Explain your login name

Many of the members here have pretty strange and unusual login names, and I just thought it would be interesting to hear from some of you what prompted these names.

I'll start. I live in Minnesota and I like to scroll portraits out of baltic birch or oak plywood. I glue black acrylic to the back, which shows where the wood has been cut out. A couple I've designed myself and others I've got from a free scroll saw pattern site. Here are a couple examples of ones I've designed myself. The walleye came from a public domain site and my grandson came from my own photo, of course. Who is next? C'mon, don't be shy. :rolleyes:

Good idea for a thread Mike. Actually had a couple people ask me about mine lately. I collect Chinese and Japanese swords, or at least I did when funds allowed for it :o My handle stems from that. Translated, xia ke means chivalrous swordsman ;)

Aaron

Franglais (pronounced Fronglay) is slang word that combines two French words :

- Francais (French)
- Anglais (English)

It's vaguely negative - all these people who speak French but with lots of fashionable US-English words dropped in. It sounds awful.

I am English but I've been in France for more than 20 years. I shall never be French - just can't bring myself to do the accent - but I have assimilated French attitudes. I have French body language (have to sit on my hands when I'm in the UK to avoid waving them about).

A hot chicky friend in college took to calling me "Walterick" after my birth name Walter and my nickname Rick.

Until they were sold and moved, I was a fan and photographer for the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays........swmdrayfan.

I used to collect frog related figures and art and acquired the nickname from guys in a little barn band.

Didache (pronounced Did-ah-kay) is Greek for "teaching". It purports to be the Teaching of the Apostles, although it can be dated anywhere between 70AD and the late 3rd C. As I am a minister, it seemed appropriate. The Wikipedia article on it is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache

Cheers
Mike

I played lacrosse all through high school and a bit in college, and it was essentially my life. lax=lacrosse, and 9 was my number, but 09 is classier. so "living for lacrosse 09"

Medley is a term that describes my life as aptly as my artistic endeavors. One accepts input and influence from many different sources and combines them to create a unique style and sense of purpose.

- Joe U.

Great question!

My login name is JETA. JETA is the first initial of the names of the 4 most important people I used to have in my life. My Grandparents.

Originaly mine was going to be Cosmonaut. My step daughter took over my e-bay account and changed my original e-bay ID there to Cosmonaut. But I entered my real name in the wrong place when I registered here and I just let it stay. I started to ask the Mods how big of a deal it would be to change it, but everyone knows me by Greg so. It stays.

My initials and the year I was born. Not nearly as inspirational or interesting as some of the others here. :)

I'm a wombat, and I drive a Smart car.

Well, there is a little resemblance :)

I created my name for geocaching, before getting type 2 diabetes,my favorite thing was coke a cola,thus referring to those cool polarbears drinking coke,around the christmas season, and in reference to digging up hidden treasure, thus the polarbeardiggers,referring to my son and I, i did not create my avatar,that was sent to by email,as to annoy me by disgruntled geocacher,which i used to tease.now that i found a new hobby i just did not feel right giving up such a cool name. sounds corney eh!

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I'm a wombat, and I drive a Smart car.

Well, there is a little resemblance :)

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LOL! You are funny PAul! :)

ummm....my mommy picked it?

OK adina, I'm not going to let you off the hook that easy. Explain "Princess of the OT".

jzweco -
j - first letter first name
z - first letter last name
WECO - acronym for company I have been working for, for the last 13 years.

Jimmy B = Nobody can pronounce my last name correctly " Bucher"
It is a German name if somebody wants to give it a shot?

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Originally Posted by Jimmy B

Jimmy B = Nobody can pronounce my last name correctly " Bucher"
It is a German name if somebody wants to give it a shot?

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I will say I'm sorry in advance but, how about "bü-ker"? Now's your chance to get even... No one can ever seem to pronounce my last name correctly either. My last name is Lehoux. Give that one a whirl, and don't worry, I've heard them all :wink:

Princess of the OT? That's courtesy of Rick. Refers to my moderator status, and the tiara that was bestowed upon me by Nat for self-portraits.

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Jimmy B = Nobody can pronounce my last name correctly " Bucher"
It is a German name if somebody wants to give it a shot?

