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Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« on: July 10, 2008, 11:43:15 AM »
Mine is obvious.  I am a grandfather and I shoot.  No I don't shoot grandpas, although I am sure there are some who could use it. grin

How did you come up with yours?
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2008, 11:47:26 AM »
When I first started dating my wife, she liked this video game called "The Lost Vikings" starring Balog, Olaf, and..... err, some other viking whose name I forget. It was a really crappy game, and I used to give her a hard time about it. This was around the time I started hanging out on THR, so I started using Balog as a teasing joke, and it's just stuck ever since.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2008, 11:54:24 AM »
Mine is my email address: tallpine at something.com

So why did I choose that for my email?

"LonePine" was already taken Tongue
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2008, 11:54:44 AM »
When I was in the Navy full beards were permitted. Mine goes almost all the way up to my eyes. Picked up the nickname wolf very quickly. Someone mentioned that I almost looked like a werewolf. Wolf stuck but I liked werewolf better and have used it as my internet handle since way before the internet was cool.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2008, 11:55:38 AM »
It's the name of my old favorite D&D character.

A mage who liked using fire spells to keep kids off his lawn for defensive purposes...  Wink
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2008, 11:56:54 AM »
I used to be from Massachusetts.

I joined THR when I moved up here, and was reading an old post about someone being a Mass-hole...picked it until I came up with a better name...over five years and counting....

I'm Ex-MA Hole on all of the forums I read, so it will be staying for a bit...
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2008, 11:57:18 AM »
Just a South American mammal (predates dire wolves) that's rather endangered that I thought was pretty darned cool. I'd worked with some conservation things about them.

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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2008, 11:58:59 AM »
Quote from: Firethorn on July 10, 2008, 10:55:38 AM
It's the name of my old favorite D&D character.

A mage who liked using fire spells to keep kids off his lawn for defensive purposes...  Wink

If real life was like DnD that'd be me. Except frost spells; less lawn damage/burning your house down, and once they're all slowed down I could go out and push em around. grin
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 11:59:11 AM »
It's my real name.
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2008, 12:00:23 PM »
bob from illinois.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2008, 12:00:56 PM »
I did a random google search and learned that my previous name was apparently an MJ reference.  I wanted to change it quick and I wanted something memorable and bland, that didn't scream "chick on a guy-dominated board" bc that's just odd to me (no offense intended to Ladysmith, just not my style).

I walk the Mackinac Bridge every Labor Day.  It's a nifty Michigan thing.  Ergo the BridgeWalker.

Actually I walk bridges whenever I get the chance, it's just fun.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2008, 12:01:38 PM »
What was your old name?
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2008, 12:02:35 PM »
delta9.  It's fairly obscure.  Until you Google it.  And employers generally always google prospective employees.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2008, 12:05:09 PM »
Among too many other hobbies, I do the high power rocketry thing.  See my avatar over thataway <<<.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2008, 12:18:12 PM »
One of my hobbies is woodorking...

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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2008, 12:20:12 PM »
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One of my hobbies is woodorking...

How do you dork wood?  And how is sawdust made when one dorks wood?  Or do we really want to know?
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2008, 12:22:04 PM »
I like math, and it was the first thing to pop into my head when registering here. It has since become the moniker under which I register for any web forum now. A side benefit is that it usually isn't taken.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2008, 12:22:28 PM »
I got this nickname when I moved from Lilliput to Brobdingnag. 

And believe it or not, I spelled both those names correctly, from memory.  Now if only I could remember some useful stuff. 
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« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2008, 12:26:06 PM »
Fremboe sounds like an actual name, but isn't.  I think it read somewhere that it was a travel writer's nom de plume, but he was E.M. Fremboe..
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2008, 12:26:58 PM »
My "Hollywood" call sign from when I was in the Army in Germany.  6 is always the callsign for the commander/leader, and since I led 2nd Platoon, I was "26".  I've used this from when I first got back in late '91 (on AOL), and it's been my handle ever since.
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2008, 12:29:37 PM »
I had a late-developing birthmark on my leg. When I was seven or so, it was about the size of a half dollar. By the time I got to junior high my leg was covered with thick black hair from about the ankle up to mid-thigh. Some guy said it looked like a monkey's leg, and I started using that as a nickname.

It made me uncomfortable when I was dating but, oddly enough, it pretty much disappeared after I was married.  rolleyes


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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2008, 01:16:06 PM »
I am a graduate physics student.  Plus why would I choose anything else?!?  Physics is everything.   grin  Too bad I suck at math...   angry
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2008, 01:16:29 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on July 10, 2008, 11:29:37 AM
I had a late-developing birthmark on my leg. When I was seven or so, it was about the size of a half dollar. By the time I got to junior high my leg was covered with thick black hair from about the ankle up to mid-thigh. Some guy said it looked like a monkey's leg, and I started using that as a nickname.

It made me uncomfortable when I was dating but, oddly enough, it pretty much disappeared after I was married.  rolleyes



Hmmmm... disappeared only after getting married? Coincidence? One wonders...  cheesy
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Re: Forum names, how did you choose yours?
« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2008, 01:21:51 PM »
My screen name is the same as a medium-sized bedroom community in Snohomish County, 27 miles north of Seattle.  Three guesses as to where I live and therefore how I picked this name.   I use it pretty consistently across the interwebs.
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« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2008, 01:31:59 PM »
I adopted the nickname of Pappy back in high school. I've always been the blacksheep of my family and "Pappy" Boyington (Blacksheep squadron) was the ultimate blacksheep, so it seemed to fit and has stuck ever since.
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