Explain your handle

Petescorner

OK, I know this is a little off topic, so don't shoot me. But, I'm curious about the stories behind a lot of the "handles" people use here on the forum. If your handle isn't your name or your company, then how did you come up with it?

In my case, "Petescorner" is the name I use on eBay so it made sense to use the same one here. I have a 3 year old son named Peter, and I figured that most of the coin selling and subsequent coin buying that I do on eBay will some day get passed on to him anyway. Hence, Pete's corner. Anybody else want to share?

-Dan <--not Pete

Russ

It was a birthday gift.

Russ, NCNE

prooflike

I like prooflike classic coins.

PQpeace

I like PQ Peace dollars !
Larry

trozau

I like gold coins and had preference for the larger 1 troy ounce size. And so the handle seemed appropriate.

mrpaseo

My handle?

OK, it's white and on the left side of the tank, but why do you need that info......Ohhhh, you ment....Oh I get it...

I drive a Paseo....I am a guy....Thus...MRPASEO.

Ray

66Tbird

I used to restore classic cars, and a 66-Tbird 428 was the one of my babies that I couldn't finish do to lifes little hand outs.

Bear

My wife and I collect bears of all types; Teddy bears, teapots, salt & pepper shakers, magnets, cookie jars,music boxes and Boyds bears. A lot of fuzzy and furry creature abide in our abode. Bear

freeblue

Free of blue
Free but blue
Blue but free

OR, free of clue??

Use your imagination... or you are free of clue!!!

nivek

nivek is Kevin backwards

IrishMike

Outlined against a blue-gray sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.
A cyclone can't be snared. It may be surrounded, but somewhere it breaks through to keep on going. When the cyclone starts from South Bend, where the candle lights still gleam through the Indiana sycamores, those in the way must take to storm cellars at top speed.
..............Those who have tackled a cyclone can understand. Grantland Rice.

LanLord

I work for a large multi-national corporation with a huge LAN. My official title is Network Engineer. At one time I was the owner of the LAN so to speak (actually just the fileservers on the LAN - but you get the idea), therefore I was the LanLord. The name seemed easy to remember.

heavycopper

Heavycopper = Large cent collector. I had just bought my first MS Large cent when I started posting on this board.

Keyrock

Keyrock was the name of a character on Saturday night live. He was the primitive caveman lawyer (I'm in biotech, not law). Back when Collectors Universe use to have weekly auctions that was how I registered, never thinking it would be a public thing.

Rich

g097103

I'm a professional paranoid, I used a random character generator.

Scott M

HoosierDaddy

I have been involved with sprint-car racing for over a decade. There is a brand of tire called "Hoosier" that is prominent in the open-wheel dirt track scene. I have always been a major advocate for these tires to any racing team who will listen to me (not many! LOL) and of course the "Who's yer Daddy" slogan has been around for quite some time, so it seemed like a normal marriage! Most people just call me "hoosier", and those who do now know the history just suppose that I am from Indiana. Oh well!

I still keep a webpage up on the Missouri Sprint car scene, even though I am in Virginia...

HoosierDaddy Racing

psxchelly

I guess since i'm 30 this may be wierd for some of you "adults" but I can beat just about any Playstation 1 or Playstation 2 game in a matter of hours, and my real name is michelle, hence

psx = (slag term for playstation system)
chelly = michelle

psxchelly

Oh my god, it doesnt have anything to do with coins!

Bo

It's my nickname picked up when I was a toddler. I had bowed legs.

Why has it stuck all these years? Well, I won't give you my whole name, but the word "Herbert" is involved. Needless to say I never discouraged the use of Bo

Bo

coinfinder

I like to find coins.

DrawTwo

IrishMike - why don't sports writers write like that anymore? (I guess that's a rhetorical question!)

I like beer and I like company!

MadMarty

It's the handle from the origional BBS system (CPM bulliton board system), many... many... years ago.

It just kinda stuck....


God I'm old

See what you did now...

I'm going to have to go out and buy a new coin to cheer me up....

SemperFI

SemperFI = Latin for " Always Faithful "
I was and Active Duty Marine with 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines Golf Company Kanehoe Bay, HI & Okinawa, Japan and Marine Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) Camp Smith, HI

Yep, I got lucky where I was stationed at.

RELLA

Roger E & Laura L Anderson

Keyrock...you could have used a different handle...my original CU (pre-message board, pre-online registry) username was atmyworst.

RELLA

raredeal

Mine is a "nice" way of my wife saying I'm a strange egg.

