How did ya'll get your screen names?

Kamagong, that is a nice wood. I have a Celtic leaf-blade sword with a brass and macassar ebony handle.

billpaxton, I thought that was your name! I didn't think you were THE billpaxton though.
OF course you never know.... I've heard that some celebrities like to go into chat rooms as aliases because they can be anonymos...

Rob
 

Well, let's see. I'm 5 feet, no inches tall.
Have a wrinkled up old face, ocassionally use
a walking stick and funny do I talk.

Also lurk no more I.
 
My SN is my old last held rate/grade as a member of the US Submarine community.
QM stands for the Quartermaster rating (job) and it's a navigational job not a supply job like the groundpounders keep asking me.
3 stands for my rank/paygrade. 3rd Class Petty Officer (E-4)
SS stands for Submarine Warfare Qualified. Every submariner when they arrive on their boat, be they newly enlisted or a regular old Chief with 20 years in, has to learn atleast the basics to every system on the sub. From the hydraulics to the ventilation, the reactor cooling systems to how the sanitary tanks get pumped/blown out. When you've gotten all the required signatures on your Qual Card, you are then sat in front of a review board of 1 officer, a chief, and 1 other enlisted man; and quizzed on everything. Damage Control, Weapons Systems, the works. Even diagrams are drawn to show how the systems interact. (A BIG pain in the butt) But it's all worth it since as soon as the Captain signs off on the last line of your card and pins those shiny silver dolphins on your chest...the greatest thing is allowed to you......you are allowed into the crew's lounge to watch movies without anyone yelling and complaining about a non-qual NUB watching flicks instead of out learning the boat.

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Welcome to the Cantina, Other Yoda.

And thanks to showing how your name was pronounced, Yvsa. I had wondered about it for a long time.

Bob

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The Milk Snake: Beautiful, harmless, good-natured, eats venomous snakes for lunch.
 

Thanks Bill. I've been known to chew the fat.
I've lurked for a wee bit to get to know a little about
the "characters" on this forum.
Quite a bunch of bananas with a fondness
for blades, I should fit in nicely.

Alan (aka: The Other Yoda & Dances with Beers)
 
My screen name actualy comes from one of my other loves. Paintball. Every one on a tourney team has a name of choice. Since my beloved SE Angel is my most used and loved marker, I became ArchAngel. Strange how we come up with nicknames sometimes.

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Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. G.Liddy
 
Well, Mc is an abreviation of my last name:McCaskill. cld is an abreviation of my clan name:MaCleod(no highlander jokes please). And,778 is an abreviation of my birthdate: 07/07/78. Creating a screen name at 2 am lends itself to overthought and often pointless creativity
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Mccld778, I believe we are from the same clan. Harris, Lewis, and Skye am I right? Started with Olaf the Black, last of the Norse kings of the Isle of Mann, left his sons the above islands, etc.?

I've my family traced back to Caskey of Ballymoney, ten miles south of Bushmills. Caskey is a sept of MacLeod, and MacDonald was a peer of the Eire, not Scotland. It was too amazing to be coincidence that my dad's name was Donald Lewis Slate and the Slate penninsula of Skye is home to clan Donald, the next isle north of sky is Lewis, and Harris the last stronghold of MacLeod where the Caskeys came from.

Drop me a line at my email, russlate@gbis.com if you would, you sound like you might know some things that might help me out.



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"Ayo Ghorapani!"
 
Apothecary as I am a pharmacist.

In my previous incarnation known as Kozak, this comes from my Ukrainian ancestry and refers to the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Harry
 
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Welcome to the Cantina Alan and anyone else I may have missed.
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It seems like this forum has really been growing lately and that's a nice thing.
It just makes the fun of an UBDOTD that much more intense.
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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Mine is a character from one of my favorite movies, "Out of Africa". The character played by Robert Redford is called Dennis Finch-Hatton. Not sure of the spelling so I go by finchatton. In fact I liked the movies so much that I read the book, but maybe If I can ever find it I'll be able to spell it right! Finch-Hatton is a Great White Hunter in Africa during the turn of the century and so on...Don't know why I like this movies as much as I do But I Sure like this movie!!!
 
my brother in law gave me my screen name while he was setting up my first computer. I was too busy picturing myself hurtling thru cyberspace at fantastic speeds to bother with such details. He chose that name because I enjoy mochi, the tasty Japanese holiday food made by pounding glutinous sticky rice with big wooden mallets. Somebody had already taken Mochiman so I became M-1.
 
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I've lurked for a wee bit to get to know a little about
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Hey!!!!...... Wait a minute!!!!..... Alan called us all "CHARACTERS"!!!!!

Boy do we _Resemble_ that Remark!!!!
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LMRRAO!!!!

But coming from `The Other Yoda'?!?!? What a character!!!!
I _remember_ Yoda.
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(The original) He used to post here, I think, but had to get back. I think he bought a 22" AK Kothimoda after Tsimi `Researched' it for him.
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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Thanks everyone!! We learn neat things about each other everyday! Pineapple, we should have a talk about SIG's some day. My wife shoots a 239 in 9mm also! We've owned them all and SIG's just out perform most others! Also welcome to all the new folks!!!!

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Chris B.
 
Great thread!

My screen name was chosen to work as a disclaimer for rumblings. I wanted the SN to be short, easy to remember, and, makes people smile. Above all, it seemed to be a nice description of myself.

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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
 
Yvsa, I'm *sure* the Original Yoda appreciated
your "research". I just ordered something called a
"YCS"? Probably not that well designed but
it could be useful for prying open old paint
cans or something. Just tying to help Uncle to
unload some old dust-covered stock.

Thanks you all for the "warm" welcome
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Alan (still short and good looking)
 
My name is a reference to what I did for about 12 years of my blessed life. I was a Pastry Chef in New York City specializing in French pastry art. That was before I got sense and left the city for the quietude of "Bubba Land" also quaintly known as Alabama.

Seems like a lifetime ago now, though no one here seems to understand and accept that I am no longer running a kitchen. Still do some carriage trade catering once in a while, but now wholly given over to Computer graphics at the big NASA. Strange change isn't it?

Wife still leary about the screen name, especially when I sign on @Aol. Keeps saying something about giving the wrong impression to women online and inviting unnecessary questions.....
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......come to think of it, she has had a couple of strange encounters when she has signed on using my screen name.....But for the life of me, I can't understand why.......
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Fact is I love her to death, and I kinda like my handle, since I gave so much of my life to the culinary arts........so you can understand my love for BIG SHARP KNIVES.......That's all folks....
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