Rationale for your username

[Leon]

I always use my real name on the internet as it's a minor pet peeve of mine to see anonymous ramblings from behind a keyboard. But to each their own. I guess I should come up with some cool user id and still have my name in my signature line. Maybe later....

[h2oya311]

Thanks Andy - I completely missed that thread...I thought I was coming up with something original when apparently I was a few months late to the game.

There are still MANY out there who have not yet shared. I am very interested...

[jimivintage]

Not too hard to figure mine out!

jimi = my name
vintage = my love for vintage cards

My pic stems from when I collected the T206 McGraw back run....so I should probably change that one of these days.

.....and for what it's worth, I missed that thread on avatars, too, Derek!

[rjackson44]

reggie Jackson my idol

[bigtrain]

Obviously, for "The Big Train", Walter Johnson.

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by Leon

I always use my real name on the internet as it's a minor pet peeve of mine to see anonymous ramblings from behind a keyboard. But to each their own. I guess I should come up with some cool user id and still have my name in my signature line. Maybe later....

Except for the fact that most of us also make our real names visible (as requested by the Grand Poo-Bah of this forum) for all to see, in which case an anonymous screen name is hardly anonymous.

As far as why I chose the screen ID "Auggiedoggy" is concerned? I created the name (READ: ripped off from an old cartoon TV series) when I bought my first puppy, a Norwegian Elkhound. I wanted a canine-related screen ID so I went with a blast from the past - my past. Hence the name Auggiedoggy. The avatar is slightly confusing to those too young to remember the cartoon. The small dog is actually Auggie. The larger dog is his father, Doggie Daddy. My second reason for choosing this ID was that I wanted something mature and dignified. Something that reflected my true character.

[Myachelydra]

Mya is the genus name of the soft-shelled clam which was my wife's thesis topic

Chelydra is the genus name for the snapping turtle which was one of my research animals

[VoodooChild]

Hey Derek, I was a swimmer too. That is actually where my User ID comes from. My coach gave me the nickname Voodoo Child (eventually became just Voodoo) when I was 12. He said the lyrics of the Hendrix song "I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" reminded him of the way I swam. Unfortunately, that was the age of my last growth spurt and my swimming career burned out in High School. It did lead to life-long appreciation of Hendrix's music though which is why I still continue to use it online.

[kmac32]

Kmac32

At Cubs camp, they called me Kenny Mac so shorten it to Kmac and 32 was my uniform number so together.

Kmac32

[kamikidEFFL]

My name is based off my nickname I got back when we played poker. Kamikaze kid. EFFL stood for a league I was in and still today, Elite Fantasy Football League. So put them together and u got my name

[howard38]

Mine is dull. When I set up my first ever e-mail account I naively chose the address hrosen@hotmail.com. At that time there were evidently 37 other H Rosen's who had the same idea so hotmail suggest the 38. Occasional memory lapses force me to use similar e-mail/log-in names for all of my non-financial accounts so I have simply stuck with the 38.

[z28jd]

I used my first name back on the Full Count Board, but it seems like John was a common name back in the early part of this century, so I switched to my Ebay handle, which is really my dad's ebay name. So basically my name since before we switched over from FCB to Net54 has been my dad's ebay name. He likes Camaros, his initials are JD, not much else to it.

[thescooper]

The Scooper.........
When I was in bomb disposal in the British Army, I would always let the rest of the crew pick which areas to clear first and I would take what was left, 99 times out of a hundred I would find the most unexploded ordnance. I would then "scoop all the glory"
Simple