+briansnat Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 It seems to be increasingly popular for cache owners to require things of finders in addition to simply finding the cache and signing the logbook. In some cases you also have to provide a code word from inside the container. I've also seen where you must trade according to the theme in order to log online and other similarly ridiculious things. But this one takes the cake! In order to log this cache you must dance The Funky Chicken all the way from the parking lot to the cache site. To prove you've done this, either e-mail me with a clip of you doing so (AVI format only please)...OR...send me 2 notorized affadavits from witnesses attesting to the fact that you did this. Only after I received verification will allow you to post a log. *****NOTE 1/17/2005!!!!!!!! Please be advised that The Funky Chicken and The Chicken Dance are not the same dance. Future logs (as of today) accompanied by videos of the finder doing The Chicken Dance (or any dance other than The Funky Chicken) WILL BE DELETED!!!!!!****** Quote Link to comment
Kybra Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I think the cache owner should supply a full version of the dance steps and the transcript of the lyrics (if any) for anyone that wishes to find this cache... better still they could provide a courtesy dance instructor at the carpark 24/7 so all seekers will have an opportunity to comply... by the way I have no idea what the funky chicken dance is. Quote Link to comment
Find Now, Log Later? Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Either post a link to the cache that is from, or see your physician to have your medications adjusted. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I believe this falls under the "you don't *have* to log every cache" category. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 looks like a good candidate for the up-coming "ignore this cache" feature. Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I'll fight for their right to be that weird...and I'll ignore the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Honest John & Suzies Jule Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I believe this falls under the "you don't *have* to log every cache" category. looks like a good candidate for the up-coming "ignore this cache" feature. I'll fight for their right to be that weird...and I'll ignore the cache. You all got that right! Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 is there a way to make it so garbage caches like that NEVER appear on your queries? Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 is there a way to make it so garbage caches like that NEVER appear on your queries? If you use GASK you can filter and have it prevented from future imports, although it will still be in the pocket query Quote Link to comment
Black Mage Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 In order to log this cache you must dance The Funky Chicken all the way from the parking lot to the cache site. It that from an actual cache discription? Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 What is the waypoint of this cache? Quote Link to comment
+BigHank Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 That's funny. What is the difficulty/terrain rating of this cache? Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 it must be a 5 difficulty as you need a video recorder Think I would give it a miss Quote Link to comment
+LthrWrk Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Sure sometimes people bash the reviewers/approvers.. but ya gotta wonder if any cache that has unusual requirements of the seeker should be questioned? What prompts someone to think that adding strange rules or requirements makes it a cache that people would look for? Quote Link to comment
+Team Shibby Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Hmmmm..... Heres another one I found. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is first go to the above coordinates. There you will find the coordinates to go to the final cache. When you find the cache, you MUST flap your arms like a chicken while turning around in circles 3 times. ---- You ARE being watched on security cameras. If you do not do the "Chicken Walk" I will delete your find. When you log in your find, put the time of day you are there. If you are in a group, the whole group must do the "Chicken Walk" at the same time. As always this message will not self destruct in 10 seconds. Have fun. Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 If ya want the smilie, do the funky chicken...seems reasonable to me. Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 ...seems reasonable to me. I hope this isn't the direction this hobby is going. Seems like people placing those kind of expectations have some serious control issues. Maybe inside the cache should also be a copy of the placers last psychological. Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Oh Well! If thats the way you guys feel about creative caches then I guess I'll just go ahead and scrap my idea for the Carman Miranda look-a-like Macarena Dance hide!! Just kidding!! Yeah this one would definately be a DNF for this two left footed hoofer. D-man Quote Link to comment
+shunra Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 It seems to be increasingly popular for cache owners to require things of finders in addition to simply finding the cache and signing the logbook. In some cases you also have to provide a code word from inside the container. I've also seen where you must trade according to the theme in order to log online and other similarly ridiculious things. But this one takes the cake! In order to log this cache you must dance The Funky Chicken all the way from the parking lot to the cache site. To prove you've done this, either e-mail me with a clip of you doing so (AVI format only please)...OR...send me 2 notorized affadavits from witnesses attesting to the fact that you did this. Only after I received verification will allow you to post a log. *****NOTE 1/17/2005!!!!!!!! Please be advised that The Funky Chicken and The Chicken Dance are not the same dance. Future logs (as of today) accompanied by videos of the finder doing The Chicken Dance (or any dance other than The Funky Chicken) WILL BE DELETED!!!!!!****** 18 responses, and still no link to an actual cache. I'm not buying it. The phrase "cache you must dance" (from the first sentence of your "quote") has zero google hits. In the hypothetical case that such a cache were approved in my area, I'd just ignore it, like everyone else. Quote Link to comment
