The meaning of our names...

[skydiver_8]

skydiver_7 was taken

[dipps]

mine is the name i'm known the world over by.....

[Armageddonmonkey]

The evil monkey from Family Guy spawned the creation of my username... along with being known as Monkeyboy for a good part of my life. The joys of being given ridiculous nicknames. LoL

[jnO]

It's a name from my gaming life.
I mis-typed my name registering for an online fps a few years back and it stuck.

[birdfromboat]

I file my photos by the year, month, a descriptive filename like "river run, salem to corvallis" and then an image title for anything that gets printed. The print gets the date of capture written on the back so I can retreive the file for more prints later. I think this is a workable system, but noticed that I had about ten dozen images titled 'birdfromboat' .

[R_Metzel]

its my name... lol

[joayne]

its my name... lol

I sorta like Fish Stick Man :)

[ChasP505]

Name: Chas
Middle initial: P
Area Code: 505 (Exclusive to New Mexico, US of A)

[CoquetteRN]

Coquette= someone who flirts without affection
RN= nurse

[Roy Mathers]

Guess why I chose mine?

[F4 Cyborg]

/\ /\ /\
Yer the Beaver

[Roy Mathers]

/\ /\ /\
Yer the Beaver


:confused::confused:

[F4 Cyborg]

Oop's, my bad your Roy, not Jerry.
hey you said guess.

[Roy Mathers]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand a word you're saying!

[F4 Cyborg]

Jerry Mathers was the real name of a TV star out of the 50's & 60's. The show was called "Leave It To Beaver" After everyone else was Intro'd to the show -- and Jerry Mathers as "The Beaver".

[mathogre]

mathogre - or, Evil Math Ogre Kgh-Ra.

It's an anagram of my real life full name, Graham Keith Glover. Given I'm also a mathemagician, the "math" part fits particularly well. (At work, high level management has introduced me to business partners and customers as the Resident Mad Scientist. :D)

[Roy Mathers]

Jerry Mathers was the real name of a TV star out of the 50's & 60's. The show was called "Leave It To Beaver" After everyone else was Intro'd to the show -- and Jerry Mathers as "The Beaver".


I assume that it was an American show and, as it was not broadcast over here, it meant absolutely nothing to me I'm afraid.

[DONKEYTROLL]

Mine is a nickname that stuck from a car forum, started as Don T5, then changed to Donkey T5 then to Donkeytroll, strange how things evolve?!

[williase]

Mine is from college...
Way back when I was a freshman and the computer admins assigned our emails, the standard format was 1) the first 5 letters of your last name, 2) first initial, 3) middle inital. [If someone already has that assigned, you were given a number thrown in there too.]
Today, it would be different since I am married & took the hubby's last name but I hold to it as part of my "younger" days.

[MRagon]

First initial, last name, M Ragon

[vk2gwk]

VK2GWK is my amateur radio call sign. The "VK" says I am in Australia, the "2" makes it more precise... I am in the state of New South Wales, while "GWK " are the personal indicator linked to my amateur radio license.

Amateur radio is my other hobby: experimenting with electronics and making contacts with other ham radio operators all over the world.
This is a picture of the other gear I am using....

http://tobbe.net.au/img/operator.jpg

More information on my web site. (http://tobbe.net.au/vk2gwk.php)

[RiaGurl]

very fancy stuff. can you get alien transmissions with that? how bout government secrets :D

no mystery bout me. name's Ria for short...and i'm a Gurl...or girl. got creative with the spelling.

[MadTony]

A friend in college gave me the nickname...not sure why, but I think it had something to do with a goofy college engineering project that had a "mad scientist" quality to it. Since "Mad Adam" (Adam being my first name) sounded too much like "Mad At 'Em", He said he needed to use something else. My middle name (shortened) seemed to do the trick.

