Explain your damn username

[Ob1jacobe]

I like Star Wars.  My name is Jacobe.

[Waddy Peytona]

Yep, that's it. When I finally took a notion to register for the forum I had a hard time coming up with a name that wasn't already taken. (Where the fuck are all these people??) I finally decided to try something that would give a nod to the band's Shelby County roots, because I figured non-locals probably wouldn't think of that.

I don't have any relationship with Waddy or Peytona other than driving by that exit a zillion times on my way up and down I-64. I always thought Waddy Peytona had a nice ring to it, though. Like Mr. Clark, I'm not a fan of that Peytona Waddy sign.

Hey Waddy Peytona, I think I figured out where your username came from. While watching one of the local Louisville news broadcasts, I heard them mention the Waddy Peytona exit near I64. I immediately thought of you. Is this where your name came from?



Here is a song I found while looking up Waddy Peytona by Mickey Clark and The Blue Norther. (I hope this didn't blow your cover.)

Mickey Clark and The Blue Norther - Waddy Peytona

[YimYodd]

My 1st name is Jim, last name ends w/ odd.
As I wrote in the Yim vs. Jim thread:

About 25 yrs. ago my friend, an amateur actor, was in a local production playing a Swede.
He would come around in character, practicing his accent. He always called me Yim Yodd, and the nickname stuck.

Seemed natural to use it when I joined the forum.

[he.who.forgets]

He who Forgets will be destined to remember.  A lyric from Nothingman by Pearl Jam.  I'm a dude and I forget shit. And I like Pearl Jam a lot.

[sweatboard]

He who Forgets will be destined to remember.  A lyric from Nothingman by Pearl Jam.  I'm a dude and I forget shit. And I like Pearl Jam a lot.

Great Song..  "Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking..."

[pattilovesmmj]

I think mine is pretty self explanitory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My name is Patti and I love the band.  Hence...pattilovesmmj

[dmooney99]

He who Forgets will be destined to remember.  A lyric from Nothingman by Pearl Jam.  I'm a dude and I forget shit. And I like Pearl Jam a lot.

hey, i know you from the PJ boards

first initial of my name (david) and my last name and i picked 99 cause I've always liked that number.

[the_wizzard]

It's a nickname given to me as I have been known, on occasion, to be able to work some magic. For example, pulling 3rd row Radio City Music Hall tix 20 minutes into the TM general sale. It is usually said in succession, "the wizzard, the wizzard, the wizzard".

[Tired Eyes]

I'm a big Neil Young fan and have been using Tired Eyes (song from Tonight's The Night) as my handle on Rust (Neil mailing list) since the fall of 1995.

[Ruckus]

my name was my computer password for login at work for many years.   I needed something 8 characters with numbers in the middle.    The guidelines suggested picking a word and changing some Es to 3s or Is to 1s or As to @s.    I happened to be listening to mahgeetah at the time.    Yes I know the song has an H at the end, turns out it's 9 characters.

Pretty unexciting, I realize, but now you know too....

You know the whole time I just assumed your 33 was a nod to Larry Bird and the rest because math guys can't spell.

[bowl of soup]

Fantasy Golf. Yep, I'm that kind of loser. Back when I discovered this here forum while trying to order a copy of Okonokos, I discovered that I needed a user name. I had never joined a forum of any kind (and have not joined any since), so I didn't have anything snappy at my disposal. I had just joined a fantasy golf league with a friend of mine however and he wanted to name our team "out of the rough" or "tiger and bunny" or something stupid. I went with Dangerfield - "when you buy a hat like that you get a free bowl of soup."

That's my story.

[sillyboob]

I came up with sillyboob as an email address I could give over the phone when placing orders for something.  I figured I could tell if the person I was talking to had any sort of personality or not based on whether or not they laughed. 

Some have laughed, others have remained dead silent.

[walterfredo]

My first name mixed in with the phish song walfredo

[dookie shoot bandit]

My best friend's first car 20 years ago was a shit brown Buick town car...
We called it "Dookie Shoot Bandit"

[mind at large]

term used by aldous huxley in the doors of perception to describe an uninhibited consciousness after self-administering mescaline before an interview (book based on his thoughts which were recorded). 

the book inspired the name of one of my favorite bands, the doors.

plus, huxley is also among my favorite writers.     

ergo, mind at large

[kholl44]

mine is simple/boring... same username for my twitter and instagram accounts- look me up!

[ruralt]

It's a reference to an article on the now defunct website Hipster Runoff.

[Santo]

[Lindlan]

I think there is no explanation needed here :)

genious

[blucas]

Blucas is a real dude who is a friend of mine.  As many others in here, I needed some info from the forum and simply settled on Blucas, not expecting to ever come back.  Blucas is a portmanteau of Bluto (he's big and burly) and Lucas (his last name).  Funny thing, he always liked and accepted Blucas.  However, one drunken night, years after Blucas had stuck, I called him "Bluto Lucas" and he got real mad...he never knew why he was Blucas before that moment.  He could probably rip off all my limbs so I'm lucky I'm not typing this with a straw.  Anyway, some of you know me as Flynt Wigbaum, which is a fake name story for another day.