Last night I was telling my husband about a great organization called
Opertion Gratitude that organizes care packages and personal letters
for soldiers overseas. After seeing Farenheit 911 I was looking for a
positive way to help deal with my frustration over the political
situation and found this site. (Regardless of your partisan affliation
and feeling about the war, our military personnel need to thanked and
supported. Check it out www.opgratitude.com)
Anyway, while discussing what we could include in care packages, Steve
joked I could carve a stamp and make up a letterbox and perhaps a GI
could hide it in the foxhole where Saddam Hussein was found. Just
think of the clues! ANyway we had a good laugh about other possible
locations for overseas boxes. I certainly mean no disrespect to the
Iraqis, it is just that laughter is good medicine and helps motivate
more than deeling discouraged and powerless.
Does anyone else have fun ideas about theorectical box locations? The
Watergate Hotel? The Great Pyramids (Proabbly on ethere already for
all I know) The Eiffel Tower?
Theorectical box location
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Started on 2004-08-12
Theorectical box location
From: jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) |
Date: 2004-08-12 15:40:30 UTC
Re: Theorectical box location
From: rscarpen (letterboxing@atlasquest.com) |
Date: 2004-08-12 16:21:15 UTC
> Steve joked I could carve a stamp and make up a letterbox and
> perhaps a GI could hide it in the foxhole where Saddam Hussein was
> found.
I heard they sealed that foxhole so as not to make it a rallying
point for supporters of Saddam Hussein. So that's not going to
work! =)
> Does anyone else have fun ideas about theorectical box locations?
For those of you that are familiar with Atlas Quest, I've put in a
couple of 'fake cities' for purely my own amusement. Not that I ever
expected anyone to discover them on their own, but there are two
towns I've included that you won't find on any map. =)
The first is "Weapons of Mass Destruction", which is located in Iraq,
of course. (I've had a morbid sense of fun telling people
that, "Yeah, I know where the weapons of mass destruction are in
Iraq!")
You'll also find a small town in western Connecticut called
Stepford. =) I'm itching to actually hide a Stepford box and list
the location as being in 'Stepford, CT', but I don't get out to that
part of the country very often, so for now it'll have to stay on my
to-do list. =)
I was also playing with ideas for adding towns like "Hell, Michigan",
but as it turns out, there really is a town named Hell in Michigan!
The joke was on me, I guess. =) (Am I the only person that thinks
Hell, Michigan, is just BEGGING for a letterbox?!)
I might add a few more joke cities as I think of them, though. Just
to keep things interesting....
-- Ryan
> perhaps a GI could hide it in the foxhole where Saddam Hussein was
> found.
I heard they sealed that foxhole so as not to make it a rallying
point for supporters of Saddam Hussein. So that's not going to
work! =)
> Does anyone else have fun ideas about theorectical box locations?
For those of you that are familiar with Atlas Quest, I've put in a
couple of 'fake cities' for purely my own amusement. Not that I ever
expected anyone to discover them on their own, but there are two
towns I've included that you won't find on any map. =)
The first is "Weapons of Mass Destruction", which is located in Iraq,
of course. (I've had a morbid sense of fun telling people
that, "Yeah, I know where the weapons of mass destruction are in
Iraq!")
You'll also find a small town in western Connecticut called
Stepford. =) I'm itching to actually hide a Stepford box and list
the location as being in 'Stepford, CT', but I don't get out to that
part of the country very often, so for now it'll have to stay on my
to-do list. =)
I was also playing with ideas for adding towns like "Hell, Michigan",
but as it turns out, there really is a town named Hell in Michigan!
The joke was on me, I guess. =) (Am I the only person that thinks
Hell, Michigan, is just BEGGING for a letterbox?!)
I might add a few more joke cities as I think of them, though. Just
to keep things interesting....
-- Ryan