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Yup, looks like the Yellow Pages to me.

Seeking input and officers for a group/category that I'm interested in forming on the subject of UFOs and Extraterrestrials. This would be a general interest type of category (Pirates, Elvis, etc.) where many different types of locations would be accepted including: Reputed UFO landing and crash sites, documented locations involving alien ...

TheBeanTeam:Likely the skydive isn't indexed anywhere since the books here seem to focus on places rather than doing things. So possibly the first references should all be for locations that are indexed. ''Go Sky Diving. Write a Novel. Visit Rome. ''Maybe it should be :Investigate Stonehenge.Walk on the Great Wall of China.Visit Rome.Unless ...

TheBeanTeam:Review LinkHow are you going to track these if only one indexed location is allowed?I'll give you and example. I waymark the skydive that I did in Oregon then someone else waymarks one in the UK. What easy mechanism are you going to provide to find if number 200 in the life list is done already?   I admit there's still a few ...

Please vote thumbs up or thumbs down and help me polish this category with your input.

Make sure this one is differentiated from the ''Letters on Hills'' category.

TheBeanTeam:Good idea. The general places like Rome need to have a central location identified as the spot to waymark it. City hall or it's equivalent. Visits to these could be anywhere in the city as long as they add coordinates and encourage a photo for the visit log. As far as I can tell, most of the indexed sites feature photos or mention ...

I feel that using a controlled and previously indexed list will help officers in the approval process. Although I may not agree with all the featured places, I feel that maintaining a list of ''high quality'' submissions would be complicated with the ability of a waymarker to submit anything he wants just to say it's on his Bucket List. I might ...

Seeking input and officers for a category and group that I'm interested in forming. They're called Life Lists and Bucket Lists. They were recently made popular by the Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman movie about two terminally ill men intent on fulfilling their life-long wish lists before they die. After reading a recent popular book by travel ...

I'll support any category that takes me to something interesting, historic, scenic, unusual, or useful, but I don't see this one fitting into my tastes.

My continuing search for new and unusual things to waymark recently brought me to the subject of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist who created a cartoon strip featuring odd facts from around the world. Eventually, Ripley's cartoons spawned a series of books and even an ...

I like Bruce's idea better.

Here's a tip: Next time you're using this POST NOW/PIX LATER approach to posting your visit, add a ''Photos coming'' notation with your post.   

I'd really prefer to visit Human Errors I can actually photograph. Otherwise we could have a lot of submissions of the White House in DC and other government buildings. They can be blamed for a lot of errors.

You should call the category ''Too Air Iz Humun.'' I'd love to be a Ossifer.

If they're not overdone, exclusions help me as a reference for those who try to shoehorn something into a tightly defined category. Some of the pickier exclusions can be a result of category adjustments made after peer review.  

I'd never heard of Zippy until this category. He's not carried locally and apparently has never been to Alabama.

Yo Ho, you scum-swilling vermin, the Pirates waymarking category under control of the Sea Rats be active to take yer plunder. Ye pox-laden Peer Review be completed w' a great and grand victory for the Brethren 'at sail under the Crossbones. Drink up, ye swine, and give up yer precious treasures or dance w' Jack Ketch at the end of a ...