How you got your screen/ user name

[stefan]

Just a bump for Cher- Does this work for ya?

[Cher]

Perfect, thanks so much Stefan, took me hours to find it so I could bring it up to the front again.

[181lizard]

Hey all!
the 181 is part of the name of our business. the lizard part of course comes from my name. one day, a manager of our place saw me come in & just yelled across the room, "LIZARD!"
and thats been one of my nicknames ever since.

[entrerh9]

This one's pretty boring; sorry! I enrolled at Juniata College here in Huntingdon, PA, in 1999, and was automatically given the E-mail address "[e-mail]". The college creates these prefixes by using the first five letters of your last name, then your first name initial, then your middle name initial, then the last numeral of the year you were enrolled.

Since my Juniata College days, I've had other E-mail addresses and created other internet accounts, but have always used that same boring prefix for simplicity's sake. It keeps things simple and easy for me and for those who wish to remain in contact with me.

[Pdwight]

My Mom

This is an easy one, she named me after "Ike" hence my name Pdwight , or my full given name Paul Dwight Pilkilton...so you can put a P in front of or behind...it doesn’t matter.....I guess if I were a Lawyer I would be P Dwight Pilkilton 1.............lawyers are always putting initials before and numbers after their names...but I’m a lowly Technician.

Dwight P

[jrtrio]

Cher, just so you know, Al DID SING! He had his own solo! The only thing was that no matter where we were performing something always happened and no one could hear Al. Either the mic's battery would die on him, or there would be a large amount of feedback that would totally block him. Or what happened most of the time is we would look around for him when it was his time to sing and dang if he would be over in the corner with some young thing and Tony and I would have to "cover" for him by filling with an instramental. He was some piece of work!

[Cher]

ROFLMAO @ Jr ..... that's too funny.

[Sabre52]

I use sabre cause that was my weapon of choice back when fencing was my sport of the year *L*. I change sports a lot! I also deal in antique edged weapons as a means of financing my current rock hobby....mel

[docone31]

There are a lot of Drs., out there. Not only out there, but OUT THERE! At any rate, when I first found out about e-mail, about five years ago, I registered as Doc. There are a gazillion Docs out there, so I went Doc1, there are a gazillion Doc1s out there, so I went Docone, there are a gazillion Docones out there so I went Docone1. Guess the rest. I finally went to docone31 as a result of finding out e-mail is case sensitive, so, it was docone31. There were already docone30, and down, so the next was docone31.
I have been called Doc, or the professor since grade school, as well as being voted most likely to........ when graduating high school.
My being a Dr., is my salutation, rather than MD. Somehow, my thesis changed something or other at some point I was told. I am not sure of that, but, after that someother people gave me a piece of paper with some Latin words on it, and I was no longer able to secure a conventional job under any circumstances.
Let me see if I get this straight.....
Get a BA, three MS, spend a few years almost cloistered in research, live, eat, breath, sleep liturgy, compose, and write for weeks at a time, no sleep, looking like I slept in the car the last night, finalize and draft an opus, get a paper with fancy Latin words on it with an University logo on the top, have someone in a dark grey nightgown with stripes on the sleeves pompusly, with much hrumph, hrumph, wearing a flat hat with a string dangling on the side shake your hand, the audience stand, applaud, and then turn about and return the nightgown to the rental agency, exit the building wondering what the heck happened, and entering dramatically into terminal unemployability!
Ah, then the spin.
So, I am docone31 and I still do not know what happened!
If they did not like my paper, why did they applaud? Instead of spending 16yrs in Grad. schools, I could have spent 6 months in jewelery school, saved a small fortune, and be employable.
But since there are no jewelery schools that teach bench repair, at least timely, I went to Grad school, became unemployable, and started my own business! Without school, I had to train myself. Maybe it was the words on that piece of paper. I should have studied Latin more closely.
Hence, docone31.

[BAZ]

Mine is pretty simple. BAZ is short for BigArizona(.com), while me and my brother were creating the site we just shortened it to that in our email correspondence.

[rockhard]

Mine's because I'm not very creative that way. Someone gave me a gym membership that day (something I had managed to avoid for almost 40 years). Being easily entertained, I liked the pun. I mean metaphor. The allusion, whatever.

[rocklicker]

Mine's pretty obvious. Find me at a rock show, and that's what i'll be doing. Or at a crusty rock shop, or when I find an interesting rock around. Pretty simple.
Steve

[rockhard]

Oh yeah, and, because 'rocklicker' was already taken!

[lavendercitrine]

I found my interest in minerals through my interest in herbal medicine, my favorite herb is lavender and my favorite mineral is citrine, which coincidentally happens to be my birthstone too

[metalsmith]

Whoa ... thread resurrection!

Good find tho.

[jakesrocks]

Damn ! How have I missed this thread for all of these years ? jakesrocks. Jake is my Jack Russel terrier, & he guards my rock pile. Thus Jakesrocks.

[Pat]

I'm Pat.

[rockpickerforever]

Jul 7, 2016 13:43:57 GMT -5 metalsmith said:

Whoa ... thread resurrection!

Good find tho.

I believe the technical term for that type of thread is ZOMBIE thread. It is not alive, but it is not dead, and keeps coming back. Ha!

Yeah, that one is an oldy but a goody, lol.  A BLAST FROM THE PAST, if you will.  Some time when you are bored, or just need to kill some time, it's fun to look back on the old threads.  Lots to be learned. Those were the days...    Jean

[spiceman]

Well. With the last name Spicer it fits.
All through school that was my name.
I won't tell you the other names they called me. LOL
Dale

[zarguy]

I designed & sell a card game called Zar. I've used zarguy as my email for years.

Zar is kind of like Crazy Eights, Uno, Kill Your Neighbor, Skat, Mau-Mau, & other games.

If you can't quite read the logo in my avatar, turn your device upside down.

Available only online: www.playzar.com