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How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« on: July 18, 2019, 08:19:37 AM »

 Or user name.. I find some  of them interesting to say the least..For me, " Canadian John " evolved many years ago @ a national sales and service meeting. I was called Canadian John to distinguish me from

some of the others by one of our reps who was from Alabama. He called me that for many years after..

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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2019, 08:38:12 AM »
DK, first and last initials.

117, call sign for a video game I played 18 years ago.  DK117 stuck.  Can't even call myself a gamer anymore as I haven't turned my Xbox on in a year and then a year prior to that.    Don't get me wrong, there's some amazing games out there these days, I just don't have the time.  I imagine when us Gen Xers get to retirement age, you'll see a spike in aged gamers. 
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2019, 09:08:13 AM »
Mudflap= It was what senior operators called new hires in the Paper mill I work at when I transferred into in 1995. Not politically correct anymore. So when I joined the pellet cooking world I was a newbie and didn't think it was taken...

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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2019, 10:22:37 AM »
Where I am and who I am.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2019, 10:42:58 AM »
You can probably guess.

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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2019, 10:50:55 AM »
Mine's from my RC racing days and is part of my gaming tag too. My given name is Shane if anyone cares.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2019, 11:15:07 AM »
Mine goes back years ago when my wife and I first had a "shared" email address, I think it was on AOL.  We both really like to cook so "cooking" was the start.  My name is Joe and my wife is June so the next part had to be "jnj" so it all comes out as cookingjnj.  I actually use this as my user name on most sites I have joined.  Besides cooking the other hobby I love is riding my road bicycle (although have not been on it much lately), hence my Avatar. 
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2019, 11:57:25 AM »
For 26 years I was a heating/cooling & plumbing contractor.
York equipment was the line we carried, one time a new customer told me when I asked them how they found me that their friend recommended us but she did not know my name just the company name and she said just ask for the "Yorkdude". It just kind of stuck from there on out, in fact that was the plate on my service truck when I was out in the field, later transferred to our car for several years.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2019, 02:06:27 PM »
It's a Rush song.
Not their best or even one of my favorites, but the one that sounded most like a "handle".
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2019, 02:13:18 PM »
Character that John Malkovich plays in the Coen Brothers movie “Burn After Reading”.  Not sure why, but I used it when I signed up for Words with Friends years ago and I’ve just kind of stuck with it on all the forums, etc I’ve Subsequently signed up for.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2019, 03:16:24 PM »
Mine came about from my group of train buddies which range from 01 to 015. I was number 9. The MP came latter, Miserable P----...
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2019, 04:28:06 PM »
This thread is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2019, 05:07:47 PM »
One friend, not even a close friend, in high school called me by the name I use as my handle for the last couple months of high school. No one else ever did and I never saw him after graduation, but I kind of liked the name and decided to use it as my internet handle from then on.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2019, 08:23:16 AM »
My name and 320 pounds makes a good username
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2019, 09:58:30 AM »
I had a few friends in high school that called me RanRoc. We hung out with a guy named Eric but we called him E-Roc. I guess people started transferring that “roc” part over to my name as well. It just stuck.


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