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    Default What's in a username?

    For some reason everyone's username intrigues me. When I first signed up I tried all the usual variables and ended up with my initials: Scott James Taylor. Boring really. So it's your time to fess up, some usernames are obvious, some aren't. What does yours mean?
    -Scott

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    As you get older, your memory...something ...something...something..
    and apparently the passwords and pin's that are easiest to remember are the names of pets you had when you were a kid....'underfoot' was a cat we had (for a short time) when I was seven....(can't remember why we called him that though?)

    what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?

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    I tried all different names and they were all being used so I ended up using the name of the area where I live..
    Reality is no background music.
    Cheers John

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    I couldn't see any point (read that as - lacking in imagination) so used the first 3 letters of my first name followed by the first letter of my surname.
    Kev

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    In the 80's a movie Dances with Wolves came out and a guy in the office started to give everyone a Siuox Indian name.

    The day after a function with some big wigs of the ASX he gave me 'Bleeds through eyes after big night out'. It then just got shortened to 'The Bleeder'.

    To this day we still call each other by our Siuox names.

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    Around 15 yrs ago i was doing a fair bit of computer gaming with mates, i needed a gamer name so i picked Rattrap out of the air. Since then most of my mates call me Ratty & i discovered that i prefer being called Ratty or Rattrap rather than my real name John. Never liked the name John, for myself that is, so Ratty has just stuck. I was Rattrap long before the bloody transformers came out & hijacked my handle!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bleeder View Post
    In the 80's a movie Dances with Wolves came out and a guy in the office started to give everyone a Siuox Indian name.

    The day after a function with some big wigs of the ASX he gave me 'Bleeds through eyes after big night out'. It then just got shortened to 'The Bleeder'.

    To this day we still call each other by our Siuox names.
    I always assumed it was the result of a run in with a table saw or the like

    I think my username came about as a mash between the name of my dog, Oscar, and the Wizard prison in Harry Potter, Azkaban. Putting it midly, Oscar the dog is somewhat of a rascal who deems his own interests to be above all else. He's 3/4 mini poodle and 1/4 American Cocker Spaniel - poodle hyperactivity with cocker attitude . I have vague recollections of always threatening him with something like being "pamchenko'd" - from the movie 'The Cutting Edge', or being chucked in some sort of doggie prison. This ended up being named Ozkaban, and I kinda liked it so it stuck...

    Also, if that username is taken on a website, it means I registered before and forgot my credentials

    Cheers,
    Dave
    ...but together with the coffee civility flowed back into him
    Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour

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    Dog's name........think he must have been hanging around when I signed up.

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    When I sign up for a forum my first choice is my christian name, which is a less usual spelling of Damian (most people use Damien and some Damion and yes I've even seen Damiun, parents can be so cruel).

    If that doesn't work I've got a fairly rare motorcycle so guzzis3 is the next option. If all else fails I expand that to motoguzzi750S3, fortunately only had to use that once or twice. There were about 930 S3's built and I probably know half the owners in the world so...

    Makes remembering easier...
    I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
    We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
    Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?

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    Mine is all about my style of woodwork, rough, rustic, maybe not so rough or rustic

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    Mine? Well, any novice turner who has tried to master a Skew Chisel will know exactly what it's about.
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

    - Andy Mc

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    Mine is just my favourite timber.

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    My first choice, my nickname, was already taken, besides people would have expected a big bad bugger with his ears lopped off
    I live on the coast and there is an aquaculture farm a little further along. One of their boats, skippered by a mate of mine at that time happened to go past. It was the Seriola, the scientific name of the Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) that they produce.
    Well it's gotta be better than if they were farming groper!!

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    three letters from the middle of my surname and the year I was born.
    Don't force it, use a bigger hammer.

    Timber is what you use. Wood is what you burn.

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    The initials are my usual ones (and were my reference on professional correspondence when I first started work as a lawyer). When I became a partner of that firm, my reference became the number. I worked so hard to get it that I keep it as a reference even tho the firm and I parted company over a decade ago.
    Cheers

    Jeremy
    If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly

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