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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old letterboxing, which uses references to landmarks and clues embedded in stories. However, geocaching was imagined shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 1, 2000 because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon[2]. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav [3]. By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once (by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington). According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot. [4]

As I have said before, my experience with other forums, Board Moderators have absolutely NO SENSE OF HUMOR! They will probably either lock or delete this one too!

 

Go go GMAIL.COM, they are having a April Fools joke all day long, saying a person can back date an email.

 

My wife called me this morning and said she was in a car accident. APRIL FOOLS. I gave my boss my two week notice today, APRIL FOOLS.

 

Get a sense of humor!!!!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old letterboxing, which uses references to landmarks and clues embedded in stories. However, geocaching was imagined shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 1, 2000 because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon[2]. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav [3]. By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once (by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington). According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot. [4]

As I have said before, my experience with other forums, Board Moderators have absolutely NO SENSE OF HUMOR! They will probably either lock or delete this one too!

 

Go go GMAIL.COM, they are having a April Fools joke all day long, saying a person can back date an email.

 

My wife called me this morning and said she was in a car accident. APRIL FOOLS. I gave my boss my two week notice today, APRIL FOOLS.

 

Get a sense of humor!!!!

 

Car accident? Boy, that's a hoot :) Maybe you can tell your kids your getting a divorce <knee slappin'> :huh:;)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old letterboxing, which uses references to landmarks and clues embedded in stories. However, geocaching was imagined shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 1, 2000 because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon[2]. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav [3]. By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once (by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington). According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot. [4]

As I have said before, my experience with other forums, Board Moderators have absolutely NO SENSE OF HUMOR! They will probably either lock or delete this one too!

 

Go go GMAIL.COM, they are having a April Fools joke all day long, saying a person can back date an email.

 

My wife called me this morning and said she was in a car accident. APRIL FOOLS. I gave my boss my two week notice today, APRIL FOOLS.

 

Get a sense of humor!!!!

Huh? The content and tone of your post are very odd -- it sounds like you are trying to bait forum moderators to close your thread, so that you can then play "victim" and martyr. Interesting... So, how is your post different from a troll post?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old letterboxing, which uses references to landmarks and clues embedded in stories. However, geocaching was imagined shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 1, 2000 because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon[2]. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav [3]. By May 6, 2000, it had been found twice and logged once (by Mike Teague of Vancouver, Washington). According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot. [4]

As I have said before, my experience with other forums, Board Moderators have absolutely NO SENSE OF HUMOR! They will probably either lock or delete this one too!

 

Go go GMAIL.COM, they are having a April Fools joke all day long, saying a person can back date an email.

 

My wife called me this morning and said she was in a car accident. APRIL FOOLS. I gave my boss my two week notice today, APRIL FOOLS.

 

Get a sense of humor!!!!

 

Probably would be funnier if you got the city right and the founder of the site right though.

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I know some of our moderators, they all have a great sense of humor. They also have the responsibility of keeping these forums sorted out and somewhat on topic!

 

If you want to post an April Fools joke an Off Topic forum is provided.

 

BTW - on giving notice, if I were your boss I would have Security come pack up your belongings and escort you from the building, tell you we don't need two weeks notice... now THAT would be funny, eh? :)

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Probably would be funnier if you got the city right and the founder of the site right though.

What would have been funny is if he had said that Jeremy Irish from Geocaching.com was going to buy Garmin and make is so that only geocachers who used Garmin GPS units could claim caches as found on GC.com from now on. Now *that's* comedy! :huh:

 

What was the point of adding the wiki entry?

Proving to everyone that he messed up his own joke maybe?

 

BTW - on giving notice, if I were your boss I would have Security come pack up your belongings and escort you from the building, tell you we don't need two weeks notice... now THAT would be funny, eh? ;)

:):):D

 

Sorry Inmountains. You blew the joke pretty badly (wrong punch line). Killing your other topic was simply a mercy killing. I did you a favor. I will leave this one open so you can see how much of a favor I did for you.

