minstrelcat

Never heard of them but the worst bite I got was from a horsefly. It took about a year to properly heal. Lisa

Oh I think we can top this; the year is young. How prophetic of you Paul! Lisa

The issue has been decided - more info on pages 5 and 6 of this thread.

Thanks for your comment. The cache that you mentioned is a prime example for my question although I didn't mention it at the time. Although you are prepared to walk the distance, and I suspect, enjoy the walking as much, if not more than finding the box, I suspect that most cachers wouldn't go the "extra mile" to just find one cache. With only 15 finds in 2 years this would go some way in proving my arguement. We have a cache with a similar find rate (9 finds in a year). I'm just wondering is it worth the effort creating a cache which involves a significant walk when the likely hood is that it would rarely be found. Does anyone have any ideas of a good cut off distance when creating a cache yet gaining a better find rate. I think that cache gave us the longest walk we have done for a single cache, though we have walked further in one go doing several caches. As for whether it is worth placing a cache with a long walk - it depends on how much it matters to you to get lots of finds! The optimum distance for finds is going to be a cache where you can reach out of the car window and grab it, unfortunately. The other thing to bear in mind with long walks is that you have to do the walk yourself every time you want to maintain it - worth thinking about! Lisa

I saw a Bonnie and Clyde film recently but can only remember Bonnie's surname - Parker. Lisa

Hmm no replies for a while. I think the ding should be passed to Al & Tracy Smith as they got the last answer correct. Missing answers by the way are 2 - Red and Black (clue is in the question!) and 4 - Goodnight and Thank You. Lisa

Was it this web site? http://www.geolutins.com/index.php Lisa

1. "All the little boys excited, All the little girls delighted, What a lot of fun for ev'ryone, Sitting in the sun all day." - two dings to rutson 2. "Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! Black - the night that ends at last!" - one ding to CHC 3. " For he's a master criminal who can defy the law, He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair" - two dings to CHC 4. "We'll think of you every time she's on the air, We'd love you to stay but you'd be in the way, So do up your trousers and go" - one ding to rutson 5. "I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead. " - two dings to A&TS Just need the names of the songs in questions 2 & 4 now.

Correct! I just need the name of the musical in question 1 and the name of the songs in questions 2, 4 and 5. The person who gets the last one right gets the big DING.

1. "All the little boys excited, All the little girls delighted, What a lot of fun for ev'ryone, Sitting in the sun all day." - one ding to rutson 2. "Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! Black - the night that ends at last!" - one ding to CHC 3. " For he's a master criminal who can defy the law, He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair" - two dings to CHC 4. "We'll think of you every time she's on the air, We'd love you to stay but you'd be in the way, So do up your trousers and go" - one ding to rutson 5. "I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead. " Lisa

*claps hand over ears* Sorry, wasn't expecting to be called upon to set the next question! Carrying on the same theme then, name the musical and song title these lyrics come from (I'll leave out character to make it a bit easier) 1. "All the little boys excited, All the little girls delighted, What a lot of fun for ev'ryone, Sitting in the sun all day." 2. "Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! Black - the night that ends at last!" 3. " For he's a master criminal who can defy the law, He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair" 4. "We'll think of you every time she's on the air, We'd love you to stay but you'd be in the way, So do up your trousers and go" 5. "I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead. " Lisa

Totally agree - but surely you appreciate the significance of a milestone? I want to find a special cache to do for our 1000th but Adam just doesn't get it. Lisa

I'd be an ideal reviewer - I hate confrontation so I'd let nearly anything pass! Lisa

From what I have been reading elsewhere, I fear you have hit the nail on the head. I think they would prefer us to shut up and do what we are told, do things the American way.

I remember a lot of effort was put into a project to do exactly that, the last time an issue like this cropped up. It seems to have died a death though. I wonder if there is anyone here who knows anything about it? Lisa

Adam thinks I'm slightly crazy. He likes going out caching, as he enjoys the walks and the exercise and appreciates the fact that caches give our walks a direction and purpose. But he doesn't really see the point of the actual caches and the significance of the 'numbers'! Lisa

Only replying on the one thread as requested. I wondered what was going on when I found a local cache had been reviewed by Deci - and this is what I find. Like many others, I'm sad to see you two guys resigning from your posts. I thought of you both as being fair and balanced and a credit to the UK caching community. I agree totally - you only have to read a few posts on the general forum to see that the culture over there is totally different. Any disagreements on the UK forum seem mild by comparison! Lisa

It's fab thanks! The OS map is very up to date (lots of house building been going on near me) and there is some great detail on the zoomed-in maps too. Edit: pleased to see it works for the IOM too! Lisa

5 - Cats - the title of the song is "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer" and one of those characters is singing that line.

I first used 'minstrelcat' while trying to find an email address that wasn't already taken. At the time we had a cat called Minstrel. Since then I have used the same ID on every website that I signed up for - so far it hasn't already been taken, ever. Lisa

I can't remember the name but I think no 1 is a shrimp or a prawn or something...

Truth is, lots of geocachers don't do Waymarking. Personally, I don't have time to do all the geocaches around here without adding to my list! Lisa

We'd be interested if we hadn't been there a few years ago. I've just realised that, if you carry on with the extremes theme, 2010's event will be dead easy to get to! Lisa

As an aside, LHM and rutson were thinking of the correct longest word in the OED which is: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Which is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes. (I had to look it up)

Yes, the question was the longest entry, not the longest word. Wikipedia says: So the DING is batted back to SP.