Oneonta's Caching Brand Traditional Geocache
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You are looking for an attractive cylinder about 6 cm long (2+ inches for those metrically handicapped!) Please replace as found and out of sight. This cache has been muggled twice now. Please be stealthy!
But Just Suppose …
In a parallel universe, somewhere to the right of where you are now, Mr. Science sat in his secret laboratory (N42 43.202 W074 54.849) pondering the dismal state of caching in the Oneonta area.
Mr. Science sighed, “We need to draw more cachers to our vicinity. We have such wonderful caches nearby, and very creative cachers, but people just aren’t coming here anymore.”
“Hmmm, how can we solve this predicament?” Mr. Science stared into the flame from his Bunsen burner for several minutes … Suddenly it hit him, “Eureka! What we need is a caching BRAND! That would help attract cachers to our locale.”
An email was sent to all the local cachers asking for anonymous proposals of slogans to help promote Oneonta’s caching community. Ideas came in fast and furiously.
Mr. Science began perusing the submissions, “Let’s see what we’ve got.”
He read the first one. You’ll be out of luck trying to find caches in Oneonta! “This one is a bit too negative,” he thought.
He looked at the second one, Oneonta: Where Caching Stinks! “Gee, who could have possibly sent that one in?”
“Let’s look at the next one.” Oneonta: We Cache Near Dead People! “Not too sure about that one either.”
He read another. Oneonta: Our Caches Are Ducking Awesome! In fact, the next seven were ALL duck related! One even had satanic overtones. Oneonta: Cache with the Antiduck! “Yikes!” Mr. Science thought, “These don’t seem too hopeful.”
And another, Oneonta: Near Delhi, the Home of Softball. “I had no idea that’s where softball originated. I can’t see that being much of a drawing card. Cooperstown, I could understand.”
He glanced at the next one. Aussie Shepherds Rule! “That one doesn’t even make sense!”
He went on. Oneonta: the Periodic Table of Caches. “I like that one, oops, that’s the one I contributed. Might be a bit too nerdy! Even for me.”
He kept reading. Oneonta: Monet (not a misspelling) Talks, and Caching Rocks! “What? This is futile,” he said, “Maybe I should just spend the money and have a professional agency design our brand. I’ll send this out to a firm I know of in Florida.”
Twenty thousand dollars later, (Mr. Science makes a lot more money in this universe and is quite a bit more generous!) he had two different brands to put up for a vote.
The first one was, Oneonta: the Hills are Alive with the Sound of Caching!
The other choice was, Oneonta: Caching Enjoyed! This one came with an illustration. At the base of a palm tree, covered with coconuts and fallen palm fronds was an ammo can peeking out.
Mr. Science sent them out for consideration … *
OK folks, the rest is up to you! Submit your votes as you log in your find. (Voting is completely optional!) Perhaps you have an even better suggestion. Feel free. (And for those visiting cachers, not in the know, the city of Oneonta is currently facing a controversy concerning a brand produced by an out of state firm. They chose to replace the long standing, Oneonta: City of the Hills, with, Oneonta: Life Enjoyed. The local population had no say in its creation. Needless to say, it has not been well received!)
*This is entirely a work of fiction and is the product of the author’s warped imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, places, and events is intentional.
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