Explain your screen name. - Page 4

tlturbo · 07-19-2008, 04:27 PM

Around 20mpg - more on the highway. It's just a little 6 cyl until your foot gets heavy. HA

MediaHound · 07-19-2008, 05:28 PM

Great thread, thanks Nate!
MediaHound was a moniker adorned upon myself by a good friend of mine when we were teenagers.
I think it was because I had the biggest music collection at the time out of all of our other friends.
Being into music, having a green thumb, my love of aquariums, and being a collector of many other different things it makes perfect sense x 10... and my online interests that involve "publishing" and "eyeballs" (media in that sense of the word) (such as this website), it goes very hand in hand with.
So, the name fits me in several regards. It wraps up a lot of things that I have interests in and is versatile to be appropriate for just about all of them!
Don't worry, your planting media is safe!

pitangadiego · 07-19-2008, 11:03 PM

Mine was the result of frustration. I was trying to sign up for a yahoo e-mial accountmany years ago, and simple things like banana234826 were already take, so I tried the name of a fruit that nobody should have known of, Pitanga, and that was taken, too, so I added diego for "San Diego" and finally found something that nobody had used already.

saltydad · 07-19-2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by momoese

Saltydad, I don't think I've ever known anyone or knowingly posted to a message board with anyone from Maryland. That just seemed too odd not to mention!

LOL. There are a few of us around. I have family in LA and Long Beach, BTW.

paradisi · 07-20-2008, 02:47 AM

after reading some of these I'm boring. In the 90's I was back packing around europe and then New Zealand. I decided to learn Italian (not in Italy, I waited until I was in New Zealand).

Jump ahead 5 or 6 years and I fell in love, firstly with my lady Sandra (love at first sight does work) and then with the town she lived in - Dicky Beach. Dicky Beach is as close to paradise as I'll ever get so with my dysfunctional Italian it became Paradisi.

microfarmer · 07-20-2008, 10:12 PM

Hey, Jarred. I like the Tally-man tag line. It's funnier than Site Admin

paradisi · 07-20-2008, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenzie_POM

Hey ya'll,

Kenzie is from McKenzie. My middle name. POM is Port of Mobile.

Have a great weekend.

In australia the POM bit would automatically be thought of as English - we call all people from england (not scotland or wales or ireland) POMs - prisoners of mother england (I think an "E" got lost over the years)

paradisi · 07-20-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Even if you're not a math geek, you can easily understand Hamiltonian Operator !!

Suppose you are measuring the work performed by an operator, using Sir William Hamilton's measurement system. If the operator can get the same work done regardless of what order the required tasks are performed in, then the operator is Hamiltonian.

I know that

and the reason I do is I recently did a maths unit at university (I do a degree as an external student - via correspondence - just to keep my brain active)

Lagniappe · 07-20-2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by microfarmer

Hey, Jarred. I like the Tally-man tag line. It's funnier than Site Admin

I liked that a lot too !

cedardave · 07-21-2008, 01:39 PM

mine is simple. I was looking for an ebay user name and everone I tried was being used. I looked out the window anddecided to just add cedar to my name...and voila. Not an exciting storey but true...

Richard · 07-21-2008, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cedardave

mine is simple. I was looking for an ebay user name and everone I tried was being used. I looked out the window anddecided to just add cedar to my name...and voila. Not an exciting storey but true...

I think serendipitous names like yours are some of the best!

harveyc · 07-21-2008, 04:49 PM

Okay, I didn't think I had much to explain but had to laugh when I saw a couple of other license plates here and then saw Richard described his by-line.

Sometime around 31 or 32 years ago (yikes, I'm old!) California came out with 7 digit license plates and after a friend suggested it, I got HARVEY C. Those plates are now on their 5th vehicle. I use "harveyc" wherever I can, but it's not available in some places. I got real cranky with one company when my online account had be closed due to inactivity and they said it was impossible for me to reactivate it. They said I'd have to join with a new name. I just refused to join! I do use a different ID in a few spots where the name is surprisingly taken already, but I sure wasn't about to use a different name for a stupid reason like that! LOL

My by-line of "been nuts, gone bananas" is related to what my dad and some other farmers say about me. I'm considered an "educated" farmer around here and my dad and other farmers think I've got some odd ideas on how to do things, even though I'm more conventional than I sometimes wish I were. I removed a pear orchard from our farm in 1998 and planted chestnuts, largely because they didn't require pesticides for insect or disease control around here (I do spray weeds, though). Chestnuts are a lot of work, hand harvesting from the ground each day four about three weeks to maintain top quality. A lot of farmers, including my father, think I'm "nuts". When I started hobby growing bananas some of the farmers also heard about that and really thought I was crazy. I agreed, and said I had gone bananas!

