Explain your screen name.

natedogg1026 · 07-18-2008, 02:11 PM

Thought it might be fun to explain or screen names and where they came from and if they mean anything. Honestly some of them I don't even know how to pronounce. For me, Natedogg was given to me as a nickname about 10-12 years ago when the rappers Natedogg and Warren G came out. For some reason it stuck and people are still calling me it today. The 1026 is my old house address. Something easy to remember.

momoese · 07-18-2008, 02:19 PM

Before buying our house we lived in a triplex and our front neighbors had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl used to call me Momo because she couldn't pronounce my name yet, and the boy called my wife who's name is Inge-lise "ees" so I put the two together and changed the spelling a bit to form momoese.

marksbananas · 07-18-2008, 02:19 PM

mines a bit more boring my name is mark and the bananas bit is because alot of people think i am crazy, and also my love of bananas, hence my name marksbananas

hydrojeff · 07-18-2008, 02:20 PM

i was in to hydroponics for a while and liked how it sounded....

tarheeldiver · 07-18-2008, 02:28 PM

I live in NC and my other hobby is scuba diving which is what got me liking bananas seeing them when I traveled.
greg

Bananaman88 · 07-18-2008, 02:29 PM

I picked bananaman just off the top of my head and stuck the 88 on the end because at the time my favorite NASCAR driver was Dale Jarrett and his number was 88. He has since retired. Also, I think Bananaman was already taken so I had to add something to it. It has always bugged me that the "b" isn't capitalized, but I haven't been able to figure out how to change that little detail. Any help with that, Jarred?

These should be fun to read. Thanks for posting. I'm especially interested in hearing about Rmplmnz's screen name!

Lagniappe · 07-18-2008, 02:34 PM

la·gniappe ( lan-yap)
n. Chiefly Southern Louisiana & Mississippi
1. A small gift presented by a storeowner to a customer with the customer's purchase.
2. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit.

I named my wholesale tropical fish biz "lagniappe" because I always put extra fish in the bags to cover any potential losses .

Tropicallvr · 07-18-2008, 02:37 PM

My name's kinda generic- Love tropicals, so Tropical-lover=Tropicallvr

natedogg1026 · 07-18-2008, 02:41 PM

Those are great guys! Mitch and Pete, yours were 2 that always threw me. Thanx for the explanation.

proletariatcsp · 07-18-2008, 02:54 PM

csp - are my initials, and proletariat well. . .

Quote:

In Marxist theory, the proletariat is that class of society which does not have ownership of the means of production. Proletarians are wage-workers, while some refer to those who receive salaries as the salariat. For Marx, however, wage labor may involve getting a salary rather than a wage per se.

Marxism sees the proletariat and bourgeoisie (merchant class) as occupying conflicting positions, since (for example) factory workers automatically wish wages to be as high as possible, while owners and their proxies wish for wages (costs) to be as low as possible.

According to Marxism, capitalism is a system based on the exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie (the "capitalists", who own and control the means of production). This exploitation takes place as follows: the workers, who own no means of production of their own, must seek jobs in order to live. They get hired by a capitalist and work for him, producing some sort of goods or services. These goods or services then become the property of the capitalist, who sells them and gets a certain amount of money in exchange. One part of the wealth produced is used to pay the workers' wages, while the other part (surplus value) is split between the capitalist's private takings (profit), and the money used to pay rent, buy supplies and renew the forces of production. Thus the capitalist can earn money (profit) from the work of his employees without actually doing any work, or in excess of his own work. Marxists argue that new wealth is created through work; therefore, if someone gains wealth that he did not work for, then someone else works and does not receive the full wealth created by his work. In other words, that "someone else" is exploited. Thus, Marxists argue that capitalists make a profit by exploiting workers.

-wikipedia
P.S. I suppose even communism had its up side?

damaclese · 07-18-2008, 02:56 PM

OK this may sound a bit ostentatious the name was derived from Damocles which at the time i created it was already taking so i changed the spelling but this is were it comes from
"Sword of Damocles"

The Damocles of the anecdote was an excessively flattering courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. He exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held, where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging by a single piece of horsehair directly above his head. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful boys, and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate.
Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. The theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life.
And that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?

