How did you choose your screen name? - Page 3

SmartAZ · 09-25-2005, 06:55 AM

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I'll go first.

I thought that was pretty big of me, seeing as how I started the thread.

wolf · 09-25-2005, 01:47 PM

I am wolf.

You can ask anybody.

I just am.

richlevy · 09-25-2005, 02:12 PM

This topic seems to come up about once a year. Like I said last year , I switched to my real name to support my personal interest in protecting free non-anonymous speech.

Cyclefrance · 09-25-2005, 03:04 PM

Cyclefrance owes its origins to my French cycling trips (now there's a surprise!)

I discovered Cellar after searching the web for more info on the giant puppets I stumbled upon in Amiens this year, at the end of my annual cycling holiday in north France. I have been doing these since 1999, usually with my cousin's now ex-husband, Paul, and they started off as a result of wanting to find a way to get around the WW! battlefields so as to appreciate the terrain but also to be able to cover a reasonable distance. Walking was too slow, Car was too fast. Cycling hit the button.

Neither of us had ridden bikes since being teenagers so it was quite an eye-opener to learn how unfit we both were (my first practise ride of only five miles saw me nearly collapsing when I got off the bike back home - my son thought I was having a coronary, but it was just jelly legs, and weak lungs!). After a few weeks 25 mile sessions were do-able, and 40 miles ones by the time we went.

The first year was the Somme, but pre digital camera days (I have plenty of 35mm pictures and still toy with the idea of scanning and backfilling to create websites for these earlier sorties). We enjoyed our first holiday so much that in 2000 we went to Ypres and Paeschendaele, then 2001 was Arras and Vimy Ridge (for the first time). We were also in France on a cycling day trip on 9/11 that year. 2002 we did two short trips: first one to the two V2 rocket sites near St Omer and the second for a spot of sand-yachting near Boulogne.

2003 saw the first digital photo record and the first website on Geocities. After a few attempts at other IDs, Cyclefrance2003 was the one that was accepted and so the Cyclefrance tag was born. Seemed only fair to use it on Cellar in view of the association with the Amiens puppets.

Hobbs · 09-25-2005, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SmartAZ

I thought that was pretty big of me, seeing as how I started the thread.

Ok, jeeze. Good job...nice going...

Here you go.

Mary Jane and Me · 09-25-2005, 08:22 PM

Mary Jane is my favorite person to hang out with.........so its just Mary Jane+Me.....kinda stupid I know.......But dont be hatin.....

glatt · 09-26-2005, 09:34 AM

I think I mentioned this in a previous thread.

"Glatt" is German for "smooth." In college, my nickname was "smooth" and to a lesser extent, "glatt." Both were a variation of my actual last name. The added joke being that I was far from smooth.

mrnoodle · 09-26-2005, 09:40 AM

old nick from a band i was in. i lack the ability to not fool around on my guitar during breaks between practice. they had it made into a label and put it on my guitar case. it's a lame nickname, but a fine internet handle.

i also get called 'dekken'. i think it's a play off 'dokken', who was a band i was keen on in the 80s. also a lame nick, but a fine WoW name.

'derek' doesn't lend itself to snappy alterations. 'dekken,' however, will come in handy if GH ever decides to become a norwegian death metal act.

barefoot serpent · 09-26-2005, 10:14 AM

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
--Bob Dylan

I always thought barefoot serpents would have been cooler...

Original name was e unibus plurum a spoonerism of the Latin phrase e pluribus unum meaning *from many, one* found on US currency.

mitheral · 09-26-2005, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Brianna is my best Porno-Wiccan-Celtic-Cape-Wearing guess. My real name is way more fucked up, but no where near as porno-ish. My real name is what a First Generation French Canadian Catholic woman would name her second daughter. After bowing to the Irish. She had three girls...Kathleen, me, and Melissa. I lost the name-draw in a big, big way.

I shall never recover. I once thought of legally changing my name to Sandy. It's that bad.

PS--no, it's not Mary, Maureen, Miriam or Sibohhan.

Bernadette by chance?

My handle is a half of my CB handle (half because back in the dim mists of time many BBSs didn't allow spaces in UserIDs) and a reflection of the fact that I can't spell to save my life. Mitheral from mithril. The misspelling also turns my ID into something that is the perfect length as it meets both the must be 8 characters and can't be more than 8 characters that seem to be common requirements.

wolf · 09-26-2005, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by mitheral

Bernadette by chance?

Worse.

Bernadette is actually kind of cute as there are several good nicknames you can generate from it.

No so for poor Brianna.

melidasaur · 09-26-2005, 11:21 AM

Bertha?

Hobbs · 09-26-2005, 11:57 AM

Bari? Bebe? Belle? Brie? Comeon girl, give it up. You can trust us not to laugh...your among friends.

