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Posting Junkie
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From time to time while responding to posters, I notice that their usernames take on a personality of their own in my mind. I've come across certain usernames and I wonder how on earth they came up with that handle? Most of the time they're just silly names, but sometimes it's clear they mean something specific that I might not be aware of.
Mine is simple. ebuddy is "electronic buddy". Everything was 'e' something when I chose it as my email names several years back; i.e. ebay, email, ecommerce, etrade, etc... so I figured what the heck, I'll be everybody's ebuddy.
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Mac Elite
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I'm a guy. I'm a pretty forgettable person. And I love to make spelling mistakes.
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iamwhor3hay
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Banned
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My town was built around railroading. The local high school's mascot(s) is the Railroader.
I love the sound of a train going down the tracks. Which is a very good thing because at any given time I can hear one from my house.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
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Considering I registered when I was essentially young and stupid (I was 13 at the time), I was considerably more militant about the supremacy of the Mac...
...at this point, considering I make my living being a lab tech who programs in C++ on a PC to run highly custom psychophysical testing hardware, I really don't care.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
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My friends nicknamed me Jawbone. There wasn't much of a reason for it. It has nothing to do with my appearance, from what I understand. Just a dumb nickname that stuck.
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Posting Junkie
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I have a fetish for analogue electronic/electromechanical keyboards and effects.
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Location: Washington, DC
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Mac Elite
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I got it off a hair dryer.
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"I start fires!"
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Addicted to MacNN
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Location: Cupertino, CA
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first name plus some numbers that long ago had some meaning i've forgotten
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Senior User
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Location: Austin, Texas
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Damien Rice song title. That's it.
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Phew, this thread again? At any rate...
I really like Kenny Lofton.
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Posting Junkie
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Location: Colorado
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My username the same as my username @gmail.com. I got that from my iMac G5, therefore I am imitchellg5.
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Baninated
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im ashammed to say..... runescape. *loud sobs can be heard*
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Professional Poster
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Phew, this thread again? At any rate...
I really like Kenny Lofton.
What's funny about this is that Gossamer linked to the other "what's your handle thread" and the same thing was said there.
I will say when this thread pops up from time to time, different people respond.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Mac Elite
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Well I love the old classic macs.
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Michael
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Professional Poster
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Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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I came up with this when I was 12 and it has stuck ever since.
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Originally Posted by ebuddy
What's funny about this is that Gossamer linked to the other "what's your handle thread" and the same thing was said there.
I will say when this thread pops up from time to time, different people respond.
But if you're aware of a similar thread in existence, you are infinitely more leet if you can point it out for everyone to see.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by Gossamer
But if you're aware of a similar thread in existence, you are infinitely more leet if you can point it out for everyone to see.
I honestly didn't even look to see if there was. I was ashamed to see it as recent as July. It was also cool to see the participants of that thread. Although, I'm now looking for what "leet" means.
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Originally Posted by ebuddy
I honestly didn't even look to see if there was. I was ashamed to see it as recent as July. It was also cool to see the participants of that thread. Although, I'm now looking for what "leet" means.
Urban Dictionary: leet
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"I start fires!"
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I liked the way the Russian officer in Red October called the American officer a cowboy.
The American officer was tough, but not mean. He was there to get the job done.
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Professional Poster
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Location: Northwest Ohio
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I've been participating in the forums since 1999. I used to do it under my own name, and I used it back in the days when you didn't need to be registered to post on the forums.
Then in 2000 I started using Person Man (albeit in unregistered form) for a while, and then when they changed the forums so you had to be registered to post I registered under the name.
Yes, I got it from the They Might Be Giants' song Particle Man. I chose it because "Person Man" just sounds like a generic person. I didn't want to call attention to myself.
I plan on keeping this name. No gimmicky retirements, no changing nicks to avoid bans, no changing just to change, etc. Just Person Man. (Besides, at this rate, I won't hit 10,000 posts until about 2023 or so).
