What's in a name?

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Yeah there is a thread of this all ready, but here goes.

I'm technical support for a company in Boston. I live and work from home in Idaho, (yeah dream job! 2,300 miles from the boss!!)

My day is usually spent answering questions that are clearly answered in the manuals we provide with every piece of equipment. Some where in almost every conversation I ask, 'Have you read page 'XYZ' in the manual?"

Hence my name RTFM
Read The F!#*%$G Manual

RTFM
 
Long ago in High School a friend of mine took to calling me "Doctor Rob" it was a Beatles' song reference.

That HS friend is now the lead singer of 16 Horsepower, and people still call me "Doctor Rob", and I use it as an internet handle and pseudonym.

I've had the nickname for 18+ years and I see no reason to change it now.

Funny thing about nicknames is that you never get to choose your own. For instance I hung out with a group of Rat-pack types who had a swing band called 'Money Plays Eight', everyone had nicknames like "Mr. French, The Parrot, The Cobra, Bushmills, The Guppy, The Powderkeg, etc. Since I was the only long haired guy in the posse, someone took to calling me PonyBoy. A few years go by, and I'm standing up for the groom at 'Mr. French's' wedding. At the rehersal dinner, as little token gifts are being handed out I hear French's dad yell out "Hey Pony come get your gift!" Apparently, no one in the bride or groom's family knows my real name. :D

BTW the gift was a stainless swiss army knife with "Ponyboy" engraved on it.
 
My username is not too complicated:

Jacobus Rex in latin means "King James" but I kind of like the dinosaur implication as well.

My real name is James Hendrix. No, they don't call me Jimi and I don't play the guitar. :D

Thanks,
James
 
Short version of Blkmajic. My buddy was always amazed at watching me casting and reloading. He used to joke I was practicing black magic. Since so many had used some form of Magic in screen names, I switched the "g" to a "j".
 
My name is for the first car I ever owned... (and still DO own...) a '70 Hemi'Cuda Convertible... bought it in the VERY early '80's, as a basketcase, and started restoration... (all this 3 full years before I was elligable to get a drivers license!)

3 things you'll never take from me... my woman, my first gun, and my first car!
 
Skunkabilly is another name that seems to be to be very appropriate. I have no idea what a Skunkabilly is but for some reason it just fits him perfectly.
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A Skunkabilly is a cross between a hillbilly and a skunk...DUH.... :rolleyes:

:evil:
 
Because it's descrpitive. Webster's New World Dictionary, 2nd definition of entropy; 'The tendency of an energy system to run down'. I do giggle when people misspell it 'entrophy'!
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Snowdog,

Because Bytor was the bad guy....
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My family 'inherited' a Bichon Friese dog that somebody didn't want. They named the dog Snowball. Well, I am much too manly to own a dog named Snowball but I also knew that a 2 year old dog doesn't adjust well to a radical name change. Therefore Snowdog was born!

Skunkabilly

A Skunkabilly is a cross between a hillbilly and a skunk
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The name still fits you well! :)

One other name that 'fits' well is 1911Tuner. Man, that guy knows his stuff.

btw, Snowdog, yes I'm a Rush fan. :cool:

Michael
 
Sapperleader is a reference to the Armys Sapper Combat Leadership Course, where those that complete are sappers, and those that graduate are SapperLeaders. Its sort of like preranger school for combat engineers, where we learn how to do ambushs, raid, recons and a bunch of nasty stuff with explosives while not sleeping or eating. It breaks you down to our lowest denominator and I somehow survived and graduated the course. It taught me more than the rest of my military service combined, so I use it as my username on forums.
 
Names that fit, or maybe just cool names...

I like Third_Rail as a name ... every time I see the name, I mumble, "touch it and die." What a good deterrent!

Often, late nights, I find myself humming, "If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to dooooo..." -- and then notice that Tyme is online. Hmmmmmmm. Dunno if the name fits him, but it gives me fits sometimes. ;)

Monkeyleg has a funny name. I know it came from a childhood nickname or somesuch, but it reminds me of when my boys were toddlers. Any time one of them had gotten into trouble (especially climbing trouble, like the day I found a two year old on top of the fridge), we would call the kid a "monkeytoes." I guess a Monkeyleg would be a monkeytoes grown up, right? :D

People named after fictional or historical figures always make me blink twice. Bartholomew Roberts, for instance, always left me scratching my head. It was just barely possible that the poster's real name just happened to be the same as Black Bart ... wasn't it? I wonder, too, if Josey is a real name, or a takeoff on the Outlaw Josey Wales, and if Mr. Clark is some guy named Bill or Steve or Joe Clark, or if the name is truly a reference to Tom Clancy's Mr. Clark.

I also like the nicknames that force me to learn something. Do you know what a Chupacabra is? Or a pendentive? Ever seen a lycanthrope? How long is your telomerase?

Orthonym's name isn't.

I was kind of sad when Lendringser turned into Marko Kloos, but I guess it is only appropriate because as a new American citizen, Marko is no longer really a Lendringser.

1911Tuner is well named. Suits him perfectly.

Threadkiller's name cracks me up, because I feel like that pretty often too. But I've noticed plenty of people post after him anyway...

pax

With a knowledge of the name comes a distincter recognition and knowledge of the thing. -- Henry David Thoreau
 
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Silly story. Started off on nationstates.net with the name 'St Johns' as a parody of my old college at university. Started talking to a THR member on their forums and he invited me here, I just kept the name.

Rx7 - what do you think of the new Rx8? Gotta love the rotary engine of both them cars - such a different approach.

I wonder about the origins of the names Khornet, Moparmike, w4rma (warmer? - it's like a tease about something) and Preacherman (;))
 
I became a Grampa when I was 45. Now I have two grandsons, and enjoy being "Grampa! Grampa!"

:D
 
My monicker is same one that I have used for years while playing FPS games like Counter-Strike, BF: 1942, and Rainbow Six. I guess in games like that "WarMachine" is a befitting name for a hardcore killa like me :evil:
 
w4rma
Maybe it is too obvious, but that is a ham radio callsign.
W means that he is in the US
4 means he is in the fourth call district which is basically in the American South East

Of course now you can get vanity callsigns and he may be located anywhere in the US. If that is an original W4 callsign, he has been in the hobby for a long time, probably since the late 1950s just as a guess. If it is a vanity callsign he could have gotten it last week. Who knows. It is easy to look up who it is, but I am not going to tell you how.
Or, it might not be an amateur radio callsign at all :D
I can tell you that there is someone with that callsign. Whether that is our W4RMA is anyone's guess.
 
Mostly because of my build - short legs, long arms, barrel chest and light complexion, except in the summer.

Early in life, most of my girlfriends called me "Bear" or some variation thereon, except for one who called me "Taz"... but we won't go there...
 
Terribly unimaginative! Childhood nickname was "Smokey" for no reason I've ever figured out. Didn't think should use S-head, not very flattering, and "Ooohhh, Baabyyyy!!" isn't really a name!! LOL

Whitebear: is that "pinkbear" in summer? Sorry, couldn't resist!
Werewolf: full beard in service? Antartica, or I don't wanna know; I'll just say "Thanks".

Stay safe.
Bob
 
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