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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: jimbo on June 07, 2010, 03:08:34 am
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Most of us use a user name, any reason and where did you get yours from.
I use Jimbo because there's so many people named Jim [my name] my birth name is James but I have always been called Jim, My daughter Susan used called me Jimbo some times when she was a teenager, and thats why I use it.
Where did yours come from??????
Jimbo
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My property, Cattle stud & Dog breeding name is Wandandian( pronounced Wan-dan-dian). A legacy from my late Husband. So I have shortened it for the net where I am WandaScroller, W Gardener, W caller, W Pixie(my extra special dog), W photographer etc. depending on the site.
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Both my grandchildren when young could not say grandpa it was always grampa so the name stuck...Paul ;D
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Russ is short for Russell, [C] first letter of my last name. Don't ask me why I bracket the C, just do.
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I think mine is easy the beard gives it away (getting whiter by the day).
I have always had a beard (not as a child) and friends and some family started calling me Wizard that stuck for a number of years until I required an internet name and address and so created a whole new identity just 4 the net "Merlin Ambrosius" Welsh loosely translated (immortal).
Merlin
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University of Florida - Gators - I just doesn't get any better. Proud to be a "GATOR"
Happy Scrolling
Bill
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My name is Chris, my mother calls me Christopher (usually if she's mad). My friends nick named me Crusty. They say I'm a bit of a clown. Krusty the Clown from the simpsons. My friends kids call me Uncle Crusty. It has stuck with me for a long time now
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sp_343...it's my badge number for the Minnesota State Patrol. SP(State Patrol) 343 (me)...easy for me to remember, since it is like a second name.
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I use my real name on scrolling forums, but other sites, I go by the name of DBZMOM. Dragon Ball Z. I got hooked years ago when it hit the United States and have collected every DBZ Beckett magazine, cards, toys, movies, and a couple of shirts.
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I was just not thinking when I started here so used my real name.
Usually I go by OFLOND. Old Fat Lady Of North Dakota
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I'm too stuck up and mysterious to tell you the story behind my screen name :P
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;D In my case, I have not been looking far, it is simply my real name my real name to contiguous. I am always asked why we should hide behind a nickname when you have nothing to be ashamed! ... ;D
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I chose boxmaker to give everyone an idea as to what I enjoy doing on the scroll saw, but I am known as Mark.
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Well...I have a beard. My beard is gray. Hence "GrayBeard"...I add the 'tilde's' front and back just cause I like them!
~~~GrayBeard~~~
Other places i am known as "~~~GrampedStl~~~" ... I'm a grampa and I was born in St. Louis.
And when I joined the 'internet' crowd everywhere I signed up "GrampEd" was taken.
~~~Gramped Stl~~~
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Hey Merlin you can't be a wizard ther is all ready one in NZ, [I used to know the Duke of Wellington].
Using another name is noot hiding ones identity it is to stop confusion how many Jims ars there on this sight a lot I would say, other forums no one can use the same name, I also like the way some of you choose your name, I use my full name for my e-mail, some say I shouldn't but why not.
Jimbo
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dgman used to be my standard password for online sites until they started requiring more digits and numbers. dg for Dan Gallo, and I don't know where man comes from. ::)
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Cause "your the "man" Dan."
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Thank you Cherie! ::)
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Enjoying the "whys" of screen names. I started using Crabbyboater on a different board a few years ago, and just used it again when I joined here. The reason is that I owned a boat, and really enjoyed going out crabbing here on Puget Sound near Seattle. The picture is of me and a grandson with a crab he caught. I recently sold the boat, which is why I took up scrolling as a new hobby. No, I'm really not crabby at all! Real name is John. I'm also known as Grandpa John on others, but there are enough Grandpas out there already.
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;) I am also under the nickname KNOWN "Peintclopat. Funny nicknames you go say I chose to function Peinture, Cloet, Patrick!... ;)
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My nickname is simply the afrikaans abbreviations voor david or dawid as it spelled there. So dawie would actually be davy here. My nephew calls me that so it's like a second name. He somethimes calls me DavyKroket and have used that as screenname as well elsewhere. A Kroket is a dutch snack which I love.
