The Nickname we choose....
Thursday, August 1, 2002 by joetheblow | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Why did you choose the nickname you chose???
I chose joetheblow because I'm just an ordinary Joe Blow. I put my pants on one leg at a time, I have a wife, 2.5 kids, single, live with my parents, about to go to a retirement home, highschool teenager, college graduate, voting, non-voting, citizen, alien, yada yada yada...you get the point.
So I have meaning behind my name. Does yours? Or is it just a name you came up with? (nothing wrong with that!!!)
I have alsonoticed that some people wanted to change (or have) their nickname, why???
I chose joetheblow because I'm just an ordinary Joe Blow. I put my pants on one leg at a time, I have a wife, 2.5 kids, single, live with my parents, about to go to a retirement home, highschool teenager, college graduate, voting, non-voting, citizen, alien, yada yada yada...you get the point.
So I have meaning behind my name. Does yours? Or is it just a name you came up with? (nothing wrong with that!!!)
I have alsonoticed that some people wanted to change (or have) their nickname, why???
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Transmutate
Reply #23 Thursday, August 1, 2002 9:23 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, August 1, 2002 9:23 PM
Transmutate comes from Charles Darwin's first theroy of evolution, transmutation.
When I signed up at skinz.org many moons ago I was reading a book about Darwin's life...I needed a username...I've been using this name ever since
When I signed up at skinz.org many moons ago I was reading a book about Darwin's life...I needed a username...I've been using this name ever since
juni
Reply #24 Friday, August 2, 2002 1:12 AM
Reply #24 Friday, August 2, 2002 1:12 AM
I've had this "handle" since the 80s, it is actually short for something.
juni
Reply #25 Friday, August 2, 2002 1:14 AM
Reply #25 Friday, August 2, 2002 1:14 AM
....forgot to say: I started using it when I was mushing (I bet you youngsters don't know what that means 
) on TinyMUD.
) on TinyMUD.
Mr Benn
Reply #26 Friday, August 2, 2002 4:28 AM
Reply #26 Friday, August 2, 2002 4:28 AM
Mr Benn was a kids TV cartoon show in the 70s - don't know if it was shown anywhere outside the UK. Because of my surname (Bennett) I have always been called Ben or Mr Benn.
planetmonkey
Reply #27 Friday, August 2, 2002 7:02 AM
Reply #27 Friday, August 2, 2002 7:02 AM
Back in 1999, when I started my first real job in a bank. There were a few young guys there and we were just starting to get into HTML. We were discussing email names and domains and stuff, and my email [still is] decorum2000. Decorum is the name of a band I play in. So I picked that.
My mate Stu said, that's gay, why don't you have a cool email address, like ninja space monkey, or something.
That got me thinking, and after we got into HTML a bit more, I registered the domain name planetmonkey.co.uk in 1999/2000, and set up a crappy site. Just because I thought it would be a cool domain.
And now I use planetmonkey as my handle for loads of sites. Although I don't use the domain anymore (I think it redirects to my new site.)
I've since register lunamonkey.co.uk (this is not a shameless plug), but I never use it as a handle. It just didn't stick. [Luna has nothing to do with XP, Luna as in moon.]
And that's the story of my stupid handle.
My real name's Chris, but I'm about 200,000 members too slow for that one
lanetmonkey:
My mate Stu said, that's gay, why don't you have a cool email address, like ninja space monkey, or something.
That got me thinking, and after we got into HTML a bit more, I registered the domain name planetmonkey.co.uk in 1999/2000, and set up a crappy site. Just because I thought it would be a cool domain.
And now I use planetmonkey as my handle for loads of sites. Although I don't use the domain anymore (I think it redirects to my new site.)
I've since register lunamonkey.co.uk (this is not a shameless plug), but I never use it as a handle. It just didn't stick. [Luna has nothing to do with XP, Luna as in moon.]
And that's the story of my stupid handle.
My real name's Chris, but I'm about 200,000 members too slow for that one
lanetmonkey:
feline
Reply #28 Friday, August 2, 2002 7:37 AM
Reply #28 Friday, August 2, 2002 7:37 AM
well, i like cats more than people, so it just seemed natural
feline
Reply #29 Friday, August 2, 2002 8:01 AM
Reply #29 Friday, August 2, 2002 8:01 AM
feline *impressed* with Fuzzy Logic
there arent many other places i am familiar with where such a post would fit in
it was most interesting, but you dont actually seem to have answered the question of why?
there arent many other places i am familiar with where such a post would fit in
it was most interesting, but you dont actually seem to have answered the question of why?
Jafo
Reply #30 Friday, August 2, 2002 10:56 AM
Reply #30 Friday, August 2, 2002 10:56 AM
Extract from my 'ReadMeFirst.txt' as included in my LiteSTEP themes....you know, the bit you are 'supposed' to read FIRST....like you are 'supposed to 'RTFM'....
"JAFO" is Airforce/Navy derrogatory slang for an Observer [co-pilot].
[The movie "Blue Thunder" with Roy Scheider made reference to the term].
I've worked as an Observer[communications] Official at the Australian
Grand Prix for the past 23 years [and the 500 Motorcycle Grands Prix - MotoGP], World Superbike Championship, US Le-Mans Series, World Touring Car Championship, and not to mention the first Nascar race outside the U.S., hence the name.
BTW, JAFO = Just Another F**king Observer.
