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Explain your name

Monday, 26 November 2018, 0:58 BFH Uncategorized 217

(I’m gonna sticky post this one for awhile.)

Jethro says that a lot of people have interesting screen names, but sometimes they leave us scratching our heads and asking, “what does it mean????”

Care to explain?

Drop us a line in the comments.

 

217 Comments on Explain your name

  1. My name, BFH, is an acronym for BigFurHat.

    When the founding members of this site were contributors to The People’s Cube, Oleg asked me for a screen name.
    It had to relate to Russian cold war culture.

    I asked him, “what’s the name of those big fur hats the Russians wear?”

    He answered, “a ushanka.”

    I said, “okay, I’m Ushanka.”

    He said, “we have a Ushanka.”

    I said, “Okay, then I’m Big Fur Hat.”

    It was that fast. It was that spontaneous. And I had no idea it would be my name for over a decade.

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  4. 2008, King Samir Shabbazz of the pink panthers stated something to the effect of “…need to kill all the cracker babies”…… I took note.
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  5. Mine’s pretty self explanatory. I live right down the road from Patrick Henry’s house. When I inherited the blog, Disrupt the Narrative, I had to come up with a moniker quickly, so I became PHenry Saddleburr. I let the blog die after the unimaginable re-election of the previous president, thinking that with all the evidence of failure, deception and conniving, that this outcome was unacceptable and I was dealing with a country of dimwits, hence keeping my blog alive was a waste of my time. And I was in no mood for it.

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  6. I have many siblings…

    I am one of nine, my father one of ten. His father was one of 13. There were so many siblings and relatives none of us hardly knew them all.
    My relatives spent a lot of time in the dark. We multiplied fast.
    C Roach.

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  7. Mighty Mojo=The name my grandchildren gave to my better half; rescued pug/wiener/chihuahua Guardian Angel. I should have called him Pinocchio, because he definitely knows he’s a ‘real boy’.

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  8. ‘Jimmy’ is my childhood nickname. I was also known as ‘Two-gun Pete with the smelly feet’ and occasionally ‘Chuck’ and ‘Buck.’ But my real name is James Tiberius Kirk. But you can call me ‘Jim!’

    I suspect ‘Jimmy’ makes me sound like a harmless, scrawny kid. That’s on purpose. Actually, I’m 6’10” at 300 pounds and can benchpress 540 lbs. At 87 year old, I still hold the world record for the dead lift: one 9′ grand piano on an auction floor. These days, I lift lawnmowers up with one hand and throw them into the garage.

    So, don’t mess with Jimmy. I’ll turn your head into an exploding cantaloupe and launch you into Mexico!!

    Now, back to my favorite music: Baroque.

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  9. Like BigFurHat, HippieCritic is from the People’s Cube days. Basically, it puts together what I see as 3 essential requirements for being a lefty:
    – Hypocrisy
    – Blind criticism of things you know nothing about.
    – Being a lazy, smelly hippie

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  12. I’m anonymous in tribute to our founders, who debated the direction our country would pursue in the shadows, hiding from the British. Plus, I don’t need my ego stroked by recognition.

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  14. One day I was watching some show about Meerkats. The show was falsely attributing a bunch of human intellect to the creatures. I said to myself Mika Brzezinski looks like a Meerkat and has about the same intellect.

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  15. Generations of my family have lived in the northern Piney Woods of East Texas. Several generations have grown timber. Most of our trees are pine but there are pockets of hardwood including Cherrybark Oak.

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  17. The Mouse part came from a fairly famous boy from a fairly famous junior high school. It’s been my nickname ever since. The Merry part comes from my insatiable optimism.

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  20. Definition of agathokakological in English:
    ADJECTIVE (rare)
    Composed of both good and evil.
    I am one of the nicest people you will meet, but don’t piss me off!

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  21. Two reasons: A frat brother dubbed me RickeyG in college (he gave everybody nicknames); and I do play a little soprano sax, ala KennyG (but nowhere near as well as he plays).

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  25. I met a Supermodel while competing in a Decathlon and I let her take second place because I liked following her movement. After a dinner of sprouts with clams our passions overwhelmed us and every time she climaxed she would call me “Carter”. Because I didn’t mind being renamed I took it to heart as a legal, as well as an anachroname.

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  26. My dad once owned a very fast, built 1967 red Volkswagen Beetle. We called it the “Red Bug”. Because my middle aged, white male, christian, conservative views were so annoying to many people I knew, I morphed “Red Bug” into a more annoying version……”Chiggerbug”. If you have never had the pleasure of an encounter with a chigger, you need to…. snicker snicker.

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  27. Many years ago, I had the honor of reading the history of WW II by Winston Churchill.
    It took a while to read, 12 volumes. His mission in life as to “Extirpate Nazism”
    Extirpate means to “root out” or “totally destroy”. Nobody can read that series without being impressed by Winston’s genius.

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  28. My Nickname is Bobcat …Because I own two Bobcats..and My

    name is Bob..When I first joined iotwr several years back

    My Avatar host wouldn’t give it to Me…So I went with

    Bcattin …I’m slowly transitioning to Bobcat

    (I can’t do it over night like Czar)

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  30. While in music school I wrote cultural satire for a university magazine under the nom de plume of ‘Sarc’ as way of improving my English. At the time I was dating a Philosophy Major that affectionately called me ‘Lady Sarcastica’ and said I had the wit of his favorite Philosophic hero, Diogenes. When the blog ‘Diogenes Middle Finger’ was borne, my identity morphed into Diogenes Sarcastica…..

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  31. I started playing guitar when I was about 12-13. A riff is a piece of music or a “lick”. I always wanted to be a guitarist and master the riff, thus I started using DrRiff since I was in grade school. DrRiff has been my screen name here and elsewhere for many years.

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  32. My grandmother’s maiden name was Cork and so my parents gave it to me as a middle name. I am a girl and grew up when “Circus Boy” was on TV. His name was Corky (Mickey Dolenz) and my older brother used to call me that to torture this very girly girl. When I got older, I decided to take fun moment away from him and embrace it.

