the pope Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Have we had one of these threads yet? I don't care, lets do it again! My Sn comes from a variation of the spelling of my last name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 Dog Pat Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 punch is short or Punchin' Pat. My boxing name. My all time record in the golden gloves is 0-1 (by decision) Most people who meet me laugh when they think of me in the ring. People who have not met me always think that thier friend "punchin" is some sort of bruiser. Also, this brings a chuckle to people who know me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richNcincy Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 When I first registered on ssp, I used rnorth6920 as my screen name. Then had to re-register like everyone else and picked richNcincy. I could only wish I lived in cincy(I do live directly across the river though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayDay Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 It's my birthday (May 1st). It also happens to be the nickname of one of the coolest Bond girls ever - played by Grace Jones. http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.comhttps://www.instagram.com/clevelandskyscrapers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pope Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 ^you know i could probably answer these for the folks that i've been around for a while........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildingcincinnati Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 When I was in college my freshman year, my dormmates and I used to mess around with musical instruments when partying. We called our "band" the Twelve-Inch Tools. We decided we needed a better name. At the time, my friend Matt was reading Malcolm X for a class. In the book, Malcolm X used to go to the white clubs and pass out joints by saying, "You cats want some grass?" (I should mention we did quite a bit of pot smoking.) One night, while half-asleep, Matt was mumbling this phrase and I heard him say "You cats want some grass...you grass cats..." kind of incoherently. The next day we decided that "Grasscats" was an excellent name for our little band. Over the next couple of years, before going out or whatever when we were partying we'd always jam (even though none of us had much talent) under the name of Grasscats. I even recorded most of the stuff and it's a trip to listen to. I started a Grasscats web site at some point and just adopted the name "grasscat" for forums, etc. Nobody really calls me "Grasscat" outside of the forums...Grasscats are really a group of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richNcincy Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Speaking of B-Days Mayday..... TODAY is mine!!!! I dont feel any older though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildingcincinnati Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Happy birthday! Mine went by without so much as a mention. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pope Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Happy birthday! Mine went by without so much as a mention. :cry: b/c your old and i didn't want to rub it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magyar Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Magyar comes from my nationality (I'm actually Hungarian, Irish (<Dad), Scotish, Norwegian (<Mom)). Though that's not the reason I started using it. I was using variations of Magyar on several other boards (Magyar Geography Prez and Magyar Blue, both concern my activities at OSU back at that time) at the time I joined here. I guess I could always junk Magyar for actual name, Sandor and teach all of you as to how to correctly pronounce it (SHAWN-dor). 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverViewer Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Er...I like viewing the river... So, grasscat, this your band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColDayMan Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 ColumbusDaytonMan. That simple ;). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendall Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 simple also: my last name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJP Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 My initials. Sorry, no imagination here! KJP “What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?” Or “We all dwell together to make money from each other”? -- TS Eliot’s The Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildingcincinnati Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Er...I like viewing the river... So, grasscat, this your band? No, that's some wannabe bluegrass band. No affiliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Pence Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Just the first three letters of my first name, and my street address. Nothin' inventive or mysterious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FerrariEnzo Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfly Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Dayton Flyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildingcincinnati Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 C-Murder...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summit Street Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 my name came from the name of the street i lived on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Wanna hear something really funny, Monte? I always thought that was your real name! LMAO! Ugh! :lol: Well, my screen name is simply from my hobby as a foosball player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_c Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 My name comes from the fact taht I am big (6'6") and my first name begins with a C. the mystery is over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Wanna hear something really funny, Monte? I always thought that was your real name! LMAO! Ugh! :lol: Well, my screen name is simply from my hobby as a foosball player. Oops. I fogot that my screen name is not LetsFoos anymore. Well, I guess my current one is pretty self-explanatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigBoy Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 PigBoy is my screen name for almost everything. It's nickname created by my cousin several years ago. Actually, the full name was "Greedy Pig Boy." It arose from a card game where I took a bunch of cards or something. Otherwise I have no particular interest in pigs, and I'm not a big fatso or anything. Given my nickname, it was thrilling a few years ago during Cincinnati's "Big Pig Gig" to find that one of the pigs was called Pig Boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMH_Downtown Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 My screen name combines my love of all things urban with my passion for aviation. "CMH" is the three-letter IATA airport code for Columbus, so my nick is essentially "Columbus_Downtown." Columbus is my hometown and downtowns have always been of interest to me, so all three aspects fit well together to form my screen name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DayOh47 Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 DayOh47 = Hometown & birth year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldMojo Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 My name goes waaayyyy back to the early days of the internet - 1995. Back then ISPs charged up to $10 per hour for access and total strangers would e-mail each other just for the thrill of getting mail! This was the heyday of the IRC (inter-relay chat I believe) A free-for-all chat network with multitudes of "channels" covering every interest from needlepoint to satan worship. The novelty of this network was the ability to "register" your screen name. If someone logged on using your registered screen name, you could boot them off the network. I logged on one night after watching The Doors movie and chose "MojoRisin". This name went over pretty well & I got a lot of compliments on my "cool name". Before too long, I found myself kicking off "imposters" almost every time