usernames explained

[Don Lockwood]

so i'm new around here and thought i'd ask how and why everybody chose the username they have. and of course bonus points if you know where mine came from.

[General Kenobi (ret.)]

Your co-star was Lena Lamont.

The source of my name should be obvious.

[Polly Nomial]

Gene Kelly? :smile:

I think my name is obvious!

[Polly Nomial]

Obi-Wan Kenobi,

Darn, you beat me by 2 seconds!

[bertuary]

Combo of Dilbert & Actuary... my work life in a nutshell. :smile:

[Polly Nomial]

Oh wait! Those are minutes!

~nevermind~

[Hagbard Celine]

Character from
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440539811/qid=1008190326/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/102-7002456-9206549).

"The most thoroughly and relentlessly d*mned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all d*mned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this d*mned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the d*mned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the d*mned Thing will not fit into their slots.


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[G. Ringo]

I think that Gregor is a pretty name for a grub. It alliterates nicely, and it expresses hope of metamorphosing into a big beetle.

[frummie]

In yiddish, this means "a religious person". My WC handle is frum613. The 613 is how many commandments can be derived from the Pentateuch.

[Patience]

you know the Bill Cosby routine where he thought his name was d*mn-it & his brother was Jesus Christ.

Well in the last days of the old forum Traci was explaiming Patience to us so much I started thinking it was my name.

[Thought]

My first arch-rival, back in the days before the CAS boards first required a login name and password, called himself "Thinker." I started using "Thought" as a way of saying that it's okay to reach a conclusion once in a while. I've used it ever since over long stretches of time both here and in the WC.

[Anonymous]

Please see my signature

[Griffin 1]

Middle name of the author of the first book I saw after I got to the field that said "Username".

[sciolist]

sciolism (sì´e-lîz´em) noun
A pretentious attitude of scholarship; superficial knowledgeability.

I try to take myself light-heartedly.

[Maria Erisa]

It's my real name! Hey, I was born before 1974, so I had first dibs on the name ERISA. It's those Pension people who copied it from me.

Maria Erisa Teresa Yolanda Banderas, para servirle!

[Notorious BIG]

I am hoping to be Thought's new archrival.

[The Mister]

<font size=2>Can't tell you specifically, 'cause I'd have to give away my real name (as if I haven't given away enough information for you guys to figure out who I am anyway...)

Let's just say my real-life nickname used to be "Le Monsieur _____", where "_____" is my first name.

Various b******ized mispronunciations later, my friends had thoroughly defiled the French culture with our tongue-in-cheek stereotypes (picture a sad clown/mime on a unicycle, with a glass of wine in one hand and a plate of cheese in the other, on his way to a Jerry Lewis movie), and my name had morphed through "meezoo", "kazoo", and eventually a simple, hearty "Hau, hau, hau!" At one point, the original nickname had been translated into English and I was known simply as "The Mister".

A previous alter-ego, "Voter, Schmoter", is pretty self-explanatory, as I had used it exclusively in political threads, mostly during elections.

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[The Mister]

<font size=2>Wow, it censored the word "b astardized"! ...glad this isn't the WC :smile:

[Franchise]

This is the original name I selected back in the prior incarnation of the CAS board. I have kept it the whole time, and have never used anything else.

At the time, my favorite wrestler was "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Since then, he has pretty much fallen off the face of the earth, but I will not let the name die. :wink:

To explain things further, Douglas had an ongoing hatred for "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, so that's why I occasionally do a little sparring with The Nature Boy around here.

[Damn, Dirty Ape]

I first posted as the Ape in a Gun-lobby thread started by Kimi (our friendly neighborhood gun-wacko). Someone was posting as Charlton Heston, and I wanted to be the guy who opposed him (from Planet of the Apes, for those who still don't get it).

[Bolt]

I bolt food.

[Guerilla poster]

My name was inspired by Kimi also. Kimi seemed to post blast emails about gun ownership and then disappear - never really discussing the issue. Similar to guerilla tactics, hence the name.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

I don't remember.

[Actuary321]

DTNF: You may not but the rest of us do.

Mine means nothing at all.

[slam]

I'm an avid bridge player. For those who don't know, making a "slam" is a very good thing to do when playing bridge. Back in my trading days (on the same floor where they filmed "Trading Places"), I wanted a good action word to put on my badge. I've been using it in various on-line situations ever since.

[MountainHawk]

I've decided to make the jump from the WC to here. For those who don't know, my username comes from the relatively new mascot for my alma mater.

[Princess Fiona]

I'm the princess who turns into a troll when she gets to make it with Shrek.

[Jed the Humanoid]

fiona : That explains your moodswings ! :smile:

[Preppy]

I suffer from "Preppyphobia", the "fear of being strangled by the sleeves of my sweater".

[Anonymous]

Newly released. Need I say more?

[Gandalf]

My daughter was reading LOTR at the time I was registering, and I thought that Hogwarts crowd should have some competition.

[E. Blackadder]

If you haven't seen my alter-ego on BBC, then you've missed a treat. This personna allows me to be at times, pleasant; utterly nasty; and even pleasantly nasty.

Usually my nastiness is reserved for the "Politics" thread. And for "flirt" threads, but that's different.

If I thought I could get away with a second personna again, I'd revive "Concerned Mom." But our administrator, Cruella -- I mean Traci -- wouldn't like that. And it is not wise to offend Traci. It is also not easy.

I was Nicholai Hel on the very occasional times I posted on the CAS. Welcome back, Thought. I was intrigued by one of the threads you started in the WC.

[Don Quijote]

Pues, primero para mostrar una vinculación con la cultura romantica y sobre todo española.

My name also represents a willingness to support idealistic concepts even though they might appear foolish from a practical perspective.

The fact that it´s just a short step, alphabetically speaking, from Cervantes to cervesa may have had an influence as well.

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[Cannonball]

Cannonball - after one of the greatest (certainly my favorite) alto sax players ever, Cannonball Adderly.

MacDaddy - a nickname that follows me around wherever I go because it's vaguely similar to my actual last name.

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[ne11er]

Cannonball Adderly...what talent.

My name is a really supposed to look like Neller only I use ones for the 'L's. I got it from one of those hotmail accounts where Neller had already been taken. And Neller is a nickname that my college roommate calls me. It comes from my given first name which I do not wish to reveal.

[Pseudolus]

Feeling nostalgic, so here's what I said the first time this came up on the WC:My name is from the lead character in the musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". No great significance (although I do like the play), I was just trying to think of a pseudo-nym and came up with Pseudo-lus.

