FP Series #443 - Oliver Douglas Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/6/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Four Hundred FortyThird in the Famous People (FP) Series - Oliver Wendell Douglas
Portrayed by Hollywood veteran Eddie Albert, Oliver Wendell Douglas was a New York City attorney who had long harbored a dream of moving to the Midwest and operating a farm rather than practicing "big city" law. His wife, Lisa, a glamorous Hungarian immigrant (played by Eva Gabor, a glamorous Hungarian immigrant), had absolutely no desire to leave sophisticated New York City for a backward, rural area.

However, once they actually arrived at their newly-purchased farm (a run-down nightmare whose farmhouse was little more than a dilapidated shack), it was Lisa, not Oliver, who immediately fit in to Hooterville and its weird collection of zany characters. Oliver had a high opinion of farmers in theory; he often made a speech in which he referred to "crops shooting up out of the ground" and other platitudes about rural life, which on the program was invariably accompanied by a background of patriotic music; other characters frequently searched for the source of the music. Oliver was usually presented in the light of being the only sane character in an insane world; however, he, too, had his quirks, such as driving his tractor wearing the same three-piece suits that he had formerly worn to practice law and addressing nearly every other person in Hooterville as Mr. or Mrs., though the Hootervillians referred to each other by first names (although they apparently reciprocated by continuing to refer to him as "Mr. Douglas").

Douglas also was either too blinded by pride or too stubborn to admit that he was a totally incompetent failure as a farmer. He did not fit in to a place where everyone took for granted that a "talking" pig, Arnold Ziffel, was his owners' "son", or where one of the two contractor "brothers" constantly remodelling his house was a woman, and somehow always lost out to local confidence man Mr. Haney, from whom he had bought the farm in the first place.

Oliver Douglas is trying his new seed planting method, finger planting. It would have worked only, he stuck his finger in a bottle of champagne.
Eb: Oh thats one of Mr. Haney's empties. He's got them planted all over this field.

Oliver: Champagne!

Eb: That's from Mr. Haney's big celebration party.

Oliver: What was he celebrating?

Eb: Selling you the farm.

You have arrived at Friendship Cemetery. Remember when Texas used to be called "The Friendly State"? You don't hear that too much anymore. Too bad, because I think to some degree it worked.
But now, how many of those dumb dora idiots who can't seem to go 2 minutes without talking on the phone, do you have to put up with every day, back and forth, along the roads and highways?
Ooops, not very friendly, was it?

Looks to me like Arnold and his friends play here a lot. Maybe even a little too much.
You shouldn't have any trouble finding this small twist-lock rubbermaid container as long as you're not here during feeding time.
If you see Hero Douglas English then you know you are close.
GPSr Accuracy 10.2'
Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.

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