Explain why did you choose your Users Name/Geocaching name

[charlieandwillow 0]

The baby Viking is Charlie, and since playing rugby at uni the girls have always called me Willow due to an unfortunate encounter with a certain tree leaving me with a 2 1/2 inch scar between my eyes (a lot of them don't even know Willow isn't my real name). Since we hunt with daddy Viking too, cache logs get signed Superdave, Charlie + Willow.

[+Sundance Cassidy 0]

Well Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one of my all time favorite movies....I named my Belgian Sheepdog after it and i've been using it for the last year!

[+Scooter Rider 0]

This is and easy one I cache on two wheels. A Kymco Grand Vista 250cc scooter.

[OT1S 0]

Otis is the name I gave the person that I strive to be. I took the name in geocaching because it is a way to get outdoors and participate in good clean fun as opposed to some of the activities I've done in the past. Whenever I am doing something that I truly, genuinely enjoy I like to take the name Otis.

[+coloradofun2007 0]

I got divorced in 2007 and decided from then on I was going to make having fun a priority! Geocaching is one of my geeky ways of having fun and enjoying life here in Colorado!

[+scoop47501 0]

I got my user name from my old job. You see I was the clown that followed the horses in the parade when the circus came to town. Well, one day the Ring Master transferred me to the elephants and I quit that day and became a coal miner. The numbers are my zip code so I can find my way back home

Later

Scooper

[+Raffaz 0]

Simple, its my nickname, 2nd name is Rafferty

[+Rckhnd 0]

I used to work in a major jewelry retail supply company in New Mexico, specifically, in the gemstone dept.

A friend and I would go out rock-hounding and collect our own mineral and gem specimens.

 

Once the internet went public I went from Rock hound to Rckhnd.

[+JeepFeet 0]

I like to drive my red Wrangler "Jeep" to the general location of a cache.. then use my "Feet" to go walk around and find it... a simple combo that's easy to say and remember

[+MoonCatKDT & Peanut 0]

MoonCat - my cats are always keeping me awake at night wanting to play, so they were soon named Moon Kitties, and my fiance decided I must be a MoonCat too cause i stay up with them!

 

KDT - my Fiance's nickname/initials.

[Markwell 1]

Been in the family for years

[+Azisbest 0]

For the obvious reason.

[GeoFamily57 0]

I chose our name because we are a family of 5 (but I do most of the forum stuff) and 7 is my favorite number.

[Super Penny 0]

My dad has always called me Penny- just a nickname- and I figured adding super sounded hero-esque. Just for fun!

Edited December 14, 2010 by Super Penny

[metathought 0]

Because I wanted to make electronic music to entertain friends, and myself. That's the name I choose and it just kind of stuck.

Edited December 14, 2010 by metathought

[+do not resuscitate 0]

When I signed up I was excited about the name I was gonna use, but drats, it was already taken (Blunt Force Trauma). I go to a lot of GeoEvents and I always get asked why I chose Do Not Resuscitate. I had to pull the plug on my father after several days of no brain activity. It was quite sad. I do not wish to be put on life support under any circumstances. Just let me go...

[+scruffy_nerfherder 0]

We are Star Wars fans, I've cosplayed Han Solo female version and Leia 1860's saloon girl at DragonCon, and we call one of our dachshunds a scruffy nerfherder...viola!

 

Hurray first post!!

[+EyeD10T 0]

For years I have been in a technical support role in one way or another. There is a running joke in technical support that some people have an I-D-10-T issue - ID10T = Idiot.

 

I chose the name for a couple of reasons. 1st, I figured that there were not a lot of people willing to call themselves an idiot, so it would be a name that wasnt used. 2nd - when growing up I thought I knew everything, but as I get older I realize how little I know and how much there is too learn in this world. Its also a good conversation starter for events and whatever - I am constantly being asked about it. I am finding that often this name is very fitting when it comes to some of the geocaches out there. I often have a hard time finding some that turn out to be easy to find.

