Has this happened to you? You received a notice that a new cache has been published. Maybe it’s a puzzle cache. You look at it, and something just clicks and you make a fast solve, faster than you thought possible. The checker gives you the green light! You head out to find the cache, certain that no one else could have figured this out as fast as you did. You arrive at the location, only to see the tail lights of another vehicle as they are driving away. You missed it by “that much.”
So much for going down in history as the FTF on that cache. People keep track of FTFs and many have stories to regale their caching comrades. No one really wants to hear about how you almost had the FTF. Below is a list of people that, like so many of us, saw the tail lights of pulling away while someone else that signed that clean log sheet and everlasting fame.
Landscape painters
- Lev Bogomolets: member of the Leningrad School of Painting.
- Bob Ross: of course, happy clouds just like happy cachers finding that clean sheet.
OH! How life his would’ve been different if he would’ve painted happy socialist clouds!
Early Movies
- Pauline Starke: was an uncredited “favorite of the Harem” in the movie Intolerence (1916), which starred…
- Lilian Gish: a favorite of millions (including Hawkeye Pierce) and a darling of early tabloids
Western Movies
- Harry Harvey Sr.: appeared in more than 300 western movies, including Destry Rides Again and television shows, all the way to Adam-12, but he never really made it into a leading man role
- Tom Mix: the star of Destry Rides Again and became a role model for every other cowboy star and millions of children
College Football
- Kayo Lam: was a halfback for the University of Colorado who led the nation in rushing in 1934 & 1935 during the heyday of college football mania, but his fame didn’t last as long as his partner in the backfield.
- Byron “Whizzer” White: after college he played in the NFL before practicing law. After being the Colorado chair for the John Kennedy campaign, he was selected to sit on the US Supreme Court in 1960, to retire in 1993
OH! Kayo, why didn’t you hobnob with the Kennedys?
You can assume N42 and W121
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