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FP Series #23 - Andy Capp Traditional Cache

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drives: 13 1/2 years old. Bye Felicia

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Hidden : 11/10/2006
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Twentythird in the Famous People (FP) Series - Andy Capp

Andy Capp is a long-running comic strip character created by Reginald Smythe, seen in the The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since August 5, 1957.


The name is a play on words; "Andy Capp" sounds like a working-class pronunciation of "handicap", which the leading character Andy is, to most of the other characters. His wife, Florence Capp, is called 'Flo' by all the other characters.

Andy is meant to be a working class figure, located in Hartlepool, Northern England. His hobbies include pigeon racing, snooker, football (which always involves fights with the other players, and frequently ends with Andy being sent off), occasionally cricket and rugby, betting on horses, getting drunk (often falling in the canal or arriving home late as a result), fishing (and not catching anything bigger than a goldfish), womanising, lying on the sofa, and fighting with his long-suffering wife.

Until the 1980s, he was always seen with a cigarette dangling from his lip, until it was deemed politically incorrect. Similarly, he no longer indulges in fisticuffs with Florrie, because of concerns about the depiction of domestic violence, even though their fights were always drawn in a stylised fashion so as to avoid offence, and in any case, Florrie always gave as good as she got. Instead, they now attend marriage counseling. Andy's trademark cloth cap is always pulled down over his face, although his eyes bulge out when he is surprised. It is never clear how he can see where he is going.

Andy and Florrie are always on the verge of poverty. Andy is unemployed and lacks motivation, rent on the house and contents are constantly in arrears, and Percy the rent collector despairs of ever being paid. Their furniture has been repossessed on several occasions. Somehow, they always manage to recover it, and Andy is always able to afford beer and betting (usually by borrowing from Florrie).

The cache is very delicate to both remove and replace so please take some added precaution. Should it go bad for you, just drop me a note and we'll fix it, which we have already done 2 times now. The cache is a small container with a log only so BYO

These coordinates were determined with a WAAS enabled Garmin eTrex Legend Cx and a Gramin eTrex Vista average over a 3 minute span to an accuracy of 5.6'.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ab arrq gb pebff gur srapr, ab znggre jung fvqr lbh ner ba.

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)