Explain why did you choose your Users Name/Geocaching name

[+DisneyXtreme]

Oops... I misspelled Geocaching on the heading of this post but I could not edit it so, I corrected it here.

 

I use this name ( IGotADisneyJeep ) because I Got A "Disney Jeep"

Edited October 9, 2010 by IGotADisneyJeep

[+jeffbouldin]

Had no choice. My mother gave it to me when I was a baby and the legal hassles and expense did not seem worth it to change.

[+craigarnold]

Had no choice. My mother gave it to me when I was a baby and the legal hassles and expense did not seem worth it to change.

 

I'm in the same scenario

[+geekslady]

I am a lady and my boy friend is a geek. End of story.

[+jeffbouldin]

I am a lady and my boy friend is a geek. End of story.

 

You mean there is hope for the rest of us?!

[+Night Stalker]

This topic has been brought up before, but I doubt you will find it now. My caching name comes from the old Night Stalker television series starring Daren McGavin. I figured there was a parallel between geocaching and the series since he was always running around looking for monsters and nobody knew they were real. We run around looking for "tresures" and muggles never know they are right under their noses either.

 

[+Chokecherry]

My friend chose it. We shared this account for a heartbeat and since I was maintaining it I took it over it and now he has a new user name.

 

The name itself comes from a few different stories.... none of which are appropriate to share.

[+geoEggDad]

Mine used to be my name, but wasnt sure of the community around here and if that was a good idea or not so I changed it. Rumor has it there are a lot of strange people searching around at night for items that may or may not exist and have nothing but a piece of paper in them. Oh wait.. I am one of those strange people now. (Egg=part of my name)

 

Me and my Geokids.. (ages 11,8,6).

 

dte

[+popokiiti]

I'm a cat lover as is my caching partner. I am shorter so I am Popoki Iti - Hawai'ian for Little Cat. The other Popoki is Popoki Nui - Big Cat.

[+matildapants]

Mine didn't feel very creative at the time...but I am glad I chose it.

 

I am a cat lover, with two cats of my own, and I currently live with three more (yes, I live with a total of five cats). On of my kitties is named Matilda the Russian Spy (my other cat is Secret Agent Sam). Matilda is a very fluffy itty-bitty-kitty, and from the back she looks like she is wearing pantaloons.

Her nickname is Matilda Pants, or Miss Pants, or a thousand variations of that.

 

SO...I am MatildaPants, because she would cache if she could, and she is always with me on the computer. Like I said, not very creative, but there it is.

 

MatildaPants FTW!

 

 

 

[Ephemeral Moment]

Mine is from the song 'The Happy Wanderer' - classic

 

Some lyrics from it - 'I love to go a-wandering, Along the mountain track, And as I go, I love to sing, My knapsack on my back.'

 

apart from the singing quite descriptive

[+J the Goat]

Play on my name. Sort of. I dig it.

[+G & C]

Mine stems from the two things I use and love most (minus people). I spend a lot of time in the cockpit, I spend a lot of time with my guns. The time with both has gotten a little smaller since geocaching came around though...

[+Bear and Ragged]

Had no choice. My mother gave it to me when I was a baby and the legal hassles and expense did not seem worth it to change.

 

I'm in the same scenario

 

Me three... Mum and Dad had a warped sense of humour.

 

(Actually, it's the emblem for the county I live in!)

Edited October 9, 2010 by Bear and Ragged

[NordicMan]

My parents are from Finland (a chilly country, summers are short), yet I hate the cold and often complain when it temps drop too low. One of my friends heard me complaining once and said, "relax NordicMan" it's not that cold out..

 

..and the name stuck

[+GeoBeedle]

test

[+knowltonGeo]

<<last name>> + "Geo"

 

I know ... I know ... soooo creative!

[+Jedi_Find_Trick]

/waves hand

This is not the cache you're looking for

[+matildapants]

/waves hand

This is not the cache you're looking for

 

HEehehe! I love it.

[+The Blorenges]

Our name comes from The Blorenge, a mountain in SE Wales, where we found our first ever geocache - over 6 years ago!

 

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?

 

MrsB

[+ayrbrain]

I live in Ayr Scotland and don't have a brain!! 3 caches today and didn't find one!! this is my first day though.

[+maristua]

My name is the name of the place where I grew up.

[+LethanderMorninglory]

as for mine.. mine has been my internet nickname since i first got started on the net in '95, before that was an old character name i used during my D&D years, I figure if i keep using the same name never know who one may re-aquaint themselves with as time goes on....

[+Bad_Wolfe]

I chose Kesara because it means "young and young at heart" and that is how I feel. I feel younger than I am and my hubby is younger than me so it kinda fits who I am.

 

Him on the other hand, just wanted something cool and that flowed with my name...

[g_o_caching]

I made this one so people would think of geo caching, or at worst think it was go caching. Either way it had caching in it.

[+IBcrashen]

Having just crashed on my mountain bike and breaking my arm and a few teeth ( OK, 9 of them ) I was sitting around bored, not working. I broke down and bought a my first PC. My cousin was over signing me up for AOL ( are they still around? ) and trying to pick a screen name. After a few failed attempts I was talking to my other cousin about what had happened to me and I jokingly said I be crashing ( its hard to talk with front teeth missing ) and he typed in IBcrashen. Used it on most online things since. I almost changed it to IBgeocaching for here but.....

[+worstcaster]

Took up fly fishing a few years ago and was an awful caster. I'm better now but never bothered to change the name.