Richard · 07-18-2008, 02:59 PM

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.

thebes11 · 07-18-2008, 03:06 PM

Mine is actually pretty dumb, and comes from a drunken Tuesday afternoon my freshman year in college. It was a simpler time, when the air was clean, the colors were bright and people were just friendlier. It was 1986.

The big bad bully AT&T was being broken up and there was a small upstart company called MCI causing a stir in St. Louis. They were marketing the hell out of the company in Missouri, and it just so happened that my best friend from the corridor was from there.

So there we were, a couple of idiot 18 year olds, drunk as hell at 3:00 in the afternoon on Tuesday. I look across and ask him, "What the hell is thebes?" He looks at me, with a stupid look on his face (that happened a lot in those days) and wondered what in the world I was talking about. "Thebes, what the hell is thebes? It's right there on your sweatshirt!" I responded. He looked down, pulled the front of his shirt taught to reveal the whole front:

MCI
The Best

Well, this guy wound up being one of my best friends ever (and still is to this day) and because of him, the nickname stuck until I moved to Dayton. I added the 11 because Thebes was taken on almost every board I tried to join (I learned later in college it is also the name of ancient cities in both Egypt and Greece). 11 is my favorite number from when I was a kid. I was always the smallest kid by far on any sports team I'd join. My dad always though the number 1 looked "cute" on my back. I hated it, it was a reminder of how small I was. We compromised on 11. Problem is, when writing it, I never know which 1 to put first!

lorax · 07-18-2008, 03:12 PM

Lorax comes from Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax" - I chose it because our philosophies mesh up pretty well. Also, I lifted myself from a land that cuts down its trees with no regard, to one that actively cherishes them.

thebes11 · 07-18-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by damaclese

Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse.

So Jim Boeheim's dad was named Dionysius?

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Originally Posted by loras

Lorax comes from Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax"

First thing I thought of when I saw your name..."The Lorax speaks for the trees."

lorax · 07-18-2008, 03:25 PM

oddly enough, "I Speak For The Trees" is the name of my blog about the plants in Ecuador.

mskitty38583 · 07-18-2008, 03:38 PM

mskitty was my cb handle when i was driving dump truck here in tn and the fact that im a cat freek. in ga everyone knew me by my handle.... major pain if youve ever seen the movie youd understand why. when i graduated truck driving school, i did intership with a friend of mine i got tired of sitting in the jump seat just looking out the window, so i told her that what we had here was a failure to communicate....i went to school to drive truck not see how well the air ride was in the jump seat. ...go ahead and laugh i still do. the 38583 is my zip code that way if i ever get lost i can find my way home.

STEELVIPER · 07-18-2008, 03:40 PM

My name comes from a series of science fiction books know as "Battletech". Steelviper or Clan Steelviper is a race of warrior like people from the books. Any PC gamer fan would also know this as Mechwarrior.

07-18-2008, 02:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
natedogg1026 Banana addict natedogg1026's Photo Gallery Location: Pittsburg, Kansas Find me on the map! Zone: 6b Name: Nate Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 616 BananaBucks : 8,659 Feedback: 2 / 100% Thanks: 134 Thanked 113 Times in 92 Posts Welcomes: 3	Explain your screen name. Thought it might be fun to explain or screen names and where they came from and if they mean anything. Honestly some of them I don't even know how to pronounce. For me, Natedogg was given to me as a nickname about 10-12 years ago when the rappers Natedogg and Warren G came out. For some reason it stuck and people are still calling me it today. The 1026 is my old house address. Something easy to remember. __________________ Banana's are a safe addiction. Right?Maybe I need classes.

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momoese Organic Mechanic momoese's Photo Gallery Location: West Los Angeles CA Find me on the map! Zone: zone 10 Name: Mitchel Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,983 BananaBucks : 30,236 Feedback: 9 / 100% Thanks: 36 Thanked 381 Times in 208 Posts Welcomes: 91	Re: Explain your screen name. Before buying our house we lived in a triplex and our front neighbors had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl used to call me Momo because she couldn't pronounce my name yet, and the boy called my wife who's name is Inge-lise "ees" so I put the two together and changed the spelling a bit to form momoese. __________________ Mitchel

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marksbananas Banana Nutter marksbananas 's Photo Gallery Location: Gosport zone Find me on the map! Zone: 9a Name: Marks Bananas Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 130 BananaBucks : 3,612 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 41 Thanked 19 Times in 16 Posts Welcomes: 32	Re: Explain your screen name. mines a bit more boring my name is mark and the bananas bit is because alot of people think i am crazy, and also my love of bananas, hence my name marksbananas __________________ Just Bananas about Bananas

