Per a request and because I be nosey.. will you please be so kind to introduce yourself and tell us why or how you happen to pick your moniker here?

Just for fun folks...

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>tell us why or how
>you happen to pick your moniker here?

Pretty darn boring and obvious too. It's my initials. Duh.

Jim.

Retired Militay Hence my name:
RET = Retired
SFC = E-7 last rank held
L = Intial of 1st name

EDIT = Jan you should've started with yours........LOL

Jan , brookernh pertains to me living in SeaBROOK , NH


Lenbea

My sister nicknamed me Cuder when I was a teenager. I tried using that as my log in name on another forum but it was already taken. I tried adding numbers to it and they were taken also so I spelled it back wards and tried adding numbers but they were taken too so I figured I was safe with reduc500.
Aren't you glad you asked? haha

Jan what about you Kiwi?

It's my name, Actually my name is Sheldon, but my friends all call me Shelly...at least to my face.

Shelly

Yeah and behind your back they call you a name that also starts with Sh and ends in head. ...Just teasin'

MSU

This has come up before but if you missed it...back in the days of the Winmag Forum, where you probably know many here originaly came from. That was the first forum I had ever joined and didn't really know what to use or if I would be sticking around very long. So I just used my initials. It kind of stuck, so now it's too late to change.

P.S. Wait until you find out about Grogan's name (If he'll even enlighten the newer folks about it)

MSU

>P.S. Wait until you find out about Grogan's name
>(If he'll even enlighten the newer folks about it)

The term 'grogan' is slang for a piece of shit. Back in my early days on the Net, I used to hang out in a newsgroup called alt.tasteless and that term was used often there. I've been using the name Grogan for around 9 years now.

Grogan

I guess they had to call a spade a spade!
HaHa, *kidding*! (Jan made me do that...)

Mine is nothing as lofty as some of yours. Just wanted one that would float to the top of alphbetized lists. Not long after Alex started the UD crunching team AKA PC911 I joined and wanted to find my name near the top of his listings. Hence A_* .

Thor, God of Thunder is from one of the legends out of the Germanic regions and was thought to be responsible for good harvests. Seemed to me like a powerfull, righton kind of guys' guy too!

Donate your unused CPU cycles to Grid Team PC911s cancer research project, click here!

It's just my name. Gosh I feel bad for calling Mike a piece of shit all this time.

I have no idea why I decided on Kanooka....just something that came to me in one of "those" moments...

Just my last name followed by the first letter from my first and middle names, John William. I wasn't being very creative at the time because all I wanted to do is register so I could post a question. Didn't realize I'd get hooked. Some friends at work call me Noonie; hence the sig. (Which I prefer over noonanjw)

Hey, Brookernh! We's practically neighbors. Methuen, (or as native Methuenites pronounce it Medtuen), Ma.

Noonie

Well, back at the Winmag forum I was known as "Administrator." When I moved to PC911 I decided that I just wanted to be myself. So I registered as "jasonlevine."

Starting in 6th grade it seemed that I had just adlibbed my way through school. Then this one kid started calling me adlib. Then it caught on. When it was time for me to register an internet name when I was first on the net in '95 adlib was taken, so I became ablib. and it's been my internet name since and probably will be for life.

Visit the Basement

Long ago before the internet even was. In a deep dark loathsome hole in the ground. in the in an unheard of back woods town in northern ontario.
The town called Manatuwadge. In the mine I started working in there were 11-12 other dave,s on the crew.You can imagine the confusion when some one said Dave come other here!!! so the one,s before me got nic,s and short fat,tall etc. had been taken.i got called after the last mineing town i had been in.Hence wawadave.
i,m just glad i never told them i had worked in turkey!! lol
Thats my story i,m sticking to it!

RFID
Fight Cancer PC911

Have a spyware free day!

