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(This post is only perhaps half serious)

 

In my short years of caching I have encountered several instances, I wouldn't say a lot, of plain old fashioned bigotry because from my name I am obviously one of "those religious people". Sounds a lot like "those people" doesn't it? Didn't this phrase get some politician in trouble a while back?

 

Not since grade school have i encountered this kind of abuse simply because of a name.

 

I know that some of "those religious people" come on pretty strong and seem to make it their business to try to ban anything they disagree with. I am not one of them. Thus, to get out from under the "broad brush" (and because my current name won't fit on MOST of the logs found nowadays in the ubiquitous micros), I am considering a name change and would like opinions.

 

I am considreing:

Nothing Just Dave (NJD)- this is an inside joke from 20 years ago

Just Generic Dave (JGD)

my ham call- (a little concerned that it makes finding personal info a little TOO easy)

Generic Dave (GD)- well, that MIGHT be a problem...

CCD or CCDave- I use these already on micros

The Village Idiot (TVI)- hams would understand the abbreviation

Ghost Buster- refers to my vehicle's unusual equipment

 

I'm really not very creative in these things...

 

Any suggestions?

(I asked for it) :laughing:

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Looks to me like all the ones you have listed would be good. I agree, though, on the ham call sign. So, if you change your name, can you carry over all your finds and delete the old name, or do you have to start over? I wonder this myself, because I've come up with a much better name for myself, and I'm considering changing.

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ND Dave (Non Denominational)

Pagoda Dave

 

The Rock

MT Dave

 

TPTB Dave

 

CC Dave

CC Rider

DaveCC

 

The Hanged Man (Tarot Reference) idea stolen from wimseyguy

 

Bigots have to go home to themselves and die young due to the heath effects of a bad attude. I'd leave your name alone. Nothing I came up with is any better though I like the ND moniker.

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Where are you encountering this bigotry? Online logs? At events? That's crazy. :laughing:

online logs and forums mostly

nothing really serious

There seems to be a different level of civility when people meet ANYWHERE but online.

 

Perhaps it is due to limitations of very short, one-sided, delayed exchanges

 

I certainly haven't mastered the medium

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For the reason you mentioned, I'd not use your callsign. Though, could you use "non-traditional" phonetics of your call and make them into a geocaching name?

 

E.g., If your call suffix were EPF, you could be "Eats Pie Frequently". Though, you'd still have to deal with the name being a little long for some of those micro logs.

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This calls to mind the classic Doonesbury script where one of Gerald Ford's advisors had a name the press thought looked weird. He asked "Suggestions for a new name?"

 

One reporter piped up "Tigger"!

Why don't I get that? :laughing:

I think it has to do with Tigger bouncing, and Ford tripping... :laughing:

 

Personally, the only reason you should change your name is because YOU want to Dave, not because some twit can't handle it.

 

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Don't change your name or "they" win. Once I figure out who "they" are, I'll drop you a line. Seriously, keep your name, you change it you will just get grief for changing it. If somebody is going to flip you grief for your name and the "implied" religious beliefs, then they are chuckleheads.

 

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I'll jump on the bandwagon -- don't change your name unless you think it doesn't accurately reflect who you are. Early on, I changed my caching name because I felt the present one better refelected me and my kids. I've caught a bit of crap for my name, and more for my religious-holiday-themed cache, but that's a reflection of who the complainer was, and not who I am. And your name isn't promoting a religious agenda (e.g. like __other people__BurnIn__generic bad place___, or I'mSaved-AreYou?), so if you like it, use it!

 

Team Maccabee

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Don't change your name or "they" win.  Once I figure out who "they" are, I'll drop you a line.  Seriously, keep your name, you change it you will just get grief for changing it.  If somebody is going to flip you grief for your name and the "implied" religious beliefs, then they are chuckleheads.

Well said Silly Look. I whole-heartedly agree to keep your name as-is.

