"Ack! Thbbft!" Traditional Cache
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We offer this small lock-n-lock in
honor of Bill the Cat—that notorious, flea-bitten,
gotta-love-him, hairball hacking anti-feline—Berkeley
Breathed's attempt to create a cartoon character so repulsive that
it would have absolutely no merchandising potential.
Bill was many things; cute and cuddly were not among them.
Confused, scraggly, disoriented and frequently unconscious, his
cartoon career careened wildly between sensational highs and
appalling lows. 
After a rocky
and curious debut, he ventured into film, where he found instant
stardom but was overwhelmed by the fame and fortune. He began
drinking heavily and experimenting with drugs, ultimately spiraling
downward to total rock-bottom: free-basing Tender Vittles. Friends
intervened, he made a full recovery and temporarily returned to
clean-lived stardom.
Bill's tumultuous existence seemingly came to a tragic end soon
after, when he drove his Ferrari into a cactus at 140 mph and was
killed instantly. Fortunately(?), his tongue was discovered intact
at the crash site, and he was cloned back to life. With a fresh
start, he went on to fame as a televangelist, to infamy as a cult
leader, and eventually to super-stardom as the lead singer of the
heavy metal band Billy and the Boingers, becoming filthy
rich when one of his songs was chosen as a jingle for Wheat
Thins.
Bill twice won
the National Radical Meadow Party's nomination for President of the
United States, despite being dead the first time, and despite
having a vocabulary that mainly consisted of "Ack!". He lost both
times, once following a precipitous drop in the polls after he
coughed up a furball on Connie Chung.
Bill appeared in three of Berkeley Breathed's comic strips:
Bloom County, Outland, and Opus, the last of
which ended in 2008. His current whereabouts are unknown, but his
legacy lives on.
This cache is part of the Cache-INGO! challenge (GC24MZC)
but may be found and logged independently. You are looking for a
small L&L in Gilbert Run Park, about a half mile from parking.
The park is open from March to November, with seasonal hours of
operation. A parking fee may be required. Ack!
Additional Hints
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