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Old 08-29-2008, 03:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What's in a UserName?

Some of your user names aren't too wild.
MetroMPG
MazdaMatt
bennelson

Some I think just have to have an interesting explanation.
lunarhighway
basjoos
Daox

While others just mystify me.
steensn
groar
cfg83
i_am_socket
tasdrouille
millenniumtree

By nature I'm very curious (okay, nosy) and was wondering who would like to bare their souls and tell us the meaning, if any, behind their handles.
I'll go first. My name is Terry Chupp, so my initials are T.D.C. I thought about going with 'Top Dead Center', but I've been using that on various websites for awhile. Time for something new. My background is aviation, and we used the phonetic, or radio, alphabet quite often. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, etc. etc. etc. So when you say 'T.C.' phonetically, it's 'Tango Charlie'

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Old 08-29-2008, 03:47 PM   #2 (permalink)
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mines pretty easy. my name is Anthony Raine (pronounced "rain") Turturro.

when i first got into internet stuff in middle school, our teachers told us to never use our last name for an email address. they were pretty rabid about it, actually. not really sure why. i guess since the 'net was young and most people didn't really understand it. so that, added to the fact most people call me Tony, i decided on Tony Raine. then it just stuck.

plus it takes a lot less time to type than Anthony Turturro.
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Old 08-29-2008, 03:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Tango Charlie -

cfg are my initials. They are also (conveniently) a file extension standing for configuration on lots of computer systems, especially Windows. Soooooooo, I get to say I am part of most computer systems today.

I would rather just be "cfg", but someone always gets that before I come along, so I use a high number that I *know* will not be in use by anyone else. I picked 83 because it goes back to DOS filename.extension limitations, 8.3 characters.

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Old 08-29-2008, 03:52 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Some of your user names [...] While others just mystify me.
groar
short : groar is the shout of Totoro deep inside the forest during full moon nights.

long : Once upon a time... someone gave me the VHS of the movie "Tonari no Totoro" :

This person loves Japan. I didn't understood anything to this movie, even after seeing it twice, but I know nothing about Japan.
A few weeks later I was looking for a name for an open-source project. When "groar" came in minds I knew it was this one. Later I used this name as a nick and I'm always doing.

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Old 08-29-2008, 04:25 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Totoro Rocks (you gently to sleep)!

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Add a space somewhere along with an apostrophe to my forum handle and you can form "tas d'rouille", a French language expression (probably a province of Quebec regionalism) which literally translates to "heap of rust", or the more commonly used rust bucket.

It's the name my better half uses to refer to my TDI.
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Old 08-29-2008, 04:50 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I had to come up with something quickly a few years ago for another forum. I know times change, and interests fade, there's only one thing that stays the same...

Intials and Birth Year: R H 77

Nothing fancy...

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When I belonged to an off-road 4x4 club I had a trail modified '93 Isuzu Trooper that would go anywhere. I would spend a lot of time pulling Jeeps out of mudholes, so the call would go out over the radio to "send the super trooper to the rescue!" and a name was born.
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My old username from college, stuck with me ever since. Based on the comic book miniseries "Sword of Azrael" thus azraelswrd though it can be seen as Azrael's word, if you read it that way. I just wanted something different and last I checked, Az just wasn't a super-popular handle waaaaay back when in the early brunch period of the Wacky Wild Web circa 1994.
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Pretty simple really
Schultz is a nick I picked up working on trucks
Metro is waht I drive and love (I've had at least one in my driveway since 1995)
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