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31st March 2007, 03:59 PM
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Here's a pic I found on a Scandinavian cachers home page, Jasy. Thought it might be good start for a caching humour thread!
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31st March 2007, 04:09 PM
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Geocaching Terms You Don't Find In The Handbook
- This has been quoted from "Today's cacher" magazine, By Torry Stiles
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
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
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
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