What's the story behind forum names?

My handle is not all that hard to figure out . ToTKnives = Top of Texas Knives. But knives thats I have made I mark them XMAN, because my last name is Christman. It's like the way people do Christmas XMAS. My grand mother's name is Mary Christman ( I always thought that her name was kind of holiday sounding), and she is an artist and signs her paintings XMAN. So I guess XMAN is kind of a family tradition.
Chris, Top of Texas Knives
www.toptexknives.com


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Well, my father always signed his name with his fisrt two initials because he didn't like his first name very much. I am kinda in the same boat.

Fleischer is my surname and is oddly appropriate -- it is the old German form for "butcher" ("fleisch" = "flesh"). And my grandfather and great-grandfather were both in the grocery business, so I guess it is an appropriate name for many reasons.

Auf Wiedersehen,

Clay

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Clay Fleischer
cdfleischer@yahoo.com

Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

 
Really enjoy fishing. And although the wife usually beats me at the salmon (41 pounder year before last) I got her beat on steelhead, 12 lbs. (so far)

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Spermatazoa and the roe
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Since late 1984 I' ve been a licensed USCF (US Cycling Federation) bike racer (leg powered) and have been quite impressive in coming across the finish line first on multiple occasions. The spectators (many of them friends and fellow cyclists) would bellow NAKANOoooooo as I gave the victory salute. Koichi Nakano is a recently retired 11 time Professional World Sprint champion on the track (velodrome)from Japan. He' d literally blow away the rest of the field in his furious rush to the finish line. Hence my forum name Nakano 2. Aaahhhhh... Thanks for allowing me to recall glory days.

L8r,
Nakano

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"To earn a million is easy, a real friend is not."
 
Dennis R. Wilcoxl, aka longbow, cause I love shooting the American/Hill style longbow, and it is my chosen hunting tool.
 
Well my name is my name, so to speak, my full name is Gary Wayne Peter Graley, but usually am known by G2 which is to say G Squared, meaning Gary Graley and I use that as a stamp on the back of all my leather work. I gave Kodiak PA a nick name of K2 since his email is KnifeKnutt.

Regards!
G2

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When a fellow says, "it ain't the money but the principle of the thing,"
it's the money.
F. McKinney Hubbard

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Cabin/7306/blades.html

 
Dave is my given first name and I am a MSgt with 17 1/2 years in the US Air Force.

Nothing much to it and I use it on all the boards I visit.
 
Hi Rusty;
At first I wasn't going to reply -- my "handle's" none too original -- but than I saw BLADES reply and realized we had more in common than a similiar handle.

I my younger, wilder days I carries lots of blades and so earned the nickname BLADE. After getting married and having a young child around the house, I decided to get rid of all those wonderful old knives as a precaution to keeping young hands out of trouble.

Now my son has his own family and I have resumed my interested in sharp objectives and revived an old nickname for the forum.


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Life is a journey, not a guided tour -- GO ARMED!
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[This message has been edited by Blade (edited 17 May 1999).]
 
From: Ivan 5-17-99 559PM EDT Ivan is Russian for John which is my firstname . Always liked name Ivan. Had a great Uncle who was in the wheat trade in old Russia under the Czar. Must be some kind of a racial thing Bring the Romanov Dynasty back!
 
Has a lot to do with my physique, carefully crafted by years of powerlifting and massive protein and carbo consumption, and the fact that since getting married and having children, my formerly sandy blond hair and reddish beard have pretty much turned white...

Also will be the name of my knife line, if I ever actually get started grinding the d@#n things!

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

[This message has been edited by whitebear (edited 17 May 1999).]
 
bulli is simply a contraction of my last name. Kinda a tradition - many of my dad's friends called him bulli. JP is short for John Paul, my name. I guess I could have gone by "limey" seeing as some of my friends have taken to calling me that (I originally hailed from England), but I've been using this as my primary username for a while now.


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JP Bullivant
 
I had no imagination apparently, when registering for the first time here:
d=Danelle j=Joyce o=O'Shea 62=birth year....
Zzzzzz
PS My dad got my name out of the obituaries..cause my mom was so disappointed not to have a boy she wouldn't even name me...maybe that qualifies as some kind of name coolness?

[This message has been edited by djo62 (edited 18 May 1999).]
 
I am a cop, in Las Cruces NM, and 609 is may badge # with the alpha character removed to reduce potential problems.

pat
 
My first name is Winthrop, but everyone has always called me Win. Simple enough, eh?

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Win
Knife lover, Philosopher, Humanitarian, and All-around nice guy
(all right, so I'm just a knife lover)
 
The world's first thermonuclear test was conducted on October 31, 1952, at Enewetak Atoll. Code-named Ivy Mike, it resulted in the largest fireball ever produced by a nuclear test. There were many such tests in the 1950s, including Buster/Jangle, Tumbler-Snapper, Ivy King, Castle, Teapot, Redwing...the list goes on. The government deliberately exposed thousands of military personnel to extreme radiation in these tests. Later, the government deliberately exposed another generation of military personnel to Agent Orange. Still later, another generation was exposed to NBC in the Persian Gulf. I have no personal connection to any of this. It's just my way of trying to remember those who were screwed by the government they served. A poor track record, and it's only getting worse.

www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/a_tests.htm
www.naav.com/index.htm
www.gulfwarvets.com/registry1.htm
 
Well "myco" is greek for Fungi which is one of my other hobbies. Thus "Mycology", meaning the study of fungi. which sorta makes me an amature mycologist. And my full internet name is "Mycolathotep" a combonation of Myco and Nyarlathotep, a god from the mythology of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, an occult horror writer in the 1920's who's weird fiction I love (my sig file is a quote from his story "The Call Of Cthulhu") as for TimmyTheTalkingToilet, this was finaly guessed by me in a thread in the Spyderco forum. just do a search for the heading "swedges and false double edges" and scroll to the bottom. "Know Nyarlathartep, Know Chaos. No Nyarlathotep, No Chaos."

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.-H.P. Lovecraft
 
Hello there,


My musical studio is called the Nautilus...
Nemo was only for the studio email but since it turned into a usefull pseudonym...

Cheers,
JM
 
Unimaginatively enough, my name is Hugh Fuller. I have no middle initial as the person for whom I was named had none. His father, my grandfather, thought that it would be shorter not to have a middle name. The result has been that he and I go through life trying to to explain this or being "Fuller, Hugh NMI"; three initiials! I have two name peeves, those who do not believe that one may have a single syllable name and try to call me various other versions, and those who try to make puns and jokes on my name. I have not heard a new one since I was in 5th grade! A friend once spent some years tying to find a new one. I guess that now all of you will have to take a stab (pun intended) at it. I guess that it is a challenge.

For my son, we combined my name with my namesake's and got Hugh Robinson Fuller.

Bruce, that is Robinson as in Pastor John Robinson, who chartered the Mayflower, but was tossed in Plymouth Goal for "non-conforming" so he did not come on it. Another, named Magruder, was shipped to Maryland in chains as a criminal because he bore the name Magruder. If he had borne the clan name, MacGregor, he would have been hanged! Transportation was better. I also have a witch up the family tree. How many can claim that? As an historian, I find all of this interesting.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh


[This message has been edited by FullerH (edited 21 May 1999).]
 
Well my real name is Jack! I came by the name Jacko from my uncle because there were four jack's in the family. My grandfather, father, a cousin and my self. So to cut the confusion on who was to answer to the name jack everybody kinda got a nickname to go along with it. And there it is!!!

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