Origins of Odd User Names

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Having seen a discussion of user names in a thread, I thought it might be nice to find out how some folks got their user names.

My user name (Nickle) is actually my "DeadHorse MC" name.

At the Adirondack Side Car Rally in 1993, I was sitting at a picnic table, with my back to the table behind me. I didn't wear a belt back then, and had a moderate amount of alcohol in my system (I wasn't going to drive anyways). I felt a draft behind my back and heard a nervous giggle. I turn around, and the woman behind me turned red as a Snap On tool box. I knew something had been done, and I knew who did it. The next morning, I found a nickle in my underwear when I woke up. (She held the coin so long and was so nervous, it warmed) The woman had already left. Now, I should mention that I knew her husband fairly well, but not her. 2 weeks later, at another bike rally, I see him. I dash inside, and ask "Is Barb here?", he says yes. About an hour later, I see her in the pavillion, and take a nickle out of my wallet, then strut in, click the nickle onto the table (loudly, like a German does it), and say "I'm sick of being the butt of all the nickle jokes you can crack." Everyone, but Barb, busts out laughing, she again turns red. I got her laughing over the course of the weekend. Now, she'd forgotten my real name, so I was referred to as Nickle from then on.

Ross, that Barb is Barb Kipp, the BMWMOA Ambassador from the Albany, NY area, now a really close friend. I don't know if you may know her.
 
Well.... Mine is pretty odd..

Adam_MA

My name is Adam and I'm from MA!

I actually used to use another name, but I thought it best to leave it behind at another group I used to go to. I joined another hobby and it was kind of important that I have something to signify where I lived so I just used Adam_MA.


Adam
 
Well, my name is Christopher, and being that I really don't like to be called Chris because that's not my name. Some friends started calling me C-pher for short. It's stuck. I mean, everyone calls me C-pher.

Well, my Father-in-law calls me C'ph. So it's even shorter now.

But that's how I got it.
 
Glenn named one of his 4-wheeling vehicles Wildweasel,so all our vehicles that we wheel with are that,and he has used that name on all the boards,so I figured it was easier to go by Mrs,and everyone would know who i was married to. I go by that on all the boards I'm on.
 
Mine is pretty easy

CD - my initials
Kayak - one of my primary hobbies. Althoug, not as much over the last two years. :(

I've used that on sever boards & as one of my eamil accounts for years.
 
Ham Slam has nothing to do with anything. It is kind of weird I admit. two years ago I started reading packing.org and just picked the first thing that came to mind. Now I am stuck with it. But belive me it has nothing to do with anything.
 
In college I signed up to www.slashdot.com as johnjay. Jay was the third author of the Federalist Papers, which we had just studied in school, and I liked what he wrote. Since then, I've just kept the name out of habit. I've gradually decided that it's a bad choice, though, for several reasons:

1) It's a real name, so I'm casually using a name that someone else might have a better claim to.
2) Although it's a real name, it's not My name. So people think I'm named John and I have to reveal my True Identity, which is a needlessly cloak-and-dagger exchange. (fyi, first name: Jeremiah)
3) I need to reread The Federalist Papers! I can't remember what he wrote that I liked so much. This last one may actually be a benefit. Occasionally I'm called out on account of my username. It's not a bad thing to have to reread The Federalist Papers every so often.
 
Ham Slam said:
Ham Slam has nothing to do with anything. It is kind of weird I admit. two years ago I started reading packing.org and just picked the first thing that came to mind. Now I am stuck with it. But belive me it has nothing to do with anything.
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Except, of course, on a profound psychological level. Perhaps you can talk it over sometime with Dr Freud and let us know what he thinks. [wink]

Ken
 
KMaurer said:
Ham Slam said:
Ham Slam has nothing to do with anything. It is kind of weird I admit. two years ago I started reading packing.org and just picked the first thing that came to mind. Now I am stuck with it. But belive me it has nothing to do with anything.
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Except, of course, on a profound psychological level. Perhaps you can talk it over sometime with Dr Freud and let us know what he thinks.
[wink]

Ken
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yeah it may have somthing to do with that fat chick I slammed back in High school
 
I think I've explained this before, but...

Well, physically, I'm short, stocky, and bearded. I work in metal (Dad taught me how to use the tools in his machine shop starting before I hit my teens), and my shop (read: basement) is below grade (underground). When I was in the SCA, I built armor. So my nickname for the last twenty-odd years has been Dwarf. (In fact, my first riding partner and I used to joke that we were the 8th and 9th dwarves: Sleazy and Slimy.)

One friend of mine used to get silly and refer to me as the "dwarven one". So... when "dwarf" was taken on some board or another - might have been Yahoo, which shows how long ago this was, I used "dwarven1", which has the advantage of being difficult to spam if the spammer is using a dictionary attack. Not impossible, but I don't get that much spam.

Ross
 
Ham Slam said:
Ham Slam has nothing to do with anything. It is kind of weird I admit. two years ago I started reading packing.org and just picked the first thing that came to mind. Now I am stuck with it. But belive me it has nothing to do with anything.
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Frankly, I don't believe you because I listen to Howard Stern [twisted] [lol]
 
Oh and the rest of you have weird handles. Mine is totally normal. No explanation needed... [roll]

But in all sincerity I have pet rats. There are actually breeds of rats (who knew?) and one of the breeds is Siamese- named for the similarity of their markings to those of a Siamese cat.

I had a Siamese (Laoshu, now deceased) rat at the time that I made my first e-mail account and thought it would be funny to use. Now it's my all purpose handle and e-mail address. People always think I'm talking about two rats stuck to each other. Which is kinda funny too. But it's just a type of rat I had.
 
SiameseRat said:
one of the breeds is Siamese- named for the similarity of their markings to those of a Siamese cat.
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The mind boggles at the thought of a rat that looks like a Siamese cat...

SiameseRat said:
People always think I'm talking about two rats stuck to each other.
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That was certainly what I was thinking!

[singing] We are Siamese if you please! We are Siamese if you don't please!

Ross
 
Well all my friends call me B.J. they are my initials. Ya go ahead and laugh, like I haven't been hearing it since 3rd grade. Anyways Typeo1313 came from one of my favorite bands. Type-O-Negative and 1313 is a number they out on a lot of there merchandise. I have been using this screen name in multiple accounts for almost 10 years.
 
We used to go to quite a few Bruins games and sit at center ice in the first balcony. My friends used to say how much I looked like Rick Middleton, especially from the balcony where his bald spot was more obvious. My friends just started calling me nifty which was Rick's nickname.
 
Significance of YOUR user name?

Here is my story, what's yours?

My name is Andrew Resse (pronounced Reese, like the candy) My whole life, people called me Reese's Pieces, So......Andypieces is my user name.
 
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Back in the day I use to help out with HKDrummer19's band. I worked as a salesman and came from work in a suit. As I walked into the room one of the band members says "look at _______ he's all Business" and the name stuck. If you knew the group of guys getting a nickname that didn't have any reference to animal genitalia you were doing good.
 

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