Tamas
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MikeFerrara:
Ditto, pretty boring -eh?
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Ditto, pretty boring -eh?
ShakaZulu
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dlndavid:Would you be sniffing said glue?
Sorry man, that would be my mom, she's the glue sniffer in the family.
cowprintrabbit
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Had a black and white spotted rabbit sitting under my chair when I tried to come up with my first e-mail address way back when - it stuck.
Letsee...mid 80s, living w/ roommates in a house at the university, Reagan in office, Miami Vice on the tube...the movie The Terminator was recently on TV. I had my black jacket and my sunglasses, and playing a pool tournament. While my roommates were drinking beer and having fun, I was very serious about the game at the time (I grew up with a pool table in the basement). Since I was studying radiation physics, I was already called Radman, and it just grew from that.
Come to think of it, they also called me Tree for a while. Living with those guys, everyone had *several* nicknames.
Come to think of it, they also called me Tree for a while. Living with those guys, everyone had *several* nicknames.
Mine is a *******ized version of a childhood nickname that I hated as I started getting into my teen years. As I got to be an adult, the only one still allowed to call me "giggiboo" (rhymes with piggy-boo) was my closest cousin. When he passed away a few years back, I readopted the nickname as my online name as a tribute to him.
When I was accused in a chatroom of having a racist name (read/pronounce it differently and you'll see where the misunderstanding arises), I shortened it to Giggi, which eventually transitioned into the French vernacular (Gigi).
EDIT: oh geez, I can't believe a legitimate word like illegitimateperson-ized got asterisked out.
When I was accused in a chatroom of having a racist name (read/pronounce it differently and you'll see where the misunderstanding arises), I shortened it to Giggi, which eventually transitioned into the French vernacular (Gigi).
EDIT: oh geez, I can't believe a legitimate word like illegitimateperson-ized got asterisked out.
Azza is short for Aaron.
Just like Dazza, Shazza, and Bazza are short for Darren, Sharon and Barry.
Its a Brit, Aussie, Kiwi thing...
Just like Dazza, Shazza, and Bazza are short for Darren, Sharon and Barry.
Its a Brit, Aussie, Kiwi thing...
StSomewhere
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From the JB&CRB song "Boat Drinks". 
But the parrotheads already knew that. 
But the parrotheads already knew that. 
I'd never been on a public forum before and didn't know any better than to use my real name. A few weeks ago a guy I hadn't seen in 25 years called me on my cell phone, left a message, then called me at work. How'd he find me? Googled my name, found posts on Scubaboard, clicked to my web site in my SB signature where he found my work email address (which has my work name) and my cell phone number. Took him about 30 seconds to find out everything about me. I don't worry about it, though, 'cause no one else really gives a hoot...
I work in Environmental Health Code enforcement. I'm a health inspector. In the not so distant past, one of my duties was new restaurant plan review and openings.
I had one particular GC who really didn't like working in Texas or, I think, Texans in general.
I was explaining to him a change that needed to be made to a particular site plan and he informed me that I was just a (freakin) two bit Texan and didn't know (poopie) about construction.
I needed a new screen name for the boards that I was on, so I took it.
It keeps me humble
TwoBit
I had one particular GC who really didn't like working in Texas or, I think, Texans in general.
I was explaining to him a change that needed to be made to a particular site plan and he informed me that I was just a (freakin) two bit Texan and didn't know (poopie) about construction.
I needed a new screen name for the boards that I was on, so I took it.
It keeps me humble
TwoBit
Wristshot
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Hockey.
Need I say more?
Okay. Few people can spell my last name, fewer still can pronounce it. Wristshot came to mind in 1997 as a chat room name, and it stuck. Not terribly appropo for a diving forum, but then again I won't run into many people with similar names!
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Need I say more?
Okay. Few people can spell my last name, fewer still can pronounce it. Wristshot came to mind in 1997 as a chat room name, and it stuck. Not terribly appropo for a diving forum, but then again I won't run into many people with similar names!
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