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It's A Shemp! Loose Loot Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 11/14/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

When I was a kid, I was disappointed if the featured Stooge short for that day was one in which Shemp Howard was the third stooge. But now I have a new found respect for the man, stepping in as he did after the debilitating stroke of his brother Curly.


What I have found out about the Shemp era of The Three Stooges is that all of the shorts produced in the 1940s were remade in the 1950's using lots of stock footage from previous shorts. It was a cost cutting measure used back in the day that mostly fooled all of us young viewers. This short, Loose Loot, was recycled from another short, Hold That Lion!, with what I estimate is around 50 percent of the same footage.

So in this new series, I now give you a simple traditional cache (GC7EW3F Curly Howard: Hold That Lion! (It's A Shemp!)), and this companion mystery cache, for which you can determine the coordinates using information from clips of both shorts.

First of all, from Wikipedia:

Loose Loot is the 146th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1953 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

The Plot:

The Stooges are trying to obtain their inheritance from their late uncle. Unfortunately, it has been swiped by con man Icabod Slipp (Kenneth MacDonald). The trio track Slipp down at the Circle Follies Theatre, and duke it out.

Trivia:

The first half of Loose Loot consists of footage recycled from Hold That Lion.

Slipp's name appears on the door as "I. Slipp." This is a semantic parody on the Long Island town of Islip, New York.

The cache is not at the posted coordinates

You will need to gather information from the clips in the cache descriptions for this cache and GC7EW3F Curly Howard: Hold That Lion! (It's A Shemp!).

Here is the clip from Loose Loot: Episode 146 Loose Loot Clip 1

The North coordinates are computed as follows:

From the clip in GC7EW3F Curly Howard: Hold That Lion! (It's A Shemp!)

N41 47.XXX

Using A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. assign a value to each letter in Slipp's first name. The last three digits of the north coordinate (XXX) are
(L1+L2) times L5.

The West coordinates are computed as follows:

From the clip in this cache:

W088 04.YYY

Who said:
"Here, little fat man with the porcupine hair!"

Moe - Use 382
Shemp - Use 432

Multiply that result by the number of "hen fruits" thrown. The result is the last three digits of the west coordinate (YYY).

 

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