October, 2000. I was so young and naive then.

[Maine-iac]

Well, its pretty obvious, and I've stated it many times on the WC. However, for the RF records:

1) I'm from Maine
2) I must be nuts to be taking CAS exams after having finished the SOA exams.


NB: I'm NOT from "Flashdance"

[Flora]

I love to garden

[Oliver Klozov]

Many people believe that I am a Russian actuary, until they say my name aloud.

[JMO]

I think I was originally called JMO as a derogatory reference to my signature tag line, "Just My Opinion." I used it when posting from work to make it clear that my opinions (which are numerous and wide-ranging) are not those of my employer, which has a process and official spokesman.

I actually like the sound of it.

Of course, since company rules prohibit posting in "chat boards" and context is not clear on whether that includes professional bulletin boards, I have been keeping a rather low profile lately.

[Bonnie]

When I first signed on, I felt brave enough to use my own name. Now I would like to hide behind a username, but can't find one that expresses my many facets. (cough cough)

And if I did make one up, how would you know it was me?

[Effa]

To the best of my knowledge, this is a creation of the 50 guys on my floor in residence in 1st year of college. Effa is short for "ah fer f*** sakes". More often than not it is said in a high pitched whiny tone - and it became a greeting as well. I'm sure none of this makes much sense, but it had a certain bonding charm to it at the time.

Coincidentally, it also sounds similar to the SOA exam I wrote this fall and, using the definition above, simultaneously reveals my feelings about my performance on that exam.

[openminded]

...

[42]

Contrary to popular belief, 42 is neither my I.Q., my age, or my waist size. (I wish, for all three!) 42 comes from the Douglas Adams sci-fi novel "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - sort of like Monty Python, but set in space.

In one of the book's many asides, it discusses a race of people who build the largest, most powerful computer in the entire universe. It answers one question after another for them, until somebody gets the bright idea to ask it for "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything". The computer answers "Hmm, that's a good question. It should take me approximately 10,000 years to solve." It then slowly grinds to a slow humm as it dedicates 100% of its CPU to answering the question. 10,000 years later, it jubilantly reports its answer: 42. The people then decide that, if 42 is the answer, they need to build an even bigger, better computer to determine what the question must have really been in the first place.

I chose this pseudonym because it was the most inappropriate one for me that I could think of. "42" is the epitomy of being too concise, but as you can see, I never say in 5 words what I can instead say in 5,000!

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[jets fan]

I think we'll all agree that mine is self-explanatory!

[Cynical Realist]

So-o-o-o, your favorite musical is "West Side Story", but was there one "jet" dancer you had your eye on in particular?

[Dulcinea]

Once upon a time, in my yoot, my friends and I would go to this little Spanish café called 'Dulcinea'. It was near our school. We'd go there for 'chocolate con churros' and this rich dessert called 'tocino del cielo'. Heavenly!

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end....."

[Jonas Grumby]

As I pointed out in a similar WC thread: I like to skip.

Hey MacDaddy, I'm only familiar from Mr. Adderly's work from the Davis quintet (with Miles & 'Trane), but it's great stuff.

[Elessar]

My handle comes from a nickname I gave myself some time ago to be completely pompous in a self-effacing way--anyone who's ever seen me can verify that I am, in fact, NOT all that. Well, except maybe for my significant other.

To continue 42's explanation (because I think it's funny and somewhat relevant to an actuarial forum), the computer that was built to deduce the question to the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (which was discovered to be 42) was Earth, with all living things being the CPU processes. Sadly, just shortly before it was scheduled to deliver its results, the Earth was destroyed to build an interspace bypass.

The last survivor from Earth, who got away by hitchhiking on a passing starship, crash landed on a primitive planet later in the series. He fashioned a Scrabble set out of wood and tried to get the primitives to play with him. At some point he realized that since he was on the earth just before it was scheduled to give its results, maybe his subconscious held the key. He put all the Scrabble tiles in a hat and chose them randomly, writing down the sequence. He came up with:
"What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
Hilarious stuff (to me at least). It works on a lot of levels.

[Numbers Nerd]

My name is my follow-up when somebody gives me a blank stare when I say I'm an actuary.

[Darth Tater]

Numbers Nerd - I envy your response, and your name. My dad just says I'm a bean counter, and I've decided that this is really a good response. Though, when people know what an actuary is, usually the next thing out of there mouth is "When am I gonna die?". I want to say and then do the following: "Why, what a great question!" and then rip off their arms and beat them about the head and shoulders with the bloody stumps! ARGH!

[Shrek]

Cool laser. No confussion as to who I used to be.

I've decided to change names here. Ya'll can still call me Nesbit, if'n ya want, but I prefer to shed Nesbit with the other forum.

[General Kenobi (ret.)]

It's not a laser! It's a little light that blinks!

[Nature Boy]

took this name cause ron jeremy was already taken.

whooooooo

[Wolverine]

Nature-

You're THAT hairy???

[Kairn]

Name of a fictional vampire from the past (not past history like Vlad Tepes aka Dracula)

[Maine-iac]

NN - My husband is a meteorologist, so we used to joke that our wedding announcement should have read "Weather Weenie Weds Number Nerd in Noon Nuptials."

[Pseudolus]

For Buzz/Nesbit:First off, and this might sound ridiculous to put it in perspective like this, Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story" is Buzz Lightyear the toy in "Toy Story." When I did the voice of Buzz Lightyear, I do the voice of "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command." Although he's animated, he's actually Buzz Lightyear and not the toy. So it's still a somewhat different Buzz Lightyear. He had to sound different. (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/questions/warburton.html)

So which one are you again?

[WQN]

"Won't Quit Now", how I felt about the exams after I passed Course 2.

[thing]

When first signing up, I couldn't think of a ...

[Anonymous]

I was posting to bulletin board on Vegas, and one of the posters was OHR (Original High Roller). In some sort of Entertainment Weekly brain spasm I found myself registering to the board as ODB@WuTang.com ... I don't know why. I don't own any Wu Tang Clan. I think I just really dug the fact that some dude had actually changed his name to Old Dirty Bast*rd.





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[Thought]

E. Blackadder:Welcome back, Thought. I was intrigued by one of the threads you started in the WC.

Thanks. It’ll be fun getting everyone together in one place. The Andy Lang v. Paddyboy battles are already proving to be hilarious. By the way, which thread intrigued you?

