How did ya'll get your screen names?

Short version: "Novadak" was a nickname I had in high school.

Long version: High school was really freakin' boring, so my friends and I spent most of our time making stuff up -- planets with languages and different types of creatures and suchlike. The one I made up was called "Novada" -- apply the "ak" to it to denote an inhabitant (I told you we made up the languages), and it becomes "Novadak". The concept turned into a very strange comic strip (in which various characters went around hacking up teddy bears) which I'd draw when I was supposed to be in class. That's how I got the nickname.

The funniest thing was years later when I found out "Novada" was the name of some kind of Swedish computer company. I think I saw one of their monitors in an IKEA catalog or something and freaked out.
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Alan you're exactly right!!
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Bt the YCS will also be good for chopping up the paint cans when empty.
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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
I'm a service technician with Carrier Corp,-chiller mechanic-.
I'm also an ex submariner (SS352). I had to retrieve my Dolphins from the bottom of tall glass filled with several kinds of booze, without stopping. It was a proud moment that I barely remember.
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Well,my SN comes from part of my duties in the U.S. Armed Forces. Scary stuff. Imagine if the public knew how much it happend in the past!
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This has been my "user name" for 50 years. It seemed like more trouble than it was worth to make up a new one for the forums.
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Mine is another one of the more uninteresting names – I have to blame my patents for it, too. But I just like it the way it is, and I was too lazy to come up with a “real” screen name for this forum. Oh, I have thought up a few for some other forums, though; I especially like this one: --[------
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"gtk" short for Gangtok, one of my hometowns, and "guy" 'cos well, I'm one ...

I know, not very interesting.

- Sonam
 
I had a crew in a NC distribution center years ago, made up of almost equal numbers of English, Black and Lumbees (a local tribe which fought for Gov't. recognition for years - finally sucessful). The only exceptions were a very funny, stubborn Cherokee girl, and the Two Bloods boss. I was criticized to distraction by "Upper" management for my loose and undisciplined ways with this bunch. I'd had experience with large operations under heavy, complicated contracts and none of my "superiors" had ever known these pleasures. When the company began to sell to Wal Mart, and our daily trailerload shipping started to equal what we used to do in a week, this bunch not only held up - they outran the overload. I'd been told to add 40% to the crew and replace most of the originals because they had been so badly spoiled. I finally had to add two people. In this atmosphere, my "little sister" was the most innovative person I've ever known for original reasons for needing time (usually Fridays) off. As I recall, we buried one particular aunt several times. Tough old gal. One Monday, she brought me a present from the Robeson Co. Fair (which she had attended the previous Friday) - a small ceramic frog, with a tilted cap, sitting in a rocking chair. She said it had the same expression on its' face as I got when she asked for time off, and I looked just like "An ol' Walosi". Damn name stuck until I left NC, and now it is my SN. The frog is on its own shelf, with my wife's Hummel, to remind me of one of the best groups of people I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

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Apothocary, Your ancesters were Zaparozhian Cossacks? I'm studying Russian and am also in a Russian/slavic club on my campus. One of the things we do is a program of cultural dances from Russia and the Ukraine, including a dance called the Zaparozhets, which is the Cossack's sabre dance that their warriors would do. There are also a number of Ukrainians here in Huntsville, including my professor and advisor, as well as several friends of mine. If you're interested in seeing anything about that, there is a website for the club which I can give you the address for, just get back if you're interested.

Kremeking, you're from Huntsville, too? It seems to me that there are at least four forumites here. I know X-Head and one other forumite (I forget his screen name) live here. Maybe we can talk the others into holding the next Khukuri Convention here. After all, it seems like there are more forumites in north Alabama than anywhere else!
 
Tis true Matt. I am a reborn huntsvillian, no more to tread the rough streets of New York. Khukman has mentioned you before, come to think about it, I haven't seen or heard from him in a while. Wondering how he is doing new kid and rest of the family. And yes, I think it would be great to have a convention here in the "Sweet Home Alabama", get away from the arrid plains of Arizona and the hills of Florida(Though my wife is from that beautiful state). Alright X-head, Matt, Khukman, lets rally the troops, I'm in.
 
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