what's your screen name mean? - Page 3

61sktnbug · 07-21-2005, 09:16 PM

mine is i had a 61 bug when i joined , and im from saskatoon

speeder · speeder's Garage

Funny that this should come up; I have been thinking about retiring my screen name and just using my actual name. I was very late to the web, did not own a (working) computer until 2001. I also bought a 911SC that spring and found Pelican.

It never occurred to me that you could just use your real name, plus I probably had some illusion about privacy on the web.

"Speeder" certainly isn't the worst handle, and it is fitting since I am a congenital speed limit *stretcher*,

, but on the other hand I have never been one for nicknames and I sometimes forget that I am "speeder" on this board. I was at a Porsche gathering a while ago and Wayne D., (our host and owner of Pelicanparts), walked up behind me calling "speeder". I did not turn around at first, (I have a bad ear and thought that he was calling "Peter" to someone else), it finally dawned on me that he was calling me. (I felt stupid).

When I got the Porsche I wanted to get the license plate "speeder", which I thought was funny, but someone already has it in CA. of course. That's how the whole thing started.

The only thing that keeps me from *****canning the name is that my friend Jason B., (Mulholland), would probably re-register and snatch it up.

Shuie · 04:08 AM

Mine is what i answered to from childhood through college. I have no idea where it came from or how the spelling was derived. It never stuck once I was out of school and working.

pookie · 07-22-2005, 04:29 AM

I did always wonder about some peoples names...but mine came from an intramural softaball team I was on in college. They asked what nickname I wanted on my jersey and since I had always been called by my last name, or by Ryano as a variant of my first name I told them I didn't care as long as it wasn't Ryan/ryano/ or my last name, or any variation. So they go to hand out the jerseys and they say here's yours, I look and sure enough it has "Pookie" on the back. I was like "dude where did pookie come from?" Well apparently they had a Ray/Ray and a Re-run and figured Pookie would be able to carry along with he theme. I never thought it would stick, but man did it ever. Nothing like being at a party talking to some hottie and one of your buddies starts hollering at you calling you Pookie. The band thing is that my wife picked up on it and now when I play softball with some of my cop buddies she called me it and it stuck with them. Cops are relentless about nicknames by the way. The good thing is that all the boards I go to no one has that name. Makes it real nice when I have to register as I can use the same name everywhere. So if you see pookie somewhere it is probably me.

1967 R50/2 · 07-22-2005, 04:51 AM

A BMW 1967 R50/2 - My first motorcycle. Still have it. Looks like this:

BTW: Did not buy it new.

DaveE · 07-22-2005, 04:54 AM

I guess I'm a totally uncreative radical liberal. My first name and last initial.

VINMAN · 07-22-2005, 04:55 AM

My friends started calling me Vinman back in the early 80's
Guess it has something to do with my name, Vinny. supposedly it was from some movie too.

Porsche virgin · 07-22-2005, 05:00 AM

When I first starting reading this forum, I had never owned my own P-car. So, obviously, I was a Porsche Virgin.

Jeff Higgins · 07-22-2005, 05:23 AM

I used to go by "tripod" but I've gotten more modest lately.

yellowline · 07-22-2005, 05:24 AM

My car's instrumentation is in yellow. Ergo, "yellowline."

Sadly, I don't think I've run my car up to 6400, or even 6k. Someday I will when I'm assured about my engine, T-belt, and I'm feeling malevolent. I'll use the photographic evidence of the tach as my avatar, too.

legion · 07-22-2005, 05:33 AM

Legion is the name of a character in a book I read several years ago. I adopted the name for video games (Legend of Zelda and such). When the web appeared, I just continued to use it.

juanbenae · juanbenae's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by pookie
I did always wonder about some peoples names...but mine came from an intramural softaball team I was on in college. They asked what nickname I wanted on my jersey and since I had always been called by my last name, or by Ryano as a variant of my first name I told them I didn't care as long as it wasn't Ryan/ryano/ or my last name, or any variation. So they go to hand out the jerseys and they say here's yours, I look and sure enough it has "Pookie" on the back. I was like "dude where did pookie come from?" Well apparently they had a Ray/Ray and a Re-run and figured Pookie would be able to carry along with he theme. I never thought it would stick, but man did it ever. Nothing like being at a party talking to some hottie and one of your buddies starts hollering at you calling you Pookie. The band thing is that my wife picked up on it and now when I play softball with some of my cop buddies she called me it and it stuck with them. Cops are relentless about nicknames by the way. The good thing is that all the boards I go to no one has that name. Makes it real nice when I have to register as I can use the same name everywhere. So if you see pookie somewhere it is probably me.

pookie is a slang name for a woman's place in the Philippines. a girl i dated years ago had a Filipino nanny and we always referred to her open faced roast beef sandwich as her "pookie". i enjoyed the time i spent around her pookie.

id10t · 07-22-2005, 07:18 AM

One of my favorite help desk sayings... eye-dee-ten-tee error... id10t.

Pebkac was hard for me to remember... (problem exists between keyboard and chair)

KevinP73 · 07-22-2005, 07:19 AM

OOOOh screen names, now that sound like fun. Where can I get one?

TerryBPP · 07-22-2005, 07:52 AM

When I first got aol I had to come up with a screen name. I figured Terry beacuse that my first name and then I was flipping through the channels and came acrossed WCW wrestling. There was the HUGE steroid ripped guy on there name Big Papa Pump. So I figured it would be funny, due to the fact that I never watch wrestling, to use his initials, therefore BPP. Its just carried over since then.

TSNAPCRACKLEPOP · TSNAPCRACKLEPOP's Garage

tom the chiropractor

Westy · 07-22-2005, 08:28 AM

Hi everyone, my name is WESTY and I'm a neocon! I'm also a proud member of the right.

Actually my name is too friggin long. Automated mail cuts off the last two letters, I can't fit my signature on the back of the VISA card, and there's not enough room in the work schedule blocks to write it in, so my bosses started writing in Westy, a shortened version of my name. Pretty soon everyone started calling me Westy and it stuck.,,,,,,,,OK not everybody, there were some orther things I was called, but that's another story.

gatotom · 07-22-2005, 08:55 AM

aahhh...tomcat aka gatotom has been with me forever. My other nic yrs ago was twinkle toes

in my prime I was a ski racer whose best event was slalom, had really fast feet....liked the nic gatotom better.

hey, tom the chiropractor.....its good to know there is another tom the chiropractor out there

techweenie · techweenie's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by k911sc
pookie is a slang name for a woman's place in the Philippines. a girl i dated years ago had a Filipino nanny and we always referred to her open faced roast beef sandwich as her "pookie". i enjoyed the time i spent around her pookie.

MMMmmmmm roast beef....

TSNAPCRACKLEPOP · TSNAPCRACKLEPOP's Garage

gatotom, do you know dr jeff kantola, puyalluppppppp?