[dadiam]

dadiam = Dad I Am

Well, I am a dad. :D

[Vidcanon]

You figure it out ...lol

[Imola1759]

I own a 20th ae gti. The color of it is Imola yellow. there were only 4,000 in the us. 2,000 black. 1,000 jazz blue, and 1,000 Imola yellow. the production number on my car is 1759

[RiaGurl]

You figure it out ...lol
uhhh....i guess. venereal internal disease from using a canon in an inappropriate way?

[Vidcanon]

uhhh....i guess. venereal internal disease from using a canon in an inappropriate way?


Close enough Riagurl:D

[RiaGurl]

:D:lol:

[Lindholdt]

It's just my middle name. :)

[John the Geek]

I'm a graphic and traditional artist, and I am a Mac client and server specialist at work. So at one point I coined the term "the geek" and "the artist" to describe my two loves. So now my usernames are either "John the Geek" or "John the Artist" depending on the forum. I don't know why I chose "Geek" here... I guess it's because in the past other artists sometimes take offense to my username, as if I'm implying I'm the only artist - which I'm not. And I do get pretty geeky about camera gear, new toys as they are, so it still fits. It's a merger of the two loves.

=)

[RiaGurl]

oh you coined those terms did you. did you invent the internet with al gore also?

[John the Geek]

oh you coined those terms did you. did you invent the internet with al gore also?

Antagonistic much?

[5Dmaniac]

Mine is easy - The 5D is the camera I use all the time and I am a Maniac - just ask my wife:-) My real name is Juergen - German living in beautiful Arizona (have been in the US for over 20 years).

[RiaGurl]

Antagonistic much?
LOL i forgot the smiley face. i'm wondering why you wouldn't get the obvious hilarity from the al gore insertion. oh well.

sensitive much?

[John the Geek]

LOL i forgot the smiley face. i'm wondering why you wouldn't get the obvious hilarity from the al gore insertion. oh well.

sensitive much?

The difference between war and peace will be an emoticon smiley.

[RiaGurl]

funny. tell obama that.

[n4ffd]

My nick is easy - if you happen to be a ham. I post on other boards with my initials or name (JC or JackC) but on BIG boards - like this one - that is just way too common, and I can't be bothered making up something odd. The callsign makes it easy.

Besides, aren't all hams also photographers, and vice versa??

JC

[RiaGurl]

ham? i've been called desserts, but never named after meat.

[shaftmaster]

Mine was the result of a cheap wah-wah pedal (an electric guitar effect), a fascination for the "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes that features wah-wah guitar, and too much beer, which resulted in my rap name MC Shaftmaster Toneboost. My other musician friends started calling me shaftmaster, so the name stuck.

[CafeRacer808]

I ride cafe racer style motorcycles and since "CafeRacer" was already taken, I added the "808" at the end, which is a nod to both the Roland TR-808 drum machine (the grandaddy of electronic music) as well as the UK electronic group 808State.

[libbyneder]

For years my screen name for everything was "Lusciousmango." It was the name on the box of color I used when I started dying my hair in highschool when the internet was brand new. That was over a decade ago, and I've since changed everything to my real name, or some variant thereof to be taken more seriously (thus the current name). I'm still a redhead, though.

[n4ffd]

RiaGirl - "ham" is a common nickname for an amateur Radio operator. When Code was King (actually, when it was the only possible thing), the hobbyists were called "ham-fisted" or "hams" by the "professionals". Being somewhat obtuse at times (or just outright stupid at others), we decided we liked the name so we took it - much to the chagrin of the professionals. :-D

JC

[talshadar]

Talshadar - combo of two names - Talen and Shadowspawn - first nick ever made waaaaaaay back and kept it ever since. And I've been around long enough to have my full name as hotmail and gmail emails ;-)

[thatkatmat]

thatkatmat....a combo of 3 unique words...."That", meaning like I'm pointing at something or someone..."kat" is, of course, cat, spelled wrong..... and "Mat" is well, Matt, spelled wrong, put them together and you are left with 3 words transformed into one longer, yet, I think.... better word. Which I decided to use in lieu of my real name somedogralph

[mama2girls&boy]

I think mine is self-explanatory:D

[bloodhound]

I've been using Bloodhound as a pseudonym for decades, in fact since CB radios were all the rage here in the UK in the late 70s. It comes from witnessing the test firing of a Bloodhound surface to air guided missile off the coast of Wales when I was there on a holiday back in the sixties. It was an amazing site that I remember vividly.

