100**100D

From: Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) | Date: 2003-06-09 21:51:04 UTC

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> > Miss Katherine of 100**100 uses The Doubtful Guest image as her
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> > Sir B
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> I use the The Doubtful Guest image as our "family group" stamp. I
> hope I run into her sometime.
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> What is 100**100?
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> Scarab of The Doubtful Guests

Dear Scarab (and the rest of the 'boxing world),

100**100 is Fortran's way writing 100 to the 100th power, literally a
one followed by 200 zeroes. The short-hand name for that is
a "google." Add a D at the end of it and you have 100**100D, Googled.

We all got into letterboxing because a storeowner "googled" the name
of his store. When he did that he found a webpage authored by the
infamous (but manly) Ryan Carpenter. The pages said something to the
effect of "I have placed a microbox in ____ store. Don't tell the
staff, they do not know." The owner thought it was dumb. One of the
staff thought it was wonderful.

Since I happen to think that staff member is wonderful (and the best
carver we have here) and she is gracious enough to think I am okay
for a badger, she told me about it. Now I am a teacher; I get paid
for telling folks stuff. Sure enough, we have now told almost a
google of folks about boxing.

The core group who keeps in touch regularly calls themselves Googled.
Our motto is "I feel lucky!" which is also a button on the site
Google. Members include (listed only by whim, not importance): Ash
Raven, Pandora, JugglerMouse, Sade from Nebraska, Dave (needs a
boxing name, I will give him one soon else), Emily the Rose,
Katherine (likewise about name), Pat and Don M., and your humble
servant. Now we also have confronted the heartstoppingly beautiful
Ryan and the sprightly Amanda from Seattle (wait a minute! reverse
that) and offered them membership in the club. We even offered to
bring along the goat's blood and Wesson oil for their initiation.
They seemed a tad reserved but we count them as members, nay,
spiritual parents.

We have ruled that any box planted by three or more members counts as
a Googled plant. Hey, with three you get Chaos. And of course, no one
talks about letterboxing in front of that store owner. Part of the
rules, don't you know. We started in this around Feb 17, 2003.

Long answer to a short question,
Sir Balthazar the Badger
P15 F54 X17 HH4 E1 L23 D30

Re: 100**100D

From: psycomommy2003 (ktborrelli@hotmail.com) | Date: 2003-06-09 22:39:35 UTC

You do mean famous don't you?!!! Infamous is a bad thing! Poor
disreputable Ryan! I already carved him a Raging Righteous Ryan HH,
with a halo over his head. Should I now carve him with a pitchfork?
Just messin' with ya.

When he did that he found a webpage authored by the
> infamous (but manly) Ryan Carpenter. The pages said something to
the
> effect of "I have placed a microbox in ____ store. Don't tell the
> staff, they do not know." The owner thought it was dumb. One of the
> staff thought it was wonderful.

You are not the first to google. Lizardbutt in San Fran. loves the
word google. He used to add, L a google. L as you know stands for
Lizards. He dropped his count, so I've picked up the slack. My L's
stand for anything in the reptile family. I keep track as a tibute to
the dear boy. I have a looooong way to go to a google.
Psychomommy
P30 F129 -F2 X102 V3 E6 C0 R2 SS1 and the ever lovin' L11

> We have ruled that any box planted by three or more members counts
as
> a Googled plant. Hey, with three you get Chaos. And of course, no
one
> talks about letterboxing in front of that store owner. Part of the
> rules, don't you know. We started in this around Feb 17, 2003.
>
> Long answer to a short question,
> Sir Balthazar the Badger
> P15 F54 X17 HH4 E1 L23 D30

Re: 100**100D

From: lizardbuttsfamily (mmebt@hotmail.com) | Date: 2003-06-10 01:05:37 UTC

Lizardbutt spelled googol as google because he silly Mom and
Bookworm, the editors at the time when Lizardbutts was into
letterboxing, forgot to check for spelling. I don't know what Sir B
and the google gang are counting.

Monica

"psycomommy2003" wrote:

> You are not the first to google. Lizardbutt in San Fran. loves
the
> word google. He used to add, L a google. L as you know stands for
> Lizards. He dropped his count, so I've picked up the slack. My L's
> stand for anything in the reptile family. I keep track as a tibute
to
> the dear boy. I have a looooong way to go to a google.
> Psychomommy
> P30 F129 -F2 X102 V3 E6 C0 R2 SS1 and the ever lovin' L11
>
>
>
> > We have ruled that any box planted by three or more members
counts
> as
> > a Googled plant. Hey, with three you get Chaos. And of course, no
> one
> > talks about letterboxing in front of that store owner. Part of
the
> > rules, don't you know. We started in this around Feb 17, 2003.
> >
> > Long answer to a short question,
> > Sir Balthazar the Badger
> > P15 F54 X17 HH4 E1 L23 D30