Foo - how'd you come up with your ID?

Im from a very small town, where everyone knows everyone but somehow they rarely refer to me as Karen. They always refer to me as "ha! that blonde running girl?" or "ha, that blonde biking girl?"
it's always been as if I dont even have a name... so on here I kept tradition and combined both names they gave me.
what does your ID mean to you and why did you pick it?

It's my name, silly!

I picked it for my blogging, actually. I cover some very personal issues at times after surgery, etc, and I needed a little distance. Othe rthan that, I kind of like it.....it's a cool name!http://dune.servint.com/uploads/f_eyebrows.gif

LastPlace..........Old, slow and usually in..........LastPlace.

A loooooong time ago, when websites first started making everybody register with a username, I figured out very quick I couldn't keep remembering different names. So I decided I needed to use one name and stick with it.

Here's the story how I originally came up with the name:
http://www.kingtermite.net/info.shtml

i used to get very large quantities of free pizza on a regular basis. That's all i will say.

ahhhh.....long story.

ahhhh.....long story.
I got time:p

my initials are CC, and i have 700cc wheels.




i just lied, i have 27" wheels:p

I got time:p

Just a good solid Irish catholic name, bestowed on me by my parents.

Patrick Joseph McCabe.

A couple years ago some friends and I were in need of a name for our adventure racing team.

I felt the name needed to be particularly irreverent, and nonsensical...so Team Snuffleupagus it was.

It's my name, silly!
Same here.




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When I was just starting out bike racing, my team had a coach who was very talented, and a German emigrant. He raced in Europe, and was retired in Phoenix, and was lots of fun to work with. He didn't like the fact that the Phoenix area was so flat, so most of our training was in the foothills and mountains surrounding the metro area. So, his main concern with us was that we were in the correct gear at ALL times, and would ride along in his car (his wife driving the Mercedes) with us, constantly telling us to "shift! shift! shift up! shift down! (think German acsent here). To this day when I start to climb a hill I can hear his banter in my head, and I'm a better rider from his coaching (I was then too). So, we called him?, you guessed it, he became know as Shifty. My screen name is a tribute to my first, and most wonderful cycling coach.

I'm really ultra ultra lame
I live in texas
and I'm a guy
and, while I'm was not born or raised in texas, texans and texas seems to suit me.

When I was just starting out bike racing, my team had a coach who was very talented, and a German emigrant. He raced in Europe, and was retired in Phoenix, and was lots of fun to work with. He didn't like the fact that the Phoenix area was so flat, so most of our training was in the foothills and mountains surrounding the metro area. So, his main concern with us was that we were in the correct gear at ALL times, and would ride along in his car (his wife driving the Mercedes) with us, constantly telling us to "shift! shift! shift up! shift down! (think German acsent here). To this day when I start to climb a hill I can hear his banter in my head, and I'm a better rider from his coaching (I was then too). So, we called him?, you guessed it, he became know as Shifty. My screen name is a tribute to my first, and most wonderful cycling coach.
wow, Im so glad I asked :)

wouldn't it be Sheeft Up Sheeft town or am I thinking too Arnold Schwartzenneger here?

karma is comical if you look within deep enough...

I came up with mine because mine from the are of Seattle I lived in (Northgate) when I first got on line.
It was because I could not use my name (David) or nickname (Chia, another long story) without having a bunch of numbers after it.

guess I should change it to neverettguy (I live in North Everett) now :P

Mine comes from an old British radio comedy program caled "The Goon Show." It was actually before my time, but my parents had a lot of recordings from the show, and I used to listen to them all the time. There was a character named bluebottle who I always related to in a strange sort of way. He was a little....off. Anyway, like KT, I can't remember hundreds of different identities, so I've stuck with this one most everywhere.

Mine's not that exciting. I explained this once a long time ago somewhere here on BF.

17 is my favorite number. It's just come up a lot in my life: two apartments have been #17, One of my favorite local race drivers number was #17, The day my plane landed back home in the U.S. after Desert Storm was April 17th, etc... there are many instances...but suffice it to say that 17 comes up a lot in my life. I even had to use the number 17 in my Ebay I.D. because it was the first number I could use/that was available in front of the word I wanted for my I.D.

Cycle...or more accurately cycling....is one of the things I love to do most and this IS a cycling website, so cycle17.