Jeremy Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I hope this isn't the direction this hobby is going. Heh. This always comes off as an old fart comment. Unfortunately I tend to say it more and more nowadays. My guess is this is a joke. or the kind of un-joke that is said at a party when someone says something funny but they're serious, so you sort of half-heartedly chuckle and you get real uncomfortable for a moment before you make an excuse to leave the conversation. So no, I don't think that this would be a realistic direction the geocaching hobby in general will be going. But I can understand the concern. Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Funky Chicken, huh? Stunod wouldn't have anything to do with this, would he? Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I'm not buying it. The phrase "cache you must dance" (from the first sentence of your "quote") has zero google hits. Please don't tell me that this is not a real cache! I just spent $250 on Funky Chicken dance lessons so that I would be prepared for the day I find this one, and its too late now to get my money back! Now I just feel foolish. Quote Link to comment
+Natureboy44 Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Either post a link to the cache that is from, or see your physician to have your medications adjusted. Yes Brian does seem to forget his meds occasionally! Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 i think it's very amusing. you can find it or not. if you have to solve a puzzle, why not a little dance? once you leave the realm of the straightforward box, you've entered the land of "logging requirements". i absolutely support the cache owner's right to place restrictions. i don't hafta hunt it. Quote Link to comment
+treasure_hunter Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 If thats the case they should change the name from GEOCACHING to GEODANCING I think it is rediculous. What would geocaching admin. say about this? Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Oh Well! If thats the way you guys feel about creative caches then I guess I'll just go ahead and scrap my idea for the Carman Miranda look-a-like Macarena Dance hide!! Nuts!! And I was so looking forward to that one.... Edited February 6, 2005 by Shop99er Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 And Thanks, I can't get the chicken dance song out of my head now! Also, what was the waypoint again? Quote Link to comment
+ebengreene Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I'm a little surprised at all the negativity towards someone having a little fun with the funky chicken from members of a fringe hobby like geocaching. By the way, my mother has tried unsuccessfully to teach me the funky chicken for years. It's my NEMESIS!!! Ben Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Geocaching doesn't care about CHINLDREN or CHINCKENS!!! Quote Link to comment
+Honest John & Suzies Jule Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Could be worst, they could of asked you to do the Tango! The Funky Chicken is easy! Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Geocaching doesn't care about CHINLDREN or CHINCKENS!!! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! CHINLDREN THAT PLACE CACHES SHOULD BE BANNED. Edited February 6, 2005 by robert Quote Link to comment
+globalgirl Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 if you have to solve a puzzle, why not a little dance? once you leave the realm of the straightforward box, you've entered the land of "logging requirements". i absolutely support the cache owner's right to place restrictions. i don't hafta hunt it. Absolutely. What he said. Indeed, what's the problem folks? As long as it doesn't endanger folks or destroy the environment, then why get so excited? Why play cache police? Why spend time here lobbing judgementals against one particular cache? Waxing aghast on the benign requirements of but one of a gazillion caches with every flavor of puzzle and/or find requirements? After all, it is only out of the gratuitous nature of cache hiders that this game exists at all. Thus if you don't happen to favor such a cache - or for that matter the requirements of ANY cache - then simply pass on it. Nobody's forcing you to do it. In short - geez, how many times does it have to be repeated? - the very BEST part about this game is that everybody can play it anyway they like! Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 i think it's very amusing. you can find it or not. if you have to solve a puzzle, why not a little dance? once you leave the realm of the straightforward box, you've entered the land of "logging requirements". i absolutely support the cache owner's right to place restrictions. i don't hafta hunt it. Solving a puzzle in order to find a cache is totally different. If you dont figure it out then you probably wont be able to locate the cache or sign the log inside, thereby making it a NO find. Doing a dance has nothing to do with finding a cache. Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 If briansnat is just trying to jerk some of you guys chains then he's succeeded! Don't take life so serious, it's only temporary! Nobody gets out alive! Have fun and enjoy life!! D-man Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Assuming for the moment that this cache, or an equally strange cache, exists. I would beg TPTB to create a "I will not look for this." or "Ignore" log note or some such that indicates you do not want this cache on PQ's. As this hobby/game grows, more and more of these types of caches are likely appear, taking up more and more of your precious 500 cache-limit on your PQ's. In short, it will be the end of caching as we know it today Even though I am joking here a little bit, and I don't really have any caches in my area I want to ignore, yet, I still would like an "Ignore this cache" log entry. That being said, I will defend to my death the cache owner's right to create such a stu..., , uh..., original cache. Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I still would like an "Ignore this cache" log entry. exactly or......a seperate category for stu.... errr..... different cache types of this nature Quote Link to comment
+Seay me Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Don't take life so serious, it's only temporary! Nobody gets out alive! D-man Very true, live has a 100% fatality rate. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 7, 2005 Author Share Posted February 7, 2005 I still would like an "Ignore this cache" log entry. exactly or......a seperate category for stu.... errr..... different cache types of this nature Said by someone who is most probably a lousy dancer . Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I still would like an "Ignore this cache" log entry. exactly or......a seperate category for stu.... errr..... different cache types of this nature Said by someone who is most probably a lousy dancer . ever since that incident in the 70's when I tried to boogie in some silk pants.......well, we won't say anymore of this Quote Link to comment
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