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  33. In 1975 I went to Charleston,WV. to see Frank Zappa, The Mothers and “Special Guest”. Got there late, the band was in the middle of “the torture never stops”. When Zappa ended his solo, this dude that I hadn’t recognized sitting beside one of the amps started singing. I knew immediately that it was Captain Beefheart. Hell of a special guest!
    Anyway, too late to shorten a long story, but the subsequent album of that tour was titled Bongo Fury. One of the tunes Beefheart sang was called Poofter’s Froth, Wyoming plans ahead. So there you go.

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  34. My brother found iotw first, he was telling me about it. I decided to check it out and needed a name. Since we played golf at a place called Old Oak, I used that to see if he noticed me.

    Since then however, I bought a property that is littered with old_oaks.

    So oddly, it seems that my selection of a username has defined my existence.

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  35. As a long time fan of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, I am The Rat Fink!
    I gotta big ole model Rat Fink with light up eyes on the desk, and assorted Rat Fink memorabilia and the cars… which is a big improvement over my old drunken Detroit Piston days where on the weekends I had a Piston hat, Piston shoes and Piston pants….

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  36. Years ago I would comment over at chicagoray’s blog. He would refer to me as either Dr Dave or WiscoDave. I took WiscoDave and made it mine. And yes, my name is Dave and I am from Wisconsin.

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  37. I “accidentally” found this site after taking a break from applying for jobs on the internet a few years ago. I wanted to come up with a name that was a pun play on politics. I thought about it for five seconds and “gerrymandering” came to mind. Hence, “Jerry Manderin” was born.

    BigFurHat helped me set up an avatar and the picture I chose is a reflection of what I love to do most. And I’ve had some cool gigs. REALLY COOL GIGS.

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  39. my name? Some may think its bragging, but if you can do it . . . which i cant but someday will.

    Actually i had a boss years ago that was a pita and he had a buddy that always came in and his nickname was walksinmoccassins. So, to be a smartass i told him my indian name was walksonwater just to shut him up. It worked.

    (no, i’m not indian, i’m descended from normans that landed in quebec in 1650)

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  41. And I really wish I knew which bands Mr. Pinko played drums for. I’ve probably listened to him without knowing it! Ask BigFurHat for my email Mr. Pinko and tell me. I SWEAR I WON’T TELL A SOUL. Not even my Manderin children!

    Drums?? Nope. -bfh

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  42. My real name is Jeff but my late wife liked the English spelling of Geoff better so I became Geoff. And aardvark comes from my fighter squadrons VF-114’s mascot was an aardvark. It could’ve been worse, if I had been in VF-143 I could’ve been a Puking Dog. I could also go by Muskie which was my nickname as a kid given to me by one of friends dad (we called him Smiling Larry or Smiley for short he was the biggest kid in the neighborhood) who named me that because I swam like a muskrat and it was 1968 and Ed Muskie was running for President.

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  47. I came to IOTW as Bison Guy, because our family raised them for 35+ yrs. So…i was in tune with the buffalo hunter history. Then due to some personal issues we had sold the herd.

    I became .45-70 as a new beginning. The .45-70 cartridge was developed in 1873…145 yrs ago and still is going strong. I hope I can live half of that.

    Tbe Sharps Buffalo rifle made the West safe for the Colts, Winchesters, and such.

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  48. My dad wouldn’t stick me with his name because his dad did that to him and so dad grew up being called Junior, which he hated. Mom named me Kevin after Saint Kevin. Personally I would have liked to have been named after my grandfather like my dad was because I always liked the ring of that name – Charles Cecil R. Initials: CCR.

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  52. ecp that’s short for eternal cracker p that’s long for eternalp that’s short for eternal ponderer.
    I came up with it sitting in the library in school in 1985, creatively thinking about new ideas for my Bulletin Board System that ran from 1984 to 1990 and grew from single line to 9 phone lines.

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  53. Mine comes from witnessing an unfortunate incident in the ER as a very new nurse. Poor dumb 15 year old girl came in with her 14 year old boyfriend and her mother. She was miscarrying and mom knew it. Doc offered to clear the room for the exam but patient declined. Girl got up in the stirrups, Mom got a look at down below and hollered at the top of her lungs “what in Gods name would possess you to shave your HooHooNayNay?!?!”. The boy fled the room.

    The things that I have seen as a nurse since that day… Truth is stranger than fiction. Especially in The Idiocracy.

    By the way, I abso-freakin’-lutely LOVE this thread!!! Thank you, Fur!!!

    Thanks to Jethro! – bfh

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  55. I figure my screen name is pretty much self-explanatory.

    However, I just might be a Vietnamese guy who owns a veterinary clinic and who sells his patients that don’t make it to the Chinese restaurant next door.

    You never know.

    😉

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  56. Tony is from my middle name, Anthony. Have to maintain my anonymity; I’m a pretty big deal around here. I should have been more inventive, but when I started here, I was in a hurry to post something, and chose the first thing that popped in my head. Then it was too late to change to something sarcastic.

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  58. My horse is named Ghost. Therefore, I’m Ghost rider. Being in my 6th decade sometimes I feel as if there is a double meaning in all this – after all my hair is ghostly white! 🙂 Or I’m going to end up being a ghost if I keep riding my frisky boy.

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  62. I’m from Tennessee. I like to fool myself into thinking “Tuxedo” comes from the all-permeating air of sophistication that surrounds me at all times. The truth is that I needed a name for a now-defunct blog, and “TN Tuxedo” was the only thing I could come up with at the time.

    I’m truly surprised no one else had taken it already.

    I may change it to “Toejam’s Dad” or something. You never know.

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  63. I’ve been quite outspoken regarding immigration, Obama, Etc for a long time. Idiotic people have called me a racist and I’ve always told them that I am a realist, and that there is a big difference between being a racist and being a realist. 🙂

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  67. “Wyatt” was just pulled out of thin air. The “Insensitive Progressive Jerk” part is pretty self-explanatory; most progressives I know are insensitive and jerks.

    The avatar is Millard Fillmore, our 13th President (I like the number 13 for some reason) and the last Whig President the US had. And he looks serious, intelligent and impressive – all characteristics I don’t possess.

