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08-16-12, 01:42 AM
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I saw the word "Faux" many years ago on a freeway exit sign and thought it was a cool looking word. Later on I figured out how to actually pronounce it and what it actually meant, which just added to its coolness. I've had various usernames with different integrations of the word and this is just the latest one.
08-16-12, 02:00 AM
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When I was like 12 I used to race Go-Ped's. Around that time I got my first Xbox, so I made my Gamertag "pedder". After a while I started to hate the name because it sounded boring and everyone else had clever and cool names (and also because I was teased on Xbox Live by some French dudes that convinced me that "pedder" meant gay in French), so I tried using different user names on different sites and such. For some reason, however, pedder was the easiest to remember, and I would always fall back on it no matter how much I disliked it. Eventually I just got used to it, but I still wanted to make it look cooler. At the time the whole mixed lower and upper case lettering was popular, so it became "PeDDeR". Then I got bored of that and decided to add 27 (born August 27th) to the end of it, and I've stuck with that ever since.
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08-16-12, 06:39 AM
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Hi my name is Dave. You can figure out the last name.
I figured using my real name would keep my trolling to a minimum.
I figured using my real name would keep my trolling to a minimum.
08-16-12, 07:19 AM
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Your cog is slipping.
When I was a little kid, I had a 80-something year old Great Aunt who would always call me the 'catch of the day' at family gatherings and such. Someone in my family found out that regional fisherman and seafood restaurants referred to the catch of the day as Scrod so people in my family started calling me that - which I absolutely hated. Over the years growing up, there were always a lot of other Daves around and people would always say 'Dave Scrod' when talking about me, so it became my unofficial last name among my friends. Most people I know don't even know what my real last name is at this point (Angie didn't even know for the first three months we were dating). I've been putting off getting it legally changed for years...
Around 1999 when I was playing in the band SourVein, my friend T-roy (their singer) would always make up nicknames for me based on 'Scrod' - Scrodzilla was the one that stuck. I was also really into the original old Godzilla movies when I was a kid so it all makes some kind of weird sense in a "full-circle" kind of way.
Most people who aren't from New England have never heard the term 'Scrod' referring to fish so they usually end up thinking it has something to do with balls. I guess in that case, Scrodzilla=HUGE BALLS.
Around 1999 when I was playing in the band SourVein, my friend T-roy (their singer) would always make up nicknames for me based on 'Scrod' - Scrodzilla was the one that stuck. I was also really into the original old Godzilla movies when I was a kid so it all makes some kind of weird sense in a "full-circle" kind of way.
Most people who aren't from New England have never heard the term 'Scrod' referring to fish so they usually end up thinking it has something to do with balls. I guess in that case, Scrodzilla=HUGE BALLS.
08-16-12, 07:46 AM
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When I was a little kid, I had a 80-something year old Great Aunt who would always call me the 'catch of the day' at family gatherings and such. Someone in my family found out that regional fisherman and seafood restaurants referred to the catch of the day as Scrod so people in my family started calling me that - which I absolutely hated. Over the years growing up, there were always a lot of other Daves around and people would always say 'Dave Scrod' when talking about me, so it became my unofficial last name among my friends. Most people I know don't even know what my real last name is at this point (Angie didn't even know for the first three months we were dating). I've been putting off getting it legally changed for years...
Around 1999 when I was playing in the band SourVein, my friend T-roy (their singer) would always make up nicknames for me based on 'Scrod' - Scrodzilla was the one that stuck. I was also really into the original old Godzilla movies when I was a kid so it all makes some kind of weird sense in a "full-circle" kind of way.
Most people who aren't from New England have never heard the term 'Scrod' referring to fish so they usually end up thinking it has something to do with balls. I guess in that case, Scrodzilla=HUGE BALLS.
Around 1999 when I was playing in the band SourVein, my friend T-roy (their singer) would always make up nicknames for me based on 'Scrod' - Scrodzilla was the one that stuck. I was also really into the original old Godzilla movies when I was a kid so it all makes some kind of weird sense in a "full-circle" kind of way.
Most people who aren't from New England have never heard the term 'Scrod' referring to fish so they usually end up thinking it has something to do with balls. I guess in that case, Scrodzilla=HUGE BALLS.
08-16-12, 07:59 AM
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08-16-12, 08:01 AM
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I'm a working computational linguist now. But no, in general when people say mathematical linguistics they are talking about people who study the mathematical properties of grammar formalism, formal language theory, type theory etc.
08-16-12, 08:06 AM
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My pants used to fit me
Back in my internet days one of my jobs had a tiny room where we kept a karaoke machine so we could unwind if the pressure started to get to us. One night at an office party my boss and I were on mushrooms and snuck into an adjacent business to smoke weed and found a fog machine. I brought it into the karaoke room and said "DOOOOD! I'm the Wind and Fogmaster!" My boss heard it as Wendell Fogmaster and that's been my nom d'internet since. Had to shorten it for this site, tho.
