3rd Tuesday, 6th month, fourth year.
On this date in 1895, the inaugural run of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue service between Washington, D. C. and New Yprk City using electric locomotives occurred. Signific ant or Edersburgian geocachers how, ye asks? Well, let me tell you. Far into the future, in April of 2017, the building originally used for a colored school during the 1950s got converted to the headquarters for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Historical Society. That buildong is located in Eldersburg, right next to a geocache (https://coord.info/GC6P0CZ)!
Helen Keller, Ross Perot and Peter Maas werre born on this day; George Patton, Albert R. Broccoli and Jack Lemon died on this day. The first color TV was demonstrated in 1927 on this day in New Yroy City, and the first ATM was installed on this day in 1967 in Enfield, London. In 1967 Ethel Merman married Ernest Borgnine today. In 1984, the Suprem Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals, and in 1985, Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System. in 1998, n English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm. Rumor has it she gave birth to a geocacher.
Actually, all of that happened next week, on the 27th. If anything of significance happened on this date, Phos4us will surely tell us. Really the most significant thing will have happened after you've shown up and attended this event!
Ok, back to your regularly scheduled programming:
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! To find out who we are and what we're about, please visit http://c3f.finditlogitspreadit.info. Come on out and meet fellow cachers, share stories of your trials and tribulations (or Trials and Tubulations!) in searching for that elusive hide, and swap travel bugs and geocoins. Here's a chance for you to experience the part of the hobby that doesn't feature poison ivy, ticks, mosquitos, chiggers, leeches, cockleburs, beggar's lice, thorns or greenbriar! Instead, come observe the oddities of human behavior as your fellow cachers wander 'round the parking lot scribbling down codes from trackable vehicles, shooting photos of each other's nametags, and generally examining each other closely to insure they have not missed a trackable t-shirt, bracelet, earings or necklace! Hear tales of DNF woe (bring extra kleenex, would ya'?). Hear tales of FTF triumph (bring extra champagne will ya'?).
Regular attendees at this monthly event include some truly stellar cachers from our local area, who are filled with caching wisdom, friendly, and eager to share their experience and help answer questions if you need assistance. If you are new to geocaching, we are eager to get your caching career off to an excellent start! We have master puzzle cachers, master woodsmen, geotrail kings and queens, prolific cachers, and once-in-a-whilers. We have Rogi! We have bugs! We have a travelling Little Free Library of geocachiong books! We have way too much hype and excitement!
But beyond all that, with all sincerity, we have a tremendous group of regular attendees who are always looking for ways to give back to the geocaching community, and are truly a pleasure to be around. All are welcome, so please come and join the crowd!
Makes you all weepy, don't it? Ok let's get back to being silly!
WARNING***WARNING****WARNING
THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERRUPTS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE THE SPREAD OF THE ZTB VIRUS. PARTICIPANTS MAY BE EXPOSED TO MORBID HUMOR, EDGAR ALLEN POE REFERENCES, AND SUBTLE, SUBLIMINAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY CAUSE THE DESIRE TO EAT SPAM. ATTENDANCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIOUSLY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.
FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE: WWW.FINDITLOGITSPRREADIT.INFO
WARNING***WARNING****WARNING
Bah. Pesky government weenies. Just because there was a huge breakout of zombie travel bugs all over the planet recently doesn't mean it is a problem here. That's a bunch of malarkey! There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg. It is just a census designated place (CDP), whatever that means. Come on out, it'll be just fine!
We will be continuing geocaching crash courses in 2017. At the beginning of each session, we'll conduct a ten minute crash course in some aspect of geocaching, just to get the juices flowing and the conversations started (really this is a vain attempt to keep the puzzle cachers off topic, it never works). This month's topic, will be: TBD, open for suggestions!. Got a request? Post it in your "will attend" log!
Be sure to ask Zekester what "Be the Bug" means! No, it is not a virus!!!
Also, there are a number of caches nearby in Eldersburg, be sure to check them out!
For whom: This event is for YOU!!! Regardless of whether you have found a handful of caches or thousands of them, or you just have a burgeoning interest, all are welcome! We don't bite (well our zombies do, but we don't) , we're really nice! Honest! Ask anyone!
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 20UN2017.
Where? Panera Bread, 6300 Georgetown Boulevard, Eldersburg, Maryland (or just use the convenient coordinates posted above!).
Why? Have dinner. Meet a cacher. Tell a tale. Trade a coin or travel bug. Meet Rogi! Find out what "Be the Bug" means!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are not required to purchase anything to attend this event.
This month's raffle may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks filled with eau de manbear, a tone wheel, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, a Winnebago, a haiku puzzle cache, a fully operational TV-B-Gone, a Soma Cube, magnetic toroids, an excellent recipe for oysters kirkpatrick, a stuffed whistle-pig, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, an armillary (maybe two!) meatball cupcakes, or at least a recipe for them, U-bolts, lug nuts, a yodelling pickle, filberts, a pheasant claw, a mummified squid, night-vision goggles, geocacher cremains, marbles, a lego lamb, a meteorite, one hobnail boot (left one, men's 45), a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), a mixed variety of animal footprint shoes, two potatoes, a virginal, coriander, a skeleton key, a lock of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, a scrimshaw travel bug, a Toot-A-Loop transistor radio, an exultation of larks, tweezers, an egg cuber, a hard copy of the budget of the Unites Sates from 1953, eyeglass repair kits, a condom autographed by "Smokey" from Las Vegas (we found it in a cache at the Pinball Hall of Fame), a wee bit of uranium ore (we got it on Amazon) a quill pen, a uphayinaphu (but not the juice, that's not permitted!), O-rings, D-rings, Sawyer, un-hatched Man-Goose eggs (fertilization status unlknown), anisette biscotti, scratch-n'-sniff test cards, a FrogKing, filet mignon, a 5.5 ounce can of unicorn meat, flibberty-gibbets, Janet Jackson's infamous nipple shield (yes, that one, we got it on eBay for a song!!!), a harpoon (BUT NO HATCHETS!!!), a signed copy of Omoo, one unused but fully operational fornistat and a Bergonic Chair (we tried it on Alzarius, but it didn't work). Sometimes there's unmentionables too! Not just a bustier! That's right unmentionables (pathtags). Oh, and also, No microwave this month, it went to Geowoodstock!
If you pick up a travel bug, please make sure that make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.
We are deeply grateful for the joy all of you bring us each month, and for your forebearance with these ridiculous event write-ups!