What's in a name?

[JoeyGee]

OK, I stole this topic from another board I frequent, but I thought it was a good one.

What is the story behind your user name? Some are acutely obvious--those boring souls that chose the name their parents gave them--where's the fun and mystery in that, LOL. So, share with us all why you are called what you are called on BT3Central.

JoeyGee was a nickname given to me by a former business partner--Joe, last name sarts with a G...it was around 1995 and message boards/chat rooms first became really popular, so I just used that. FWIW, it started as just JoeyG, but my favorite message board (the same I stole this idea from) changed hosts and screwed up their database so I needed to re-create my name. Too much info, I know.

[rosesunkist]

Well, for me I was given the nickname Sunkist(like the orange) in middle school. So I just combined my last name and nickname, as it makes it mostly unique username. Don't ask why I had that nickname, IDK, because no one ever told me why I got it.....

[cabinetman]

My user name is my real name, because at birth, my family was very poor and needed furniture. No, really, that's a lie. We didn't need furniture. That's a lie, we did need furniture, but they didn't name me that. The truth is my user name is an obvious one.



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[Whaler]

My user name came from my love of Boston Whaler boats.

[scmhogg]

scmhogg is my real name. Stephen Clive Malcolm Hogg.

I hated my parents when I was little. The first day of school was always a nightmare.

Steve

[25]

25 was an accident the first time I made one after the first couple didn't work so I hit some random keys.

[leehljp]

I chose my moniker of "leehljp" back in 91/92. I hated the long number system for members of Compuserve that I joined in '89 and appreciated the ability to choose my own, which AOL offered. At that time AOL was primarly a Mac community.

When I joined AOL, I chose a name with my last name and then the initial of LOML and my first name, followed by the JP for Japan. I quit AOL in the late '90s and kept the moniker.

At that time, I did not consider a seperate one for me and LOML. Only when LOML got her own computer did we start using seperate names.

[gsmittle]

Mine is my first initial and last name. Boring I know.... I started using it on another board (pre WWW days) because I figured if I was gonna give people my opinion, I'd better be ready to take credit. Or blame.

My students call me Smit-Dawg. I choose to believe it's a term of affection.

g.

[Pappy]

Pappy was hung on me by a 1stSgt I worked for late in my career. One of my favorite Marines of all time was Col. Greg "Pappy" Boyington, CO of VMA-214 (Blacksheep) in during WWII. At the time I was Sqdn Gunny and answered directly to the CO and 1stSgt. Like Col. Boyington, I seemed to get done what others couldn't by using contacts and bypassing normal channels.

[Ken Weaver]

I use my real name because my nickname from college days is vulgar.

[bigstick509]

Nickname

Mine came from my ball playing days, the 509 was added to match my main e-mail address name and is my DOB.

[MoldnMaker]

Obvious I think. It's what I do............at work.

[Jaden]

The name "Jaden" was a mistake several years ago, when coming up with a login name for work, I chose the name of the goblin king from the movie Labyrinth (a childhood favorite movie). Unfortunately, due to aging or a few burnt out synapses not firing on cue, I remembered the name as "Jaden", but, unfortunately for me his name was "Jareth". So, I guess, in conclusion, I HAVE NO BLOODY IDEA WHERE THE NAME CAME FROM. But, since I liked the way the name sounded it stuck with me.

And the name can't be to awful bad, my sister-in-law liked the name enough that she used it for my nieces middle name.


Steve

[Scottydont]

I am a big fan of the Austin Powers movies with many memeorable one liners. My sig has a audio file link highlighting the line featuring Scottydon't.

[JTimmons]

scmhogg is my real name. Stephen Clive Malcolm Hogg.

I hated my parents when I was little. The first day of school was always a nightmare.

Steve

You hated yours! Try the first name of JOCK, that's right Jock as in strap and itch!!! I spent many days in the principle's office after roll call each morning from 1st to 12th grade for fighting.