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  69. Vietvet–

    Yikes! That’s why I’ll never visit Hawaii ever again! EVERY SINGLE Korean BBQ restaurant (or Thai, or Vietnamese, etc)in Hawaii is next door to an animal hospital. Funny thing is, I noticed hardly anyone walking dogs around Honolulu. Not in the parks. Not on the streets. So what gives…?
    Do they put it in the Plate Lunch?

    Oh yeah…and this IS a nice thread, Fur!

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  71. Inspiration for my screen name is in honor of one of the mightest military fighting forces in the history of The United States of America – The 99th Fighter Squadron, WW II, aka Tuskegee Airmen. Real heroes who considered themselves Americans first and didn’t make an issue about the fact they are black. They were highly skilled, brave pilots who beat the odds and made the world take notice.
    Another fun inspiration is the “Get Smart” character, “99”. She was the smart one and still feminine and confident enough to support her man.
    Also, I like the song “99” by “TOTO”, (Sorry, just do). Oh Yeah, my favorite number is 9. Go figure.
    I’ve been an IOTWR fan and commenter for about 9 yrs. Always fun to find out screen name origins of newbies and regulars.

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  75. You can’t get more boring than my screen name. Family and friends call me by my middle name: Al. Including my niece and nephew. *yawn*

    Add-on: My gravatar pic is Lysander Spooner modified the same way as that hideous Barky “Hope” poster from 10 years back. I think very highly of Lysander Spooner. I could not possibly think any worse than I already do of Barky O.

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  78. Growing up in New England, I acquired a taste for the bittersweet soda, so unique to the region.

    Over the years, Moxie has garnered newer meanings: guts, stamina, nerve, etc. If those were the criteria for choosing a nick name, I’d be closer to Casper Milquetoast.

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  79. I am Spanish royalty what else? Nope, a lie. 2 reasons. An adorable mini Rex rabbit was rehomed to me due to her evil temperament. She liked to steal dirty laundry and build nests with it. There was an ‘X Files’ character named Eugene Victor Tooms, a serial killer, who hibernated in nests he made. Adorable evil bunny became Eugenia Victoria Tooms. I miss that booger. She passed away at age 12. I am adorable and evil so it fits. Like Agatha, don’t piss me off.

    2nd reason, my aunt Eugenia. Grandmother gave her 9 kids some unusual names – Eugenia, Nile, Leonie, Nureldin, Wilhelmina, etc. Eugenia was my favorite aunt.

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  81. In 2008, Mr. Illustr8r was doing social media work related research and asked me to set up a Twitter profile. I decided on “Illustr8r” because it’s what I do for a living. Not very creative though-except maybe for the 8! Then, in 2009/10 I became very active in the Tea Party movement and my profile pic is my Tea Party alter ego.

    Great thread!

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  82. For reasons I won’t go into right now I was called Jethro as a kid. Over the years I grew fond of the name. After obummer was elected I read a book called “The Five Thousand Year Leap” by Cleon Skousen. In it the author explains the origins of our republican form of government: When Moses was leading the Hebrews through the desert he was overwhelmed with all the issues that were brought to him daily to rule on. His father-in-law provided the solution.
    It is described in Exodus 18:
    https://www.biblestudytools.com/exodus/18.html
    That is why I chose Jethro as my IOTWreport name.

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  83. My high school classmates gave me the nickname “Lennie” in high school possibly because I had a bad habit of accidentally killing puppies by petting them too hard. And then there was that time I did a bad thing in Weed, and had to hide in some bushes until George came. And I guess all of this reminded them of the character Lennie from “Of Mice and Men.” And I liked the name so much, it took me twenty years to figure out that they were insulting me

    But seriously Ladies and Germs, about 10 years ago, I needed a screen name in order to post something at A-T. And I saw a “Call me Ishmael” which tweaked my fancy. Then “Callmelennie” popped into my head, because they really did call me that in high school

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  85. The hell is this? The only people who turn around when you call their names out in a crowded room are me and…..AL???????

    Also, why am I the only one who sports a Jesus avatar?

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  87. It’s a shoe. Mary Janes.
    I have a horrible time finding shoes that fit me. My feet are too narrow or my heel is not pronounced enough to fit in the shoe. My feet always slide out. So I’ve been buying shoes with some form of strap to them- over the instep or around the ankle.

    My favorite shoe in my early 20s to 30s was this:

    http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/251374355792-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

    The black ones with the rose.
    I used to buy a pair every year at Venice Beach until the lil Chinese dude and his family quit selling there.

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  90. Originally I chose Mickey Moussaoui to make fun of the Mickey Mouse Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid. Then I realized that it better fit Barry Soetoro, the Mickey Mouse Preezy. So I put mouse ears on his picture posing in front of Disney Land and a nick name was born.

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  93. Tim Buktu is just a carryover from the Ann Coulter Online Chat, now shut down. I like to parse words, identify their component parts, and also wanted something I could remember if I stopped posting for a while, and have some fun at the expense of Malawi, which beforehand was no laughing matter. It also has an element of uniqueness.

    But mostly because “Richard Cranium” was already used. I also use LanceBoyle on some other sites, so if you see them, remember that Tim Buktu = LanceBoyle.

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  95. As a young man JFK sent me to SE Asia to kill Chm Mao’s boys (some almost killed me; they clearly did not want to die!) . I wore an E,G,+A on my uniform. I was young then. I am now the grandfather of boys in high school!
    I am both old and an ex Jarhead!
    Cary many scars but Moa’s boys (some) have not contributed to global warming for decades. See, I do care about ecology!

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  97. My name evolved at a site I won’t name, but its initials are “G.P.”. It is a good board, but the mods are HYPER sensitive. The first time they banned me, I made a new account as a “ghost” of my former handle, and each successive time I came back as a variant of “ghost”, such as phantom, spectre, etc., and “Nightshade” was just the one that I most RECENTLY got banned under just before I started HERE.

    G.P. has NEVER told me why they banned me in ANY iteration, but I think that particular one was for suggesting that the President convene a firing squad for some Democrat or other. This was not a “threat”, since I said the PRESIDENT should do it, but shortly after that they deleted me COMPLETELY. This was after GAB got deplatformed over that one nut job shooter that posted there, so maybe that made them extra touchy.

