geo joke

[+dogwhisperers]

I am sure some of the older or longest members here will have come across this before, I found it looking around for info on geocaching websites:

 

How to know when you're living "La Vida Locale" way too much with your GPS:

30) Geocaching is the art of using million-dollar military satellites for civilian scavenger hunts all for free.

29) Finding a Tupperware geocache with a plastic doll inside is better than finding the hidden immunity-idol on Survivor.

28) You geotag your metal-detector finds at the beach so you can return to the same spot again and look for more.

27) The speed indicator on your GPS redlines at 999 when you fly the Concorde to Europe and check your groundspeed onboard.

26) Your GPS screen shows so many POI that it looks like a target from your last paint-ball gun war games.

25) You helped the local Pastor replace the "you-have-arrived" checkered flag on his GPS with the Pearly Gates.

24) You know you've entered too many waypoints on your route when the GPS voice says, "Game over, insert quarter".

23) Hawaiian POI means vacation destinations instead of that starchy taro-root paste.

22) Russian Roulette means picking a random GPS "Favorites" destination for your wife's birthday-present trip.

21) The Bermuda Triangle is the satellite dead-zone in the airport radar approach pattern where your GPS freaks out.

20) You've tattooed your home latitude/longitude coordinates on your left arm, along with a Reward-If-Found message.

19) You've reprogrammed the Red Light/Speed Camera file to sound the alarm anytime you're near a donut shop.

18) You know that geostationary doesn't mean trying to pass a walking sobriety test without falling over.

17) You're using your old satellite TV dish antenna on your car as an external GPS antenna, and it really works.

16) When you get pulled over for speeding, you try to beat it by explaining your GPS can't track that fast.

15) Your favorite GPS menu selection is the one that answers "How many more exits?" when your kids ask you.

14) You've made your own custom GPS celebrity-voice using your Mother-In-Law.

13) You take your GPS with you on roller-coaster rides at amusement parks.

12) You know you need new Nav Maps when the voice in your GPS speaker says "eeny-meeny-miney-mo".

11) You fear the "Orange Screen of Death" when you drive off the end of the Nav Map and are now dead-reckoning.

10) You use Tripmaster on your GPS to make sure your kid is mowing every square inch of the lawn at your house.

9) You use the "When do you want to arrive?" feature on your GPS as a bedside alarm clock in the morning.

8) Easter-egg hunts for your kids are done using a list of geocache coordinates in your backyard.

7) You geocache your wallet and car keys inside your own home to remember where you last left them.

6) When your neighbor asks what your GPS actually does, you explain that it keeps you "Goin' Pretty Straight".

5) Your parrot whistles the Dutch national anthem whenever it hears the TomTom boot-up drum beats.

4) Your kids explain how their day in the neighborhood went using latitude & longitude coordinates.

3) Your POI BMP icons are your kid's faces, so you know when you drive by their favorite destinations.

2) Your back-up GPS consists of a world-globe and a C-clamp to secure it to your automobile dash.

1) If you're a male driver, you don't need to stop and ask directions. When you own a GPS, you're never lost; you just haven't arrived there yet.

 

I had a good laugh, hope you all do too

 

Regards

 

Dog

[+Chrysalides]

19) You've reprogrammed the Red Light/Speed Camera file to sound the alarm anytime you're near a donut shop.

You've reprogrammed the alarm to sound anytime you're near a geocache.

[+dogwhisperers]

19) You've reprogrammed the Red Light/Speed Camera file to sound the alarm anytime you're near a donut shop.

You've reprogrammed the alarm to sound anytime you're near a geocache.

 

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun, imagine if all the members got together and created a national easter-egg hunt for kids using gps coordinates, It could include a charity donation per cache found. emm... I feel the cogs turning, and smoke coming from my ears!..

 

just an idea. Has it ever been done, does anybody know?

 

Dog

[+Chrysalides]

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun, imagine if all the members got together and created a national easter-egg hunt for kids using gps coordinates, It could include a charity donation per cache found. emm... I feel the cogs turning, and smoke coming from my ears!..

Don't know if it has been done, but the "charity" bit would put it under the "no agenda" guidelines.

[+Sol seaker]

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun, imagine if all the members got together and created a national easter-egg hunt for kids using gps coordinates, It could include a charity donation per cache found. emm... I feel the cogs turning, and smoke coming from my ears!..

Don't know if it has been done, but the "charity" bit would put it under the "no agenda" guidelines.

 

What would really suck, would be what happened to all those eggs at the DNF's!!!!!!

[+dogwhisperers]

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun, imagine if all the members got together and created a national easter-egg hunt for kids using gps coordinates, It could include a charity donation per cache found. emm... I feel the cogs turning, and smoke coming from my ears!..

Don't know if it has been done, but the "charity" bit would put it under the "no agenda" guidelines.

 

What would really suck, would be what happened to all those eggs at the DNF's!!!!!!

 

I guess the creatures of the wild would have their own easter celebration! No seriously, whom ever planted the eggs would know where to get them and take them to needy kids. I am curious to know about the 'no agenda' guidelines, I must check that out.

 

BTW my kids letters to Santa this year will include coordinates to our house, for the new GPS system attached to Santa's new mobile sleigh. Now there is technology advancement!

 

regards

 

dag

[+TomToad]

 

 

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun,

 

 

There was an event here in Central Florida where we did just that. However, the eggs we hunted were plastic with swag in them.

Also had a pot luck which Clan Riffster brought some tasty rabbit stew. []

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...21-84bac0f89456

[+Minimike2]

Tom Toad, is that an Obama smiley?

[+dogwhisperers]

 

 

Actually I like the idea of an easter-egg hunt by geocache coordinates, that would be fun,

 

 

There was an event here in Central Florida where we did just that. However, the eggs we hunted were plastic with swag in them.

Also had a pot luck which Clan Riffster brought some tasty rabbit stew. []

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...21-84bac0f89456

 

Wow sounds like you did have fun, since geocaching is only taking off here in Ireland, we don't seem to have the same interest in it. I think it is not promoted enough, probably. I only just heard of it myself recently, I start geocaching last month. but since then, friends and family have shown a lot of interest in it. So maybe it will catch on. We always seem to be years behing the USA in trends and stuff.

 

Thanks for the link.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Dog