Origins of User Names?

[lordofthepiperings]

My major influence and what got me started smoking pipes was the Lord of the Rings movies, hence I dubbed myself lordofthepiperings.

 

[aikatal]

Since I'm sort of a backward person, I simply spelled the name of one of my favorite tobaccos backwards.

 

[jdmack09]

Mine is very simple once broken down
JD: is my First name

Mack: The first four Letters of my last name

09: The year I joined the United States Army

 

[super8mm]

Mine comes from a hobby I have, I digitize 8mm and super8mm film

 

[checotah]

Just for you, Diana. One of my favorite songs when in high school. Yup, I'm old.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0doCIySw4

 

[kanaka95]

I am of Hawaiian ancestry.I also live in hawaii.Kanaka refers to a large hawaiian man.And 95 is the year i graduated high school.

 

[ravenwolf]

The raven and the wolf are both animal totems of mine - from familial Scandinavian shamanic practice as well as an apprenticeship I undertook with a Native American Elder.
Odin had two ravens (Huginn & Munnin [meaning Thought & Memory]) and two wolves (Geri & Freki [both meaning "ravenous"]). The ravens were said to fly around and return back to him each evening to tell him what was happening everywhere.
Ravens are also metatool users - meaning that they will create a tool which they can use to create a better tool, which is then used to accomplish something. They also recognize human faces, assign data to the faces, and pass that data onto their babies utilizing their own verbal language. They are one of the smartest critters around, with comprehensive language skills (measured via interaction with a touch screen computer) that rival that of our ape cousins.
Wolves carry a lot of cultural meanings - something I've just always identified with.

 

[agnosticpipe]

Well I suppose most of you think I some sort of agnostic that doesn't believe in anything. Maybe... Well I've always been known to question things since I was a kid, and I still do. I don't claim to know the answers to a lot of things, and I don't really care. But I do like to label inanimate objects as being agnostic, like pipes for instance. They have no knowledge per se, maybe some history (that's cool), or a ghost (not as cool), but mainly they know nothing. In my opinion, they only respond to what is put in them and how they're treated. Thus: agnosticpipe.... Oh, I do believe I have knowledge and beliefs of some things, but I mostly keep them to myself, and right now I believe I'll go smoke some Luxury Twist Flake!

 

[pipebaum81]

Let's resurrect this post shall we?
My last name is Baum, birth year is 81 as in 1981. Yes everyone, I am that young and won't apologize for youth vigor, and ignorance. (Actually I will appologize for my ignorance. One day I'll get there)
I don’t really like my user name. When having to come up with something, pipebaum81 was one of the first things I came to but I felt it had a very negative feel to it so it was immediately vetoed. I couldn't come up with anything else and it kept creeping back in my head.
The whole process delayed my registration here by two days. I finally gave in and the rest is history.

 

[desertpipe]

Desertpipe.....High Desert dweller in the American Southwest....Pipe smoker for 46 years. Needed a name to join ASP way back in the day, and just stuck with it all these years.

 

[mephistopheles]

It's simple, I'm very good at making deals.

 

[woodsroad]

There is a parallel thread to this one that you wish to explore:
[sticky] Explain Your Screen Name (656 posts)

 

[boilermakerandy]

My given name is Andrew, which I prefer, but most call me Andy. I am an alumnus of Purdue University and Purdue alumni are known as "Boilermakers" so I am boilermakerandy.

 

[seagullplayer]

Brand of guitar I often play, made it Canada. If you are in the market, look them up.

 

[hunterwold1]

For a number of years I have been turning pens, Christmas ornaments, and other items on my lathe. When I was looking for what to name my business I decided to make it unique. I combined a name from my ancestral roots in Scotland - my great grandmother was from the Hunter clan in Scotland - and the ancient word for wood or woods is wold, so hence - 'Hunterwold". I am just carving my first briar pipe now and hope to have it ready to give to my brother for Christmas, if it is worthy. Some day there may be a line of hand-made wooden pipes to carry the name Hunterwold.

 

[blueeyedogre]

I have blue eyes and my nickname in the army was "The Ogre" as my Master Corporal liked the movie "Revenge of the Nerds" and I was/am a big ugly bastard.

 

[edgreen]

The first forums I participated in were acoustic guitar forums, where I was named either fedora or fedoraed. To my students I was tallgebra on the sites I used with them and for email. When I retired the many me's could become one. The whole me that my parents raised after they named me for one of each of their relatives.

 

[psychpipes]

I'm a psychologist.

I like pipes.
'nuff said.

 

[hierophant]

Many moons ago I was very much into Tarot cards. The Hierophant was my key card.

 

[jeepnewbie]

On another thread for jeeps when I first bought mine I choose Jeepnewbie. I was new to owning a Jeep, and figured I'd stick with the same nick. I was thinking of Jeeppipe but for some reason didn't roll with it.