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explain your screen name?
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Not a particularly great story, and incredibly nerdy.
I was 12 and playing my first online game, someone suggested coming up with a real screen name instead of using my initials. So I turned my head, and Star Trek VI was playing on TV. So I took the name "Praxis", after the Klingon moon.
It has the side effect of having the dictionary definition:
"practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills."
When I came to MR, the name was taken by some guy who posted only a couple times and left. So I tacked on my clan name to it (GFL) because I was in a hurry to ask a question IIRC and wanted to sign up.
I'd really like to get rid of the GFL, actually. I haven't been in the clan for ages and people keep addressing me as "GFL" on these boards
I was 12 and playing my first online game, someone suggested coming up with a real screen name instead of using my initials. So I turned my head, and Star Trek VI was playing on TV. So I took the name "Praxis", after the Klingon moon.
It has the side effect of having the dictionary definition:
"practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills."
When I came to MR, the name was taken by some guy who posted only a couple times and left. So I tacked on my clan name to it (GFL) because I was in a hurry to ask a question IIRC and wanted to sign up.
I'd really like to get rid of the GFL, actually. I haven't been in the clan for ages and people keep addressing me as "GFL" on these boards
Fat Elvis in a jumpsuit was much cooler than younger Elvis. But I'm not fat, or Elvis (he's working at a McDonald's in Kalamazoo Michigan).
Mine is kinda stupid as well. My initials are MOH. My wife's are JLH. Since mojlhanna didn't come off the tounge very well, I changed my wife's middle initial. (not legally, of course!!)
I use this user name for just about everything that does not require you to use an email address, including doing some COD UO multiplayer from time to time.
I use this user name for just about everything that does not require you to use an email address, including doing some COD UO multiplayer from time to time.
I am not a fan of soap operas, but a friend of mine 10+ years ago, was going around asking people to come up with their soap opera name by taking your middle name as your first name and the street you lived on as your last name. My middle name is Adrian and at the time I lived on Blaine Street. I thought it sounded cool (and a lot like a soap opera name ironically).
If I did the same thing now, my soap opera name would be Adrian Del Mar. Those two don't really go together though...
If I did the same thing now, my soap opera name would be Adrian Del Mar. Those two don't really go together though...
I live in VANcouver
I like MACs
and I'm a GUY
A few years ago I saw my real name attached to stuff I didn't really want it to be associated with, so I adopted a moniker.
It freaked me out when I went for an interview one day and the interviewer started off by telling me he had Googled me and asked questions about what he'd found.
Cheers.
I like MACs
and I'm a GUY
A few years ago I saw my real name attached to stuff I didn't really want it to be associated with, so I adopted a moniker.
It freaked me out when I went for an interview one day and the interviewer started off by telling me he had Googled me and asked questions about what he'd found.
Cheers.
Mine is EXTREMELY dumb i know, but i have had it since like 2000 or so, when i was in high school a friend of mine was setting up my aol account and asked me what i want my name to be and i didn't know and thought that i was cool and told him to put "pimp" or something like that and it was already taken so he came up with dapizimp, i later added 2000, then 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and finally didn't care to keep up after 2005. I told you all it was dumb. I wanna change it to my aol sn now, which is ibookseller pretty self explanatory
Excellent!
Mine's a reference to my stamina.
Mine is actually the latter half of a song title.
Excellent!
Mine's a reference to my stamina.
Mine is actually the latter half of a song title.
I have a friend in work who is totally, 100% convinced they shoot races horses when they're tired...
I have a friend in work who is totally, 100% convinced they shoot races horses when they're tired...
!!
They put them in the stables when they're tired...so they can go to sleep...like normal animals.
I have a friend in work who is totally, 100% convinced they shoot races horses when they're tired...
You just can't change some peoples opinions on things, no-matter how strange they might be!
(I LOLed)
My first choice was my real name (Blue) but it was taken by some butthead with one post who hasn't been back in years, so, I had to move on... then I was most upset that the username wanker was taken.
I had to go with iBlue (I, Blue)
wait... I've posted this already.
aaaaaanyway...
I'd like to hear from member: /"\/oo\/"\ I've got to hear THAT explanation.
it is, and thank you.your name is really blue? that's pretty cool!
Well both really. It seemed very fitting under the iCircumstances.
it is, and thank you.
I wonder what made your parents decide on Blue, and not say, Yellow, or Red
I wish my name was interesting like that :-(
UltraNEO* is the name i used to go under when playing online games, it's also the name of the domain where i write all my rantz... http://ultraneo.com
Yeah, when I was stationed in Korea we had the M1A1 Abrams. But when I was at Ft. Hood in Texas we had the brand new(at the time) M1A2 SEP tanks. Those things were freakin monsters.
it is, and thank you.
Well both really. It seemed very fitting under the iCircumstances.
I once knew a girl with Blue as her middle name.
Despite graduating from Cal...
or the University of California, Berkeley, I chose to represent San Francisco State University (SFStateStudent), which is where I'm presently pursuing my graduate degree. All those BEAR names (SteveBear, OskiBear, YogiBear), were wearing thin on me! I would have preferred: sunglasses24/7 if I had to do it all over again.
or the University of California, Berkeley, I chose to represent San Francisco State University (SFStateStudent), which is where I'm presently pursuing my graduate degree. All those BEAR names (SteveBear, OskiBear, YogiBear), were wearing thin on me! I would have preferred: sunglasses24/7 if I had to do it all over again.
