Hitchhiking Gif

From: Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | Date: 2000-08-11 15:06:37 UTC

I'd like to put up a list of "Traveling" letterboxes, aka Parasite
Boxes. I promised Sarah to do this back in May, and still haven't
gotten to it.

I'd thought originally that a little icon of Sarah's Y2K bug might be
a good one. But there's been some concern about the risk to
letterboxers in the east of Lyme Tick Disease. So maybe 'Traveler' is
a better descriptor for us to use?

Maybe the image of a hitchhiking thumb would be an icon we could use.
What do people think? Could anyone send me a little gif file I could
use for this?

Tom

Re: [LbNA] Hitchhiking Gif

From: Todd Lane (tlane@princeton.edu) | Date: 2000-08-11 15:47:39 UTC-04:00

I always thought of them as leach boxes but perhaps that is not the
most attactive image

-Todd

Tom Cooch wrote:
>
> I'd like to put up a list of "Traveling" letterboxes, aka Parasite
> Boxes. I promised Sarah to do this back in May, and still haven't
> gotten to it.
>
> I'd thought originally that a little icon of Sarah's Y2K bug might be
> a good one. But there's been some concern about the risk to
> letterboxers in the east of Lyme Tick Disease. So maybe 'Traveler' is
> a better descriptor for us to use?
>
> Maybe the image of a hitchhiking thumb would be an icon we could use.
> What do people think? Could anyone send me a little gif file I could
> use for this?
>
> Tom
>
>

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Re: [LbNA] Hitchhiking Gif

From: (enic@aol.com) | Date: 2000-08-12 07:51:56 UTC-04:00

Hey, great idea Tom! I vote for the hitchhiking thumb!

The Ram

Re: [LbNA] Hitchhiking Gif

From: chip goss (kancamangusdabull@yahoo.com) | Date: 2000-08-16 08:23:45 UTC-07:00

Tom,

Having grown up in the shadow of Lyme, Ct. all my life
and the threat of "lyme" disease I feel no real
discomfort at calling these boxes "parasite"
boxes..... It describes them perfectly..... they
"infect" the "host" get "caught" by a new host and
then when that new host finds a more suitable "host"
it re-infects that. As for the Hitch hiking gif. I say
Go for it!

thanks
Chip

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Re: [LbNA] Hitchhiking Gif

From: Matthew Sparks (makaalasparks@hotmail.com) | Date: 2000-08-16 09:00:20 UTC-07:00

If were searching for a descriptive title for hitch-hiker boxes
How about
Limpet boxes.

like a limpet mine, a mine that is attached to the hull of a ship,
like a parasite or hitch-hiker.

It also is a very british word, giving a nod to those on the wrong side of
the atlantic.

And it conjours images of the incredible Mr. Limpet.

Matt

>From: chip goss
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [LbNA] Hitchhiking Gif
>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>Tom,
>
>Having grown up in the shadow of Lyme, Ct. all my life
>and the threat of "lyme" disease I feel no real
>discomfort at calling these boxes "parasite"
>boxes..... It describes them perfectly..... they
>"infect" the "host" get "caught" by a new host and
>then when that new host finds a more suitable "host"
>it re-infects that. As for the Hitch hiking gif. I say
>Go for it!
>
>
>thanks
>Chip
>
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