How'd You Choose Your USERID?

[vgarci]

Ok, I've seen some very interesting UserID's and I'm wondering if individuals in the group would care to share how they made their selection.

Personally, I took the easy way out and picked a UserID that matches a long standing email account I've had. My name is Vince Garcia and my original email address, selected back in 1993, was based on the limitations of our email system which afforded a limited number of characters - hence, "vgarci". Anyone else?

[Charlie]

I guess I'm obvious on this one. smile.gif

Charlie (or something like that)

[Lagavulin]

I am a bit of a scotch enthusiast.
Lagavulin is a 16 year old single malt scotch whiskey from the Isle of Islay.
With the price now hovering around $75 CAN for a 26oz bottle, it is only a rare treat.

[Charlie]

I usually get this: http://www.glenmorangie.com/shop_the/s_malts.asp?offset=0 or this http://www.thebalvenie.com/ when on sale. Single malt scotch is not that popular in Downeast Maine. It takes away from shelf space from Boone's Farm and Colt 45 in the store.

Charlie

[brian1984_2001]

No real story in mine.

Brian is my first name. 1984 is when I graduated from high school, and 2001 is when I first had to select a user name when I logged on to Napster for the first time.

Anybody enjoy a fine, hand-rolled cigar with their scotch?

[Charlie]

I used to Brian. I loved cigars but I quit smoking July 9, 2000 and don't touch tobacco anymore. I miss a good cigar but I have to stay away from smoke now. :(

Charlie

[vgarci]

Brian,
I guessed right on the 1984 but had no idea what the 2001 stood for. If I was betting, I would have said the birth of a kid.

As for a "good cigar" - in this third world country we call Wyoming, that's an oxymoron (then again, so is "rap music"). I wouldn't even know where to find a hand rolled cigar.

[Lagavulin]

maybe it's time to lay off the trade embargos against cuba :001:

[brian1984_2001]

Since we're "Off the Air" here, we can a little afield of the original topic :D

Cubans smoke really well. The construction is flawless in each and every cigar. But for flavor, I prefer the Nicaraguan tobacco of the Jose Padron family.

I'm going on a Carribean cruise the last week of July. I'll be sampling some Cuban cigars and drinking more than my share of Glenlivet (or at least until my wife guilts me into stopping).

I quit smoking cigarettes on December 23, 1995. I didn't smoke anything for about a year. Now, I find a cigar once a week really takes the edge off. I have no desire to pick up a butt again.

[rosedb]

:D Mine is from the movie Titanic. Rose Dewitt Bukater (rosedb). I use it for everything that I sign up for so I figured why change it.

If anyone cares I love a good cigar. My hubby started smoking them after a cruise to Mexico and we got a Cuban Cigar (at least they TOLD us it was Cuban). I prefer the flavored ones, vanilla, chocolate, cherry and these little cigarellos that my hubby gets.

[vgarci]

Rosedb,
So tell me (I did see the movie but I don't remember the characters), was Rose the main female character in Titanic?

[hamlet2003]

Mine is simply the year I joined this group and a reference to Shakespeare, one of my passions. In my former life I taught shakespeare to gifted elementary and jr. high students and I ran a Shakespeare in the Park festival in Missouri for ten years.

[Charlie]

I'll bet you're a Cardinals fan too :!: tongue.gif

Charlie

[rosedb]

Yeah Rose is the main female charactor from Titanic, played by the lovely and talented Kate Winslet. I know it's a lame screen name but it works for me smile.gif

[NDTim]

Hello everybody.

My user ID - I live about 5 miles from Notre Dame and I am a big fan, and my first name is Tim sooooooo

NDTim

Crude but effective

[Ethelmertz]

My sister and I are big I love lucy fans. Re-runs of this show came on after school when we were young and we would eat our after school snack while watching this show.
Over the years I would try many "lucy" type user Id's and they were always taken so I settled for her best friend and it was always available so it sort of stuck.

camille

[Charlie]

Vivian Vance (like me) was a native of Kansas. smile.gif

Charlie

[brookstl]

The selection of my user id is pretty standard. It's last name (Brooks) followed by first and middle initial (tl - Theresa Lynn). This is been my user id at work for 9 years so I'm pretty much stuck with it...

Theresa
Albuquerque, NM

[Texas]

Texas is my favorite state. (Go UT Longhorns and Texas Tech Red Raiders!)