[Purple Puppy]

This is me:
http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt23/purpypupple/IMG_0037es.jpg

[gkuenning]

In the early days of the net, I always used "geoff" because it was easy and it was almost always unused (advantages of being an early adopter!). But when things exploded, it was rarely available, so I switched to using first initial/last name for everything, which always works thanks to my unusual last name.

I've thought about trying to swtich to a cleverer one, at least on this forum, but then I'd have to actually be a clever person... :-P

[Rmitchell248]

Sadly mine is my first initial, my last name and the street number of a house that I have long since moved out of LOL.

The strange thing is that I continue to sign up for new sites to this day with the same name.

[Disturbed UTT]

Mine's my Gamer Tag.
Started using it in "Digital Game Spy" (I think) and now on X-Box Live.
I can't remember if I knew of the band "Disturbed" at this point or not :confused:

The UTT stands for Under The Thumb as the other UTT's and myself were only ever allowed to play on line with permission from the better half :p

[Freddie Alessio]

My name is Freddie Alessio and I'm the 802nd person to post.

I prefer vanilla over all other flavors, and listen to Michael Bolton when no one is around.

[RiaGurl]

My name is Freddie Alessio and I'm the 802nd person to post.

I prefer vanilla over all other flavors, and listen to Michael Bolton when no one is around.
technically you are not, since certain individuals posted more than once here:p

[joe_incognito]

I've been using it for years, it's from some random Simpson's episode and I figured it would be appropriate for someone like myself who likes to maintain a bit of anonymity when joining forums.

[Randi]

My real first name... and, people always think I'm a guy. I don't know any guys with my name who spell their name with an I at the end. :P

[Freddie Alessio]

technically you are not, since certain individuals posted more than once here:p

...you would strip me even of being #802. Sigh. I'll go drown my sorrows with "Soul Provider" on repeat...

[skygod44]

Not spotted this thread before....

Well, my name is not very simple, so.....
Other than photography my big passion is paragliding, which I've been doing since 1996. I have a pilot's licence (though for paragliding only) and consider myself to be fairly good at flying without an engine.
The top pilots are called "Skygods", and though I'm not in their league, one of my sources of income is via weddings....and since my father was a priest before his death, using the term "Skygod" has a nice feel to it for me.
And the "44"?
In the Japanese system of counting, I was born in the year "Showa 44"....which to more sensible people means 1969.

Regards,
Simon "Skygod44"

[Mu Eugene]

Not spotted this thread before....

Well, my name is not very simple, so.....
Other than photography my big passion is paragliding, which I've been doing since 1996. I have a pilot's licence (though for paragliding only) and consider myself to be fairly good at flying without an engine.
The top pilots are called "Skygods", and though I'm not in their league, one of my sources of income is via weddings....and since my father was a priest before his death, using the term "Skygod" has a nice feel to it for me.
And the "44"?
In the Japanese system of counting, I was born in the year "Showa 44"....which to more sensible people means 1969.

Regards,
Simon "Skygod44"

I was born during the 44th year of the reign of Showa Emperor too!

The meaning of my name is given in the signature.

Just happened to be listening to one of the Level 42 albums (Running in he Family) that has 'Sleepwalkers' in its tracks when I was signing up on this forum.

I do not sleepwalk. But I do keep strange hours sometimes.