[Minerva]

The goddess of wisdom
A prim (but slightly funky) professor
Minnie Mouse in middle age

You decide

(Started out as Dr. Mom because of a recent run of ill children - but that's way too serious)

(edited to bump up - this thread appeals to my sense of whimsey and my natural curiousity about my fellow posters)


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[Minerva]

Well, I just found out that editing a post doesn't bump it up. Will I ever master the technological intricacies of the Rebel Forum?

[Bob the Dog]

Name of Bob's house dog in college was Bob.

[egg]

College nickname.

[Catbert]

Tequila lovin' alcoholic.

[Guero]

Nickname (in spanish)

[mocha]

Guitchie, Guitchie, ya ya dada,
Guitchie, Guitchie, ya ya here.
Mocha Choca lata ya ya
Creole lady Mar-ma-laaaaaaaaaaade!

[Anonymous]

On 2001-12-13 13:21, Numbers Nerd wrote:
My name is my follow-up when somebody gives me a blank stare when I say I'm an actuary.


I say, "numbers geek" now before I even say "actuary"!


My name is an old L.A. punk band.

[Lucy]

The first time I used this name was in the old days of cheap, replaceable names. I wanted to same something snitty, so I picked Lucy@peanuts.com. It stuck.

Slam - I know you in real life and didn't guess where the name came from. I should have, though.

Buzz Lightyear - Did you read the works of Edith Nesbit? It will be easier to think of you as a guy with this name.

[treyso]

Great to see it jets fan. Ahhh, just reminising how you once wanted to poke my eyes out.

Mine, well, I don't like to "badger" people. From Wisky.

[Mick Fan]

Being a left-handed golfer, mine is a tribute to the best left-handed golfer in the world!

Now if he could just win a major ...

:smile:

[Brad Spirrison]

I thought Mike Weir was the best lefty in golf these days.

[Shrek]

Just stopped by and saw these questions...
On 2001-12-20 22:04, Lucy wrote:
Buzz Lightyear - Did you read the works of Edith Nesbit? It will be easier to think of you as a guy with this name.

I have not, Lucy, and at this point do not plan to.

On 2001-12-13 16:36, Pseudolus wrote:
For Buzz/Nesbit:First off, and this might sound ridiculous to put it in perspective like this, Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story" is Buzz Lightyear the toy in "Toy Story." When I did the voice of Buzz Lightyear, I do the voice of "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command." Although he's animated, he's actually Buzz Lightyear and not the toy. So it's still a somewhat different Buzz Lightyear. He had to sound different.

So which one are you again?
I am the big screen star / action figure.
_________________
formerly known as Mrs Nesbit

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[Traina]

I train clients on using our software product.

[Mick Fan]

On 2001-12-21 09:11, tigernet wrote:
I thought Mike Weir was the best lefty in golf these days.


Sorry, Tigernet, with apologies to Mr. Weir, the Mick is still the best lefty in the world. And ranked second overall behind Eldrick.

Yeah, I know .... the major thing ... We lefties are still waiting for our second major (Bob Charles won the British Open an ungodly amount of years ago).

[Anonymous]

Once one, always one.

[Regina Phelangi]

You know me from "Friends". I'm the name that Phoebe always uses when she wants to pretend to be somebody else. :smile:

[Agtuary]

Canterbury Tales

[RTVA]

Any of my real life nicknames would have given me away to my coworkers, and I didn't put the time into coming up with something creative. The "56" is because I am stuck in a loop of taking SOA courses 5 and 6. :sad:

[Oh Yeah]

Back in the old forum, where usernames were changed like dirty shirts, I was strenuously agreeing with something someone said (hard as that is to believe) so I used the name 'Oh Yeah'. Then I kind of liked it. Now it's ironic because my name is so upbeat and I'm so da*n cranky.

[Preppy]

Oh, Yeah: you can always change it to 'Yeah, Right!

[JO]

On the old forum last year when I was studying for Course 6, a co-worker of mine asked me how studying was going. As I was stuck on Panjer and ready to put the gun in my mouth, I responded that I'd rather be home and have a J-O session than to keep on studying that crap. When I posted afterwards and was sick of changing names all the time, I remembered the line and adopted the name. How beautiful..

[Ammie]

I don't get it. Seriously.

[Nature Boy]

call me on my cell and i'll explain'em to you. which one dontcha get, sweetie? jerko or clothes'off ?

whoooooooooooooooooooo

[Ammie]

oh. thanks nature boy. I had a feeling I was going to be sorry for posting that.

[Nature Boy]

does that mean i'm *not* getting a call? :sad:

that'll teach me a lesson on how to keep a good teaser alive.

whooooooooo

[Monty Python]

On 2001-12-23 17:29, 4Her wrote:
Once one, always one.


...I thought that was the USMC...

I'm one of those whose names are self-evident, because I'm just plain old ~.

[Crystal Dragon.]

I was in Seattle on the docks of Puget sound and there's this little gift shop with this huge hanging dragon, wings spread, tail thrashing, made completely of crystal! It made an impression and 30 years later, while signing up for a forum board, it dawns on me!! BTW if anyone finds a cool dragon icon for my sig, I'd be indebted! :smile:

[Mulan]

Mine is partially because of some family history - we have some ties to Asia. (we also are a proper american disney-trained family - automatically programmed to see all disney movies the weekend they are released and to immediately buy all disney films regardless to whether they are good or not. :wink: )

I liked the story of Mulan, because when I started as an actuary, I worked mostly with males, which made it necessary to be a little like "Ping" sometimes.

[42]

Time to bump this thread back to the top and learn who our new posters are.

[urysohn]

Pavel Urysohn was a famous topologist who proved "Urysohn's Lemma" and had the Urysohn set property named after him. Picked up the userid for a throwaway email account shortly after graduating and never actually got around to throwing it away.

[The Drunken Actuary]

The most intereting thing about this thread is the fact that Ammie picked an avatar. It's been so long since she's posted, who knew? (besides her groupies, I mean)

As for my username, it's my given name and goes back four generations in my family.

[oldgirl]

I'm a 10 yr old in a 35 yr old body.

[Maxine]

Ammie picked an avatar of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model for the bikini bash and left it because it appealed to a few. :wink:

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

I'm a 10 yr old in a 35 yr old body.

Much better than the opposite :D

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

That Ammie was wall-to-wall grrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrr material :love:

[Gwyneth]

I'm blonde and my father thinks I look like Gwyneth, but he's the only one, lmao. Thank goodness for daddies!

[Retired Bookworm]

Back when eveyone was using course names for their names, I resisted the urge. "Casual" refers to my stance on the exams. I casually read the material for a few months then cram as much into memory as possible the last month (3 days away from starting again). If I don't pass, big deal, I'm still employed. :) I, too, avoided other nicknames for purposes of this forum.

