Most liked posts in thread: Whats the story behind your online handle?

initials + jr = boring
Used to use variations of moon, as in moon mullins but got tired of that.

 

You need to go back to :"Moon Mullins" after you get your M/A Bowling shirt. It would be perfect.

Jim

 

Well... Here is a pic from the LA kick-off of MTTS this year:



I've had the beard since my Jr year in HS.

 

A picture's worth a thousand words :cornut:

 

Well mine is pretty simple Oregon Ducks so MINIDUX . GO DUCKS !

 

Heh, sounds familiar. I use to work for ANS.NET the NSFnet spinoff and our motto still makes me smile. "WE SUCK LESS!"

RIP AS1673

 

ApexSlide:

Goes back to when I started Karting and my mates and I were talking about Canada corner at Road America. I was describing to someone how you drift the kart through the corner and hammer in through the apex of a corner creating an Apex Slide.

It stuck.

 

papa-j
Cause I like being a dad & last name starts with J. Started using the handle in 2001 on 2cpu.com forums.

 

I like being a papa-j too!

 

I'm a parrothead. Phinz up!

 

Cactus is the call sign for the airline I fly for.

 

One of my hobbies is amateur astronomy and when I get stupid questions from newbies, I would tell them, that is "far too technical to understand"(ftttu) so I took that and made it my e-mail address years ago. When I first logged onto MINIUSA's Owner's Lounge, I couldn't think of a handle so I used my e-mail address with the description of my MINI, a British Racing Green Clubman(brgcm). So it is "ftttubrgcm" on NAM but "ftttupwmcs" here because I now have a pepper white MINI Cooper S(pwmcs). This thread asked so I posted.

 

And thank you for posting, cause I know I'm not the only one that was wondering.

 

We have had a bunch of new folks join our ranks since this was last updated, so I am giving it a BUMP.

Jim

 

OK then. I've used this handle online since the days of 2800 baud modems and the pre-internet. I got the name from a technical college back in the mid 80's that somehow misread my name on a form or something, and mangled Paul into Zapski on a letter they sent. The mangling of my last name wasn't anywhere near as bad though (which is odd, because it's routinely mangled every day). I told this to my friends, and they applied it as a nickname.

So, umm.. yeah.

 

How on earth did they manage that? I can't get "Zapski" out of "Paul" no matter how hard I try. I hope their instruction was better then their spelling. :lol:

Jim

 

Groden Glaive was the name of a Dungeons and Dragons character I had back in high school. This was before the PC existed (well almost). OK now I feel old.

 

chilicon actually has nothing to do with the fact that I have a chili red R53. It goes back to high school and is a play on my last name Carney. Thus, chili con Carney eventually became just chilicon.

 

I found an random-forum name generator and liked what it spit out. I like the play on words; regular guy, likes manual shifting.

 

<boring>my initials</boring>

Used to use variations of moon, which was a high school nickname.