[skygod44]

I was born during the 44th year of the reign of Showa Emperor too!
Well, well, well....how did you like your birthday last year? I almost cried....which is actually an improvement for me!
:D
...I do not sleepwalk. But I do keep strange hours sometimes.
Me too....but I blame that on the kids' alarm clocks going off all over the place!
:mad:

[twodrunkduck]

My name/username was not necessarily meaningful. It just popped when I typed.

[emmaceleste]

mine is from a quote I found years ago that struck me....

"My best friend was a teacher in Louisiana with the romantic name of Emma Celeste Thibodaux. We hadn't met--we never met" -Clyde Robert Bulla

Not quite sure why it struck me, but it did and I've used the name Emma Celeste for years as a screen name. :)

[sigma pi]

I have had this screen name since college (I was in a fraternity)
I have out grown it a bit but the other one I use is Ric Flair W000

so no, I dont have good screen names :lol:

[philwillmedia]

It's just an abbreviation of my business name.
Phil Williams Media & Marketing is a bit long to use in a URL
Using it as a user name for everything helps when someone does an internet search.

[scottcolbath]

First name.........Scott. Last name........Colbath.

I know. Shocking. :lol:

All one word in lowercase because it's easier to type when logging in. I figure it could save me about ten minutes over the course of my life when compared to using caps and a space bewteen the first and last name.

I just wasted one of those ten minutes posting on this thread.:p

S.C.

[GuitarFreak]

I made this name in 2004 when I got my first guitar, and I couldn't really think of anything else to use, so I've been using this wherever I go. So if you see a GuitarFreak, there's a good chance it's me :D

[ducklabdad]

I was given mine when I bought our first "family computer" and was setting up our account. I set me and both my two kids up with thier "screennames" and they picked mine out, they were 5 and 7 at the time.

We raised and kept Labrador retrievers and we had an aviary where we raised ducks and I was an avid duck hunter as well. So they gave me the screen name ducklabdad. The two kids are now 23 and 25 but I have continued to use this screenname for everything.

[themadman]

I started using this handle in various online communities and games. I have another I also use (and a third one most rarely), but this is the one I try to use the most.

[matonanjin]

"Mato Nanjin" means "Standing Bear" in Lakhota. It's my dog's name:
http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/farm/dogs/dogs.html

He looked like a bear when he was a pup.

[WesM]

My name is Wes.

Simple, no? :)

[Yno]

Lush or drunkard sounded too plebeian.

Many years ago I joined a forum owned by a guy named Dean, who was called "Dean-o" as in Dean Martin. But his screen name was Dno - a little easier to type, I guess. When I had to pick a screen name for that forum, Yno popped into my head, and I use it for all the forums I join.

[Bullitt05]

Bought this when my hair turned gray. Always liked Steve McQueen.....


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4639756790_7792212762_o.jpg

[WARAT]

It started way back when I used to play counter-strike (a first person shooter PC game) and pretty much just stuck with it for every screen name I use.

Warat in tagalog (national language of Philippines) means destroyed.

[xhack]

I was a print journalist for 10 years, then a television foreign desker for a further 20 years. Then, disillusioned by the transition to 'infotainment', I quit to become a charity worker, heading up a telephone contact service for the elderly and vulnerable.
xhack is more punchy than I_Stalk_Old_People.

[Buckieh]

After the small fishing town in Scotland, I'm not from there, and I've never been there... but its relative ;).

[BucketMan]

Never saw this thread, guess i'll chime in.

The "bucket" is a seat assignment on the fire engine I work on. The bucket seat is one of the rear jump seats where the "firefighter" rides. The Lieutenant drives and the Captain rides in the front passenger seat.

So, at shift change people usually ask "who is the bucket man?" or "who is riding the bucket?"

I guess it comes from some of the small/cheap flip down seats in some of the old Grummans we have, kinda like riding on a bucket.

So, thats me...BucketMan.

:p

[Restless legs man]

After the small fishing town in Scotland, I'm not from there, and I've never been there... but its relative ;).

If you had been there then its highly likely you would not use it as a screen name :lol:


I chose mine after a teacher at my school who was always running everywhere through the corridors, quite entertaining

[.Davis.]

