This was something that I've wanted to do for a while, and I'm fully aware that it's been done before and may be a bit of a boring repeat for some of you, but I was reading joshw's "Just out of curiosity..." thread where kramer_vs_kramer says this:

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I can imagine the three K-Glaswegians (the KKK, if you will) being somewhat confusing. That's just a total coincidence. When I sign up for things I just make stupid names up off the top of my head, and I got the Kramer name off of the TV Guide. I have in the past used names like "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" (which was actually my first choice for this site, but it's too long), "Jeremiah Pulseduck" and the mighty "Spankatron 2002".

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Well, mine is simply my first name and last initial put together, or an alternate spelling of my full first name, minus the A: Joshwa. But that's not how I spell it. I spell mine with "ua" at the end, instead of the "wa".

I have a question for anyone. How do you pronounce Geoff?

Let's see...

Back in '84, when I started haunting the chat machines on BITNET, I needed to think up a handle. Since I was growing a beard at the time, "Fuzzyman" was the first thing that came to mind.

I'm entirely too lazy to think of something else, so I've stuck with it.

Sorry it's not more exciting.

When my father's father came to America from somewhere in Eastern Europe some 90 years ago, he anglcized his last name to Kaufman.

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I have a question for anyone. How do you pronounce Geoff?

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When I began using AIM, I wanted the handle "Journeyman Nate" but it was taken. So I took out the sylables.

Later in tribes, I found a cool warrior name: The old greek form of Jason(the guy with the argonauts), "Iason". Since then I've tried to switch all my handles to that. But for SC, I havn't gotten the email to my hacked-router accout to get my password. I don't mean to be whiney, but Brad, could do something about that?

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When I began using AIM, I wanted the handle "Journeyman Nate" but it was taken. So I took out the sylables.

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He didn't say he took out all the syllables...

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When I began using AIM, I wanted the handle "Journeyman Nate" but it was taken. So I took out the sylables.

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I hate to tell you, but your handle still has syllables in it.

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I had crabs for a brief period in the 80's and the nickname just stuck. I thought I could get away from it by smearing dog shit all over me so people would call me Dog Shit McGee but it didn't work. So now I'm just crabby.

Like I said in my very first post:
pita: pain in the ass

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Like "Jeff".

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Would there be any way of spelling my name with a G instead of J? I thought maybe Geosh but that would be "Jesh" wouldn't it?

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lessee...way back when in the days of bbs'ing, I started off as "Roo" mainly a throwback to my nickname as a child. Was on irc for years as "Roo" till the majority of 5 year olds wanted that nickname and wound up battling parents for the right to my name on irc blah blah. So, I changed it "Jael" just sounded cool.
Then I found out Jael was a hebrew lady who had no morals and lured a king of an enemy army into her tent then drove a tent spike through his head in retaliation for raping her friend...and became famous when Deborah sang about her.

There's a lot more Jael's on the web now, so I'm around as jaello, jaelski, bronwen, blah blah. Luckily, I didn't have to worry about it here, no other Jael's are silly enough apparently.

Well, it all started when I was 6. I had a new purple bicycle with multicolored streamers on the handlebars. It was a bit too big for me but I was determined to ride it anyway. So one day I was walking the bike around the house and stumbled and my bike started to head down a hill. I was too light to hold it back but I refused to let go and the bike and I started rolling down the hill. I crashed into a tree and scraped my hand pretty badly. I still have a scar from that incident. The bike was barely scratched, however, and I went on to enjoy it for several years.

What was the question again?

Here's my completely uninteresting nickname story...

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That strip was made for the last time this topic came up, so if you use its date as a guide, you should be able to go back in General Discussion and find the original thread.

Incidentally, Nate, you took the VOWELS out of "Journeyman". Since all words are built from syllables, "Journeyman" with the syllables removed is the same as "dog" and "antidisestablishmentarianism" with the syllables removed - nothing at all. It's like rice with the grains removed or the ocean with the water removed.

Vowels: a, e, i, o, and u.

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, b, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, and z.

All sorted now?

My name being Barry, shortened to Baz, because it was. Baz is a bit one syllable, plain, simple, what you see is what you get kind of name, which is fine for others but not me. Then it was just a case of Godzilla into Bazilla making the link at the letter z and the number 6.

Back in the day, I used to frequent a few BBSs, and went through a bit of a quakeworld phase, but I always just used my real name. And I'd see all these people with really po-faced names and they were like "You must call me Rorschach!". You know, like "look at my kewl nick d00d! I've been using it for 15 years!".

I could never bring myself to think of a name like that, and use it semi-seriously, so I figured I'd go to the opposite extreme, and use ridiculously over the top names.

My favourites were probably "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" because it tended to provoke occasional violent homophobic outbursts for no apparent reason and "Megaton B-Boy 2000" (yes- that was me!) just because it sounds kind of cool.

Although I am getting to like the Kramer name.

Bluebexq is actually Bluebex with a "q" accidently added when trying to press the "Tab" key.

Bluebex is an alternate spelling for Bluebec (surprise, surprise).

Back in the days of 1994, we used to play Scorched Earth, a wonderful freeware game on a 386. I used to play the blue tank, and so was known as Bluebec. James played the red tank, and was known as DaColonel. Quentin played the green tank and was known as frOGinsOck.

Yet another non interesting story.

Yeah... The name BlueBec is actually my invention - I had control of the keyboard at the time.

I found the original nickname thread. It is part of the venerable Colossal Geek thread, here.

