+Chur Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Ok, here comes my first cointest! I hope I do everything right... It is said that criminals used red herrings in the past to mislead trackhounds away from their scent... Therefore the phrase red herring can be used as a synonym for a hint or a trace that is deceiving you, leading nowhere... Well, I suggested a design idea for a red herring geocoin to Sepp & Bertas Shop and ended up having a beautiful Personal Edition of the resulting coin: There are 35 little red herrings minted in copper finish. All the other little herrings can be ordered at S&B soon, but the copper herrings will only be available by trade or: in this cointest! What do you have to do to win it? In one of the books written by Douglas Adams (who is my favourite writer) is a quotation which contains the word „herring“. The first who finds the right one (I don't know if there are others) and posts it here (add the title of the book as well, please), will win an unactivated red herring geocoin with copper finish! Here is a picture of three red herrings. It is not a big coin, the length is about 4,5cm. The back says „Don't follow the red herring, track it at geocaching.com“, and you can take a look at the icon in my profile, because I already released one ... Good luck! Quote Link to comment
+surteb Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 "In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing." Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 WOW! That was fast! Congratulations! Just send me your adress via my profile, and I'll send you the coin! Quote Link to comment
+surteb Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) Woo hoo! I guess I was just on here at the right time. Thanks for the cointest! Love the coin! Email on the way. Edited January 10, 2009 by surteb Quote Link to comment
+Tschakko Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Congrats I was a little late for this one Quote Link to comment
+PaRacers Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Dang! Too late...congrats surteb! Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 I knew there are a lot of other Douglas Adams fans among geocachers, but this did surprise me Ok, I put another one out... The next red herring in copper goes to the one who can answer a more complex question: the title of the second Dirk Gently novel is a phrase he used in one of his other books. To which character is that phrase connected, and how is that character connected to the mentioned Dirk Gently novel? @ surteb: if you know that answer, too, please send it via mail, so someone else has the opportunity to win a copper herring, too! Quote Link to comment
+Tschakko Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul The title is a phrase which appeared in Adams' novel Life, the Universe and Everything to describe the wretched boredom of immortal being Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, and is a play on the theological treatise Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross. Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Phrase: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Character: Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged Quote Wikipedia: Wowbagger is an alien who became immortal due to an accident with an irrational particle accelerator, a pair of rubber bands and a liquid lunch, so therefore does not know how to handle being immortal. Quote Link to comment
MotoCycleBoi Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Nice Coin! Congrats! I like the ASCII art. Quote Link to comment
+Rockin Roddy Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 THANKS for a fun and rewarding cointest Chur, well done!! Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 OK, this is it! three more coins to Tschakko, Team Amaroo and Dimkasimir! please send me your adresses via GC.com, and I'll send each of you a coin! It's nice to see that there are so many other DNA-fans around Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 OK, this is it! three more coins to Tschakko, Team Amaroo and Dimkasimir! please send me your adresses via GC.com, and I'll send each of you a coin! It's nice to see that there are so many other DNA-fans around Wow! Thanks so much! I really love the concept of the coin as well as the design. Quote Link to comment
paganfrog Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 awww i come here just when its all over. congrats to the winners Quote Link to comment
+Tschakko Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Wohooo Thank u so much for this fun cointest... Actually I did not know much about this author before, but I read through a litle more and it sounds really interesting I am gonna be reading some more sometime soon E-mail will be send soon. Thanks again Quote Link to comment
+Tschakko Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Na da hätte ich mal etwas eher in das Profil gucken sollen, dann hätte ich mir nicht die Mühe machen müssen alles ins Englische zu übersetzen Nochmal danke für den cointest Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 (edited) Thank you so much for the nice posts about the coin *blush* I just had the initial idea of the ascii-herring, the wonderful artwork was done by "Berta" of S&B! Edited January 10, 2009 by Chur Quote Link to comment
+AlliedOz Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Nice giveaways Chur, your a generous cacher. I saw these little beauties at Sepp & Bertas Shop as "coming soon" so I have them bookmarked and I check daily, I used to sign my BBS posts with a similar fish back in the old days ( many many years ago before the Internet was in Australia) So I'll be stocking up when they are released, Congrats on the design, a good looking herring to be sure And just for the fans, from my addled memory i think it went something like "the smug smiles he wore at other peoples funerals started to fade" Quote Link to comment
+opalsns Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Cointest ??????????????? Where???????????????? Quote Link to comment
+Ilonka1980 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Cointest ??????????????? Where???????????????? Guess we missed it Quote Link to comment
+Chur Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 Sorry to all, who missed the cointest! That was very quick... But I've learned, next time I do a cointest, it will not be a "first-to-answer-wins-cointest", but something, where many posts will be possible... I need to find some ideas... The herrings are on their way now Quote Link to comment
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