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« Reply #350 on: July 03, 2014, 09:19:18 AM »
Snow White for a couple of reasons.  I looked a bit like the Disney depiction of her when I was younger and I have a number of photos of me at costume parties in various Snow White costumes.  The bad girl in me likes the whole seven guys to myself scene.  Enough said. ;)

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« Reply #351 on: July 03, 2014, 02:15:47 PM »
  The bad girl in me likes the whole seven guys to myself scene.  Enough said. ;)

HAH!

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« Reply #352 on: July 03, 2014, 03:08:37 PM »
Snow White for a couple of reasons.  I looked a bit like the Disney depiction of her when I was younger and I have a number of photos of me at costume parties in various Snow White costumes.  The bad girl in me likes the whole seven guys to myself scene.  Enough said. ;)
Some BF I had as a teenager (years ago) had a porno movie called "Seven Into Snowy". I didn't see it but you can imagine :-)!

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #353 on: July 03, 2014, 03:12:44 PM »
Getting help is the first step. Here at guitars anonymous you have a safe environment in which you can share your struggles.

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They're just not in tune with you.

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« Reply #354 on: July 03, 2014, 03:18:40 PM »
I have used the same internet username since the good ole days, but for whatever reason I decided to be more anonymous here. Maybe because we are talking dollars and I DON'T KNOW YOU GUYS. So, hoodedfalcon came about because of a really random rabbit hole internet search I was on the same day I registered on MMM. No real story at all. The stapler lives on my desk at work.

However, it has recently come to my attention that hooded falcon is slang for an uncircumcised penis. Which is fine, but, um... is there any way to change a username?

....and you are at "Magnum" status...
..... And your location is "the deep and dirty".....

Coincidence?
« Last Edit: July 03, 2014, 03:20:49 PM by G-dog »

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« Reply #355 on: July 03, 2014, 03:25:23 PM »
Moderators, please change G-dog's mind's location to "the gutter."

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« Reply #356 on: July 03, 2014, 03:27:54 PM »
This thread is so awesome! 

Arebelspy:  I always read your name correctly, but I was picturing "rebel" as being in reference to the Confederacy.  I always consider you and "grantmeaname" to be adversaries. 

Mine is obvious, I suppose.  I like the play on words of "mustache" and "misstache" and obviously I am a Miss.  That is my picture, but I'm sorry to say the mustache is fake.

... But the beard is real?....

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« Reply #357 on: July 03, 2014, 04:19:53 PM »
G-dog

"G" is the first initial of my nickname;
Dog relates both to my love of canines, and Like the OP Cheddarstacker, a homage/joke related to rap culture...

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« Reply #358 on: July 03, 2014, 04:20:49 PM »
Moderators, please change G-dog's mind's location to "the gutter."

Word!

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« Reply #359 on: July 10, 2014, 02:04:43 PM »
Well, I am an Indian. No, not Native American but the India Indian.

A long time ago, my first job in the US had a dress code where I had to to wear a suit. As someone who was forced thru school to wear a tie every day (school uniforms are standard in India), I hated ties.

So, one day, I decided to wear a bola tie, which I thought was so cool, since I grew up reading westerns. This was in NJ, where bola ties are not very common.

So my boss tells me "You can't be a cowboy and an Indian"



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« Reply #360 on: July 10, 2014, 03:07:45 PM »
Bako = Bakersfield
"The gateway to Barstow" as Johnny Carson called us.

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« Reply #361 on: July 16, 2014, 05:41:26 AM »
Ours is pretty self-explanatory. At least I hope so.

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« Reply #362 on: July 16, 2014, 05:56:52 AM »
Ours is pretty self-explanatory. At least I hope so.

You win the prize for most mustachian clothing budget. What do you do with all that savings?

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« Reply #363 on: July 16, 2014, 07:36:02 AM »
Well, I am an Indian. No, not Native American but the India Indian.

A long time ago, my first job in the US had a dress code where I had to to wear a suit. As someone who was forced thru school to wear a tie every day (school uniforms are standard in India), I hated ties.

So, one day, I decided to wear a bola tie, which I thought was so cool, since I grew up reading westerns. This was in NJ, where bola ties are not very common.

So my boss tells me "You can't be a cowboy and an Indian"

Awesome!

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« Reply #364 on: July 16, 2014, 07:55:10 AM »
Ours is pretty self-explanatory. At least I hope so.

You win the prize for most mustachian clothing budget. What do you do with all that savings?
That's why we are here! to figure out what to do with all these clothes we don't need!

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« Reply #365 on: July 16, 2014, 09:56:29 AM »
Ours is pretty self-explanatory. At least I hope so.

You win the prize for most mustachian clothing budget. What do you do with all that savings?
That's why we are here! to figure out what to do with all these clothes we don't need!

Craigslist!!

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« Reply #366 on: July 16, 2014, 02:45:12 PM »
Ours is pretty self-explanatory. At least I hope so.

