Why Your Name

[+milvus-milvus]

milvus milvus is the latin name for the red kite (see left) - which we love going to see in the Chilterns and elsewhere...

[+UKGeoCyclist]

Mine is boring really, I'm a keen Geocacher and a keen cyclist doing almost all of my caches by bike.

 

GeocachingCyclist was too long, Geocyclist had already been taken in the US, so I had to stick UK in front of it.

 

Also a Geologist, so its appropriate in more ways than one.

 

Adrian

[+Globetrotter.uk]

I was originally "Norfolk Dave and the shadow chasers" but the shadow chasers (the misses and little one) didnt come on alllt he cache trips plus the name used lots of ink and space. So one day as I was out walking, I saw a big rig with the name Globetrotter on its rooftop.

[+Sue and Bernie]

Using the KISS principle we just use our names!

 

Sue has regularly been recognised from her half of the caricature we use as our atavar. Sue doesn't though!

[NickPick]

then they released those peanuts and that's even more appropraite. nobby's nuts...guilty as charged.

I remember seeing a "Tarrant on TV" show where they showed an australian advert for these snacks. It ended with a woman saying "Well, if we're having a party, let's nibble Nobby's Nuts!"

 

My username comes from my wife, who sometimes calls me Nicholas Pickolas, I shortened it to NickPick, as I'd rather not have an internet username with my real name in it. not that I'm hiding or anything

[Sheards]

Our surname is Sheard and there's more than one of us - Imaginative aren't we?

[+leecee]

Leecee because, well, my first name's Lee and my surname begins with C. Told you it wasn't exciting.

[+Daisy&me]

I guess our's is a bit obvious. The beautiful Labrador is Daisy and I'm... well, me.

[+KiwiGary]

Mine name is also pretty easy to work out.

 

Also didn't realise its what I was going to known as. Thought it might only be a logon.

 

Well like “cuplakiwis” I’m a Kiwi (From New Zealand) and my name is Gary.

 

It was funny at an event we arranged, as soon as I starting speaking everyone knew who I was?

 

They said I had an accent, which I told everyone that I don’t have! Its everyone here that talks funny.

 

See ya...Gary (KiwiGary)

Edited June 17, 2005 by KiwiGary

[+Happy Humphrey]

I looked through a few of my old climbing guides, which are full of original names. "Happy Humphrey" was the first one I spotted that looked cheerful and not too pretentious. It's actually the name of a wrestler, who was famous for his huge size and weight. But I later thought that it reminded me of Humphrey Bogart (who looks anything but happy...).

 

The only problem is that there are millions of geocaching HH's for some strange reason!

 

HH

[+MarkGPX]

Mine's got nothing to do with GPX downloads...

 

One of my motorbikes is a Kawasaki GPX750R (as seen in my avatar). In a previous job there was a healthy biker contingent and to avoid confusion I was known as Mark GPX (or Mark Kawasaki which is a bit long!) to distinguish me from Mark GSXR.

[+The HERB5]

A village in the South of France near the Pyrenees, the village I stay in hasn't got an interesting name.

 

Great walking area and soon to be caching area

[+Another Mr Lizard]

It's from a sketch from the radio show "Blue Jam", written by everyone's favourite comedy media terrorist Chris Morris.

 

A TV repairman visits a couple to fix their TV, which is inexplicably full of lizards.

 

The repairman gets more and more psychotic, and gigglingly tells them that his name is Mr Lizard, and his boss's name is Another Mr Lizard. It would probably make more sense if you heard the whole sketch, buy hey

 

Having bagged our first cache, James and I were exchanging ideas for a user name, and he giggled "Mr Lizard!", and I giggled "Another Mr Lizard!" and that was that.

Edited June 17, 2005 by Another Mr Lizard

[+lathama]

Started caching when i was at college. To log onto the college system had to use lathama (its my surname followed by first letter of first name) so use it here as well so i didnt forget it

[+jochta]

It's a contraction of my name.

 

It's a name I've used for years, originally from putting names into highscore tables on arcade/video games. When they offer more than three characters I would always use this instead.

