Post by: client32 on September 15, 2006, 10:43:50 AM
Was there such a thread here in the begining days of APS? Do you know where it is?
If not, why did you choose the username you use?
Post by: cosine on September 15, 2006, 10:45:35 AM
Post by: Marnoot on September 15, 2006, 10:49:53 AM
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 15, 2006, 10:54:33 AM
Brad
Post by: Felonious Monk/Fignozzle on September 15, 2006, 11:06:44 AM
Fignozzle is used in 90% of my online identity, including TFL. It's been explained before.
Felonious Monk (with apologies to the originator of bebop jazz, Thelonious Monk) is used in the other 10%, including THR.
Hence, Felonious Fig.
Post by: wingnutx on September 15, 2006, 11:07:12 AM
I added the 'x' on the end when some jerkface on irc started using the same nickname.
Now I use it everywhere.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 15, 2006, 11:25:44 AM
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 15, 2006, 11:27:44 AM
Wingnut, you're not Vietnamese, by chance?
Post by: Declaration Day on September 15, 2006, 11:28:27 AM
Post by: AJ Dual on September 15, 2006, 11:32:55 AM
When going over specs of the PC's with clients, I said "dual floppies", or "dual 5.1.4 & 3 1/2 floppies" etc, and my co-worker thought it was funny.
The AJ part came in because he assumed that everyone with the first name of "Andrew" had the middle name of Jackson after the president. So I became "AJ Dual" in our inter-office banter.
I used to post under my name like some others, however, my last name is your typical SE WI/Milwaukee Polish "Alphabet soup" to most people, so I picked that as it was the only given nickname I could recall that wasn't completely nonsensical or obscene.
AJ Dual kind of brings up subconscious connotations of "Dueling" or perhaps a gunfighter with a two-gun "dual" rig I suppose, so I've stuck with it.
Post by: wingnutx on September 15, 2006, 11:34:54 AM
Post by: client32 on September 15, 2006, 11:35:39 AM
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Felonious Monk (with apologies to the originator of bebop jazz, Thelonious Monk) is used in the other 10%, including THR.
I have a friend that uses blue monk as a screen due to that is his favorite jazz tune.Mine came out a of a day of frustration. I used to manage a computer lab with ~300 PCs running Windows 9x and a Novell 4.x server. I kept having problems with the novell client (aka client32) one day. At the end of the day we fired up quake (I don't remember which version) in one of the rooms. Due to my frustration from the day I used client32. It stuck and have found out there aren't many other people using it.
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I'll have to call Mom and ask.
My mom swears my name came from a book. I still maintain it was from a TV show.
Post by: ilbob on September 15, 2006, 11:36:54 AM
Post by: USP45usp on September 15, 2006, 12:19:48 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 15, 2006, 12:20:18 PM
Post by: wingnutx on September 15, 2006, 12:25:48 PM
I served with a couple of slavic types that ended up with nicknames like T-12 and Y-14, which is the first initial and the number of leters in their name.
Post by: grampster on September 15, 2006, 12:31:36 PM
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 15, 2006, 12:34:36 PM
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When my grandkids were about 6 and 4 they started calling me grampster.
Count yourself lucky. My mother ended up as "Nanky".Brad
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 15, 2006, 12:35:27 PM
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I always wondered how to pronounce "Nguyen".
I served with a couple of slavic types that ended up with nicknames like T-12 and Y-14, which is the first initial and the number of leters in their name.
Gotta love the way soldiers deal with long names. We had a sergeant named Zayasbazan, and we just called him Sergeant Z. One day I said his whole last name, and he made me do it about three more times. Said it sounded just like home. He was Dominican, but raised in Puerto Rico, or the other way around, I don't remember.I served with a couple of slavic types that ended up with nicknames like T-12 and Y-14, which is the first initial and the number of leters in their name.
I think there are different pronunciations of Nguyen, though.
gramps, we all know the reason for your name. You're an old fossil; nough said.
Post by: grampster on September 15, 2006, 12:37:54 PM
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 15, 2006, 12:59:19 PM
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Well it started out Gummy and Gumpy...
The matched set of custom embroidered/engraved/calligraphed gift ideas are almost endless...! 
Brad
Post by: Sylvilagus Aquaticus on September 15, 2006, 06:08:03 PM
Regards,
Rabbit.
Post by: mustanger98 on September 15, 2006, 07:14:47 PM
Over the last eight years, some people have wondered what year/model Ford Mustang I have... I don't. I do have a story though... this one night, my sister's now-ex-boyfriend was at our house and a friend of our's brought her boyfriend over. Sister's ex- drove a then-new mustang and friend's ex- drove an older one that'd been souped up to race. They were very very close to trying to out-bad each other with their cars. My mare was still alive and well then and I was fixing to tell 'em both forget their junkpiles-on-wheels because I had the real deal there's was only named after.
Post by: steveO on September 15, 2006, 07:19:36 PM
Post by: RocketMan on September 15, 2006, 07:49:57 PM
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 15, 2006, 09:16:10 PM
Back when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, a birthmark began to develop on my left leg. It was about the size of a half-dollar coin, and there was some very thick, black hair growing from it.
