GC89W8C Cachey McCacheface
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: 3 Williams Kidz @ | Hide Date: 06/22/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 53.806 W104° 58.176 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
                   

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This cache name is inspired by the story of Boaty McBoatface.  It is a small lock and lock located near the Ute Pass Library (yep, that is actually a library) and the Cascade Volunteer Fire Department.

The name Boaty McBoatface was originally proposed in a March 2016 online poll to name the ship that would eventually be named RRS Sir David Attenborough (Royal Research Ship).

Former BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand jokingly suggested Boaty McBoatface, a name the public liked and that quickly became the most popular choice. The name has been described as a homage to Hooty McOwlface, an owl named through an "Adopt-A-Bird" programme in 2012 that became popular on the internet.

Although Boaty McBoatface was the most popular suggestion in the poll, the suggestion to use the name for the mother ship was not followed; the Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, announced that the ship would be named Sir David Attenborough, and the name Boaty McBoatface would be used for one of the submersibles aboard instead.

The results of the poll inspired similar results in other naming polls. These incidents suggest there is still a clear deficit in understanding how to engage crowds and avoid failures and demonstrate the backlash from neglecting the crowd's choice, which resulted in a sophisticated reaction in other campaigns.

Similar names:

Bjorn Baker's team at Sydney's Warwick Farm Racecourse caught wind of the crowdsourced name Boaty McBoatface and decided that they would pay homage to them by naming their new racehorse Horsey McHorseface.

Swedish transport company MTR Express conducted an online poll, not long after the one involving Boaty McBoatface, to name a new train on the Stockholm-Gothenburg line. Trainy McTrainface won the poll, and the train was named accordingly.

Sydney Ferries allowed the public to name its fleet of Emerald-class ferries through a naming competition.  It was announced that the most popular name was Boaty McBoatface but, as it had already been taken, the judges opted to go instead for the second-place choice, and one of the ferries was thus named Ferry McFerryface.  It later emerged that the name Ferry McFerryface had received fewer than 200 votes in the poll; it had been selected by the New South Wales Transport Minister out of his personal preference for the name, which was subsequently changed.

Megabus' United Kingdom operation hosted a Twitter poll in late 2017 to name some of their brand-new Plaxton Elite bodied Volvo B11RT interdeck coaches. Mega McMegaface won, and the name was applied to one of the vehicles.

In March 2017 the Isle of Wight Council, which operates the Cowes Floating Bridge (a chain ferry across the Medina between Cowes and East Cowes), stated it was open to suggestions from residents for a new name for the vessel after originally registering it as Floating Bridge No.6. Despite council officials ruling out "Floaty McFloatface" as a name, a petition was later created to name the vessel Floaty McFloatface, attracting over 2,000 signatures and even caused the council to rescind its decision to veto the name.

In 2016 Google released a grammar parsing software package, which they named Parsey McParseface.

In December 2018 Formula E team Mahindra announced the name of their new car, which was called Electro McElectroFace.

In 2018 a naming contest for a sculpture of a Muskox took place in Yellowknife, NWT Canada. Musky McMuskoxface was a name in the running, but did not win. The successful winning name was instead Elon Muskox.

In October 2018 Shropshire Council named a gritter Gritty McGritface after a public vote. (A gritter is also known as a sander, salt spreader or salt truck, and is found on most winter service vehicles.)

In June 2019 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council named a skate park Skatey McSkateface after a public vote.

And now we have Cachey McCacheface.  

CONGRATULATIONS to jherber for being First to Find a mere 37 minutes after the cache was published. Also Congratulations to R&B CO for being 2TF a short 20 minutes later !

04/08/2020 By psych01
I hiked in today as my social distancing on my mtn, Pikes Peak. SL & on to some of Glenn's other caches. Discovered trackables but left for other cachers to find. This cache gets a FAV. A highlight was seeing the Thunderbirds flying overhead while on the mtn. This was a fast cache & dash after getting back down off the mtn.

04/07/2020 By ItsMeMrsG
Got my first travel bug! Took the bug and my daughter took a car. Left a critter. Great cache! Lots of goodies still in the cache.

04/06/2020 By ZephyrsKeepers
No luck, no internet.

04/06/2020 By ZephyrsKeepers
No luck, no internet, a dnf. Thanks anyway.

04/04/2020 By Hikermama3
Found it on this chilly day. I hike across hwy 24 all the time and did not realize there was a little library here, thanks for being me here. Tftc, Trading out trackable’s?. I needed a find today and not too much snow

06/30/2019 By Dean & Chris
Nice little hide. Traded TB's here. 2 in and 3 out. Tftc.

06/23/2019 By SipesFamily
TFTC! I saw this pop up in my email but we just got back from a 7 state road trip and was tired so I decided to wait. Well today I had to head down the pass and grabbed this on the way back. Cache is in great shape, signed the log and thank you for the smiley face on the cache map.

06/22/2019 By R&B CO
2TF. By 20minutes. What a change in weather on the trip up here. In springs sunny and warm. Half way up had to stop to put the top up and there is threat of hail! Welcome to Colorado. The FTF didn’t take the FTF prize so I did. Thanks 3Wiiamskids for the cache.

06/22/2019 By jherber
TFTC I was sitting around on a rainy afternoon and the new cache alert sounds on the phone. It is not too far away so I head that way. The rain gets harder, but I am a geocacher.

It is always fun to find a blank log. This is another well done cache by the 3Williams Kidz. {*FTF*} Found at 2:40 pm. This gets a Favorite point from me.

I left the FTF prizes for the next Cacher.

It is good to be back in Colorado after a winter spent in the Texas Hill Country visiting grandkids. I am looking forward to caching in the cooler climes.

06/22/2019 By IgnotusPeverell
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