+EraSeek Posted July 24, 2011 Posted July 24, 2011 Alternative silliness! This slot is reserved for posting Geocaching + Phooning, Planking, and Owling(because planking is so two-months old!) GC site photo links. Post your, (not photos- save on bandwidth), but geocaching links to your geocaching site photos of these activities while you were geocaching. Don't know what it is? You are sooo behind the times! (I'm sure she won't mind) here is an example of how to post: My link Quote
+t4e Posted July 24, 2011 Posted July 24, 2011 Alternative silliness! This slot is reserved for posting Geocaching + Phooning, Planking, and Owling(because planking is so two-months old!) GC site photo links. Post your, (not photos- save on bandwidth), but geocaching links to your geocaching site photos of these activities while you were geocaching. Don't know what it is? You are sooo behind the times! (I'm sure she won't mind) here is an example of how to post: My link kind of a sorry looking phoon phooning in Toronto Barrels of Phoon phooning at the Hoodoos in Banff Quote
+CACHE KRAWLER Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Soooo, what's the story behind all this silliness. Obviously I'm WAAAAAY behind the times. Inquiring minds want to know..... Quote
+W7WT Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 (edited) After googling, I now know what they are. I have learned a lot of useless things from the internet and geocaching. Since I am now 86 very doubtful I will try any of those. Just looked at the listing and I guess he didn't want comments - Just LINKS ONLY so sorry about that. dick Edited July 25, 2011 by W7WT Quote
+B+L Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 It is rumored that a photo of EraSeek planking is floating around somewhere. Quote
+B+L Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Face Plank Link You mean this? Ha ha, that's good a good one. But the Phoon Father seems to think it might already be falling out of favor. I hear the hipsters have already moved on to "hammocking". Quote
+EraSeek Posted July 26, 2011 Author Posted July 26, 2011 Sorry, No, I don't mind comments... I just don't want direct photos because loading them really drags down most peoples internet. OK, a couple of things. I know people got fun stuff out there but if no one shares I'll move this to the general forums where all the less cultured people live. Also in the next week or so I intend on introducing a geocaching varient to planking, called "North Planking" or "Needleing", maybe I'll go viral! Educationally, these practices are memes; you can regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures, so they may be short-live in one form but long-lived overall. An example: here is my early attempt from 2006 while geocaching at developing "planking". My link It was an early form in Beta, which I now refer to as "The Bent Plank" Quote
+B+L Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 An example: here is my early attempt from 2006 while geocaching at developing "planking". My link It was an early form in Beta, which I now refer to as "The Bent Plank" You invented "free falling". That has a lot of potential. Quote
+B+L Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 Camp Mystery mysteries: Planking, Skydiving, Superhero, Buckhorn summit phoon Quote
+chubby forest monkey Posted August 1, 2011 Posted August 1, 2011 What is owling? How about wheeling? Quote
+GrnXnham Posted August 1, 2011 Posted August 1, 2011 Wow! I've been phooning and didn't even know it! Quote
+EraSeek Posted August 1, 2011 Author Posted August 1, 2011 I don't have the balance anymore to do the phooning, so I'm a planker. OK here's it is. Introducing the world to whatcha call "north-planking", and no, I ain't none too proud of it niether. My link Quote
+The Jester Posted August 2, 2011 Posted August 2, 2011 I don't have the balance anymore to do the phooning, so I'm a planker. OK here's it is. Introducing the world to whatcha call "north-planking", and no, I ain't none too proud of it niether. My link Is that True "north-planking" or Magnetic "north-planking"? And does it work in the southern hemisphere? Quote
+EraSeek Posted August 3, 2011 Author Posted August 3, 2011 Of course it's "true" north-planking, but you want to deviate a bit that's fine too. Interestingly, the best possible spot to North-plank is at the true south pole. You can't screw up there. Anyway you turn to north-plank, you "north"-plank. The worst spot to north-plank is at the north-pole! It just can't be done. Quote
+The Jester Posted August 3, 2011 Posted August 3, 2011 Of course it's "true" north-planking, but you want to deviate a bit that's fine too. Interestingly, the best possible spot to North-plank is at the true south pole. You can't screw up there. Anyway you turn to north-plank, you "north"-plank. The worst spot to north-plank is at the north-pole! It just can't be done. Even standing (planking??) on your head? BTW, shouldn't the pole/needle be red? Quote
+EraSeek Posted August 4, 2011 Author Posted August 4, 2011 If you look closely the shaft is red, I just have the black tip extended. Never-the-less, the important thing to north-planking is that you are pointed north. If the chances of pointing (parallel to the ground) north at the south pole is 100%, and 0% at the north pole, what are the chances of pointing north on a random plank at the equator? 1 in.. Quote
