What's in a name?

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My mom has called me Buzzy when I was good and Buzzard when I wasn't quite an angel. The number 4 is my favorite number and now just happens to be the number of kids I have.
 
Last name is Jacobson and I have been called Jake since I was 17. I retired from the USN, then too many years later I retired from GE. Just seemed a good fit.

Jake
 
mredburn said:
mine comes from an old Cherokee word that means
"He who just thinks he can make pens but really cant"
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If your pens are from "He who just thinks he can make pens but really cant" then I would hate to think of what that makes my pens. Must be something like "He who knows he can't make pens but enjoys creating sawdust".
 
Mine is easy. I am no one special and I live in MS so "justmeinMS" is perfect. As far as my business "Patriot Penworks" I bleed red, white, & blue and I make pens. :-)
 
My nickname comes from my Navy days. I was a Russian Linguist and most considered me a bit of a wolf. So RussianWolf was born and stuck.

I used it for a long time in my business too, but wanted to go more professional so now it's Michael T Shue Studios.

Just be careful what you name your company and register as your website. Pen Island ran into this when they first started out and still haven't fixed it apparently. Pen Island Pens - Home
 
Russianwolf said:
My nickname comes from my Navy days. I was a Russian Linguist and most considered me a bit of a wolf. So RussianWolf was born and stuck.

I used it for a long time in my business too, but wanted to go more professional so now it's Michael T Shue Studios.

Just be careful what you name your company and register as your website. Pen Island ran into this when they first started out and still haven't fixed it apparently. Pen Island Pens - Home
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I see what you did there.

Mines from my mom. I enlisted in the Corps and she smashes jarhead and Marine into Jyreene. I've been using it ever since. Not since 37 like some but it did start in the last century!
 
alankulwicki7 said:
My name came from NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki. He was a favorite of mine until he died in a plane crash in 1993. When I started selling on eBay, my screen name was alankulwicki7 and it's been with me ever since...
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Do you turn counterclockwise? (Polish victory lap!)
 
Russianwolf said:
My nickname comes from my Navy days. I was a Russian Linguist http://www.penisland.net/
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When I went into the WAC in 1961, I wanted to go the Army Linguistic School and study Russian! I was told after I finished basic that I couldn't go on a first enlistment. I was working in the Pentagon when I got married and my husband was transferred to West Point. I had just got transferred up there with him when I was notified that I had scored so highly on the Army Linguistic Test that they were going to go ahead and let me go the the Army Linguistics school on my first enlistment.

I was a newlywed. My husband was in New York. The school was in California. I politely declined.

So I wound up being a computer nerd instead.
 
I was on another forum where everyone was complaining about the "stupid screen names". I found this site that same evening and decided to just be me...
 
my first name is Seamus(pronounced like Shea-mus), Its Irish so its like the pronunciation of Sean. The 7227 is from my birthday(7 for July, 22 for the day and 7 for the 75, i just wanted to leave the five off, looked better to me.
 
My screen name has been Mick or Mick58 in every chat room or forum since my first computer around 96 or so. (58 is my birth year.) Some of my friends even call me by this since it's a nickname for Michael.
Our company name is MikCon Creations, a combination of Mike and Connie, my wife and CEO. She makes journals from old books and different bracelets and pendants from the pages left over. Nothing is wasted, customers love the idea of recycling or as she calls it, re-purposing.
Tag on my truck PEN GUY even makes me think I can make pens!
 
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I am a Kentucky Wildcats fan. Years ago, I wanted ukcats1 as a user name but somebody beat me to it. Since my name starts with an H, I added an h to ukcats1 and their you go. Been using this moniker for about 15 years now.:cool:
 
Prior to retirement I worked in church related vocations for 46 years in the area of Christian education. I became known as "our Ed man" in the various churches I served. The 2 was added some years before because the name "edman" was already taken on another forum I was joining.
 
When I took AutoCad years ago one of the class projects was to come up with a logo kike we were a business. My logo was an oval with PHd in it so that it looked the same upside down. Around the oval was Paul Huffman Designs. Shortened it to PHDesigns after that. email is phdesigns1 because the plain name was taken.
 
When I first started my computer business in 1980, women computer consultants were scarce on the ground. As a result, some people wouldn't even call me. So I started just using my initials on my business cards and other paperwork. Once I got in the door and they saw that I knew my business, it was never a problem. But I used SBWERTZ because it was "unisex" and didn't prejudice prospective clients against me just because I was a woman...which was a real problem at the time.
 
Back in 1998, I joined a Gator message board, and I was living in Panama City, FL. Pretty simple, really. It's just always stuck, although that same board now calls me "penama", because of my penmaking obsession.:biggrin:

Business name? I wanted something local to Gainesville, and my long-time neighborhood is known as Anglewood. I thought that sounded pretty cool for a business name.
 
After 26 years in the US Navy (serving in mostly aviation units) and another 20 + years working in the under-appreciated computer/information security field, I lost a lot of brain cells imbibing in uisce beatha (water of life). Trying to remember anything complicated or cute is not going to work for me anymore, hence the name, initials and date of birth.

Similarly, the unincorporated 'business' name -- Woods of Walsh -- is just a reference to me making things from wood -- and it is easy to remember (see the brain cell comment above).
 
So my soon to be name. ( I hope ) will be AnachitlPut which I love becouse of it ties to my family. My last name is Putman and if you fallow that back all the way to the early 1000's it will change three times. Putman Putnam and Puttenham. Put being the only part to neve change. As for Anachitl, it is the name of the last known family member. He was born abt 1,000 and was supposedly a champion of William The Conquer at the battle of Hastings.
 
I've used bjbear for years (the family car even has the license plate BJBEAR).
B is me, Bill
J is my wife, Jody
Bear is our son. We always called him our Pooh Bear when he was little.
Of course, back then BJ and the Bear was a TV show and it stuck.
BTW, my 36 year old son still grins when we call him Pooh Bear :smile:
 
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Now this topic made interesting reading this morning!!!

Mine is fairly simple. My brother got me into playing UO a long time ago. When I started to setup my account, I realized I needed a game name. Wasn't sure what I wanted to use, but I had been reading a book with Japanese characters. So I took a Japanese character's name--Sataro... I ended up keeping this name, not sure why...I've used it as my email address & all of my different Internet games have used this name. My business name is simply my initials & Woodcrafts. I use to make a lot of woodcrafts. So I thought I would get back involved in more than just pens. Needless to say names stick sometimes. I wish now I would have selected some type of name associated with pen making only. I realize with turning pens, I have no time to learn how to turn bowls or make other items.
 
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