My handle is my name mispronounced and misspelled. It's not that I don't want you demented bread boffers knowing who I am (unless you're the type of person who would ask, in which case I'd invite you to stay away from me). It's that I don't want "Tobor will cornhole you" to be the first thing that comes up when a family member or prospective employer types my name into Google.

I like movies. (flicks)
I am male. (a guy)

You do the math.

I am flickguy (or the_flickguy when there is an impostor about) on pretty much every single thing I'm on... unless it's from my very early days of the net, where I unimaginatively used my name (Darren_Blake). I'm all better now, though.

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Vowels: a, e, i, o, and u.

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, b, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, and z.

All sorted now?

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Zip is my nickname, so I was always "TheZipman" once I was introduced to the net. Eventually, that name started being used everywhere, so one day I decided to come up with a new name that no one else would ever use...and that just happened to be the same day that I first heard about a certain movie that gave me the inspiration for my current handle. That movie? You guessed it...Inspector Gadget! ;)

I was very tired last night. Please forgive my abuse of the english language.

That would have made a good DrP post though.

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Incidentally, Nate, you took the VOWELS out of "Journeyman". Since all words are built from syllables, "Journeyman" with the syllables removed is the same as "dog" and "antidisestablishmentarianism" with the syllables removed - nothing at all. It's like rice with the grains removed or the ocean with the water removed.

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my names short for 'my strip's are fucking fantastyic and if you dont agree you can fuck off and fuck youre fucking sister oh wait shes my lay well i supose you can fuck youre dog then yyou fucking motherfucking motherfucking fuckuing fucker'

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My handle is my name mispronounced and misspelled. It's not that I don't want you demented bread boffers knowing who I am (unless you're the type of person who would ask, in which case I'd invite you to stay away from me). It's that I don't want "Tobor will cornhole you" to be the first thing that comes up when a family member or prospective employer types my name into Google.

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As I've noted in the last discussion on this topic, my username, like kaufman's, is pretty boring. It's fine and dandy having all sorts of nifty aliases and such, but how the fuck can you keep them all straight? I don't have nearly enough brainpower to remember that the thirty or forty usernames I used to register various places. It wouldn't be so bad for things I use a lot, but it's pretty handy. For instance, I had to register to use homegain.com, which I did almost a year ago. Just recently I went back to use it again. I tried gabe_billings as a username, and voila, it worked. Anything weird and I'd have ended up registering again.

As a side note, I always thought that JrnymnNate was some weird play on germinate. The real story isn't as interesting.

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My handle is my name mispronounced and misspelled. It's not that I don't want you demented bread boffers knowing who I am (unless you're the type of person who would ask, in which case I'd invite you to stay away from me). It's that I don't want "Tobor will cornhole you" to be the first thing that comes up when a family member or prospective employer types my name into Google.

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You think if I go smoke him I'll get tougher, like in that Jet Li movie The One?

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It's that I don't want "Tobor will cornhole you" to be the first thing that comes up when a family member or prospective employer types my name into Google.

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You think if I go smoke him I'll get tougher, like in that Jet Li movie The One?

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Yes.

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I was told I was a chicka with attitude. Therefore...

I love it when this topic comes up. We should make it a part of the FAQ or something.

Back freshman year of college I was reading Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" series of books. In one of them there's this nifty virus that gives a whole planet life called descolada. I thought it sounded cool. I added the '99' a couple years later when I tried to sign of for Excite or something and a descolada already existed. Or something like that.

I also foudn out later that 'descolada' means 'unglued' in portugese. Somehow fitting for me.

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Yeah, it takes until page 2 of google to find out about your 20-year old alter-ego that's some goody two shoes Eagle Scout in the midwest.

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until a guy with a driver's license and a case of Seagram's in the trunk pulls up and offers them a little sojourn across the threshold of adulthood.

I mean, I hear that's how it's done.

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Bunnerabb is a cartoon bunny I made up after I was engaged to a chick whom I nicknamed "Bunny". I drew the character for years and had some publication offers that were for a single panel, and I passed because Bunnerabb In The Big Wide City is a strip. It's been my net-nick since 95.

P.S: I should have wireless broadband in about two weeks. See you all then.

P.P.S: Lady J says "yo" from Nebraska.

As many of you have already guessed, mine's simply "Debugman" spelled backwards. The nickname "Debugman" is, of course, in no way related to my degree in computer science.

OK, I lied.

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Not the playgrounds, stupid. If you're trolling a high school, you have to hit the parking lots. That's where the hotties hang out and bullshit about their toenails or whatever until a guy with a driver's license and a case of Seagram's in the trunk pulls up and offers them a little sojourn across the threshold of adulthood.

I mean, I hear that's how it's done.

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Around my parts, there's a renown occurrence of these kind of sucky crabs on account of low dissolved oxygen levels attributed to centuries of agricultural and industrial run off.

I still eat 'em.

Like the real crabby, I don't giggle so much at the skeet shooting thing... except for the last one NeoVid did for CC 110.

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Bunnerabb is a cartoon bunny I made up after I was engaged to a chick whom I nicknamed "Bunny".

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Around my parts, there's a renown occurrence of these kind of sucky crabs on account of low dissolved oxygen levels attributed to centuries of agricultural and industrial run off.

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My wife calls our cat "Bunny." The orange boy kitten is "Chicken." My wife once had a dog named "Kitty." And I, of course, am "Kitten."

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Oh yes, it goes without saying that we frequently call any given cat "Monkey."

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Another Chesapeake Bay resident!

Why didn't you show for the Arbutus meet?

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