+The Jester Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 If the chances of pointing (parallel to the ground) north at the south pole is 100%, and 0% at the north pole, what are the chances of pointing north on a random plank at the equator? 1 in.. The same as everywhere else on Earth (excepting the Poles) = 0.278% or 1 in 360 (full degrees). This assuming great circle travel, constant angle travel would be more like 49.722% as any degree of north angle will spiral to the North Pole. Quote
+WeightMan Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 If the chances of pointing (parallel to the ground) north at the south pole is 100%, and 0% at the north pole, what are the chances of pointing north on a random plank at the equator? 1 in.. The same as everywhere else on Earth (excepting the Poles) = 0.278% or 1 in 360 (full degrees). This assuming great circle travel, constant angle travel would be more like 49.722% as any degree of north angle will spiral to the North Pole. That also assumes you can measure the "heading" to the nearest degree. Quote
+EraSeek Posted August 8, 2011 Author Posted August 8, 2011 Actually the way I see it is that the odds can be infinite, unless you define a degree of accuracy (or non-accuracy) allowed. No reason to assume that 360 degrees is defined well enough. Never-the-less, back to the topic. Today I failed. I climbed up Mt Pillchuck and did not come home with a phoon, a plank, a north-plank, or an owling. I did phoon once but Jon was not quick enough with his camera and I didn't have enough energy to do a re-do. Quote
+EraSeek Posted August 15, 2011 Author Posted August 15, 2011 (edited) Got some dirt for ya: Weightlifting? Rickie phoons Velma and Scooby phoon Phooning and Owling Reverse planking Edited August 15, 2011 by EraSeek Quote
+Team Shydog Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 We Hoosiers can have Phoon as well. Fun thread, thanks for sharing. Quote
+hydnsek Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Just for Jim, we invented some new poses on our Mt Rainier hike last weekend: Group effort - including Egyptian, Plumber, Space Needle, Weightlifter AndrewRJ demonstrates Bird Feeder Quote
+The Jester Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Just for Jim, we invented some new poses on our Mt Rainier hike last weekend: Group effort - including Egyptian, Plumber, Space Needle, Weightlifter AndrewRJ demonstrates Bird Feeder I wish we all could see the pics, but I'm not on Facebook so I can't log in... Quote
+hydnsek Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Just for Jim, we invented some new poses on our Mt Rainier hike last weekend: Group effort - including Egyptian, Plumber, Space Needle, Weightlifter AndrewRJ demonstrates Bird Feeder I wish we all could see the pics, but I'm not on Facebook so I can't log in... You will be assimilated... Seriously, anyone can view the album with this public link. Quote
+The Jester Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 Just for Jim, we invented some new poses on our Mt Rainier hike last weekend: Group effort - including Egyptian, Plumber, Space Needle, Weightlifter AndrewRJ demonstrates Bird Feeder I wish we all could see the pics, but I'm not on Facebook so I can't log in... You will be assimilated... Seriously, anyone can view the album with this public link. Thanks! Nice shots. Quote
+ZeroHecksGiven Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 Couple from a hike last weekend up to second burroughs: http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qWW8OkgPoYc/TmBdAYELEnI/AAAAAAAACQw/G_WzdUcjBeo/s800/corralpass-1-15.jpg http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vZeBj74m57g/TmBdA5mNMbI/AAAAAAAACLs/nqSnsfPP4xk/s800/corralpass-1-13.jpg http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MRGSKwn8Lf4/TmBc_bkjI3I/AAAAAAAACLY/sXDe2nDXTW4/s800/corralpass-1-18.jpg Quote
+B+L Posted September 11, 2011 Posted September 11, 2011 Blanca Lake: Planking Bridging Diving Freezing Quote
John E Cache Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 Link: Introducing Tebowing. It's like planking, but dumber. Quote
+B+L Posted October 30, 2011 Posted October 30, 2011 (edited) Planking, Phooning, Owling are all passé. Levitating is where it's at. Edit: Oops, changed the link from an IMG to a URL to comply with EraSeek's rules for this thread . Edited October 30, 2011 by B+L Quote
+Og's outfit Posted October 31, 2011 Posted October 31, 2011 Planking, Phooning, Owling are all passé. Levitating is where it's at. Edit: Oops, changed the link from an IMG to a URL to comply with EraSeek's rules for this thread . Amazing! Quote
+thebruce0 Posted October 31, 2011 Posted October 31, 2011 With my daily caching challenge, I've taken up phooning for every day - come Feb 29th, I'll be all phooned out... I'm often forced into ninja mode... ...sneaking around a building after an LPC ftf ...caught alongside a reservoire after a quick find (my daily chart of phoons is a little too much phooning for one image ) Quote
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