    Don’t know how you’re supposed to be nice, if they won’t tell you what nice IS.

    They’ve IP banned me a couple of times too, but I can come from a lot of IPs, so that doesn’t work for them, either. I just kind of go back there to be curmudgeonly at this point, maybe I’m there NOW…and maybe NOT. THEY’LL never know…

    I don’t try to get them or me in trouble, but they DO censor rather heavily..

    …so, that’s the story of Nightshade. Never had that problem HERE, so I may keep it for a time, in memory of sooo many bannings….

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  98. Zhytamyr or Zhytomyr is a Ukrainian city, that by dint of fate, is pronounced almost exactly as my family name, a Bohemian variant of a common German merchant class name.

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  100. Like CrackerBaby, I was ticked off at that “King Shabazz” a-hole who wanted to kill all the “Crackas”. So back in 08 I picked the name Jarhead Cracka so he wouldn’t forget me. So far he hasn’t made any attempts on my Cracka ass. Jarhead of course for my time in the Marine Corps (1978 – 1982).

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  101. I love Rotty’s. Have since I saw my first one on tv as a kid. That stupid flying nun show. I only watched to get a glimpse of the rotty. I loved them before anyone in this country knew what they were and long before they became popular. Jim bought me my first purebred one, dirt cheap because it had a few white hairs on her chest. Alas, about a week after getting her (named her on her papers BJ’s Sheza Maneater, because of that song that was popular then) my horse fell on me and crushed my left leg from the knee down so I had to sell her right away. I am on my third Rotty/Lab variation. I hope that made some kind of sense, so little does with me these days. I change the avatar sometimes to Sister’s real pic, or a generic Rotty pic. I think I even used Jim’s pic a few times, just because.

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  102. Being a fan of Ayn Rand, I picked Dan Ryan Galt by rearranging the letters in her name and Galt, well, because of Ayn Rand.

    I “borrowed” the Dead Che for my avatar from Oleg’s People’s Cube. I did buy the Tee shirt and Dead Che always goes with me when I work at the polls on election day.

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  103. Ventured to this site from The Cube and couldn’t look away. When I finally got the courage up to start posting Obama was well on his way to needing the treatments of “Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather,” I liked the Alan Parson’s song and the Poe original story. Being a former academic, it was nice to still use the title. Dropped the “r” unintentionally, but kept it because it’s uniquely wrong, like a lot stuff my dyslexia doesn’t let me see.

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  104. Al Capp was my favorite cartoonist and comic strip author. Joe Btfsplk is an obscure character, like me, who appears on a sporadic basis. Like Pig Pen’s dust cloud, Joe Btfsplk is always followed by a rain cloud.

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  105. I’m the son of Hungarian refugees. BTW, they were legal, sponsored, and waited their turn. My screen name is to honor the Freedom Fighters of the 1956 Revolution…in Hungarian, szabadsagharcos (a real tongue twister if you’re not Hungarian).

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  106. It’s always a lovely day for a Guinness. When I decided to start commenting here, I was trying to think of a screen name one evening in between swigs of Guinness in an inscribed Guinness glass that some friends brought back from Ireland for me and I decided to go with Guinness Girl.

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  107. @Aaron Burr:

    The hell is this? The only people who turn around when you call their names out in a crowded room are me and…..AL???????

    If you call out “Al!” in a crowded room I won’t turn around because I’d be standing in a corner, no one behind me, near two exits, scanning the crowd for stealth ninja assassins or one of those rarities, an armed Democrat.

    Also, why am I the only one who sports a Jesus avatar?

    I dunno. Maybe because you’re the only one here who thinks you’re qualified? Nahhh. (-; j/k

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  108. Annie is my real name and, unlike many of you, I was raised in a liberal/Democrat family. As the party and my elders progressed into radicalism, I slowly matured and questioned the logic, kindness, and effectiveness (or lack of those qualities!) of that philosophy. I’m still questioning, learning, growing, changing… and careful not to think I (or any politicians or pundits or priests) have arrived at the Answers to Everything. Still have a lot of things to think about and some exceptions to the rules to consider. Thus: Little Morphin’ Annie. But, glad to have found a venue where such things are discussed with irreverent humor.

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  109. My first name is Patricia. My maiden name is Tronetti. My mother has always called me Pat. I am currently going through a divorce and taking back my maiden name because my dad is a much better man than my soon to be ex-husband has ever been (and ever will be). Pattronetti. Simple, practical, and I will never forget it.

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  114. PJ is short for Plain Jane. My parents had named me a name that rings like a chorus of bells. By the time I was five, they changed my name to reflect my looks. Hence, Plain Jane became my name.

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  117. Tiger Eyes is in reference to my little dog named Tiger Lilly. She is as white and delicate as a Lilly with stunning blue eyes yet she has a growl that rivals any Tiger. Tiger Lilly is so beautiful that everyone stops to look at her and talk about her beauty. Just as she has them wrapped around her paw she lets out her Tiger growl and scares them to death. We call her Monster.

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  118. I used to post as Mobamad but a lot of people had a hard time breaking the code. I kept having to explain to people that I was not a Muslim, so I decided to use a screen name that there was no mistaking. People still ask if I am a Muslim. (Morans)

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  121. Milo Mindbender has always been a personal hero of mine. He defined the Entrepreneur Spirit shown by Americans, and managed to turn a profit without screwing anyone over.

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  123. I had a couple of nics long ago now retired from the EZ Board chat sites. I signed on to lefty board where they were proud of their commie mentors.. Post anything intelligent on a lefty board gets you banned. They permabanned me so I registered as Groucho Marxist and attempted to be a liberal.. I just couldn’t do it… Groucho came out swinging.. I’ve lost track of how many boards I’ve been banned from.. Libs don’t appreciate my brand of conservativism..

    Everything that I know about civility I learned from liberals..

    Groucho Marxist never got banned for insulting anyone.. I was banned for being better at it.

    I did create a couple other sock puppets. I still bust them out for fun. One in particular…
    Mucho Gracias…

    I found IOTW and the People’s Cube.. the rest is history..