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hydrojeff Bananacitus Location: orange city,FL Find me on the map! Zone: zone 9b Name: jeff Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 250 BananaBucks : 1,322 Feedback: 8 / 100% Thanks: 85 Thanked 39 Times in 38 Posts Welcomes: 98	Re: Explain your screen name. i was in to hydroponics for a while and liked how it sounded.... __________________ Jeff

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tarheeldiver tarheeldiver's Photo Gallery Location: Mt. Airy, NC Find me on the map! Zone: 7 Name: Greg Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 65 BananaBucks : 1,216 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 5 Thanked 31 Times in 15 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Explain your screen name. I live in NC and my other hobby is scuba diving which is what got me liking bananas seeing them when I traveled. greg

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Bananaman88 Bananaculturist Bananaman88's Photo Gallery Location: Pearland, TX Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Brent Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,106 BananaBucks : 8,843 Feedback: 15 / 100% Thanks: 114 Thanked 311 Times in 214 Posts Welcomes: 8	Re: Explain your screen name. I picked bananaman just off the top of my head and stuck the 88 on the end because at the time my favorite NASCAR driver was Dale Jarrett and his number was 88. He has since retired. Also, I think Bananaman was already taken so I had to add something to it. It has always bugged me that the "b" isn't capitalized, but I haven't been able to figure out how to change that little detail. Any help with that, Jarred? These should be fun to read. Thanks for posting. I'm especially interested in hearing about Rmplmnz's screen name!

07-18-2008, 02:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
Lagniappe Banana Padawan Lagniappe's Photo Gallery Location: North La Find me on the map! Zone: 8 Name: Pete Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 805 BananaBucks : 8,062 Feedback: 20 / 100% Thanks: 185 Thanked 154 Times in 92 Posts Welcomes: 235	Re: Explain your screen name. la·gniappe ( lan-yap) n. Chiefly Southern Louisiana & Mississippi 1. A small gift presented by a storeowner to a customer with the customer's purchase. 2. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. I named my wholesale tropical fish biz "lagniappe" because I always put extra fish in the bags to cover any potential losses . __________________ I'm not tipsy ! I'm just not very articulate and maybe a lil tipsy .

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Tropicallvr Member Tropicallvr's Photo Gallery Location: Circa Puerto Vallarta Zone: 11 Name: Kyle Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 996 BananaBucks : 15,312 Feedback: 6 / 100% Thanks: 159 Thanked 201 Times in 116 Posts Welcomes: 14	Re: Explain your screen name. My name's kinda generic- Love tropicals, so Tropical-lover=Tropicallvr

07-18-2008, 02:41 PM	#9 (permalink)
natedogg1026 Banana addict natedogg1026's Photo Gallery Location: Pittsburg, Kansas Find me on the map! Zone: 6b Name: Nate Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 616 BananaBucks : 8,659 Feedback: 2 / 100% Thanks: 134 Thanked 113 Times in 92 Posts Welcomes: 3	Re: Explain your screen name. Those are great guys! Mitch and Pete, yours were 2 that always threw me. Thanx for the explanation. __________________ Banana's are a safe addiction. Right?Maybe I need classes.

07-18-2008, 02:56 PM	#11 (permalink)
damaclese Living in Exile damaclese's Photo Gallery Location: Henderson NV Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Pauly Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 716 BananaBucks : 6,800 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 381 Thanked 249 Times in 187 Posts Welcomes: 41	Re: Explain your screen name. OK this may sound a bit ostentatious the name was derived from Damocles which at the time i created it was already taking so i changed the spelling but this is were it comes from "Sword of Damocles" The Damocles of the anecdote was an excessively flattering courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. He exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held, where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging by a single piece of horsehair directly above his head. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful boys, and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate. Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. The theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life. And that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms? Last edited by damaclese : 07-18-2008 at 03:03 PM.

