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Actually, in part as a result of that (and a few other reasons), I went somewhere else.

 

Kitty= my obsession with Hello Kitty
MINI= yep, the car

KittyMini :cornut:

 

For the roads we love to MOTOR ON!

Congrats on the '91 clean up!

 

Not much for me to say here...it's my name.

BUT...

Since I used to always go with gnatster and many of you still use that when PN'ing there is a bit of a back story there.

Way back before Al Gore invented the interwebs and this crazy connected Mainframe thing between big university's was called ARPANET, even before it became NSFNET the little tiny prep school I went to in central PA had connection privileges with Penn State. Ahh the days of playing flight simulator with punch tape... Well anyway I was given the nickname at school of Gnat since I was a heck of lot more obnoxious then and also so small in physical stature just like I am now (cough..cough) There was already someone on ARPANET with the account name of Gnat so with the aid of some mind expanding substances that were so prevalent in a prep school back in those days we came up with gnatster...the rest is history.

 

I am a cardiovascular perfusionist by trade - a guy who runs the heart-lung machine in cardiac surgery procedures. I'm actually not a big fan of my handle anymore - would rather keep work and home separate - and as such, I've started to use a different one elsewhere. BUT, since I registered w/ Perfusion on NAM way back when AND since my dad is a member there (Commander Dan) who referred me here, I thought it made the most sense to register with the same name here so as to be identifiable. ut:

 

Mine is pretty easy - it's the beginning of my last name. I used to be called Edge back in school as a result (ironically, my younger sister did too, later on). It doesn't hurt that it speaks to other things as well - cutting edge, bleeding edge, on the edge, going over the edge... :crazy:

 

Snooter was a nickname that we (my highschool buds and I) used for each other. It kinda had two meanings.

1. Someone who rolled with the flowed and didn't get hung up on the little things in life.
2. You could go out and get snooted

So as I got older and took on more responsibilities, I started to use the name to remind me of where I came from and what is really important.

 

way back when at the start of forum days, I registered as patagonianwrx - my gf (now wife) had a yellow Suby wagon and I had just gotten back from a month in Patagonia, Argentina. I lost my job a month after 9/11 and said F IT and jumped on a plane to fulfill a life-long dream - to visit the wild open spaces at the south of the southernmost continent.

That changed to PatagonianGT when I bought another Subaru, a Legacy GT...I became a moderator on that site and everybody called me 'PGT' for short.

 

My car came up with the name. Once I starded with the checkers I couldn't stop.

 

Not too hard to mine figure out...

~Molly

 

I'm surprised its not π <- really is a pi symbol

 

I didn't think I could have that. That certainly would be better.

 

"Putterfarm" speaks for itself, we putter around on the farm. Don't forget, I live out in the country in n.w. Pa. not real near cities where there are other MINIs. Nathan, I still want stickers!!!

 

Mine came about 12 years ago when dial up & AOL was the way to get on online. After hours of trying to get a username that wasn't taken, ZZ Top was on the radio. So I flipped it to TT Zop, and bam I was online. Used it ever since!

 

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It's where I live.......

Sad aint it.....:ihih:

 

jimz68

Jim is 6'8" (tall that is!)


Me

 

When I joined "that other site" I used Lot15, where I used to live in the hinterlands of the great white north, on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, 11th largest lake in the world.

Well folks started calling me lotsie all the time, so I changed it to lotsie, but you can call me Mark:smilewinkgrin:

Mark