Black Mage Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Personally I can never bring myself to utter the "M" word. I refuse to put myself into a position in which non-cachers could mistake me for a potter-head. But I will admit to being a geek, nerd, etc, etc. After all, it is us geeks who will rule the world. Quote Link to comment
uber_bike_geek Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 But I will admit to being a geek, nerd, etc, etc. After all, it is us geeks who will rule the world. No Comment on this one... I think the username says enough! Happy Caching Jeff Quote Link to comment
+ngr00 Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Don't forget, this is the new millenium, being geek, nerd, dork is now cool- sort of. Heck, geeks have a huge presence now in popular culture, otherwise, how would you explain the popularity of the recent comic movie hits such as the X-Men, Spiderman? Quote Link to comment
+Papa Bill Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Hmmm, richest man in America, Bill Gates is a geek.... might not be a bad thing.... Quote Link to comment
JohnX Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 The advantage to the term "muggle" is that it can be used as both a noun and a verb with specific meaning. Muggle and muggled. Onlooker and onlooked? Onlooker and raided? How about normals as in "I had to wait until the normals went away to find the cache." and "The cache was normalized."? OK, perhaps it is a stretch. I think muggle is going to stay. B.T.W. The story of JK Rowling being sued over the term muggle has something to do with a children's book only published on a small scale in the US and not even nation-wide. Muggles were small elf-type creatures. It turns out that way before the book was published the term "muggle" referred to marijuana cigarettes. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I work for a medical school. When my wife and I are out and meet up with someone from the medical school, she refers to them as "Borg". I think the "muggle" term is silly and juvenile and therefore don't use it. But its the same as calling other UNMC employees Borg. This post reminds me of last week, when I was returning to the office after lunch. Several of us were walking down the sidewalk towards the door and one guy started singing "Welcome to the Machine". I heard others laugh and join in. I wonder what the muggles (provide your definition here) would have thought. The song kind of stuck with me for part of the day. Then I realized I wouldn't get much work done if I kept thinking about the song, so I switched my thoughts to geocaching. Quote Link to comment
Black Mage Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Wait, I just though of another one... "The geek shall inherit the earth." --Gates 3:13 Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Dear GixxerUT, This is your notice: Geek Up if you want to be a Geocacher. Pretending not to be a geek if you geocache is very bad form. What else might you be lying to yourself about your status in the world? Go buy some Dumbo sneakers, a goofy hat, zinc-oxide for your nose and wear all of them on your next outing. Just trying to help you gain a positive self-image. Your Counselor, T of TandS Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 on your next outing. I'm having second thoughts about this now Quote Link to comment
+Mr Hedgehog Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 But what could be more geeky than spending a load of cash to run around in the woods with a high tech gizmo in your hand, using with multi-billion dollar satellites, to find a hidden box worth about 5 bucks? Quote Link to comment
Smaug1 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Do you want to know what I've discovered since I graduated high school in 1994? It is not fun to NOT be a geek. I laughed my butt off when I learned that 'non-cachers' are referred to as 'muggles'. It is great; it suggests we have some sort of magic. Every hobby has its lingo, and it is usually geeky to people who don't understand. Life is much more fun if you don't worry whether you're geeky or not. BTW, I ride too. My Concours is a bit more geeky than a 'Gixxer', (geeky lingo) but I still ride. Some people probably consider me a geek for that. I guess motorcycling and snowboarding are not as geeky as geocaching, since you go fast and lean a lot. Now that I've read this thread for a while, I realize what a skillful troll I've just fallen for. Hats off to Gixxer, as he has baited us but good! I wonder if I should start a thread now entitled: "Magellen Sucks" and watch the mayhem? Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 what a skillful troll OUCH can I backtrack, concede, and accept geekdom status, instead of this? Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 B.T.W. The story of JK Rowling being sued over the term muggle has something to do with a children's book only published on a small scale in the US and not even nation-wide. Muggles were small elf-type creatures. It turns out that way before the book was published the term "muggle" referred to marijuana cigarettes. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. Couldn't recall the details though. I remember it seemed rather unlikely at the time that she would have heard of it (I also doubt that she had heard of marijuana cigarettes reffered to as muggles either...) Just seems like one of those terms that flows naturally from many other sources. Quote Link to comment
JohnX Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Google on: rowling muggle lawsuit for articles on muggle stuff. Quote Link to comment
+Clan X-Man Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Don't forget, this is the new millenium, being geek, nerd, dork is now cool- sort of. Heck, geeks have a huge presence now in popular culture, otherwise, how would you explain the popularity of the recent comic movie hits such as the X-Men, Spiderman? I totaly agree. 'Course I'm a little one sided on the subject..... X Quote Link to comment
