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   alot of people just use their first names, so what about all you others who use a screen name that the rest of us have no idea where it came from or what it means?

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   Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?

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   Bob's screen name used to be "Python" until he had the reduction surgery.

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   Ohin3 came from a friend of mine. We talk on MSN alot and I have a habit of hitting the 3 while hitting enter. She has a habit of trying to type too fast and a recurring typo that comes out Ohin when typing Phil. There you have it...Ohin3!

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   That's pretty darn funny Phil!

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   Cool story for sure. That's what I'm after right there.

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   I enjoy surfing and mac came from my last name and kinda nick name. My last name is McMinn pronounced MacMinn so all my buddies always called me Mac. Surfmac just stuck as a screen name all through high school.

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   When we moved across country they lost our furniture . So we had to buy a new computer to look for jobs . My new computer desk was a lawn chair and a igloo cooler .When I purchased a game to play I needed a screen name , hence Igloo .Better than Gott .

   “There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”

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   Awesome story Igloo.

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   One of my other popular screen names is directBooze. Needed a screen name for something one night and I looked down at the corner of my desk to find a direct box ( gear used for recording instruments direct to mixer ) and a glass of scotch. the scotch glass was covering the word box perfectly...so directBooze I became.

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    I was a Jefferson County Security Officer for about 10 years.
    One day I had to shoot a large rabid dog that was about to attack some of the road laborers.
    I drew and fired western style and put 1 round behind his right ear from 112 feet.
    He dropped on the spot.

    After that everyone started referring to me as "The Pistol Packer".

    
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    Rush is one of my all-time favorite bands. "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" is one the songs off the "Fly By Night" album.

    Not sure why I chose Bytor...I should have chosen Professor Pratt!

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    The screen name should really be the possessive: Cortez' attic.
    It's from Goethe's tragedy, Faust, with an attic being a metaphor for the mind.
    A stupid choice, really. I guess I was having one of my senior moments, which come all too frequently these days.
    I'm gonna go have a bowl of H&H's Louisiana Red -- that'll make me feel better about it.
    Now if I can only remember where I put that jar...

    I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
    as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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    I've considered using a screen name, but I just keep coming
    back to my real name. Life's experiences have taught me to
    keep things simple....

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    I've used "classicgeek" here and there for years. I'm a systems architect/programmer by trade (hence the geek) but I play classical guitar from time to time and between pipe smoking, hot shaving and other pursuits which recall a different age, I like to think I put a classic spin on the stereotype...

    But you can all call me Simon. classicgeek doesn't mind.

    Simon

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    I’m a fairly flatulent fellow, always have been. Some people can bend spoons with their mind, I can do it by breaking wind after eating strong cheese. One night, I was out with the boys tying one on and eating White Castle hamburgers (forbidden to be sold in Iraq due to their gastronomical potential to be turned into a chemical weapon) and came home and fell asleep on the couch. Well, the body does what it needs to do and I woke with the need to recycle. I was sitting on the can producing a lethal fog in the room (naturally, I am immune to it). I didn’t know grandma was staying over and she wandered into the bath room after I was done with it. The rest of the family knows to hit the venting button (not your average vent, but an industrial one). She lost her sense of smell in the big war and with the lights out, didn’t see the mist hanging in there. Being 97, she didn’t have the strength to make it back out. The EMT’s arrived, put on their HAZMAT suits and dragged her out and sealed the room to contain the environment. From then on, during the middle of the night, you can see grandma’s ghost in there, surrounded by the mist. Hence the name, HauntedMyst.

    A tattoo on a beautiful woman is like graffiti on a Ferrari.

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    I'm easy. chuckw for Chuck Wright. On SF, I'm known as Truckerchuck, another easy one. I spent my life on the road behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler.

    I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

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    birdy- My beloved pet parrot that flew away from my house three years ago.
    I missed him alot and i felt extremely sad whenever i think of it.

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    Dunendain means western man in ancient Finnish.

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    @dunendian:

    That's very interesting. Every time I saw your screen name I was reminded of Tolkien's work with creating languages for Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. dun-adan: "Man of the West", dun-edain plural. Tolkien's languages were based on Old English, which as I understand it is closer to Finnish than Germanic or Romantic languages.

    Makes me want to pick up the Silmarillion again.

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    J Cosmo Asp: Given the name "The Asp"in college in part due to a sharp-tongued, quick wit and partly in honor of one of Daddy Warbuck's (Orphan Annie) scary friends who made people and problems disappear. I added the J Cosmo so I could use it as an alias in the late 60s and early 70s.

