+Paul Ag Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Everytime a read your posts, I get chills looking at your avatar. I am boycotting reading your posts; you are going to give me nightmares. I am glad your symbol is not the geocaching logo. I would have to quit. Good Luck Cache Baggers - Paul Ag Quote Link to comment
umc Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Thats the guy from Lord of the Rings right? Not the name but the avatar. __________________________ Caching without a clue.... Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Yep. That's Gollum. Kealia, keep the avatar. I think it is great! Gollum seeks and hunts for the ring - his precious, and is a good analogy for seekers of the cache. Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 I'm a HUGE LOTR fan. My Mom read The Hobbit to me in kindergarden, then the LOTR books to me in first grade (she wanted to wait longer, but I had learned to read and found them and begged). By second grade, I was reading them myself and have re-read them each year ever since. I have fond memories of re-reading them in between studying for law school finals and the the bar exam (need to avoid new material at those times). Still.... I agree, the avatar is creepy! I think the movies have captured LOTR well and did very well with Gollum, but the avatar is still creepy! I won't boycott your posts though! Now, if Brian goes back to his creepy tooth guy avatar, I will have to boycott that. It gave me nightmares! Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Yeah, I read my LOTR books till they fell apart. I agree the movies did good at capturing the entire effect of this fairy tale. Gollum is exactly the way I pictured him. Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+Paul Ag Posted August 4, 2003 Author Share Posted August 4, 2003 If you like his avatar then you are the type to like GeoGnome Caching Have fun trading those gnomes and after you are done you can go in the woods and play D&D while dress in your elf outfit. I know the type. 20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with roled the dice to have sex with a elf. I have been scarred ever since. That was the end of my D&D, trolls, dragons, or anything else creeply phase. Good Luck Cache Baggers - Paul Ag Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 quote:Have fun trading those gnomes and after you are done you can go in the woods and play D&D while dress in your elf outfit. I know the type. 20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with roled the dice to have sex with a elf. I have been scarred ever since. That was the end of my D&D, trolls, dragons, or anything else creeply phase. I don't think that site equates at all with LOTR. D&D doesn't either. Also, was D&D aroud 20 years ago? I don't know for sure, but it seems younger than that. I was 16 then and I don't remember it being around until I was 21 or so. Regardless, they are completely different things. LOTR is NOT a D&D thing. Instead, it is a great bunch of books for those who like fantasy fiction. It is the best written out there! A really GREAT read! Not related at all to Gnomes or D&D unless D&D stole things from it (which I suppose is likely, I have never gotten into D&D)! Still, I agree that the avatar is creepy (but yet it is Gollum in the way many pictured him)! Quote Link to comment
+Paul Ag Posted August 4, 2003 Author Share Posted August 4, 2003 quote:Also, was D&D aroud 20 years ago? I don't know for sure, but it seems younger than that. I was 16 then and I don't remember it being around until I was 21 or so. History of D&D game per some D&D website: 1977 The D&D Basic Set is published. I was in scarred for life in 6th grade so I was ... 12 and I am 31 now. Sorry, I lump all that fantasy stuff together. I did like the movie though. Good Luck Cache Baggers - Paul Ag Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Interesting stats. Guess I missed the early D&D years! Regardless, if you liked the movies, the books are better. That is the way it always is isn't it? Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Paul Ag:20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with roled the dice to have sex with a elf. I have been scarred ever since. I don't know. Some of those elves in the movie are total babes... Got any dice? --Marky "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 LOL Marky. D&D was loosely based on the LOTR books, but with a twist. I looked at it when it first started and didn't care for it then. Who knew it would grow into such a big thing? But I still don't care for it today. Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Paul Ag:...I know the type. 20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with... That sounds familiar but I just quit hanging with freaks. ...and then I went to college and found out they all followed me there. Then it hit me. Freaks are all around and you just have to deal with them. Worse they go into the closet when they grow up and fester privatly. Things were so much better when freaks were in the open. It kept them on more of an even keel. Quote Link to comment