 

But, if you do change your name, your finds will stay with you. However, the name on the cache page will remain the old one until the cache page itself gets updated somehow. Hmmmm. Maybe not anymore. I changed my name last year and checked some older archived caches. They still had my old name at that time. I just went and looked again, and it appears all of them have been changed to the new name. Maybe the cache pages on the archived caches were updated during some of the maintenance?

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Credence Clearwater Revival got away with CCR and knew success, why not CHurchCampDave becoming CCD?

 

I so wish you would do what pleases YOU, though as conformity is really over-rated. Besides, just like the 'bigots' who go home with their opinions, you do as well - let them be YOURS and not theirs as you are the one accountable.

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Bob

Being a Bob, I think we take far to much abuse and stereotyping in comercials and the media. My elementary school years were spent learning all the bad words that rhymed with Bob. Stay away from Bob, it will cause you much pain.

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This calls to mind the classic Doonesbury script where one of Gerald Ford's advisors had a name the press thought looked weird. He asked "Suggestions for a new name?"

 

One reporter piped up "Tigger"!

Why don't I get that? :)

I think it has to do with Tigger bouncing, and Ford tripping... :)

 

Personally, the only reason you should change your name is because YOU want to Dave, not because some twit can't handle it.

 

So with that... to all you offended ones:

 

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I agree! You're name is fine, and it's who you are! I wouldn't recognize you anymore if you changed it.

 

I've had the the total opposite happen to me. I've had people pick at me because I'm a Christian, and they felt that my name wasn't Christian. I went through a phase where I wanted to change it as well, but this is my geocaching name. I couldn't change it anymore than I could change my real name. Nobody would know who I am if I did, and my geocaching name has meaning. Maybe not a meaning that most people will know about, because I don't like to let people know what my real name is.

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I had thought once about changing my name. Sometimes I worry that some people are a bit uncomfortable using the term 'dummies' in any way when they refer to me, as if it would insult me.

 

Except, or course, for New England n00b, who has no problem referring to me as a dummy.

 

But my son and I picked the name together, and that makes it special to me (even though he's off at college and not caching with me very much any more).

 

Besides, the name helps me remember to not take this stuff too seriously.

 

I think you should stick with ChurchCampDave. But if you have to change, how about 'TheGeocacherFormerlyKnownAsChurchCampDave'?

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I had thought once about changing my name. Sometimes I worry that some people are a bit uncomfortable using the term 'dummies' in any way when they refer to me, as if it would insult me.

 

Except, of course, for New England n00b, who has no problem referring to me as a dummy.

 

But my son and I picked the name together, and that makes it special to me (even though he's off at college and not caching with me very much any more).

 

Besides, the name helps me remember to not take this stuff too seriously.

 

I think you should stick with ChurchCampDave. But if you have to change, how about 'TheGeocacherFormerlyKnownAsChurchCampDave'?

:) Yet I haven't found your Naylor Vickers cache yet. WHO'S THE DUMMY NOW?!?! Oh wait... I am! :) I hafta get back into Nashua and pick off that DNF.

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I had thought once about changing my name. Sometimes I worry that some people are a bit uncomfortable using the term 'dummies' in any way when they refer to me, as if it would insult me.

 

Except, or course, for New England n00b, who has no problem referring to me as a dummy.

No one seems to have a problem referring to us as crabs :)

 

Although we do get occasional email addressed to "Hermie". I think that's cute.

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Hmm... As long as you don't threaten to pray over me, we can coexist. :) Geocachers are generally hoopy froods. I would have figured that you were from Church Camp, (some state). Though, your avatar photo does look a bit kinky...

I had a friend who lived in Convent Station. "Sounds like a railroad station near a convent." "Well, yeah?"

And, some people mis-hear my Joisey accent, and think that I'm a Hairy Dolphin. I may be hairy, but I'm Harry.

There may be some geocachers whom I do not wish to meet, but that is usually from their logging style, rather than their names. (Wondering if the hermit with crabs is contagious?)

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