    From Wikipedia: "Other major characters include Warbucks' right-hand men, Punjab, an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the Asp, an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937."

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    Kevin Said:
    Bob's screen name used to be "Python" until he had the reduction surgery.

    LOL!

    LMAO @ Hauntedmyst!

    Great stories guys!

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    When the People Fear the Government, There is Tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

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    The only screen name explanation that is conspicuous by its absence is for hobie1dog, the guy who started this thread!!!
    (...and don't say, "Oh! I thought it was obvious.")

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    Well, I had put that in my welcome to the forum post, but anyway for 14 glorious years I had the privilege of owning a Chocolate Labrador Retriever named Hobie. His Grandfather was featured in the book, "The Complete Labrador Retriever" and was one of only 4 color photos in the book. ( he was the only Mexican and American Dual Champion ). Hobie was not only a great retriever, he was a picture perfect Pointer as well. Great family dog, and just a true character, hung like a race horse, sired 34 pups along the way. I can't bring myself to get another one, as there is no way another one can even come close to comparison with him. He was #1, hence the screen name.
    

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    Oh ya, now I remember you mentioning that in the welcome thread. Thanks for the refresher. It's wonderful that our dogs live on in our hearts. What special creatures! I wish people had their character.

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    Its a nickname from some of my german speaking friends that i got when i was 5 or 6 and remembered it recently when one of said friends contacted me. I remember them calling me "The Mouse" in german, and it somehow twisted into Mausee. It could've been worse, one of the boys on the block was "Schwein"

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    LOL!

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    I'm an actor by trade and one of my jobs was in the Brit sci fi series Doctor Who playing some of the monsters in the first series. The Doctor's ship is called the Tardis. The name grew from that.

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    tardisbasher is likely to be the only one in existence. very unique.

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    my screen name was the home address of a great person. (not me!) google solves this.

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    Very cool 112.
    One thing I always liked about the previous inhabitant....
    When asked his phone number, he would ask for a phone book to look it up.
    Why memorize things when one knows where the needed information can be found.

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    Menckenite is a homage to one of my favorite authors (H.L. Mencken) who's work I find very humorous and profound. I wouldn't want to define the man or his work with few selected one liners but here's a few:

    "Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods."

    "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

    "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

    Pics of my pipes & stuff: http://photobucket.com/menckenite

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    bump for the new members

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    We have welcomed a plethora of new members, here of late.
    Many of whom have rather cryptic screen names.
    I'm bumping this back to the top of the forum page just to afford our newest members an opportunity to reveal a bit about themselves.

    So, welcome new members and dive right in.

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    My screen name is a combination of two things my Grandpa used to call me. Sometimes he'd call me Dudley and other times he'd call me Dipstick. Sometimes he'd say "Dudley Dipstick".

    I explained all this once to an ex of mine and she said my Grandpa sounded like a mean man. What she wasn't aware of is that if my Grandpa ever wanted to say a mean thing about anyone, the term he used was "No Account".

    He was a great man and my screen name is a tribute to him.

    He also enjoyed Prince Albert, Half & Half, & SWR. Preferably in a cob or the bad-ass Falcon he owned.

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    Great stories Matt .

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    My screen name is one that I've used for years on many forums. It's easier for me to remember this way. I can't remember why I started using. I know. It's kinda lame compared with everyone else, but it's all I've got. Sorry.

    -Jason

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    A few will leave you wandering around wondering who you are .

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    ever since i was little, everyone has called me rybo. i believe my granddad started it, and after that it just caught on. i used to hate it - but in the past few years i've come to love the nickname.

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    Years ago, my sister in-law called me a BUM mostly because I had long hair and a beard. 40 years ago, I had lotsa hair.

    Later I would hang out on the PATIO to schmoke.

    When I registered a username on a cigar board, I picked PATIOBUM. I still enjoy our patio when the weather is nice.

    Now, I schmoke in my HAM room in any weather. Air conditioned and heated, seperate from the house system with a vent fan in the ceiling ducted to the outside.

    Also, we have 6 grandboys that call me POP. I changed my callsign to n5pop.

    cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.......
    
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    It's amazing, the diversity of the roots behind everyone's screen names.
    To those who's were "given" their monikers by others in their lives... I'm just glad that some of the names people have used in reference to me didn't stick.
    I've had several nicknames over the years, e.g. Hotbrains, 103, Wizard, Sh*t Head and other's, but I'll leave that sleeping dog alone.