You win the prize for most mustachian clothing budget. What do you do with all that savings?
That's why we are here! to figure out what to do with all these clothes we don't need!

Craigslist!!

Take em to the next meetup.

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« Reply #367 on: August 01, 2014, 10:44:49 AM »
Yeah, I was going for water but I sucked at chemistry so there you go. AU is correct though right? Gold is an element. I like gold, and I love water.

It's Au.  The first letter is always capitalized, and the second is always lower case.  If both are capitalized then it means two separate elements.  There is no element A, but U = uranium.

example:

CO = carbon monoxide (carbon and oxygen)
Co = cobalt

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #368 on: August 01, 2014, 10:54:36 AM »
Yeah, I was going for water but I sucked at chemistry so there you go. AU is correct though right? Gold is an element. I like gold, and I love water.

It's Au.  The first letter is always capitalized, and the second is always lower case.  If both are capitalized then it means two separate elements.  There is no element A, but U = uranium.

example:

CO = carbon monoxide (carbon and oxygen)
Co = cobalt

Thanks for the lesson nacho. My last chemistry teacher liked to call me a degenerate because I put my feet on the desk in front of me. I HATED chemistry class, but it's good to know these things I guess.

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« Reply #369 on: August 01, 2014, 10:57:02 AM »
Turtle Markets. Long term market plays, nice and slow. If the market gets crazy I will just hide in my shell.


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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #370 on: August 01, 2014, 10:58:12 AM »
Turtle Markets. Long term market plays, nice and slow. If the market gets crazy I will just hide in my shell.

Love it. And, you will win the race!

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #371 on: August 01, 2014, 11:14:09 AM »
This was my user name when I was a lender on Prosper.com.

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #372 on: August 01, 2014, 11:48:09 AM »
When signing up at websites "enter your unique user name"

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« Reply #373 on: August 05, 2014, 11:07:02 AM »
Solon was an early Athenian lawmaker. He is said to have laid the foundation for later democracy in Athens, although exactly what this means is debatable. I was going for the 'wisdom' motif when I chose this name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon

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« Reply #374 on: August 05, 2014, 07:35:26 PM »
My user name is what I was drinking when I joined the forum. 

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« Reply #375 on: August 05, 2014, 11:32:29 PM »
This was my user name when I was a lender on Prosper.com.

Whoah, I totally know you!  :D

And you just made me all nostalgic for Urbi and BigGulp and Bama and many, many others.

Thanks for the blast from the past.
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« Reply #376 on: August 06, 2014, 10:53:12 AM »
This was my user name when I was a lender on Prosper.com.

Whoah, I totally know you!  :D

And you just made me all nostalgic for Urbi and BigGulp and Bama and many, many others.

Thanks for the blast from the past.

(waves) Hi!
When I first got here, I did a double-take when I saw your name. Looks like you've been doing well. Some of the old gang is still active at .org, although nobody's lent a penny on Prosper in years.

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« Reply #377 on: August 06, 2014, 05:46:05 PM »
It's my name.

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« Reply #378 on: August 06, 2014, 07:42:43 PM »
Snow White for a couple of reasons.  I looked a bit like the Disney depiction of her when I was younger and I have a number of photos of me at costume parties in various Snow White costumes.  The bad girl in me likes the whole seven guys to myself scene.  Enough said. ;)
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« Reply #379 on: August 06, 2014, 07:46:53 PM »
I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I think it's an interesting date stamp. I still use my first email address which is a reference to a horrible movie I thought was awesome in 1994. A character from the movie Hackers used the username Nikon. I've had the email address nikon_a bunch of numbers since 1994 since I saw that movie and got dial up internet the same week. 

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« Reply #380 on: August 06, 2014, 09:14:20 PM »
I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I think it's an interesting date stamp. I still use my first email address which is a reference to a horrible movie I thought was awesome in 1994. A character from the movie Hackers used the username Nikon. I've had the email address nikon_a bunch of numbers since 1994 since I saw that movie and got dial up internet the same week.

I'm the same. My gmail password contains my age at the time I set up the account. Not my date of birth, my actual chronological age. It just occurred to me that was 15 years ago...

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« Reply #381 on: August 06, 2014, 09:32:58 PM »
I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I think it's an interesting date stamp. I still use my first email address which is a reference to a horrible movie I thought was awesome in 1994. A character from the movie Hackers used the username Nikon. I've had the email address nikon_a bunch of numbers since 1994 since I saw that movie and got dial up internet the same week.

So did you hack a sweet Gibson??

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #382 on: August 07, 2014, 10:58:57 AM »
Username is work related. The avatar is an actual picture of me at work ;)


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« Reply #383 on: August 07, 2014, 11:29:01 AM »
So I shouldn't call you Shirley?

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« Reply #384 on: August 07, 2014, 03:40:41 PM »
So I shouldn't call you Shirley?
Haha. I almost made that my signature.