NovemberRain · 09-26-2005, 12:12 PM

Mine doesn't really signify anything other than the fact I was born in November. I made it up without giving it much thought when I joined another board where I thought my usual moniker might not be appropriate.

Troubleshooter · 09-26-2005, 12:31 PM

Mine comes from the fact that I'm the area problem solver.

I fix cars, computers, applainces, domestic problems, minor injuries, etc.

I'm the guy everybody ends up calling when official channels run dry. If I can't fix it or answer it, I know someone who can.

09-25-2005, 01:47 PM	#32
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I am wolf. You can ask anybody. I just am. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-25-2005, 02:12 PM	#33
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	This topic seems to come up about once a year. Like I said last year , I switched to my real name to support my personal interest in protecting free non-anonymous speech. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

09-25-2005, 03:04 PM	#34
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Cyclefrance owes its origins to my French cycling trips (now there's a surprise!) I discovered Cellar after searching the web for more info on the giant puppets I stumbled upon in Amiens this year, at the end of my annual cycling holiday in north France. I have been doing these since 1999, usually with my cousin's now ex-husband, Paul, and they started off as a result of wanting to find a way to get around the WW! battlefields so as to appreciate the terrain but also to be able to cover a reasonable distance. Walking was too slow, Car was too fast. Cycling hit the button. Neither of us had ridden bikes since being teenagers so it was quite an eye-opener to learn how unfit we both were (my first practise ride of only five miles saw me nearly collapsing when I got off the bike back home - my son thought I was having a coronary, but it was just jelly legs, and weak lungs!). After a few weeks 25 mile sessions were do-able, and 40 miles ones by the time we went. The first year was the Somme, but pre digital camera days (I have plenty of 35mm pictures and still toy with the idea of scanning and backfilling to create websites for these earlier sorties). We enjoyed our first holiday so much that in 2000 we went to Ypres and Paeschendaele, then 2001 was Arras and Vimy Ridge (for the first time). We were also in France on a cycling day trip on 9/11 that year. 2002 we did two short trips: first one to the two V2 rocket sites near St Omer and the second for a spot of sand-yachting near Boulogne. 2003 saw the first digital photo record and the first website on Geocities. After a few attempts at other IDs, Cyclefrance2003 was the one that was accepted and so the Cyclefrance tag was born. Seemed only fair to use it on Cellar in view of the association with the Amiens puppets. __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

09-26-2005, 09:40 AM	#38
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	old nick from a band i was in. i lack the ability to not fool around on my guitar during breaks between practice. they had it made into a label and put it on my guitar case. it's a lame nickname, but a fine internet handle. i also get called 'dekken'. i think it's a play off 'dokken', who was a band i was keen on in the 80s. also a lame nick, but a fine WoW name. 'derek' doesn't lend itself to snappy alterations. 'dekken,' however, will come in handy if GH ever decides to become a norwegian death metal act. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

09-26-2005, 11:21 AM	#42
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	Bertha? __________________ I love England, what can I say?

09-25-2005, 08:22 PM	#36
Mary Jane and Me IS IN HIDING.............CAN YOU FIND ME??? Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Clarksville, Ar Posts: 28	Mary Jane is my favorite person to hang out with.........so its just Mary Jane+Me.....kinda stupid I know.......But dont be hatin.....

09-26-2005, 09:34 AM	#37
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I think I mentioned this in a previous thread. "Glatt" is German for "smooth." In college, my nickname was "smooth" and to a lesser extent, "glatt." Both were a variation of my actual last name. The added joke being that I was far from smooth.

09-26-2005, 10:14 AM	#39
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	All along the watchtower, princes kept the view While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too. --Bob Dylan I always thought barefoot serpents would have been cooler... Original name was e unibus plurum a spoonerism of the Latin phrase e pluribus unum meaning from many, one found on US currency.

09-26-2005, 11:57 AM	#43
Hobbs Professor for the school of ass-clownery Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Surprise! Posts: 404	Bari? Bebe? Belle? Brie? Comeon girl, give it up. You can trust us not to laugh...your among friends. __________________ That's it! Send in the chimps!

09-26-2005, 12:12 PM	#44
NovemberRain Don't Call Me Shirley Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 79	Mine doesn't really signify anything other than the fact I was born in November. I made it up without giving it much thought when I joined another board where I thought my usual moniker might not be appropriate. __________________ "America is not a young land. She is very old. Before the white man, before the Indian, the evil was there, waiting." - William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch

09-26-2005, 12:31 PM	#45
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Mine comes from the fact that I'm the area problem solver. I fix cars, computers, applainces, domestic problems, minor injuries, etc. I'm the guy everybody ends up calling when official channels run dry. If I can't fix it or answer it, I know someone who can. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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