[People only ever seem to be aware of the Trackside Flag Marshals, and any
other Trackside Officials go un-noticed.]
My sympathies go to the family of the Fire-Marshal who was killed at
Monza 2 years ago [2000].
And to the family of a friend and colleague, Graham Beveridge, killed at
Turn 3, during the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne March 4,
last year [2001].
We do a dangerous job.
"JAFO" is Airforce/Navy derrogatory slang for an Observer [co-pilot].
[The movie "Blue Thunder" with Roy Scheider made reference to the term].
I've worked as an Observer[communications] Official at the Australian
Grand Prix for the past 23 years [and the 500 Motorcycle Grands Prix - MotoGP], World Superbike Championship, US Le-Mans Series, World Touring Car Championship, and not to mention the first Nascar race outside the U.S., hence the name.
BTW, JAFO = Just Another F**king Observer.
[People only ever seem to be aware of the Trackside Flag Marshals, and any
other Trackside Officials go un-noticed.]
My sympathies go to the family of the Fire-Marshal who was killed at
Monza 2 years ago [2000].
And to the family of a friend and colleague, Graham Beveridge, killed at
Turn 3, during the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne March 4,
last year [2001].
We do a dangerous job.
werewolf
Reply #31 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:12 AM
Reply #31 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:12 AM
somewhere around the time I hit puberty, I started feeling very weird everytime there was a full moon. It was very distressing to me and my brother (with whome I shared a room 
My parents built me a special bedroom below basement level and told me I had to stay there when I started feeling this 'weirdness' at night. I kept asking them why all this was happening, but they never really told me anything, just vague references to a "family" thing and "oh, it's just your hormones kicking in" and "everybody goes through this", yada, yada. Until the 'change' started. It had gotten to a point that it was very hard to just ignore all this stuff and follow my parents blindly. So one night, during a harvest moon (also a blue moon iirc) I went down in my little room, but I jimmied the lock so it wouldn't engage when my Dad locked it. I went to bed. The next day, when I woke up, I noticed that all the muscles in my body were really sore and I had scratches on my legs. I had absolutely no idea what had happened. This was pretty scary. I ran up the stairs to find out, once and for all, what was going on. When I got to the kitchen, my Mom and Dad were sitting at the table along with a very odd looking gentleman.......
My parents built me a special bedroom below basement level and told me I had to stay there when I started feeling this 'weirdness' at night. I kept asking them why all this was happening, but they never really told me anything, just vague references to a "family" thing and "oh, it's just your hormones kicking in" and "everybody goes through this", yada, yada. Until the 'change' started. It had gotten to a point that it was very hard to just ignore all this stuff and follow my parents blindly. So one night, during a harvest moon (also a blue moon iirc) I went down in my little room, but I jimmied the lock so it wouldn't engage when my Dad locked it. I went to bed. The next day, when I woke up, I noticed that all the muscles in my body were really sore and I had scratches on my legs. I had absolutely no idea what had happened. This was pretty scary. I ran up the stairs to find out, once and for all, what was going on. When I got to the kitchen, my Mom and Dad were sitting at the table along with a very odd looking gentleman....... 
Kinrik
Reply #33 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:42 AM
Reply #33 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:42 AM
Hey, wouldn't it be cool to write a story one sentence at a time, where each entry had to be made by a different person?
That would probably suck...actually, each writing one paragraph would be cool, with like 3 sentences per paragraph max, so you can get an idea across before someone looses the momentum
That would probably suck...actually, each writing one paragraph would be cool, with like 3 sentences per paragraph max, so you can get an idea across before someone looses the momentum
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #34 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:43 AM
Reply #34 Friday, August 2, 2002 11:43 AM
feline...the answer above is fuzzified, its so fuzzy, no one can understand it...just like me
BoXXi
Reply #36 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:19 PM
Reply #36 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:19 PM
A few years ago, I started a small company making flight cases, (You know, those silver shiny metal boxes that protect cameras and musical instruments etc.) and I needed a short snappy memorable name for advertising. I came up with BoXXi, 'cos it looked good on the letterheads when the two X's were written in a different font.
What an exciting story! yawn..................
BoXXi wonders if werewolf displays any Lycanthropic tendencies?
What an exciting story! yawn..................
BoXXi wonders if werewolf displays any Lycanthropic tendencies?
feline
Reply #37 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:27 PM
Reply #37 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:27 PM
Fuzzy Logic - the answer above is fuzzified, its so fuzzy, no one can understand it...just like me
actually it made a lot of sense to me
feline wonders if this is a good or a bad sign
actually it made a lot of sense to me
feline wonders if this is a good or a bad sign
feline
Reply #38 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:31 PM
Reply #38 Friday, August 2, 2002 12:31 PM
BoXXi wonders if werewolf displays any Lycanthropic tendencies?
well, when he gets all hairy and growley he makes an exceptionally good cat bed, and when he wakes up is great fun during hunting games in the forests
well, when he gets all hairy and growley he makes an exceptionally good cat bed, and when he wakes up is great fun during hunting games in the forests
Bangkokboy
Reply #39 Friday, August 2, 2002 2:52 PM
Reply #39 Friday, August 2, 2002 2:52 PM
Someone please explain to Bangkokboy what juni was mashing. 
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Reply #21 Thursday, August 1, 2002 8:38 PM