Close! But no cigar! Traditional Cache
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I made this a D/T - 1 / 2 only because a wheel chair can get within a few feet but somebody would have to make the grab.
Log & Pencil, (if you wanted to leave some rolled up paper, I guess you could).
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Vince Lombardi may have been overstating things a bit when he said "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." After all, not everyone wins, but life inevitably goes on. "Close, but no cigar" is a cliche, but it helps comfort those of us who don't always emerge victorious.
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According to Bartleby, the phrase likely originated at carnivals when cigars were given away as prizes. We can imagine fiendish carnival workers using the feel-good phrase as a way to get suckers like us with poor aim to try our luck again.
So to the FTF you will receive $4 cash (rolled up of course).
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CONGRATS to "pingeysdad"!!! Give the guy a cigar!!!
Sorry "the4dirtydogs", but just like the cache says: "Close! But no cigar!"
So here's an addaboy for logging 1st.
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This has nothing directly to do with this cache, but I thought I'd share it:
A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a box of 24 rare and very expensive cigars, insured them against... fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars, and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company.
In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars in "a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion. The man sued, and won.
In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that the man held a policy from the company in which it was warranted that the cigars were insurable. The company, in the policy, had also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," and so, the company was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he had lost in "the fires."
However, shortly after the man cashed his check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
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(Decrypt)
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