CacheNCarryMA

tnt4utvols - McCain 51%, Obama 48%, McCain wins 29 states ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geojerry7 - Obama 60%, McCain 40%, Obama 40 states gamecockfan1 - Obama 52%, McCain 47%, Obama 23 states Only three entries so far? Are people waiting for Obama to return from vacation? Waiting to see the veeps?

Of course, we are assuming the presumptive nominees are nominated. I am assuming Obama and McCain will be on the ballot in November. You are free to guess "Clinton 52%, Romney 48%" if you like the longshots.

Wayland 11.0 - You want me to do WHAT?!? (GCN29Q) Plus ça change... (GC118EQ) Easy park and grab caches with additional logging requirements to complete amusing tasks.

Prizes:

It occurred to me that two people may want to make the same guess (due to the relatively small range of possibilities) and we'll need a tie breaker. Please also add the number of states you think the winner will take by the electoral vote. Like this: CacheNCarryMA - Obama 47%, McCain 45%, Obama wins 28 states

Geojerry7 - Obama 60%, McCain 40%, Obama 40 states gamecockfan1 - Obama 52%, McCain 47%, Obama 23 states

I figure September 30 is as good a deadline as any. What could happen in the six weeks or so between now and September 30 or the six weeks between September 30 and the election to screw up your guess? I mean, we already know McCain dumped his first wife after she was in a near fatal car wreck to marry his current millionaire wife, and that he graduated 894th out of 899 students in his class at Annapolis. And we already know that Obama is a Muslim, his middle name is "Hussain", his last name rhymes with Osama, and that he did cocaine in college. But those things don't matter, do they? So what else could change the polls as they stand today?

Why do you have to be so picky about Godwin's law? Are you some kind of forum Nazi? Now it does.

I noticed that Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma (#4 on the list) are incorrectly listed as being from WI. They are from WA.

Please put my LOOK AT ME!!! Travel Bug on your watchlist. It's unique because it has the most users watching it. 243 users watching. As far as I know, no TB has more.

Now that John McCain has dragged Paris Hilton into the fray with his latest TV ad calling Barack Obama a "celebrity", and Paris has spoken, it's time for the "LOOK AT ME!!!" travel bug and all its watchers to weigh in on Election 2008 with a contest. The contest prize will be an authentic lapel button from the 1972 presidential campaign (similar to the one depicted below), a squished penny from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, and three FTF bumper stickers. I picked up the 1" button at the Nixon library and birthplace while I was on vacation last month. If you're ever in Yorba Linda, CA, it's worth stopping there. CONTEST RULES - All participants must put the LOOK AT ME!!! Travel Bug on their geocaching.com watchlist. - One entry per account watching the LOOK AT ME TB. - Entries must be received by September 30, 2008. - To enter, guess the nationwide popular vote, by percentage, for Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama in the US Presidential election on November 4, 2008. For a tie breaker , guess the number of states the winning candidate wins by electoral vote. - Send your guess to LOOK_AT_ME_TB at hotmail dot com. - Put your geocaching screen name and guess in the subject line of your email. Put the winning candidate's name first after your screenname For example, "CacheNCarryMA - Obama 47%, McCain 45%, Obama wins 28 states". Incomplete entries will not be accepted. - The entry which correctly identifies the election winner, and is closest to the actual percentage of popular vote for McCain and Obama is the winner. - The nationwide total popular vote percentages, as reported by the New York Times on the day following the losing candidate's concession speech, will be used as the "official" numbers for this contest. Good luck and thanks for watching my travel bug!

I hid Triple B-Flat (GCJTM1) a quarter of a mile out on a Cape Cod tidal flat. It was muggled. I replaced the cache with Triple B-Flat Reprise (GCXBBK) and hid the container 3/4 of a mile offshore. This one lasted a year before disappearing (likely muggled). The caches were submerged under 8-10 feet of water for most of day, except during the twice daily low tides. Another cacher hid the Cape Cod Tidal Flats (GC1E67W) earthcache at the location of the old Triple B-Flat Reprise cache. Twenty hours a day it's a five-star terrain. Four hours a day it's a one or one-and-a-half star terrain.

If you didn't let your finds pile up so long before logging them, it wouldn't be a problem.

The one-gallon Rubbermaid plastic jar, with a screw on lid, is my preferred container for hides (second only to ammo cans). I think it is more water tight than a lock'n'lock. If a finder doesn't lock down all of the tabs on a lock'n'lock or if a ziploc or paper gets caught in the seal, water can get in. In general, when a finder replaces a screw top, they tighten it properly. Everyone has experience with a screwtop jar; not everyone has used a lock'n'lock. The only problem that the rubbermaid jar has is if the jar is placed upside down, water can get in.

That arrow doesn't look any sharper than the pens and pencils found in geocaches! "You'll shoot your eye out!" - "A Christmas Story"

I wonder how many geocachers carry hammers in their bag of tricks?

Thanks mtn-man. The "Geocoin" forum was what I intended.

I'm contemplating running a cointest in conjunction with my LOOK AT ME!!! travel bug and I'm wondering if anyone knows of a football themed geocoin available for sale or trade?

Maybe you need to clear your browser cache (temporary internet files)? Do you see the same behavior if you close your browser and reopen it?

How about an "I Love Poutine" travel bug with a goal of being photographed in the places which serve the best poutine?

So Peanuthead, did you give up on the list? And how 'bout that Super Bowl? The Patriots and Tom Brady got lucky. They'll never amount to much.

Often the name of the cache or an odd turn of phrase in the description may give you a key to solving the puzzle. In your case, "Chat Amongst Yourselves" obviously points to only one thing - "chat" is the French word for cat. "French cat" might be an allusion to the love interest in the Warner Brothers Pepe Lepeu cartoons: Which can only mean one thing.... You're skunked. Or the title might have something to do with methods people use to chat. Try googling phrases having to do with decoding and what you think the theme of the puzzle might be. You can find decoders for just about anything on the interwebs. If the puzzle looks like a cipher, try to figure out whether the cipher represents words or the coordinates themselves. If there are two groupings, it's probably the latitude and longitude. If the number of "words" or smaller groupings in the message correspond to the number of digits in coordinates for your part of the world, go from there. Look for patterns or repetition in the cipher. I see some in the "Chat Amongst Yourselves" text. Fours, sevens, and sixes are oft-repeated for a reason. Compare the chunks in the puzzle cipher to actual words in real paragraphs. Why are there no really short words or really long ones in that puzzle? Good luck.

I think one of the methods that poachers used to use to find unactivated caches was to look for travel bugs dropped in those caches. Not sure how that method works, but people in my neck of the woods used to use that technique.

If price is the biggest factor in your coice: Less than $250 : Garmin Vista HcX Less than $180 : Garmin Legend HcX Less than $100 : Garmin eTrex (yellow)