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Pronounced Booker?:confused:

JZ the winner
Lehoux = laahu ?
Good thread
Jimmy B

Pretty much... it's la-hoo :)

The old version of this site had a view count next to the title, so whenever I looked at a thread, I was just another view. Groan...

my initials
Michael Joseph Sylver

jkriminger...bought the camera for my wife...found the site for her to post...registered her...started taking pictures myself. Took over ..my initials ..Rod Kriminger. She eventually registered herself under JennyK.

Yarrow is a flower. I think the name is pretty cool so I use it for my SN here and several other places.

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I'm a wombat, and I drive a Smart car.

Well, there is a little resemblance :)

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I don't see any...:)

My handle is my nickname from when I played football in high school. Well...I didn't actually play...it was more like holding the clipboard.

Cool idea for a thread, bit IMO not really off-topic at all. Steve, we should move this to VF. I think we'd have a gazillion folks chime in.

As for Asylum Steve, well, sort of self-explanitory. Especially if you've met me... :crazy:

Still, there is a bit of a story behind it. If you've been to my web site, then it's not much of a stretch to see the connection with The Photo Asylum. In fact, photoasylum has been my handle on several online forums.

But when I joined pr.com, I wanted my first name in my user ID just for, well, familiararity or whatever. And so, I decided to use my name but keep the "Asylum" to reinforce the spirit of my web site and personality... :ciappa:

Julsoph is for my two daughters - Julianna & Sophia. I'd have my son in there too, but I created my account here before I had him. :)

Emily

Sushigaijin is the promotional name of my personal chef/sushi class side business. I teach people how to make sushi at small private parties, hence sushi. Gaijin translates roughly to something like "F-ing foreign white person" which I thought was kind of tongue-in-cheek. Those who get it, think it's funny. Those who don't, don't usually ask questions. That, and it sounds good, abbreviates well, and sticks in people's head.

Actually I haven't done a party in quite some time, since I've been busy with keeping the restaurant I work at from self-destructing. Such is life. The side business pays better, a shame it isn't steady work :cryin:

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Gaijin translates roughly to something like "F-ing foreign white person" which I thought was kind of tongue-in-cheek. Those who get it, think it's funny. Those who don't, don't usually ask questions.

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I think it's funny.

I come from a Croatian family and we have a name like that in our language. I don't think the F-word is in there though.:idea: I'd have no clue how to spell it out because it has a tongue roll in the middle of the word. Feddeshtee. Something like that with a roll of the tongue where the second D is.

StreetDoc- my name on the majority of forums I'm on... some people think it means I'm a drug dealer. I am....



Kinda, lol. I'm a career firefighter/paramedic in the suburbs of chicago. The majority of calls we do are medical, hense the name "street doctor"

Well, first let me explain that I'm a dork, and I have an over-active imagination. I've always thought Angler fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish) and other creatures with light emitting organs were really cool, and I thought as a photographer it would be very handy to have such organs. So, I looked up what they're called, and it's a "photophore." If I had those, I thought that would make me photophorous. Like I said, I'm a dork. :D

Paul

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Originally Posted by photophorous

Well, first let me explain that I'm a dork, and I have an over-active imagination. I've always thought Angler fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish) and other creatures with light emitting organs were really cool, and I thought as a photographer it would be very handy to have such organs. So, I looked up what they're called, and it's a "photophore." If I had those, I thought that would make me photophorous. Like I said, I'm a dork. :D

Paul

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That expalins a lot then Paul.
So I guess the question is do you have any "light emitting organs"? :rolleyes: :D :p :eek:

Mine is a long standing one too, that I use everywhere but Flickr.
MTB = Mountain Bike and well the other part I think you can figure out.
Brian
Has no "light emitting organs".....
:D

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Originally Posted by mtbbrian

That expalins a lot then Paul.
So I guess the question is do you have any "light emitting organs"?

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It's a common misconception, actually. People think I'm emitting light when I'm really just reflecting it. :cool:

Paul

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Originally Posted by photophorous

It's a common misconception, actually. People think I'm emitting light when I'm really just reflecting it. :cool:

Paul

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LOL! Good one!
Brian
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Hey.......I just had a thought...........can I change mine????? Since the southwest michigan devil rays (swmdrayfan) have moved, can I switch to a new screenname????????? Seriously--is there a way to do that?
Mods???
P-J?????