 

It has kind of stuck and it has proven useful as it is pretty much guaranteed to be unique, it is now the name I use for virtually everything online.

 

The disadvantage is that the curious can find out all the other sad things I do with my life....

[+HazelS]

Like many others, I didn't realise this would ecome our handle for caching, and we admit Hazel and Phill is a bit boring!

 

However, like Rebecca and Adam (RJL194) we have also considered changing our name, but all our nicknames we've had a re quite personal to either the people that used them, or to us personally.... I like the name Hazel and Phill.... does what it says on the tin!

[+bargee]

Bargee because i live on a narrow boat

 

and couldn't register boatman

 

and now there is the boat people floating around somewhere as well

 

I know that in the days when the canals were used for commercial carrying of freight being called a bargee was an insulting and derogitory name for a narrow boater, usually calling into question his boating skills.

 

but i've made my name and now i've got to live with it!

[+Cunning Planners]

It's a work nickname that has spread a bit. I'm a project manager and one of my colleagues said "ask Deb, she usually has a cunning plan" - and it stuck. On a trip to the office the kids got to hear about it and liked the idea of being junior cunning planners....

 

Oh, and I look like Baldric

 

Deb@Cunning Planners

[+Longfram Kev]

Mines boring toooooo,

 

I live in Longframlington Northumberland

& my names Kevin

 

It was all I could think of when I had to log on the very first time, just over a year ago........... only 1 year ??????

[kiteflyer]

Guess what my other hobbie is!

[+Capt Slog]

Been here before, but

 

"Captain's Log, stardate 25-15-04, the Starship Enterprise has just had a total refit; oil and filter changed, ashtrays emptied..........."

 

I'm not a huge fan of StarTrek by the way, just liked the sound of it as a web name. (and for writing to Wogan)

[+The Wobbly Club]

Our caching name is The Wobbly Club. We got this because we are both leg disabled and wobble around using walking aids. This makes geocaching a real challenge for us. Our real names are Daphne + Colin.

[+Haggis Hunter]

The only problem is that there are millions of geocaching HH's for some strange reason!

 

HH

You're not wrong there

 

HH

[+browni]

Right, mine came about as on my clock card at work gives the surname (Brown) then my first christian (Ian) so it reads browni. It stuck so some people at work call me browni.

Edited June 17, 2005 by browni

[+Beds Clangers]

Mine, 'cos I'm from a planet far far away!! Well have you ever been to Bedford

 

Nick

[Clarets0]

Clarets0 = Clarets nil. Clarets = Burnley FC. It's what the oh-so amusing blackburn fans that I have the misfortune to work with call Burnley. It was briefly funny for oh, about a nanosecond, but I've been using it for several years now as a nick.

[+The Roos]

Despite our name suggesting we could possibly be antipode'an, although we are from opposite ends of the country - Mrs Roo from Cornwall, Mr Roo from Scotland - our name is a shortening of our surname and from when Mr Roo was young, free and single (and had hair) and living a high old life in the Royal Marines and was just plain old Roo.

[+MiTuCats]

We don't remember all the gory details involved in selecting our nickname, but most of it was pretty straightforward.

 

We figured we'd be hitting some caches out of state and wanted a name that showed our origins as a Michigan team, so we put the Mi in the name. There are two of us and we have two cats. We always planned to cache as a team, although we knew there might be (and have been) occasions where only one of us could visit a site when out of town on work related business. Therefore, we added TuCats to the end of the Mi.

 

We can't remember why we used TU instead of TWO, but there was something of earthshaking significance about it at the time. I do remember saying "Besides, T and U are TWO consecutive letters, so that fits" and getting a rather strange look from the best half of the team.

[+Ricky007]

Ricky is my name and as for 007, I was watching a James Bond film the other day so I added it onto my name to make the registration easier!!

[+Simply Paul]

Been here before too, but for those who missed it the first time:

 

I wanted to be simply Paul, but someone else was simply Paul so I decided to be Simply Paul because I like circular arguments, oxymorons and other cunning word play type stuff. By being Simply Paul I was no longer simply Paul - yet I was...etc.