[+dreamarcher]

Dream of the Archer is a song of Heart's 1977 Little Queen album. I changed it from being a dream about an archer, if one is to take even that literally, to being a person, Dream Archer.

[+lomocacher]

Mine is a fusion of my two favorite hobbies--lomography and geocaching, hence, lomocacher. Lomography is a photography style that uses toy and vintage cameras, and I often take my cameras with me while I cache.

[+kywaterfowler]

Mine is fairly simple. I live in Kentucky and I love to hunt waterfowl.

[Andronicus]

Andronicus, as is Titus Andronicus from the Shakespeare play. After watching the version with Anthony Hopkins, I thought it was super cool. That is when I changed my online Aliase form 'Time' to 'Androniucs'.

[+vw_k]

It's the name of the song I was listening to on a compilation CD when I created my account! Plus I drive a Volkswagen. I did start buying VW keychains to leave as signature items in caches but that novelty soon wore off.

 

I keep thinking of changing it but after 4 years and 800+ finds it's kinda stuck!

[+Frogglin]

I am frog obsessed and my friends call me Lyn. Froglyn looked too clunky so BAM - Frogglin. Also I find it's never taken on any site. Go me!

[hoosier guy]

I live in Indiana & I am a guy.

[+Flaggal]

When I started caching, I lived in Flagstaff, AZ. The residents of Flagstaff shorten the name to Flag. I am a gal and I use to reside in Flagstaff. Hence the name Flaggal

[+bearhugger1972]

bearhugger - i hug like a bear. 1972 - the PSI i can squeeze to!!!

[jd-mitchell]

Had no choice. My mother gave it to me when I was a baby and the legal hassles and expense did not seem worth it to change.

funny about that. same here. Not that there aren't a few other names others have given me!

[+Harry Dolphin]

Because I really am a dolphin! I've been using this name since the days of bulletin boards where everyone used 'handles' (based on CB radio).

[+NicknPapa]

Nick (my grandson) found the first cache by accident (or not, he finds things. LOTS of things). Then he wanted to go look for more so we Made an account and started finding them on purpose. Since we were in a hurry (it was getting pretty late in the day) and he's Nick and calls me Papa that's what we decided to use.

[+John in Valley Forge]

It is my name on WheresGeorge which is where I learned about Geocaching.

[+Twitch Hugs Trees]

My childhood nickname is Twitch (because my nose twitches subconsciously like the girl in Bewitched) and I like trees and plants. Twitch Likes Botany was kind of hokey so I picked Twitch Hugs Trees. It's quick to type and I can abbreviate it with THT.

 

Usually, my usernames are some variation of "Egypt Girl" since I want to be an Egyptologist, but THT works better with the outdoorsy activity of Geocaching.

[Yin and Yang]

I chose my Geocaching name because it's a joint account for my fiance and me. I changed the name to Yin and Yang when we decided to have a joint account instead of two separate ones.

 

After my fiance and I started dating we both found we began to believe in soul mates. We also found we had an interesting thing going on - I was enamored with the Phoenix and he was enamored with the Dragon. As it turns out, with me searching for info before getting my Phoenix tattoo, there is a TON of mythology out there (in Asian culture) that presents the Dragon and Phoenix as two parts of a whole and also likens them to the yin-yang.

 

I did more researching into the yin-yang and after a while it began to be sort of a strong symbol of our love for each other and our relationship. Since then I began to refer to him as the Yang to my Yin and he began to refer to me as the Yin to his Yang. Like the yin-yang we find that we complete each other and that we are two parts that make a whole. I made wire wrapped pendants for us, like those old fashioned heart necklaces but in the shape of the two halves of the yin-yang. Ever since all that it's been a matter of me being Yin and him being Yang, hence the name Yin and Yang.

[+YSG and RedBeard]

I go by YourSunshineGirl mostly in the 3D world and he - well he used to have a nice red beard before it turned all white. All of that was to long for our Geocaching name so we shortened the best we could

[+sibermouse]

mine is simply a " handle " I thought of at school as every one told me im as quite as a moue so...... im in cyberspace I thought meh it work's. At the time cybermouse had gone so i played with the spelling and have been using it ever since

[+pkupmn98]

I've had mine as an email or forum handle since I first created a user name. Country singer Joe Diffie has a country song called Pick-up Man in which he sings: "There's just somethin' women like about a pick-up man". Well since I have been old enough to drive, I've owned a pickup truck, and my first new truck was a 1998 (also the year I graduated) it just fit. (No. I can not help you move)

 

Considering changing it to Team Pickupman to indicate my wife and daughter are always with me and we all use this account.

Edited October 11, 2010 by pkupmn98

[Mountain Moji]

My daughter has a guinea pig named Moji and we live in the mountains.

 

[+Mosquitoe Bait]

Whenever I go looking for caches there seems to be lots of Mosquitoes helping me so the name fits.

[fruit of the nile]

This name came up when I was looking through my atlas type book and saw how many exports of precious gems came from near the Nile River. I thought about how since they were so valuable, they were the "fruit of the Nile". I rushed to the computer and entered this name as my username, and been using it ever since.

[fruit of the nile]

This name came up when I was looking through my atlas type book and saw how many exports of precious gems came from near the Nile River. I thought about how since they were so valuable, they were the "fruit of the Nile". I rushed to the computer and entered this name as my username, and been using it ever since.

[+grimalkin13]

I wanted a name that was generic and as I own a 1932 Ford Roadster and love hot rods '32fordroadster' it is.