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Offline littlelamb

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How Did
« on: November 20, 2009, 04:19:32 PM »
How did you come up with your screen name?
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Offline Chris

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Re: How Did
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 04:20:28 PM »
I'm not sure.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2009, 04:26:35 PM »
I've used mine since I first got on the internet after coming back from the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, in 1996.

I had wanted to use my real name--innocent me, back then!--but found out it wasn't available because my best friend, an attorney, had already been using it for his own purposes, whatever those purposes were.

Desperate for a screen-name, I came across a newspaper story that mentioned the name of an obscure assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska.

The name sounded solid, sturdy, reeking with principle and integrity (George Bush was still reasonably obscure then, and I had all but forgotten about Richard Cheney), and so I took it.  Much to my delight, as time went on, I learned I had indeed picked a name of a man known for his solidity, integrity, and principle.

I've been all over the internet since mid-1996, member of too many sites to count, and I've always only ever been franksolich.

It's a great name.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2009, 04:29:21 PM »
Out of the blue, I'm obviously a big Simpsons fan.  When I first joined at CU years ago, this was the name I picked.  Never anticipated that I'd be hanging around message boards like that and this one for so long and so often...would have changed it, but everyone just knows me as Ralphie now. :cheersmate:
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Re: How Did
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2009, 04:30:05 PM »
Uh...it's my name.....and I wasn't creative enough when I signed up at military.com, as it was my first forum. When I moved over to usmilnet, when it first started and a lot of people left m.com for there, I kept it.... so I just kept it when I came here, as there were people there who belonged over here too.

I don't use it anywhere else....I got creative....eventually... :thatsright:
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Re: How Did
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2009, 04:46:36 PM »
I axed my beyotches for my muh-nayyy and they said, "Tha Houston Pimp is in da Houz!!!"


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Re: How Did
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2009, 04:50:35 PM »
I used to play an online shooter game created by the army called--coincidently--America's Army (you can still DL and play for free BTW). I initially used a SN I had been using since the early days of AOL-dom but after playing a few weeks I noticed people with obscene names like PimpDaddyGangsta and SatanicBabyEater666.

First, names like this show an ego and a desire to shock for no good reason.

Second, this is not the kind of thing the army is about.

So, I decided to take a name that if/when I knocked off one of these egomaniacs it would play against their ego. What gangsta wants to be blown-up by Mr. Snuggle Bunny.

Not long after I joined protestwarrior.com and kept the name. When it shutdown I was banned from one of its sister sites when the Ronulans took over. Then I wandered into conservativeunderground and the rest is history; a history despoiled by yet another Ronulan invasion.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2009, 04:55:18 PM »
I picked my SN when I joined the Chicago Cubs board, when Todd Hundley was one of their most hated players.  I did it because I'm a smart ass or a dumb ass, depending on who you ask.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2009, 04:57:16 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 20, 2009, 04:55:18 PM
I picked my SN when I joined the Chicago Cubs board, when Todd Hundley was one of their most hated players.  I did it because I'm a smart ass or a dumb ass, depending on who you ask.

So you're NOT Mr. Hundley?  Curious....
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Offline Celtic Rose

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Re: How Did
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2009, 05:04:23 PM »
I like roses, and I'm of Celtic heritage.  It just seemed to fit  :cheersmate:
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Re: How Did
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2009, 05:04:36 PM »
Old site I belonged to -- I lurked at when I was on bedrest forever when pregnant with my twins.   I finally joined and started posting giving myself the username.... then was banned by the owner when I told several members about another website Sparky created.  

I miss some members from that old site, but the pathetic drama perpetuated by the immature owner and mods I guess I am glad to do without.  (wave hi to them everyone as their needy mods have nothing better to do with their time than troll the internet to report back when other post about the site).



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Re: How Did
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2009, 05:05:38 PM »
"Jinx" comes from an AD&D character I used to play.  He was an accident-prone wild mage.  If you don't know what that is, don't ask.  I don't want to explain it.  Just think "random chance of random magic."  Anyway, since I, too, am accident-prone, it was inevitable that the name also became one of my nicknames.

"McHue" comes from something a friend did for part of his online handle.  He took the first syllable of his last name and added "Mc" in front of it.  I did the same with my last name.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2009, 05:07:32 PM »
Quote from: formerlurker on November 20, 2009, 05:04:36 PM
Old site I belonged to -- I lurked at when I was on bedrest forever when pregnant with my twins.   I finally joined and started posting giving myself the username.... then was banned by the owner when I told several members about another website Sparky created.  

I miss some members from that old site, but the pathetic drama perpetuated by the immature owner and mods I guess I am glad to do without.  (wave hi to them everyone as their needy mods have nothing better to do with their time than troll the internet to report back when other post about the site).

Ahem****cough****RN****cough***hasn't changed.

Still run by the same meows who favor libs over old time members.   I lurk over there once in a while.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2009, 05:09:59 PM »
  My mommy gave it to me.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2009, 05:14:56 PM »
I'm a MST3K fan.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2009, 05:16:02 PM »
Quote from: THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! on November 20, 2009, 05:07:32 PM
Ahem****cough****RN****cough***hasn't changed.

Still run by the same meows who favor libs over old time members.   I lurk over there once in a while.

No doubt MD -- we aren't missing much are we? 
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Offline Hawkgirl

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Re: How Did
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2009, 05:16:23 PM »
I'm a girl and I have hawkish conservative political views.  I know..dumb...my next screen name will be Not A Moonbat.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2009, 07:01:58 PM »
My screen name over at CU was BrownEyeGirl, people shortened it to BEG and it stuck.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2009, 07:06:39 PM »
I go by my middle name and shorten it to Mike. The 20 comes from reenacting. The first 2 comes from when I signed up for my first forum and I wanted to be "Mike20" but it was already taken, so I just added another 2 and voila.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2009, 07:54:40 PM »
Mine came from one of my best friends in high school, having sent a note to me about something or other one day. Wonderful friend, great human being, talented computer guy, lousy speller. Or maybe he was just ahead of his time with regards to texting. Either way, my name got shortened to its current form and I've used it ever since.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2009, 07:56:21 PM »
That would have been my first guess.
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Re: How Did
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2009, 09:11:33 PM »
Well I'm crazy

and the caballo part refers to a certain...............................
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Re: How Did
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2009, 09:40:23 PM »
"Colonial" because I'm an American. "Marine" because I am. "0431" because that's my MOS.


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Re: How Did
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2009, 11:17:38 PM »
I signed into CU first when I lived in Nashville. I had moved there from Houston, so I just took both TN and Texan. Now I havew moved to DFW and it still works...
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Re: How Did
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2009, 12:49:42 AM »
I'm the boss of my herd.  :-)
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