[justasearchin 0]

actually was out on a catch and was having a real difficult time with it for some reason. We were looking all over the place and this old song popped in my head, "justasearchin...every which a way" Said it to the wife and she laughed and the name stayed. Since then on the hard finds the song seems to always pop up.

[+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat 1]

What's in the name? lets see...

There are two parts: Mr. Wilson, and Mt. Goat

A couple years ago at school I some how got the nicknames of Mr. Wilson or Wilson mostly due to my last name being that. It stuck and thats where it came from.

Mt. Goat is my dog who likes to come geocaching with me occasionaly. She got the name when we were hiking one day, I realized that she was really good a climbing and jumping over things sort of like a Mt. Goat. I still call her Milo though.

[+w-way 0]

w-way = which way. if it wasn't for my wife and gps i wouldn't be here now.

[+MamaKatS 0]

this is my real-life nickname that just about everyone calls me, so... it just works.

[+ThePeckwoods 0]

myself and my other half are not yet married so we've created our own by mashing our surnames together i.e Peck and Eastwood

[+geocat_ 62]

Because we have 4 kids....I mean cats!!!!

[+Chief301 5]

myself and my other half are not yet married so we've created our own by mashing our surnames together i.e Peck and Eastwood

 

Hmmmm....a cross between Peck and Eastwood...I can't help but think that "To Kill A Mockingbird" would have had a VERY different ending....

[+old_school_65 0]

My comes from another hobby...sort of. I breed snakes, Corn snakes, Western Hognose, and Ball Pythons. A friend of mine, also in the hobby and much younger than I, nicknamed me old_school because I do things the old way.. such as my incubation methods, making deals with just a handshake and ones word ect.

Since old_school was taken here in the caching world, I had to throw on a suffix,... _65,..my birth year!

[+ThePeckwoods 0]

myself and my other half are not yet married so we've created our own by mashing our surnames together i.e Peck and Eastwood

 

Hmmmm....a cross between Peck and Eastwood...I can't help but think that "To Kill A Mockingbird" would have had a VERY different ending....

 

hahahaha! nice!

[+Z06_Pilot 0]

On of my rides is a 2004 Corvette Z06. Has not been in stock/showroom form since the day I bought it off the showroom floor with 1 mile on the odo. outfitted for weekend roadcourse track duty. looks like a garage queen, but I drive it like I stole it!

[RoadRoach58 0]

In 1979, I bought a used 1970 VW Beetle. A REAL Volkswagen. Two fairly major wrecks later, (within 3 years of buying it), and nearly 30 years of modifications (very slow changes) it is STILL with me. Possessed, I think. I called it a lot of things, Pregnant Skate, etc, but the one that stuck was RoadRoach because it's a bug that's driven on the road. Corny as heck, but I started using that when I dabbled in CB and also on the internet.

[+Agent Okie 0]

I too brought my name over from WheresGeorge.com. When I first signed up for WG back in 2001, I was a school principal from Oklahoma. My name at that time was Principal Okie. An abrupt career change led me to my current career the past 8 years as a REALTOR. I threw out several alternatives and the prevailing new name was Agent Okie. I have been Agent Okie on several websites/forums ever since. It's my tag and now a part of my life.

 

[ChristopherM 0]

My name is Christopher and I lack creativity!

[+RampagerBOH 0]

My GeoName was in honor of my high school alma mater, Rutherford High. Our mascot was the ram so its my way of remembering the good times I had there.

[Wesson_Clan 0]

My GeoName...well OUR GeoName is the Wesson_Clan because our last name is Wesson and we are a Clan of myself, my wife and 7 kids (5 boys and 2 girls)

 

We just started and are now HOOKED! I am even dreaming about it!

[+luvvinbird 26]

My wife and I love fine wine so therefore I love vin (French for wine). But I'm also an avid birder so luvvinbird was a wise choice. BTW, other birders out there will know that the Ovenbird sounds a lot like my geocaching name. Co-ink-a-dink? I think not!

