Railophone Traditional Cache
mag-man: Time to retire this one.
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Small bison tube hidden along the old railroad bed trail that follows the Pequest River from Great Meadows to Buttzville.
THE ORIGINAL PART OF THE CACHE HAS BEEN REPAIRED BUT ANOTHER PART WHICH WAS STILL THERE LAST WEEK HAS NOW GONE MISSING. SO, THE CACHE IS IN PLACE, BUT THE CAMMO/DECOY IS SLIGHTLY COMPROMISED. STILL, I HOPE IT PROVIDES A CHALLENGE. PLEASE REMEMBER:
THERE IS NO NEED TO MOVE ANYTHING TO FIND THIS CACHE, SO PLEASE DON'T. PLEASE TAKE CARE IN REPLACING THE CACHE.
This is one of four new caches along this stretch of the trail that runs from the Pequest Fish Hatchery to Pequest Furnace Road. This cache is the closest of the four to the Fish Hatchery. Parking can be found at either end along Route 46.
THERE IS NO NEED TO MOVE ANYTHING TO FIND THIS CACHE, SO PLEASE DON'T. PLEASE TAKE CARE IN REPLACING THE CACHE.
Railophone is one of many terms have appeared in English but never caught on. With over a billion people, who speak English at least at a basic level, English is a dynamic and continuously evolving language. Compared to other languages like French, there is no Academy in English that defines officially accepted spellings and usage. New words, spellings, meanings, and usage appear spontaneously. Even the voluminous Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, which includes over 600,000 words, does not claim to contain all the current words in English.
Over the decades, many terms have appeared in English but never caught on. Here is a collection from the beginning of the 1900s:
Aerial bus - (1910) a passenger aircraft
Bubble - a car. US humorous slang originated from automobubble (1902).
Buppie - (1984) A young Black city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle
Cerealist - (1905) is a person who advocates a cereal diet
Dormobile - (1952) comes from blending dormitory with automobile
Drunkometer - (1934) a device for measuring the alcoholic content of a person's breath. The term Breathalyser took over.
Electrobus - (1906) a bus powered by electricity
Escapist - (1930) a person seeking escape from reality
Farmarette - (1918) a woman who farms land
Fascistization - (1925) the process of making something or someone fascist
Garagiste - (1992) the owner of a garage or filling station in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. In French the garagistes refers to a group of innovative winemakers in the Bordeaux region, producing "Vins de garage", "Garage wine".
Helicopterist - (1923) a helicopter pilot
Himbo - (1988) an attractive but unintelligent young man, the male version of Bimbo.
Homosexualist - (1931) a homosexual
Hooverize - (1917) to economize, especially about food. The term originated from Herbert C. Hoover, US food commissioner 1917-1919, and later president.
Inhalatorium - (1906) a room or building where vaporized medicines were supposed to heal respiratory complaints. The term faded as the establishments disappeared.
Internaut - (1992) a combination of Internet and astronaut used to mean an expert or habitual user of the Internet.
Kinema - (1914) alternate form of Cinema.
Mazuma - (1904) money, cash. US slang from Hebrew.
Milliardaire - (1924) a billionaire or a person who owns a milliard (a thousand million) of a particular currency
Nutarian - (1914) a vegetarian who lives mainly on nuts
Phonofilm - (1921) a cinema film with soundtrack
Psychiatrize - (1929) to treat psychiatrically
Railophone - (1911) a telephone in a train
Tankodrome - (1909) a place where military tanks are kept
Televiewer - (1935) a person who watches television
Washing-up machine - (1930) an electrical device for washing dishes. The term Dishwasher originally from the 1860s caught on.
THERE IS NO NEED TO MOVE ANYTHING TO FIND THIS CACHE, SO PLEASE DON'T. PLEASE TAKE CARE IN REPLACING THE CACHE.
Additional Hints
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GURER VF AB ARRQ GB ZBIR NALGUVAT GB SVAQ GUVF PNPUR, FB CYRNFR QBA'G. CYRNFR GNXR PNER VA ERCYNPVAT GUR PNPUR.
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