I'm a large VW enthusiast and one of the locals started calling me Davis instead of David, well, as you can see, it stuck.

[Cole_Schmitt]

Well, it's my name :)

[Derek Nickell]

Same

[richardfox]

Too easy to use my name. Too dumb to think of anything clever. Even if I thought of a clever monicker, I'd probably forget it! Why does "everything" have to have some "meaning"? Looks like evryone takes everything FAR too seriously! :p

[Calicajun]

Given to me by a Newspaper reporter when I was living in Lake Charles, LA. I was fighting with the Police Jury (City Council) and the subject of where I was born was brought up by one of the Jury members. Not that where I was born should have anything to do with the issue being presented to the Jury. So, I told them was born in CA but my Dad was born in Louisiana. For some reason that seem to make a difference to them and I won my case. The reporter for the local paper printed "Calicajun beats Police Jury" and the name just stayed with me.

[Old-Duckman]

I own 6 Ducati motorcycles. Ducatis are often called "Ducks" by Ducati owners and other motorcyclists.

I was signing up for a Ducati Monster (Monster is a model of Ducati) and "Duckman" was taken (I like the old Duckman cartoon too and it sorta fit). Well I figured that I was probably older than 90% of the Monster owners on that site (at the time I was 50)...Thus the "Old-Duckman". I use it on every forum I belong to.

I always like these screen name threads, some interesting reasons...and some very mundane.

[Snydremark]

My last name is Snyder, and I can be a sarcastic PITA sometimes; so an old co-worker tagged me with it and I liked it :D

[Crickett]

My Daddy gave me the nickname Crickett when I was born. He passed away when I was 9 on this very day back in 1988. Now my husband calls me Crickett so I use it for all of my screen names.

[gammatnt]

back in high school i used to play a lot tennis, Gamma TNT was the string I used.

[Tendy]

My Daddy gave me the nickname Crickett when I was born. He passed away when I was 9 on this very day back in 1988. Now my husband calls me Crickett so I use it for all of my screen names.

That's a touching story and a nice memorial! Would that I had had someone to call Daddy but I never knew mine-left us when I was about 2.

[Tendy]

So, I told them was born in CA but my Dad was born in Louisiana. For some reason that seem to make a difference to them and I won my case. The reporter for the local paper printed "Calicajun beats Police Jury" and the name just stayed with me.

So the word cajun relates to people from Lousiana's neck of the woods? I always wondered where exactly Cajun refers to!

[Tendy]

I'm a large VW enthusiast and one of the locals started calling me Davis instead of David, well, as you can see, it stuck.

Hmm struggling to see the connection between VW and Davis here...

[Tendy]

Too easy to use my name. Too dumb to think of anything clever. Even if I thought of a clever monicker, I'd probably forget it! Why does "everything" have to have some "meaning"? Looks like evryone takes everything FAR too seriously! :p

On the contrary I'd say having a quirky screenname is about not taking things too seriously. Life's too short for seriousity. I have a dozen screennames for all the forums I'm on, most common being Cyclops because I literally have just the one eye-maybe I should have used that here!

[kinghong1970]

i like apes...

[Calicajun]

So the word cajun relates to people from Lousiana's neck of the woods? I always wondered where exactly Cajun refers to!

Yep, kinda of a French Redneck:lol:. Do miss living in Louisiana, don't , miss the bugs and humidity though.

[ELItheICEman]

Being the nerd I am, I chose to use an AC-circuit-theory term as my name. It's supposed to help n00bs remember whether voltage across a reactive passive element leads or lags the current through it.

If that wasn't weird enough, I've begun responding to the name Eli in real life. My name isn't Eli.

[Gaarryy]

I add an extra "R" or "A" to my name to see if it gets sold to mailing list.. or used to.. Now halve the time I spell my own name wrong.

