What does your user name mean?

[Adam]

Did you get a lot jokes growing up about your days in Wham!? Reminds of the scene from Office Space about Michael Bolton.

Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There *was* nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent a** clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

 

[BudgetHT]

I'm cheap.

 

[ErinH]

Mine simply means that my mom didn’t realize just how much a young boy would be made fun of in elementary school due to his name.

 

[gmichael]

Did you get a lot jokes growing up about your days in Wham!? Reminds of the scene from Office Space about Michael Bolton.

Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There *was* nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent a** clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

There was no Wham when I was growing up. There was a DJ on an AM radio station called George Michael. But then again, I didn't know that I was George Michael then.

 

[krzywica]

Mine is my IT logon ID I had when I was in the military.....first letter of my first name followed by part of my last name as the whole thing would not fit...

 

[Fenix]

Well, I've always like the mythical creature, the Phoenix. Plus I also happened to be born and raised in the Phoenix Valley (Mesa to be exact). Then I started playing Starcraft and I really like the spelling of the character Fenix, so I've been using that screen name whereever I can.

 

[nibhaz]

Mine is my IT logon ID I had when I was in the military.....first letter of my first name followed by part of my last name as the whole thing would not fit...

And all this time I thought you were an overzealous pagan!

 

[krzywica]

And all this time I thought you were an overzealous pagan!

LOL....certainly not....I do not have any ties to WICA.....in fact I think every person I have ever met that was WICA affiliated was a lesbian (and not the fun type, I mean the Roseanne/Rosey type).

No offense to anyone that is....just my experience thus far.

 

[nibhaz]

LOL....certainly not....I do not have any ties to WICA.....in fact I think every person I have ever met that was WICA affiliated was a lesbian (and not the fun type, I mean the Roseanne/Rosey type).

No offense to anyone that is....just my experience thus far.

That's been my general experience as well…good to know; now I see you in a more positive light!

Not that there is anything wrong with that

 

[jeffsg4mac]

Well, I used to have a G4. Now I have an Core2duo mac. Jeffsintelcore2duomac just does not have the same ring to it.

 

[majorloser]

Uh, I'm married.... (jk)

I'm a goverment employee.

 

[Adam]

Your a "Water Boy" LOL

My Mama says that trolls are ornery because they got all them keyboards and no friends.

EDIT: See below. Mazer, you sneaky post deleter!

 

[mazersteven]

I'm a goverment employee.

Your "The Waterboy" LOL

 

[basspig]

Mildly interesting topic.. okay, I'll bite.

I'd met a new friend of mine in 1989, via a mutual ham radio friend. The first time he came over to visit me in person at my studio, and I played some music for him, he immediately coined the term, "Bass Pig". It's rude, crass, conjurs up images of young hippies playing loud booming bass noise out of small imported cars with weird flashing lights on them, but it stuck. Not really an appropriate moniker for a dinosaur like me, but then, I don't make these knick names up--other people do. Go figure...

 

[Ares]

I have been to your site a few times and saw some of the setups which are cool by the way.

 

[GO-NAD!]

When I first joined AH, I had to come up with a handle, just like everyone else. Well, I had no idea what to use. I had recently purchased my NAD C372 integrated amp and was really thrilled with it. The name kinda chose itself then...

The double-entendre is purely a coincedence...

Honest....

 

[CaliHwyPatrol]

My brother is CHP, I don't like to put numbers in a username, and this one is never taken, so it's easy enough.

 

[ivseenbetter]

I've seen better

 

[Nemo128]

My first encounter with the name Nemo came in 1988 when I was 6 years old and I read Jules Verne's 20K Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo explained the origin of his name as Latin for "no one". Even that young I had always felt I was the black sheep of the family and no one understood me at all.

Two years later, I got a copy of Little Nemo: The Dream Master for Nintendo. I loved that game, and the idea of the character also resonated with me. Kid escapes his miserable life to a dream world where he is a hero.

Life remained that way, so the name always stood in my head although I never used it anywhere but online. I explained it in my teen years to a close friend who said it fit me perfectly.

The original version of the name was Nemo64, named for the 64-bit memory bus used by the nVidia NV1 and Voodoo graphics accelerators at the time. It was mostly for the NV1, since I was big into reading about emerging technologies and thought that nVidia's vision for desktop graphics was going to trump 3Dfx's eventually. I was a regular in an IRC chatroom on eFnet named for the company, and at that time also in #riva and #3dhardware. When the Riva128 released, I changed it to Nemo128 to signifiy my stance that 3Dfx's days were numbered and nVidia was poised to crush them. Needless to say, I was right.

I was constantly mocked because it was believed that I should change it to Nemo256, to evolve with the memory bus width increases, but it stood at 128 because that was just significant to me.

I only inserted numbers because Nemo was taken everywhere even in 1995.

Still awake?

 

[STRONGBADF1]

It's my confirmation name...