I'm short 5'2" and a former boss thought it was funny to call me midgie

i think it's cool to stretch my name =P
four "i" because there's 4 people in my family

My bike was broken and I needed advice.

My bike was broken and I needed advice.
you sure it was your bike that was broken? :rolleyes:

Yeah it wouldnt make it up a hill so I threw it off a cliff...then I started digging into the hill with a stick for about 2 hours and finally...covered with mud from head to toe I realized...that it wasnt the bike that was broken after all....*hangs head in shame*

Purdue Student In Mechanical Engineering Technology graduated in 2001 <--almost a decade after I started....best darn decade of my life....;)

I have a condition known as synesthesia. I hear colors and shapes, smells create images, and I can hear things most people see. I've been this way my entire life, coupled with mild autism (Asperger's Syndrome).

Anyway, when I got back into cycling, I searched high and low for lugged steel, and found a pink and purple Raleigh. To me, the combination of pink and purple is the word serendipity. It was my favorite word as a child, becuase those colors are so peaceful and serene. I remember looking up the word that kept popping up in my head everytime I went into my baby sister's room. When I read the definition, I fell in love with it, and serendipity became my favorite word.

After reflecting back on my life, and how often things happen to me by mere coincidence, I considered myself the one that travels in serendipity, or a serendipitour. That sounded too pretentious for a call name in a public forum, so I merged serendipity with my favorite star cluster, Ursa Major/Minor. The stars that are so easy to find in the night sky, the favor is returned because everyone can easily find their way by them in return.

Thus I became Serendipper.

I used to own a web site design company.

I use this for everything...it's the name of a company that used to be mine.

my company logo has a dolphin in it but I wanted something that sounded a little bit flashier.

First two letters in each of my names: michael robert naputi. tada :p

mine's a nickname of mine.

mine's a nickname of mine.
Rando!!!! :lol: yeah that genie is working, working.. yeah baby:p

I have a condition known as synesthesia. I hear colors and shapes, smells create images, and I can hear things most people see. I've been this way my entire life, coupled with mild autism (Asperger's Syndrome).

Anyway, when I got back into cycling, I searched high and low for lugged steel, and found a pink and purple Raleigh. To me, the combination of pink and purple is the word serendipity. It was my favorite word as a child, becuase those colors are so peaceful and serene. I remember looking up the word that kept popping up in my head everytime I went into my baby sister's room. When I read the definition, I fell in love with it, and serendipity became my favorite word.

After reflecting back on my life, and how often things happen to me by mere coincidence, I considered myself the one that travels in serendipity, or a serendipitour. That sounded too pretentious for a call name in a public forum, so I merged serendipity with my favorite star cluster, Ursa Major/Minor. The stars that are so easy to find in the night sky, the favor is returned because everyone can easily find their way by them in return.

Thus I became Serendipper.

I always thought synesthesia was fascinating. I know a musician who has it.

Rando!!!! :lol: yeah that genie is working, working.. yeah baby:p

only temporary, BDG! glad you like him! :p

ovoleg is my hero

only temporary, BDG! glad you like him! :p
this one reminds me of my dog:)
he always sings like this when a firetruck goes by, I always say he's telling all the other dogs there is an emergency :)

this one reminds me of my dog:)
he always sings like this when a firetruck goes by, I always say he's telling all the other dogs there is an emergency :)


Cute!;)

Im Russian, who acts like a kid at times even tho he is a teenager, so i made it russiankdi and misspelled kid on purpose to show that kdis make alot of mistakes(unless they like smart,lol)

I have long been a soccer fan, and in the 1994, the U.S., despite doing a little better than expected, took an early exit from the tournament. I found a World Cup chat forum and wanted to log on to participate and to give some support to the Mexican team, which was still in.

I've always liked Zorro - the mix of civility, compassion, dignity, humility, and thirst for justice were all character traits that I admire. Anyways, when I tried to register as Zorro, I found that it had already been taken. So being from the USA, I stuck that at the front, and had no trouble registering, letting people know where I was from, and revealing a little bit about my values, and I think it gave me a little bit of cred with the Mexican fans. I've been lucky and have the same screen name on all the major free sites. :)

I'm from Maine, have been skiing much longer than I've been biking. Add the downeast Maine accent to skier and voila: skiahh. If that doesn't work, think of it as ski-ahh, as in the great feeling you get when you're out making turns.