[Mel Gibson]

I think my name needs no explanation. :wink:

[Cho Da]

I think my name needs no explanation. :wink:Perhaps it needs an explanation-o-rama. :wink:

[bland alterego]

Unhallowed wight,
grim and greedy, he grasped betimes,
wrathful, reckless, from resting-places,
thirty of the thanes, and thence he rushed
fain of his fell spoil, faring homeward,
laden with slaughter, his lair to seek.
Then at the dawning, as day was breaking,
the might of Grendel to men was known;
then after wassail was wail uplifted,
loud moan in the morn…

But the evil one ambushed old and young
death-shadow dark, and dogged them still,
lured, or lurked in the livelong night
of misty moorlands: men may say not
where the haunts of these Hell-Runes be.
Such heaping of horrors the hater of men,
lonely roamer, wrought unceasing,
harassings heavy.

[Mel Gibson]

I think my name needs no explanation. :wink:Perhaps it needs an explanation-o-rama. :wink:D'oh!

[moj]

moj = mother of jesus

[moj]

moj - manual oil lubricant

[Redhead]

Self-explanatory. I really look like this, too.

[G. Gordon Wolfe]

The carpet matches the drapes?

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

Hardwood floors, hardwood floors.

[Daria]

I can't believe I never responded to this thread under my original name!

I was elmo, because of my red fur. and the fact that I tend to be a 3-yr-old cute furry monster at times. okay, a lot of the time.

When I hit 1K, I decided to put elmo to rest, and selected the name Daria, after my favorite cartoon chick (pictured at left)

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

Someone once told me "once you go black, you never go back". (I think it was East Blackadder). This was supposed to be a temporary gimmick - but now I can't go back.

[Sheriff Bannerman]

I am the Sheriff Bannerman from The Dead Zone and Cujo by Stephen King. I saw the movie (Christopher Walken, Sheriff played by Tom Skerrit. Never saw Cujo, but Sheriff dies, taken down by the dog. Mrs. Bannerman is a big King fan. Besides, all the Jedi names were already taken.

I tried to be Colonel Nicholson from Bridge on the River Kwai, but it was taken, too. :roll: Go figure.

[Macroman]

I took my name while studying for course #2. For those of you that don't know, Macroeconomics is one of the major topics on course #2.

Once I have mastered Life Contingencies I may change my name...

[Pi Man]

math geek here. pi was the first cool/nerdy thing i thought of... zero vector and polly are also in my class here at the military math academy... i thought i saw Kernel Eigen, but don't know where he's gone to... ;) and our class song is Old McDonald in mathmagic land; you know the tune; 2.71828, root of -1, 2.71828, root of -1, OH!! :o parts of the song are imaginary, like most of my friends, but every once in a while i still get to integrate!! CU L8r!!

[G. Ringo]

You can integrate at a military academy because its function is war, which is continuous almost everywhere.

I have infested this board since I was a grub. When I was a grub, I used a full first name, Gregor, which I explained earlier in thsi thread. When I metamorphosed into a big beetle, I decided to use just my initial with the last name Ringo, which my daughter's science teacher gave to a beetle, because G. Ringo is a nice American name.

[Pseudolus]

(Ooooooooh. I thought it was a Pope/Beatles joke - not John Paul, but....)

[astrogeek]

Mine is the number assigned to me when I attended the University. :sleep:

Too funny! I was at the main index and saw that the last post had been by "1695814," at which point I thought to myself, "Someone is using their U of M ID as their screen name ?!?!"

Rah Rah Rah for Ski U Mah!

[ThE BlacK ScoRpioN]

Mine is the number assigned to me when I attended the University. :sleep:

Following this logic, Lee will change his username to MCCXLIV.

Thank you thank you - here all week!

[Claire Voyant]

As far as I can see, my name needs no explanation.

As far as I can see - Clair Voyant - get it? get it? :D

[Claire Voyant]

Mine is the number assigned to me when I attended the University. :sleep:

Following this logic, Lee will change his username to MCCXLIV.

Thank you thank you - here all week!

:lolup: :lolup:

[Miss Congeniality]

I thought that’s a natural name choice for a female actuary. Plus I felt like one after getting my exam results! :D

[quentin cassidy]

I thought I had responded here already, but I must be thinking of an old CAS forum thread. My handle is the main character of the novel 'Once A Runner.' I, like Cassidy, also ran the mile in college. My favorite exerpt:

Cassidy sought no euphoric interludes. They came, when they did, quite naturally and he was content to enjoy them privately. He ran not for crypto-religious reasons, but to win races, to cover ground fast. Not only to be better than his fellows, but better than himself. To be faster by a tenth of a second, by an inch, by two feet or two yards than he had been the week or year before. He sought to conquer the physical limitations placed upon him by a three-dimensional world (and if Time is the fourth dimension, that too was his province). If he could conquer the weakness, the cowardice in himself, he would not worry about the rest; it would come. Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

Anything else that comes out of that process is by-product. Certain compliments and observations made Cassidy uneasy; he explained that he was a runner; just an athlete, really, with an absurdly difficult task. He was not a health nut, was not out to mold himself a stylishly slim body. He did not live on nuts and berries; if the furnace was hot enough, anything would burn, even Big Macs. He listened carefully to his body and heeded strange requests. Like a pregnant woman, he sometimes sought artichoke hearts, pickled beets, smoked oysters. His daily toil was arduous; satisfying on the whole, but not the bounding, joyous, nature romp described in the magazines. Other runners, real runners, understood it quite well.

Quentin Cassidy knew what the mystic-runners, the joggers, the runner-poets, the Zen runners and others of their ilk were saying. But he also knew that their euphoric selves were generally nowhere to be seen on dark, rainy mornings. They primarily wanted to talk it, not do it. Cassidy very early on understood that a true runner ran even when he didn't feel like it, and raced when he was supposed to, without excuses and with nothing held back. He ran to win, would die in the process if necessary, and was unimpressed by those who disavowed such a base motivation. You are not allowed to renounce that which you never possessed, he thought.

The true competitive runner, simmering in his own existential juices, endured his melancholia the only way he knew how: gently, together with those few others who also endured it; yet very much alone. He ran because it grounded him in basics. There was both life and death in it; it was unadulterated by media hype, trivial cares, political meddling. He suspected it kept him from that most real variety of schizophrenia that the republic is currently sprouting like mushrooms on a stump.