By the time I got to junior high (and co-ed gym classes), the birthmark had grown from my left ankle all the way up to my mid-thigh. And so did the hair. My left leg had hair as thick as a monkey's.
And, so, to deflect ridicule, I gave myself the nickname "Monkeyleg."
The weirdest part of that whole experience is that it only lasted for as long as I was trying to date girls/young women.
Once I got married, the hair began to disappear. Now there's almost none at all. Even the darkened skin has turned about the same color as the rest of my leg.
Hey, Old Man Upstairs: if you didn't want me fooling around, couldn't You have found a more obvious (and less embarrassing) way to tell me?
Post by: James Fitzer on September 15, 2006, 10:09:59 PM
the VH is a throwback to when I used to be obsessed with Van Halen. Oddly enough, their singer ALSO pressured their guitarist into allowing the use of the last name for the band name.
TheFitz was taken on AIM, when i first started using the name. So i chose this.
Post by: Unisaw on September 15, 2006, 10:14:31 PM
Post by: Iapetus on September 16, 2006, 12:45:16 AM
Iapetus is also a moon of Saturn, and both the ocean and the moon were named after a Titan from Greek mythology.
Post by: HForrest on September 16, 2006, 01:55:08 AM
Post by: ilbob on September 16, 2006, 04:11:02 AM
Quote from: wingnutx
I think there are different pronunciations of Nguyen, though.
I went to school with a guy who had that lat name. he pronounced it new-ee-an.
Post by: Jamisjockey on September 16, 2006, 04:39:06 AM
Jockey: refers to my stature...I'm built like a retired jockey (short and fat)
hence, Jamisjockey
Post by: MillCreek on September 16, 2006, 06:08:50 AM
Post by: grislyatoms on September 16, 2006, 06:32:36 AM
I told a friend that I wanted to be a game warden. Friend then asked if I would be living in a cave in the woods, eating cat tails, granola and dandelions.
I said "No, dummy, I don't want to be a caveman or live like Grizzly Adams or something, I just want to be a game warden."
It stuck, as I also had quite a beard back then. The "play on words" was something I came up with because a BBS would not let me register under "Grizzly Adams", but they accepted grislyatoms.
Thus.
Post by: DrAmazon on September 16, 2006, 08:23:37 AM
Funny that on many forums, I'm "perceived" as male. I must have masuculine punctuation.
Post by: Stickjockey on September 16, 2006, 08:30:15 AM
Post by: p12 on September 16, 2006, 09:28:07 AM
Post by: Mabs2 on September 16, 2006, 10:47:33 AM
357 = favorite caliber.
I made this up back in middle school, many years ago (Now 19), stuck with it ever since. Chances are, if you see an 'mbs357' somewhere, it's me.
I've also gone by The_CCW_Ninja.
This came from a couple of friends of mine in IRC becoming The_BRB_Ninja, and The_AFK_Ninja...
I asked them if I could be The _CCW_Ninja, and they accepted, I bet they still don't know what it means.
Post by: esheato on September 16, 2006, 11:22:58 AM
Edward S. Heaton, abbreviated.
Yes, I'm also as caucasian as they come.
Ed
Post by: Mabs2 on September 16, 2006, 01:57:14 PM
Post by: gunsmith on September 16, 2006, 03:52:21 PM
(that place sucks now) for some reason the liberals hated the name so I kept it.
I had to put a disclaimer on my gun forums since I really know zip about gunsmithing.
I used to recieve death threats all the time from craigslist and I got hacked a bunch too, so that was another reason to keep my old name so i would be annonymous (well kinda)
Post by: SpookyPistolero on September 16, 2006, 06:08:18 PM
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Post by: El Tejon on September 17, 2006, 12:58:40 PM
It was given to me by El Salvadoreans (apparently), but quickly adopted by the Mexican community (who must have thought it was funny) who called out the name in court.
I thought it amusing since I've never had a nickname (the nickname "you jerk" given to me by high school girls never caught on) and adopted it. My house is Alcazar del Tejon.
Post by: Fly320s on September 17, 2006, 01:42:27 PM
You can call me Tony, if you like.
Post by: grampster on September 17, 2006, 03:41:56 PM
Heh, heh. I always ascribed your screen name to you riding a horse in your pajamas. heh heh.
Post by: BaxterGriffin on September 18, 2006, 06:24:25 PM
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 18, 2006, 07:58:46 PM
Post by: StopTheGrays on September 19, 2006, 05:35:30 AM
Post by: SpookyPistolero on September 19, 2006, 07:04:43 AM
While we're on a relevant topic, I've always wondered where the first line of your sig comes from (the 'he aroused, turned the page and went back to sleep' part). Care to share?
Post by: richyoung on September 19, 2006, 07:39:06 AM
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They were very very close to trying to out-bad each other with their cars. My mare was still alive and well then and I was fixing to tell 'em both forget their junkpiles-on-wheels because I had the real deal there's was only named after.