Smaug1 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 what a skillful troll OUCH can I backtrack, concede, and accept geekdom status, instead of this? Yes, but as punishment, you have to use some geeky lingo in your response to this post, you MUGGLE! Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 what a skillful troll OUCH can I backtrack, concede, and accept geekdom status, instead of this? Yes, but as punishment, you have to use some geeky lingo in your response to this post, you MUGGLE! GOSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/users/41cde093z7d...h_.d5BB80Z6uj3D Quote Link to comment
jk rowling Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 You ruddy blighters had better stop using the term "muggles" or I'll have my lawyers slap you with one "howler" of a lawsuit! I hope you all get a case of "Hogwarts"! Put that in your "Quidditch DiagonAlley"! Quote Link to comment
+Coach Steve Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 geocaching is for geeks, nerds and dorks! we stand united and proud! with our pocket calculators and thick-rimmed glasses, we will someday conquer the world! I couldn't agree more. The kids I teach call me a geek and nerd. I wear those titles with pride. If caching makes me more so, I love it! Just remember that the biggest nerd in the world is also the richest--Bill Gates. Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 Has anyone yet coined a term such as "Vacaching"? That seems like a simple geeky way to refer to those trips taken for the sole purpose of logging caches. (I had a mini-vacachion today and doubled my cache log) I'd love to enter this arena in true form, with some type of geekish offering. Quote Link to comment
Trinity's Crew Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I love it. How about instead of vacaching, you say vacachening? Quote Link to comment
dead_white_man Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 At this point in my life, I don't give a harry potter who thinks I'm a geek, or nerd, or dork. After raising my teenagers (finally) to honorable manhood, I can no longer be concerned with how others view me. I have been called everything. Quote Link to comment
+Codswallop Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Some people have mentioned that the first word in "muggle" is "mug." Highly appropriate considering what some of these folks do to caches they find accidentally. Others have pointed out that jargon like "muggle" create a certain bond among people "in the know." True. However, it's important to remember such terms also serve to exclude those who are not "in the know." As for the designation "Geeks," what else would you call people who wander around in a remote area receiving sattelite signals on handheld electronic devices? "Extraterrestrials?" Recently I was out for 6 hours in the snow to find a single 4.5 star multi. (Stop right there--"geek" is a better term than "idiot.") My companions were a tax accountant and a life member of MENSA. Every hour on the hour, our watches all beeped in chorus. So who's a geek? Quote Link to comment
+Coach Steve Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 dork ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dôrk)n. Slang. A stupid, inept, or foolish person It would seem that the difference between geek and nerd is appearance and clumsiness, and Harry Potter isn't really unattractive. I'm not sure about his clumsiness. He's probably more of a dork then a geek or nerd, although that description probably doesn't fit well either. Imagine Napoleon Dynamite caching . . . . . Quote Link to comment
+GixxerUT Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 Imagine Napoleon Dynamite caching . . . . . LUCKYYYyyyy.......... LOL, we had a Napolean Dynamite work party at my house last Friday for lunch. You never heard a bunch of fat old guys laughing so hard. Quote Link to comment
Kybra Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 ...Next time, try hitting people, trees, or ice with sticks. it adds at least a tiny bit of fun hearing your friends yell and run after you. Yeah lets make geocaching a full body contact sport! Quote Link to comment
+Geekboy Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 I've been to caches in neighborhoods where I thought it might come to that... Extreme Geocaching? GeoSMASHing? -Geekboy! Quote Link to comment
+Klondike Mike Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 onlookers? those are my kids til I find the cache.......... then LOOK OUT Quote Link to comment
+Savoy 6 Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 I was never a geek or nerd.(that's my story, and I'm sticking to it) On a cold Missouri January day, my son and I were caching in the snow and wind. He asked, "where do I get a pocket protector?" HE WAS SERIOUS. Geek?- let's see- Pager,radios, cell phone, mapquest and EasyGPS on two computers, two PDA's- My gosh I'm a techno geek. I found myself wandering around in weather for free, when Uncle Sam used to pay me, and I was loving the "hunt". Hey who cares= I'm almost 50, raising a family, spent my money not my folks-If I have a heart attack geocaching, that's a better way than some others I can think of. Most folks I've met caching don't care what others think. Let's try to come up with more geeky lingo and have fun just for fun's sake. Every sport or hobby has it's own language. Let's have our own. How about "Geo-geek speak",""gps-anese(jeeps-a-nese)","long-lat-in(lonj-latin)" "gpsr-sian(jeep-persian)","cache-ish(cash-ish). Okay, I'll stop." Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 onlookers? those are my kids til I find the cache.......... then LOOK OUT ROTFLMAO!!! Isn't that the truth. ;) Quote Link to comment
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