Running to him was real, the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free.

[Mr. Penguin]

I too thought I had responded here before, but I guess that was on the WC......

Mr. because, well, I'm a man. Though IRL, it still weirds me out when somebody calls me mister _______. Umm, no, that's my dad.

Penguin because I look damn good in a tux. :D

[RTVA]

Hm, I posted here, but it was two names ago.... :roll:

RTVA = Reality TV Addict. I never used to watch TV, and then I started taking these stupid exams, which crippled my social life, but got me started watching TV. (I had enough will power to stay home at night..."I have to study"...but not enough will power to actually study the whole night.) So I started watching TV right when Survivor was really huge, and the rest is history. (I do not like ALL reality TV, though. Only Survivor, the Mole, and the Amazing Race.)

[the mole]

I do not like ALL .... Only ... the Mole

:love: :kiss:

[_BullDog_]

:bump:

[mexx]

But it's SO long .. you there - can you just summarize this thread in one post?
Thanks.

[_BullDog_]

I didn't read it myself.

[LoneGirl]

Just tell us why you chose your name, mexx. It's Chex Mix, right? ;)

[m_m]

I didn't read it myself.

You just bumped it up for nothing?

[wat?]

Tex-mexx.

[_BullDog_]

You just bumped it up for nothing?

Some people might have some explaining to do. And pretty much.

[OldTymer]

Some people might have some explaining to do. And pretty much.

Go on. You start.

[mexx]

Just tell us why you chose your name, mexx. It's Chex Mix, right? ;)

Don't make me mexx you up, girl! ;)

[m_m]

Isn't Mexx a clothing store name?

[Chief Petosky]

My mom was from Petoskey, Michigan. A lot of her family still lives there. We took our summer vacations there or at an inland lake near there. It's a beautiful place in the summer (and in the winter if you like snow).

Petoskey was named after Native American Chief Petosega. My grandpa used to like to tell this story. I liked my grandpa. I like Petoskey. I mistyped "Petoskey" when I registered for the AO. I left it that way. Sometimes, I have trouble logging in because I spell "Petoskey" correctly (or "Petosky" incorrectly).

[Take 2]

Take 2: Long ago, RF/AO posters were discussing post-divorce experience. I remarried at 40, so this part of my life is "Take 2" -- as in the filming of a movie, I'm trying to get it right this time.

[FatActuary]

5'10"
255 lbs
not much muscle

I think that pretty much explains my name.
:beer:

[Brad Gile]

My mother gave it to me 64 years ago. :D
How quaint.

Brad

[tbug]

my name starts with t and i like bugs (spiders, ladybugs, grasshoppers, cicadas, etc. i have a tattoo of a ladybug but what i REALLY want is a big horsefly on the side of my leg. my husband does not approve)

plus i think my mom used to say 'cute as a bug' which i think i am. quite*! ;)


(*and as a bit of a delayed introduction, i should point out that I like to keep a positive outlook about myself. i often speak of myself as being gorgeous and brilliant - like when i say i'm 'sure' i passed an exam. correlation with reality may vary.)

[JMO Fan]

I always appreciated JMO's posts, so when I decided to start posting myself, the pseud was natural.

[ShebaPoe]

My name is Matt. When I was younger, I played basketball at a high level. I used to jump out of the gym. I still get up pretty good; at age 31 I can slam dunk the ball with little difficulty. I can't move like I used to, though; the young guys are as quick as I am.

But not as quick as I was, and that's all that matters.

[Uncle Darryl]

i have a tattoo of a ladybugVery interesting...

Judges?

[Uncle Darryl]

5'10"
255 lbs
not much muscle

I think that pretty much explains my name.
:beer:My name is Matt. When I was younger, I played basketball at a high level. I used to jump out of the gym. I still get up pretty good; at age 31 I can slam dunk the ball with little difficulty. I can't move like I used to, though; the young guys are as quick as I am.

But not as quick as I was, and that's all that matters.MattTheSkywalker = FatActuary?

[kolya23]

I was a Russian lit (and Chinese History) major in undergrad. In War and Peace, Kolya is a diminuitive (or nickname) for Nikolai... other diminuitives are Nikolenka, Nikolushka, Kolyenka, etc. Since my name is Nicholas, I started going with Kolya as a nickname on IM etc. And 23 is my lucky number.

[FatActuary]

MattTheSkywalker = FatActuary?

Nope, but I did touch the rim once in high school

[kazh]

I usually take a casual attitude toward this forum, especially when I think the arguments are getting silly (even if the subject is serious). So I like to shorten casual and spell it 'kazh'-ually.

[Cracktuary]

Just looking for something stupid that I could end with "tuary"....aren't you amazed by my creativity and originality?!?!?!

[LoneGirl]

When I first registered on the AO, I was the only female in my company's actuarial department, thus the lone girl. But at my company now, there are several other female actuaries so I guess my name doesn't really apply anymore. But it's grown on me, so I kept it. :)

[Brad Gile]

I can't move like I used to, though; the young guys are as quick as I am.


And when you die, you'll be slower than I! :judge: :smile:

Brad

[LoneGirl]

My mom was from Petoskey, Michigan. A lot of her family still lives there. We took our summer vacations there or at an inland lake near there. It's a beautiful place in the summer (and in the winter if you like snow).

Petoskey was named after Native American Chief Petosega. My grandpa used to like to tell this story. I liked my grandpa. I like Petoskey. I mistyped "Petoskey" when I registered for the AO. I left it that way. Sometimes, I have trouble logging in because I spell "Petoskey" correctly (or "Petosky" incorrectly).

No wonder your name has seemed familiar to me.....I went through Petoskey, MI last summer on vacation! :)

[Willie Mosconi]

As you can probably guess from my avatar, Willie Mosconi was a famous pool player. I'm no pro, but I certainly enjoy the game. I thought about Minnesota Fats, but (1) even though I'm overweight, I didn't want that tag, and (2) Minnesota Fats was already taken. Plus, I'm half-Italian, so Mosconi stuck.

[Regular Joe]

Because I like pie.

[Qisoneminusp]

because it is ... duh.

I bet you can guess what exam i was studying for when i signed up for the AO as well.

[Fish Actuary]

My job is the near equivalent of being an actuary for fish.
How likely is it they are going to die?
How long will they live?
How fat (or skinny) will they be?
Which are the good neighborhoods and which are the bad?

