The long awaited yogurt analogy

[Clan Riffster]

Yeah, I know analogies are generally not very analogous, but hey, I was bored. I offer no claims of accuracy to this analogy.

 

The yogurt analogy:

(for those who don't eat ice cream)

 

Are y'all familiar with a store called TCBY? It's one of my favorite hot day stops. Oodles of yummy yogurt! Anywho, I was munching on some really good yogurt there after a hot day of caching, when I thought of Toz's oft repeated ice cream analogy. I decided to see if I could come up with my own yogurt analogy, as applied to caching.

 

Close your eyes and imagine.....

You enter the Wally World of yogurt stores. Hundreds of thousands of different flavors of yogurt ready for your consumption.

Right off the bat you notice that none of the yogurt tubs has the flavor written on them. Some tubs are tiny, some are regular, some are huge. Some tubs are real easy to pluck off the shelf, while others require extensive training and specialized equipment to reach. Some tubs are deceptive, labeled with words to the effect of, "The flavor you seek is not at this location. To find the flavor you seek, you must ______".

 

Choices on top of choices! What to do?

The nice store clerk supplies you with this nifty little device that lets you sort through the humongous amount of yogurt tubs, excluding anything outside of your established perimeters. Now, instead of hundreds of yogurt tubs, you see only those yogurt tubs which appeal the most to you. You like small tubs that are easy to reach? No problem! You like regular tubs that are hard to reach? Again, no problem. Just punch in your preferences, and off you go down isle 3.

 

This kinda seems like caching today. We've got gobs of choices, and TPTB have supplied us, (or linked us), with tools to help us sort through the choices.

The only thing you don't know are the flavors. For that, you gotta commit, and open the tub.

 

(OK, I see my analogy is falling apart. Sorry guys! I was tired!)

 

Any other geo-analogies to compete with the ice cream one?

[+briansnat]

Sounds somewhat familiar

[Mushtang]

Well, your logic is infallable. I guess micros really do suck. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

[vtmtnman]

Well, your logic is infallable. I guess micros really do suck. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

Basically.

[+KBI]

Sounds somewhat familiar

Yes, it sure does

[+KBI]

Choices on top of choices! What to do?

The nice store clerk supplies you with this nifty little device that lets you sort through the humongous amount of yogurt tubs, excluding anything outside of your established perimeters.

Just curious:

• Does each of these yogurt tubs of yours come with an Internet-accessible record of activity and comments written by those who have been to that tub before, conveniently available for anyone to read if they like, BEFORE they sample the tub's contents?
  
• Is there a similarly available textual description of each tub, written by the individual Tub Creator?
  
• Do most of the lesser-exciting tubs tend to generally show up in the same few isles of the store, locations which are easily identifiable via an overhead isle map provided by the store clerk?
  
• Are these yogurt tubs created and placed by the store for the purpose of turning a profit, or are they all placed by fellow members of some amateur Yogurt Club, members who may have a variety of non-profit-related reasons for providing the tubs? If the latter, then can you really call this place a "store?"
  

Just curious. Just, y'know, wanted to know how truly relevant your analogy is to Geocaching, that's all.

[Keystone]

Wow, I'm not a volunteer cache reviewer... I'm a health inspector, ensuring the integrity of the nation's food supply.

 

I want a raise.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

I am furious! I am totally furious! You are all wrong, and you are doing it wrong as well. You are BLATANTLY trying to fill the world with tubs of yogurt, when I know darn well -- as does enyone else with a half a brain -- that kefir is a far more nutritious and wholesome fermented dairy product than is yogurt and, worse, you are BLATANTLY trying to fill the world with tubs of yogurt which is made with commercial-grade pasteurized milk rather than with raw organic milk from contented pasture-fed cows. I will not stand for this. I demand that you and your evil misguided cohorts remove all your tubs of commercial pasteurized yogurt from shelves across the world, and I further demand that from this day onward, you and your cohorts emplace ONLY tubs of kefir made only with raw unpasteurized organic milk from pasture-fed organic happy cows who listen to soothing music by Beethoven in their barns at night. You MUST do this thing entirely my way or you MUST leave this yogurt sport right away! I DEMAND it, else we will all know that you are nothing but an evil politically-correct scalawag hooligan pusillanimous polecat malcontent!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 22, 2007 by Vinny & Sue Team

[vtmtnman]

I am furious! I am totally furious! You are all wrong, and you are doing it wrong as well. You are BLATANTLY trying to fill the world with tubs of yogurt, when I know darn well -- as does enyone else with a half a brain -- that kefir is a far more nutritious and wholesome fermented dairy product than is yogurt and, worse, you are BLATANTLY trying to fill the world with tubs of yogurt which is made with commercial-grade pasteurized milk rather than with raw organic milk from contented pasture-fed cows. I will not stand for this. I demand that you and your evil misguided cohorts remove all your tubs of commercial pasteurized yogurt from shelves across the world, and I further demand that from this day onward, you and your cohorts emplace ONLY tubs of kefir made only with raw unpasteurized organic milk from pasture-fed organic happy cows who listen to soothing music by Beethoven in their barns at night. You MUST do this thing entirely my way or you MUST leave this yogurt sport right away! I DEMAND it, else we will all know that you are nothing but an evil politically-correct scalawag hooligan pusillanimous polecat malcontent!

