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Guest shybabe924

quote:
Originally posted by Buck8Point:

GeoQuarrel - the act of engaging in arguementitative conversation with another geocacher.

 

GeoRetentivness - the act of being way too particular about certain aspects of Geocaching.

 


 

The first step is admitting that YOU have these problems! Maybe we can get you in GEOREHAB now! [ icon_biggrin.gif] Hope this doesn't move me from the Geobuddy to the Geob!tch category LOL

 

Geopurse- once leopard, but now camo due to ridicule[:cool:]

 

Shybabe924

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Guest ClayJar

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Originally posted by T-storm:

Hey, weren't the Garminites that biblical tribe that wandered in the desert for 40 years? icon_wink.gif


No, actually, I think those were the Magellanites (with their pre 3.15 315's). Of course, then they got out of it when they uploaded 3.15 (although if they would have listened early on, they wouldn't have wandered at all, but they didn't listen to the instructions about hand-waving).

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Guest GeoMacbeth

Disclaimer: The following is NOT meant as a death threat to Magellan users!

 

Three caches for the antenna kings

under the sky,

Seven for the Garmin users

searching their piles of stone,

Nine for Magellan users

doomed to die,

One for the dark cacher

who caches alone.

In the land of WGS-84, where the coordinates lie

One cache to log them all, one cache to find them,

one cache to open them all and in the darkness sign them.

In the land of WGS-84, where the coordinates lie.

 

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Hey! What happened to my sattelites?!?

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Guest Zuckerruebensirup

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Originally posted by Doppler:

I thought a "geoSneaker" was what you found in a "sneaker cache"...


 

'GeoSneakers' are the quiet shoes you wear when out cache hunting so that the 'mundanes' don't catch you in the act. (Or, so that your spouse doesn't catch you sneaking out of the house, off to spend the day geocaching, instead of getting projects done around the house.) icon_wink.gif

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geoGumps = geocachers that dont read or follow the directions on the cache description. example.. leaving golfballs in a non golfball cache

 

sanscache = a cache thats not were its supposed to be

 

geoballers = geocachers that leave used golf balls or used tennis balls in exchange for something thats actually useful

 

trashcache = cache full of useless stuff like used golf balls or used tennis balls

 

nazis = security guards interfering with geocaching activities

 

hanger = geocache that hangs under an object. such as an altoids tin with magnets underneath a table at an outdoor cafe'

 

kicker = buried geocache that results in really dirty shoes from you kicking around

 

diver = underwater geocache

 

roadie = geocaching partner

 

george = a wheres george dollar

 

debris = soiled condoms or underwear found while rummaging through the woods looking for a geocache

 

shmutz = unidentifiable substance on you or your geocache

 

gerban (jerban)= urban geocache, not to be confused with gerbil

 

thats all for now.. i really enjoyed reading this thread!

 

urbo

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Guest george70

how about:

 

squirrel - someone who hides more than they find

 

crowder - someone who places a cache really close to another existing caches

 

lost boy - someone who's coordinates are 100 ft from the cache.

 

trustfundinan - someone who finds time to bag multiple caches on weekdays.

 

cach-bag - the backpack that has all you need when you go out geocaching... just grab and go

 

cluless - only takes the coodinates with him when he looks for a cache.

 

cluso - someone who constantly stubles on caches, more through dumb luck than anything else.

 

hows that?

george

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Guest ClayJar

One that I use extensively is:

 

quote:
chrome (pl. chrome): Abbreviated form of "mile(s), as the crow flies". Derived from the further abbreviation of the already shortened "crow-mile(s)".

 

Like "deer", "elk", and "fish", the singular and plural are the same. You wouldn't say "it's 1.35 chromes to the cache"; you'd say "it's 1.35 chrome to the cache" or "the cache is 1.35 chrome... um... *that* way".

 

Note: SI-compliant countries (translation: everywhere but the US) may use "croak" (crow-kilometers) in place of "crome", but there are other words they can use. We needed a good one for our system.

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Guest mtn-man

cachenazi -- "You must give the correct answer to the question on this virtual cache or your log will be deleted."

(Something I am guilty of myself!)

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Guest Goodguys

Croak, eh? Crow-k. Yeah, it sounds Canadian.

And don't forget to sweep out your Geotracks, lest your path makes an easy find for the next one there.

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Guest Digitalbombdog

In a cross reference to the GeoCaching cards and buttons and other such items that people are creating in another current thread:

 

GeoGraphics - The images and designs being created by said geocachers?

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Guest Gliderguy

GeoJoe:

someone who dresses up in military surplus gear and seeks his caches in a humvee...

Croquet: Crow K, Crow kilometers...

