Author Topic: What is the origin of your user name? (Read 196641 times)

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #600 on:** May 08, 2017, 12:38:02 PM »

I found Waxenstein Mountain about 55 or 60 kilos SSE of the Starnberger See in Bavaria.
Did your family holdings extend that far north back in the day, or is that a different part of your family.
It looks like some beautiful mountains with not much for roads there.

waxi · « **Reply #601 on:** May 08, 2017, 02:13:13 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on May 08, 2017, 12:38:02 PM

I found Waxenstein Mountain about 55 or 60 kilos SSE of the Starnberger See in Bavaria.
Did your family holdings extend that far north back in the day, or is that a different part of your family.
It looks like some beautiful mountains with not much for roads there.

Yes, I'm familiar with it, but to my knowledge it is not related with us. At least not directly. There was a castle named Kozljak (in German Waxenstein or Wachsenstein) in today's Croatia after which "we" got this surname addition. That was in 1529.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #602 on:** May 08, 2017, 08:26:56 PM »

I camped and kayaked the Starnberger See for about a week in 1964. Carried the kayak and gear on bicycles from the north end of Munchen. Great place and very historic. I paddled across the lake to see a marker in the water.
It read that it was the place that King Ludwig drowned under suspicious circumstances. It was believed he had help.
Mad Ludwig wasn't the most popular king Bavaria ever had. He wasted a lot of the treasury. There was the wreck of an old castle nearby, all abandoned with steps going down into the lake. I poked around the internet and see that it has been rebuilt to its' former glory and is now a tourist attraction.

TimmyTheHog · « **Reply #603 on:** May 09, 2017, 02:38:15 PM »

TimmyTheHog

Timmy <-obviously my real name

The Hog <- well, I just simply like pigs & hogs in general...LOL...I eat like a pig :P, I sleep like a pig (snoring wise), and I just find them god damn cute...On top of that, I ride my bikes and chug along like a hog would waddle thru the mud...lol...wonder if that makes any sense...

Pop · « **Reply #604 on:** May 09, 2017, 07:29:27 PM »

Since my kids call me Pop, my grandkids also call me Pop. So how it spread like a virus. Better than the nickname I had at work.

brider · « **Reply #605 on:** September 15, 2017, 10:42:15 AM »

Raced motocross back in my youth in Michigan, always in the "B" class, could never keep up with the "A" class.....hence "B" rider.

lucian · « **Reply #606 on:** September 15, 2017, 10:50:54 AM »

Lucian is my given middle name, was my grandfather's first name and my fathers middle name. It almost became my brother Paul's middle name until they realized he would be Paullucian.

stonelover · « **Reply #607 on:** September 15, 2017, 01:33:23 PM »

Should be obvious!

Peter949 · « **Reply #608 on:** September 15, 2017, 01:36:44 PM »

mine is Peter949 ... because the size of the engine on my 84 California II is 949cc, and of course my name.
Is there anyway to 'Change or Modify' your user name ??

normzone · « **Reply #609 on:** September 15, 2017, 02:47:02 PM »

N is my first initial

Orm: Object-relational mapping (ORM, O/RM, and O/R mapping tool) in computer science is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages. This creates, in effect, a "virtual object database" that can be used from within the programming language.

Zone: any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established:

None of this has anything to do with my user name. You may now return to your previously scheduled reading.

lorazepam · « **Reply #610 on:** September 15, 2017, 04:17:41 PM »

Mine is Kekistani. Translated it means "magic happy"

Psychopasta · « **Reply #611 on:** September 15, 2017, 05:22:18 PM »

Mine is a slight modification of a user name suggested by Disney for a game my then-10-year-old was playing.

- Pasta

MedicAndy · « **Reply #612 on:** December 30, 2017, 08:45:21 PM »

Pretty much self explanatory. Medic - I was a national certified Paramedic, and Andy (Andreas) is my first name. I now work at our local Level 1 Trauma Center's Pediatric Emergency Department while I'm also finishing up my RN. So I will one day change my user name from MedicAndy to PedsRNAndy

BRG-BIRD · « **Reply #613 on:** December 30, 2017, 09:50:19 PM »

British Racing Green Thunderbird of which I own one and am a member on a Triumph forum using the same user name. Wasn't feeling very creative when I signed up.

Idontwantapickle · « **Reply #614 on:** December 30, 2017, 09:57:32 PM »

Quote from: MedicAndy on December 30, 2017, 08:45:21 PM

Pretty much self explanatory. Medic - I was a national certified Paramedic, and Andy (Andreas) is my first name. I now work at our local Level 1 Trauma Center's Pediatric Emergency Department while I'm also finishing up my RN. So I will one day change my user name from MedicAndy to PedsRNAndy

You could change it but I’ll still call you MedicAndy! Lol!

drbone641 · « **Reply #615 on:** December 31, 2017, 08:27:05 AM »

Dr Bone was my call sign during my fighter pilot days. When email started up, someone already had drbone so the 641 (no meaning) was added.

