A rose by any other name ..... (OT)

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Posted By: Scott Gross

With the success of the "What you look like" and "Hobbies" thread, I'd thought it'd be interesting to find the "provenience of your on-line name" (if anyone uses the term 'handle' I'll scream).


Lefty, although no longer with us, was the "nicest, sweetest, kindest-to-your-motherest" dog that ever lived.
He was My Buddy ....

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

Anyone remember vwtdi? Its the one in the front and gets all but 50 MPG, the other one about 16 . Keith

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Posted By: warshawlaw

warshaw + law = warshawlaw

I use warshawlaw.net as my firm web address

boxing cards + man = boxingcardman

As most of you are tired of hearing, I collect boxing cards too.

I guess with this uncreative approach I should change my name to "Joe Friday" (just the facts).

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Posted By: jackgoodman

Livin' in Orange County and my name is Jack hence OCJACK.

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Posted By: Jerry

My forum name of TheBig 6 is obvious


But my ebay id of ticotiger14 is because I served on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. ticonderoga CVA14 during the so called Viet Nam Conflict.

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Posted By: jay behrens

sabrjay is SABRjay. SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research. I've had this internet handle (sorry, couldn't resist) since 1988 back when the only place to talk about anything was on USENET.

Jay

I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: joe brennan

My baseball # was 22..Simple

A scared man can't gamble and a jealous man can't work.

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Posted By: Martin Neal

Mafoli is one of the old French estates in St. Thomas. I lived there for a couple of years in the early eighties. Maybe some of you remember The Mafoli Hotel? Looking to get back there (or near there) soon. Ebay made me add a q to the end of it. hence Mafoliq

Thanks for the opportunity to explain that silly name!!

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Posted By: Dan Lundrigan

Not much creativity here. I am a sheetmetal worker and my name is Dan.Hence Sheetmetaldan.

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Posted By: Joe Jones

STEELIE DAN

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Posted By: Rich Klein

When I first got on line:

SABR -- Society of American Baseball Research.
Geek --- well you can figure that one out

Rich

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Posted By: Joe Jones

joe=joe
jo= slang for jones
20=havent figured that one out yet

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Posted By: Dan Lundrigan

Sorry Joe, but Steelie Dan sounds too much like that band from the 70`s.I could never stand listening to them.Maybe I could be SHEETMETAL-MAN and sound like some sort of Superhero!I just can`t go out and save the world when it`s raining or my sheetmetal suit will RUST!

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Posted By: jpaol99

jp = Justin Paul (first and middle name)

Aol= Aol was using it at the time I created my Ebay account

99= was the year when I created my ebay account

not very exciting or creative

jpaol99

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Posted By: J Levine

My screenname has a long history...my original screenname on USENET was Whiteness, a high school nickname given to me while I was playing basketball with my varisty team name (I am very pale/white and the team was predominately african american---and one of the guys knew I loved Richie "Whitey" Ashburn)...when IBM came out with a free online service called Promenade (the forerunner to AOL) my screen name was given a 3 because you were required to have letters and numbers...I had to shorten it to "Wite3" a few years later when Promenade officially became AOL and we had a limit on characters for e-mailing (no such thing as address lists in 1990 yet and you had to type out everyones screen name by hand). Was just easier for my trading groups and friends to type Wite3...

Joshua

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Posted By: David McDonald

My nom de keyboard is a pun on the name of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, Jazz Age cornetist and early adherent of the "Live Fast, Die Young" philosophy. The man had skills. Check it out: http://www.redhotjazz.com/bix.html

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Posted By: Joe Jones

I am sorry if that was corny. I was refering to the 70's band.

David- That is some great music. If I were to buy an album, which would you suggest.

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Posted By: Travis Anderson

T for Travis

Anderson minus the n

same as my personal email since they only allowed 8 characters.

eBay ID is just as creative: traviswanderson

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Posted By: Bill Kasel

ummm...I haven't quite figured mine out yet. Obviously I have no creativity.

:-|

"The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert"

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Posted By: Joann

Sigh. I guess I'll join the unimaginative side of the room. jmk59 = initials and year of birth.