I went on. Unfortunately, I was off line for a few months and my registration expired. Sure enough, "MojoRisin" had been snapped up. Hence OldMojo, to distinguish myself from those "Mojo-come-latelys" Wow - my handle is nearly a decade old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank V Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 My first name and initial of last name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoDey Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Mine comes from being a Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns fan. Errr, wait, scratch that. I hate those teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Native 001 Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 I had the highest security settings on my hotmail account when I signed up as "Buckeye Native" for SSP. The security feature blocked the confirmation email because it was from an unknown email address. Not knowing why I never got the confirmation email, I tried a new name..."Buckeye Native 01". That didn't work either, so I created a new hotmail email address with low security settings and since "Buckeye Native" and "B.N. 01" were already taken, the next logical thing to do was to add another zero to the digits in my screen name... :drunk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwalk Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 tcjoe1985 (I'm very original) tc (thundercat, the mascot of the Ohio community college I graduated from) joe (my name) 1985 (my birth year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwalk Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I know, I just thought I'd bring it to the top :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximillian Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuFoote Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I'm a former broadcast journalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigBoy Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 ^ Ah, perhaps that also explains why you're giving grasscat some competition in posting lots articles here. He'd better watch out! :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magyar Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I'm a former broadcast journalist. I remember you working for WCMH back in the 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magyar Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 tcjoe1985 (I'm very original) tc (thundercat, the mascot of the Ohio community college I graduated from) joe (my name) 1985 (my birth year) Great. Now did you read all the other posts in this thread (so you can learn more about us)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skram Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Mine's pretty easy, my last name spelled backwords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y-CityGuy Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I thought my name was easy to figure out, but I realized that not all people know that the nickname of my hometown, Zanesville, is the "Y-City" (for the bridge) Oh, and, I'm a guy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OompaLoompa Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was my favorite book as a kid, and Oompa Loompa is just fun to say. I use it as my screenname everywhere. It's interesting though that unless I introduce myself as a female on forums, I'm always assumed to be a male. I guess you never did see any female Oompas... at least not in the movie. There must have been some girl OompaLoompas somewhere though... :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigBoy Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 ^ Have you seen the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie? Not only are all the Oompa Loomas male, they're all the same person! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was my favorite book as a kid, and Oompa Loompa is just fun to say. I use it as my screenname everywhere. It's interesting though that unless I introduce myself as a female on forums, I'm always assumed to be a male. I guess you never did see any female Oompas... at least not in the movie. There must have been some girl OompaLoompas somewhere though... :wtf: Ahhh! Actually, I thought you were male because we never see any female urbanohioans. Maximillian- The Black Hole used to be my favorite movie, and "Maximillian" gets my vote for "most baddass movie robot ever" As for my name, I will make a stupid story short. I hate coming up with screen names, and waste a lot of time trying to think of something clever every time, unsuccessfully. So I just said screw it, I don't need a real name- X. Think "Brand X", "Generic", "No Name", "Signing your name with an 'X'". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A 2 da K Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Mine comes from lyrics from a song by a local rap group back in the 90's: "It's the... A - to da - K - to da - R - to da - O - to da - N! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyTwoSense Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Mine is so obvious. I'm always giving someone "my two cents (sense)" whether they ask or not! LOL :evil: I know its hard to believe, but I'm very opinionated. HA! 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonBorn Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Born in Dayton. Oh, and Dayton is where the Wright Bros were born who were the first to be airborne. OK, never mind, you get the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrnyc Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 my screen name is what family and ohio friends called me because i hung out in nyc a lot prior to moving there. i was also mrbg, since two of the colleges i went to were bgsu and wku, which are both in bowling greens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-Ithacan Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I was born and raised in Ithaca, but I haven't lived there in over 25 years. Go figure. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlas Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 im always the one in the group of my friends that knows places like the back of my hand. plus, I am a map maker by trade (GIS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleRando Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 UncleRando....and its origin. I was a junior in HS and my class was doing roll call on the 1st day of class. The (young, new, female) teacher was going through and asked if you went by a nickname (ex. Jon instead of Jonathan) to let her know so that she could mark it down. When she got to me I said "Well my name is Randy....but most of the ladies call me UncleRando :wink:" I was being the obnoxious student that I was, and somehow she found it hilarious/charming. So for the rest of my time in HS she called me UncleRando. It eventually caught on with many of my friends beginning to call me UncleRando or Rando for short. Ever since, UncleRando has become part of me and thus my username for virtually everything (AIM, UO, SSC, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfish out of water Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 The secret origins of kingfish out of water: Years ago, when I was a contributor to a 'zine some old high school chums were publishing at Michigan State, I arbitrarily chose M.C. Kingfish as my nom de plume. I don't know, something about "king" and "fish" being two of the cooler words in the English language; the Amos & Andy reference; it just felt right. After college, in keeping with our new found maturity, my alias morphed into Donovan Kingfish, which I've begun using of late in forums and in identity-sensitive situations. Also, living in the presence of a large south asian community, I came to discover Kingfisher Beer. Bonus. Faced with the prospect of moving from my hometown of Detroit to Columbus, I did tons of internet research, and in the process, stumbled upon Urban Ohio. In the context of the flux and uncertainty of my life at the time, I felt "kingfish out of water" would be an appropriate identity around here. So there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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