What’s the Deal with your User Name?

[blue35jeans]

I love wearing blue jeans and one day for a class project my son had to count how many things were in our closets… I had 35 pairs. Hubby, not so much>>>>

[marc_54140]

@blue35jeans wrote:

I love wearing blue jeans and one day for a class project my son had to count how many things were in our closets… I had 35 pairs. Hubby, not so much>>>>

Now that is unusual!

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

“Sparse Grey Hackle” is myself and the “Blondie Bloodhound.” We operate and function as a team in many of our interests and outdoor activities.

My geo cache screen name is a tribute to the pen-name for an outdoor author and fly-fisherman. His real name was Alfred W. Miller. Meticulous in his work and carrying enough knowledge to fill an encyclopedia, Miller was devoted to his wife and fly fishing.

In 1974, Sparse published, “Fishless Days, Angling Nights.” In this book, Sparse Grey Hackle wrote about the men, women and the fish who make each season a place where history and the present meet.

The “Blondie Bloodhound” is well kind of self explanatory if you were to meet my hunny or cache with her….she can find them before I can…with or without the GPSr…..thus the “handle”…..she is just amazing to watch her at work looking for a cache.

[Grandma & Grandpa]

We were introduced to geocaching fairly early in the game at a youth camp we are involved with. We recognized it as an activity that would fit well with the camp, and in the process of learning how to teach it to kids, we got hooked.

Our camp nicknames are Grandma & Grandpa, started by a little girl when she was two years old. She was just on homecoming court, now a senior, so this has been going on for quite awhile. When we set up our gc account, it was with the intent to use it at camp, so we shortened our login a little to Gram&Gramps.

We have one adult son who is married, our adult daughter is still single. No biological grandkids yet. So the Grandma & Grandpa nicknames do raise some eyebrows every now and then, and just like many of the handles written about herein, require a bit of explaining.

Fun thread, this has been interesting.

cYa, Chris & Jim

[Buy_The_Tie]

There was a television commercial for a credit card company several years ago featuring a husband walking around his house stating how far he was from Los Angles, how fast he was walking, what his elevation was, etc… all while his wife was watching him, shaking her head. The premise was that the wife had bought a GPSr for her husband, and now he was driving her crazy with it. At the end of the commercial the wife mutters “Should’ve bought him the tie”. My wife bought me my GPSr for Christmas one year, and let’s say that the commercial hits really close to home.
Now you know.

[greyhounder]

@Buy_The_Tie wrote:

There was a television commercial for a credit card company several years ago featuring a husband walking around his house stating how far he was from Los Angles, how fast he was walking, what his elevation was, etc… all while his wife was watching him, shaking her head. The premise was that the wife had bought a GPSr for her husband, and now he was driving her crazy with it. At the end of the commercial the wife mutters “Should’ve bought him the tie”. My wife bought me my GPSr for Christmas one year, and let’s say that the commercial hits really close to home.
Now you know.

I remember this commercial. And this is why your caching name is one of my favorites.

Bec

[zoesbrother]

I’ve been asked by several people who the heck Zoe is. Zoe is a lazy basset hound that sits and guards my parents bed as if it was her own and of course is my sister. We got her when I was young and she’s still around. With me being here at UW Stout I’ve been told she’s been searching for me back at home.

[LostBoys5]

We too started with a different name that was an old college login, but once we figured out what we were doing and realized we were going to continue we searched for a better name. We tested lots of names out with the kids and came up with LostBoys5 which comes from usually feeling like we are lost, or convincing the kids we are when we aren’t. We are mostly boys, all except me, the mom. There are 5 of us. It is better than MooPigs, which is what the 3 year old wanted. No offense to any MooPigs out there, of course.

[LostBoys5]

@Lostby7 wrote:

@thepharmgirl wrote:

Cool thread… I’m enjoying reading the stories. 😀

When I first started (and even now, occasionally), people thought I was PharmTeam’s daughter (nope, no relation).

When I first saw your name that’s what I thought.

Most everyone already knows…I’m Lostby7 because I lost a bike race by 7 seconds and I like the tag because it reminds me to try a little harder.

As an aside I know I could have won that race if I hadn’t been run off the road on a down hill by a passing car….but then who would I be? I think I would have chosen some variation of “TheGate” as that was my online gaming name for many years.

Actually, I thought you were lost by 7 AM, like we sometimes are.

[cheezehead]

@LostBoys5 wrote:

It is better than MooPigs, which is what the 3 year old wanted. No offense to any MooPigs out there, of course.

HA! MOOPIGS!!!!! Thats funny! 😆 😆 😆 I like that!

[sandlanders]

I have a friend who had cows and pigs on the farm, and her vanity license plate is MOINK. I’ll have to see how she likes MOOPIGS.

[Astro_D]

Ours is boring: Astro short for our favorite hobby Astronomy, D for the first letter of our last name and Team as we are a family of three.
Nowadays, the logs get signed as AstroD as our son has acquired his own caching name and Team doesn’t sem to quite fit anymore.

[Babokooks]

4 years ago, my oldest son, at the time in Kindergarten, came home and began calling my wife and me babokooks anytime we were acting silly. When it came time to sign up for a geocaching name he said, “how about babokooks?” It stuck and now for better or worse we go by the completely made up name of babokooks. 🙂

[Curly Girls]

Go ahead, give it a guess!

My daughter, Anna, came up with our name even before caching. She referred to us two as the Curly Girls. So when it came time to sign up for an account and our boys already had a user name, Curly Girls it was!

[manparuby]

Ma’nPaRuby…alias drhaas. When our son-in-law got us signed up, he used my initials, drhaas. Contrary to popular thought, neither of us is a doctor. Ma and Pa is for us, and the ruby part comes from our ruby vette, which we have probably never taken caching.

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