David
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When I come out of the garage, my grand daughter always says "You have dusty knees grampa"
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Jimbo that other wizard in NZ is really only a Professor at the Canterbury University. "The Wizard of Christchurch". I'm the real deal. LOLOLOLOL.
Merlin
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dankc908 - dan is my 1st name, k is my middle initial, c is my last name, 908 is a random number I picked up YEARS ago!
Dan
PS - All the variations of "Dan" were long gone by the time I appeared on most sites!
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A few years ago before I injured my neck and back, I loved white water rafting. We went rafting every weekend all summer for several years. My problem was I was getting ejected from the raft on a frequent basis when we first learned how to navigate the river. Hence "DUNK" and it stuck.
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On other sites I use the name "Steve838", which is my first name and the number of a restaurant I used to manage in another lifetime. When Steve started this site, I figured Steve838 would be too confusing so I called myself "AnotherSteve".
Steve
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No brainier KEN IN LEXINGTON.
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[Quote author = Dawie link = topic = 1181.msg8393 # msg8393 date = 1275977622]
Mon surnom est tout simplement l'abr?viation afrikaans voor David ou Dawid comme il l'?peautre. Alors Dawie serait effectivement Davy ici. Mon neveu me demande qui c'est comme un deuxi?me nom. Il somethimes m'appelle DavyKroket et ont utilis? cela comme screenname aussi bien ailleurs. Un Kroket est un snack n?erlandais que j'aime.
David
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Ha! ... In my childhood, I knew a davy croket in small adventure books ... He was a trapper in Canada who are fighting gangstert. Of course the real story of Davy croket and any other, because it seems he really existed! ...
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Yeh I know Merlin, haven't about him of late and also the Duke he dissapeared of the scene years ago, my wife used to work with him thats how I know him
Jimbo
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Cloetpatrick,
I think my nephew read those books to, so did I. They are nice so I don't mind him calling me that even if the spelling is different.
David
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Everyone has such interesting names. I love how we all came about them.
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My name is Ken Van Winkle...RIP comes from the famous story of Rip Van Winkle...CHIEF comes from the fact that I'm a retired Navy Senior Chief...Thus, Ripchief.
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So did you sleep while on the ship? LOL.
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As I started to get "older" all of our friends children (the polite ones anyway) would always call me "Mr. Ledbetter". I would tell them that my DAD was "Mr. Ledbetter" so just call me Mike. Still being polite they insisted in calling me "Mr. Mike", so now even their parents and alot of others call me Mr. Mike.
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when i was still doing construction work most of the work i would do was roofing and shingling.
one of the neighboring town had a hail storm and a couple of friends of mine wanted their roofs done.
well the crew that i had really to kick butts on roof so we would fly when on the roof. one of the local carpenters
came by one day and watched us work and started to say we look like superman the way we flew around the roof.
hench came the nickname "supershingler".
i have got out of the shingling business but the name just stuck. i now work in a lumber yard so i let everyone else to the physical work i just write up the orders.
kendall
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My nick comes from the fact i live in beautiful Cornwall UK, land of legend, mystery and smuggling (as immortalised in Daphne du Maurier's book "Jamaica Inn" which is just a few miles from my home) and where the Piskies live (little folk you don't often see), Piskies are known for their cheerful nature and playful mischievousness, they also bring good luck, i'm not exactly little but i am mostly cheerful and love to have a bit of fun!
So thats why i'm cornishpisky!
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Merlin, the real Merlin is believed to have been Welsh and has connections with Cornwall through Uther Pendragon and later his son Arthur who became King Arthur and is believed to have lived here in Cornwall after being brought ashore at Tintagel as an infant by Merlin.
Ok, history lesson over, please forgve my rambling on LOL
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When I was a volunteer firefighter I saw a picture of a firefighter fighting a blaze through the doorway. The caption under the picture said something about fire being a living breathing dragon and the firefighter was lord over that dragon so hence the name Dragonlord. I have later learned that Dragonlordwas also a fictional charector in many books and a line of fantasy collectors knives. The 85 at the end of my mick is just the first digits of my zip code since Dragonlord is already used by someone.
