Veet Voojagig's Ballpoint Planet
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The cache is located in Buffalo Run Park in Missouri City. Remember to bring some bread for the geese and your fishing pole. There are 5 lakes! PLEASE make sure the cache is completely covered when you replace it.
Do you ever wonder why you can never find a pen when you really need one? It's as if they just disappear on their own!
Have you ever been stricken with guilt when you have opened up your checkbook, or checked your pocket, only to find that pen that you borrowed to make your last purchase or to scrawl a quick note?
These occurrences are now known to have a deeper meaning....
Scientists have just recently discovered that borrowed pens are capable of exercising a mild form of temporary mind control!
This concept becomes more acceptable when you begin to realize that borrowed pens are also aware that geocachers can help them realize their greatest dream.....
Geocachers, your borrowed pens are trying to tell you that they want to go to VEET VOOJAGIG'S BALLPOINT PLANET, (or the nearest wormhole to VVBP*) but because of the lack of Babel Fish** here on Earth, their cries for help are only interpreted as so many clicks and scratches.
DON'T PANIC!
Here at VVBP we offer a variety of solutions to your ballpointoid dilemma. You can choose from the following solutions, or create a solution of your own:
#1 Set your borrowed pens free to live out their lives among members of their own kind; absolving yourself of your perceived sin, you can leave with a clear conscience; smug in the knowledge that you have acted in the pen's best interests.
#2 Conduct a ballpoint prisoner exchange. (A certain amount of pen laundering is expected and encourage here at VVBP.)
#3 Find that pesky pen that has escaped your clutches and drag it back, clicking and scritching, to a life of servitude. Since you most likely are not in possession of a Babel Fish**, you can't be offended by its ballpointoid curses and swears. (A word to the wise if you choose this option: Get a pocket protector!)
This cache is dedicated to the memory of the late, great, author: Douglas Adams, whose novel, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," is the inspiration for this cache and several more to come.
Here's what "The Guide" has to say about VVBP:
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to it's editors as a good idea at the time.
One of these supposedly relates to the experiences of one Veet Voojagig, a quiet young student at the University of Maximegalon who became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the ballpoints he'd bought over the past few years.
There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the Galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time. Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, among all the other (inhabited) planets, there was a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid life-style, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of a good life." - abridged excerpt from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
Footnotes:
*Any one who wishes to create a wormhole cache to VVBP using my text as a reference; please do! That would tickle me to death. My family will be maintaining one on the west coast. Make sure you give Douglas Adams the credit.
**If you are not a fan of THGTTG and don't wish to check out a copy of the book; see my TB page - The Miraculous Babel Fish for details.
Finally; if you just want to leave a note on this page in tribute to Douglas Adams; I would be happy to know that someone else in this world misses his work as much as I do.
About V.V.:
Veet Voojagig was described as "a quiet, young student at the University of Maximegalon", who initially studied ancient philology, transformational ethics and the Wave Harmonic Theory of Historical Perception. Then, after drinking some Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beeblebrox, he became obsessed with the problem of what happens to all his used ballpoint pens. Voojagig claimed to have discovered the solution, that they disappear to a world of their own, and claimed further to have worked on that world. The character was described as ending up in "tax exile" – and may have had a hand in "Zaphod Beeblebrox's highly profitable second-hand [pen] business." Also of note that when others visited the planet where Veet Voojagig claimed to have lived, all they found was a small asteroid inhabited by "a strange old man who repeatedly claimed that nothing was true, though he was later found to be lying."
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