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rjwolfe3

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behind your username?:smile:

I thought this could be a fun thread. Some are obviously a person's name and some are their business name but I have always been curious as to why some people have chosen their username.

I will start this with mine. Mine is my first initial and middle initial followed by my last name. The number 3 is because I am the third Robert J Wolfe in our family line. Made sense to go with rjwolfe3!

So what's the story behind yours?:biggrin:
 
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Duroc - I pulled it out of a book by Stephen R. Donaldson. It's one of the seven words of power in that book. Turned out later it's also a breed of pig. :eek:

I had duroc@hotmail.com way back before Microsoft bought Hotmail. They told me that there was already a duroc@microsoft.com address, so I couldn't keep it and hosed me. I chose durocshark for the Hotmail account since I was (and am) a shark fiend. It's kinda stuck.
 
mbroberg is pretty self explanatory. It's the user name that was assigned to me at work so I pretty much use it all the time.
 
After the two hurricanes of 2004, there was so much wood to be salvaged, plus the fact that any idea of a business was destroyed, I could no longer purchase wood so I have since been turning wood native to Florida: nativewooder! (I do still occasionally purchase wood for personal use.)
 
wood-of-1kind = "one-of-a'kind" as I usually do only one(1) of whatever it is that I do. I don't like mass production when it comes to 'art'.
 
Snyiper -Well it was going to be sniper because that is what I did during my paintball hey day. Sniper was taken so this is my spin since day one about the the time I used Prodigy to access the net....lol I was asked by my daughter to change it during the sniper attacks several years ago but never did.
 
I bought my first guitar back in '63, thinking that I could be the next Elvis, since he was getting a little "long in the tooth". I learned that the first version of "You ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog" was Big Mama Thornton, so I got heavily into the blues (surf music was popular back then). Began studying Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson and the like. Played at an open mic night and the MC asked who I was. I said "I'm a Bluesman." He asked where I was from and I replied "DC". It just kinda stuck, although most folks just referred to me as either DC or DCB.
 
In 1996 I decided I was going to try and follow my Grandfather and brother in the world of truck driving. My brother first gave me the handle ( C B User name ) of hill climber but decided to give me the handle of Gabby after I spent a lot of time on the CB. truck driving did not stick but the name did. The king part because I wanted to sound royal.
 
When I first started doing craft shows some 22 years ago I fell in love with the idea of making clocks. This was one of my best selling items over the years and because everyone needs clocks it has worked out well. My customers or just people passing used to refer to me as the "clockman" especially when they are trying to describe to someone what I make. Well I took it and that became my handle when I joined the internet world and just added my first and last initial to it.
 
Well, mine is my first name (Jon) and the rest is my Amateur (HAM) radio call sign. Its a vanity call. My original call was KD5TUF. I was volunteering so much at the National Weather Service I had it changed to WX5NCO
WX=weather
5 = my call region
NCO = Net Control Operator
 
My son and I started selled our turned items to be able to make more charitable donations....thus "Good Turns"...theme continues as we donate 10% of all sales to charitables, some items (lou's autism pens, all of my pink pens) get 100% of profits donated to those specific causes. Makes it worthwhile.
 
I've been asked this question a few times. Being a Nascar fan, I built this '78 El Camino with genuine Dale Earnhardt decals from Richard Childress Racing. My nephew labeled it the "Dalecamino". In searching for a user name for IAP it came to mind. And I haven't changed it.
 
When I signed up on a different forum a few years back everything I tried was taken so I took what was suggested. It was a very large forum more than a million users now. So the next forum I signed up for I was feeling lazy about trying to get what I wanted and it came to me "lazyguy"
 
I was leading a dive vacation to the Bahamas and one of the people said "Crayman will take us to Cayman Island", instead of Craig ... that was 15 years ago and I still get called it by my dive buddies.
 
Mick has been a nickname for years....so it was just easier to use itfor any forums I join.

Our business name MikCon Creations is shortened from Mike and Connie...who'd of thunk it? :biggrin:
 
I usually go by 'Canuck' but I think it was taken when I signed on here so used the morphed name from my furniture building days...:wink:

Just wondering if the 'Canuck' handle ever became available if I could get it? Someone has it right now, although it looks like a dormant account...:cool:
 
I am an Episcopal Priest, and in my first parish one of my really great parishioners called me Padre, and I've used it as an online moniker since.
 
DurocShark said:
Duroc - I pulled it out of a book by Stephen R. Donaldson. It's one of the seven words of power in that book. Turned out later it's also a breed of pig. :eek:
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It's funny how you eventually associate someone's handle with a specific item...I always thought yours was from the 'drywall compound'...not sure if it's still used for that? :smile:
 
When i bought land in the PA mountains for our vacation cottage back in the winter of 94. We then went up that spring and i was amazed at all the waist high ferns and tall timbers. That is the two handles i use on the internet, fernhills or talltimbers.
 
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