[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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Sheesh, and to think my anxiousness the night before the Magellan coords were released, I didn't sleep but 30 min. tops. My failure in that arena barely got me an honorable mention award in the form of a hat. :)
Brian
Team A.I.
Must....train.....harder....
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> From: Gale Draper <sonoralovesmommy@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/08/13 Wed PM 06:42:34 EDT
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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> Too funny! I imagine an Olympic geocaching event would be a marathon. You should be pretty good at that, but some of us would stink at it.
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> Bob: Desert Viking is approaching her 15th cache of the day. She's zeroing in, wait she's sitting down. Could she be too tired? This is a tricky cache, she'll need all of her skills on this one. She's looking right at it, she's reaching....Nooo! She's walking away.
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> Jim: Meanwhile Team Sprocket, another Arizona record marathon geocacher approaches his 30th cache and finds it readily. There are now 3 teams in contention for the gold medal in the final geocache. Several have dropped out or failed to find some of the caches. These teams include........(you know who you are, include me in that list)
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> Webb Pickersgill <wpickers@cox.net> wrote:
> LOL! There's some kind of really slick remark I should make right now, but it's just not coming to me. DARN!
>
> BTW, could you imagine Geocaching as an Olympic sport anyway... imagine the commentators..
> Commentator Jim: "CacheLess slowly approaches the cache.... he looks confused... "
> Commentator Bob: "WAIT! He looked right at it... I think he's hot on the trail!"
> Commentator Jim: "OOHHHH NO Bob! He walked the other way"
> Commentator Bob: "Yeah Jim, that's gonna hurt his standings."
> Commentator Jim: "Wait Bob, he's going for the encrypted clue."
> Commentator Bob: "Oh NO! He'll take a penalty point if he does that!"
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> LOL
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> TheWebbman
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> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tomlinson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:31 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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> I sure hope you're wrong. My face is much too handsome to mess up over something so silly. LOL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Brian Casteel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:22 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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> /me hears the distant sound of hissing and the clawing of faces.
>
> Brian
> Team A.I.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Tomlinson
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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>
> Oops, didn't realize humor needed to be based completely on fact. I'll work on that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Ken Akerman
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:42 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics
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>
> Bill of CacheLess wrote:
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> I think that's an awesome idea, but wouldn't the financial reward convert the finder into a professional geocacher thereby knocking them out of a chance to compete when geocaching becomes an Olympic sport? ;-)
>
> Are you thinking that Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens are still competing in the Olympics?
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> Professionals have been competing in the Olympics since 1992. The old amateur rules are long gone.
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> Ken
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> Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
> On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
> "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
> "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
>
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> Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898
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<DIV>Too funny! I imagine an Olympic geocaching event would be a marathon. You should be pretty good at that, but some of us would stink at it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob: Desert Viking is approaching her 15th cache of the day. She's zeroing in, wait she's sitting down. Could she be too tired? This is a tricky cache, she'll need all of her skills on this one. She's looking right at it, she's reaching....Nooo! She's walking away. </DIV>
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<DIV>Jim: Meanwhile Team Sprocket, another Arizona record marathon geocacher approaches his 30th cache and finds it readily. There are now 3 teams in contention for the gold medal in the final geocache. Several have dropped out or failed to find some of the caches. These teams include........(you know who you are, include me in that list)<BR><BR><B><I>Webb Pickersgill <wpickers@cox.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>LOL! There's some kind of really slick remark I should make right now, but it's just not coming to me. DARN!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>BTW, could you imagine Geocaching as an Olympic sport anyway... imagine the commentators.. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator Jim: "CacheLess slowly approaches the cache.... he looks confused... "</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator </FONT></SPAN>Bob: "WAIT! He looked right at it... I think he's hot on the trail!"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator Jim: "</FONT></SPAN>OOHHHH NO Bob! He walked the other way"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator </FONT></SPAN>Bob: "Yeah Jim, that's gonna hurt his standings."</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator Jim: "Wait Bob, he's going for the encrypted clue."</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Commentator </FONT></SPAN>Bob: "Oh NO! He'll take a penalty point if he does that!"</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>LOL</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><SPAN class=346101621-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>TheWebbman</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Bill Tomlinson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:31 PM<BR><B>To:</B> listserv@azgeocaching.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=985162920-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I sure hope you're wrong. My face is much too handsome to mess up over something so silly. LOL</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brian Casteel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B> listserv@azgeocaching.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/me hears the distant sound of hissing and the clawing of faces.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Team A.I.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:59 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=244265819-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Oops, didn't realize humor needed to be based completely on fact. I'll work on that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com">az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com</A> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ken Akerman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:42 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com">listserv@azgeocaching.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching in the Olympics<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><EM>Bill of CacheLess wrote:</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><EM></EM></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><EM>I think that's an awesome idea, but wouldn't the financial reward convert the finder into a professional geocacher thereby knocking them out of a chance to compete when geocaching becomes an Olympic sport? ;-)</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT color=#0000ff>Are you thinking that Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens are still competing in the Olympics? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT color=#0000ff>Professionals have been competing in the Olympics since 1992. The old amateur rules are long gone.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=097040418-13082003><FONT color=#0000ff><BR>Ken</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV><FONT color=#6633cc>Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes<BR> On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:<BR>"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --<BR> "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#6633cc>Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898</FONT></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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