    Keep'em coming guys I love this string.

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    JU- Initials

    GN1- My 1987 Buick Grand National, other hobby!

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    One day my friend decided that everyone was to be called by a new nickname in relation to their favorite animals, I was given the name "tricksters Red Fox" because of my uncanny ability to pull spontaneous practical jokes( my latest of which, was convincing my friend that i broke my leg from falling off a mountain XD. Anyways, the name has stuck for the past five years and i'm more used to being called red than anything else. So it seemed appropriate.

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    Hockey fan here...Pittsburgh Penguins to be exact. Sid Crosby's number is 87 and there you have it.

    Go Pens!!

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    Last name is Dreier and everyone in my family and circle of friends calls me Bubba (I am 6 foot 5 inches, 300 pounds)

    Mason jars and bale top jars, mason jars and bale top jars.... that is all!
    
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    First and middle initials and that crazy word in the middle is my last name and the suffix Jr. I guess I am just not that imaginative when it comes to this sort of stuff...plus I can always remember it...;)

    A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way you look forward to the trip.

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    RL,
    Are you kin to the Rideouts here in B'ham?
    They are in the "Undertaking" business, (not to be confused with business undertaking)
    

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    I would be almost inclined to say yes....there are not very many Rideouts in the US. So more than likely, if you trace back across the pond to England, and go back in time a little ways, you would probably be able to link us to a mutual relative...lol...of course being from WV, I am almost afraid to say we are all family...;p

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    An old friend of mine is from "West By God Virginia".
    I don't hold with that "close family" mythology about WV.
    Now... LA... "Lower Alabama" might be a different story.
    

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    I note that there's now a "pipegeek" on the site. I wonder if he and I are related?

    Simon (of the PM Geeks)

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    My avatar and scren name honor the late prolific writer, raconteur, and prodigious pipesmoker Christopher Morley. He was a Delaware Valley bative who never lost his fascination with the everyday world around him. He found humor and compassion, and a slight tinge of the bizarre, in people. He proposed the three hour lunch as a goal for the literate and indolent, yet was never idle. If i had to pick a father figure, Morley was my choice.

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    Bump for the new members

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    I am also a fan of tea and I wrote a lot of artivles and such for tea magazines. I have a personal love for an Irish tea called Barry's Gold that I am seldom without a cup of with me and I love it strong and black. The tea forums started calling me Strongirish short for strong irish tea and the handle stuck all these years.

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    On a whim I put my real name in this 'Steampunk Name Generator' and it came out as Abe Cox. I liked it, so now its my online persona everywhere!

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    I picked searock because I smoke them and don't have much imagination...

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    I was lucky to be accepted to go to Exeter University at 38 to do a degree in Archaeology. While I was there I was encouraged to get an email address, other than the Uni one, so I got a Hotmail account. The ID I chose was excav8tor, since I found myself excavating a number of trenches during the 3 years I studied there.

    By the way Abe, I just tried that out and it came up with Lord Charlie McArney Thumpston IV.... I'm OK with excav8tor!

    "A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth." - C.S. Lewis

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    I hope to utilize my pending degree in aerospace engineering to one day help America tame the wild frontier that surrounds our planet.

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    This screen name is based on a video game character class. The prinnies from the Disgaea franchise.

    A prinny is a small, usually blue, pouch-wearing penguin-like creature with disproportionately small bat wings, two peg legs where feet would normally be and stitches next to the mouth. When thrown, they explode on impact.[2] A common trait of prinnies is their upbeat attitude and frequent use of the word "dood" as an interjection. They constantly end their sentences with "-ssu" in the Japanese game versions' dialogue. Prinnies stand roughly three feet, three inches (100 cm) tall, though the weight can vary.[3] Prinnies attack with knives, bombs, and occasionally other weapons stored in their bags.[3] While rarely mentioned in the game, prinnies have been known to dispense a beverage known as prinny juice, which according to a Nippon Ichi Software America interview is produced from "the most flavorful and delicious parts of our fresh, vine-grown Prinnies".[4]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinny

    

    >.> several friends have told me that I remind them of a prinny due to the large amount of sharp pointy things I tend to carry about my person and my odd sense of humor.

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    That explains a lot, Exploding Penguin.

    When I first saw your name, I had thought maybe you were a Linux user.

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    It's my middle name.

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    Ernest wrote:
    

    The Gate to Women's Country

    My grandpa's name was Frank Ernest, as in, "I'm Frank and Earnest and I take no shit."

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