[Super Silver Haze]

track 5 (http://www.amazon.com/Spacecake-Plateau/dp/B00000IP4R/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5700105-8573768?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1179530126&sr=8-1)

[That Goblin]

track 5 (http://www.amazon.com/Spacecake-Plateau/dp/B00000IP4R/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5700105-8573768?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1179530126&sr=8-1)


A excerpt from a user review. "experimental music with great production values" Which is good, because without great production values, experimental music ends up just sounding like crap.

[Minnesota Fats]

As you can probably guess from my avatar, Willie Mosconi was a famous pool player. I'm no pro, but I certainly enjoy the game. I thought about Minnesota Fats, but (1) even though I'm overweight, I didn't want that tag, and (2) Minnesota Fats was already taken. Plus, I'm half-Italian, so Mosconi stuck.
They don't call me Minnesota Fats because I'm morbidly obese.

Oh wait, maybe they do. :oops:

[careerchanger]

well, I've had a few careers since college -- entered this field at age 34 and I've been doing this longer than any other job I've ever had

of course, if I could do it all over again, the career I'd stick with is grad student

[wat?]

wat? (waht) n. - a perpetual sense of confusion and aimless wandering

[A.Life.Age.X]

i have a tattoo of a ladybug )

??Where ???

[hotkarl]

hotkarl (www.hotkarl.com)

[micaelagb]

My name is Matt. When I was younger, I played basketball at a high level. I used to jump out of the gym. I still get up pretty good; at age 31 I can slam dunk the ball with little difficulty. I can't move like I used to, though; the young guys are as quick as I am.

But not as quick as I was, and that's all that matters.

OMG, you're 31? I imagined you a decade older. Hmmm...the charm is waning...

:kiss:

And by now, I'm sure everyone has had a thorough introduction to French opera composers (George Bizet=gb) and their secondary characters (micaela, the jilted sweet girl in Carmen that Don Jose leaves for the opera's heroine)

I liked the pathos and angst of the character in high school and it's been my online handle for years. The character irritates me now (grow a pair, girl! Dump his heiney!), but her one big aria is very much "me".

Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante.

[mexx]

Isn't Mexx a clothing store name?

Ding ding ding - you got it.
They are my primary clothing-provider at the moment.

[ShebaPoe]

OMG, you're 31? I imagined you a decade older. Hmmm...the charm is waning...

:kiss:

And by now, I'm sure everyone has had a thorough introduction to French opera composers (George Bizet=gb) and their secondary characters (micaela, the jilted sweet girl in Carmen that Don Jose leaves for the opera's heroine)

I liked the pathos and angst of the character in high school and it's been my online handle for years. The character irritates me now (grow a pair, girl! Dump his heiney!), but her one big aria is very much "me".

Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante.

In 10 years, I will be a decade older; I might be more charming then, I don't know. :) I'm taking my sister to the musical Wicked next week for her 30th birthday; she is rather excited.

[Listeria]

i have a tattoo of a ladybug
Please please please send a picture to melaniehaber@yahoo.com!!!!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez






Plizzz


beebeejigge

[Buru Buru]

Ding ding ding - you got it.
They are my primary clothing-provider at the moment.

I went there yesterday. Got an awesome top. :tup:

[Levin]

I went there yesterday. Got an awesome top. :tup:
Then put it on, for heaven's sake. :grin:

I've also explained mine before but it is from the character in Anna Karenina, which I was reading when I joined. I found that he and I had so much in common that it seemed a good fit. I have only recently mentioned that it kind of reminded me of Lupin, the werewolf, and Locke, the blogger(?), two other fictional characters whom I admire.

[Actuary321]

Please please please send a picture to melaniehaber@yahoo.com!!!!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez






Plizzz


beebeejiggetake your pick. (http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&hl=en&rls=com.netscape:en-US&q=tattoo+ladybug)

[JAS]

hotkarl (http://www.hotkarl.com)

Is this SFW?

[Jables]

Why wouldn't it be? Is there some connotation to the name "hotkarl" I'm not aware of? :-?

[tbug]

??Where ???

not too interesting, couple inches above my right ankle.

next one (not the horsefly, which i promised mr bug i wouldn't do this year) is going to be in the inside of my wrist

[Jables]

next one (not the horsefly, which i promised mr bug i wouldn't do this year) is going to be in the inside of my wrist
Pssst, tattoos are normally on the outside of body parts...

[tbug]

Please please please send a picture [/email]!!!!

what in the world? i expected that from abused student, not you

[tbug]

next one is going to be on the medial side of my wrist

fine, ifmp

[Tybo]

Please please please send a picture to abusedstudent@ao.com!!!!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez






Plizzz


beebeejigge

Better?

[rawl316]

Just tell us why you chose your name, mexx. It's Chex Mix, right? ;)

no, it's mexxican

[Malik Shabazz]

I chose my name in honor of Malcolm X (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/), the person outside my family who has had the greatest influence on my life.

Reading his Autobiography when I was 12 or 13 was literally a life-changing experience. It explained so many of the things I saw in the world but never entirely understood. To this day, his life and his words continue to inspire me.

And I'm probably the only person in the world who has a picture of Malcolm in his wallet. :spnner:

[DoctorNo]

Short for "Doctor Norris", but with a James Bond twist. :judge: :popcorn:

[JimmyJoe]

It's my name.

[DoctorNo]

It's my name.

Can you go over that one more time?

[QMO]

I've answered before, so I'll post a link.
http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showpost.php?p=1349009&postcount=199

[tbug]

I've answered before, so I'll post a link.
http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showpost.php?p=1349009&postcount=199

to me you will always be Quite Milk Obsessed (I think it was kid notorious who suggested it)

[Abused Student]

to me you will always be Quite Milk Obsessed (I think it was kid notorious who suggested it)

:iatp:

[Abused Student]

If you can't figure mine out, let me teach you a phrase...."Would you like fries with that sir?"

[Pizza Pasta]

If you've ever played the eighties arcade game Punchout, you probably had fun knocking me out. And also, you're old.

[Dictator Extraordinaire]

Adj. 1. extraordinaire - extraordinary in a particular capacity; "a woodworker extraordinaire"; "a self-starter extraordinaire"; "a dictator extraordinaire", if you will.

[SparkleActuary]

my name is so reveling it's rediculous.

[uchuskies51587]

I go to UConn...our mascot is the husky...and my birthday is May 15th.

[tommie frazier]

may 15th? wha year?

[Alto Reed on a Tenor Sax]

If you've ever played the eighties arcade game Punchout, you probably had fun knocking me out. And also, you're old.

Umm...

Who was your NES "Mike Tyson" equivalent? Cause I'm not placing you..

