Michigan J. Frog Traditional Geocache

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CampinCrazy: Hey folks - this was a singing frog cookie jar i got from a friend at a cache swap event 10 years ago. I cannot believe it sat out in the open for all of those years and has had tons of travel bugs through it. Looks like it finall disappeared :(. I am archiving so someone local can start a new travel bug hotel here.....Campincrazy

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Hidden : 5/1/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Thanks to Angel's Buffy for the great container from the Two Day Cache Event. I knew the exact name for this cache when I got it.

Growing up, we could hardly wait for Saturday morning cartoons. We rarely watched much TV during the week and I was an instant fan of falling anvils, exploding cigars, and ACME mishaps. My sick sense of humor.

However, my favorite cartoon (One Froggy Evening) was about a singing frog, later named Michigan J. Frog. The jist of the film is that a construction worker finds a box on the job and when he opens it, a frog with a top hat and cane jumps out and proceeds to sing and dance. Seeing visions of money, he scoops up the frog and heads to Broadway. The frog won't stop singing ragtime favorites while they are alone, but the minute there is an audience, all the frog can say is "ribitt". The construction worker gets tossed from the agents office, tomatoed on broadway after investing all he had, and winds up homeless in the park. All the time, the frog is singing; when a cop in the park arrives due to the noise, the worker tries to explain the frog is responisble and gets tossed into jail. Once released, the man rushes back to the construction site where he dumps the box with the frog into the foundation and leaves. The cartoon ends in the very distant future where a worker is tearing down that building and finds the frog. The frog hops out singing and dancing and the greed starts all over, heh! This will all make sense if you find the cache.

I wanted this to be as kid friendly as possible. The cache is a few hundred feet off the highway and you can park within 20 feet of the cache. I have cut a trail to enter ground zero from the south and removed any PI, cut any thorns to the ground, and treated for ants if you enter from the south. The trail is not wide open but should be obvious.

There are two separate FTF prizes in with the log book: One for the first child 12 and under who finds the cache, and one for the first person over 12 years of age. Please log if you took them.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[True Spoiler] Pnzb'q 2 tnyyba ohpxrg, rnfg fvqr bs gur abegurea zbfg vfynaq bs gerrf, ragre sebz gur fbhgu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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