    Groucho Marxist still pissed off libs because I parody one of their idols

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  126. Long before Felonia Von-Pantsuit deemed us ‘deplorables’ and Obama talked S** about our love of ‘guns and Bibles’, it was clear the left considers us imbeciles and racist white trash. Had a buddy who was a hardcore Molly Hatchett/Lynryrd Skynyrd fan like me and his Grandpa’s name was Bocephus Rex Whitehouse. (To quote Dave Barry, “I am not making this up”) Drank Iron SH***Y beer and collected Jim Beam bottles. The dude had to be the inspiration for the old man in the pickup truck in Easy Rider. God Bless Him – he lives on through me –

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  129. Well, my name is Rick and back in the day when #2 son and I weren’t getting along too well, he referred to me as “rickn8or”. He did not mean it as a compliment.

    Since then, I continue to use it to remind me not to take everything so serious.

    My alter ego “crazyeighter” (retired Navy Senior Chief) has no such restrictions.

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  130. Claudia. I used that name when I started commenting here. Used Franklin and Posy on other sites, but not anymore.

    When I started sending Fur tips, he asked if I wanted to be a contributor. I was flattered and said, “Yes”!

    Admin Girl set me up and asked if I had a name I wanted to use. Said “Claudia”, then changed my mind to something else (don’t remember what now). Then I emailed her and said, “Never mind, I’ll stick with Claudia”. She laughed and said, “For real now”? Said, “Yup”.

    It’s my real name but don’t tell anyone.

    I used various fox pictures for my avatar until Jethro sent me the one I use now. I love it.

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  131. Built a ham radio from TV sets
    that were thrown out in my neighborhood
    in 1968.That was when I got radioation fever!
    BUTTHEADICUS= from my butthead nick name in an
    electronics lab I used to work in, as in Beavis & Butthead…

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  132. Where’s Dad of 4 these days? He explained his name the last time we did this.

    AbigailAdams because I fell in love with her husband, John. I think I feel closer to John Adams than the first Abigail Adams did because he and I are even more kindred souls than they were. Just kidding! Actually I did fall in love with John Adams and Abigail Adams, both. They sacrificed everything for the ideals of a new country. They believed in every word of the Constitution (which John, and NOT Jefferson, wrote. Note: See the MA state constitution.) John Adams served as the head of 33 separate committees in the 2nd Continental Congress in order to further the goals of the Revolution and to chart our course. He and Abigail sacrificed their time together with each other and with their children in order to carry out the necessary work of creating/building the greatest country in the history of mankind.

    I’m very unhappy there is not a single public tribute in D.C. honoring John and Abigail Adams. JA was right, Jefferson took all the credit for everything, all the time. Sound like anyone we know? Jefferson and his “permanent revolution”. Spit.

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  133. I choose ‘Jellybean’ because it has the sound of a very affectionate and warmhearted name despite the fact that I despise muslims, liberals, democrats, illegal immigrants, Iranians, Commies, Obama supporters, Hillary lovers and other low-life degenerate, unsophisticated, ignorant, inexcusable pieces of shit.

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  134. Long Story: I look like Matthew Broderick. So everytime he is in a movie, everyone in my circle immediately draws the comparisons. His Godzilla 1998 movie featured a scene where they were trying to draw the big lizard out by luring him with fish. Fish that was drawn out of the sea, put on ice, shipped in, trucked in, warehoused, sought and procured by the US Army, put on ice AGAIN, shipped in AGAIN, trucked in AGAIN, strategically placed within Manhattan Garden, and then… AND THEN… the bastages were still flopping around when my lookalike and his Scooby gang showed up on the scene to investigate.

    Short story: I’m a Barney Miller fan.

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  135. @Hoo Hoo Nay Nay, I was a medic for a decade +, we could swap stories…

    …One of mine was a guy we called “Superman”, because we were called out for an unconscious man one night, and found a man naked except for an impromptu “cape” around his neck, a big bump on his head, and a fully clothed woman panicking beside him. We went to work stabilizing the guy including neck brace and head chocks on a backboard because the gal couldn’t tell the same story twice about “what happened”. We notified LEO because it was fishy, but took her in the front seat to the ER with him in the back in hopes of getting the truth so we could get this man properly cared for. We finally got this from her, and it was (much) later corroborated by him.

    …seems they were playing a little game, where she was a naked Lois Lane crying out for her, ah, “Man of Steel”. He chose to cosplay a bit, tying a sheet around his neck as a cape, but nothing else by way of clothing. Ok so far, but THEN, he decided “why not leap from on high to the rescue?”, and climbed a nearby bureau for that purpose. Apparently his landing calulations were thrown off just a bit by all the beer he’d drunk, as he went a bit high, hit a bedpost on descent, and knocked himself out and rolled away.

    Young Lois was beside herself, dressed herself in a panic of shame, then called 911. Enter Nightshade from the Little Red Truck, and you know the rest…

    Hmm, maybe I should use “Superman” as MY next handle? Well, maybe after the NEXT GP banning? Nah, doesn’t fit my style…

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  137. Well, one day in about 2009 on another blog before I made this my home blog, we were all deemed to be racists by the Left, so we all took up names as some sort of a cracker. Geoff C. was my screen name before, because I had nothing to hide. Now I do. An that is how I became Geoff C.The Saltine.
    Now if you want to know how I became a Conservative that is a much longer story.

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  138. In the early 70’s, before political correctness became the rage of the perpetually butt hurt, I said I was going to change my name to Ramona Lipschitz and marry a rich Jew. Even Jewish acquaintances thought it was funny. That was then . . . And, no, it didn’t come to pass. Been married to a now retired Catholic truck driver for almost 30 years.

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  139. FREEDOM

    I had a friend in Jr. High, High School and College whole dad was a freedom fighter. His name was Julius Kanasi (sorry if I mis spelled)
    In ’56 he only American word he said were, “fuck you and Kiss my ass!”. by ’61 If you did not know Julius youda never known he was not a Native American.
    Played Polo on a very good team in college! IMHO a nice guy!

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  142. I just like it because its both a noun and a verb and my father gave me his name so I kept it. My mom wanted to name me Raymond, I kind of like how it turned out.
    I try to be the verb when I post but deep down I am the noun.

    I also give BFH tips under Wait For It. That was just an accidental miscommunication during an exchange between us one time. I kind of like it so he keeps using it to post my tips.