But at some point, ability to remember it becomes more important than being imaginative, especially since the need for different formatted userid's, etc increases. I have only three or so, one of which fits almost any website, ERP, any format requirement out there.

J

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Posted By: Max Weder

My name is not "art", but "max" (yes, zach you knew that was coming)

"Baseballart" has been my ebay user name since 1997.

"baseballbook" (my true collecting interest)was taken, so "art" was adopted in reference to my spouse's works in the area http://www.ettinger.ca

Max

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Posted By: Anonymous

"yes, zach you knew that was coming"
The infamous Baseballart is so wise. Mzm55 stands for my dads name, Max, my name Zach, my dads name once again, and 55 for the year he was born.

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Posted By: Scott T

It has been said that exiting the water after a dive (and in a black wetsuit), I somewhat resemble the third largest land animal in the world.



Scott

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

Uffda is a mild Norwegian expletive - the kind of thing a stoic Norwegian bachelor farmer mutters under his breath after he accidentally stabs himself in the foot with a pitchfork. Very common in Minnesota and other parts of the midwest. My Mom's side of the family was Norwegian. 51=birth year.

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Posted By: Tom Hines

My name is litteraly my problem in life. I have rich tastes with a poor man's bank account.

Tom

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Posted By: Genaro

I was born on the feast of San Gennaro. My parents spelled it with one n after my Grandfather who came over here when his village was bombed out in 1917. He came over here at 13 and lived in a stable on Ellis Island and stayed there till he was 16 when he was married off by one of New York's finest mounted unit to his niece. I believe the spelling error was due to the name takers when he came off the boat. So they spelled it the same when I was born. A big deal if you was a Italian kid from NY. 007 was when I went to get my 1st email account Genaro . The 007 part is when I couldn't get just Genaro I choose to ad 007 because I loved James Bond movies as a kid. Corny I know.

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Posted By: JimB

E93 - I think it is obvious; I love the E93 set.
JimB

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Posted By: Brian Lindholme

The "story" (although I would not expect this to make a bestseller list)
behind the familytoad comes cyclically from Elton John's "Goodby Yellow Brick Road" where he speaks of going "Back to the howling old owl in the woods,hunting the horny back toad..."

I had that song on my mind when choosing a fantasy football team back in 1987, selected The Horny Toads and remained so until 1992 when I got married and migrated, drifted, slipped or otherwise transitioned to the Family Toads.

I almost chose the less remembered but much better anthem "The Last Resort" by the Eagles to serve as my nom de rotisserie, but I didn't want it to bring me bad luck and have me actually finish last...

Alas the Toads have won as many fantasy Super Bowls as the Seahawks whether they were Horny or not...

Signed,
Familytoad
Brian L

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Canjond

Can - Canfield
jon - Jon
d - David (middle name)

[also my AOL name]

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

A= Andrew
P= Parks
13= the number I wore in my baseball playing days

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Mine has to be the most unoriginal because its my dads ebay name. I used to have a 69 z28 and my initials are JD so i could say thats where i got it,but thats not where it came from

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Posted By: ramram

ramram - Well, considering my ebay id had to be at least six characters and my initials are ram...quite unique, eh?

Kind of like when I started my own business, I thought about a lot of unique names but came up with "Morgan Engineering". I've always figured there's alot to be said for name recognition. If your name matches up with your company name (or ID) people aren't left scratching their head quite as much.

Rob M.

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Posted By: Mike

Ozzy is my cocker spaniel. Zoe is my cat. I know there is no pulitzer prize in my future for that one.

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Posted By: pete ullman

i think my user id is self explanatory...i like to excavate!

pete in mn

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Posted By: ockday

ockday is "pig latin" for doc which is what I've been called for many years now even though I am by no means any type of doctor.

