How Did You Get Yours

[+MartyBartfast]

Mine's an amalgam of me (Martyn) and Slartibartfast of HHGTTG fame, he got an award for Norway you know! Don't really know where it came from but I wanted a nickname for Geocaching & Geographing, but something I wasn't using elsewhere, and I think I was working my way through the last series of HHGTTG at the time.

The avatar shows Slarti with trekking pole in one hand and Etrex banana in the other.

[!CuTeLiLcHiCk!]

 

Its just My Nick Name I just Made It up, i have Had It For About 2 years!

[+thunderbird30]

Nothing to do with the TV series with International Rescue,more to do with when I was young (listen carefully and you can hear the Hovis theme). I used to drink the cheap drink called Thunderbird.....The 30 was added because the username Thunderbird was already taken..

 

Now I'm older and wiser , I suppose I could rename myself Finest Malt Whisky30,but it's a bugger to type!

Edited March 19, 2006 by thunderbird30

[nobby.nobbs]

Nothing to do with the TV series with International Rescue,more to do with when I was young (listen carefully and you can hear the Hovis theme). I used to drink the cheap drink called Thunderbird.....The 30 was added because the username Thunderbird was already taken..

 

Now I'm older and wiser , I suppose I could rename myself Finest Malt Whisky30,but it's a bugger to type!

 

and thunderbird's still cheaper!!!!

[nobby.nobbs]

with me just self parody.

 

needed a good name for caching.... so being a pratchett fan had to be a nightwatchman.

 

then it could only be a choice between nobby and colon and i was never sgt material!

 

that and then found the "self portrait" avatar.

[+windywalkers]

we like beans and walking mrs windy is the worst

[+Mr'D]

How Did You Get Yours, nicknames

Her indoors decided...

 

[+clotguy]

Tis all to do with my job & how my patients descibe me

[+PopUpPirate]

Wouldve just been Pirate, except most net places already have someone called that, so tend to sign on most sites as PopUpPirate - belting game!

 

[+Brandi Sour]

Been to Cyprus? Hic! Then you'll know. Hic.

 

Never Hic been? Hic, you'll have to guess from the avatar. Hic.

 

- need a Hic refill - byeeeeee!!

[+Kryten]

I wanted Kryten (from Red Dwarf) but that was already taken, I tried Kryton but that was taken too so, with little or no imagination I put a Mc on the front and at a stroke created a new clan of which I am the only member. At the time I though I was just creating an account, I had no idea I would end up answering to this name in the pub.

[SlytherinAlex]

er... cos it's my name!!!

there are two of you????

[+LollyBob]

ive been reading through the forums an have been looking at cachers names an how strange some of them are, just wondered what meaning to you your nickname has?

i got mine from my first car it was a white fiesta with a purple stripe. my dad had the number plates made with the words little miss naughty printed at the bottem an from then on it stuck.

 

LMN

 

Ours is our names Lolly and Bob but Bob has been given a new one by the cachers who were at the Taunton camping event. Dudley Dyson!! The reason they re named him was because he took the vacume cleaner camping with us, it is one of them that you can reverse so it will blow things up. He did several airbeds at the event and they christened him Dudley Dyson!! If you are at a camping event and we are there ....and you need your airbed pumping up....just give Dudley Dyson a shout and he will blow you up in a jiffy!!

 

Lolly

[+Team JSAM]

Team = family of 4

 

J = Jake

S = Steph

A = Abby

M = Maddy

[Timfy]

A simple one this! Team timSibLes comprises of Tim (me!), Siobhan and Lesley.

 

I admit that I have been called other names...especially when I send Siobhan through a bed of nettles

[+Icenians]

All down to where we live.

 

Bit of a fraud really given that out of the 6 of us the youngest is the only one from around here. The rest are from far and wide

[Sparticus]

Just look at my picture that was taken whilst on holiday in italy. I call myself sparticus because I am.

 

(Now the voices are starting to hurt)

[+fellsmanhiker]

I decided on my name from the annual event known as "The Fellsmanhike" though in recent years the name has been shortened to "The Fellsman" The event which I completed a few years ago starts from Ingleton and ends in Threshfield,it is a 61 mile hike and about 11 summits,with a total ascent of about 11,000 feet there are about 24 checkpoints on the route all of which of course have to be visited,there is a night section where mapreading and compass skills have to be used,the whole walk has to be done in under 24 hours I completed it in 23 hours and I suppose it's one of my proudest achievements and the certificate takes pride of place on my wall amongst my other mountain marathon certificates so hence the name Fellsmanhiker.

[Gassy]

...just a shortening of my surname

 

(nothing to do with what most people think! )

[+mumbo jumbo]

An emotional response to the constant deluge of new law and regulatory c*%p I have to deal with in my job (see also sign off below!). Avatar is pictorial representation of how I feel about this!

[+Bikebox]

When I bought my Honda Element I thought I'd get a personalized plate and since I mainly picked that car so I could throw my bikes in the back without worrying about messing up the place, I called it my BIKEBOX and got that plate. Seemed like a good enough user name at the time....

[+Colorado Cacher]

I typed it in on a whim, because I never thought it would work, and when it worked I was amazed. I'm very easily amused.

[+Geotrotters]

Ours is from the nickname of the local football team, the trotters, and we decided to add the Geo after our new hobby.

[+Bud Lightbeer]

I needed something unique for many online accounts and was trying to think of something while watching a Toy Story movie and drinking Budweiser. The rest as they say is history. I was very very drunk at the time

[+Old B]

My surname is Barber and two other members of my family cache. My son and my grandson.

Hence "Old B" as I am the oldest and the Barber's Pole as my avatar.