I will say that for a while last year I thought my dad was finally coming around when he saw bananas on my California Gold. Then he said "boy, that tree should be stronger next year and produce even more." I broke the news to him and he thought I was really stupid for growing a plant like a banana that would die after fruiting. I then reminded him that corn, which he made a good living of growing for about 55 years or so, dies every year and he has to buy seed again the next year. He still shook his head!

tarheeldiver · 07-21-2008, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by thebes11

Not to hijack, but Jacksonville? Scuba? Surely we've met....

I'm going to be organizing a trip to New Smyrna to dive the Mindanao in August. PM me if you're interested.

Glad to see so many divers on here! Must be the combination of diving and tropics that makes us want the bananas.

Bch Grl · 07-21-2008, 10:00 PM

Used to drive a T'bird Supercoup, now it's a bi-turbo Audi S4! Very fast and fun!

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Originally Posted by fishman0422

I've been keeping tropical fish for nearly 20 years And selling seafood in a grocery store for almost the same. April 22nd is my birthday
-BILL

Hey! That's my Birthday, too! Never met anyone with that B'day!

Quote:

Originally Posted by thebes11

Not to hijack, but Jacksonville? Scuba? Surely we've met....

I'm going to be organizing a trip to New Smyrna to dive the Mindanao in August. PM me if you're interested.

Yea! I'm interested! Sorry, I never noticed you were my neighbor! I've been the only one in this area for soooo long......I'll PM you.

Margie

Gabe15 · 07-22-2008, 02:19 AM

Some people have been talking about their signatures, so I'll explain mine too.

Being a teenager into gardening with a greenhouse and everything required to grow plants all year round indoors, I always used to get asked if I grew marijuana or if I would grow it for someone. I always had to explain that I pretty much just grew bananas, no weed. I told some people that I didn't grow normal hemp, but I did grow Manila help (Musa textilis), not many people get it, but I figure on here maybe some people would.

harveyc · 07-22-2008, 02:41 AM

Gabe, I had got it before you even explained it to this old guy.

NANAMAN · 07-22-2008, 06:13 AM

Mine is the first thing that I thought of when signing up here. No special meaning, I just love bananas. I couldn't beleive it wasn't already taken!

This is a GREAT thread!

07-19-2008, 04:27 PM	#61 (permalink)
tlturbo WUTSA V8 tlturbo's Photo Gallery Location: Lake Worth, FL Find me on the map! Zone: 10 Name: Terry Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 349 BananaBucks : 4,608 Feedback: 3 / 100% Thanks: 1 Thanked 41 Times in 26 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Explain your screen name. Around 20mpg - more on the highway. It's just a little 6 cyl until your foot gets heavy. HA

07-19-2008, 05:28 PM	#62 (permalink)
MediaHound Tally-man MediaHound's Photo Gallery Location: South Florida Find me on the map! Zone: 10b Name: Jarred Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 4,053 BananaBucks : 56,519 Feedback: 58 / 100% Thanks: 966 Thanked 1,124 Times in 397 Posts Welcomes: 251	Re: Explain your screen name. Great thread, thanks Nate! MediaHound was a moniker adorned upon myself by a good friend of mine when we were teenagers. I think it was because I had the biggest music collection at the time out of all of our other friends. Being into music, having a green thumb, my love of aquariums, and being a collector of many other different things it makes perfect sense x 10... and my online interests that involve "publishing" and "eyeballs" (media in that sense of the word) (such as this website), it goes very hand in hand with. So, the name fits me in several regards. It wraps up a lot of things that I have interests in and is versatile to be appropriate for just about all of them! Don't worry, your planting media is safe!

07-19-2008, 11:03 PM	#63 (permalink)
pitangadiego Senior Member Location: San Diego, CA Find me on the map! Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 488 BananaBucks : 4,407 Feedback: 5 / 100% Thanks: 0 Thanked 177 Times in 70 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Explain your screen name. Mine was the result of frustration. I was trying to sign up for a yahoo e-mial accountmany years ago, and simple things like banana234826 were already take, so I tried the name of a fruit that nobody should have known of, Pitanga, and that was taken, too, so I added diego for "San Diego" and finally found something that nobody had used already. __________________ Encanto Farms Nursery http://encantofarms.com We Be Bananas http://webebananas.com