I picked my name for the flower I love, daylily. It is a play on words that I put to gether to describe the way the flowers make me feel when I see a seedling bloom from a cross that I did. It also tells how long the flower is open, one day for each and every bloom on every plant and there are some 35,000 registered named varieties of daylilies. Daylily folks are the best people! We have a saying that describes how we feel, "we come for the flowers but we stay for the people".Most of the hybridizers are willing to take a newcomer to daylilies and help them learn until they are competing with said hybridizer at shows and for sales.
Daylilydayzed

LOL looks like alot of us needed pc help and just grabbed a name to register.
I found pc911 with a google search for pc help. There was only one forum so I sat here reading and laughing at the conversations and getting good info for quite awhile. THEN I needed personalized help.
My kids suggested DaBears, which was taken. Then DaDwarfs (not the hi ho hi ho dwarves but the D&D kind ) was picked by them too.
And here I am stuck with this name


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grid team PC911 crunchin'

The G is my late fathers 1st initial.
OWEN was his middle name.
42 is the year I was hatched.

Not much to mine. First initial and last name and a 1. My son already had taken bkoenig somewhere else, so I tacked a 1 on to keep us separated.

Bill K.

Hi, I'm Mike. Notice how some people insist on using people's real names instead of their screen names? There were a lot of Mike's so Myk was to avoid confusion and was faster to type.

so is your moniker pronounced Mike, and not Mick?

Visit the Basement

It's actually pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.

>It's actually pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.

Fell off my chair at that one!

I always thought you were a Mick, never thought of pronouncing it phonetically

It's my name.

SNL did a skit once about people calling Jimmy Carter at the White House and asking "real" questions. It was a play on Carter's supposed "regular guy" persona.

The script is here. I just thought it was hilarious. Especially Carter saying "You took some Orange Sunshine."

Straight forward for me, Mick be my name and oz is an abbreviation for
where I come from, Australia.

Oh and Jan please do share with us where Kiwi came from.

Take a wild guess

Nightly Reader

As we know Lil'Joe was from Bonanza,Well I'm from Missouri and the L J is my first and middle initial. the il oe was added.
My email addy or nick is pawlou,'cause I'm a proud granpa and my name is Lou.

LilJoe

Marti is my name, not my true legal name, but the name that I have been called all of my life. I use the name "Marti" for everything, except for a few important legal documents.

Edit: If you want to know about my avatar, it started out as a plain white piece of PFD (prepared for dying) cloth. I took a picture of my completed work and turned it into an avatar.

marti

It's the real spelling of my first name. I made the signature using Cooltext.

My name
my avatar is of my little schnauzer Max , whom I will miss forever

Jane

It's simply my name. I think when I registered on the old WinMag forum, I had to use my real name. I can't remember...that was awhile ago.

I had just finished watching a late night movie, called "Scaramouche" with Stewart Granger. Sounded romantic.

Guns don't kill people. Husbands who come home early kill people.

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No, it's not because I'm an accomplished fibber.
When I came of age, back in the early '70s, Janis Joplin was singing her version of "Me and Bobby McGee." The gang, because my first name is Robert, decided this would be a fine moniker for me.

McGee

I guess I better post my own as some peeps are telling me it wasn’t fair of me to ask and not tell…..

Nothing fancy, I just so happen to love Kiwi fruit and Strawberries! Not all things appear to be as you may see them, Kiwi’s are kinda funny looking on the outside, but sweet and delicate on the inside. *grins* That be me…LOL
The numbers 20 & 22 are both my son’s birthdates and I knew I would never forget those numbers, hell they don’t let me forget. LOL
So that’s kind of how I put it all together on another forum, and I just have used it most places since then..… but as I type this and even before now, I have been thinking of a change. I have had Kiwi for several years now and I am looking for something different.

Change is good!

If a person was to change their moniker, can the post count stay the same and the registration date? *fingers crossed, hoping for a yes answer*

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I always thought Kiwi's were kinda hairy on the outside

The Night Rider bit comes from a nickname given to me by a guitarist I worked for - I was asked whether I minded driving the van and as I wasn't that confident at the time driving larger vehicles I said "No probs but I'll do the night runs because the roads are quieter"
So I became the driver on the night runs and got christened Night Rider. It aint because I look like or wanna be David Hasselhoff!! Hence the lack of a 'K'.

The numbers got added due to being refused without (even though Nightrider wasn't even registered and Nightrider_1 never worked either so in an impulse I added the 666) Didn't think it would matter originally - didn't expect this place to become my home from home Ah the wonder of hindsight:D

Good story, Night_rider666...