Yes,how dare they ruin the purity of kefir!We all know kefir started in a clean kitchen,with the just the right amont of ingredients,in a golden bowl,with a silver spoon,and everyone shared it,and one spoonful was so filling,and there was always enough.And when the bowl was empty,someone would always put out more before anyone could notice it was gone!And now they infect us with yogurt!

 

Oh,BTW,once I put the label on my kefir,I can change it right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+tozainamboku]

yogurt? that would be Waymarking.

[vtmtnman]

yogurt? that would be Waymarking.

[Clan Riffster]

Vinny, assuming I agree with all your other demands, can I use Chopin?

[+The Jester]

Don't you DARE! Only composers whose names start with B are allowed (Beethoven, Bach or Brahms). Anyone else is LAME!

 

[+Too Tall John]

Wow, I'm not a volunteer cache reviewer... I'm a health inspector, ensuring the integrity of the nation's food supply.

 

I want a raise.

How's 200% sound?

 

Oh... wait... I'm just a customer... ...and you're a volunteer...

 

For the analogy to really work, I think the yogurt tubs would have to be labeled, but one that's labeled "Super-Delicious Double Chocolate with Chocolate Yogurt Surprise" might actually have something really spectacular, or it might just be chocolate yogurt with a dead mouse in it.

Edited May 22, 2007 by Too Tall John

[+TrailGators]

yogurt? that would be Waymarking.

[Cape Cod Cacher]

Lactose intolerant

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Vinny, assuming I agree with all your other demands, can I use Chopin?

No. See the reply from TheJester for further details. Basically, TheJester and I need you to play this kefir tub sport exactly as we demand or you must leave it. Our way or the highway, buster!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+alexrudd]

Do the tubs melt in the summer, or are there hamsters powering a giant AC system that occasionally breaks down?

 

Are micros for dieters?

[+TrailGators]

Vinny, assuming I agree with all your other demands, can I use Chopin?

No. See the reply from TheJester for further details. Basically, TheJester and I need you to play this kefir tub sport exactly as we demand or you must leave it. Our way or the highway, buster!

All this time I thought kefir was the star of my favorite TV show, 24.

[+Confucius' Cat]

Choices on top of choices! What to do?

The nice store clerk supplies you with this nifty little device that lets you sort through the humongous amount of yogurt tubs, excluding anything outside of your established perimeters.

Just curious:

• Does each of these yogurt tubs of yours come with an Internet-accessible record of activity and comments written by those who have been to that tub before, conveniently available for anyone to read if they like, BEFORE they sample the tub's contents?Yes, most of which just say "nice flavour, Thanks."
  
• Is there a similarly available textual description of each tub, written by the individual Tub Creator?Yes, but it just says what size the tub is.
  
• Do most of the lesser-exciting tubs tend to generally show up in the same few isles of the store, locations which are easily identifiable via an overhead isle map provided by the store clerk?No, they turn up at random locations, but a lot of people seem to think that the more mundane flavours are under lamppost skirts.
  
• Are these yogurt tubs created and placed by the store for the purpose of turning a profit, or are they all placed by fellow members of some amateur Yogurt Club, members who may have a variety of non-profit-related reasons for providing the tubs? If the latter, then can you really call this place a "store?" Generally the latter... it's kinda like the "Goodwill" of yogurt stores, random stock coming from different donors but compiled together in one "charity store."
  

Just curious. Just, y'know, wanted to know how truly relevant your analogy is to Geocaching, that's all. Pretty much as relevant as anything in the forums.

[+Confucius' Cat]

Do the tubs melt in the summer, or are there hamsters powering a giant AC system that occasionally breaks down?

 

Are micros for dieters?

No, but like all Tupperware® and associated knock-offs, they leak and soon have as much water inside as yogurt.

[+O-Mega]

Looking for interest on this cover concept:

 

Specs so far:

 

- 4.5"

- 114.30 mm

- Trackable with a unique UPC

- From Container of Rocky Road

- LE has picture of White Cow with Blue Bell

 

[Clan Riffster]

No. See the reply from TheJester for further details. Basically, TheJester and I need you to play this kefir tub sport exactly as we demand or you must leave it. Our way or the highway, buster!

Dern! Bach is a sissy. It's gotta be a "B"? How about Benjamin Britten? You get two "B"s with him. His War Requiem is most moving.

[+LivesWithMonkeys]

Dippin Dots = Micros

[+TrailGators]

Dippin Dots = Micros

[+The Jester]

Dippin Dots = Micros

Cute site. There's even a treasure-hunting crab making a gesture at the "micro"!

 

But wouldn't they be considered commercial caches?

[+Kbdank71]

I am furious!

 

(snip)

 

you are nothing but an evil politically-correct scalawag hooligan pusillanimous polecat malcontent!

 

I have no problem with kefir, but some days I actually like yogurt.

 

Oh, what's a noob to do?