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Oh, i get it. The joke was he believed wikipedia is always accurate! :)

The most important part of comedy is....

timing.

No, the MOST important part is.....

 

 

Get the punchline correct.

 

In other words, Dave Ulmer is not the founder of geocaching.com. Dave couldn't sell something he never owned. Also, Geocaching.com is based in Seattle, WA, not in Oregon. Since pretty much everyone here (but you, I guess) knows these two facts, your closed thread was sad, not humorous.

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Oh c'mon Mopar-when did facts ever get in the way of telling a good story? :)

Nope, timing is more important than facts. :huh:

 

His problem was he wasn't telling a very funny story.

 

Anyone got a trainwreck picture to post now? ;)

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A guy walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder, and a alligator under his arm. He tells the bartender that he needs 3 beers. The clown in the back sitting next to the gorilla gets up, walks over, and says to the man, "I didn't know parrots drank beer".

 

Just then the alligator said, "They don't, but tonight we're celebrating our Google stock going up after Google bought geocaching".

 

Or something. I guess jokes are better if the punchline is funny.

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At any rate, I'm almost certain Jeremy played the same joke several years ago. I can't verify because those Groundspeak jokesters have disabled the search. Yuk yuk yuk!

Well, there was the "Disney is buying Geocaching.com" one, but the best was when letterboxing.org and geocaching merged to form Boxcaching.com!

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At any rate, I'm almost certain Jeremy played the same joke several years ago. I can't verify because those Groundspeak jokesters have disabled the search. Yuk yuk yuk!

Well, there was the "Disney is buying Geocaching.com" one, but the best was when letterboxing.org and geocaching merged to form Boxcaching.com!

Maybe that's the one I was thinking of.

 

Anyhow, it seems the search is back on. Must be the 2nd somewhere.

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The funny thing about the original thread was the OP apparently misinterpreted the wikipedia entry.

 

It's hard to pull a April's fool gag with the information a little off...for example:

 

"President Regan to buy Geocaching.com"

 

Although...his mistake would be more like:

 

"President Lincoln to buy Geocaching.com. Founder Jeremiah English said to be 'ecstatic'"

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Happy New Year everyone!

 

Wow, what a party we had! ;)

 

The history of April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day is uncertain, but the current thinking is that it began around 1582 in France with the reform of the calendar under Charles IX. The Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved from March 25 - April 1 (new year's week) to January 1.

Communication traveled slowly in those days and some people were only informed of the change several years later. Still others, who were more rebellious refused to acknowledge the change and continued to celebrate on the last day of the former celebration, April 1. These people were labeled "fools" by the general populace, were subject to ridicule and sent on "fool errands," sent invitations to nonexistent parties and had other practical jokes played upon them. The butts of these pranks became known as a "poisson d'avril" or "April fish" because a young naive fish is easily caught. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing dead fish on the backs of friends. Today, real fish have been replaced with sticky, fish-shaped paper cut-outs that children try to sneak onto the back of their friends' shirts. Candy shops and bakeries also offer fish-shaped sweets for the holiday.

 

-Alabama Changes the Value of Pi: The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article written by physicist Mark Boslough claiming that the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the "Biblical value" of 3.0. This claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

 

Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti weevil had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was in fact filmed in St Albans.

 

Left Handed Whoppers: In 1998, Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out of the right side. Not only did customers order the new burgers, but some specifically requested the "old", right-handed burger.

 

Taco Liberty Bell: In 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it the "Taco Liberty Bell." When asked about the sale, Whit

House press secretary Mike McCurry replied tongue-in-cheek that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

 

Metric time: Repeated several times in various countries, this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10.

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Looks like the OP needs to preform some further research:

 

Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the ability of people, objects, situations or words to evoke feelings of amusement or happiness in people.

 

The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours (Greek: χυμός, chymos, literally: juice or sap, metaphorically: flavour) controlled human health and emotion.