DavyWavy -

The first three letters of my internet name are the initials of my personal names and the last two are the first two letters of my surname (some sites require 5 or more letters). My use of the Union Flag as an avatar is not from an excess of patriotism but just for identification, to demonstrate that I won't necessarily understand or share the views of the majority American members.

AS I COLLECT PEWTER DRAGONS I USED THE LARGEST PIECE I HAVE "GRANDIS BELLATOR" & DROPPED THE "GRANDIS". HENCE THE FLYING DRAGON AVATAR
STEVE

>AS I COLLECT PEWTER DRAGONS I USED THE LARGEST PIECE I HAVE
>"GRANDIS BELLATOR" & DROPPED THE "GRANDIS". HENCE THE FLYING
>DRAGON AVATAR
> STEVE
I heard that

LilJoe

Insightful topic Jan..Thanks.

Mine is simple.....I'm surrounded by the sandy beaches of Cape Cod Massachusetts.

Steve

I'm a big fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes, hence the handle, Hauxfan. (Hawks fan)

My last name is Mizer. All my adult life I've been called Mize.

I'm sure I've been called a few other things too, but I'll just stick with this

'tis the name of my old (very old!) school.
Ah, long ago and far away.

Hi. My name's Dave.

My username is boring. I never thought the topic would be the subject of a whole thread

Dave

Dell 8300 Dimension
Pentium 4
W XP Home


www.woodenpropeller.com

Owbist is old English for 'How are you' and was still very common when I left England.

The old men would ask "Owbist my 'ansome?" The answer invariably was "fair to middlin'"

I love to fish.

maiden name initials.

In a rare burst of creative thought....I decided to use my name.

Les

i am what i am....toot toot.....whats in a name anyway?....I've been called so many things i forget who i am most of the time anyway..at work they just call me grouch!!..

Vitalt

If you looked at my face you would ache at the sight of it.

It' just a nickname I heard at work years ago, I thought it good so I just use it.

Best Regards
Ian

It's my name.

Meehowski.....no, I'm NOT Polish!!
....but...my ex-girlfriend's father nicknamed me......hence "Meehowski"

but you can call me Mike.........

'Coulda used George, but that's not my name.

At work, my partner and I nicknamed ourselves different TV police show characters, one being Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice.....yes, we had too much time on our hands..LOL
I don't have an aligator named Elvis though.

As far as my Avatar goes. I took a macro pic of a Canadian beercap called Molson's Canadian. Their logo was "I Am Canadian"

Edited to add this I Am Canadian Commercial

>As far as my Avatar goes. I took a macro pic of a Canadian
>beercap called Molson's Canadian. Their logo was "I Am
>Canadian"
>


Crockett, "I am Canadian" and I've never seen that version of the commercial....too funny.

Oh, by the way, I am "my children's Mum" (English spelling of Mum) hmmm, pretty original huh? NOT. lol Like alot of you here, I too needed a moniker to post.....so that was what came to mind in order to allow me to post. lol.

I'm not really sure.

My life revolves around a myriad of randomness. I feel as if i'm hovering like a spirit, never touching the ground. I tread dangerous waters and even now I feel dark clouds looming over my presence. The aura is spine-tingling, but I know that I must continue onward. As I go along, I can only hope that the Force remains with me.

Crockett, I laughed my butt off at your Canadian Commercial.

Thanks! That was funny! Hauxfan!

Arlene is my name, B is the first letter of my last name, and 61401 is my zip code. When I signed up I needed a number (even though I have never seen another ArleneB--LOL) I knew that I could remember my zip code. LOL

" Arlene
Life is a journey... not a destination. Enjoy the trip!

Ok, ya shamed me into it.

It's actually my name, which apparently means "dealer" in a language I cannot speak.

My last name is Messmore, which got every conceiveable twist made of it in school. For some reason I didn't like people messing with my first name, and in Sophmore Plane Geometry, the teacher went around the class to get our names. I said "Delar," and she asked "I imagine you go by Del?" "I imagine not," I said, and THAT pretty much determined the grade in THAT class for the year.

I try not to make fun of other people's names.

