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Post by margamatix on Oct 1, 2005 14:42:54 GMT -4
I'm always curious about the user-names people choose. Some are straightforward, like JayUtah or peterb, others are less so.
As an example, Dead Hoosiers. I know a Hoosier is a person from Indiana, but why Dead?
Skinbath, Phantom Wolf, sts60, hubcapdave, why? Why hubcap?
My user name is the name of a company I used to run, repairing vintage pinball machines, one-armed-bandits, allwins and similar penny machines which are to be found at the British seaside.
I called the company "Margamatix", as a contraction of "Margate Automatics"- Margate being the town in which I live.
There's no "angle" to this, I'm just naturally curious!
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Post by LunarOrbit on Oct 1, 2005 14:55:05 GMT -4
There's a pretty boring story behind my name. Not really worth telling but I will anyway. When I first started making my website I used Tripod (a free host like Geocities) and I couldn't think of a good name that hadn't already been taken. I tried all sorts of word combinations that would describe what the site was about... I found that Lunar Orbit hadn't been taken. Eventually I bought a real domain name (very surprised that thespacerace.com hadn't already been taken) but I kept "LunarOrbit" as my user name. I pretend my username is where my messages orginate from, not who.
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Post by Dead Hoosiers on Oct 1, 2005 17:35:23 GMT -4
If you enlarge my avatar you'll see that it says at the bottom "a memorial to the astronauts of apollo 1." I was born and raised a Hoosier. It's for Gus Grissom. www.datamanos2.com/apollo_burning.html
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golfhobo
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DAMN! That woulda gone in the hole IF....
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Post by golfhobo on Oct 1, 2005 17:38:30 GMT -4
My AOL screenname is cat3ears. This is from being certified Category III on two positions on an RC-135 reconnaissance plane back when I was in the military. My crewbuddies said I could pick out any pertinent traffic in any language we were monitoring and alert them to start copying within seconds. So they called me Ears.
Now I use Golfhobo whenever given the opportunity to choose a different username. Started when I first got on the net in 2001. I was really ate up with golf back then (still?) and I was reading about golf courses in Minnesota that made the Golf Digest top 10. I went to their website and one thing led to another and got me to a forum in Grand Rapids, MN. I had to choose a new username, so I picked this one to show that I would go ANYWHERE to play golf! (that's CAULF for some of you! lol.) They've adopted me into their community and someday I hope to actually get up there and PLAY those courses!
Thanks for asking AND for explaining yours. I wondered where Margamatix came from.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 2, 2005 2:49:25 GMT -4
Mine's pretty boring too. I've always been a huge fan of "The Ghost Who Walks" (The comic series that is, not the dreadful movie starring Billy 'dimwit' Zane.) When I started programming (about 18 years ago) I started using the trading name of PhantomSoftware, and so when I started on Internet Chatting I carried on the idea with using Phantom. Then when I got into Forums, the first one I joined didn't allow me to have the Username Phantom so I had a think about it and attached the Wolf becoming PhantomWolf, and I have been ever since.
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golfhobo
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Post by golfhobo on Oct 2, 2005 3:22:18 GMT -4
I have two questions and this is as good as anyplace to stick 'em.
1) How do I get a kewl avatar like yours PhantomWolf?
2) Margamatix: What IS that in your avatar??
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Post by Kiwi on Oct 2, 2005 3:38:57 GMT -4
2) Margamatix: What IS that in your avatar?? We tackled that here: Incidentally, Margamatix, what's your avatar a picture of? I just can't work out what it is and I'm getting more curious by the minute. :-) Cheers I wondered the same thing, and concluded that it's the laundry of an aspiring politician thrown on the rails at a horse-racing track. And there's an annoyed English Sheepdog at bottom right with the top of its head and ears partly covered by the rose-type thingy that politicians wear. And continued here in Margamatix-like vein: Furthermore, because it is perfectly clear that the picture is that of a politician's laundry and therefore anyone who does not agree with me must be mentally deranged, I do not have to prove anything to anyone and should someone come up with evidence to the contrary I shall simply repeat and repeat and repeat - as if I'm a drunk - that it is perfectly clear that the picture is that of a politician's laundry. So there. Margamatix, bless him for once, actually replied in full. Which just proves that miracles can happen. And to answer the opening post, I'm a Kiwi -- what we New Zealanders informally call ourselves. The Kiwi is our native flightless bird. Luckily I found that here and at the BABB I didn't have to be Kiwi 8721.
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Post by margamatix on Oct 2, 2005 3:52:47 GMT -4
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golfhobo
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DAMN! That woulda gone in the hole IF....
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Post by golfhobo on Oct 2, 2005 3:58:10 GMT -4
Margamatix: Before I click that link to find out.... I'm not gonna get hit with that loud, computerized screaming that, "YOU ARE AN IDIOT HA HA HA HA HA HA!" again, am I?
Last time I did that, I clicked and walked away from my puter. Scared the BeeJeezus out of me!
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Post by Data Cable on Oct 2, 2005 4:01:18 GMT -4
Mine's just the concatenation of two fictional characters' names that happens to form a (non-sexual) double entendre.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 2, 2005 4:47:59 GMT -4
I have two questions and this is as good as anyplace to stick 'em. 1) How do I get a kewl avatar like yours PhantomWolf? It was done using an image off the net and Jacsoftware's Animation Shop. I have others I could have used to.
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golfhobo
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DAMN! That woulda gone in the hole IF....
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Post by golfhobo on Oct 2, 2005 4:53:18 GMT -4
Aha! A Navajo Dober-Swan! I should have known. Thanks, I can go to sleep now.
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Post by skinbath on Oct 2, 2005 11:13:42 GMT -4
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Post by gwiz on Oct 3, 2005 4:28:34 GMT -4
First used it when I was administrator (wizard) on a text adventure game, g being the initial of my first name.
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 3, 2005 4:31:48 GMT -4
"Count Zero" was the 'net handle of a character in William Gibson's novel of the same name. The first time he got on-line he got into a monumental pile of trouble. When I was setting up my first account, back in '93, I was nervous and wondered what I was getting myself into, so I used that name.
Incidentally, the Gibson character was making a double entendre when he took said handle. A 'count zero interrupt' is a programming term for a command that resets all buffers to zero.
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