[Willie Mosconi]

They don't call me Minnesota Fats because I'm morbidly obese.

Oh wait, maybe they do. :oops:

As it turns out, I have the same birthday as you (well, sort of, the real Minnesota Fats) as well as Dennis Taylor (northern Irish snooker player).

[Alto Reed on a Tenor Sax]

HERE IS THE STORY OF MY USER NAME:

One time, when I first was starting out on sax, I was playing a musical, Gypsy. I played tenor sax for three performances, using an alto sax reed, and never even noticed until I broke the reed. When I replaced it with a correctly sized reed, I saw what I had done.

My teacher at the time was playing the show, too. He said, "Wow, you were able to play an alto reed on a tenor sax, for three whole nights? You must be damn good player!" That may be true. But it doesn't change the fact that I was a dumbass for not even noticing.

[openminded]

...

[Browncoat]

Someone once acccused me of being a nazi, so I thought I should put my explanation in my sig block.

I own a brown coat, btw. A girl I was engaged to at the time bought it for me. I was in the AF at the time and had just the blue coat, rather than the cool brown leather ones that the fly boys wore. She was very careful to buy the same kind that the fly boys look so cool in. Very nice brown leather jacket.

I almost broke her heart when I told her that I wasn't allowed to wear it as part of my uniform, because I wasn't a fly boy. We desk-jobbers had to wear the blue jacket. Still, I wore it with my civvies. Still a great jacket, but the zipper needs to be fixed.

Oh, and the girl? Mrs Browncoat.

(I looked for pix of both jackets on line, but gave up after diggety-six minutes.)

[oedipus rex]

Someone once acccused me of being a nazi, so I thought I should put my explanation in my sig block.

I own a brown coat, btw. A girl I was engaged to at the time bought it for me. I was in the AF at the time and had just the blue coat, rather than the cool brown leather ones that the fly boys wore. She was very careful to buy the same kind that the fly boys look so cool in. Very nice brown leather jacket.

I almost broke her heart when I told her that I wasn't allowed to wear it as part of my uniform, because I wasn't a fly boy. We desk-jobbers had to wear the blue jacket. Still, I wore it with my civvies. Still a great jacket, but the zipper needs to be fixed.

Oh, and the girl? Mrs Browncoat.

(I looked for pix of both jackets on line, but gave up after diggety-six minutes.)news to me. i always assumed you were a firefly fan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browncoat

[Horatio Dimwitty]

Like Abbott and Costello.

Lou Costello played Sebastian Dinwiddie in 1945's "The Naughty Nineties" and Horatio Prim in 1946's "The Time of Their Lives".

[Dragonball Z-score]

My name is a meaningless conflation based on a tenuous intersection of an obscure pop culture component and bit of statistical knowledge.

Much like my life.

[General Apathy]

Do you not hear me anymore
I know it's not your thing to care
I know it's cool to be so bored
But it sucks me in when you're aloof
It sucks me in, it sucks, it works
I guess it's cool to be alone

Will you never rest
fighting the battle of who could care less
Every day you wake up late
Sometimes I wish I was that way

And you think Rockford Files is cool
But there are some things
that you would change
if it were up to you
so think about your masterpiece
watch the Rockford Files and
call to see if Paul can score some weed

Do you never rest
fighting the battle
of who could care less
unearned unhappiness
that's alright I guess

I've got this great idea
why don't we pitch it to the
Franklin ****ing Mint
Fine pewter portraits of
General Apathy and Major Boredom singing
Whatever and ever amen.
Oh well, maybe not
I'll try again
this should cheer you up for sure
see I've got your old I.D.
and you're all dressed up like the Cure

Will you never rest
fighting the battle
of who could care less
unearned unhappiness
you're my hero I confess

[notmyfriends]

Shove me under you again
I can't wait for this to end
sober, empty in the head
I know I can never win

Why should I have to wait
I'll just look the other way

We left this land of shiny lights
I wish I may, I wish I might
when all these dreams have come to end
you'll wish you were, you're not my friend

I can see you suffocate
I can find no other way
try to make you saturate
I can be your enemy

Why should I have to wait
I'll just look the other way

We left this land of shiny lights
I wish I may, I wish I might
When all these dreams have come to end
you'll wish you were, you're not my friend

You said you'd love
to see the end
the long hard road
That I have been

When all these dreams have come to end
you'll wish you were, you're not my friend

Blind eyes shine through

[Browncoat]

news to me. i always assumed you were a firefly fan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browncoat


my explanation [is] in my sig block.


:-?

The story was just a story.

[oedipus rex]

:-?

The story was just a story.You think I actually read every post I reply to? Come on now. Apparently I for some reason thought you were giving an alternative explanation to your username. I was wrong. :oops: Anyway, Firefly was a great show that should have been given 10 seasons.

[QMO]

to me you will always be Quite Milk Obsessed (I think it was kid notorious who suggested it):iatp: also

[The Smokin' Cracktuary]

Well, for me, one day I was hangin' out with some buddies.
One of my friends brought this stuff over and we.....




























............what was I talkin' about.....oh, man I totally spaced on what this thread was about.......oh man.....what the heck was I just sayin?

.....whatever....

[yankeetripper]

Back in college we played a fair amount of wiffle ball. These games invariably involved consumption of a fair amount of barley & hops or Yokon Jack and occasionally other things.* Being a huge Yankees fan and running down my share of flyballs one of my buddies said "hey he's like the Yankee Clipper" upon hearing this another buddy responded "no, he's more like the Yankee Tripper" and the name just stuck.

*wiffle balls leave amazing trails.

[Redhead]

No explanation needed.

[Abused Student]

No explanation needed.

I don't get it.

[Egghead]

"Egghead" is the common name for people who are (obsessed) fans of the Big Green Egg smoker/grill. I've been to Eggtoberfest twice with my family, and I've been known to take pictures of the food I've cooked on it (I posted one here about a week or two ago.)

[notmyfriends]

"Egghead" is the common name for people who are (obsessed) fans of the Big Green Egg smoker/grill. I've been to Eggtoberfest twice with my family, and I've been known to take pictures of the food I've cooked on it (I posted one here about a week or two ago.)

Wow, I would never have gotten that one. Thanks!

:toast:

[Chillax]

My handle is a play on part of my name, the name of a song my husband's band performs, and also what I tell myself to do when I start freaking out about work or exams or cleaning my house. I went for a word I could make the most associations with.

[triplea]

If I tell you, it would ruin everything :shrug:

[CarolA]

The city of Charlotte, NC.
This alt was created for the purpose of quoting from the local newspaper, The Charlotte Observer.