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  143. I’ve used many names over the years. This is the only site where I use this one because I’ve lazily followed the People’s Cube for years and it seemed appropriate because his visage and his legions of off the rack revolutionaries are a cliche.

    My first nick was because I got tired of the flowery bullshit facade people dress their garbage ideas in and spoke to the purpose of making things plain and straightforward.

    When that name became radioactive, I switched to my first real name and and a surname from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. In the novel, the antihero represents Christ to his apostles in a mental asylum and sacrifices his mind and life rebelling against the malevolent controllers who deny people their humanity and destroy their spurits under the aegis of For Their Own Good.

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  144. “cato”
    Cato the Younger (95 B.C. – 46 B.C.) was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic.
    He is remembered for his stubbornness and tenacity, as well as his immunity to bribes, his moral integrity, and his famous distaste for the ubiquitous corruption of the period.
    Cato became the last man to stand against Julius Caesar in defense of the Roman Republic.

    “I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.”
    ~~Cato the Younger

    My avatar is the Eagle Globe and Anchor for obvious reasons.

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  145. Col John Glover was one hell of a patriot.

    In 1775, he ‘walked away’ from his family and fortune to take command of the 14th Massachusetts Continental ‘Marblehead Mariner’ Regiment comprised of about 125 sea faring co-patriots that also knew how to use a musket.

    Marched down to the Battle of Brooklyn August,1776- Evacuation across the East River in an early morning fog, about 7000 troops. Including Gen. George Washington.

    Battle of Kips Bay August, 1776- defending the rear flank at retreat.

    Battle of Pells Point , October 1776- (I live walking distance from rock walls that acted as ramparts ) The 14th and three other regiments of about 750 regulars defended Washington’s right flank as he evacuated NY island towards

    Battle of White Plains October 1776- protected south and then retreating north flank. His cannons fired the last shot from Miller Hill.

    Advanced north to Peekskill, the 14th got Washington across to New Jersey.

    Battle of Fort Washington Novemeber, 1776- helped to evacuate to Fort Washington to Fort Constitution, present day Fort Lee, several times back and forth across the Hudson River. Watched with GW as the Fort BURNED down.

    Battle of Trenton December, 1776- the 14th were the main force in transporting troops back and forth across the Delaware. That famous painting?? That’s the 14th. Glover also transported prisoners back and forth across the river. They marched with the Sullivan column along the river to Trenton.

    The 14th disbanded, New Year Day.

    Battle of Saratoga – responsible for the transport of troops to Newport, RI.

    Glover and Washington were the same age and died within years of one another.

    The reason for the name I thought he needs to be of some SERIOUS recognition even as an internet Ghost here at IOTW.

    GoCJG

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  147. My REAL initials are B A M. Back in the late ’70’s while still a kid an adult friend and mentor Mike started calling me BAMO for my initials and because the “O” rounded it out nicely. I’ve used it in one form or another, “BAMOTECH” (company name) in the ’90s when I did tech support and taught classes of retirees to use a mouse (“Look at the screen, not your hand!”), etc. in his honor and in honor of all he taught me and the ways in which he helped warp my sense of humor.

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  148. Long ago, in a universe far away, I was opening up a Hotmail account. I tried using my real name but it came up with a number after it, which I figured I would not remember.

    So I thought of something that would be unique and not have to use a number. Since I spend many years in the radio industry, either on the air or selling equipment, I thought of RadioMattM.

    Although I have slipped at least on one occasion, thanks to iPad suggestions, and used my real name here.

    Now where my wife, Mrs. RadioMattM got her screen name from I don’t know.

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  149. Wow am I late to this. It will take me hours to read through them all.

    My name is simple Red for my politics — not my hair. It’s been so many different shades that I have no idea what the current natural color is — blondeish now. And grandma because I’m … well a grandma. My red dinosaur with the Breitbart tatoo is representative of my soul.

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  151. Late to the party, but-
    toby miles is the name of lois learner’s dog, and the name she used for her non-governmental email address, where the real work of the irs was done.
    Being a believer in ‘different horses for different courses,’ I use other names in other places. But this place is special and this is a great thread. If there weren’t more shit going on in the world, I’d like to have more time to post here.

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  152. It’s funny, my screen name is so triggering to Muslim’s, leftists, Democrats, and the useful idiots that the name alone gets me blocked.

    Then I open my mouth… 👊😬

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  153. My last name is Stillwagon. My friend in 6th grade gave me the nickname Whiskeycart as a spoof of my last name. Its tough going through grade school with a last name like mine. I’ve been called a lot worse than Whiskeycart.

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  154. Forgot to mention ANOTHER Glover contribution to the fighting force?

    Glover being merchant / mariner, Washington asked of him two ships which were the beginnings of the Navy, the first ship was the Hannah, Glover’s own and named for his wife, then renamed, for Washingtons’ Fleet.

    https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/07/armed-and-equipped-at-continental-expense-the-birth-of-the-continental-navy/

    This is the more hardcore version:

    http://www.awiatsea.com/Narrative/Origins%20of%20Washington's%20Fleet.html

    I would argue the 14th was the first Navy / amphibious evac unit.

    GoCJG

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  155. you may think “chuckie” is not a name that needs any explanation….

    however, it’s actually a long story….

    way back in the oldentimes, probbly when LBJ was CIC, and i was in high school, a young man named “charlie” and i decided to trade names…..i doubt that he stuck with my FEMALE name for very long, but i kept “charlie”…..later, it became “charlie the frizzly freak,” might have had something to due with my other nickname, “half-an-afro” – this referred to my extremely curly hair and my extreme pallor – and also, that i was a freak…..in fairness, i must also note that i was frequently called “foxy lady,” and was nominated for homecoming queen….to which i replied, famously, “if nominated, i will not run; if elected, i will not serve.”

    later, my brother, serving in viet nam the country, not the era, started calling me chuck, probbly because “charlie” had a whole nuther meaning over there….it stuck…..

    and here i am……

    and you thought it was just a name, lol……..

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  157. Nothing real interesting. A mashup of my wife’s name Maureen (Mo) and my name (Joe) with my YOB.

