discombobulated Mystery Cache

When my brothers and I were kids, way back in the late Pleistocene Period, our mom used a word that we just loved – she giggled every time she used it to describe her or our state of mind.  We were sure she had made it up.  No one else we knew ever used it.  Never did it appear in books or the newspaper.  We never heard it on the radio or on TV.

Imagine my surprise when yesterday’s word on our Word of the Day Calendar was “discombobulated!” I was totally discombobulated!  Apologies, Mom.

I love the way it sounds!  I love what it means!  I love the way it looks (at least in certain fonts)!

Some of the fonts that work for me are Bauhaus 93, Berlin San FB, Century Gothic and Juice ITC. 

Ones that don’t work so well include Arial, Broadway, Calibri, Comic Sans MS and Old English Text.

Sagelily, the linguist, recently explained to me what it is about “discombobulated” in certain fonts that pushes my happy button.  And yes, she went on to say this is added evidence, as if any were needed, that I’m a total Loony Tunes.

She identified the number of my happy buttons pushed by “discombobulated” as “N.”   Based on that, I’ve identified the numerical equivalents of their 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, etc. occurrences as A, B, C, D, etc.

The last four digits of the cache’s North and West coordinates are A . (E-C) D A and (B-C-A) . (N+F) C B respectively.  It’s in a lovely and lonely little park with a great playground.  Watch for curious neighbours and avoid this one at night. No flora need be probed or disturbed. The prize for the First-to-Finder will be e-mailed to them or it can be picked up at our house.

To check that you indeed found (and perhaps share) my Loony Tunes happy button, click on the GeoChecker.