So, what does your screen name mean?

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:11 pm

Gee, I'm not sure. I guess you could ask my folks....

ihc_ssii · Post by **ihc_ssii** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:12 pm

Okay, if the truth must be told, my screen name comes from the greatest motor vehicle ever created....the International Scout II. IHC stands for International Harverster Corporation (they make schoolbuses and big rigs under the name of Navistar now), and the SSII stands for Super Scout II, which is a modified version of the Scout II. I'll try to insert a pic...[/img]

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:23 pm

Well....

c stands for the note that I use a thumb hole for on my whistles

ski is of course-ski the suffix Weekenders adds to everything-ski

nn stands for the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, reflecting my little hobby in nuclear physics

--and--

er is the symbol for my favorite element, erbium.

Carol Skinner

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:29 pm

ihc_ssii wrote:Okay, if the truth must be told, my screen name comes from the greatest motor vehicle ever created....the International Scout II. IHC stands for International Harverster Corporation (they make schoolbuses and big rigs under the name of Navistar now), and the SSII stands for Super Scout II, which is a modified version of the Scout II. I'll try to insert a pic...[/img]

Scouts! What a great vehicle--could climb trees in four low, and nigh indestructable as I remember. It had style, too. Almost as cool as the old Toyota land cruisers (before they went big time and became transport for eco-yuppies).

I grew up riding around the badlands and mountains beside my dad, first in a landcruiser, and then in a Scout--that thing could go just about anywhere! Death on wheels to find parts for, though...

T

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:31 pm

My first post was at a time when I was having some major clogging problems with my whistles. Need I say more?

Robin

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:37 pm

My first name is Babooska but Tony just sounds better...

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:38 pm

cskinner wrote:Well....

c stands for the note that I use a thumb hole for on my whistles

ski is of course-ski the suffix Weekenders adds to everything-ski

nn stands for the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, reflecting my little hobby in nuclear physics

--and--

er is the symbol for my favorite element, erbium.

Carol Skinner

LOL!

The short version is that I got my nick from Jenny Mayweather. Nobody wants to hear the long version again...

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:41 pm

My screen name is my father's name.

Cheers,
Paul, Jr.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:11 pm

Well, every time I went to visit Mr. Roarke this little guy in a white suit would start hopping around screaming "Boss! De Crom, de Crom!!!" . . .

Dana

lilymaid · Post by **lilymaid** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:12 pm

I adore Arthurian legend, and I’ve always had an affinity for Elaine of Astolat, since I read “The Lady of Shallot” as a child.

Feadan · Post by **Feadan** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:14 pm

Robin Williamson wrote of the ancient Irish, "Their word for it was feadan (modern Gaelic feadog) and feadanaigh, or whistle players are mentioned in the earliest Irish laws as being amongst those who played at fairs, games and gatherings". Feadan was also a brand of whistle made in Ireland many years ago.

Cheers,
David de la Barre

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:29 pm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:39 pm

Speaking as one for whom God created calculators, I can't pretend to any meaning in my moniker; it came to me while letting a screen-name composer engine do the work --nice, with usually surreal results, but somehow unsatisfying. Then: Eureka! From the swampy murk of my wetware it arose, and its absurdity was just the ticket.

I envisioned some kind of hypospatial geometry...a nanohedron being a bombastic term for a point, as it were. And the point? There is none, but in theory.

BTW, is anyone noticing a substantial slowdown on ths page, or is it just me and my neolithic dialup connection?

N

Feadan · Post by **Feadan** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:42 pm

I wanted another one, so Cranberry was the obvious choice, because, it just was.

And I thought it meant you were from Cape Cod too....

Cheers,
David

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:47 pm

Well, let's see...Celtoid would represent someone who is Celtic in the way that a spheroid approaches being a circle. Nearly half my genes are Bretton French via Canada, and many Irish, Scots and Welsh got mixed up with the English on my mother's side...so Celtoid (sound better than Heinz 57 variety)