[TakeNine]

In case I wanted to ask any questions about PD, here is an appropriate ID.

[lennie]

No explanation needed.
http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showpost.php?p=137661&postcount=107

[TommyDeepowla]

so i'm new around here and thought i'd ask how and why everybody chose the username they have. and of course bonus points if you know where mine came from.
The first name of one of my grandfathers is Thomas and the last name of the other sounds like deepowla.

[Pizza Pasta]

Umm...

Who was your NES "Mike Tyson" equivalent? Cause I'm not placing you..

I think Pizza Pasta only showed up in the original arcade game. He was missing from Super Punchout. I suspect they yanked him because he may have been politically incorrect. Either that or because he was a pretty lame opponent.

[yankeetripper]

I think Pizza Pasta only showed up in the original arcade game. He was missing from Super Punchout. I suspect they yanked him because he may have been politically incorrect. Either that or because he was a pretty lame opponent.

fwiw, I rememeber him. guess that makes me old.

[Pizza Pasta]

fwiw, I rememeber him. guess that makes me old.

:tup:It was an awesome game!

[TakeNine]

I think Pizza Pasta only showed up in the original arcade game. He was missing from Super Punchout. I suspect they yanked him because he may have been politically incorrect. Either that or because he was a pretty lame opponent.

Dude, all of the boxers in that game were politically incorrect. Glass Joe, from France? Vodka Drunkenski? The NES's Don Flamenco?

[notmyfriends]

Dude, all of the boxers in that game were politically incorrect. Glass Joe, from France? Vodka Drunkenski? The NES's Don Flamenco?

Even this guy???

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/punch8.jpg

[Pizza Pasta]

Dude, all of the boxers in that game were politically incorrect. Glass Joe, from France? Vodka Drunkenski? The NES's Don Flamenco?

:lol: Vodka Drunkenski cracked me up. Also there was Canadian Bear Hugger and Dragon Chan. Great characters!

[Pizza Pasta]

Even this guy???

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/punch8.jpg

Great Tiger! Although I think he was actually Piston Hurricane in disguise.

[Qisoneminusp]

I'm going to name my kid Piston.

[Pills]

Take three letters out of my last name, you get Pills. That's it.

It started when we were bored in AP Physics in high school. We geeks sat 6 across at one of those huge lab tables, and we'd write the kind of stories where you stop in the middle of a sentence and give it to the next person. We referenced ourselves in them, and I was known as Pills there. They all started calling me Pills, and it stuck.

I wish it was more exciting, really.

[wat?]

Even this guy???

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/punch8.jpg

Ever since I was young, I'd see a picture/screenshot of Great Tiger and think, "Those are some impressively large boobages."

[Houdini]

Ever since I was young, I'd see a picture/screenshot of Great Tiger and think, "Those are some impressively large boobages."
Aeyyyyyy! :tup:

For my name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houdini

[Jables]

Aeyyyyyy! :tup:

For my name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houdini
:lol: One has to wonder how many times that works with the same partner....

[tbug]

For my name:

http://www.pspain.com/foro/images/smilies/mfr_omg.gif

[The Smokin' Cracktuary]

Take three letters out of my last name, you get Pills. That's it.

It started when we were bored in AP Physics in high school. We geeks sat 6 across at one of those huge lab tables, and we'd write the kind of stories where you stop in the middle of a sentence and give it to the next person. We referenced ourselves in them, and I was known as Pills there. They all started calling me Pills, and it stuck.

I wish it was more exciting, really.

Mike Spillspanker? Is that you!?!?

[bokiz333]

Aeyyyyyy! :tup:

For my name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houdini

dude........throw in a NSFW with a link like that.

[The Smokin' Cracktuary]

Aeyyyyyy! :tup:

For my name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houdini

My buddy created his own version of the houdini in college. In his version, when she turns around, you punch her in the face.

This one you can also only use once, maybe twice, on the same girl.

[Qisoneminusp]

dude........throw in a NSFW with a link like that.

the website is URBANDICTIONARY.com. Can't you assume it is going to be NSFW? If he would have made it a link without showing the address, maybe it would have deserved an "NSFW".

[1695814]

Mine is the patent number assigned to the invention by my great grandfather, now deceased, John O. McKean of a yarn-compensating device for creels.

[Jasper07734]

Jasper is a fictional Jamaican jazzman in the Hoyle Card Games software. He is one of the characters you can choose to play the games with. "Jasper" was taken though, and I hate appending screen names with sequential numbers (e.g. "Jasper1"). Then I randomly thought about what 0.7734 upside down on a calculator looks like. :wave:

[Bamafan]

Short for "Bamafanna bo bamma me my mo mamma, Eugene"

[UNCORRELATED LAY]

Enrolled Actuary

I had to create a new username and becoming an EA was my most recent accomplishments.

[Actuarial Groupie]

I was joking with my compadres here about things we'll never see in life, such as sports-type trading cards of actuaries, or a bunch of groupies standing outside the building waiting for the actuaries to come out so they could scream & chase them down the street (ala the Beatles). I don't take exams, I'm just a data jockey, so they call me the groupie.

[Knower of Knowledge]

I know everything.

[MathGuy]

Ironically, I'm actually a middle-aged woman and I hate math.

[Obvious]

This is an alt. My other username was so obvious I was afraid I would get outed. So now my username really is Obvious.

It doesn't really matter since I hardly ever post anything.

[Inconceivable]

I don't think my username means what you think it means.

[Gentle Giant]

I don't think my username means what you think it means.RN.

[Browncoat]

:lolup:

[Browncoat]

I know everything.

Seems to me, you could call yourself that as long as you know something, which, according to Descartes, should be a snap.

[Mc Lovin]

I'm possibly the coolest sex icon ever, al la the movie Superbad.

[Hawkshaw]

It was one of the "word of the day"s in my Word of the Day calendar when I signed up. I also thought it somewhat ironic that it would sorta take a hawkshaw to find out what a hawkshaw was.

[Holding Pattern]

Haven't passed an exam in a while, so my career is in a....

[TwistedMentat]

From Herbert's Dune universe:
Mentat = Human trained to think like a computer
Twisted Mentat = Mentat "twisted" during training to be evil and enjoy others' suffering

[glassjaws]

Was listening to glassjaw when I was registering and felt like jazzing it up with an extra s.

[Wigmeister General]

Variation on the greatest composer of music to grace the face of the earth. Plus, I agree with his belief in a meritocracy.