[vgarci]

Tex,
Have you ever lived in Texas?

[Charlie]

[quote:0900ceb2f7="Texas"]Texas is my favorite state. [/quote:0900ceb2f7]

:cussing: :boo:

[b:0900ceb2f7]Missouri[/b:0900ceb2f7] is my favorite state. :123:

Charlie

[Texas]

Vince,

Funny thing, I lived in a New Mexico county which bordered Texas (as a child) and once had two plots of land in the far northeast corner of the state near Texarkana and Shreveport, but never have lived there. It's a l-o-o-o-o-ng story how I grew to be fond of the Lone Star State.

Just like I'm now living on the border of Missouri. (Funny thing, Charlie...Missourians used to tell Arkansas jokes and probably still do. Joke's on them now...one of the former poorest counties in the state (McDonald, south of Joplin where Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri meet) just became part of the Fayetteville/Rogers/Bentonville metro area, and more people want to live in Arkansas rather than that part of Missouri. Better schools, law enforcement, etc. here south of the border, so they say.)

[geospart]

Back a few years ago some friends and me where discussing the tv show SNL an episode where they had Tony Curtis discussing his fav' line in Spartacus, which was "I Love You Spartacus" right near the death scene. Well anyways me and some friends who liked the movie and who has seen the show started saying that to each other (yes we got weird looks), so much so that the nickname [b:4123a5d08b]Spartacus[/b:4123a5d08b] [color=blue:4123a5d08b](Spart)[/color:4123a5d08b] stuck with me. My friends just started calling me spart. So I combined my first name and my nickname to come up with my user id. Weird huh.... (all this is way before the movie Gladiator came out.... just needed to add that, don't know why)

:roll:

[NAtlantis]

:roll: My user ID [b:99f9b50eea]NAtlantis[/b:99f9b50eea] is something that I came up with back in April of 1996. It was at that time my abbreviation for [b:99f9b50eea]New Atlantis [/b:99f9b50eea]which was at the time too long a screen name on AOL.

The significance of the New Atlantis however to me relates much further back than that. In 1985 I read the Francis Bacon work "The New Atlantis" an unfinished utopic fable based on science as used for the advancement of civilization.

I read the piece rather randomly in highschool, as a budding young science geek, Bacon really caught my eye with it. Somehow this title has been my mantra ever since... Rather more often that not in the form NAtlantis.

It somehow seems to permeate many aspects of my life. e.g. My screen names virtually anyplace...

my soccer team is called [b:99f9b50eea][i:99f9b50eea]The Atlantis[/i:99f9b50eea][/b:99f9b50eea],

My personal website is www.NAtlantis.com (http://www.NAtlantis.com)

One of my main academic passtimes has become digging at the truth of the Shakespeare Authorship controversy which was born out of a long time examination of the life and works of Bacon after becoming initially fixated on the New Atlantis.

In the unlikely event that anyone is interested... a nice link to an online copy of Francis Bacon's New Atlantis can be found at www.sirbacon.org/links/newatlantis.htm (http://www.sirbacon.org/links/newatlantis.htm)

:D Sorry if that was too much information. Over the years I have had many people assume that I meant that I am "in Atlantis" as in the lost city... but that's never been the case.

[vgarci]

John,
Cool story. Thanks for sharing. Yes, I'll be checking this out as you've stirred an interest.

[Ross]

Didn't feel like thinking. So, I used my first name! I think I signed on here the second day this forum opened, or something like that.

- Ross

[mewster]

I was reading through some older topics and came across this one about choosing user ID's. It is quite an interesting thread; I wish it were still going; the people here are quite fascinating.

[Bard]

Mine is fairly boring. It is short and rarely used so I can use it on numerous sites.

Of course, years from now, when they dig this thread up in a time capsule, my kids will say I always sang stupid, made up songs to them.

Like "brush your teeth and go to bed before I hit you on the head" :lol:
[i:8cbeefbb26]sang to "Old MacDonald Had A Farm"[/i:8cbeefbb26]

[thingmaker]

I've used thingmaker (sometimes with added numbers or whatever) since about 1996 when I was building props and "things" for roleplaying games which I was involved in with a group of friends. You know the sort of things... Runestone, mummified head, dead alien, The Spear of Destiny, that sort of thing. + assorted dioramas and models.

