Lame

[+bee keeper]

Hi,

 

I see the word "lame" used a lot. Just what does lame mean?

[+Muirwoody]

"lame" usually means not very challenging, not different, too easy, done a thousand times, does nothing to add to the hobby. Some peoples idea of "lame" is different than others, though. An example of lame is usually given as a magnetic key holder cache stuck on a light post in a busy parking lot. But some people like those, so who knows?

[+briansnat]

Lame to me means a cache that is hidden with little thought given to the container, contents and location. This includes things like log only micros (in which the log is usually a sheet torn from notebook because they were too lazy to use scissors) attached to Burger King dumpsters, Gladware containers filled with junk and hidden under rotting plywood boards in litter strewn lots and ammo boxes hidden under bridges that also serve as a shooting den for heroin addicts, a meeting place for hookers and a homeless encampment.

Edited August 25, 2004 by briansnat

[+Renegade Knight]

Lame = sucks.

 

This cache is lame can be swapped for this cache sucks.

[+Thot]

Webster's Collegiate

Lame -- Lacking needful or desirable substance: WEAK INEFFECTUAL

Edited August 25, 2004 by Thot

[+CompuCash]

Webster's Collegiate

Lame -- Lacking needful or desirable substance: WEAK INEFFECTUAL

 

there ya go !!

 

Thot had a thought and thought to give us that thought from the dictionary.

[Tahosa and Sons]

We should re-instate good virtuals and dump all the lame caches from this sport.

But lames have their virtues, there are those that cannot go after the tough ones so for them that is a good cache.

[4x4van]

Even a "lame" cache can be a good example of a bad example!

[+tirediron]

We should re-instate good virtuals and dump all the lame caches from this sport.

But lames have their virtues, there are those that cannot go after the tough ones so for them that is a good cache.

Don't forget, it's subjective. What you find lame, someone else will enjoy! Just because it's easy to get to doesn't mean it's lame. A very easy 1/1 micro I did down in San Diego a couple of years ago could be called lame by those standards, but it gave me the opportunity to get a view (and some awesome photos) of the city that I would have totally missed otherwise. Lame? I think not!

[+Ed & Julie]

Key holder+parking lot lampost=no poison oak=good cache to me.

 

One man's lame is another mans godsend to the poison oak weary...

 

Ed

[+Thot]

Just because it's easy to get to doesn't mean it's lame.

From my perspective difficulty doesn’t have anything to do with lame.

 

Lame is like when the cache container won’t seal; the contents or logbook are wet and there’s mud, worms and other critters living (or dead) in the cache.

 

Lame might also include micro caches a half mile into and off the trail of a densely forested area with lots of fallen limbs and undergrowth. Where dense canopy has the GPS thoroughly confused and where, in the still 100 degree heat, while constantly wiping the sweat out of your burning eyes you decrypt the hint to find it says, “Hey, you low life cheater, this one’s too easy. No hints.”

 

Or maybe where after walking a mile to it, the coordinates put you on the wrong side of a large creek.

[thorin]

"You know the word gullible isn't in the dictionary."

Edited August 25, 2004 by thorin

[+SixDogTeam]

Gimpy: like a three-legged dog.

[+fly46]

Lame might also include micro caches a half mile into and off the trail of a densely forested area with lots of fallen limbs and undergrowth.

That's my definition of it... Micros should, IMO, be for something where a regular sized container just won't fit. If there's a spot big enough to hide at least a peanut butter jar, then you putting a micro there is LAME.

 

 

Seriously, though... What they said... Lame=Crappy or a hide with no thought in it or... the word pathetic could work here..

[+Renegade Knight]

Lame, is like a limp handshake.

Edited August 26, 2004 by Renegade Knight

[+Muirwoody]

..and your Black Lagoon doesn't look lame to me. I would do it if I was there and not in Indiana.

[thorin]

Lame is when your horse is FUBAR

 

Thorin

[+Charles Street Gang]

Someone has to start somewhere...we have learned alot from lame geocaches!

[+fresgo]

[but lames have their virtues, there are those that cannot go after the tough ones so for them that is a good cache. ]

 

Wow... that's nice!

Edited September 11, 2004 by fresgo

[+Fizzfever]

Urban micros have a place, it is sometimes nice to take the older kids out to get a quick mental excercise. My older kids love the finding more than the trinkets sometimes.