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Travel Bug Dog Tag Albert Einstein Pig

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, April 26, 2002
Origin:
Oklahoma, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of fitzaboo.

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Current Goal

To go to many locations and have my picture taken in front of interesting places, and e-mailed to: Mark_Johnson_McLoud@msn.com
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Albert Einstein Pig (Left Side)

"Albert Einstein Pig" History - Chapter 1

The saga of the "Albert Einstein Pig" (who thought he could fly...)

Once upon a time, there was this pink foam rubber pig, like many others. One day, he came under the ownership of Majicman and his life was forever changed. For many months, he sat on Majicman's desk at work.

One day, to illustrate a point, Majicman told a co-worker that there was more chance of this pig flying than there was of satisfying one of the users that had called in on our company's support phone line.

You see, this man was disabled and he used a unix system. He did not have a word processor but wanted to submit some documents electronically to a court.

My coworker, a here-unnamed programmer, decided that we should help this man to get his documents submitted.

I used another Oklahoma colloquialism and explained about "opening multiple cans of worms,” but, this fell on deaf ears also. (This programmer is just too nice...) So we decided to help the unix user some more.

About this time, things got kinda ugly and each time this user would call back, I would put him on hold and page the programmer, explaining that "Albert Einstein" (as I had then dubbed this gweeker cretin) was on the phone and needed to talk to him.

We discussed the support situation further, and I again warned about previous similar situations with Mac users that ended badly. At this time, I performed a little surgery on "Albert Einstein Pig" and gave him a duck-call enema. (Go ahead, shake him and he might still quack at you...)

Well, the support situation didn't end too badly, but by this time I had labeled Albert and decorated him with the saying, "I use unix because I am 'special'!"

I placed this monstrous conglomeration on the programmer's desk and explained my feelings about Albert and his support situation.

Oddly enough, it turned out that the unix man being helped was a physicist (go figure!)

Well, very long story shortened somewhat... it is all over now and poor Albert needs to get out and get his mind off of these former travails. He needs a vacation! He needs to see beautiful mountains, tall forests, green grassy meadows, and tall buildings, meet famous people, ANYTHING INTERESTING to help get his mind back straight.

Please, help Albert, take as many pictures with him at interesting places as you can, e-mail them to Mark, and then put Albert into another cache so that he can continue his vacation.

Thank you very much...
--majicman

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Tracking History (18543mi) View Map

Dropped Off 6/2/2002 eljay53 placed it in Crosstimbers New World Adventure Texas - 140.86 miles  Visit Log
Write note 5/25/2002 majicman posted a note for it   Visit Log

Albert goes to the Ft. Worth Stockyards (Friday 05/24/02):

Janie wrote:
We had to drag Albert kicking and squealing to visit the famous Fort Worth Stockyards. He was convinced he was going to be sold for bacon.
We stopped for a little geocaching at Billy Bob''s of Texas.... the world''s largest honkytonk! He wanted to join the cache there. I had a hard time convincing him he wouldn''t fit through the opening in the bottle.
He had a great time riding a horse with one of the cowboys that bring the longhorn steers through the stockyards each day. The City of Fort Worth owns a herd of Longhorn cattle that make their way down Stockyards Blvd each day on their way out to pasture.
I am beginning to look for a local cache to send Albert on his way. I certainly hope the next Albert Host has a great adventure in store for our new friend! 

--Janie

  • Albert at the Ft. Worth Stockyards
  • Albert Ridin' da' Trail with a Texas Cowboy! (Yippee!!)
Write note 5/21/2002 majicman posted a note for it   Visit Log

Janie e-mailed me some pics of Albert down in Texas:

Albert's first day in the big city.

Janie had to work this afternoon but was able to spend a few hours with the girls after work. Actually the gals are members of Executive Women's Golf Association, meeting to work on our upcoming Charity Golf Tournament.

Albert was the life of the party.......he's not sure he wants to travel further.....after his 3rd margarita, he mumbled something about having found utopia!

  • "Bode" tried to chew Albert
  • Albert's Texas "hosts"
  • Executive Women's Golf Association
  • after his 3rd margarita, Albert mumbled something about having found utopia!
  • Albert taking a motorcycle ride
  • ...dig my new shades, man...
  • As always, Albert was safety conscious!
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/20/2002 eljay53 retrieved it from One-Lane River Bridge Cache Oklahoma   Visit Log

Albert is off to see the sites!

Dropped Off 4/27/2002 majicman placed it in One-Lane River Bridge Cache Oklahoma   Visit Log
  • Mopar Car GPS info of the first place Albert visited
  • Albert in front of an old one-lane bridge
  • Albert on bridge viewing river
  • Albert about to jump from bridge into river
  • Albert now in Majic Cache # 2 (GC5213)
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