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We need a name for people who don't geocach but know about geocaching.

I think there might actually be several layers to muggledom. Here is one possible analysis, breaking "muggle" down into its various sub-components:

 

One whose non-caching status results from ignorance: Iggle

 

One whose non-caching status results from apathy: Apple

 

One whose non-caching status results from having been banned by Groundspeak: Bangle

 

One whose non-caching status results from fear of danger: Dangle

 

One whose non-caching status results from archiving all their caches and stomping off in a huff: Disgruntle

 

One whose non-caching status results from simply never being able to keep up with the rest of the caching crowd: Straggle

 

One whose non-caching status results from being dried-up and way too old: Haggle

 

One whose non-caching status is merely intermittent and depends on one’s wild mood swings: Fickle

 

One whose non-caching status results from over dependence on psycho-active drugs: Giggle

 

One whose non-caching status results from living too far from any existing hides: Jungle

 

One whose non-caching status results from owning a defective compass: Angle

 

One whose non-caching status results from having choked on their Garmin: Gargle

 

One whose non-caching status results from being a Magellan owner: Mangle (Or maybe just "Lost.")

 

One whose non-caching status results from having parked on the wrong side of the freeway at the last cache one ever attempted: Froggle

 

One whose non-caching status results from being born fifteen centuries too early: Medieval

 

One whose non-caching status results from being born five thousand centuries too early: Neander-tle

 

One whose non-caching status results from being entirely the wrong species: Seagull

 

One whose non-caching status results from accidentally becoming permanently stuck just inside a rock wall crevice: Spackle

 

:D:D:D

 

KBI, you crack me up!

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Nuggle

 

Knowledgeable muggle :)

 

I like it, but I think a more literal "Knuggle" would be more fun, while still keeping the simplicity and consistency of the idea.

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I think hubby is a good term.

 

He knows about it, sometimes even accompanies me, will paint or camo containers for me, but has zero interest in registering on the site or signing a logbook.

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In keeping with the Harry Potter rules, I think Squib would actually be incorrect in this context. A Squib is defined as one who is born of magical or wizarding parents but possess no magical powers themselves. So since my mom geocaches but my dad doesn't that makes me a half-blood. Since both my grandparents were dead before the geocaching even existed and my dad has no interest, he'd be a Squib. But if he did have an interest he'd be Muggle-born or a Mudblood. So muggle doesn't really work in this context either.

 

I know way too much about Harry Potter. Loser.

 

Geo-poser

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In keeping with the Harry Potter rules, I think Squib would actually be incorrect in this context. A Squib is defined as one who is born of magical or wizarding parents but possess no magical powers themselves. So since my mom geocaches but my dad doesn't that makes me a half-blood. Since both my grandparents were dead before the geocaching even existed and my dad has no interest, he'd be a Squib. But if he did have an interest he'd be Muggle-born or a Mudblood. So muggle doesn't really work in this context either.

 

I know way too much about Harry Potter. Loser.

 

Geo-poser

 

Huh? :)

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In keeping with the Harry Potter rules, I think Squib would actually be incorrect in this context. A Squib is defined as one who is born of magical or wizarding parents but possess no magical powers themselves. So since my mom geocaches but my dad doesn't that makes me a half-blood. Since both my grandparents were dead before the geocaching even existed and my dad has no interest, he'd be a Squib. But if he did have an interest he'd be Muggle-born or a Mudblood. So muggle doesn't really work in this context either.

 

I know way too much about Harry Potter. Loser.

 

Geo-poser

 

Huh? :ph34r:

 

I quoted the first post and I thought that a good name would be geo-posser

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Around here they're already referred to as half-bloods. I'm not really sure it fits. Squib doesn't fit either. A squib would be someone who belongs to a cacher family, but doesn't cache themselves. I think they're still just muggles.

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Why dont we just call them UGGs. Oh wait... thats the name of ugly footwear aint it. We could call them MUGS? Thats something we frequently call peoplle in NI anyhow. Its usually used in the context of Someone who knows what they are getting into but does it anyhow.

 

Claire xx

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So my son isn't half muggle. :ph34r:

 

He's a Half-Squib? :D:lol:

 

Squiggle.

 

As far as the OP, I can't actually think of the need to use such a word ever coming up. If they don't come along for the adventure they are not part of the story.

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Squiggle.

 

As far as the OP, I can't actually think of the need to use such a word ever coming up. If they don't come along for the adventure they are not part of the story.

 

"So, I see that your caching without that squiggle son of yours again, huh?"

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Don't worry there is light at the end of the tunnel. According to a log on one of my caches squibs can be converted…

 

We really had fun with this one, and when we told our daughter (who hates geocaching) she said she wanted to do it.

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Prepare yourself, I'm also about to totally dork out.

 

I'm pretty sure they're still muggles. Hermione Granger's parents are referred to as muggles, if I remember correctly, and they are obviously aware of the magic world. I don't think muggle-ness is dependent on knowledge or ignorance, but rather engagement and ability.

 

And yeah, I agree that squib is the wrong word. That would be someone whose family geocaches but they can't.

 

[/dork out]

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