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i was in a brass rock band in high school, so, brass players rock
Alex
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Mac Elite
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I just enjoy the character of Lincoln & Child.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
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An asian guy shouted out my name in the middle of class and completely botched it, causing 60 people to look at me. He then walked off. This name is a short approximation of what he shouted.
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Last edited by Naaaaak; Oct 8, 2006 at 07:50 PM.
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To be determined later.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
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i live in HOUSTON and i am a mac user. oh yeah, and i am a brutha.
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Professional Poster
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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I was a junior in high school when we did the musical 'Camelot' in theatre. I played a bit part, Castor of Cornwall. In the show, I was knighted. I liked the whole thing for a bit, so i kept it.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Mac Elite
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Location: Boston, MA
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First initial, last name. Nothing too fancy.
Been on this board for 6+ years. Whoa....
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Emergency Medicine & Urgent Care.
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It's simply my first name.
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A nick-name I got from a friend back in 1996/97. The "dc" is for my initials and where I (used to) live. The "macdaddy" is for my kick-ass skills as all-around Mac guru. And, coming from the friend who gave me the appellation, it is also an ironic acknowledgement of my incredible lack of hipness, hipness with which the term "macdaddy" is often associated.
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One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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pyrite = fools gold (iron sulfide), and is also the name of my record label that still doesnt exist yet
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Hear and download my debut EP 'Ice Pictures' for free here
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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How many threads does a subject need to have before we can call it a day?
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2006
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well my freshmen year in college I was broke completely broke... so brokecollegestudent it was added the F so ppl knew i was a girl and 04 was the year i graduated.. thats my story
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When I was in high school during 1997, I liked this girl named Nadia. I totally had the hots for her, but she didn't, so the letter "n" is in her name when i first used AOL which i had to make up a screen name. At which time pager codes were very popular in the US, so page codes were very popular. The numbers "8236" stands for..............can anyone guess? It's pretty ez if u were in that era
Ever since, I've been using it. Some lady i talked to once thought I was a pilot because they apparently had the same type of email naming.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Utah
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A series of books by F.M. Busby. Ink is short for Inconnu.
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Grizzled Veteran
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My first username on here was simply my name + the letter for the "rank" in the fireteam in the SAF. Nickname that stuck.
Second username was an old family name from 200-300 years back.
This one was simply made up because it sounded good.
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"Learn to swim"
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Professional Poster
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Location: Pretentiously Retired.
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Because Datruck isn't as cool...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
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My first user name was taken from the name of a local company who prints stationary for me. A long time back, Compuserve asked me for a username. Invoice from this company was on my desk, so there ya go.
My current username... ...I'd just finished watching a film.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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I really liked the flamethrower in Marathon, so a gamer tag it is. And a fondness for AD2000 comics had something to do with it, too.
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Professional Poster
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Phew, this thread again? At any rate...
I really like Kenny Lofton.
Who doesn't?
In any case, I think the reason behind choosing my name is quite obvious....
I decided to change my username from one that contained my real name a few years ago. I couldn't choose Mr. Met because my head wasn't big enough to do that name justice, so I chose the next best thing.
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Originally Posted by Dork.
Who doesn't?
Rickey Henderson.
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Banned
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Rickey Henderson.
Who's he?
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Professional Poster
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Originally Posted by Railroader
Who's he?
A masterful poker player who used to play baseball for the Mets.
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Professional Poster
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I've had this nick since I started using computers.
kmk stands for Kottonmouth Kings, a band I really liked at the time, and well, I was a kid at the time .
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Clinically Insane
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My turtle forced me at gun point to retire turtle777 and pick what_the_heck.
-t
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The movie title (with an extra R for better "effect")
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Originally Posted by Dork.
A masterful poker player who used to play baseball for the Mets.
Reyes playes poker as well, but he is a god. Must be his mentor.
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I have no idea how I came up with mine. I think it was from midnight club 2, there was a car called veloci. 211 is my bday.
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iMac 24" | Core 2 Extreme 2.8GHz | 4GB RAM | 500GB HD
PowerBook G4 15" HR | 1.67GHz | 2GB RAM | 100GB HD
R.I.P 1995 Toyota Supra NA-T
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