[sarahjayne]

because that is my name

 

sarahjayne

[+DcCow]

Guess you could say mine was issued by the Government! About 16 years ago, while in the military - they gave it to me as a login name to a computer system. I still use it to login to the same system (many versions later) at work.

 

DcCow

[+flipflopnick]

I wear flip flops, and previous colleague coined the name. better than school nickname I had , but I'm not telling you lot what it was. Glad to have got rid of that nickname.

[+TMM-Sarah]

hmmm, I wonder?

[Helen in Mustardland]

My first online home, www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers is known by the locals as Mustardland cos of the outrageous background colour there. I'm just Helen, in Mustardland.

[+Bear and Ragged]

I'm G, the other one's K

 

The "System" wouldn't let me have GandK.

 

G

[nobby.nobbs]

My first online home, www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers is known by the locals as Mustardland cos of the outrageous background colour there. I'm just Helen, in Mustardland.

 

so your task is to contact the writers and find a way to get it mentioned in a positive way. should be easy enough. and an interesting little side thing for them to mention.

[+4 Badgers]

Badgers #3 and #4 are fans of www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - there are four of us and we like badgers.......

[Edwardian Travellers]

Ours is an extension of our last name (Edwards) and for some strange reason people used to call me Edwardian for a laugh Anyway Josh from our team came up with Edwardian Travellers.

[+Bambography]

I'd just started building myself a Webpage and then discovered geocaching within a matter of days. Decided that my original login here as CPBamber was a little basic so changed to Bambography just in the nic of time before they removed the facility !!!

[+Tiger-Eyes]

When I first started caching I thought we would do it as a family so as Andy has been known as Wingnut for years (cos his ears stick out) and Shania is addicted to peanuts (hence peanut) we just added little nut for Jasmine and Nutty nut for me

 

If I had known that I would usually cache alone and Very rarely with Andy I would have chosen Tiger Eyes as that was my CB handle years ago (I like tigers and my eyes are my fav feature) unfortunately I didn't join in the ere when name changes were allowed

[+drsolly]

People have always called me "Solly", and I added the dr when we went into the software business

[+zShadowWalker(2E0SUD)]

Mu starts from a long time ago with some of the RPG's I use to play as ShadowWalker with the Net being around it seems that there were Millions of ShadowWalker's usaly with numbers posfixed for somthing differant i prefixedwith z that is used to denote Complex Numbers. The last ramdom letters and numbers in brackets is my Amateur Radio Callsign. Ending up with the name we have on here.

 

73's

 

Adrian.

[+badger]

Started out as Mattwaggie, which was the short version of my first name, and my old school nickname. But I always have liked Badgers, fascinating creatures they are, so took that nick on a chat room or two, people then started calling me Badger and it kind of stuck!

 

Badger!

[+The Mighty Shark]

Mine is taken from my email address. I wanted to create a hotmail account but everything I tried kept coming back as being already taken.

My kids were sitting watching TV at the time and on the screen was a character called The Mighty Shark so I typed that in and the rest as they say is history.

Edited October 31, 2006 by The Mighty Shark

[+Tizzie]

When my nephew (now 16) was a toddler he tried to say "Auntie Liz" but the sounds got mixed up and tumbled out as "Tizzie".

[Edgemaster]

My nickname has taken many forms, and I still use several, usually depending on the age of the account. The first places you find me online I may be called thomaswood91, on another forum I latched onto the name Grand Edgemaster of the Computer for some reason. I think it came from a game. It gets shortened to Grand Edgemaster, then to GE, but now I prefer the longer form Edgemaster due to the unfortunate connection to a large US corporation whose brand name is not so predominant in the UK.

Also, GE seemed to be taken here

 

I should add that googling Grand Edgemaster wouldn't get me at all, being swamped under tons of Soul Calibur. Now that nick is mostly found on phpBB forums from about 2 years ago, several wikis, some forums, a tad on OpenBSD, but never on a gaming forum.

Googling Edgemaster alone gets a concrete company, a ski tuning company, my Geocaching profile at 5, and a thread on GAGB at 20!

Edited November 2, 2006 by Edgemaster

[Bill Seiko]

Mine starts with my real name " Bill" and "Seiko" was the name of the first guide dog puppy that I walked and then made it successfully to be a Guide Dog, so I used her name to celebrate her success and it has stuck ever since.

 

Bill Seiko

[+molfrew-mosstoad]

Ours is our family nicknames (that is all but MOL)

Mol = Molly Daughter No1

Frew = Freya Daughter No2

Moss = Sue Mum

Toad = Chris Dad

[+It's Spitting!]

Ours is from a Peter Kay observation about a common northern trait - As soon as it starts raining you will hear the call to children "Quick, get in, it's spitting!..."

 

Plus, up here it is often is spitting when we set out to do caches ;-)

[+DutchGeek & Lollypops]

I'm Dutch, I'm a geek and my wife is called Laura (Lolly-----Lollypops)

[+Father Jack]

Because i drink too much

[+gingerbreadmen]

As we used to live in Ormskirk and Ormskirk is famous (apparantly) for its gingerbread we went with this one as a compromise. I wanted something like The Demon Hoardes from Hades , Er indoors wanted something far more girly like Pink Bunnies in Satin, Velveteen Custard or whatever . If I'd known then what a pain in the bum a name with 11 letters would be when trying to write in a very small log-book I'd have chosen sommat much smaller like "A"

[+lingering]

Ours is the first 3 letters of our names, although that was already taken so we added the "ing" especially as we tend to hang around at the caches

[+sssss]

because i could not have what i wanted