Because I haven't been skiing much the past few years, if I had to come up with a name today, it'd be bikeahh.

nick name , badge number

Hey skiahh, I didn't know you were from Maine...cool!!

Serendipper...I love your explanation!

Back in the old days when we got our first answering machine my wife had the bright idea to use the message, "You've reached the Wright house, but at the wrong time..." When we first went online I became Wright house Dad.

I have a condition known as synesthesia. I hear colors and shapes, smells create images, and I can hear things most people see. I've been this way my entire life, coupled with mild autism (Asperger's Syndrome).

Anyway, when I got back into cycling, I searched high and low for lugged steel, and found a pink and purple Raleigh. To me, the combination of pink and purple is the word serendipity. It was my favorite word as a child, becuase those colors are so peaceful and serene. I remember looking up the word that kept popping up in my head everytime I went into my baby sister's room. When I read the definition, I fell in love with it, and serendipity became my favorite word.

After reflecting back on my life, and how often things happen to me by mere coincidence, I considered myself the one that travels in serendipity, or a serendipitour. That sounded too pretentious for a call name in a public forum, so I merged serendipity with my favorite star cluster, Ursa Major/Minor. The stars that are so easy to find in the night sky, the favor is returned because everyone can easily find their way by them in return.

Thus I became Serendipper.

That's very cool. I used to think I had synesthesia -- some number suggest colours to me, as do musical notes when written out (less so when I hear them) -- but it seems that it's more of a subtle subconscious association than full-on synesthesia. What sort of connections seem to be the strongest for you? Words and colours?

As for my ID, it's fairly straightforward. As mentioned in another thread, one of my university flatmates and I often truncated words while speaking. He sometimes called me "gb" instead of my last name (Galbraith), since our other roommate shared the same first name. Across the street from our house was a Chinese-run convenience store that we jokingly called "cm", short for (ahem) Chinaman, as in "Hey! I'm going to CM to get some B!". Anyway, I bought a bike in China, and in a conversation with my friend, he suggested that what I had was in fact a CB. So it's not that politically correct, but you can't be politically correct ALL the time...

Hey skiahh, I didn't know you were from Maine...cool!!

Serendipper...I love your explanation!

Back in the old days when we got our first answering machine my wife had the bright idea to use the message, "You've reached the Wright house, but at the wrong time..." When we first went online I became Wright house Dad.


It all makes so much sense now... I have spent a long time trying to understand your ID and pronounce it: Righteesedad? Ritusdad? Ritaysdad? Rightsdad? Now I can finally relax... :D

Well, it always made sense to me!! :D

Golly gee Jimbo...all's rite in the world now.:p

I needed a user name for MSN and everything I wanted was taken. Well Ed is my first name and P is my last initial. The number 333 was taken and 777 did not rhyme. Therefore I ended up with edp773. Everyone became used to me using it, so it became a standard username.

Other choices included bikED and biyclED. LOL.

I have a condition known as synesthesia. I hear colors and shapes, smells create images, and I can hear things most people see. I've been this way my entire life, coupled with mild autism (Asperger's Syndrome).

Anyway, when I got back into cycling, I searched high and low for lugged steel, and found a pink and purple Raleigh. To me, the combination of pink and purple is the word serendipity. It was my favorite word as a child, becuase those colors are so peaceful and serene. I remember looking up the word that kept popping up in my head everytime I went into my baby sister's room. When I read the definition, I fell in love with it, and serendipity became my favorite word.

After reflecting back on my life, and how often things happen to me by mere coincidence, I considered myself the one that travels in serendipity, or a serendipitour. That sounded too pretentious for a call name in a public forum, so I merged serendipity with my favorite star cluster, Ursa Major/Minor. The stars that are so easy to find in the night sky, the favor is returned because everyone can easily find their way by them in return.

Thus I became Serendipper.

Great explanation.

I am sure that serendipity was taken by the young lady who does triathalons with a prosthetic leg. She has moved over to cycling forums, but has earned my respect for a great can do attitude.

Kidcharlemagne is the drug dealing hero of an old Steely Dan song and I just liked the song, honest:o