08-16-12, 08:29 AM
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Before I retired, my employer assigned company email addresses using the first initial and last name. Stan Cooper was scooper.
I can't count the number of times folks have asked if I'm a newspaper reporter.
I can't count the number of times folks have asked if I'm a newspaper reporter.
08-16-12, 09:08 AM
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Old gaming handle and kinda self explanatory.
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I'm not one for fawning over bicycles, but I do believe that our bikes communicate with us, and what this bike is saying is, "You're an idiot." BikeSnobNYC
I'm not one for fawning over bicycles, but I do believe that our bikes communicate with us, and what this bike is saying is, "You're an idiot." BikeSnobNYC
08-16-12, 09:18 AM
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Robofunc = robotic function.
I made it up back in 1997 when I was making computer music and ended up using it as my username for EVERYTHING.
I made it up back in 1997 when I was making computer music and ended up using it as my username for EVERYTHING.
08-16-12, 10:05 AM
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i got mine from jazzzzzzzzzzzz /notcreative
oh and my name is David too.
oh and my name is David too.
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08-16-12, 10:11 AM
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I went to Cal (BA, History, '89) and "oso" is Spanish for bear, which is the Cal mascot.
08-16-12, 10:43 AM
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Back in my internet days one of my jobs had a tiny room where we kept a karaoke machine so we could unwind if the pressure started to get to us. One night at an office party my boss and I were on mushrooms and snuck into an adjacent business to smoke weed and found a fog machine. I brought it into the karaoke room and said "DOOOOD! I'm the Wind and Fogmaster!" My boss heard it as Wendell Fogmaster and that's been my nom d'internet since. Had to shorten it for this site, tho.
08-16-12, 10:48 AM
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hahaha thats the best story so far
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08-16-12, 10:57 AM
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Back in my internet days one of my jobs had a tiny room where we kept a karaoke machine so we could unwind if the pressure started to get to us. One night at an office party my boss and I were on mushrooms and snuck into an adjacent business to smoke weed and found a fog machine. I brought it into the karaoke room and said "DOOOOD! I'm the Wind and Fogmaster!" My boss heard it as Wendell Fogmaster and that's been my nom d'internet since. Had to shorten it for this site, tho.
08-16-12, 10:59 AM
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It's my initials plus "onious". I've used it since I started playing online games way back in the mid '90s.
08-16-12, 11:03 AM
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Jaytron has been my gamer handle for years.
Also my nickname was "Jaytron the party robot" for a number of years.
Got the idea from Del the Funky *****apien, and the album Deltron 3030. Specifically the song "3030" where he says "i want yall meet Deltron zero, hero, not no small feat." I mixed it with "Jay" (a nickname of mine) to make "Jaytron". I then used "Jaytron zero the world's hero" while gaming with some friends and it stuck. This turned into Jaytronzero, then eventually into Jaytron.
Also my nickname was "Jaytron the party robot" for a number of years.
Got the idea from Del the Funky *****apien, and the album Deltron 3030. Specifically the song "3030" where he says "i want yall meet Deltron zero, hero, not no small feat." I mixed it with "Jay" (a nickname of mine) to make "Jaytron". I then used "Jaytron zero the world's hero" while gaming with some friends and it stuck. This turned into Jaytronzero, then eventually into Jaytron.
In short, he escaped and killed the Starlaac. Mandalorian armor ftw.
He also goes on to train Han/Leia's daughter Jaina, to help her kill her brother Jasen, who turns to the dark side. (Luke started a Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, Jaina and Jasen were pupils).
Man, you make me want to go back and read a bunch of Star Wars books.
He also goes on to train Han/Leia's daughter Jaina, to help her kill her brother Jasen, who turns to the dark side. (Luke started a Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, Jaina and Jasen were pupils).
Man, you make me want to go back and read a bunch of Star Wars books.
08-16-12, 11:06 AM
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I love how buddhism doesn't really force anything on people, and it's more about acceptance and tolerance than the opposite.
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08-16-12, 11:10 AM
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My maiden name is long and Polish and starts with kaz and people have called me kaz my whole life. I ended up having to add the 'miss' because three letter usernames are hard to snag, so just kaz is usually taken. Now I actually like it with the 'miss' and for consistency's sake I use misskaz everywhere on the interwebs.
My real name is Karen but almost no one calls me that outside of work.
My real name is Karen but almost no one calls me that outside of work.
08-16-12, 11:11 AM
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I saw the word "Faux" many years ago on a freeway exit sign and thought it was a cool looking word. Later on I figured out how to actually pronounce it and what it actually meant, which just added to its coolness. I've had various usernames with different integrations of the word and this is just the latest one.
Real Faux is like saying True Lie.