Typhoon
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Welcome Vimes!
Glad to see you...
Glad to see you...
What's in a name?
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I've been using the nick "Evil Ed" since I was 16. I was given the nickname because a more innocent, nice guy you would never find (at that time anyway) and the people I hung out with already had a friend named Ed when I showed up. They started referring to me as "Ed, you know...the Evil one" and it eventually got shortened to "Evil Ed." I fit the name a little better now due to my sarcastic sense of humor.
Eskimo Jim
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my name has a double entendre. It is a play on my real name and also I'm living in the cold northern tundra. It gets so cold up here that a couple months ago I saw a polar bear headed south.
Anyone who knows the Manfred Man song from the '60s will probably get the relation between the screen name and my real name.
I used to use my given name in Irish as a screen name but very few people could pronounce it so I stopped using it.
-Jim
Anyone who knows the Manfred Man song from the '60s will probably get the relation between the screen name and my real name.
I used to use my given name in Irish as a screen name but very few people could pronounce it so I stopped using it.
-Jim
I_am_Troy
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....I am Troy
Detritus
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Therefore you are one of the enlightened few who understand the origins of MY screen name...
for the rest of you uncultured non- pratchett reading slugs...
Detritus is as rather, big, dumb, scary looking, but well meaning troll(Silicone based lifeform, please refrain from comments on "what a troll is in forumland"). he's a Policeman in the largest city of his world, and carries what amounts to a sawed off seige bow for a sidearm (which he nicknamed "Der PieceMaker")
read pratchett it'll expand your mind and split your sides
P.S. also i got tired of using the screenname i picked back at the end of HS (Bones_crusher a ref to a piece of aircraft noseart i like) and having folks assume i'm a star trek fanatic.
mephisto
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My name is "the dark one" in german and it is the same definition as my call name that i have. My german great grandmother use to call me it too. i was a bad kid.
Vimes, Detritus ... I'm just waiting for Captain Carrot to sign up.
pax
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink." -- Terry Pratchett
pax
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink." -- Terry Pratchett
Detritus
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well for a short time last year My wife read teh forums, and is registered under "Delfine" as in "Delfine Angua Von Uberwald"
My last name in Pennock. When oldest grandaughter was two or three and realized her and my last names were different, she took to calling me and the wife Grandpa and Grandma Pignock. She stopped that long ago but the name is unique enough that I can register wherever I want on the internet without having to change names all the time. Keifer just wasn't cutting it
Bruce626
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Bruce626 is simply an alias for my real name, George737.
crewchief
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Well this is easy I was a Crewchief on Apache Helicopters in the Army.
Black Majik
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Dont really remember how I came up with my name. It originally started because I only owned black cars. So this was when I was browsing the car sites.
Now I've used this name on car forums, sportbike forums, gun forums etc...
Oh and I also use this name while playing Counterstrike.
Though rarely people spells my name right.
Now I've used this name on car forums, sportbike forums, gun forums etc...
Oh and I also use this name while playing Counterstrike.
Though rarely people spells my name right.
Stopdropnroll
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volunteer FF/Paramedic in rural Oregon
Rockrivr1
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My user name comes from the first squadron I was assigned to out of boot camp. VF-161 Rock River was an F-4 squadron off of the USS Midway located in Japan. F-4s! Gotta love em. Rockets with seats!!!
Most of the time people either ask me if it stands for some town they knew or for Rock River Arms.
Most of the time people either ask me if it stands for some town they knew or for Rock River Arms.
MrRezister
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I created Cunnivore while I was still an internet-neophyte. I thought it sounded at once suggestive and clever. For a while I also went as CerebralVortex, but Cunnivore has stuck for a few years now, and it's my favorite.
pendentive
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quote from Pax
I'm famous already....shucks....
can I ask how this caught your eye, Pax?
Occupation noted in profile...
I'm famous already....shucks....
can I ask how this caught your eye, Pax?
Occupation noted in profile...
I'm not saying whether my handle is a reference to my mental state or the mass of materiel, motors and miscellaneous machinery occupying my garage and basement. It was coined by my (then) 6 year old daughter who asked if I was going to add an old iron implement I had just found to my rust collection.
I just hope to live long enough to find a good home for all of it. It is a great source of amusement and amazement to my dear patient wife, who recently marvelled that we seemed to have seven bicycles in the garage but only two household members.
I just hope to live long enough to find a good home for all of it. It is a great source of amusement and amazement to my dear patient wife, who recently marvelled that we seemed to have seven bicycles in the garage but only two household members.
What's in a naem?
Many years ago, I flew Cobras in Viet Nam. Our squadron call sign was Scarface. Each of us had a numerical designation behind the Scarface. That group of Marines were the finest men I have ever met. I was, and still am, proud to have been one of them. Rather than use Scarface 48, my old call sign, I use just plain Scarface, to remember us all.
Be well,
Scarface
Many years ago, I flew Cobras in Viet Nam. Our squadron call sign was Scarface. Each of us had a numerical designation behind the Scarface. That group of Marines were the finest men I have ever met. I was, and still am, proud to have been one of them. Rather than use Scarface 48, my old call sign, I use just plain Scarface, to remember us all.
Be well,
Scarface
pendentive,
Nothing in particular. I just like words, and that one was new to me when you came aboard, so I looked it up.
And dang, I love the internet. Something like that catches your eye, you can get as much more information about it as you're able to digest, with almost no effort but plenty of reward.
pax
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Nothing in particular. I just like words, and that one was new to me when you came aboard, so I looked it up.
And dang, I love the internet. Something like that catches your eye, you can get as much more information about it as you're able to digest, with almost no effort but plenty of reward.
pax
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Dex Sinister
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Dex Sinister
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Dexter Sinister is right & left in Latin, and is a subtle, yet obscure, reference to libertarian ethics being between the poles of the Right and Left.
Dex }:>=-
Dex }:>=-
Dex,
Ah yes, you're another one I would have mentioned if I'd thought of it. I've always thought your name was very dextrous and not a bit sinister.
I guess you could have called yourself Gauche Adroit, but it wouldn't have had nearly the same ring.
pax
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll
Ah yes, you're another one I would have mentioned if I'd thought of it. I've always thought your name was very dextrous and not a bit sinister.
I guess you could have called yourself Gauche Adroit, but it wouldn't have had nearly the same ring.
pax
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll
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