I hate to burst your bubble, but the CAR was not named after the HORSE - regardless of the horse's presence on the grill, which was doubtless a ploy to sell straigh-6/slushbox coupes and convertibles to female secrateries who weren't quote out of the "I want a pony" stage yet. The car was inspired by a concept car that was inspired by the famous WWII fighter aircraft. This is why the original car's grill opening is contoured the way it is, to mimic the opening of the aircraft's belly scoup. There are other styling cues lifted from the aircraft as well.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 19, 2006, 07:46:09 AM
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Grampster-
While we're on a relevant topic, I've always wondered where the first line of your sig comes from (the 'he aroused, turned the page and went back to sleep' part). Care to share?
Yes, do.
While we're on a relevant topic, I've always wondered where the first line of your sig comes from (the 'he aroused, turned the page and went back to sleep' part). Care to share?
Post by: Parker Dean on September 19, 2006, 09:05:53 AM
Post by: crt360 on September 19, 2006, 11:03:37 AM
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I hate to burst your bubble, but the CAR was not named after the HORSE - regardless of the horse's presence on the grill, which was doubtless a ploy to sell straigh-6/slushbox coupes and convertibles to female secrateries who weren't quote out of the "I want a pony" stage yet. The car was inspired by a concept car that was inspired by the famous WWII fighter aircraft. This is why the original car's grill opening is contoured the way it is, to mimic the opening of the aircraft's belly scoup. There are other styling cues lifted from the aircraft as well.
Thanks for the interesting info, rich. I've been into WWII fighters since I was a little kid and around a lot of older Mustangs (Ford) and I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that the car design was inspired by the P-51.
Post by: grampster on September 19, 2006, 11:40:41 AM
When I was a freshman in HS, the yearbook that year (1958) posted a quote under the pictures of the seniors. Those quotes were to be a summary of the person and his/her personality. There was a fellow that had that quote under his picture. He was rather quiet and unassuming. Never talked a lot, graduated by the skin of his teeth. Always had a souped up car with hollywood pipes and flashy accouterments, wore his hair in a ducktail, blue jeans (rolled up) a t-shirt with his cigs rolled in the sleave and engineer boots. He was the quintisential greaser/hood. He never bothered anyone and no one bothered him. He hung out at the local soda bar (pre McDonald's) and was a pinball wizzard.
He was also one of those fellows that we younger colts aspired to be like someday. That quote also sums up my general outlook on life these days, interspersed with a rather nonplussed wonderment at some of the grandios naivete exhibited by folks that should know better.
I also find myself literaly living out that sig line when sitting up late reading a fine book.
Post by: mustanger98 on September 19, 2006, 11:44:14 AM
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I hate to burst your bubble, but the CAR was not named after the HORSE - regardless of the horse's presence on the grill, which was doubtless a ploy to sell straigh-6/slushbox coupes and convertibles to female secrateries who weren't quote out of the "I want a pony" stage yet. The car was inspired by a concept car that was inspired by the famous WWII fighter aircraft. This is why the original car's grill opening is contoured the way it is, to mimic the opening of the aircraft's belly scoup. There are other styling cues lifted from the aircraft as well.
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Thanks for the interesting info, rich. I've been into WWII fighters since I was a little kid and around a lot of older Mustangs (Ford) and I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that the car design was inspired by the P-51.
As a kid, I spent a lot of time studying WW2 fighter too... when I could find info as that was before the internet as we know it. I didn't relate the two but wondered about so many machines being called "mustang". I was under the impression the P-51 was named after the horse too just like I was under the impression the car was. If the car was named after the P-51, then there's a lot of us that fell for the idea that it was named after the horse. So, the marketing ploy worked. But I don't recall seeing the concept car the mustang was based on to have seen the design features that came from the P-51.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 19, 2006, 11:54:42 AM
Post by: mustanger98 on September 19, 2006, 11:58:05 AM
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richyoung is just lying about the Mustang because he is a tool of the bush administration and works for the Haliburton subsidiary that bombed WTC 7.
I guess we need to have a few stacks of pancakes and group-defy him then.
Post by: SADShooter on September 19, 2006, 12:03:04 PM
Post by: Antibubba on September 19, 2006, 09:18:35 PM
I've seen some great screen names, but my favorite is still "Grisly Atoms". Man, I wish I'd thought that up! About three puns and a vivid image, all in one neat package. A punner is fortunate to get two or three that good in a lifetime (it's like a flawless diamond).
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 20, 2006, 03:11:08 AM
Post by: SADShooter on September 20, 2006, 06:16:06 AM
I probably won't think about that tomorrow when I'm eating leftover horseradish mashed potatoes with "mini-me"atloaf, or Friday when I'm chomping sushi with lots of wasabi, all the while fantasizing about kimchi.
What say, folks. Shall we start referring to fistful as "Bland Boy"?
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 20, 2006, 06:24:44 AM
Post by: richyoung on December 27, 2006, 06:09:44 PM
But I don't recall seeing the concept car the mustang was based on to have seen the design features that came from the P-51.
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=20644
has an article with pic. FWIW most of the "fighter plane" styling cues supposedly had to do with how the interior and instruments were designed and laid out.