Fakk 2 Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 I enjoyed D&D, even watched the cartoon when I was young. Even to this day, I watch any fantasy type movie, play Magic the Gathering, paper and online. Even go to Renassance Faires. It so much better than what is in real life. But I am strange (unique) that way. I bought a GPS. Now I get lost with style. Quote Link to comment
mckee Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Paul Ag:If you like his avatar then you are the type to like http://www.gnome007.fsnet.co.uk/geognome.html#Finding Have fun trading those gnomes and after you are done you can go in the woods and play D&D while dress in your elf outfit. I know the type. 20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with roled the dice to have sex with a elf. I have been scarred ever since. That was the end of my D&D, trolls, dragons, or anything else creeply phase. Good Luck Cache Baggers - Paul Ag Did the elf fail her saving throw? We were going to start stuffing a bunch of our Tom Clark Cairn gnomes into caches, but most of the gnomes are too big. I will be stuck with my ex-wife's collectible gnome cr@p until I die, then they will be buried with me, I just know it. Quote Link to comment
mckee Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by carleenp:Interesting stats. Guess I missed the early D&D years! No, you really didn't miss anything. It didn't get interesting until the AD&D manuals came out. I still have people who invite me over to game, and I'm 36! I'm too old to be a D&D Geek! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 We thinks the avatar is pressssscious. We likes it. No! We hates the avatar. Ahhhh, but the avatar has been nice to us. We loves the avatar. Sngans Think parallel branes and five dimensions. Science never sounded so cool.... Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Paul Ag: I know the type. 20 yrs ago, I threw my new D&D game in the trash after the freak I was playing with roled the dice to have sex with a elf. I have been scarred ever since. That was the end of my D&D, trolls, dragons, or anything else creeply phase. Good Luck Cache Baggers - Paul Ag Dude! Did you go to Willowridge HS? I think I knew that guy. Of course there was usually more than one in those geeky fringe groups. I went to 2 D&D club meetings and quickly made a fade. Imagine, people too freaky for me to tolerate....and I think circus freaks are cool. Sngans Think parallel branes and five dimensions. Science never sounded so cool.... Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 y'know, Gollum isn't all that bad. If anything, I'd haVe to say the piranha on radiation Snoogans has would cause me more midnight sweats. Brian Team A.I. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Brian - Team A.I.:y'know, Gollum isn't all that bad. If anything, I'd haVe to say the piranha on radiation Snoogans has would cause me more midnight sweats. Brian Team A.I. Watch out! Those things are loose in the sewers. One might swim up your pipes and bite you on your a$$. Sngans Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain. Quote Link to comment
+Searching_ut Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Hmmm, now you have me wondering about all of these avatars. What does it all really mean? What would you find if you opend UMC's bucket? Is totemLake going to be okay? Is there really a Pika in Nebraska? I didn't think you ever found them below 8,000 feet or so....... I really need to get out caching more. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote: I still have people who invite me over to game, and I'm 36! I'm too old to be a D&D Geek! Yeah, I'm 36 too. Didn't get into D&D then and won't now. BUT I will admit that I am fairly eccentric and get into things that Renegade Night, from his post, might make him label me as a *freak.* E.g. I love anime and comics and have little toys all over my office (thank God that I have a job where I can act unprofessional). But I am very open about my eccentricities. I also don't try to push them on people or get way too serious about them, which is where I differ from some of those D&D, anime and comic freaks. People seem to be OK with my nerdy/geeky eccentricity, but I suppose some maybe never actually tell me they think I'm a geek (which I really am) and just talk about me behind my back. Oh well.... If that is true, they would be surprised to find that I agree with them but in a positive manner! Oh! and I know that some co-workers think my geocaching hobby sounds nerdy/geeky and crazy! Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote: Is there really a Pika in Nebraska? I didn't think you ever found them below 8,000 feet or so....... I have never seen a Pika in Nebraska, but did see one at around 7,500- 8,000 feet in Wyoming several years ago. The poor thing was hunkered up in a campground outhouse! My Pika actually is meant to be the Pokemon Pikachu, but I love regular Pika too! Quote Link to comment