It's my middle name and was called that by parents and, naturally, by locals and relatives. Worked fine throughout my school years prior to the military. First name then became more important. Back to home grounds and middle name after discharge. First name used again when hired by the company I worked for for 33 years (because military records indicated first name, middle name and last name). Back to middle name since retirement.

Don't name your kids planning to call him/her by the middle name. It can lead to much frustration in later life. I could have probably handled it better early on but didn't have the awareness at the time.


duane

I have red hair, but there was already another "Red" in the family; so I became . . . Copper

Twas back in 98 when I first got on the internet. Tried and tried to come up with a unique ID for Yahoo. Everything I tried was already taken so finally had to accept one I didn’t particularly like. Then one day I was at one of my son’s house and saw his rather large dog laying lazily out in the yard and thought “yarddog” would make a good moniker only to find that too was already in use. No problem – I thought – I’ll just change the spelling to the redneck vernacular “yarddawg”. Nope – already taken. So try “yarddaawg”. Ahh – success. So everywhere I go on the internet that requires an ID I use yarddaawg and haven’t found it to be in use anywhere as yet.

Yarddaawg

"Only two things are infinite, the universe
and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Albert Einstein
(1879-1955

When I first got on the web using a WebTV, I had to pick a screenname to sign on with. My name is Dave, I lived in Allston, MA, so I picked allstondave. And that name has served me well for about 8 years, never tried to log into a site and been told that that name was taken, unless i'd alteady been there.

BYW, noonanjw, I'm just up the road in Melrose, MA these days.

That's all there is to the story, sorry if it's not too entertaining.

allstondave

allstondave

Pretty predictable. I quit smoking in 1988 and went the cinnamon stick, sunflower seed route till I drove my wife and co-workers batty with my "droppings". Then I discovered toothpicks. Round slender, smooth, sharply pointed old growth Fir toothpicks. I have had one in the corner of my mouth since 88. I am a connoisseur of toothpicks. Only the best toothpicks made from the rain forests of South America or the old growth fir stands of Oregon (my home state) and Washington, and British Columbia will do. Any other toothpick is inferior.

Sometimes when things get tough, and the good toothpicks are hard to find, I will go deep into the woods and chainsaw a 50' fir and then take the top 24 inches for tpik stock and make my own.

Oh yeah, did I mention I give a dollar to Greenpeace and Earth First every year!

tpikdave

da-Termin-eh-tor

Obviously it comes from The Terminator. However, being Canadian, I exchanged the "a" for an "eh", and "The" for "da".

At 6'4", and now unfortunately pushing 280lbs, it fits.

Not as imaginative as so many of you. Surname and first initial was the best I could do back in 02 when I landed here.


Malcolm

This is the only forum in which I go by a shortened version of my real name. Being the very first forum that I joined, I had yet to grow an imagination.

DenBeau is from my first& last name.
My real name is
Dennis Beaupre (bo pray)
Beaupre is French and Beau is pronounced bo)

Well I can't remember which came first. Animaniacs or my nickname.

In 1990 in North Dakota, I was pretty wild in all things One day my friends said I was pretty wakky, and one of the girls said "Thats my Wakko". And I have loved Animaniacs and I definitely think I identify myself the closest to him as how I am in life.

Pretty much stuck since then.

Wow, a big thank you for all that replied. It was sure interesting and it's nice to know all of you a little better. *smiles*

The credit really goes to Ablib as he suggested in the UD forum that I post this and I was just following his suggestion. Sure glad I did, it's been fun.....Thanks Ablib and thanks again to all of you!

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You are quite welcome my dear

LilJoe

My first name is Paul, everybody calls me Paulie and my last name starts with a Z, thus "Pauliez".

My name is Troy and 614 is my birthday.
Although,I am seriously considering changing it,too.
It seems trouble likes to follow it around.

>My name is Troy and 614 is my birthday.
>Although,I am seriously considering changing it,too.
>It seems trouble likes to follow it around.

Could that "trouble" be carrying one of these

LOL

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Originally posted by Kiwi

Could that "trouble" be carrying one of these


LOL

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I didnt say that!

But trouble does use this (Vitalt),in his sig

Oh the "other trouble" Yeah he be trouble that's for sure!! I don't mean that....