 

SP

[+Pharisee]

Been here before too, but for those who missed it the first time:

 

I wanted to be simply Paul, but someone else was simply Paul so I decided to be Simply Paul because I like circular arguments, oxymorons and other cunning word play type stuff. By being Simply Paul I was no longer simply Paul - yet I was...etc.

 

SP

Well blow me down... all this time I thought it was Simple Paul

[+Tzus]

We're not telling you!

[+Sensei TSKC]

 

I wanted to be simply Paul, but someone else was simply Paul so I decided to be Simply Paul because I like circular arguments, oxymorons and other cunning word play type stuff.

 

SP

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Edited June 17, 2005 by SenseiTSKC

[+The Hokesters]

Much like Pharisee in a strange sort of way.

 

We rescued a cute 5 week old bitch puppy. All dog owners know that all the good dog names are for males.

 

We grabbed our dictionary and flipped the pages, stopped and pointed.

 

HokeyPokey Man. Italian Ice Cream Seller.

 

Amazingly "Hokey" stuck and so she and we became The Hokesters.

[+bobuk]

bobuk.....well i tink you might just figure it out

 

well this is the first post of many i hope..

 

Bob

My Webpage

Edited June 18, 2005 by bobuk

[+Firth of Forth]

I live near the shore of the Firth of Forth, and cross it 3 or 4 days a week. Rivers are nicely symbolic of lots of things.

[+Mustard Devil]

I was on vacation in England during 1st week of July 2001 with Jan. We decided to visit Hampton Courts where Henry lived for a bit[].

Went inside the gift shop there. As I was looking for something to take home, Jan picked up a jar of The Devil's Mustard, turned to me and smiled as she said" From now on I am calling you Mustard Devil!"

No idea why cause I'm a angel

[+Nomads For Now]

In the time we have been together, we have moved quite a bit. So we decided to name ourselves 'Nomads For Now.' We have since settled for a while. (we think!!)

[+makerofthingsup]

Statistically there can only be 2% of the people who post here left to add the reasons behind their names to this thread.

 

I make stuff up.

[+2202]

It reminds me when its birthday time again

[+daleswalker]

Errrr, Don't want to be amongst the 2% who haven't posted...So at the risk of stating the obvious, I like to walk in the Dales!!!

[+Mad H@ter]

It reminds me when its birthday time again

Now that's one I've wondered about since the day we started this obsession

[+kitmonster]

I'm on my 4th mountain bike, 5th MP3 player, 9th PC, 3rd GPS unit, 8th PDA, 3rd digital camera and enough goretex to clothe a 15 man team to the top of Everest . . . I'm sure you can figure out the link.

[+Team Maddie UK]

Another team named after the Mistress of the house and caching (or at least she likes to think so) We even use her piccie as our avatar, in hopes of staying on her good side.

[+Pooter]

As with the avatar, it's an obscure reference to the music of my youth.

 

In the mid seventies, the band Devo released a groundbreaking (to me at least) album "Are We Not Men? We Are Devo" In the song, Jocko Homo they introduced the dance - the Poot.

Us sad Devo afficionados immediately became Pooters.

[+StrongGale]

I am a massive follower of Point-to-Point and National Hunt horse racing and the name simply comes from a horse who was the champion NH sire for many years.

 

The horse pictured at the side of my posting isn't Strong Gale, but is a son of his.

 

Cheers! Dom

[+The Hokesters]

"Jocko Homo"

Is that a spelling mistake?

[+MarkGPX]

I make stuff up.

Is that true?

[NickPick]

I make stuff up.

Is that true?

Nah! I rekon he's making it up as he goes along

[+Walker Dan]

Walker Dan is/was a character in a Newcastle United fanzine a number of years ago, Walker being a part of Newcastle, so really has nowt to do with putting one foot in front of the other, although we do a fair bit of walking. The avatar is a copy of Walker Dan himself.