    My avatar an homage to Albert Nock and his book “Our Enemy, The State”. There was a passage in the book that described the direction that our country is headed that literally moved me to tears.

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  158. Came in late on this thread… “LuvntheBIGsites” was a toon name created for Andrew Breitbart’s Big Sites when they came out… Many moons ago when the man still walked the earth. I left the big sites when Michael Walsh stepped down as the “BIG Journalism” editor. With good reason.

    The rest is history but I’ll always keep the name as personal /Salute to AB beyond the grave. Rest in peace man. /Salute BFH and to all that post in his image.

    —luvntheBIGsites

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  159. When I decided to start commenting I decided that while on every other website I was using my real name it might not be a good thing here. Since I would be “anonymous” here the “Anymouse” came easily. Many others with other permutations of it that I have seen here.

    BFH helped me with the avatar when it became necessary for me to connect to a go fund me page for a young man with a brain tumor that we helped raise. Found it ironic that there would be “heat” over that when soon after on another thread on the Tallest Man in the World thread (tumor in exactly the same place) showed comments with empathy. Has slowed or eliminated the amount of comments on my part.

    By the way, they are currently shrinking the tumor in hopes of removal later and he has gained a slight amount of sight back in the one eye where he was totally blind. Thank You Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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  161. What a great thread! It’s way past my bedtime, so I’m not going to get into the story. Like Toby Miles above, there’s too much going on in the world, else I’d be chiming in more often. I will say I once met James Michener. How long has it been now that I’ve been reading and commemting here? Eight years? Ten years? That’s some kind of record for many of us. Great family of posters and commenters. Many thanks to the hosts.

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  162. Got drafted in 1967. A tall skinny kid, 6′ 1″ at 130 lbs. was scared to death and thought I was way out of my league. Basic put 50 lbs on me. Finally shipped to Nam, to the 1st Cav. And a special unit. Still scared to death. Got thru 14 very active months and then shipped home. I thought I must of had some gristle in me to get thru the crap. I served with the best men I ever knew…they had twice the gristle I had. God love um.

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  164. been on this site in several illiterations … started out from a jump from ‘The People’s Cube’ (which will always be one of the greatest satirical sites ever created) as ‘Chuck U Farley’. went through several monikers, such as ‘Moe Ham Head’ w/ an avatar as Moe from the Three Stooges w/ a multi-colored turban, came back as ‘Chuck U Farley’ w/ several avatars, finally setting on the Claymore Mine … just thought it was cool @ the time. Left iOTW disgustedly, when Barky O got re-elected, came back as ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ during the Republican primary run just because it’s an oath of resistance against those that want to enslave us … like Barky & Hillary & all the democraps … kept the old avatar ’cause … lazy
    … thinking about going back to ‘Chuck U Farley’ ’cause ‘ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ’ constantly, painfully needs to be cut-&-pasted (& I’m getting tired of it) & I’ve had an affinity for Chuck U Farley since the ’70’s, & have been called Chuck since the ’60’s (& enjoy it’s double-endandre) … maybe I’ll go w/ ‘Crabcakes’ which is the moniker I have on several other sites … it fits my region & one of my favorite foods … & it lends itself to great avatars

    are you bored yet? actually, I’d like to thank BFH for hosting a unique site that doesn’t require anything from you & allows even small minds, such as mine, to express their verbal diareha without recompense … it’s a bold act, in these days of conformity & greed to host a site that allows common persons to drivle on. it is the essence of what created this country … freedom of expression … thank you Fur, Mary Jane & all those that make iOTW the great community that it is … in the words of the late Gregg Allman … ‘y’all been a great bunch’

    btw, always used Gravatardotcom as my avatar host … worked on most every site

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  166. F16 Guy –

    Got a question….what did you do to fill your adrenaline needs after you stopped flying them. Seriously? It’s addicting.

    I am ever so humble to fighter pilots. What you do is not a ‘normal’ human function and you guys push the envelope on the razors edge.

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  171. No idea where the name started. My three brothers and I always came up with goofy names. I made this one up as a joke to use as a gamer tag. Still not sure what the joke was. It has nothing to do with my job (Police Detective) or my faith (Jesus is my Lord and Savior).

    I think I just liked how absurd the notion was. What the heck is muddjuice?

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  172. Pretty obvious, I grew up and still live in a dense liberal population on the Westside of L.A. There are a surprisingly large number of conservatives here – but we never discuss politics in public if a liberal is present, just not worth it. And yes, Dan is my name, and I have linked to pages with my full name (as well as the link posted here) so I’m not trying very hard for anonymity.
    My avatar has been the same since I first came here 9 or 10 years ago, my ‘war paint’ from scout camp in 2006, minutes before I set the all-time camp record for score in the ‘scout leader belly flop’. Or because I *may* be 1/32 Cherokee. That’s 32x more than Liawatha!

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  174. My blog name is a play on the literary character, Beowulf. He was a “Geat” and hailed from what is now Sweden. I have Scandinavian blood on my fathers side of the family, but was born and raised in the Panhandle of Florida; hence the Bayou part. I left Florida and moved to East Tennessee in 1986. My avatar is the Sons Of Confederate Veterans logo, which I’ve been a member of for over 27 years.

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  176. I was military. We were supposed to give our call sign with each communication. There was a Senior NCO with the call sign Tango tango and I had the same initials. He dubbed me T squared.

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  178. Mine is self-explanitory… My family settled in California before the gold rush… I’m currently claiming refugee status in Texas, but I’m starting to worry they’re about to flip.

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  180. My handle TheMule comes from the Isaac Asimov Foundation series. The Mule was a character who could mentally adjust other people’s emotions to his own advantage subtly enough that they didn’t seem any different individually, but, en masse, behaved dramatically differently, eventually making himself master of an entire galaxy of worlds by doing so to billions of people.

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  181. Wiredog because I have been a cable splicer since 1976. 1837 because I was assigned to the 1837th Electronics Installation Squadron twice. Clark AB and Yokota AB. Best times in my Air Force career.

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  182. I usually post as Lisl, but that’s my actual name, which is kinda dull.

    I used to experiment a bit, so here’s one for one of the only pastries I actually like. And I bake them – usually I’m a pretty good cook but suck at baking. This is my one exception, happily.

