What does your Handle mean? 3

[CajunCenturion]

I know this isn't quite appropriate for this forum, but the forum owner gave me permission to start the topic as a means to help us get to know each other.

What does your handle mean, and how did that become your 'name'?

 

[CajunCenturion]

My handle is "CajunCenturion". It is a combination of "Cajun" which speaks to my local culture and "Centurion" which was originally bestowed upon me many years (don't ask) ago by my CB friends. The nickname has stayed with me every since.

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[SF0751]

I'm afraid that mine is boring - it's the initals of my first and last names, and the last four digits of the telephone number that my family had when I attended high school (many, many years ago!). I'm not very good at thinking up clever nicknames.

Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

 

[MakeItSo]

Mine was not first choice. The handle(s) I wanted to take first were already occupied.
My first choice would have been
[ul][li]MurphysLaw (clear)[/li]
[li]Columbo (one of my former nicknames)[/li]
[li]AndyG (derived from my name)[/li] or
[li]Moebius (character in one of my favorite novels, F. Duerrenmatt's "The Physicists")[/li]
[li]Spock (clear, I guess)
[/li][/ul]

Being a Star Trek fan, I thought Picard's standard response "Make it so!" would be a good choice and I was overweening enough to consider it also fitting.
Meanwhile I know that "MurphysLaw" would have been a muuuuch better choice!
(-:



[blue]The last voice we will hear before the world explodes will be that of an expert saying:
"This is technically impossible!" - Sir Peter Ustinov[/blue]

 

[BJCooperIT]

Mine came from a need to have a "professional" sounding email ID for sending out my resume. BJ - my initials, Cooper - last name, IT - Information Technology (what else?).

My "fun" ID is much more creative:
icdedbd1 - reads "I see de itty bitty one" with a southern accent.

[sup]Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.[/sup][sup] ~George Bernard Shaw[/sup]
Systems Project Analyst/Custom Forms & PL/SQL - Oracle/Windows

 

[RodKnowlton]

I don't recall where I got mine.


Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[WZUP]

I borrowed mine from an old T.V. show. One of the characters work at a radio station "WZUP" what's up.

 

[TheRambler]

Mine you might have guessed already:
"a person whose speech or writing is not well organized", that is why I wander in this forum...

The other reason I chose it is because I like the song "Ramble On" by Led Zeppelin (among many others).

 

[Dimandja]

I just knew that no matter which handle I picked I would have preferred another one -- no, I am not "Marvin".

And then, I figured my real first name will sound like a concocted handle anyway. You know, like showing at a toga party, wearing your regular everyday toga?

 

[flapeyre]

First initial, last name.

But, nobody has asked me what my signature means (click and drag on code box for answer).

[white]"Beam me up, Scotty!" (Latin)[/white]

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

 

[ZoomerZ]

You know, like showing at a toga party, wearing your regular everyday toga? :-D

Z is my favorite letter
oo means I am four-eyed
m married mother
e I have an e-mail address
r I am very restless, so I thought you want to know
Z my favorite letter so I decided to remind you

 

[lespaul]

a pun on the famous guitarist Les Paul

My name is leslie
my husband's name is paul

nope neither one of us plays guitar!

Leslie

 

[RodKnowlton]

When I'm not using my real name, I like to use ArchStanton.

It's the name on the grave next to the unmarked grave containing the gold in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[edfair]

have a long history as that, took out the space. But still get confused with the other one, who should really put a jr after his name.

 

[jancebk]

jancebk - comes from years ago when I signed up for AOL - Chose First name, middle initial, last initial, back in the olden days when you filled out paperwork to do so... apparently I left out the "i" in Janice (or the person who typed it in at AOL did).
The handle stuck, even tho I no longer use AOL.

Jan

 

[SQLSister]

Well the SQL part is obvious, sister becasue it indicates I'm female and it was alliterative, I was also listening to a song called Sister Psychic or some such at the time I had to pick a handle.

Most other places on the web I'm called HLGEM which is a shortening of the name of a horse I used to own, Holly's Little Gem.

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[aardvark92]

The college I attended had several old houses that had been donated, and it fixed them up to use as dorms. The house I lived in was full of nonconformists, and we chose the aardvark as our mascot. I use aardvark92 because aardvark was taken, and I graduated in 1992.

 

[sleipnir214]

Sleipnir is the name of Odin's magical eight-legged horse. The word has no particular personal significance -- I just discovered the word years ago and have been using it for my online activities for some time.

214 is there because, like aardvark92, there became many sleipnirs out there and I needed an additional number. 214 is related to my college fraternity days.


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[Stella740pl]

Most of my handle, except one letter, I've got at birth, since it consists of my first name and initials (not very creative, I know, but it wasn't a requirement). 740 part is related to my ethnical/cultural background. I don't feel like typing a lengthy explanation.

 

[hilfy]

Hilfy is a character in C.J. Cherryh's "Chanur" books. This series is about, among other things, a race of space-faring cats. Most of the business and space travel is done by the females because the males are less able to control their emotions - especially the more violent ones.

Hilfy is the niece of Pyanfar Chanur, captain of the ship "Pride Of Chanur". When I got my first cat after buying my house 8 years ago, I named her Hilfy because Pyanfar was too big a name to live up to and, as she was 6 weeks old, she was little fluffball. Hilfy or HilfyKitty became my persona across many of my on-line activities because it was a name that was very rarely already taken.

-Dell