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  • bigstick509
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2004
    • 1227
    • Macomb, MI, USA.
    • BT3100

    What does your forum name/handle mean or stand for?

    Not sure if this has been done before but I picked up the idea over at the FOG website.
    My forum name comes from baseball nick name and date of birth.

    Mike

    "It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain
  • leehljp
    Just me
    • Dec 2002
    • 8429
    • Tunica, MS
    • BT3000/3100

    #2
    My moniker comes from my original attempt at making a handle for use on the internet with AOL back in the early 90's. Back then with one computer for whole family, my moniker was intended to be for me and for LOML. We had a compuserve account with what seemed like a 40 digit number for identification. Hated that. Was glad that AOL back then was more accomodating.

    LEE - family name
    HL - Hank Linda
    JP - Japan, our location at the time.

    Since many names are common and taken on different websites, it has been easy for us to add "jP" or "jpn" to our name which does make it unique.
    Hank Lee

    Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!

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    • dangre
      Norum Fewbie
      • Oct 2009
      • 78
      • Gardnerville, NV
      • BT3100-1

      #3
      Originally posted by bigstick509
      nick name and date of birth.
      Mike's 105!!! Oh wait, 5/09 is month/day, not month/year. Whew.
      Like Lee, mine is computer related. In the early days, a standard Unix login was the first three letters of your first and last names. So, Dan Grebinski became dangre and I just stuck with it over the years. It's not the British spelling for danger, as many think.
      Dan

      In a recent survey, 4 out of 5 hammers preferred thumbs.

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      • Bill in Buena Park
        Veteran Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 1865
        • Buena Park, CA
        • CM 21829

        #4
        Bill = my first name

        Buena Park = city where I live.
        Bill in Buena Park

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        • Carpenter96
          Established Member
          • Aug 2011
          • 178
          • Barrie ON Canada
          • BT 3000

          #5
          Mine is simply
          Carpenter = what I do
          96 = football sweater number
          Regards Bob

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          • Turaj
            Veteran Member
            • Dec 2002
            • 1019
            • Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
            • BT3000 (1998)

            #6
            Nothing fancy here!! Just my first name!
            Turaj (in Toronto)
            "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading!" Henny Youngman

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            • Pappy
              The Full Monte
              • Dec 2002
              • 10453
              • San Marcos, TX, USA.
              • BT3000 (x2)

              #7
              Nickname hung on me by SgtMaj I worked for before I retired.
              Don, aka Pappy,

              Wise men talk because they have something to say,
              Fools because they have to say something.
              Plato

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              • atgcpaul
                Veteran Member
                • Aug 2003
                • 4055
                • Maryland
                • Grizzly 1023SLX

                #8
                In my first real job in and out of college for 8 years, I helped elucidate the DNA sequence of the first eukryotic plant genome, Arabidopsis thaliana. ATGC are the four nucleotides that make up everyone's DNA--adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Paul is my first name.

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                • capncarl
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jan 2007
                  • 3564
                  • Leesburg Georgia USA
                  • SawStop CTS

                  #9
                  Mine was a handle started by lock masters on the Chattahoochee river in my earlier years when I was operating large boats. It did not meet a lot of approval when I started working on a USMC base around ocifers that threw threw their titles around to impress others.
                  capncarl

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                  • russde
                    Forum Newbie
                    • Aug 2013
                    • 50

                    #10
                    My childhood nickname within my family was Rusty (to distinguish me from my dad, Russel Sr)...years later (also around the AOL dominance era) I realized that the first two letters of my last name combined with the shortened version of my first phonetically equals my old nickname and have used combinations of it since.

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                    • dbhost
                      Slow and steady
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 9209
                      • League City, Texas
                      • Ryobi BT3100

                      #11
                      It was the computer account name I was given in High School back in the 80's. first initial, middle initial, first few characters of last name.
                      Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Please check out and subscribe to my Workshop Blog.

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                      • atgcpaul
                        Veteran Member
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 4055
                        • Maryland
                        • Grizzly 1023SLX

                        #12
                        Originally posted by dbhost
                        It was the computer account name I was given in High School back in the 80's. first initial, middle initial, first few characters of last name.
                        Slapping myself on the forehead! I always thought "Database host".

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                        • Condoman44
                          Established Member
                          • Nov 2013
                          • 178
                          • CT near Norwich
                          • Ryobi BT3000

                          #13
                          Lived in a condo

                          and was always fixing stuff for folks that couldn't or wouldn't. Name stuck from that.

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                          • LinuxRandal
                            Veteran Member
                            • Feb 2005
                            • 4889
                            • Independence, MO, USA.
                            • bt3100

                            #14
                            Originally posted by dangre
                            Mike's 105!!! Oh wait, 5/09 is month/day, not month/year. Whew.
                            Like Lee, mine is computer related. In the early days, a standard Unix login was the first three letters of your first and last names. So, Dan Grebinski became dangre and I just stuck with it over the years. It's not the British spelling for danger, as many think.
                            Sure it isn't danger, as the stuff in the shop goes flying.

                            I think mine is a little obfuscated. Choice of OS and name.
                            She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.

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                            • dbhost
                              Slow and steady
                              • Apr 2008
                              • 9209
                              • League City, Texas
                              • Ryobi BT3100

                              #15
                              Originally posted by atgcpaul
                              Slapping myself on the forehead! I always thought "Database host".
                              Oddly enough I am NOT a database guy. I am a systems guy... Yeah actually in a lot of web software you see the string dbhost used to set a remote database host... But alas, that isn't where that name came from. Back in the day as it were, usernames were limited to 8 characters on the systems they used at our school, They were Apple II machines but they had some kind of directory type network service, Apple Talk or something like that, any way the school district standardized on first and middle initial, first 4 chars of last name, and then space for 2 digits if there were say 5 John A Smith's, so there would be jasmit, jasmit1, and so on...

                              It worked, for a while...

                              Modern operating systems don't have that limitation, but remember, the systems we were working on had 512K and that was considered a LOT for that time...
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