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When I was a kid there was a radio serial called "Jamaica Inn" about the smugglers, it used scare the living day lights out of me
Jimbo
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i dont use a user name cause people usually give me one after they read something i post. :D so why would i take that away from them?
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Dragonlord85....
With your obvious computer skills i was wondering if you are related to "ElfLord" on "NCIS"???
~~~GrayBeard~~~
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As you can see at the bottom my name is Pete. Try entering that when you register. :) I might end up as being Pete23 by the time I get done so just use whatever pops into my head at the time. Chips was what popped into my head this time. It's a lot better than some of the things I've been called.
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Rightarm came from a manager I had when I was 16 y/o, working as a stockboy at a Woolco Dept Store here in Terre Haute. The name stuck. When I went on the Fire Dept. a couple of guys I had worked with at Woolco, were Firefighters, and my nickneame carried over. Dave 8)
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I guess I was just too excited to get registered here when Steve created the forums. I didn't stop to get creative. At least Becky is not too common a name so I don't typically have to add a bunch or numbers or anything after it on niche message boards.
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My wife used to have a hair dresser named Becky a lovely girl but she moved on and is now selling shoe in her own business, thanks for your comment
Jimbo
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There was a time when people call me "Picsou". That was when I fesais CB (amateur radio).
Every child, I doted adventures of Mickey and his familly swarm. The character I was so Prefair Picsou, but I personally have never been stingy with him.
This is why in CB, I call fesais Picsou. For very long distance communications, my name was P.C.O that meant Uncle Picsou.
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GWhit is just short for Gordon Whitlock.
100 years ago, when my younger sister was in high school, she used to write under the name TWhit, which fit her well. She still writes under different names.
Gordon
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I had a Boxer named Shissta (shy-sta). The greatest dog ever. He died several years ago so I took the name for myself. Use it all the time now.
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a type of steel from sweden used in the making of bandsaws. as a saw doc it seemed suitable
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My wife has a few names for me,,,,,, But I don't think I should post them.
:o :o :o
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OK Folks: Remember some one asked. My real name is Vinson Burke Faulkner. My teachers ALWAYS got the first name wrong, they wanted to spell it "Vincent" - so I changed it to Vince - since Vins sounded stupid ! The BURKE came about because that was the doctors last name that delivered my father and me. The FAULKNER is an OLD English name - which was what the called the person that kept the birds for the Kings - Falconer. See way more then you wanted to know. LOL
Vince
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I go by EclipseScroller on the net. I use that because I do all my cutting with an Eclipse scrollsaw. Real first name is Dan.
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Thats a good one, may change mine to excalibur
Jimbo
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How long did it take you to grow that beard? I'd love to see what I would look like with one like that.
Jimbo that other wizard in NZ is really only a Professor at the Canterbury University. "The Wizard of Christchurch". I'm the real deal. LOLOLOLOL.
Merlin
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When I first got on the internet I used the screen name artistic_cowboy30. Seem a little lame, but to explain it, I feel I am artistic, the _ was to seperate the words, cowboy...just 'cause and the 30 is how old I was when I discovered (or could afford to access) the internet.
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Well I could tell some great yarn about Joesawdust being my real name, because I came from a long line of world famous scrollers but that ain't so. I was looking for a catchy name for the domain for my website when I set it up and Gregsawdust just didn't do anything for me. BTW my real name is Greg.
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I work as a set up man for cold headers.( I make fasteners)
34natl is the machine size and brand. Its the only name I
could think of that nobody had.
Mike
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1089 members and only 55 have names you all must be called some thing dont be shy
Jimbo
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Well, OK. I call myself "Rapid Roger" because my name is Roger and I used to race enduro Go Karts and got the nick name from the people that I used to beat on the track. ;) Besides, when I first got started on the scroll saw, I was turning things out so fast that the family was overwelmed with all my "gifts" and told me to slow down because it was affecting the forrests in Kansas!! ::)
Rog
PS we don't have any forrests in Kansas. :D :D
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Roger... Is that like the "mountain removal project" in North Dakota? ;D