+Spzzmoose Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 I get freaked out by avatars showing guy's dressed up like girls. Shudder! Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Opps, partial double post. [This message was edited by carleenp on August 06, 2003 at 07:21 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Take the avatar off us! It burns us! Take it off! Wow, take a few hours off the forum to actually go find a cache today and look what happens - I get a whole thread about little ole me!! My first avatar was more like me - it was a my USA Hockey goalie mask but I got no reactions from that so......I changed to Gollum who I loved in both the books and movie. Went around for days giving my wife the creeps quoting the movie ! For the D&D thread - sorry never played the game but had a few friends that did. Have nothing to add to that discussion, sorry. For those who are disturbed by the avatar - maybe I'll change it to Smeagol BTW - That's not really Gollum. It's a picture of BrianSnat hahahaha...... Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:BTW - That's not really Gollum. It's a picture of BrianSnat hahahaha...... You are a liar and you know it. Just to end any confusion, here is my photo: How about a biiiig kiss now? "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: here is my photo: http://home.att.net/~briansnat/virgil.jpg How about a biiiig kiss now? Bring back the avatar Brian! I like that one almost as much as Mountain Mudbug's old one. Sngans Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain. Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: here is my photo: How about a biiiig kiss now? Y'all lyk mah dubl stackr2 traylre? Tha wurldz strongst faat...er, wyrlds frst too hy mobyle ho....me Brian Team A.I. Quote Link to comment
Team VaxCave Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 My brother! I've finally found you! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:My brother! I've finally found you! I think not. One of my teeth are real. You've obviously had some dental work. "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry [This message was edited by BrianSnat on August 06, 2003 at 06:11 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 Ack! Not again! Nooooo! I will say though that I think I have seen the web site Brian's photo comes from. Maybe you posted it once or something, Brian? If I am right, it is really funny. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:Originally posted by carleenp:...BUT I will admit that I am fairly eccentric and get into things that Renegade Night, from his post, might make him label me as a *freak.*... There are freaks and there are freaks. I'll lay odds you are that other kind. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote: I will say though that I think I have seen the web site Brian's photo comes from. Maybe you posted it once or something, Brian? If I am right, it is really funny. Ok, it comes from here. I admit, it's not me. I have another tooth. "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Brian - Team A.I.:y'know, Gollum isn't all that bad. If anything, I'd haVe to say the piranha on radiation Snoogans has would cause me more midnight sweats. Brian Team A.I. The one that gives me the heebies is that weird 3-d star with the eyball blinking in it... yeeesh. Joel (joefrog) "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for ye are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!" Quote Link to comment
my precious Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 ugly and i know ugly [This message was edited by my precious on August 29, 2003 at 08:26 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 quote:Originally posted by carleenp:Also, was D&D aroud 20 years ago? I don't know for sure, but it seems younger than that. I was 16 then and I don't remember it being around until I was 21 or so. I played D&D in college in 1980. Gad, I guess I'm really dating myself here. Webfoot Veni...Vidi...Vicachi. I came...I saw...I geocached. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: quote: I will say though that I think I have seen the web site Brian's photo comes from. Maybe you posted it once or something, Brian? If I am right, it is really funny. Ok, it comes from http://www.mytrailerpark.com/. I admit, it's not me. I have another tooth. _"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry_ I was on a trail in a National Forest at the crack of dawn. I didn't see a soul. There was one spider web after another across the trail so I knew no one had been by there, yet. Then I saw something that creeped me out - a hooded sweatshirt hanging in a branch and a pair of running shoes under them. They hadn't been there for too long - it wasn't like something that was abandoned. Needless to say, I was on my toes for a mile or so expecting to see someone who looked like this Quote Link to comment