[gonzogolf]

I like golf (duh), the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, and I look a bit like the character from the Muppet Show.

[dandan1]

And I'm just Dan. Tough one to crack I know.

[tristinGrind]

I used to be in a band back when I was in high school and it was common for people in my scene to call people in known bands by there first name with either their bands name or something similar. A friend was in a band called Hatchet and Annie so he was called Robbie Hatchet by everyone... I was in a grind band so I was called Tristin Grind; I now use this for every forum I belong to regardless of what the general topic is.

here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF95VeXRHlc) is what grind is if you dont know

[Onwuma]

Wow... when I started this post back in 2005 I NEVER would have thought it would fill 57 pages! I recently stumbled into these forums again and couldn't believe this post was still around! Amazing...

[itzmered]

I selected mine years ago when I joined aim and needed a screen name itz (it's) me red I have red hair and everyone calls me red :)

[leetrys]

My name is Lee and I try to learn as much as I can about photography, so leetrys!......but the more I learn,the less I seem to know!...:)

[richardfox]

My name is Lee and I try to learn as much as I can about photography, so leetrys!......but the more I learn,the less I seem to know!...:)

Don't worry! I'm finding that the older I get, the less I know. ;)

[newporthomie]

92660

[K&K_Dad]

K and K are the initials of both my daughters first names _dad is me so
K&K_Dad

[MrClean]

Not sure when I came by this nickname, but about 10 years ago I started shaving my head, figured it looked better this way (for me) versus the hair line in full retreat.

[ni$mo350]

I love cars... I love Nissan's.. I love Z's.. I love 350Z's.. I was on a 350Z forum with the same name.. I sold my 350Z to fund photography more seriously haha. I think it's time to change it

[richardfox]

Not sure when I came by this nickname, but about 10 years ago I started shaving my head, figured it looked better this way (for me) versus the hair line in full retreat.

Do you do windows too, or just floors? ;)

[ashleyhanetphotography]

first name: ashley
married last name: hanet
job: photography

i could go into the history of my new last name, but i shall not.

haha whooo! soooo creative.

[the jimmy]

Always have a hard time coming up with email and avatar names, choose one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes

[Lore]

My name is Louri... Lore is my nickname... :rolleyes: no big story to my screen name :lol:

[TheLaird]

TheLaird.

A Laird in Scotland is a land owner. Like a Lord I suppose.

I was born and bred in Scotland but worked overseas for many years and now have returned.

[Thorrulz]

There's already quite a famous photog running around with the same name, so rather than explain I am not him/he is not me for the 1,000,000th time, I chose a character from Norse Mythology I enjoyed studying.

[bubbygator]

I've lived in Florida since 1966, so I'm a fan of the UF Gators. I sent 2 of my daughters to UF. It's common practice here to have some kind of "gator" nickname.

About 16 years ago my 1st grandson, who couldn't quite talk yet, was sitting on my lap. I said very seriously to him "I'll be your buddy." He looked up at me & said "bubby". From that moment I was called Bubby by all the family.

Thus, bubbygator.

[Lonestarlady61]

Well as others have mentioned I got tired of all the screen names being taken. So I chose Lonestarlady since Texas is where I'm from and then a number since Lonestarlady was already taken.

[Trugga]

A given nickname from some 20 years ago:

Lawrence - Lorry - Truck - Trucker - Trugga

Lawrence

[vasbyt]

mine is an Afrikaans word which translated into English literally means" Tight Bite" however the more acurate translation is, Hang in There, or don't let the B******s get you down

[mikej708]

My name is just my first name and last name initial by my area code in my area

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

My name is a line from a Frank Zappa song.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

My name is a line from a Frank Zappa song.