 

[This message has been edited by Gliderguy (edited 02 March 2002).]

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Guest cliffy

quote:
Originally posted by Gliderguy:

GeoJoe:

someone who dresses up in military surplus gear and seeks his caches in a humvee...

Croquet: Crow K, Crow kilometers...

 

[This message has been edited by Gliderguy (edited 02 March 2002).]


 

Hey!!!!! I resemble that remark.....Minus the humvee of course!.....lol

 

My girlfriend refers to me as a GEO-LOSER......One that forsakes his significant other for the sake of tracking down lost tupperware. icon_smile.gif

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Guest Misguided One

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Originally posted by jeremy:

Geolurker would be more appropriate, taking lurker from the traditional forum term for a person who reads but doesn't post messages.

 

Jeremy


 

No, a GEOLurker is what I feel like when I am the only adult male at a county park

With small children and their mothers watching as I walk around in the trees and bushes looking for a cache.

 

Which brings me to:

Cacher-basher, A mother in said parks that calls the "GEOfficer" on her cell phone, and reports you as a perv. (hasn't happened to me,....yet.)

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Guest ClayJar

How about... cashier: The person who finds the cache. ("cache here")

 

Now for something really different... Here are some real words that have "cach" in them:

  • cachalot: "See sperm whale."
  • cachepot: "An ornamental container for a flowerpot."
  • cachet: (a mark of quality, seal, part of a postmark, or a wafer-capsule for bad tasting drugs)
  • cachexia: "Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility that can occur during a chronic disease."
  • cachinnate: "To laugh hard, loudly, or convulsively; guffaw."
  • cachou: "A pastille used to sweeten the breath."
  • cachucha: "An Andalusian solo dance in 3/4 time."
  • viscacha: "Any of several gregarious, burrowing South American rodents of the genera Lagostomus and Lagidium, related to and resembling the chinchilla."

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Guest VentureForth

GeoPride: That feeling you get when someone logs their first find at your first placed cache and says "My whole family and I and everyone we know is now incurably hooked to geocaching!"

 

(Note: Slightly exaggerated from actual log entry)

 

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VentureForth out to the wild, wet forest...

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Guest Choberiba

now exactly what Misguided One felt like. It's not a good feeling to get an evil eye by an overprotective mother when all you are doing is watching your child play in the sand. This is one reason I always carry a Palm with me to the park. If I seem to be more interested in what it says than what the kid is doing I must be a dad.

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Guest Choberiba

quote:
Originally posted by Misguided One:

No, a GEOLurker is what I feel like when I am the only adult male at a county park

With small children and their mothers watching as I walk around in the trees and bushes looking for a cache.


 

I had to archive a cache in a tot-lot for this very reason.

 

I spend a lot of time with my daughter. People know me pretty well at the local parks and I'm fairly comfortable there, so I hid a cache at one point. I thought it might be a fun thing for parents of small children to do.

 

People without kids hunted the cache and this probably made the parents who were there at the time uncomfortable.

 

I used to get funny looks from mothers if my daughter wasn't standing right next to me, so I know exactly what Misguided One felt like. It's not a good feeling to get an evil eye by an overprotective mother when all you are doing is watching your child play in the sand. This is one reason I always carry a Palm with me to the park. If I seem to be more interested in what it says than what the kid is doing I must be a dad.

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An oldie of mine ... from the March, 2004 issue of Today's Cacher... and one of the many reincarnations of the AS...

 

Geocaching Terms You Don't Find In The Handbook

 

(Or Maybe Not At All)

 

By Torry Stiles, aka Torry

EVENT CACHE = Gathering of geocachers

 

EVENT CASH = Passing the hat to pay for an Event Cache

 

HATLESS CACHER = What you get when you don't watch who's passing the hat

 

CACHE RATING = Description given on cache pages to help cachers determine the difficulty of caches

 

CACHESTRATING = When your wife insists you not go caching

 

CACHE BAIT = Hollow logs near trails that are just begging to be fed Tupperware

 

VIRTUAL THIEVERY = Using PhotoShop or Google to fake a claim on a virtual cache

 

VIRTUALOSITY = Granting a find on a virtual cache even though you believe the finder never got close.

 

MISSDIRECTION = The nine-year-old girl who points out the cache location while the grown-ups are still checking their PDAs

 

CACHE STICK = A geocacher's staff

 

CACHE TICK = Unwanted hitchhiker from grassy areas

 

CACHE SHTICK = Boring one's coworkers by talking of nothing but caching

 

GARMEANDERING = Act of following the "GO TO" arrow on your little yellow eTrex.; see also: eTREXERCISE

 

eTREXERCISE = All the extra walking you do when all you've got is the little yellow booger

 

BUGHO = Someone who revisits caches just to snag the travel bugs

 

BUGWARDEN = Someone who gets a travel bug and doesn't want to set it free again

 

BUGJUNKIE = Someone who would drive over their own mother for a travel bug

 

BUGSNIFFER = Cacher who hits the cache just in time to grab the travel bug you've been chasing for months.