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« Reply #385 on: August 07, 2014, 04:49:02 PM »
So I shouldn't call you Shirley?
Haha. I almost made that my signature.

Looks like I picked a bad week to quit smoking.

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« Reply #386 on: August 08, 2014, 12:17:48 AM »
Rocketpj was a name I used for posting on some other forums, and it is just easier to remember here.  Originally it was on SF related forums, and a reference to the rocket ship pajamas I had as a kid.

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« Reply #387 on: August 09, 2014, 11:17:31 PM »
This was my user name when I was a lender on Prosper.com.

Whoah, I totally know you!  :D

And you just made me all nostalgic for Urbi and BigGulp and Bama and many, many others.

Thanks for the blast from the past.

(waves) Hi!
When I first got here, I did a double-take when I saw your name. Looks like you've been doing well. Some of the old gang is still active at .org, although nobody's lent a penny on Prosper in years.

Nice.  I should try to dig up my .org login.. spent quite a bit of time there 2006(7?)-2009.   :)

Very different investor mentality there, and very different life satisfaction mentality, but lots of very smart people there.
I am a former teacher who accumulated a bunch of real estate, retired at 29, spent some time traveling the world full time and am now settled with three kids.
If you want to know more about me, this Business Insider profile tells the story pretty well.
I (rarely) blog at AdventuringAlong.com. Check out the Now page to see what I'm up to currently.

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« Reply #388 on: August 10, 2014, 06:21:35 AM »
Hello all.  First post, thought this was as good a place as any.  For J as a username is to remind me to keep on track with my financial goals.  Every time I log in, it makes me think of my son, Jonathan, and how I want him to be financially free. What better way to teach him than by example?

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« Reply #389 on: August 10, 2014, 07:41:54 AM »
Welcome For j. Sounds like Jonathan will have great parental influences.

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« Reply #390 on: August 29, 2014, 02:03:14 PM »
Pooperman = nickname + superhero awesomeness. Pooper is a nickname that comes from when I was a kid and left the bathroom door open when pooping. Started out as "The Pooper" and got shortened later. It became "Pooperman" when I was trying to find a nickname for a forum a while back. Fartman (from SNL I believe) gave me the idea and it happened to sound like Superman accidentally. My SO is Pitagirl, also a nickname and kindof a play on the superhero sidekick thing. PITA = Pain In The Ass. She is an ESFP for those who know MTBI. Very in the moment and a pain sometimes but I love her. Anyways, it became Pitagirl for the superhero reference (I believe Kick Ass was the instigator).

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« Reply #391 on: August 29, 2014, 02:12:13 PM »
Pooperman = nickname + superhero awesomeness.

Isn't that a character on No Heroics? ;)

I chose mine because Kit Marlowe (ironically) didn't give me any good quotes to make into a nickname on the theme of not buying into the bullshit that everyone else does. So I "settled" for the Bard:

"We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news, and we’ll talk with them too—
Who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out—
And take upon ’s the mystery of things
As if we were God’s spies. And we’ll wear out
In a walled prison packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by the moon." (Lear, V.iii)

(Yep, I'm an Early Modern nerd!)

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« Reply #392 on: August 29, 2014, 04:05:16 PM »
Mine is what it sounds like, give or take some artistic licence. I was a cowboy's girlfriend when I picked out the username and started my blog. Now I'm a cowboy's fiancee, but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it, and nor will cowboy's wife when the time comes. Also I often call him "Cowboy" rather than use his name (even to his face).

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« Reply #393 on: August 29, 2014, 09:18:46 PM »
"I bought your Colgate toothpaste.  The one with tartar control.  And it made me feel like a [censored]."

My old username was the engine size of the race car I used to own.  It was a bad decision, so I canned that username.  This new one is just a funny line from a Youtube video.

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« Reply #394 on: August 29, 2014, 10:08:16 PM »
Umm, because that's my name?  Plus I already lived through the CB craze of the 70s.  Been there, done that. Lol

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« Reply #395 on: August 29, 2014, 10:17:40 PM »
Umm, because that's my name?  Plus I already lived through the CB craze of the 70s.  Been there, done that. Lol

CB radio? Sorry bob, I was a baby in the 70's. Just giving you shit man. Some of the folks around here were babies in the 90's so sometimes I feel like an old man here too.

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« Reply #396 on: August 29, 2014, 10:22:37 PM »
Random online handle from 1998

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Re: What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.
« Reply #397 on: August 29, 2014, 10:52:08 PM »
Random online handle from 1998

R u a ninja, cuz that wood b badass?

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« Reply #398 on: August 30, 2014, 06:16:31 AM »
Random online handle from 1998

R u a ninja, cuz that wood b badass?

I can haz nunchucks?

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« Reply #399 on: August 30, 2014, 10:28:56 PM »
Prepube.  Haven't grown my stache yet.