+Pat Patterson Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by mckee: quote:Originally posted by carleenp:Interesting stats. Guess I missed the early D&D years! No, you really didn't miss anything. It didn't get interesting until the AD&D manuals came out. I still have people who invite me over to game, and I'm 36! I'm too old to be a D&D Geek! Your never too old to loose yourself in a world where you get to chop up people that **** you off. ;o) As for having sex with elves it's better than those dadgum dirty humans. I'm 34 I play a 6'6" elf that's just over 250 lbs and carries a 6' sword. As I'm now lvl 16 < started this char the month before I got married in 91> I can do anything I please. Well almost. I hang with this hafling <hobbit> that has a habit of colecting things that were not her's. Over the years I've turned into her big bro ;o) The DM has even started thinking of a way to have my char quest for things ala geocaching. posably an orb or something that leads me to treasure or mail boxes left by the other elves in my order. We game about once a week and my daughter has been champing at the bit to goin us. I started when I was 11 in 1980 with AD&D I now play second edition < 3rd for those keeping score> She is now almost 12 and Dad is running out of excuses to keep it "guy's" night. Pat Patterson Garmin 12XL 82CJ7 & 79F250 Herd of Turtles 4x4 club Quote Link to comment
georapper Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 if you don't like the avatar, don't look at it. Creativity Within The Bounds Of Conformity Quote Link to comment
+opey one Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Nevermind Green acres is the place to be..... Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by my precious:ugly and i know ugly Kaelia and you need to find these: The one ring The one ring Webfoot Veni...Vidi...Vicachi. I came...I saw...I geocached. Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Webfoot: Kaelia and you need to find these: http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=4666 http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=5149 Dang, I hate that enter key. Or possibly these: The ONE Ring Sauron's Ring Ring-Bearer The Ring Webfoot Veni...Vidi...Vicachi. I came...I saw...I geocached. Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 It looks like "my precious" may already have found "his precious". http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=66ecfd3a-0ef5-4138-9a37-fa72e5aac6dc Cool cache!! [This message was edited by greengecko on August 30, 2003 at 09:26 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 And me on the other side of the country...... Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Kealia:And me on the other side of the country...... You could hitch a ride... wait, do you have a thumb? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Dream Alchemist:...play Magic the Gathering... I used to play in tournaments. My DCI rating put me in no danger of ever being a contender. Geocaching got in the way of playing more than once a blue moon. If we actually get some snow this winter I'll blow the dust off the collection. We tried the first version of LOTR. Cool cards good game but it wasn't a good enough to push aside MTG at the time. I just gave my son about 2000 of those cards. I'm suprised Carleenp doesn't collect these things. Though they aren't anime. Quote Link to comment
+Squealy Posted August 31, 2003 Share Posted August 31, 2003 I'm jealous and wish I'd found it first! Shut up and cache! Quote Link to comment
+WildcatRegi Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 I really like the Gollum character, but then again, I am a Peter Lorrie fan. "The hardest thing to find is something that's not there!" Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: quote:Originally posted by carleenp: I will say though that I think I have seen the web site Brian's photo comes from. Maybe you posted it once or something, Brian? If I am right, it is really funny. Ok, it comes from http://www.mytrailerpark.com/. I admit, it's not me. I have another tooth. Whats the deal with this... Been there... Done that... [This message was edited by CWL on September 03, 2003 at 11:49 AM.] Quote Link to comment
Fakk 2 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 that msg is just a javascript thrown in to disable the right click menu to save images, it wont actually format your C: drive. Its just cheesy scripting to keep people from stealing images, though there are many other ways to do. The easiest way is to click and drag the image up into the address bar. It will then just load the image without all the script and you are free to right click and save the image. I bought a GPS. Now I get lost with style. Quote Link to comment
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