Geocaching user names
Geocaching user names
Being new to this sport I am not sure if this topic has been discussed before but I am intriged by the various names used by cachers. I was wondering if you would share the origin of your names. I chose The Owls because we have a pair living in our backyard.
Actually, I don't recall a specific thread... (mix or zactyl will probably post a link shortly ) There's been ones about unpronouncable names.
I first registered on GC.com under the name "Team Rami". After a few days I realised that Rami (my Dachshund) was to put it bluntly, crap at caching and if I wanted to start finding any I would be better off to leave him at home.
Damo is my nickname. (No prizes for guessing what it's short for!) I occasionally get "The Omen" comments and also have a twin, obviously I am the "evil one", hence my Avatar.
I first registered on GC.com under the name "Team Rami". After a few days I realised that Rami (my Dachshund) was to put it bluntly, crap at caching and if I wanted to start finding any I would be better off to leave him at home.
Damo is my nickname. (No prizes for guessing what it's short for!) I occasionally get "The Omen" comments and also have a twin, obviously I am the "evil one", hence my Avatar.
- caughtatwork
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- The Spindoctors
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- GIN51E
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Well mine isn't very hard to explain, last name is Gins which resulted in the GINSY nick name except the older brother got the rights to the name Ginsy in which he then got himself some personalised plates GIN55Y
then as i entered high school just after he left i was known to the teachers as being Ginsy which quickly became my name throughout the school and from my friends, and because there was already a Ginsy i became Ginsie hence GIN51E
nothing exciting
Edit Also many people seem to pronounce the G wrong, usually people say g as in girl where the G should be pronounced just like the drink Gin
then as i entered high school just after he left i was known to the teachers as being Ginsy which quickly became my name throughout the school and from my friends, and because there was already a Ginsy i became Ginsie hence GIN51E
nothing exciting
Edit Also many people seem to pronounce the G wrong, usually people say g as in girl where the G should be pronounced just like the drink Gin
- GeoScrubers
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- Fairly Magic
- 500 or more caches logged
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We turned up to an event cache as our first introduction to geocaching. Everyone kept asking our name........... no your caching name............oh. how naive we were. So all the way home from the event we tried different things. Eventually ran Craig Family through the anagram server and voila. Fairly Magic were born. We all chose individual caching names as well but we log our caches under the team name.
Cheers Quilter
Cheers Quilter
- Cheesy pigs
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Well the cheesy part is because of our surname, Cheeseman, and Cheesy has been my nickname since about 6 years old. The pigs part is based in part on my occupation (two guesses and you wont need the second one ) and on Peppa Pig, which our son loves, and every now and again we have to do the whole, "I'm daddy Pig 'snort'" for him. If you've seen the cartoon that will make sense, if not you're missing out.
- Fairly Magic
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- Map Monkey
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You're a pig breederCheesy pigs wrote:The pigs part is based in part on my occupation
my name is discussed here
map monkey
- Fairly Magic
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