07-20-2008, 02:47 AM	#65 (permalink)
paradisi The news from Dicky Beach Location: Dicky Beach, Australia Find me on the map! Name: paradisi Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 74 BananaBucks : 3,554 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 24 Thanked 35 Times in 21 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Explain your screen name. after reading some of these I'm boring. In the 90's I was back packing around europe and then New Zealand. I decided to learn Italian (not in Italy, I waited until I was in New Zealand). Jump ahead 5 or 6 years and I fell in love, firstly with my lady Sandra (love at first sight does work) and then with the town she lived in - Dicky Beach. Dicky Beach is as close to paradise as I'll ever get so with my dysfunctional Italian it became Paradisi. __________________ The universe is my eyes and ears. All else is hearsay. http://opinonated-bastard.blogspot.com/

07-21-2008, 01:39 PM	#70 (permalink)
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07-21-2008, 04:49 PM	#72 (permalink)
harveyc Been nuts, gone bananas harveyc's Photo Gallery Location: Isleton, Calif Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Harvey Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,194 BananaBucks : 2,573 Feedback: 4 / 100% Thanks: 603 Thanked 320 Times in 194 Posts Welcomes: 40	Re: Explain your screen name. Okay, I didn't think I had much to explain but had to laugh when I saw a couple of other license plates here and then saw Richard described his by-line. Sometime around 31 or 32 years ago (yikes, I'm old!) California came out with 7 digit license plates and after a friend suggested it, I got HARVEY C. Those plates are now on their 5th vehicle. I use "harveyc" wherever I can, but it's not available in some places. I got real cranky with one company when my online account had be closed due to inactivity and they said it was impossible for me to reactivate it. They said I'd have to join with a new name. I just refused to join! I do use a different ID in a few spots where the name is surprisingly taken already, but I sure wasn't about to use a different name for a stupid reason like that! LOL My by-line of "been nuts, gone bananas" is related to what my dad and some other farmers say about me. I'm considered an "educated" farmer around here and my dad and other farmers think I've got some odd ideas on how to do things, even though I'm more conventional than I sometimes wish I were. I removed a pear orchard from our farm in 1998 and planted chestnuts, largely because they didn't require pesticides for insect or disease control around here (I do spray weeds, though). Chestnuts are a lot of work, hand harvesting from the ground each day four about three weeks to maintain top quality. A lot of farmers, including my father, think I'm "nuts". When I started hobby growing bananas some of the farmers also heard about that and really thought I was crazy. I agreed, and said I had gone bananas! I will say that for a while last year I thought my dad was finally coming around when he saw bananas on my California Gold. Then he said "boy, that tree should be stronger next year and produce even more." I broke the news to him and he thought I was really stupid for growing a plant like a banana that would die after fruiting. I then reminded him that corn, which he made a good living of growing for about 55 years or so, dies every year and he has to buy seed again the next year. He still shook his head! __________________

07-22-2008, 02:19 AM	#75 (permalink)
Gabe15 MC Banana Commander Gabe15's Photo Gallery Location: Honolulu, HI Find me on the map! Zone: 11 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,540 BananaBucks : 17,095 Feedback: 5 / 100% Thanks: 1 Thanked 783 Times in 328 Posts Welcomes: 1	Re: Explain your screen name. Some people have been talking about their signatures, so I'll explain mine too. Being a teenager into gardening with a greenhouse and everything required to grow plants all year round indoors, I always used to get asked if I grew marijuana or if I would grow it for someone. I always had to explain that I pretty much just grew bananas, no weed. I told some people that I didn't grow normal hemp, but I did grow Manila help (Musa textilis), not many people get it, but I figure on here maybe some people would. __________________ The only hemp Im growing is Manila.

07-22-2008, 02:41 AM	#76 (permalink)
harveyc Been nuts, gone bananas harveyc's Photo Gallery Location: Isleton, Calif Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Harvey Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,194 BananaBucks : 2,573 Feedback: 4 / 100% Thanks: 603 Thanked 320 Times in 194 Posts Welcomes: 40	Re: Explain your screen name. Gabe, I had got it before you even explained it to this old guy. __________________

07-22-2008, 06:13 AM	#77 (permalink)
NANAMAN Pseudostem Therapist NANAMAN's Photo Gallery Location: Lake Park Fl. Find me on the map! Zone: 10 Name: Brian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 789 BananaBucks : 5,513 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 4 Thanked 95 Times in 54 Posts Welcomes: 3	Re: Explain your screen name. Mine is the first thing that I thought of when signing up here. No special meaning, I just love bananas. I couldn't beleive it wasn't already taken! This is a GREAT thread! __________________

07-22-2008, 07:20 AM	#78 (permalink)
Bananaman88 Bananaculturist Bananaman88's Photo Gallery Location: Pearland, TX Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Brent Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,097 BananaBucks : 8,731 Feedback: 15 / 100% Thanks: 112 Thanked 305 Times in 209 Posts Welcomes: 8	Re: Explain your screen name.