07-18-2008, 02:59 PM	#12 (permalink)
Richard Hermitian Operator Richard's Photo Gallery Location: NW San Diego, CA Find me on the map! Zone: 9+ / 10- Name: Richard Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,426 BananaBucks : 204 Feedback: 4 / 100% Thanks: 363 Thanked 588 Times in 388 Posts Welcomes: 624	Re: Explain your screen name. 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. __________________ . . . http://www.plantsthatproduce.com Last edited by Richard : 07-19-2008 at 01:39 AM. Reason: sound byte version

07-18-2008, 03:06 PM	#13 (permalink)
thebes11 Scubabanana thebes11's Photo Gallery Location: Atlantic Beach, FL Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Gary Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 86 BananaBucks : 1,266 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 15 Thanked 40 Times in 9 Posts Welcomes: 1	Re: Explain your screen name. Mine is actually pretty dumb, and comes from a drunken Tuesday afternoon my freshman year in college. It was a simpler time, when the air was clean, the colors were bright and people were just friendlier. It was 1986. The big bad bully AT&T was being broken up and there was a small upstart company called MCI causing a stir in St. Louis. They were marketing the hell out of the company in Missouri, and it just so happened that my best friend from the corridor was from there. So there we were, a couple of idiot 18 year olds, drunk as hell at 3:00 in the afternoon on Tuesday. I look across and ask him, "What the hell is thebes?" He looks at me, with a stupid look on his face (that happened a lot in those days) and wondered what in the world I was talking about. "Thebes, what the hell is thebes? It's right there on your sweatshirt!" I responded. He looked down, pulled the front of his shirt taught to reveal the whole front: MCI The Best Well, this guy wound up being one of my best friends ever (and still is to this day) and because of him, the nickname stuck until I moved to Dayton. I added the 11 because Thebes was taken on almost every board I tried to join (I learned later in college it is also the name of ancient cities in both Egypt and Greece). 11 is my favorite number from when I was a kid. I was always the smallest kid by far on any sports team I'd join. My dad always though the number 1 looked "cute" on my back. I hated it, it was a reminder of how small I was. We compromised on 11. Problem is, when writing it, I never know which 1 to put first!

07-18-2008, 03:12 PM	#14 (permalink)
lorax Banana Coloured lorax's Photo Gallery Location: Ecuador, South America Zone: 12/13 Tropical Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 453 BananaBucks : 238 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 45 Thanked 188 Times in 118 Posts Welcomes: 120	Re: Explain your screen name. Lorax comes from Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax" - I chose it because our philosophies mesh up pretty well. Also, I lifted myself from a land that cuts down its trees with no regard, to one that actively cherishes them. __________________ I speak for the trees.

07-18-2008, 03:25 PM	#16 (permalink)
lorax Banana Coloured lorax's Photo Gallery Location: Ecuador, South America Zone: 12/13 Tropical Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 453 BananaBucks : 238 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 45 Thanked 188 Times in 118 Posts Welcomes: 120	Re: Explain your screen name. oddly enough, "I Speak For The Trees" is the name of my blog about the plants in Ecuador. __________________ I speak for the trees.

07-18-2008, 03:38 PM	#17 (permalink)
mskitty38583 banana junkie mskitty38583 's Photo Gallery Location: sparta, tn. Find me on the map! Zone: 6-7 Name: mskitty Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3,598 BananaBucks : 16,935 Feedback: 24 / 100% Thanks: 23 Thanked 466 Times in 396 Posts Welcomes: 59	Re: Explain your screen name. mskitty was my cb handle when i was driving dump truck here in tn and the fact that im a cat freek. in ga everyone knew me by my handle.... major pain if youve ever seen the movie youd understand why. when i graduated truck driving school, i did intership with a friend of mine i got tired of sitting in the jump seat just looking out the window, so i told her that what we had here was a failure to communicate....i went to school to drive truck not see how well the air ride was in the jump seat. ...go ahead and laugh i still do. the 38583 is my zip code that way if i ever get lost i can find my way home. __________________ WELCOME TO THE GATOR NATION "kokomo" beach boys:

07-18-2008, 03:40 PM	#18 (permalink)
STEELVIPER Mechwarrior STEELVIPER's Photo Gallery Location: Riverside,CA Find me on the map! Zone: 9B Name: Mark Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 724 BananaBucks : 5,094 Feedback: 2 / 100% Thanks: 44 Thanked 56 Times in 44 Posts Welcomes: 169	Re: Explain your screen name. My name comes from a series of science fiction books know as "Battletech". Steelviper or Clan Steelviper is a race of warrior like people from the books. Any PC gamer fan would also know this as Mechwarrior. __________________