Lannis · « **Reply #616 on:** December 31, 2017, 08:38:26 AM »

Quote from: drbone641 on December 31, 2017, 08:27:05 AM

Dr Bone was my call sign during my fighter pilot days. When email started up, someone already had drbone so the 641 (no meaning) was added.

I've never figured out why they have to add "random" numbers for a name that's already been taken.

Sometimes I'll try to sign up somewhere with my name, and the system says "Username already exists". Nine times out of ten it's already me, so I try to re-use it; sometimes you can't.

So you'd THINK I could use Lannis1 or Lannis01. But nooooo ... the system says I have to use "Lannis6785", like there's 6784 other "Lannis"es in the system already.

AI = Automated Ignorance sometimes ....

Lannis

rider33 · « **Reply #617 on:** December 31, 2017, 09:11:12 AM »

the first moto-board I signed up for years ago was Adventure Rider. It was also the first time I needed a screen name. I figured I'm a rider not a biker and my favorite road is Route 33 (there is one in almost every state & they are nearly always good), hence rider33. The Avitar by the way was an accidental shot at Glacier National Park. I had handed my disposable camera to a lady to take my picture and it went off in her hand before she really aimed. When the picture came back (film, rember that?) it was a close-up of my hand with Logan Pass in the background, 'best shot on the roll actually..

Devildog · « **Reply #618 on:** December 31, 2017, 07:06:29 PM »

how to upload a picture online

It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.

Lannis · « **Reply #619 on:** December 31, 2017, 07:22:58 PM »

Quote from: Devildog on December 31, 2017, 07:06:29 PM

It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.

WOOOF! Humans aren't always smart but he got the "beautiful" part right, sugar.

Hey what’s your sign baby? Virgo, am I right? I’m a Taurus the BULL myself, WOOOF oh yeah!

Hey look what I can do, look at that form …

How’s about we hang out together some, do a little running and barking then back to my place, you look good in that collar baby …

Call me. Once you go border collie, you never go back ...

Jack

timmythecop · « **Reply #620 on:** December 31, 2017, 08:40:02 PM »

People have been calling me "Timmy the cop" for 28 years.
I am a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC.

.........for 68 more days, then, I finally retire. At least They let me ride.

Tom · « **Reply #621 on:** January 01, 2018, 05:21:19 AM »

Lannis · « **Reply #622 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:09:37 AM »

Quote from: timmythecop on December 31, 2017, 08:40:02 PM

People have been calling me "Timmy the cop" for 28 years.
I am a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC.

.........for 68 more days, then, I finally retire. At least They let me ride.

Congratulations!

I'm sure you've heard people "complaining" (moaning?) about the retirement ages and compensation for police officers, which tend to be "early" and "good".

I'm not one of them. I'M not the one taking a chance on getting killed by my clients every day when I'm out doing my job. I'm sure you've earned every penny of it.

Retirement is more fun than most people think it is .... !

Lannis

giusto · « **Reply #623 on:** January 01, 2018, 09:01:02 AM »

Because of this guy....a Bracco Italiano dog named "GIUSTO" who was named after one of the greatest mountaineers that ever lived...
Giusto Gervasutti. He learned and honed his skills on the mountain faces that surround Lecco and Mandello del Lario

Rainrider · « **Reply #624 on:** January 01, 2018, 09:48:55 AM »

Where I live, if you don’t ride in the rain, you don’t get much riding in.

bobrebos · « **Reply #625 on:** January 01, 2018, 11:09:52 AM »

Write mine backwards and it tells you a lot about me. (I quit drinking)

mojoe · « **Reply #626 on:** January 02, 2018, 10:54:06 AM »

My name is Joe,
In my younger days I was quite small and light built, just like the four for a penny sweets called mojo's so became my nickname from street buddies, everybody had a nickname in the 60's!!

I now scale the heights at 5' 7" and 85kg so didn't as such grow up just out.

jcctx · « **Reply #627 on:** January 02, 2018, 12:15:56 PM »

Been a while ~~~where did I come up wit dat?????????????

Bulldog9 · « **Reply #628 on:** January 02, 2018, 01:53:52 PM »

Mine is my first Military Call Sign

93spada · « **Reply #629 on:** January 02, 2018, 04:07:50 PM »

Not very original but.....
93 - 1993
Spada - SP (III)
Spada is Italian for sword

As an aside, Maybe named for.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercole_Spada

Great stories? all around.

Paul

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Author Topic: What is the origin of your user name? (Read 196641 times)

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