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MrsLarry
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:44 PM
 
how'd you come by your MacNN name? i'm always curious about these sorts of things.
     
Gossamer
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:46 PM
 
Well I hated my old name, and at the time I had quite a stack of beige G3's sitting in my room. I typically name my computers after their supposed code names, and the beige G3 just happened to be Gossamer.
     
residentEvil
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:47 PM
 
in my college days; late 80s/early 90s, i was the bad seed. i was the resident 'insert anything here'. eventually, it just turned into evil, instead of drunk or asshole or mofo or etc

i am the residentEvil
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:49 PM
 
Back in college, our band was coming home after a short tour, and we passed by a road named "Railhead." I'd never heard that as a street name, so I took it, changed the capitalization, and made it RAILhead.
"Everything's so clear to me now: I'm the keeper of the cheese and you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it.
That's why he's gonna kill us. So we got to beat it. Yeah. Before he let's loose the marmosets on us."
my bandmy web sitemy guitar effectsmy photosfacebookbrightpoint
     
BlueSky
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:50 PM
 
My real name is BlueSky RunningFart. I shortened it.
     
Dork.
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Jul 27, 2006, 01:57 PM
 
Isn't it obvious?
     
iREZ
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:00 PM
 
my name is haroutiun which translates to ressurection in english which changed into my xbox live account name rezerection which shortened up to rez for the occasional high arcade score which became iREZ due to my love of macs.
NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
     
starman
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:12 PM
 
<since someone asks this every 6 months >

When I transferred to NJIT I had a different nickname, which was three names (first, middle, last..like a pseudonym) and didn't fit into the one-name login procedures at school. So, a group of us were chatting one day and I said that I was having trouble thinking of a nickname for myself. At the time I had an astronomy book with my so my friend Christine suggested 'Starman'. That was in 1988 and it stuck since then.

Home - Twitter - Sig Wall-Retired - Flickr
     
mac128k-1984
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:13 PM
 
Mine, came from being a long time fan of the macintosh. I couldn't get a mac128k email address so I had to include the year it was introduced.
Michael
     
Chuckit
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:13 PM
 
Mine was meant as a play on Stuffit.
Chuck
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:21 PM
 
Mine is my tagger name from the mid 90's.
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:30 PM
 
Mine is too obvious.

<yoda> But there is another... </yoda> I just don't use it.

I had planned on retiring this name (I've always wanted to change it, never did though) at 5,000 posts. Then I forgot.
[ sig removed - image host changed it to a big ad picture ]
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 02:34 PM
 
Mine is an old password that got published by mistake.
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 03:03 PM
 
nicknamed misspelling of adoration directed towards me by a dear friend that i took some kind of liking to.
     
hickey
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Jul 27, 2006, 03:19 PM
 
my last name. most people call me by that anyway, so it made its way onto the internet.
     
MacMan4000
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Jul 27, 2006, 03:34 PM
 
i made mine up at the sign-up screen to yahoo mail a loooong time ago. pacman was taken, so i tried macman since i like macs, it too was taken. so i tried macman with different combinations of numbers untill i found one that wasn't taken.

i have used this name ever since. i dont even use that yahoo email address anymore...
     
Dale Sorel
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Jul 27, 2006, 03:53 PM
 
I got mine from my mother and father
     
sek929
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Jul 27, 2006, 04:24 PM
 
Because sex696 was taken.
     
black bear theory
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Jul 27, 2006, 06:37 PM
 
My Life At Home During Banking Hours

For a solid month I tried
to think of something new to say about rivers
I called the newspaper to find out
how many horses were left on earth,
and numbly watched mosquitos swarm
over a pile of high-heeled shoes
while my colleagues hunted in the corners.

At least I was not in the line of work
that had me spending most of my day
avoiding God. My desk held painfully
complicated sufaces filled with shadow cassettes,
black bear theory and drinking water.

There was the sadness in a name like Jesse Winchester
and the wind howling
on the answering machine when I returned home
from daydreaming in a margarita shop.

All the blessings and counter-blessings
that move my mind like FM waves
from a butter churn, and granted me the sight
of parallel collies standing on a hilltop

And the rain falling on the United States
while it wonders
'What is the United States?'

I used to sing a song that went
'No more Springs, no more Summers, no more Falls'
I believed I was nearing the morning when
nettles would pour from the shower head.
When I would be ripped out of the world for re-casting
of blues and plastic.

I believed that I would finally break
where I had been bent,
that I would lose the game inside the game
But that has not happened,
And now I don't expect it ever will.

(David Berman)
Earth First! we'll mine the other planets later.
     
voodoo
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Jul 27, 2006, 06:54 PM
 
voodoo

because I can

V
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
     
C.A.T.S. CEO
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Jul 27, 2006, 07:15 PM
 
mines from a little club that me and my friends started when I was 8
it was called C.A.T.S. TLE and I was the ceo
so - the TLE part I got C.A.T.S. CEO
Signature depreciated.
     