[PowerShot Greg]

My names Greg, and I use a PowerShot! I'm really creative! :P

[tomy]

Thomas, Tom, and Tommy were already taken! :confused:

[You-by-Lou]

Like shooting portraits. Was speaking with a friend who happens to do advertising/marketing and he coined "You by Lou". Lou of course being my name

he's working on a logo for me .....a frame with you

[Roadkill_6mm]

well mine is a nickname which was given to me years ago in my youth when I was into Airsoft. I needed a name and someone said Roadkill. Usually Roadkill is taken on just about every forum, but the 6mm bit comes from airsoft too. Add the 2 together and I have a name which never seems to be taken!!

Neil

[icopus]

I've kept this moniker from since way back.

At the time of its creation, the suite of tools our company used for computer aided design of I.C.'s (Integrated Circuits or computer chips) was called Opus.

So it's not pronounced i.co.pus or i.cop.us. It's i.c.opus. But I'll answer to however you pronounce it. :)

[alex.hondsmerk]

Mine's pretty self-explanatory!

[ZchDnn]

Simple: my name without any vowels :D

[CanonCameraFan]

I've shot Canon almost exclusively since I began photography back around '86 with a AE-1P & FD50/1.8. I made this name for Ebay buying about 12 years ago, and was shocked it was available here just a few months ago! I did venture out a bit with a wonderful TLR Mamiya C33 w/105/3.5 I still have.

[Perfectly Frank]

May I be perfectly frank?

[scfan]

When I first registered with forums my interest was NASCAR racing. When I joined the first one, NASCAR was sponsored by Winston cigarettes, so I was wcfan, then Nextel became the title sponsor so I changed to ncfan. With the merging of Nextel with Sprint, I became scfan.
On the aviation and gun forums I am on I am 67N20, my military occupational specialty when I was in the Army

[JasonMK]

Back in the day I needed an AOL screen name for their dial up service (1995?). Jason was already taken, so being the creative man that I was I added a middle and last initial to my first name and my screen name was born. Every 30 days I needed a new one and ended up with JasonMK2, JasonMK3, JasonMK4, JasonMK5, JasonMK... (you get the point).

Now I've dropped the numbers on most forums. I'm kind of bummed that JasonMK was already taken on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/people/karampatsos/) and added a "TM" to the end.

[peeaanuut]

most people remove vowles from names to make them shorter, I decided to dbl em up. it was just a nickname I had so I stretched it out. But sometimes I tell people its a sweedish name pronounces "pay-ahhhh-noot'

[Gutterscum]

Random user name . I have a name I have used for years on other forums and time for a new one.

[jabtas]

Many, many moons ago when I first got online, I had to choose a unique username/email
rather than the typical Tim_345 etc that they give you I decided to go with something including mine, my GF and the dogs names (way before the kids came along)

Jazz
Amber
Bonnie
Tim
And
Sharon

[dirtylens]

Played baseball and softball my whole life ( short or 3rd). When a ball was hit in the gap, I would always yell to my team mate "Get Dirty!" ( Dive). To pump up my team I would always ask them if they were ready to get dirty. Stuck with me since I was a young one and they started calling me Dirt. Now that my kids are in sports I always tell them to " Get dirty". Love shooting sports, so Dirty Lens it was.

[hockeyplaya13]

Sigh- Mine I'm not so fond of any more lol. Created it way back in the 8th grade when I had just started playing hockey (and was OBSESSED) with it. When I created my first email account, hockeyplayer was already taken, so I had to go gangsta- and 13 is my self chosen "lucky number" (was born on Friday the 13th ;)). Wish I could change it now to the one I have started using for everything else- thompssc (combo of first and last name).

[Farley121]

Farley was a nickname I got in high school due to badly mispronouncing my last name, and catching me reading a Farley Mowat novel. The "121" was added years ago when another forum already had a Farley.

[Hard Drive Disk]

Well, it was sitting on my desk making noise. Just kinda worked out that way.

[I'm Sasquatch]

I'm 6'6", 270lbs and live fairly close to areas of claimed Bigfoot sightings. I'm not very hairy and bathe regularly so that might negate my Sasquatch claims. Rumor has it that I'm the first generation in my family to walk upright.