[Dan 0]

I just use my name. It's easy to remember!

[+RhinoInAToga 0]

It's very simple. We love Rhinos..in togas.

 

But no..it was a situation a long time ago, actually years ago, trying to set up an email account. At first I wanted it to be "professional" & tried to come up with combinations of words & numbers that I would have half a shot at remembering. Of course all these combos came back to me as "already in use", & there would be suggestions with a myriad of numbers that I would never remember. After about a half an hour of this it gets a bit frustrating. So, I simply thought of something that nobody else would be likely to use, and RhinoInAToga was born. To this day I can't even find a picture of a rhino in a toga (which would be useful for a coin) so, I suppose I did well.

 

Any time I needed to use technical support, they always got a laugh out of it. A representative at Groundspeak actually got a kick out of it too, when I needed to contact them at one point. Not just the username, but our email address behind it as well-because, of course, I did it again with the new email address. I'm not going to put it out in the open forum, though.

[+Buckineers 0]

My husband's in the army, where surname derived nicknames are far more prevalent than any other naming convention, and his nickname is "Bucky". Seafaring buccaneers are an adventuresome lot, so we combined the two, modified a little due to an 'already taken' and came out with what we have

[Robinwood05 0]

I would love to drive your vehicle

[+teamboomerang 0]

My neighbors call my son Boomerang because when they would tell him to go away, he would still come back. It stuck, so when we started caching (very recently LOL), I figured teamboomerang was perfect!

[my62s 0]

For the name of the GARMIN GPS unit I had at the time I registered here, that is!

 

:-)

[+softballmom19 0]

My daughter plays travel softball and 19 is her jersey number. Plus I have found quite a few caches around softball fields.

[+spdrbob 0]

Love spiders , spiderman and my name Is Bob.

[Hollywoodland 0]

This is my first post here on the geocaching forum, so I thought this topic would be a good choice.

My username, Hollywoodland, references the famous sign in Los Angeles. From 1923 to 1949 the giant sign didn't say Hollywood, but "Hollywoodland".

I'm a classic film buff, so I thought this username would be great!

[+Warturtle 0]

Mine is because I used to birdwatch quite a bit, and I live in Utah. I want to change it to Warturtle though, which is my nickname in High School (it's a play on my last name). I want to change it because I don't really birdwatch anymore, and I probably won't live in Utah past high school. Plus, I've always considered myself more of a Nevadan anyway.

[+awopcxet 0]

i asked four persons in my family to put up two letters and then it become Awopcxet

[+*bandit* 0]

Got my name from the Smokey And The Bandit movie. Loooove the car!

[+Sore Runner 0]

Mine actually comes from the fact that no matter how much I run I still seem to get some sore muscle, somewhere on my body after a long run. So I started using this on other forums and it only felt natural to keep on using it.

[+TreasureFerret 0]

My husband and I love ferrets, we currently have two along with a dog and a cat. They are clever little treasure hunters/hiders so I thought the name was appropriate for geocaching since we're ferreting out treasure and whatnot

Edited July 5, 2011 by TreasureFerret

[+starrchilde 0]

My handle here is the same as everywhere else on the net... I'm so creative that way. On the upside it makes me extremely easy to find; though on the downside, it makes me extremely easy to find.

[+Da' Hoffie 0]

Mine is a tribute to a nickname that has stuck with me since my first deployment to Iraq in 2004. My friends / fellow soldiers, specifically my good friend Phil, came up with this since there was a need to have some humor in the sand box. He came up with Hoffie and it has stuck, especially since that is what Phil encouraged his daughter (at the time 4 year old, now 11) to call me.

 

I go with Da' Hoffie as a nod to his sense of humor and the fact that now there has been several more Hoffmans in our old unit, but I am the original one. I am the original Hoffie, hence Da' Hoffie as people still call me Hoffie.