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:waving: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.:03:

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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.

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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 :abajo:

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

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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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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!

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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 .

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

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

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

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

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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?

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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.

:woohoonaner:

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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!

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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.

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So Jim Boeheim's dad was named Dionysius?



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

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

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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.

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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.:bananas_b

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hey i used to play! i liked lams

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Cookiecows comes from a breed of cow that I fell in love with. When we moved to Kentucky I drove past a cow everyday that I thought had been born with a one of a kind pattern. A black headed, white bellied, black butted cow that looked like an oreo cookie. To make a long story short I sent my husband to buy that cow as I was afraid it would end up at the stock yard and we found out that it was actually a breed of cow. We couldn't buy her but the farmer sold us a heifer from her that had the same markings. After aquiring some purebreds we were hooked. We now have several registered "Belted Galloways" but that first cow that isn't even purebred will live out her life here with us.

Deb:2118:

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Stumpy is a nickname that I was given when I was on the bike patrol in downtown Nashville. I was walking down the street and someone said I looked like a tree stump walking down the street. I guess due to me being short and stocky. Well the name stuck and the 47 was the number I used in football. Most of my user names have 47 or 4700 in them.

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Buzzwinder comes from an incident in a local bar one night, about one in the morning this guy comes walking in, he had obviously had several beverages that evening already, he ask a friend of mine who was tending behind the bar for a buzzwinder, perplexed by the name of this beverage she came and asked me and a few my of buddies if we knew what was in a buzzwinder, none of us had heard of it and she couldn't find it in her Bartenders friend mix drink book or the owners own rolodex file of special drinks, so totally mystified by the gentlemans request she returned to him and asked what was in a Buzzwinder? He promply got a huge smile on his face and said quite clearly A Budwieser Please. Everyone got a big kick out of it , including the bartender, after that everytime I went into the Bar I aked for a Buzzwinder. I drink Bud Light, and it kinda stuck. :bananas_b

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Nothing special with my name! It's just that. I should have been inventive.

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I've always been a gamer... since I can remember. In 1996 when Ultima Online was released, I created an accout, and depending on the server I played on I was either known as Lady Ahava, or Lady Kaliska. Now I play World of Warcraft as you can see on my avatar. A night elf hunter. ^_-. And I tend to use either as a log in name out of habit, and it's just easier for me to remember. I have a great love for pixelcrack (as I call it) and the natural.. (gardening ect) Go figure right?

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I have 1/4 acre and I grow...

Artichokes
Asparagus
Bananas (23 kinds):ha:
beans (2 kinds)
Beets
brocolli
cabbage
cauliflower
carrots (2 kinds)
sunflowers
kohlrabi
lettuce
tomato (7 kinds)
peppers (5 kinds)
potatos (2kinds)
onions (4kinds)
Rhubarb
cilantro
basil
thyme
oregano
lavender
peaches (5 kinds)
nectarines (5 kinds)
apples (5 kinds)
pears (2 kinds)
cherries (2 kinds)
Grapefruit (2 kinds)
Mandarins (3 kinds)
navel
tangerine
tangelo
lemon
Feijoia
hops (10 kinds)

'nuff said!:nanadrink:

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I grew up off Modena street and there was a gang of kids I use to hang around with when I was young and we jokinly called ourselves Modena Cartel. I had to shorten it a long time ago when AOL wouldn't let you use screen names that long. Wow, I guess that was about 13 years ago when I made the screen name.

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These are great to read! My two favorite so far (interestingly enough) both involve beer. Thebes has been my favorite so far. I was laughing my butt off after that one. Oh, wait...no, it's still there. Buzzwinder's was great too! Keep 'em coming!

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This is great!! Good idea Nate! :lurk:

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cassie,kylie......ok yall another yard to raid!lol!:ha:

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I use Gabe15 (or some form of it) for as many different online names things as I can so I don't have to remember too much. It started somewhere else, away from this site, and I just wanted to use Gabe, but it was taken everywhere. I think one of the suggested computer generated names was Gabe15, or maybe I just stuck the 15 on since my birthday is March 15th...something along those lines, nothing fancy.

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:ha: It's a long drive to CA and what with the price of fuel and all... :ha:

Watch out fer all them evil identity stealers!

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Yes, Fernie! They'll rob you blind.

microfarmer- you have a great farm, sounds like.:ha:

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oh wow...ill delete it right now then :P the post i mean

oh and micro can u delete my quote is still shows on your post

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:ha::ha::ha:

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Thanx for the replies everyone. I think this is the best thread I've ever started. 34 posts in less than 12 hrs! Any more. Chris, Jarred, Lynn, etc.

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Growing up in middle TN, and parents of the University of TN alum, I was destined to be a HUGE Big Orange fan. I have followed TN athletics since I was probably 5 or 6 and let me tell you, that is a LOOONNNGGG time!!!! So, I assume everyone can figure mine out from that...
I want to take a stab at Chris's screenname before he posts it... I am guessing it stands for, "Rare Palms". Am I right, Chris?

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When I first moved to Jacksonville, I lived 1 blk from the beach, was a huge Jimmy Buffet fan and wanted a cool license plate. I tried many different things and couldn't believe it when this one was available!


I no longer live at the beach (and my current "Reef" plate reflects my love of Scuba diving), but I'm still a Bch Grl at heart!
:islandsharkbanana:
Margie:waving:

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Two of my favorite hobbies have been scuba diving and salt aquariums. I even had a marine aquarium maintenance business for a number of years. And I am most proud of my son Shawn, hence "saltydad". BTW, any rumors that "salty" refers to my language are mean, misguided gossip (but also true!) :bananabeard:

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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!

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I am fairly new to the site (great people and info). I grew up in cold New York. I live in Santa Barbara, CA and bananas and tropicals bring me warmth. I thought for sure someone already was using Magilla Gorilla. He is a cartoon figure of the 60's and loved banana's.

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Welcome!

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Thank you!

Andrew

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TLTURBO - mine is pretty simple. TL are my initials and I have owned, played with or raced hot cars and boats since I was a teen ager back in the muscle car era. Owned way too many corvettes and back about 1990 I had a young boy and the vette wasn't big enough so I bought a 1987 TURBO Buick Grand National. I soon discovered that with a few mods, there wasn't much on the street that could keep up with it and this was my screen name on the Turbo Buick boards so I use it other places. Also, avitar is a representation of the car. I'm on my 2nd GN and love them. They are a turbocharged 6 cylinder an will tear up a new vette, viper, cobra, etc.

HENCE my license plate.

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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.

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Hey ya'll,

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

Have a great weekend.

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I think it's pretty cool that Bananas.org had the dancing banana on the COW smilie available!

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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

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The Vette was not big enough?? You have a very nice car! I like GN's. I am a car guy as well. Any pictures of your cars? o.k. I know this is the banana forum but mine is Yellow. Here are mine.

2002 Spercharged Z06 620 hp 590 torque





V12 CL600 Twin Turbo Mercedes 535 hp 590 torque

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Like your cars! Nice would love a car like that but with 5 kids dont think they would be to impressed at walking everywhere lol

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btw welcome magilla! that was my fav cartoon when i was little. btw they still play it on boomarag. lol. guys.....nice rides!