Pendergast
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Jul 27, 2006, 07:24 PM
 
I got into these novels of Preston and Child and intrigued by a FBI agent by the name of... Aloysius X. L. Pendergast.

Now, I believe I read somewhere what the "X" and "L" stands for, but can't remember.
     
Salty
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Jul 27, 2006, 07:38 PM
 
Matthew 5

I recently changed my name on another message board to Fruit of the Spirit... I've been tempted to use that here.
     
TubaMuffins
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:00 PM
 
Originally Posted by Pendergast
I got into these novels of Preston and Child and intrigued by a FBI agent by the name of... Aloysius X. L. Pendergast.

Now, I believe I read somewhere what the "X" and "L" stands for, but can't remember.
I always assumed you got your name from the cop in the movie 'Falling Down'
TubaMuffins said backwards sounds like 'sniffing a butt'
     
Briareus
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:08 PM
 
mine's an obscure creature from Greek mythology with 50 heads and 100 hands, used as a sentimental remebrance to the name of my long-retired experimental electro-acoustic duo.
     
KeriVit
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Matthew 5

I recently changed my name on another message board to Fruit of the Spirit... I've been tempted to use that here.

Salty, that is So GAY.
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:13 PM
 
An amalgamation of smacking tush/macintosh.
Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
     
KeriVit
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:21 PM
 
BTW- mine is a morph of my name.
     
ghporter
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:53 PM
 
Mine is pretty self explanatory...I've never been good at thinking up nicknames, particularly for me-there aren't very many ways to shorten "Glenn" or make it diminutive (without making me puke) or otherwise "nickish."

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:56 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
I recently changed my name on another message board to Fruit of the Spirit... I've been tempted to use that here.



Do it Salty, Please!! Your status as an NN legend will be enhanced even further!
     
KeriVit
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:58 PM
 
Ok, every thread is gay now. It's official.
     
Dr.Michael
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Jul 28, 2006, 04:59 AM
 
Michael had already been used (like always).
     
Peter
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Jul 28, 2006, 05:01 AM
 
Hejog.
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
Ulrich Kinbote
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Jul 28, 2006, 05:32 AM
 
Originally Posted by Chuckit
Mine was meant as a play on Stuffit.
Clearly.

( )
     
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Jul 28, 2006, 07:14 AM
 
from here: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=224538
Originally Posted by badidea
Well, Yes, there is a story behind my username...

Back in 1999 I went snowboarding with some friends in Hochf?ustria. I snowboard since 1987, used to be pretty good and one of my favorites was big jumps.
On this day I saw a big boulder in a steep and deep slope that I had to jump...it wasn't a big jump - I totally underestimated it - it was more like a flight! Don't remember the landing!
I broke my back and at least one leg (probably both). I could also see my teeth without opening my mouth!
The broken leg thing was kinda weird because first I didn't realize it and boarded the rest of the hill down to the ambulance and second the doctor in the hospital also didn't see it on the x-ray pictures. The bone was completely cracked but hadn't moved. I first heard about it about 3 month later when another doctor made some CT diagnostics...

Since that accident some of my friends started to call me "bad idea" and that's why I have this username!
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Jul 28, 2006, 08:03 AM
 
I enjoy a certain baseball player...for giggles, we'll call this person Rickey Henderson.

Rickey Henderson stole bases rather swell.

Rickey Henderson broke the All-Time MLB stolen base record on May 1, 1991. That particular stolen base was Rickey's 939th.

Put it together.
     
Obi Wan's Ghost
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Jul 28, 2006, 08:14 AM
 
I was a reading for a while and saw a guy had a million Star Wars name except an Obi Wan one. I had to become OWG before SWG did
     
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Jul 28, 2006, 09:27 AM
 
I'm thinking mine was due to Mac OS X and Darwin being all the talk around the time of registration. Makes sense to me anyway. Fun thread.
     
Jawbone54
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Jul 28, 2006, 11:48 AM
 
When I was about 16, I was hanging out with some friends. My best bud was sitting there, playing the guitar, pretty much oblivious to our conversation. I said something, and he piped up with, "Whatever, jawbone!" No one knew what he meant, seeing that it was completely random. When we asked him, he said, "Jawbone of an ass!" and continued to play the guitar.

He's not particularly fond of the story of Samson, so no one knows why he brought it up, but everyone liked it, and it stuck. It's been my tag on XBox Live, my screen name on AOL, and more. I don't exactly have a prominent jaw, so that doesn't have anything to do with it.

I dunno.
     
Ulrich Kinbote
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Jul 28, 2006, 12:24 PM
 
Ulrich from The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (Sig. left) and Kinbote from Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Sig. right) -- It makes all kinds of sense to me for reasons that won't interest anyone.
     
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Jul 28, 2006, 01:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Matthew 5

I recently changed my name on another message board to Fruit of the Spirit... I've been tempted to use that here.
pretty funny.
     
   
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