I'll be running Call of Cthulhu in the near future and expect to be making more "things".

And, yes, I did own a Thingmaker when I was a kid. I still have the Creepy Crawler molds.

[vgarci]

Glad to see this thread spark some interest again.

Bard - if I put my ear to my computer, I can almost hear you singing - kids are fun and it's fun to be a kid again!

Thing - the few times I participated in role playing games, we didn't have anything like dioramas and models.....must be some pretty upscale and serious role playing games.

[mewster]

[quote:a747bd0d2b="thingmaker"]
And, yes, I did own a Thingmaker when I was a kid. I still have the Creepy Crawler molds.[/quote:a747bd0d2b]

We picked up one of those recently at a flea market. You just can't beat the classics!

[thingmaker]

[b:0846fd9789]vgarci[/b:0846fd9789]

[quote:0846fd9789]Thing - the few times I participated in role playing games, we didn't have anything like dioramas and models.....must be some pretty upscale and serious role playing games.[/quote:0846fd9789]

It's a form of madness... I can't face players anymore unless I have handouts, props, prepared music and sound effects. Heck, if I do contemporary stuff again I will have to have searchable databases for the players or I just won't feel right.

[Fizzlestix]

Wow. Talk about chiming in late on a thread! But this is great! Wonderful to see the etymology of these pseudonyms. ;)

My ID comes from two sources in my life.

1. I've been a graphic artist/art director for many years. I have an odd affinity for the visual impact and the unique sound of the letter "Z."

My favorite ad campaign is the old Alka Seltzer ads from the 70s, "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz... oh what a relief it is!" Hence, the FIZZ.

2. I'm also an avid video gamer, since the original Pong games. As a gamer, I would always login under the name of FIZZ. But I found during online play, other players would hurl expletives (which were typed on-screen) when they got frustrated or "died." I always shouted "ah, fizzlestix!" instead of swearing (a play on "fiddlesticks").

It got people to laugh that I never swore or cussed, so it stuck. Since then, I log into most everything as FIZZLESTIX.

Great thread and I'm happy to be able to share! ;)

[vgarci]

Thing
[quote:e7fd2a27be]It's a form of madness... I can't face players anymore unless I have handouts, props, prepared music and sound effects. Heck, if I do contemporary stuff again I will have to have searchable databases for the players or I just won't feel right.[/quote:e7fd2a27be]
Since it's a form of madness, you have two options: 1) seek counseling immediately or 2) enjoy the madness ;) . I think the choice is obvious so have fun!


Fizz,
Super explanation and terrific story.

[doublex]

I can remember having a thingmaker- back in the 70's when they still made toys that could kill a kid (I once had to get a tetanus shot from stepping on a Mr. Potato Head, but that is another story altogether)- those thingmakers, IIRC, could get really hot... I think I remember making a scorpion in one and burning my hand in the process, that was it for me.

Anyway-

my handle "doublex" comes from the nickname of my favorite baseball player, Jimmie Foxx (who heartily enjoyed old time radio by the way). I have come to know his surviving family in the last 10 years and have published 2 articles about him, one of which you can read right here (sorry for the shameless plug):
http://www.bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=229&pid=4658

[Fizzlestix]

Doublex - that is a superior article!

As for Foxx, this line pretty much said it all:
"His family remembers frequent occasions when he would leave the table at restaurants to accommodate his fans."

Most celebs nowadays are more offended when recognized than appreciated. Nice to hear about the "old ways" in some.

[Vergergc]

My forum ID relates to my vocation - a "verger" is a lay person in a church who carries a verge (small scale mace) before service participants. I've been doing that for 20 years at Grace Cathedral - so that's the "gc" part. It's also been an Email address at times.

Very interesting to read up on the other replies too...

Cheers :D

[chicagomilam]

I live in Chicago and my last name is Milam. I know it's a personal rule of thumb not to give your real name.

What the hell? smile.gif

[avanti]

Mine is the name of my business. Avanti Construction. When I went into business for myself I wanted a name with a meaning. It's an Italian word that means to move ahead or go forward. I try to live life and business with that attitude.

[MuchAdo]

My user id, "MuchAdo," comes from Fred Allen's book, "Much Ado About Me." So if anyone was assuming Shakespeare. . . .