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How did you pick your name?

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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 03:49:59

If you had it to do over again, what would you choose?

Sour crude
Jet fuel
High octane
Light breeder
NIMBY
Pebble bedder
Windmiller
Geothermal hotspot
Natural gas(bag)
Hydrogen
Coke
Steamer
Internal combustion
Deep sequestrator
Hot fusor
Photovoltaic
Refined
Biomass
Ethanol fueled
Hybrid
Peat
Cornucopeconomist
Flat earther
Abiogenic
Enhanced recoverer
Bicyclist
Re-cyclist
Coppicer
Pious Prius driver
Franklin stove
McClary stove
Other (none of the above, please specify)
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Unread postby Roop » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 06:41:41

I chose my name after a minor character from the first Mad Max film, MFP Patrolman Roop. He's the guy who snatches the wheel from his partner Charlie and proceeds to crash their "Big Bopper" Ford Falcon XB while chasing the Nightrider. Apparently some of my friends seem to think I look like him:

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He's a bit chubbier than I am but we have the same haircut. :P

I figured a Mad Max themed name seemed appropriate for this forum with all of the doomer talk of sliding into the post peak apocalypse.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 14:25:28

I like the names folks come up with, my current favorite: stupid_monkeys. :lol: That's rich.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 16:47:25

Holy crap, SBC, there's 92 pages now. This was halfway, so I can see why you would ask me to find it! 8) So what's a Sinister Blue Cat?
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:11:06

Thanks PMS! I had to read all of them, that was fun.

SinisterBlue is the color of my hubby's harley! And we have a black cat that looks sort of blueish in the sun, so I just thought SinisterBlueCat had a neat ring to it.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:24:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', ' ')horse hockey... psychoanalysis

So I chose killJOY because I hate you.
Really. . .maybe you just don't like introspection, huh? didja ever stop to think about that? I could go further with what I know about you from your posts, but nah, you're OK Mr. fiddle playing subsistence farming perfesser.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:26:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'T')hanks PMS! I had to read all of them, that was fun.

yeah, this was a cool thread. I hope more people will add to it.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:28:49

"Them are some big ones"
Obvious and lame, but projects a subtle perversion likely to pass the smell test of most PC prudes. :wink:
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:37:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '"')Them are some big ones"
Obvious and lame, but projects a subtle perversion likely to pass the smell test of most PC prudes. :wink:
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Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 16 Jan 2006, 17:45:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '"')Them are some big ones"
Obvious and lame, but projects a subtle perversion likely to pass the smell test of most PC prudes. :wink:
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LOL - I guess it's not as obvious as my other nick, 'Craven Moorhead'. I use that on freerepublic (aka PNAC), even though I dislike freepers myself.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby jupiter422 » Tue 17 Jan 2006, 00:22:49

I have had this jupiter422 name, for years it started back with my first e-mail account.The name had no significance at all ,but I wanted the name jupiter,but it was already taken so during the current time ,I was in highschool and I was going through a smoking marijuana phase so I tried to pick jupiter420,but it was picked also.So I worked my way up to jupiter422.It has been jupiter422 ever since,not just on this site ,but on everything I have ever joined or registered for. 8)
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby Chaparral » Tue 17 Jan 2006, 01:05:15

Chaparral is the dominant plant community between 1500ft to around 6000ft elev. in my little area of the western US. It grows good for anywhere from 5 to 80 years, catches fire and burns like a mothafokka and then grows good again. It's good for stabilizing steep hillsides tho. San Diego and LA like it for watershed protection.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby Princess » Tue 17 Jan 2006, 01:50:59

I named myself (both here and on other boards) after my cat, a very royal feline who is, on a bad day, also called The Bitch.
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 17 Jan 2006, 13:28:21

I use to race mountain bikes back in 1991 and I nicknamed my bike "Pepe the Little Mule" from the movie Romancing the Stone. In the movie Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner show up at a drug lord's casa and ask if they can borrow his mule. Watch the movie and you will see the "Mule".

Anyways, I made a cool graphic of a mule chewing on a bike tire on my helmet and would always sign my personal letters with my name and pepe the little mule. Over the years I just named everything with some variation of the name mule. Blue Mule(91 Ranger), Kiamichi MuleKick(double barrel 12 ga shotgun), and so on. So living in the open Prairie of North Texas, I arrived at PrairieMule.

Plus, Mules are known for their stubborness and mischevious natures.
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Unread postby Gorm » Wed 18 Jan 2006, 10:11:01

My first name i Gorm, and thats a unusual name, so I use it on the net also :)
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby peaker_2005 » Wed 18 Jan 2006, 19:14:19

Peaker's fairly obvious, and 2005 was the year I started this account. I'm beginning to wish I'd put 2008 (the year I've been thinking until recently the kludge will occur).

Unfortunately, it's beginning to look like my nickname might be closer to right... Soo much stuff going on atm...
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby Matrim » Thu 19 Jan 2006, 00:02:28

Matrim is the man in the wheel of time series.

I even named my son after him.........he's just that cool.

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Unread postby johnmarkos » Sat 28 Jan 2006, 05:21:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jesus_of_suburbia', 'M')y new forum name, jesus_of_suburbia is the second track of Green Day's "American Idiot". I liked that particular album more than I really like the band's work as a whole. I love "Jesus of Suburbia"'s lyrics and thought they were rather appropriate considered peak oil.


Hey, I just discovered "Jesus of Suburbia!" My brother in law (wife's brother) gave me "American Idiot" for Christmas, 2004 but I hadn't listened to it much. Lately it's been in heavy rotation on my mp3 player and I was all, "Jesus of Suburbia? Hey, I know Jesus of Suburbia! He's on peakoil.com!"

Anyway, great song. I never thought I'd hear Rush and Queen references coming from a punk rock (revival) band like Green Day but there it is. And why not?
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Re: Jesus of Suburbia

Unread postby Z » Sat 28 Jan 2006, 06:27:50

Z is the first letter of the nickname ( Zoom ) I used when I was active in the demoscene at the beginning of the 90s ( go there if you don't know what the demoscene is ).
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Re: How did you pick your name?

Unread postby elroy » Sat 28 Jan 2006, 21:54:21

When I first started using IRC long ago I picked this nick cause I liked it and thought I'd stick with it a lot longer than some description name or a phrase or other word. And I was right. Been using it wherever it's not taken yet since 199..something. I wanna say 95 but probably closer to 97-98.
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