What's in a name?

ALFAHOLIC..........you figure it out:p

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300Bucks seemed to tell it all.......the Buck models and if I count on my fingers and toes, oh heck I can't count that high.....I can run but I can't hide, I sign the stuff I write in the Buck Collectors Club news letter.....

Craig H./300Bucks
 
After sobering up all most ten years ago I realized how much I have to be grateful for. That is why my user name is Grateful.
 
About 10 years ago there was a group of us here that hung around in a Chatt room. Many of us were close friends who only saw each other at shows or rare occasions. There were as many makers in the group as collectors. This was almost an every evening gathering of good folks. As time went by, we became pretty close. Even now I have never come close to laughing as hard by what was going on over the net as I did many evenings with that gang.

Anyway, through various efforts that we were undertaking, these crusty codgers started calling themselves Bastids as an enigma. (A name made up so to speak from a couple of the makers.)

Up until then I had always participated on the forums that were around under my full name. After seeking permission, I also signed up as Bastid here.
 
... and then there is Bastid's alter ego. :D.
 
Mine's easy, first name & my eldest was born on the 13th
Being a mitch is good if I hear mitchell it's a good early warning system the wife is not happy:eek::D
mitch
 
I drive a truck for a living. I'm on the road roughly 360 days a year. Therefore I am a Professional Tourist.
Now that the bank and I own the truck and I "work for myself" I should change it to Broke Tourist.
 
coyote711 said:
Elliott, aka Blues, thought it would be nice to know people by their first names around here, and I agree! :thumbup:

I think it would be interesting to know how people came up with their BladeForum name, so I'll start it off .....

"coyote711" ..... My name is Keith Wiley, and waaaay back in high school my nickname was "Wiley Coyote", so I decided to choose "Coyote" for my handle around here ..... "Coyote" was already in use, so I just added a special month and day - July 11th - and arrived at "coyote711".

So how did you come up with your handle, and is there is special meaning or significance to it?
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Keith, you were to busy typing yours up to notice mine:D
I think we had a pretty good idea.
 
Thomason said:
Thomason was my father's name. His father was also named Thomason. :D
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I can relate Rob.
My grandfather and father were both named Stu (Stuart). I guess I could have continued the tradition, but then one of my daughters would be a "Girl named Stu"
 
My first computer game was an F-16 flight simulator, and I had to pick an appropriate handle for a fighter pilot, fast and deadly. I am also an avid collector of African hunting books, so came to a knowledge of the black mamba as one of the fastest and deadliest snakes around, hence the name. I liked it and stuck with it.

I am neither black nor snakey, and not very fast or deadly either. I hunt, golf, and dabble in knife collecting and photography. Good thread.
 
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I've related the story on mine a couple of times. Back in the 80's, several of us at work were discussing telephones (none of us had one at the time, we were using radios). We noted that it was more expensive to have an unlisted number than a listed one...you had to pay extra to save them the effort of listing your number. Go figure. Since none of us particularly wanted customers calling us up to work in our (too little) off time, we figured the next best thing to an unlisted number was to list it in another name, and we started making up weird names to list our phones under. One of the guys loved the line from the old "Barney Miller" t.v. show - "Wojohowtiz. Spelled just like it sounds." He came up with "Yablanowitz", spelled just like it sounds.

Fast forward a couple of decades. When I'd try to use some variation of my own name to register anywhere, the first few I'd try were already in use, and I'd soon give up and chunk in yablanowitz. Funny thing, the only time it was ever already in use was when I tried to register someplace I had forgotten I was already registered. If you see that name on another forum, eBay or pretty much anywhere else, it's probably me.
 
yablanowitz said:
I've related the story on mine a couple of times. Back in the 80's, several of us at work were discussing telephones (none of us had one at the time, we were using radios). We noted that it was more expensive to have an unlisted number than a listed one...you had to pay extra to save them the effort of listing your number. Go figure. Since none of us particularly wanted customers calling us up to work in our (too little) off time, we figured the next best thing to an unlisted number was to list it in another name, and we started making up weird names to list our phones under. One of the guys loved the line from the old "Barney Miller" t.v. show - "Wojohowtiz. Spelled just like it sounds." He came up with "Yablanowitz", spelled just like it sounds.

Fast forward a couple of decades. When I'd try to use some variation of my own name to register anywhere, the first few I'd try were already in use, and I'd soon give up and chunk in yablanowitz. Funny thing, the only time it was ever already in use was when I tried to register someplace I had forgotten I was already registered. If you see that name on another forum, eBay or pretty much anywhere else, it's probably me.
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That is a great story! :thumbup::p
 
I've used zerogee for a number of years on several forums. A small pun on 0g - for my love of space exploration and great old scifi stories - and on the likely fact that none of my posts will be especially astonishing or surprising to anyone (and thus rather unlikely to make anyone go "Gee!") -- and so "zerogee" was born.
 
Nothing real original, I ride a Suzuki SV650 and svrider was already taken so...svrider1.

John
 
I was registering and needed a name. I don't give much thought to these things so chose one that described what I had been doing that afternoon... cutting trees and splitting wood. I do love my cutting tools.:D
 
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