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> I don't mean
>that....


yes you did

Well i have been riding a bike for exercise mostly for forty years so i thought bicycle would be appropriate. I am still riding here in sunny Fl and i am 74 years old.
Here i am. Like to never found a bike like this.

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My Name is David John Clark thus DJC. I am retired Master Sgt. USAF
63-67 USMC Semper Fi
67-86 USAF

Small towm Southwest of Minneapolis Minnesota

>> I don't mean
>>that....

>yes you did


No, not me... *straightens her lopsided, dusty halo*


Hiya GK

Nice to see ya again. *smiles* I know what ya mean about tired of the same ole' moniker. Maybe we just oughta do something about it, ya think? *grins* I guess someday if I don't see GK and you don't see Kiwi, we'll know one of us made a change. You got something new in mind?

If ya change be sure an email me and let me know otherwise I be on a hunt for ya!! I keep tellin' ya to stop by more often but ya don't listen to me. Hope to see around again soon.

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ok since im so much of a trouble maker...try this one for a post kiwi...whos got the name with the longest time on the internet(as in when did you start posting with it)?

Vitalt

I'm amazed at how many people are unhappy with their screen name. Seems as though many just wanted to post a question but then promptly got hooked. It is interesting to learn how many came up with their names though.

Allstondave; nice to know there's another Massachusetts-ite here. I checked out your website. Looks great! I noticed you mention the "Do not call" list. Life has been GOOD since I signed up. I had reached my limit with getting two or three of those calls a night.

Noonie

General_K was made up by someone I used to work with. It really doesn't have any meaning. Later on, I decided to spoof the "Special K" cereal logo, with help from Miztrial.

To be honest, I'm really getting bored with being General_K.

Formally I'm Robert, informally I'm Bob. I've been called bobbo derisively so I decided to turn it to my advantage and consider it a compliment. If I ever become sufficiently competent with a computer I'll start using a capital B as in Bobbo.

Kind of complicated. I didn't want to use my real name, but I didn't want a nonsense name either. My last name is hard to understand for Americans, especially on the phone, and when I was a kid I got tired of having to spell it all the time. So, for ordering pizzas and stuff I started using the name of my favorite baseball player of the day, Bob Gibson. That was 36 years ago, so I guess it stuck.

I do use an abbreviated version of my middle name at some other forums, but reserve "Bob G" for here.

My avatar is a wolf. I like wolves.

Nothing too special. I tried a couple of combinations of Rob and they were all taken (that's the trouble with having a popular name). So I went with rocketrobbie because I love anything Space related (especially Wallpapers) and being 33 years old, I've always loved the Space Shuttle. I still remember grades 6, 7, & 8, watching the Space Shuttle launches when they weren't so routine and watching the Challenger disaster in school is something that I will always remember. At Emulator (classic gaming) forums, I go by RetroRob.

Birth name is Ilona...Hungarian name, but I'm not...is pronounced e-lona by Europeans...Americans say i-lona. Got tired (at age 13) of having name screwedup by 99% of the people who know me (adding/subtracting letters)...so I said I will be Lonnie! 53 is the age I was when I joined PC911
BTW...only thing that I don't sign 'Lonnie' is/are driver's license and legal documents...checks, etc are signed as Lonnie
Lonnie

I share the name Michael with a few other regulars. Being of the Irish, once upon a time catholic persuasion, the mickster moniker was a natural.
My 52nd birfday was the 25th of last month. I'm just north of Tampa/Clearwater, FL.
I'd forgotten Ilona was Lonnie. I need to come over to the other 2 Forums more often.

>I share the name Michael with a few other regulars. Being of
>the Irish, once upon a time catholic persuasion, the mickster
>moniker was a natural.
>My 52nd birfday was the 25th of last month. I'm just north of
>Tampa/Clearwater, FL.
>I'd forgotten Ilona was Lonnie. I need to come over to the
>other 2 Forums more often.

I'm at the regular Forum several times a day...to read the threads and sometimes post a question! Have cut down from 17+ Forum websites to 5 now - got tired of reading all the woes re HiJackThis and all the other baddies out there - newbies I can understand their concerns, but most threads being posted at the other websites are done by 'the old pros' that should know better!


Lonnie