 

MAGELLICIDE = Walking off a cliff while following the map on your GPS instead of the trail

 

GARMIN DISTRICT = Corner of the Cache Event decorated with "Magellan Sucks" posters

 

MAGELLAND = The other corner

 

POOCACHE = What you sometimes find when you reach into the hollow log without looking first

 

CACHE HASH = The small bits of leaves, broken toys, snail shells, bug bodies and other detritus found at the bottom of a well-visited cache

 

CACHE DRAWER = Where a cacher keeps his supply of pencils, notebooks, plastic bugs, sock puppets, McToys, film cans and other caching supplies

 

CACHE DRAWERS = Items occasionally left in caches at entrances to nudist colonies.

 

CACHE NUTS = Found in above

 

CASHEW NUTS = A yummy, high protein snack

 

CACHE U-NUTS = Used with cache U-bolts to secure caches to poles

 

JOHNNY CASH = Famous country/western singer

 

JOHNNY CACHE = See: muggled, disgusting mess

 

CACHE RELIEF = A handy tree away from the cache and fellow cachers

 

CACHE CASH RELIEF = Finding change for the meter in the micro when all you have left is bills

 

CACHERAM = Mythical source of all Hindu and Buddhist related virtual caches

 

CACHE POTATO = Cacher who spends hours on the computer instead of caching.

 

WAYPOINT = Marked location

 

WAYPINT = Beer at marked location

 

WAYPAINT = Used to make the "X" for the "'X' marks the spot."

 

WAYPUNT = The act of kicking ground cover and anything handy when you can't find the cache at "Ground Zero."

 

GROUND ZERO = The point at which you GPSr claims you should find the cache.

 

GROUCH ZERO = The point at which you curse the GPSr that has you waist deep in a lake.

 

ZERO GROUND = The point at which you learn to swim.

 

GEOCRASHING = Crossing private property to get to a cache.

 

GEOTHRASHING = Act of flailing through the bushes looking for matchbox containers

 

GEOTRASHING = Badmouthing other cache hiders

 

CACHEGUERILLA = One who places a cache anywhere regardless of caching etiquette, rules or proper procedure.

 

GUERILLACACHE = One placed in defiance of rules, just begging to be archived.

 

CACHE GRILLER = Ill-placed micro at a cookout

 

AMMOPHELES = Type of mosquito found living near traditional caches.

 

SKEETER-DEETER = Expert in bug repellent

 

GEO METRO = Inexpensive automobile

 

GEO-METRO = One whose caching activities are limited to urban areas

 

GEO PRISM = Inexpensive car that is my current ride.

 

GEO-PRISON = Cache containing a travel bug that is in a nearly inaccessible location

 

LOGARITHMS = Notes left by poetic cachers

 

CACHE WINE = After-caching libation for adults

 

CACHE WHINE = After-caching laments for all

 

LOGJAM = What occurs when the cache owner fails to replace the cache log.

 

McBEEF = Complaint about the placement of Happy Meal toys in caches.

 

McCACHE = Just like a thousand others found all over the world hidden the same way with the same kind of stuff inside.

 

BRITCHERS = New pants on a hot day

 

BURRITCHERS = Burr-covered pants

 

LEGGROOM = The act off brushing the burrs off one's burritchers

 

DAMBURR = The one you missed

 

BURRDRIFT = The pile of fluff in the Leggroom area.

 

ZIPBLOCK = The bad spot on a cheap baggie that keeps it from sealing properly.

 

CACHE FLUFFER = someone who feels obligated to go through a crowded Tupperware container leaving it impossible to close the lid

 

CAMMO BOX = Cache container hidden in deep woods under three feet of sticks and leaves and another two feet of snow... see also, DNF

 

FILM CAN = Popular micro-cache container

 

CAN FILM = Layer of goo on top of week-old opened soda pop grabbed by mistake in dark garage

 

CACHE COMMANDO = Cacher who seeks to rescue lost, damaged or muggled caches

 

COMMANDO CACHER = One who caches without undergarments

 

GORP = Good Ol' Raisins and Peanuts: A popular nutritious snack

 

DORP = Dumb Ol' Raisins and Peanuts: GORP after three days on the trail.

 

VORP = Very Old Raisins and Peanuts: GORP after three weeks in the bottom of your pack

 

ORP = Sound made after eating VORP

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