YAPIDKA in geocaching glossary

[+halhal]

One of my favorite geocaching terms that I found while looking at various regional web sites was YAPIDKA -- "Yet Another Park I Didn't Know About". What a great term. Although no one has used that acronym in one of my caches, I often did see the comment that the person didn't know about the park I'd put the cache in. There are many other parks that I've found caches in that I didn't know about.

 

I propose that "YAPIDKA -- Yet Another Park I Didn't Know About" be added the geocaching.com glossary.

 

I submitted the idea as a message to the geocaching.com people and Eric suggested I post it to this forum.

 

Probably if we all think it's good enough to be included, it will be.

 

Hal Huntley (halhal)

Edited September 7, 2007 by halhal

[+Moore9KSUcats]

Back in 2002, Moosiegirl and TheOutlaw in Austin started using the term. I don't know if it was used earlier, but here is YAPIDKA #2, and it was published July 24.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...76-a0954951ad3b

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=yapidka

 

In a search for caches with that in the title, here is a list of 20. Of those 20, 6 are from Moosiegirl and TheOutlaw, and another 7 are hidden by another Austin area cacher.

[+wesleykey]

I am familiar with the acronym, but it's a regional thing. I don't think it is used much at all in cache logs here in Alabama.

[+Prime Suspect]

There are a lot of terms and acronyms that could be added to the glossary.

[+Glenn]

I've never seen the acronym YAPIDKA used so did a some Google searches. YAPIDKA seems to be a very local acronym. YAPIDKA is used on geocaching.com about 69 times and on the forums about 72 times.

Keep using it and see if it catches on. TFTC started small once too!