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Posted By: Bob

trophybob- The American Legion team I coached for many years was Fort Smith Trophy + Bob. Shortened to tbob for ebay ease.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Judge Dred (Fred) - my name is Fred (as if you didn't figure that one already). The Judge Dred part is because I dread seeing Old Judge cards because it usually means that I'm going to open my wallet yet again for another piece of card board, also, I like the Judge Dred(d) series. The JudegeDred2 is because I had a pretty bad hard drive failure and I forgot my N54 password so I started over again with JudgeDred2.

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Love and employment pretty much explains this one ...

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

bowlingshoegiverouterguy

I am a Budweiser true American Hero (no offense to the service men and women that are our true heros). I work as a night manager in a bowling center. It was dedicated to me one night during league as a joke so I one upped them and had shirts made up with that on the back and have worn it ever since as my work short. I have fun with it and the customers get a kick out of it. Shortened the name up for the board.

Lee

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Posted By: Cat

My name -Cat- is based on my EBay sales account handle (catonglue). "Cats On Glue" was the name of an intramural softball team I played on in undergrad (long ago).

Rose-hof_selig-sob (is my account I purchase in on EBay) was simply a message I felt strongly about. I felt it said a lot with very few character strokes...kind of like how they name race horses. Selig is in a role to judge Pete Rose, while Selig has less than a spotless record when it comes to following the rules of baseball. His loans from Pohlad were a strict violation of the rules of baseball...nothing ever came of that and he was COMMISSIONER at the time. It's a joke that he is called Baseball Commissioner. He is paid by the owners. He works for the owners. To pretend that he is some independent figure for the good of the game is also a joke. No one can really believe that the owners and Commissioner were blind to the steriod abuse...but the Commissioners Office turned their back because the owners were making money from it. At least there is no misconception as to who Donald Fehr works for.

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

My Net54 login ID is just a shortened version of my email address and they (also rather uncreatively) are simply the initials of the first names of the members of my family:

K = Kevin (me)
K = Kara (daughter)
K = Kyle (son)
K = Kelly (daughter)
and
P = Paula (wife)

That was also my original ebay handle until they forced us to change. My current ebay ID (ephman54) has to do with the nickname of my college's sport teams, Ephs or Ephmen (after the college's founder, Revolutionary War colonel Ephraim Williams), plus my football jersey number. My purple cow avatar is my college's mascot.

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Posted By: MikeB

Cliftons8-The Pizza joint I play softball for and My number

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Posted By: Greg

Having been a long time collector of Rhode Island brewery advertising as well as long time Red Sox fan and recent pre-war collector of Sox stuff, I use "HiNeighbor" because it was the slogan of the Narragansett Brewing Company from the late 40s through the 60s. Narragansett just so happened to be a major advertiser and supporter of the Red Sox. Many who are old enough will remember Curt Gowdey and his "Hi Neighbor have a Gansett" calls.

By the Way Kevin.....Have you ever seen a can of Purple Cow lager that was put out by Narragansett during the 60s for two class reunions? Thought of you when I saw your purple cow.
Greg

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Greg:

Now that is a collectible I'd love to get a hold of, but, knowing what the Williams reunion crowds are like, I suspect none survived intact!

Kevin

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Posted By: greg

Kevin, here's your cow. It was made for the 25th Reunion of the Class of 39. Some, but not many, did survive and they're pretty rare birds (but not as rare as the olive drab WW2 can - one of two known to exist - and the light ale at the far right). Hope you enjoyed seeing it.

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Greg:

That is EXCELLENT!

If you ever come across another one for sale, keep me in mind.

Kevin

P.S. Please email me a copy of the picture. For some reason I'm not able to copy it off Net54.

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Posted By: Geno

Mine comes from the aiplane I fly. I am a US Air Force test pilot on an exchange tour with the UK's Royal Air Force test center. I mostly fly the C-130 Hercules amongst other things. Although not as pointy and fast as some of the other stuff I fly, it is like being in a comfortable, old pick-up truck!

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Posted By: Josh Adams

My name is pretty "un-creative."

I collect vintage cards, and my favorite team is the White Sox. Henceforth, "vintagewhitesox."

My ebay ID is "bludemon." I went to undergrad at DePaul University, in Chicago.

Go Go White Sox
2005 World Series Champions!