Russ

<< <i>I'm going to have to go out and buy a new coin to cheer me up.... >>



Marty,

That big pile of 71 proof sets you grabbed this morning wasn't enough? Man, as soon as I saw you in those auctions, I knew I was dead meat.

Russ, NCNE

truthteller

I hope mine is rather obvious.

TRTH

capjohn

Before I retired I was Cap to most of my fellow firefighters.

Retired Fire Captain, John

goldnuggets

It was the handle I used when I first signed up for CU back in early 1998 and I just never bothered to change it, gold nuggets are just one of the many things I have collected over the years.

ROBBItheOKIE

I am from Oklahoma, so I am ROBBItheOKIE.

bigtonydallas

My name is Tony, I am 6'3", 400 lbs = big, and I live in Dallas!!!!!!!

jhar

Pretty cool thread. I've wondered about some of you guys.

Jhar is the contraction of my first and last names. I used to go to Star Trek Conventions dressed as a Klingon. Some one told me that almost anyone could have a cool sounding Klingon name by taking the first letter of their first name and combining it with the last three letters of their last name. Hence J'Har.

Quo' Pla!!!

braddick

"gmarguli" was already taken.

DeepCoin

My handle has a double meaning. I love deep mirrored proof coins and I can also be a source of Mint information (think Deepthroat from Watergate).

nucklehead

When I was a kid I was a big fan of Jerry Mohoney and Nucklehead Smith, two puppets who had a tv show, Used to really crack me up. Any of you younger folks Nucklehead Smith looked alot like the Irish singer Shanade O'Conner. Hmmm seperated at birth maybe?

jhar

Gee, Knucklehead I would have guessed some kind of Jerome "Curly" Howard reference. But, Good name anyway!!!

airplanenut

I like planes, does it make sense? Good! I use this for EVERYTHING except eBay (and I added my birthday, 312, to some where I had to)





<< <i>I hope mine is rather obvious. TRTH >>


It isn't you filthy stinkin' lier

Mrpawn

My customers started calling me Mrpawn several years ago. When I joined the electronic age it just seemed natural

MAULUMALL

Well now it seems that this is as good a time to come out of my shell as any.Hello forum.My name is Patrick and I'm a coinahollic.
My handle is MAULUMALL.(maul them all)I had a very close and dear friend give it to me about 7 or 8 years ago.His name was Sonny.I had gotten into a pretty unhealthy relationship with this mentally deranged fem.Sonny helped me move out of her place and gave me a place to stay.When I started to date again I was kinda out of controll and was seeing a lot of different women.When I didn't particually care for their attitude I would just tell them We were done.After about 6 orso times Sonny looked at me and told me he was going to get me a personalized plate for my car ... MAULEMALL...
Sonny passed away 3 years ago this July 3.The name has just stuck.
Being new I will make the same newby mistakes.forgive me in advance.

bigt

Six ft. 260#, small next to Tony

nucklehead

Thanks Jhar, I wish there was an icon of Nucklehead Smith I'd use it for sure.

cosmicdebris

Cosmicdebris is the title of a very cool Frank Zappa song.

kieferscoins

My last name and what I collect.

Cameron Kiefer

TWQG

TWQG= the washington quarter guy
a tongue in cheek tribute to the first series that I collected, silver washington quarters.

Sean

TONEDDOLLARS

Toneddollars not to original but it does tell all my favorite coin

laserart

Laserart is a file name I use to store artwork in the computer, I do custom Laser engraving and cutting. My name is Ken.

BigDipper

I collect only white coins, I don't appreciate toned coin. And whenever I come across a toned coin - I DIP IT!

I know i won't make too many friends with that comment.

dddangerousdan

I got this name in the Air Force. I did all the Jobs everyone else was afraid to do Cause they thought it was too DDDANGEROUS. Like checking for leaks on a running jet engine or changing parts up 65 feet in the tail of an airplane.

DAN

kryptonitecomics

My username on Ebay is Kryptonitecomics. I love Comic Books and I used to sell some on Ebay, so since I am a Superman buff, the name fit.

Blade

Not sure if anyone will get this far into the thread, but here is my contribution.

My heritage is Irish and my last name begins "Mc" so someone is always calling me Mac. A long time ago, one of my buddies called me Mac the Knife, which is an old song. That turned into Blade and has stuck since then.

dpoole

My handle is too complicated to explain.

agentjim007

Parole Agent pays the bills. name is jim since agentjim was taken I added the 007 for suspense. Its also a babe magnet right?