehow survived, perhaps it would be best if you eliminated yourself from the gene pool through natural selection. Life has risks. Geocaching has risks. Statistically you are in much greater danger driving to that cache than you would be in hunting it. I don't need you holding my hand while I cache. Please don't try to get a cache archived simply because you think I can't find it safely.
Hitler was Darwin's biggest fan, incidentally. I'm not joking.
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So it's dangerous because of cactus and cars? But, if the cars haven't killed the cactus, then how dangerous could they be? As for the cactus, I've retrieved a few cactus caches myself, and they've always been worth the time I spent removing needles from my arms and legs, so I don't see the problem. I'm not joking.
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If you aren't up to the responsibility of reading the thread, then you don't have to write anything, as someone else will post a new message in the forum responsibly.
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Does anyone actually read really, really long forum posts?
No. The more I think about what I'm going to say before I say it, the fewer words I need to say it. Longer posts are less likely to have a point worth coming to.
On the point, though: in my area SBAs are seldom responded to by the reviewer, so posting an SBA might make enemies, but it probably won't improve anything.
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Oh no! Here's the sales pitch again.
To be honest, I think Waymarking is a pain to use. You can't run PQs. You can't easily see all the Waymarks near you. If they ever fix this stuff, I might do it. But to me it's a joke that an Altoids tin under a lamp post is OK, but a virtual on a scenic mountain top is not. By the way, in case you didn't notice, Earthcaches are back and there is no cache! I applaud that decision!
Why stop there? We could have virtuals for great places to buy a hambuger, popular hang-outs, stations with cheap gas, places to buy illegal drugs...heck if it doesn't actually have to have a cache, then the sky is the limit.
But is it really still the same game?
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Instead of questioning prolific hiders, why not question cachers with hardly any hides? It's the hiders that keep the sport going.
I'll keep that in mind the next time it's a toss-up between looking for caches and sitting around the house.
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We had a similar problem with a local cache, Cross Over the Bridge (GCQMT9), where a lady kept chewing people out for geocaching on a public pedestrian bridge, just because it happened to be next to her back yard and her dog was going spastic over it. No one was on her property and everyone had a right to be there. Someone eventually posted an SBA, probably because it was such an unpleasant experience, and the owner archived it. What is with these people who derive such a perverse pleasure from screaming at complete strangers who happen to be minding their own business?
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You seriously don't know? The last people to find it said it was in terrible shape, and they even posted a "Needs Maintenance." You did nothing to verify that you performed any kind of maintenance for months. Then there's that long line of DNFs, where you did nothing to verify that the cache was actually still there. Looks like the reviewer was doing his job.
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I'm neither a chemist nor an entomologist, so don't quote me on this. I was told years ago that DEET acts as a repellent, whilst Permethrin is a contact poison which actually kills any ticks or chiggers that crawl on it. I've found this claim to be true in practice, through direct comparison of both products in woods infested with nasty blood suckers. The labels on Permethrin products all declare that it must not be sprayed on exposed skin, yet some folks do it any way. Permethrin is no more harmful than any other pesticide, as long as it's used properly. I'm surprised Wally World would bow to such foolishness.
This is absolutely correct. I might also add that Permethrin was introduced as a more environmentally friendly alternative to DDT
(evil laughter). Now the politically correct poison is no longer politically correct. Pretty soon we'll only be able to use purified water nursed from the freshly formed dew in the trees of the Himalayas. Perhaps they're attempting to enhance natural selection? -
But...I still want to know, how big is it? Someone asked and it was never answered. I can't tell from the picture. That could ba a little stick or a fallen tree laying on it. Can a person fit in it? How deep is it? How can we possibly guess what it was for if we don't know the size?
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We have two serious FTF hounds in my area: one obeys posted hours and the other does not. Needless to say, they seem to not get along so well.
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Geocaching is a clandestine activity. If everyone knew where all of the geocaches were, and if we didn't have to sneak around and look suspicious, then would it be fun? I mean, must I sell drugs instead of trading swag, or spraypaint a wall instead of signing a log just to get that thrill?
Hey everybody, I'm placing a geocache! No, really, you were very good. It was the right thing to do. I guess that's just something we have to work with. -
Shouldn't that be a lamp post in a parking lot instead of a log in the mountains
.Ever tried to fit a t-shirt under a lamp post collar?
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I've always wanted to snip that little r from GPSr. It's annoying. I don't mind your bit of verbicide, beacuse that's how words get started, but don't get too creative or no one will understand you. They can get snarky around here, you know. Verbal creationism might at originissimo appear to be very ingeniousic, but then it leaves geople feeling a bitty confussed. See, now, I can make up words too.
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Two possible motivations:
A) Attention
ThrillI've already ruled out greed, because there's nothing in a cache to arouse that one. Muggling for the thrill is unlikely but not impossible. If this fool gets a thrill from stealing something he could never get caught at, then he's got to be the biggest wuss on the planet. R.O.B is probably right. He wants attention. Let's close this thread, please.
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Is it acceptable to email the owner and ask if he/she would like it to go there?
It's always acceptable to ask the owner first. However, the owner probably doesn't care what you do, because there's no specific goal.
2. How long is it acceptable to hold on to a TB?
Two weeks is a standard maximum. Four weeks and you might get an email from the TB owner.
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Please dont assume my views on anything....all you have to do is ask.
...but then we'd never have any flame wars.
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On the left, click "My Account"
Then, on the right, under "search options" click "from home coordinates" (or something like that).
The ignore list will work if you do that. I don't know why it doesn't work during other types of searches.
Something is going to kill me sooner or later. That's pretty sobering. It's a 100% chance of a fatality in my future. 
I'm going to die! 
Crudability? Has geocaching become so complicated that we have experts now? Thought the forums were just idle chatter for the most part.
Ouch!
You might be a geocacher if...
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I realized I'd been geocaching a bit much when people at work stopped asking what I did over the weekend. They could guess it easily enough.