How Did You Pick Your Handle?

I was working at a sporting goods store in '91 an the warehouse manager had lost a shipment of Zubaz pants. So there he is yelling "ZUBAZ!!!" over and over again at the top of his lungs and I happen to walk in and say something like "Yo!" Thus I was branded Zubaz, and I have been since.

Mine's easy to explain.  I'm a crazy mom thus locamama en espanol. 

My first handle was "JavaBrain".  I picked that since my brain runs on coffee.  However, everyone thought I was a Java programmer.  So, I needed a new name, and I wanted people to know that I was no a programmer and that I was not male.  At the time, I was reading a book on Zen Buddhism, so I picked "Karma", and "Girl" because I'm...well...a girl.

Nothing too exciting there.  lol

My youngest son's middle name is Tobias which in Hebrew roughly translates to God is good.

I went with the female equivalent...Tova and added a 7 because in scripture 7 often is used as the perfect number, or to mean "completely."  So God is good completely.  heh.  Get it?

Actually I like Tova so well I want it to be my REAL name. hahaha

 

Neither of us knew it at the time, but there is an old poem by Wallace Stevens of the same name. In the poem, The Emperor of Ice Cream is death.

I thought he picked the name because of the poem. That's a great coincidence!

Mine is from different jobs I've done.    I came up with the handle about the time I was getting ready to graduate from Ricks College with an AAS in Paramedicine.  I had been a Paratrooper and Parachute Rigger before, so the Para part pretty much came naturally.  Ted is my first name, and I was graduating in 2000...

 

Before I was ParaTed2k, I was TP72085, that one goes back to the 1994, when I did tech support for Prodigy. (ick!) ;~D

I created mine when I was joining chatrooms many years ago on Yahoo when that was the cool thing to do. I was looking for something that was cool and of my taste. I chose 2 things I liked a lot and matched them. it took a while. I remembered I was a big fan of Smokey and the Bandit since I loved the car, thought Burt Reynolds was cool and he lived a lifestyle I was too afraid to try except in my dreams. They were also giving a more modern 90's version of this movie on a TV show wthat I thought was great but only lasted a few episodes.

Since Bandit was taken I had to come up with something more elaborate so, since I was a big music person and was trying out being a DJ online thru shoutcast I figured DJBandit was the name to be.

I use my real name here cause I wanted to be taken a bit more serious since DJBandit seemed a bit ignorant when trying to debate current issues. But that's just me, I just might change it back someday.

I know what you mean. I started using "Gene Nash" because no-one was looking beyond the handle "SmartAz." They were responding to the handle instead of what I wrote. :-||

I went with the female equivalent...Tova and added a 7 because in scripture 7 often is used as the perfect number, or to mean "completely." So God is good completely.

Very good. But "tova" is the female version of "tov", which means just "good". There is no direct female version of "Tobias", I think, so you chose the closest equivalent.

I chose "Leauki" originaly because it is easy to type, unique, and can be pronounced like the Norwegian god.

I also found it an interesting name to spell in Hebrew: Lamed Alef Vav Quf Yud.

The Hebrew version transliterates to "L'VQY" or "LVQY" depending on whether you want to read the Alef as a glottal stop or as zero.

"Tova" is feminine for "good", as in "shana tova" ("good year") as opposed to "yom tov" ("good day"). The root for "Tova" is TB or TVB.

Mine came from my short college radio career. It was my first night and the girl on before me who was about as nerdy as any person could be gave me the name Just John. She wore coke bottle thick glasses and snorted when she laughed. I should have known better than to reply to her question the way I did.

Her - What do you want to be called?
Me - Huh?
Her - You know, your radio name.
Me - Just John, that's it.

I've had a few other internet handles but that was the one that always stuck.

You could always try 'BeanHead' next time, heheh.

Hmmm...  I think I'll pass.  lol!

I have no persona online, except myself as a priest. Therefore, I use my real name, my dharma name, that is, with my real last name. I was given this name when I took the precepts as a Zen Buddhist. It is three characters meaning, "Priest" "Great" "Dharma".

I chose "Leauki" originaly because it is easy to type, unique, and can be pronounced like the Norwegian god.

I always thought it was because you thought the water was key.

Mine is simple as well.  My great uncle was a doctor (and so were many other relatives - I was the failure as I cant stand the sight of blood), so I picked his name as my handle.  He is famous for his work with Lepers and the treatment of the disease.

It is pronouced Gee (hard G) not as in Gee Whiz, but as is Grog

My handle originally was going to be (Bulldog), as this proved to be a popular choice for many more accounts out there it was more sensible to miss-spell it, possibly a useless piece of information for many but as the question was posed I was sure to answer.

Well, there is that, too. I found it an extremely international handle. It has something French, something Germanic, something Hebrew (the interesting Hebrew spelling), and something unique.

I am San Chonino, the patron saint of women's underwear.

Long story I wrote about on my blog approximately eight million years ago.

"Tova" is feminine for "good", as in "shana tova" ("good year") as opposed to "yom tov" ("good day"). The root for "Tova" is TB or TVB.

Awesome.  Thanks Leauki for the info.  That's interesting!

I think, so you chose the closest equivalent.

Exactly.

 

I still play the sax (bari is the horn of preference) but sadly music is not my profession

Heh, I'm a sax player myself...alto is my horn of choice.  Though you play one you can play'em all.

 

My name?  Zoologist03...Well, I like animals and want to work as a zookeeper...I also like to research and learn about them...which I have, a lot.  The 03 was because of the year at the time I made up the name...and I didn't want to change it every year so it stuck.   Nowadays I just use Zoo06 for most things I do online...06 being the year I graduated high school.  I prefer the shortened "Zoo" for all intents and purposes.

And there ya have it.

~Zoo(plus I like to sign things...cause it's fun)

I really don't remember to be honest. I would guess since I love anything tropical and have a tattoo of a big, bad dog on my arms.......makes sense I guess.

In the sixties I had a soldier who was fond of refusing orders by saying,,,"nuh-uhh...not big fat daddy !" In the seventies I was pressed to have a CB handle and told it could not be my name...BFD just seemed to jump into my brain...later realizing that the initals sarcastically described me.

So many fictitious names so little imagination.

Some of my other creative UN include, Rolaids, Excedrin PM, Dustoffer, Viewsonic and UserName.

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That was you?

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Well, I didn't want to be too flashy....I didn't want to appear self-righteous or self-aggrandizing and I didn't want something stupid. I also did not want to use my previous handles, medigirl, yogamomma among others.....
At the time, I felt like I was just cruising aimlessly through life....and the line, "well, life just happens, ya'know?" kept running through my head.

Not too flashy, arrogant, bragadocious or self-identifying.... it just is what it is.

I have been "singrdave" from my first days online, when on a BBS I was forced to choose something called a "User Name". I started with "Davey-doo" but a college friend of mine who worked at AOL suggested that I incorporate singing into the name. But at the time AOL had a nine-character limit, so it became "singrdave" rather than "singerdave". And I've used it ever since, especially good because no one else has used the unique spelling.

Heh, typing that second name is just so foreign -- I've become so adjusted to being identified as singrdave.

Ziggy has been my nickname since I was a baby. Not sure when I got it but I believe i was fairly young because, according to my mom, I acted like the Ziggy cartoon character...just sittin and watchin the world go by. My dad and brother still call me Zig or Ziggy compared to Ryan and some of my college buds do as well, but nobody else does. I used that as my radio name as well. Ziggystyles came up somehow when I was in college...not sure totally how, but I had lots of variations:
Zig Papa
Notorious Z.I.G.
...etc.