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  183. When I was 10 years old, I watched a movie called Key Witness. I loved the theme song to the movie, Ruby Duby Du. I eventually got the 45 record and wore it out. I never forgot the movie or the song, so when I needed a screen name, I was influenced by that movie at the drive-in theater so long ago.

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  187. Schwarzer Fluss is German for my favorite place in Arizona. Translated it means “Black River”. On the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Best smallmouth bass fishing I’ve ever experienced. Been going there for the past 41 years.

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  188. I chose my handle for obvious reasons…my love of the blues. And initially, I was gonna go with BluesJunkie. But as I was typing it, I could feel the ghost of my third grade teacher behind me, ready to whack me on the back of the head for using “ie” to describe a singular subject. So I went with BluesJunky to pay homage to the old battle ax…lest she cause me bodily harm.

    That, and it was one less letter I had to type…

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  189. There were some special years in my life when I enjoyed whitewater kayaking. I was never good at it, but I relish those times.

    Number one in kayak survival is having the ability to, if your boat turns (flips) over, to set it right again (roll up), because water is a low oxygen environment, and getting out of the boat is dangerous.

    I was a writer for our club newsletter. I chose to use a pseudonym, Flip Rollem. Hence, flip. I got the idea from a National Lampoon sports writer, Red Ruffansore. Or maybe from an old WDVE sportscaster Spit Chokenpuke.

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  191. My real name is David and I’m a descendant of Davy Crockett on my mother’s side. My father descended from an Alabama Indian tribe (the Pawokti). I’m only slightly more Indian than Elizabeth Warren. Davy Crockett was an advocate for the fair treatment of Native Americans and worked tirelessly to prevent the forced relocation of Indians to reservations. He fought many wars, hunted bears, and explored the unknown. But the bravest thing he ever did was to oppose the anti-Indian mood of the times he lived. I believe he is one of the greatest Americans ever.

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  193. I enjoy IOTW immensely. The posters here share wisdom and intelligence sprinkled with humor. That’s why I post rarely here. My name comes from the Bible, 1Thes 4:17 “…and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.” The Greek word for “caught up” is harpazo. I so look forward to the harpazo to be with Jesus forever.

    I picked my avatar because it succinctly describes the green horse of the Apocalypse in Revelation 6:8, “And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. The horseman on it was named Death, and Hades was following after him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.” A prophecy of the “religion of pieces”, Islam, being fulfilled in our time.

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  195. My name is a tribute to a divine culinary experience. In the 80’s, in Santa Fe., there was a Fitzhauer’s Steaks. I always ordered the Colorado Angus rib eye, raised Natural in North Eastern Colorado. No antibiotics, growth enhancers, steroids or hormones. I have enjoyed many good rib eyes since, but none compared to the Colorado Angus.

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  196. When I first commented on iotw I used the screen name NoMoBo, as in “no more Barack Obama.” I decided that I preferred to ignore him and changed my name to something more pleasant.

    We had a house on the Yakima River at the time – one acre, river frontage, fruit trees, wildlife – our little piece of paradise. Hence “Riverlife.” The Callie is from our little Westie, Miss Caledonia. My avatar is bfh’s great portrait of her.

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  200. No one’s reading now, but like the death announcements no one reads in the newspaper, I’m making it official. Based on this thread, I am no longer “Nightshade”. I am now “SUPERnightshade”.

    See above thread under “nightshade”, if you’re bored enough, and you’ll see why…well, that, and the Gravitar avitar I was able to add this way that’s appropriate to the name, again as explained above.

    …now, if we can just get HooHooNayNay to add an appropriate avitar…

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  201. 45.70 and F-16 guy, every fighter pilot I ever knew and served under as their Plane Captain when I was in the Navy had an enormous ego. They had to in order to fly F-4 Phantoms (I was in an F-4 Phantom squadron) or any of the newer and better planes which have come along since the early to mid 70’s. When I was first stationed at NAS Miramar (Fighter Town USA and the home of Top Gun) in early 1973 F-14 Tomcats were still brand new and experimental, we used to watch them from the flight line going thru their paces and maneuvers and marveled at the flying skills of those test pilots. The coolest thing was watching them come in for a touch and go and then kick that magnificent plane into full afterburner and then fly straight up as fast as they could go into the sky. Don’t get me wrong I loved F-4’s but the newer planes are so much better than their earlier predecessors. And a lot of them drove Corvettes as well.

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  202. Seize the Day = Carpeye D’um. My spelling was never strong. Latin spelling and pronunciation even worse. As a kid, my brothers dubbed me carpeye. Seemed like a perfect fit.

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  203. Mine is because I was arguing with idiots during BLM riots and when they started losing the arguments one of them told me I was nothing but an Old Racist White Woman. Several since then have called me that during arguments over illegals, moslems, just about anyone/anything that isn’t white. I found it funny and decided to embrace it. Plus it’s a lot tamer than many of the other names I’ve been called by the women supporting tolerant left.

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  205. Mine is pretty mundane; my dog, The Mighty Odin. My fourth Rottweiler companion. 2013 is the year he came to live with me.

    The avatar is a representation of Cthulu, and bears the legend “Vote Cthulu; don’t settle for the lesser evil.” A comment on our ‘government.’

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  212. As per usual, I am the late-comer to posts like this…
    When I was 14, I had a tangle with a table saw. Needless to say,
    Table Saw – 1
    Yours truly – minus 1 1/4 digits.
    After an operation to remove the stub left by my missing index finger, my hand looked like a claw. My doctor said to my mom right in front of me that I’ll never play the piano again and it pissed me off so, I had to prove him wrong. I re-learned playing piano. From there I moved toward stringed instruments and along the way somehow just fell in love with Bluegrass music. Don’t get me wrong… I love it all and I love playing it all but Bluegrass is a challenge and I think that’s what I like about it.

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  215. Forgot to say

    I love IOTW. Have been loitering, reading and commenting (here and there) for a number of years. This is the only site I frequent on the internet.

    IOTW has the smartest and funniest posters and commenters on the entire interverse. I learn something and laugh every time I come here.

    Thanks BFH and all you crazy patriots…….

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