+fitbobcat Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I can not think of any good geocache names. Post them here. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc. Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 (edited) There's at least one existing thread on these forums, maybe more, on the same subject with lots and lots of entertaining replies. You can find it. EDIT: That was easy. http://www.google.com/search?q=funny+cache+names+site%3Agroundspeak.com Edited May 13, 2013 by Viajero Perdido Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I can not think of any good geocache names. Post them here. Thanks. It's been used at least once before, but I always thought that Purple Monkey Dishwasher was a good name for a geocache. Quote Link to comment
+Sharks-N-Beans Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc. Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above. Quote Link to comment
+Heli Leo Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo. Quote Link to comment
+Sharks-N-Beans Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo. So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache. Quote Link to comment
+FunnyNose Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I've always liked the name of this lame cache I put out. Lä Meássm Icrô Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Clams on Parade. 12v rutabaga. My first pair of real underwear. It was either this or wash the car. Of all the funny names of caches I have found Jill didn't want to put it here! always comes to mind. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 You have to follow your own muse. Mine told me to use Speedo Death Ray Holster for a recent hide. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo. So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache. He did - fortunately for him, the reviewer was on his 4th beer & hit "publish"! Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc. Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above. Bravo - for the creative name and the much-needed tree-cache! Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc. Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above. One of the more famous caches in LA is "DOOWYLLOH". Guess where it is? Quote Link to comment
+Heli Leo Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo. So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache. He did - fortunately for him, the reviewer was on his 4th beer & hit "publish"! I wish. It took three tries to get it published as the first two were to close to a puzzle final. Finally had to solve he puzzle and find the final cache for it.LOL The Bison is a hard rubber one about 3 1/2 inches high and 4 1/2 long with a hole drilled in it's backside. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc. I agree. That's how I arrive at the name of most of my caches. And when I'm at a total loss for ideas I either dream up nonsensical names (e.g. "Moose Gills", "The Inflatable Squirrel Carcass", "The Clam With the Golden Arm"), or put my iPod on shuffle and use the first song name that pops up. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I don't really think you should ask US unless you don't care if the name has any connection to the cache itself. I usually try to name it according to location. If I can work the name of a development, neighborhood, landmark or geographic feature into it in some way I do. It all depends on where it is and the style of hide. A couple of mine are named for something that happens near my hide (trainspotting, soccer, etc.). Quote Link to comment
+Ruddles1325 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I was quite pleased with my first cache, it's called Playing in the Sand. It's placed near a sports centre which was built in an old sand quarry. It's a multi so to get the clues you have to walk alongside a soccer pitch ( so they are playing in the sand) then a children's sand pit ( more playing), then to get to the cache you have to climb a really steep sandy slope, and the cache is hidden in a sandy place, so in the end you are playing in the sand. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now: Johnny Cache Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now: Johnny Cache There are three active caches within 40 miles of me with that name. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Elvira by the Oak Ridge Reservoir. Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotteburg (which overlooks the Charlotteburg Reservoir). Munchies, a Bear Chew Toy. Quote Link to comment
+Annawashere Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Most of mine have to do with location, although I have been known to name a few after random wikipedia'd things so I could publish more caches starting with X or Z (letters needed for the alphanumeric challenge that I'd noticed a lack of in my area). For instance, I ran across a restaurant sign "graveyard" out in the country and just named it "the graveyard". Or like others have mentioned, a play on words. Like a cache placed on rainbow circle named somewhere over the rainbow. Quote Link to comment
+Grasmere Duo Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Last week I was reviewing a caching map and I caught onto why a certain cache was named that way. I never gave it a thought before. It's name: EVEn EXCHANGE Part Duex (GC3C96W). It's located on the corner of Eve and Exchange Streets. I had just put the coords in the car nuvi to get there. Didn't pay attention to navigation. I think its clever. Quote Link to comment
+bflentje Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 I used to have a cache named Shrinky Dinks. It was an underwater cache. The reviewer struggled with it but in the end let it be. Quote Link to comment
+BAIN! Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 My cache names and why: All Hallows Tree - Looked like a tree from a Halloween cartoon with lightning in the background. (ARCHIVED) Tree Hugger - Its being hugged by a tree. Above and Beyond - It is connected to a part of a tree that is up and over a creek. Bean There, Done That - Small coffee container placed in the bushes of a coffee house. (ARCHIVED) Cheap Seats - Magnetic micro above a beam at the top of a little league baseball stadium. For Whom The Belle Tolls - Placed on the underside of a metal water meter lid in a neighborhood named "Belle Meade." (ARCHIVED) Table For 2 - Mirco from For Whom The Belle Tolls, placed inside the hollow metal head of a statue downtown. Power to the People - Small junction box at the base of a metal telephone pole. Bob - A water cache suspended by a line... wife named because the original placement (had to move due to nearby cache) was accessible even while pushing our B.O.B. stroller with our daughter inside. Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 (edited) "Moose Gills", "The Inflatable Squirrel Carcass", "The Clam With the Golden Arm" Atomic Prancernoid Automated Jokerizer Bionic Electromagnetic Retroblender Bread Zapper-a-tron Burrito Compumotor Concrete Sandals Disco Megamissile Minty Incinerator Morse Gyro-stabilized Insulter Nasal Multiadapter Raspberry Stinkeranoid Souffle Cannon Electrostickpin Ultrasonic Compurapper Unstable Cheese Make your own. Select from dozens of categories. Edited May 16, 2013 by kunarion Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Several years ago I had one that was a fake bird wired to a tree. It was a puzzle cache. I named it "Pseudo-coo." Can you guess what kind of puzzle it was? Quote Link to comment
