Well, theres really no story in mine. I’ve never been one to ever get any nicknames that have stuck. Thats really strange because I’m surrounded by friends in high school and college that love giving nicks, In 4 years of football, fraternities, dorms, and bartending I can’t think of anyone other than me who only goes by his first name. My last name is long and simple. I was always kinda disapointed by that, but then knowing two good friends who have gotten the nicks Nippler, and Cleatus that are virtually all we call them, it could be worse.
As for why I picked that word, it is both self-depricating and arrogant at the same time. Thats kinda me, I am stubborn, pretty bright, and a triva trove, but i try not to take myself to seriously. Its also original, descriptive, and gets attention.
My other choices would have been Dionysos, Bacchus, and Neophyte. The first two being the greek and roman gods of wine and revelry respectively, and the last you can look up if need be, but it would have lost its validity by now. Omniscient just seems to fit the spirit of this site more.
OK, totally mundane. My first name is Dave, my last name begins with W, the last 4 digits of my Social Security # are 0071.
Sheesh, it’s such an effort to be boring…
The Dave-Guy, however, is something that I just happened to invent during correspondence with a friend. It’s turned into a kind of persona, although just how to describe it escapes me. It’s merely another role I play, or another name I refer to myself as, similar to Dad, Husband, The Jerk Who Didn’t Let You Merge On The Thruway.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
I spent three years getting up before dawn in high school(long, horrible story), three years in the Army doing the same, and now I’m usually up at dawn, whether or not I go to at sleep at night. I play fetch with the dog or lie in bed pretending I’m asleep so I don’t have to cook breakfast, and I listen to the dawnbirds singing.
Mixture of pomposity and humility I guess. First thing that popped when asked for handle. Wasn’t aware at the time that there was already a Siamese brother and didn’t remember that the adjective was sometimes applied to (by?) Unca Cece himself.
Mine derives from the Marty Robbins song of the same name. One night several friends and I were hanging around, playing music, having a fews beers and a smoke, and it was getting late and we were winding down, energy waning, nobody thinking of any songs to play, and I remembered that tune and started playing it. For whatever reason, they all just went nuts over that one (which, of course, details a day in the life of an Arizona Ranger with a big iron on his hip).
After that they all started calling me Big Iron, and I have to say that I’ve had plenty worse nicknames in my life.
Quadell said:
“So if I picked a handle of BearOtterCubDaddy, it would be roughly equivalent to ILikeToDateMen? Well, I learn something every day.”
Well if you took out the otter/cub reference it would work because they talk about conflicting physical characteristics. Otters don’t have body hair in gay lingo, and cubs tend to be young bears (there is a lot of debate on that in the gay world) whereas bears tend to be fat, hairy and older. If you named yourself something like QuadellBearDad. You would basically be saying that you are an older (Daddy’s tend to be in their 50’s or look thereabouts), fatter man who likes to be called Quadell for some reason <EG>. I guess that destroyed all the stereotypes of gay people being young, smooth, neat individuals. Although not quite the sleazy leather look. I guess I should start a new topic.
My first name is Meg (short for Megan, and a story in itself) and my boyfriend-hopefully-soon-to-be-fiance and I call each other “Beefcake” because we were both, well, beefier in college.
Once upon a time, I used the SN “BroknBak”, abbreviated to fit aol’s old 8 letter rule.
After my last (7th) back surgery, I decided to change it to reflect the improvement in my back.
I use HeadlesCow because when I was trying to come up with a name for Starcraft all the ones I could think of were already used so my friend told me to use headlesscow b/c when he bought a Gateway computer they gave him a foam cow and in the car ride home his sister and I both pulled on the cow at the same time and I ripped its head off. It was either use that here for simplicity b/c I know use hat as my handle for alomost anything I do online or use my nickname “Cecil” but I thought Cecil would create a problem on this board.
Well, mine’s not that exciting, but it has a history.
My first and middle names are Jason Ronald. A friend in college used to like to call people by their middle names, especially with the first initial, since she said it sounded “cool” (like H. Norman Schwartzkopf, F. Murray Abraham, etc. etc.) and used to call me J. Ronald ( I usually only go by my first or last name or variant thereof). Since my last name (Remy) is common enough, it’s tough to use as a handle, and so I started using Jron. Now, most people confused this with “Iron” so I started using Jayron. The “32” got added since the handle “Jayron” showed up in a few places, and I just started using Jayron32 as my standard handle.
BTW, in the pre-internet days, I used to be a BBS junkie in Southern New Hampshire, and went exclusively by the handle “Kermit” in those days. Again, too common, and I like to keep my handle the same from place to place, so I use Jayron32 as my handle everywhere now.
<EG>. I guess that destroyed all the stereotypes of gay people being young, smooth, neat individuals. Although not quite the sleazy leather look. I guess I should start a new topic.