Where does your screen name come from?

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Irrenhaus
Irrenhaus Posts: 1,082
edited March 2014 in The Clubhouse
Just curious where everyone got their screen name?

Mine means asylum, loony bin, mad house in German. I got it when I got my first computer a C-64.

Cheers....
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,102
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    I wanted to come up with the most feared name on the net... one that would intimidate others not worthy of being in my glorified presence from even asking from where the name came.


    Obviously I have failed.(lol)

    My wife's first name followed by my own, if you must know....
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    edited March 2014
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    A suggestion from eBay when I first signed up.
    Sounded good to me! :mrgreen:
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,205
    edited March 2014
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    I hate people!
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 16,924
    edited March 2014
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    Because I'm a Tool, and a big Fan of being one..

    I should have put 66Six on the end, so I could be the most feared Tool on the planet..
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,474
    edited March 2014
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    Boston from the rock group Boston & 1450cc is my 2005 H.D.Fatboys motor
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    Randy/Maine
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,352
    edited March 2014
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    Super Comp...there is a story about the SComp.

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  • B Run
    B Run Posts: 1,888
    edited March 2014
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    My name is Brandon Runnels so everyone's called me B Run since I can remember. Plus it's usually not already taken.
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited March 2014
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    Something my little brother's been calling me for the last 40 years. No idea where he got it from.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
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    My screen name has nothing to do with me or who I am am. You could search to the end of days and you will only find someone that is not me.

    I also go by alphaoverload, back to the early 90s. Good luck..

    Halen
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited March 2014
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    chumlie wrote: »
    Something my little brother's been calling me for the last 40 years. No idea where he got it from.
    Charlie, always thought your name came from the Tennessee Tuxedo cartoon from years ago.

    Mine is my VW car colour.
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  • warlocks1
    warlocks1 Posts: 1,212
    edited March 2014
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    the Grateful Dead were not allowed to play at the Hampton Coliseum in VA due to crowd history. So they billed themselves as
    The Warlocks. Best Dead show I was ever at.
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 2,973
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    I used to live in Muncy, Pa. Decided to keep it since it's never used on other sites.
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,346
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    treitz3
    t - Tom (first name)
    reitz - (last name)
    3 - In memory of Mr. Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

    Most folks pronounce it as "treats 3". It actually pronounced as "T writes 3"....as if Tom writes on a piece of paper. Yes, my last name is German.

    Tom
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
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    Now that I am sober, I could answer better. Halen came from Van Halen. Thought it would be easier to pronounce then my Vietnamese name. Turns out, many people pronounces it 'Helen 'which again did not turn out to well.

    Halen
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  • bobsauto49
    bobsauto49 Posts: 973
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    muncybob wrote: »
    I used to live in Muncy, Pa. Decided to keep it since it's never used on other sites.
    I was hopin u weren't a muncie 4spd fan! Lol. Those things were junk!
    "Everything I ever did in my life worthwhile I caught hell for"
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,826
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    My fantasy baseball team (from several eons ago) was the Polarbehrs. When Optimum Online first became available, I
    wanted to use that name for my primary email addy, but they were limiting people to 8 characters before the "@", so the A was dropped.
    After polr is simply my last name... and no, I do not have any stake in the paint company!
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
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    Mr. Biron because Rick88 was already taken
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,591
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    Dabutcher cause Dabutcher loves Da Bears! And childhood nickname was Butch.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,102
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    Dabutcher wrote: »
    Dabutcher cause Dabutcher loves Da Bears! And childhood nickname was Butch.

    And yet you live in Vikings Country,,, go figure.:lol:
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    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2014
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    C first letter of my first name. frizz is the first 5 letters of my last name. I got it from Aol when it gave me my screen name cfrizz7678 when I signed up. All the names I wanted were taken.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited March 2014
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    Cause I have enough trouble remembering passwords.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • polk500
    polk500 Posts: 1,171
    edited March 2014
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    Polk TSI 500 ,they were the towers I owned when I joined the forum,figured it was easy to remember.

    Cheers
    Roger
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,276
    edited March 2014
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    My last name is Strong. Many moons ago, the founding Polk forum creator, Micah, decided to bestow this screen name upon me when this internet character was popular...

    http://www.homestarrunner.com/vcr_sb.html
    No excuses!
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited March 2014
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    Mine is because my name is Timothy Smith (to throw everyone off the track)
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,276
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    Timothy Smith wrote: »
    Mine is because my name is Timothy Smith (to throw everyone off the track)

    You're really gonna blow some people's minds with this!
    No excuses!
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,520
    edited March 2014
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    Mine comes from the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

    Jack Skellington a.k.a. The Pumpkinking


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    Because I am The Pumpkinking


    A Kind Word Is An Easy Gift To Give
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited March 2014
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    Born and raised at the foot of the Berkshires.
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    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,520
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    Irrenhaus wrote: »
    Just curious where everyone got their screen name?

    Mine means asylum, loony bin, mad house in German. I got it when I got my first computer a C-64.

    Cheers....


    Great handle. I like it.
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    Because I am The Pumpkinking


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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    edited March 2014
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    Mine is basically two parts.

    "gimp" because since 1979 I have been and will continue to be a quadriplegic (a useless vegetable:razz:) and "pod" From the 1978 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" were people passed out or went to sleep and woke up as something different (pod people) but in my case I blacked out and the next morning woke up a quadriplegic. Plus the fact that it's deemed politically incorrect by those in the world of spinal cord injury's, You should see there faces when they ask for my e-mail address and I tell them it's gimpod at whatever dot net (I dropped the double p because it didn't look right ("gimppod" vs "gimpod").



    FWIW: Here's a thread kinda like this one from 2004-2007 What does your screen name mean?
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain
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  • Oldfatdogs
    Oldfatdogs Posts: 1,874
    edited March 2014
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    Oldfatdogs- A term of endearment between old friends.
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