+Sharks-N-Beans Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Several years ago I had one that was a fake bird wired to a tree. It was a puzzle cache. I named it "Pseudo-coo." Can you guess what kind of puzzle it was? I'm pretty dumb sometimes so I had to look. Shark loves these puzzles. Nice. Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Here's a few more ideas: Such a Relief On Course Warp Speed Lots of Guns, No Drugs Change of Heart? Eye Test Day in Pictures Heavens Above! The Pips Squeak Ancient Soap These came from the actual titles of the current articles listed on the "Features" section of today's BBC home page. I just added some capitalization to make the names seem more cache-like. Quote Link to comment
+JKMonkey Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 depends on its location, cache type, etc. Quote Link to comment
+fitbobcat Posted July 3, 2013 Author Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thanks everyone Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Inspiration for a cache name can come from many things: The Jester's Car Wash. Quote Link to comment
+uxorious Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now: Johnny Cache There is someone with this as a user name also. Some of the user names can be as fun as the cache names. Quote Link to comment
+BigChiefS4 Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 This is one of my recent favorites: Five Phalanges to Fix Your Flute Quote Link to comment
+suchanana Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Inspiration for a cache name can come from many things: The Jester's Car Wash. amazing - life is better than fiction !!...congrats on your survival skills and caching aplomb Jester... for myself, using the first five letters of my last name has not only given me my caching moniker, but also the theme for most of my caches...like others have said, i continue the theme of the location...giving reference to the day God gave us woods to hike in, for the church cache : ON THE THIRD DAY SUCHATRAVEL BUG HOTEL at local Giant Eagle grocery store: EAGLET MAYBE...NOT SUCHAGIANT & the greatest state collegiate football rivalry: OSU vs Uof M...SUCHABORDER BATTLE geocaching ROCKS and is very seldom dull...Life is still an adventure... Quote Link to comment
+Colonial Cats Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 I use to own a cache called, "A Goose by any other Name...". Quote Link to comment
+Team OPJim Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I will do one of several things: 1 Use a theme, and then name the cache according to it. I prefer fantasy novels: I have Lord of the Rings, Abhorsen Triology, Dark Elf Trilogy, etc. These require quite a bit of planning 2. Something about the location: Bob's Favorite Burger Place was hidden near an In and Out Burger Lone Tree was hidden near a "long Tree" in the middle of plain visible for miles 3. Occ will name a cash for a local cacher. I named one "Kaboom" for 321kaboom, and he named one "Casino Royale" for me (I like James Bond). Quote Link to comment
+geocat_ Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Schrödinger's Cache ( a play on "Schrödinger's Cat") and Skinny Sweaty Man come to mind. Quote Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Spur of the moment, but I have one just off Pacific, near a clock.... it's Pacific Caching Time. Quote Link to comment
+Wes_and_Tara Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 More like Micro # 1,497,221 Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 More like Micro # 1,497,221 That a whole lot of caches for an owner to maintain! Quote Link to comment
+R.O.B Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 When in doubt use Monty Python quotes. I currently have caches named: Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying No, It Is The Rabbit And The Number Of The Counting Shalt Be Three Black Beast of Aaaargh Now archived Python Caches: It's Only A Model What, Behind The Rabbit? The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch We Already Got One, It's Very Nice Blue, No Yellow....aaargh Non-Python named caches I have/had: Proliferation Antithesis Football Yucca Canoe Huge Vulture Eating Stinky Dead Thing Cheer Up Emo Kid, You're Going Geocaching Cactus In My Crotch Mummies of the Insane I usually don't know the name of the cache when I'm going out to hide one. I let the process and adventure of hiding the cache to dictate the name. Sometimes it comes really easy and sometimes not. And sometimes right after you publish it you say..."That's a stupid name". Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 When in doubt use Monty Python quotes. I currently have caches named: Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying No, It Is The Rabbit And The Number Of The Counting Shalt Be Three Black Beast of Aaaargh Now archived Python Caches: It's Only A Model What, Behind The Rabbit? The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch We Already Got One, It's Very Nice Blue, No Yellow....aaargh Non-Python named caches I have/had: Proliferation Antithesis Football Yucca Canoe Huge Vulture Eating Stinky Dead Thing Cheer Up Emo Kid, You're Going Geocaching Cactus In My Crotch Mummies of the Insane I usually don't know the name of the cache when I'm going out to hide one. I let the process and adventure of hiding the cache to dictate the name. Sometimes it comes really easy and sometimes not. And sometimes right after you publish it you say..."That's a stupid name". Nice...I like the Pythons. As for your last statement...very true. One of mine I only named that way so that people would have a "X" cache to use for whatever alphabet challenge came along. True, it does also have to do with crossings & intersections...but it's not even a difficult cache to find. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 That's great, if you ever watched Monty Python. For the majority of us, though .... Quote Link to comment
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