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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by Apty » 07 February 11 11:25 am

tatty,

Pls explain this word you use - "buy" ?????

The owner of Ikea is one of the richest people in the world.
Also, TattsLotto, PubKeno, ... there are many sources of small pencils.

Being an atheist, I now hear I'm missing out on a source at churches. Is this happening in all churches, or only certain denominations??

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Post by tatty » 07 February 11 11:53 am

$2 for a box of pencils is cheaper than driving an hour to IKEA to pocket some freebies here :lol:

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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by Bronnie_1990 » 07 February 11 5:47 pm

I've almost been kicked out of the local club for stealing one too many keno pencils.

i guess this is what happens when there's no ikea in canberra.

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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by Laighside Legends » 07 February 11 10:26 pm

I've heard the Golf courses (both the regular and miniature variates
) are a good source of small pencils

I prefer pesky's bandsaw method - except I use a hacksaw :D
And of course the grinder to sharpen up the top ends...

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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by MtnLioness » 10 February 11 6:32 pm

Laighside Legends wrote:I've heard the Golf courses (both the regular and miniature variates
) are a good source of small pencils

I prefer pesky's bandsaw method - except I use a hacksaw :D
And of course the grinder to sharpen up the top ends...
Excessive much?

Ever heard of a 50c pencil sharpener?

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Post by blossom* » 10 February 11 6:45 pm

I often find pencils break and pencil sharpeners go rusty and make holes in the log bag.
Check out the new GCA shop pens :D \:D/

http://geocaching.com.au/shop/index.php ... duct_id=71

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Post by Laighside Legends » 10 February 11 8:48 pm

MtnLioness wrote:
Laighside Legends wrote:I've heard the Golf courses (both the regular and miniature variates
) are a good source of small pencils

I prefer pesky's bandsaw method - except I use a hacksaw :D
And of course the grinder to sharpen up the top ends...
Excessive much?

Ever heard of a 50c pencil sharpener?
I'm not sure how much power it takes to run a grinder for 20 secs but I'm sure it would be less than 50c :D And it is about 10 times quicker :mrgreen:
blossom* wrote:Check out the new GCA shop pens :D \:D/

http://geocaching.com.au/shop/index.php ... duct_id=71
Wow :D and only 75c =D>
Can we use them as swaps as well? :mrgreen:

I'm not really sure why we bother this much with pens/pencils as I (and I sure many others would) carry a pen while out caching anyway.

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Post by gmj3191 » 10 February 11 9:19 pm

Off topic

You know you're a cacher when ..... you get sidetracked talking about small pencils ](*,)
Laighside Legends wrote:
MtnLioness wrote:
Laighside Legends wrote:I've heard the Golf courses (both the regular and miniature variates
) are a good source of small pencils

I prefer pesky's bandsaw method - except I use a hacksaw :D
And of course the grinder to sharpen up the top ends...
Excessive much?

Ever heard of a 50c pencil sharpener?
I'm not sure how much power it takes to run a grinder for 20 secs but I'm sure it would be less than 50c :D And it is about 10 times quicker :mrgreen:
blossom* wrote:Check out the new GCA shop pens :D \:D/

http://geocaching.com.au/shop/index.php ... duct_id=71
Wow :D and only 75c =D>
Can we use them as swaps as well? :mrgreen:

I'm not really sure why we bother this much with pens/pencils as I (and I sure many others would) carry a pen while out caching anyway.

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Post by caughtatwork » 10 February 11 9:29 pm

gmj3191 wrote:Off topic

You know you're a cacher when ..... you get sidetracked talking about small pencils ](*,)
Laighside Legends wrote:
MtnLioness wrote:
Laighside Legends wrote:I've heard the Golf courses (both the regular and miniature variates
) are a good source of small pencils

I prefer pesky's bandsaw method - except I use a hacksaw :D
And of course the grinder to sharpen up the top ends...
Excessive much?

Ever heard of a 50c pencil sharpener?
I'm not sure how much power it takes to run a grinder for 20 secs but I'm sure it would be less than 50c :D And it is about 10 times quicker :mrgreen:
blossom* wrote:Check out the new GCA shop pens :D \:D/

http://geocaching.com.au/shop/index.php ... duct_id=71
Wow :D and only 75c =D>
Can we use them as swaps as well? :mrgreen:

I'm not really sure why we bother this much with pens/pencils as I (and I sure many others would) carry a pen while out caching anyway.
Well, back on topic, you know you're a geocacher when you buy 200 pens and spend hours with the youngest reducing them in size, using secateurs and scissors, getting ink all over the place and the youngest one comes up to you the next night and asks to do it all over again. Well, OK, not on topic :mrgreen:

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Post by gmj3191 » 10 February 11 11:41 pm

caughtatwork wrote: Well, back on topic, you know you're a geocacher when you buy 200 pens and spend hours with the youngest reducing them in size, using secateurs and scissors, getting ink all over the place and the youngest one comes up to you the next night and asks to do it all over again. Well, OK, not on topic :mrgreen:
Well done C@W, being a good father and involving the kids is more important than even caching,
but you know you're a cacher when you can combine the two ....

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Post by Rigger64 » 11 February 11 9:21 pm

You know your a Geocacher When every Mode of transport has a GPSr mount on/in it well just about every Mode of transport of mine has a GPSr mount. The only thing that doesn't have a mount on it yet is my Kayak but that will have one on it real soon.

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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by Sol de Lune » 11 February 11 10:21 pm

........you can't wait for Feb 17th when the movie Gnomeo and Juliet is released, just so you can go and see
a few more gnomes......and what else they can get up to. :gnome :gnomette

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Post by tronador » 11 February 11 10:30 pm

..........you go for a run and see a gnome on someones letter box, and almost run off with it....... before realizing the race is over and that gnome is already at home!!!!! :gnome :gnomette

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Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by Apty » 12 February 11 11:54 am

.... even though the gnomes are gno longer racing, you think gnow is more fun because there's a better chance that a gnome will still be where it's posted when you drive 50km to find it.

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