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[qwerty2582]

I was sitting around one day, thinking "Ok, it's time for a better nickname for my online identity than Pushbroom" (which I used because I worked cleaning at a daycare....

And I thought... "Hmm... I'm a computer geek... what can I come up with...." - ahh yes, qwerty, the first 6 letters on the keyboard! But that was too generic, so I started as qwerty4000, because the number seemed robotic and cool. Bear in mind I was in high school (circa 9.

Recently I got tired of everyone asking what the 4000 stood for, so when I created a new gmail account, the 4000 was replaced by 2582 (birthdate), and hence qwerty2582 was born.

Yeah, not much of a story there....

[Beer Maker]

[MnBrew]

We picked a name as a family last fall on the way out the door. Coudn't come up with anything good in the short time, so we just put an initial of each family member followed by FAM.

It still works fine when the family is out but I (Dad) am off on my own quite often. My wife has since opened another account to keep her individual finds seperate but I'm stuck with the old name. I'm just too lazy to relog 1000+ finds I guess and it just doesn't seem right not having the same name as whats on the log.

I am also a homebrewer and I've noticed many other cachers seem to be. Not sure what it is but obviously these two passions draw the same crowd

[Hunter-Killer]

http://nwogeocachers.com/index.php?id=43

This probably explains our names and our passion for this fun sport

[knowschad]

[Bunganator]

[kendrick0861]

Mine is fairly simple, Kendrick is my sons name, 0861 was my MOS(military occupational Specialty) in the Marines. 0861 is a 'Foward Observer', basically i go with the infantry and call in the support that they need wheater its artillery, airstrikes, navy guns or sometimes mortars. We did a LOT of map plotting and navagation, seemed to fit the bill here. They even made us do a little 'goecaching' w/o the gps, just a map compass and a bunch of cords looking for a bunch of ammo cans.

[MrRogersNghbor]

[MrRogersNghbor]

Mine transfers from my old AIM account. I picked it right around the time that Fred Rogers passed away. I have been told that as a young child, I was mesmerized by the show. As a teen, I despised it and now as an adult I respect the fact that he was a truly great man that did a lot for children, education, and Public Broadcasting (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q ). I used to imagine walking along the street of the "neighborhood" and wondered what it would be like to be Fred's neighbor.

I know. Corny but true.

[Sharknose Bunnies]

I originally thought that my two kids and I would geocache primarily as a group, so I let each of them pick half of a name. My son wanted shark and my daughter wanted bunny. They haggled back and forth and somehow it ended up Sharknose Bunnies.

Which would be fine except that my daughter's interested faded some and my son soon wanted to sign his own name and track his own account. So I ended up with Sharknose Bunnies for myself.

I know I can change it, but I don't want to back and add a note to all my logs that I signed it as a different name than my current account.

[ChaosWarning]

I was in need of something unique. I mixed around one of my old user names and ChaosWarning was what I got.

[GreenLantern5000]

Green Lantern of sector 2814.

[Father-of-five]

Pretty easy for me.... I am a "father of five" !!

[sparkyfry]

Thanks for re-launching this thread, father-of-five. I missed it previously, as I tend to do. In my tenth grade English class, there were at least three kids named Mike/Michael. My teacher asked what I wanted to be called, and I blurted out "Sparky." He asked very seriously "Do you *want* to be called Sparky?" At that point, I had to say yes, so he called me Sparky all through the year. Other people in my grade started calling me that as well, and the nickname has refused to die, as people in college and in other subsequent stages of my life found out it had been my nickname. "Fry" is the pronunciation of the first syllable of my last name.

Incidentally, I'm glad I didn't go with some variant of "Michael" as my cacher name, since every male cacher in the northwest metro seems all of a sudden to have the name. At the very least, there's Sharknose Bunnies, Yuusui, Fish2007, and seeingitdifferent. FreiGuy has to be the most ridiculous example from my perspective, as our full names are one letter off, and our last names aren't even particularly common. I realize "Michael" has been one of the more popular names over the decades, but it seems to be getting out of control in 763-land. Any of you other Mikes care to get your name legally changed to lessen the confusion?

[bflentje]

I don't remember where my handle came from..