Cootie
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Owner:
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SC Spartan
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Released:
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Monday, May 9, 2005
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Origin:
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South Carolina, United States
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In Highway 22 TB & GC Resort & Motel
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Cootie wants to get back to her roots. She wants to visit the Hennepin History Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota (which is close to Golden Valley where the Cootie game was created). Along the way she would like to have her picture taken at other museums.
As a secondary goal she hopes to have her picture taken by Aggravation de l'Espace (The Cootie Sculpture) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
COOTIE GAME: William H. (Herb) Schaper, a letter carrier for the U.S. Post Office, and avid Minnesota angler who was enamored with bugs, whittled the first COOTIE out of wood in 1948. The Cootie game was introduced in the fall of 1949. Dayton's took the first dozen games on consignment and had sold 5,592 sets by the end of 1950. In the first years Schaper built 40,000 wooden COOTIE games by hand. Three years later, more than 1,200,000 were produced with the aid of machinery. Cootie quickly went national and was an instant success, unmatched in the industry for some 40 years (until the early 1990s and the success of action figures). By 1978, more than 30 million COOTIE games had entertained children worldwide. Milton Bradley acquired COOTIE and other Schaper classics in 1987.
By the mid-1960s, Schaper Manufacturing was selling more than 25 different games from its headquarters in Golden Valley. Curiously, several of Schaper's games had insect themes, including Ants in the Pants, Tickle Bee, Inch Worm, Guess'n Bee and Tumble Bug.
AGGRAVATION DE L'ESPACE Painted bright red, this steel sculpture was originally erected in 1983 at the steps to City Hall. Ironically, it became, like its name implies, an aggravation for pedestrians and was moved to a more appropriate location on Central Parkway because people complained they were running into the piece. Created by artist Jean Boutellis, the sculpture is also known as Aggravation of Space and Cootie. The cootie nickname came about because of the leggy entomological look of sculpture, according to the sculpture file in the Smithsonian database.
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CAVU_cacher placed it in Pee Vee Dee Roach Terminal Hotel
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Rhode Island
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CAVU_cacher retrieved it from wondertwins supacache
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Rhode Island
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Heading toward Cincinnati soon!
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AuntieWeasel placed it in wondertwins supacache
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Rhode Island
- 11.59 miles
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Been waiting for SC Spartan to find a suitable Cootie after COOTIE-NAPPERS NAPPED HIS COOTIE! Don't you hate that?
Don't worry, SC -- this isn't really a 4.5/3 cache. In fact, if you drive in right, you don't even have to have much of a walk in the woods (which would be a shame, because it's a very nice walk in the woods). It's an often visited old favorite that sees good traffic. I'll keep an eye on it, just in case. Good luck, Cootie!
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AuntieWeasel retrieved it from Man, I Feel Like a Woman!
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Massachusetts
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When I picked up this TB, I was disappointed that there was no cootie attached. And then I read the logs and realized there WAS one, just two holders ago. Uh-oh. You guys -- your cootie has been nicked! Relax'N took a picture of it with cootie in place and, as he was nice enough to take it to a museum, I doubt he vandalized it. Next holders were Macfriends -- I've met them, and they surely aren't the bug-stealing kind. So somebody else has come along and pinched your louse.
Well! We have to re-cootie this thing before I let it go. I checked cooties for sale online, but it seems a terrible waste to buy the whole game just to build a single bug. Suggestions?
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Macfriends placed it in Man, I Feel Like a Woman!
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Massachusetts
- 171.56 miles
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Macfriends retrieved it from Guy's Cache
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Maine
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Headed to Minneapolis - but not for another year so we'll show Cootie some new interesting spot in the near future.
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Relax'N placed it in Guy's Cache
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Maine
- 18.13 miles
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Relax'N retrieved it from Patty's Mount Battie
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Maine
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This is the first Travel Bug I've found. I go to this area a lot but this is the first time I decided to check out the geocache. I was doing a through hike from the Mt. Battie trail to Maiden Cliff.
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Exposer placed it in Patty's Mount Battie
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Maine
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Exposer retrieved it from GW3 Volunteer Appreciation
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Florida
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May be a mix up with the instructions for travelling. Intend to take it to Camden, Maine in October!
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