 

A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, although the extent to which an individual will find something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence, and context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor

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Thank you Rick. Some people just don't get humor at all. It's just a joke, who says it has to be true, either the founder of Geocaching, or if there is even a Jackie at Garmin. It's just a DUMB JOKE and it is SUPPOSE to be a DUMB JOKE! What makes me sad in the pants is that moderators feel they have to close/lock/delete a humorous thread. Just let it go. If there are way too many, then fine, it is getting out of hand. But have a few April Fools Day jokes is fun.

 

Mopar reminds me of this fellow.

 

Four recently retired moguls were enjoying Brandy's one evening around the fireplace at the country club. They got to talking about their business experience and how they made their fortunes. They were all in retail. The first guy said that he marked his products up an average of 25% and had lots of business. The second gentleman said that he marked his product up an average of 50% and did really well. The third gentleman, who owned a little higher end store chain said he marked his products up 100%, paid his employee's a commission and did pretty well. The fourth gentleman, who reminds me of Mopar, sat their quietly with a sad look on his face. The others asked him why was he so sad. He said, "I can't believe you guys gouged the public like that. 25%, 50% and even 100% mark ups. You should be ashamed of yourselves. The other's knew that he owned a chain of really deep discount stores. Well, how much did you mark up your products? He puffed out his chest and said 4%. They were astonished. How in the world did you make any profit marking your stock up only 4%? He puffed out his chest, put his thumbs in his suspenders, and said, "I bought an item for $1.00 and sold it for $4.00, only a 4% mark up."

GO MOPAR!!

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Having been a moderator or admin on multiple boards, one of which was about as active as this one, the one thing I've noticed (and this is true on many boards where I am not a mod or admin) is that there is a natural tendency for things like that to have a chain reaction effect.

 

A rule we had, on a couple boards actually, was essentially similar to a phrase commonly used in real life. It's the "it was funny the first time" rule. Many times some unique thread event is funny once and we'd let it go, but then every Tom, Dick and Harry that lacked originality seemed to think it'd be funnier multiple times after that. And, generally, it's not.

 

It's not a lack of humor issue at all.

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Thank you Rick. Some people just don't get humor at all. It's just a joke, who says it has to be true, either the founder of Geocaching, or if there is even a Jackie at Garmin. It's just a DUMB JOKE and it is SUPPOSE to be a DUMB JOKE! What makes me sad in the pants is that moderators feel they have to close/lock/delete a humorous thread. Just let it go. If there are way too many, then fine, it is getting out of hand. But have a few April Fools Day jokes is fun.

 

<pointless, uninteresting story deleted>

 

Huh? He has sad pants?

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Mopar reminds me of this fellow.

 

Four recently retired moguls were enjoying Brandy's one evening around the fireplace at the country club. They got to talking about their business experience and how they made their fortunes. They were all in retail. The first guy said that he marked his products up an average of 25% and had lots of business. The second gentleman said that he marked his product up an average of 50% and did really well. The third gentleman, who owned a little higher end store chain said he marked his products up 100%, paid his employee's a commission and did pretty well. The fourth gentleman, who reminds me of Mopar, sat their quietly with a sad look on his face. The others asked him why was he so sad. He said, "I can't believe you guys gouged the public like that. 25%, 50% and even 100% mark ups. You should be ashamed of yourselves. The other's knew that he owned a chain of really deep discount stores. Well, how much did you mark up your products? He puffed out his chest and said 4%. They were astonished. How in the world did you make any profit marking your stock up only 4%? He puffed out his chest, put his thumbs in his suspenders, and said, "I bought an item for $1.00 and sold it for $4.00, only a 4% mark up."

GO MOPAR!!

 

A guy walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder, and a geocacher named Inmountains under his arm. He tells the bartender that he needs 3 beers. The clown in the back sitting next to the gorilla gets up, walks over, and says to the man, "I didn't know parrots drank beer".

 

Just then Inmountains said, "They don't, but tonight we're celebrating our Google stock going up after Google bought geocaching".

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