New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Well, Magicbilly is the wheel-chair-bound boy who takes over the world with a cell phone and the BBC computer satellite in the album RADIO K.A.O.S. by Roger Waters.
My handle, "Sn3nut", has nothing to do with coins. The other black hole I continually pour money into is model railroading. I model in "S" scale, 3-foot narrow gauge (Sn3), and everyone knows that I am a "nut"! I figured that one nickname is about all I could deal with at a time.
Harry Carrey used to try to say ball player's names backwards. My brother always tried to copy him and I became "Mot". Then signing up for this or that, "Mot" was already taken, so I went to "Tmot". Then cancelled AOL account and later resigned up years later. Had to come up with a new name "Tmot99" was born.
my handle was a nick a few friends of mine call me, im a big guy and after a few beers at the pub im just called "BULL"! My real name is just sam. (check out stant093) its my other nic, i buy and sell comp parts all over the internet and figured i could use a new different nick.
Years ago,1965 I was at a Catholic Church dance. Wearing a black Ban Lon ('65) and a dark suit a friend told a young girl that I was a priest in the parish. So "The Priest" stuck. Soon that became "Da Priest" A New Jersey thing, the Da. My icon that guy that looks like Mike Tyson was given to me when I joined the forum, it's just fine with me, as a matter of fact I like the icon.
I teach English literature and composition. Years ago an outstanding student wrote a sidesplittingly funny piece of short fiction with an evil, devious baby named Mirabela Sunshine as the main character. I adopted it as my internet nom de plume.
Did I ever post in this thread? I sure as heck don't remember... anyways:
It's part of a song I like really well from an anime called Noir. the song is called "Salva Nos" by Yuki Kajiura. The song was modified a bit for a few episodes to be vocals only, and that's where I got it from. You can hear the vocal-version (short clip of it anyways, since the whole version of it was never on any of the OST's, just the standard version).
File format is ogg vorbis (you'll have to remove the ".jpg" extension to leave it with ".ogg", since I can't upload an ogg file) (Winamp 2.81 and up will play vorbis straight out of the box). Compressed to 48.3 KB, so the quality isn't top notch, but much better than what MP3 would give you.
When I was in my 20's i traveled/worked my way across the US. While in Florida there were 2 guys named Tom on our crew so we both got nicknames. They called me "Oak" since I was from Oklahoma and they called him "Tom Thumb up your as$"
Man that was a fun crew.
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I can quit collecting anytime I want to.....I just don't want to!
I am a baby sitter and the kids can never say my real name so they call me Dot. most places you have to have more then 3 letters in your name so I am littledot in most places.
Just cause someone pee'd in your Cheerios don't pee in mine.
Well I like BUFFALO nickels, I am about 20% Cherokee but you would never know it because I look like a WHITE hairy bratwurst. LOL Thus I guess it is a self given Indian name.
D, My name is Daniel, when I was in first grade, I had one of those gargantuan lunch boxes and I wrote DH BOOM!!! on it. I was called DHBOOM for some time, gradually it was reduced to DH and soon enough to D. People I've never met in my life who go to the school I used to and have met my friends all recognize me and still call me D or DH.
Plus, I'm terribly unoriginal so I had to use someone elses nickname made for me.
-Daniel
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
I am a lifelong supporter of the Florida Gators. The Gators won their first National Championship in 1996 by defeating their archrival Florida State in the Sugar Bowl by the score of 52-20. Thus my name:
Gator - Florida Gators 5220 - Final score of their first National Championship Gator5220
a....Augie, that's me! j....Jackie, my wife. i....Ian, my drumming, waterpolo playing son. a....Amanda, she plays sax, violin & ukulele! Also likes to sing!
<< <i>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 >>
My handle is the name of my business and also that on eBay and NGC forum.
DORAN COINS - On Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), & www.dorancoins.net - UPCOMING SHOWS (tentative dates)- 10/8/2023 - Fairfield, IL, 11/5/2023 - Urbana, IL., 12/3/2023 - Mattoon, IL.
Lyricist: Kajiura Yuki Composer: Kajiura Yuki Arranger: Kajiura Yuki Vocalist: Kaida Yuriko ================= Dominus Deus exaudi nos et misrere exaudi, Dominus
Dona nobis pacem et salva nos a hostibus Salva nos, Deus
Dominus exaudi nos Dominus misrere Dona nobis pacem Sanctus, Gloria
dona nobis pacem e dona eis requiem inter ovas locum voca me cum benedictis pie jesu domine, dona eis requiem dominus deus, Sanctus, Gloria
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well a few people have thought I must be a maryland terps fan.....but my handle is a cross between my name (Will) and my favorite grateful dead Song (Terrapin Station)
Nick name from la padres...always called me dbird...but over the years it has transformed into dd-bird. I guess its better than my other sibling's names...Mooguy and Eniebugs
Very easy. First initial, middle initial, first three letters of the last name. I use this handle EVERYWHERE since I hate having to remember different things.
I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
<-- I like Novas and Colonial Coins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constellatio Collector sevenoften@hotmail.com --------------------------------- "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!" "If it don't make $" "It don't make cents""
I also had a 51 Plymouth in High School. I now have a '72 Plymouth Duster for car showing and drag racing with my sons on occassion. Some may know me as UsterDay72 in the RCC Newsgroup. I am also a long time flyer (51 years!) of English performing pigeons called Birmingham Rollers. They fall out of the sky 10 to 40 feet like a backwards spinning ball and when you really have them right, you can get a whole kit or flock to roll together like a bunch of spinning yo yo's. So I'm a Rollerman on this forum...but I really like coins too, and fishing and bowling and NASCAR and.......well you get the idea. I'm a retired professional hobbiest to hear my wife tell it. I'm never bored! All the best, Pete
"Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet." Louis Armstrong
I felt like a big target for shady coin dealers so that's the one I took.
Actually, I initially signed up as Sitting Duck for the same reason, but I screwed up the form. Forgot a dot in my e-mail address, so was not able to receive the confirmation e-mail. I tried to re-do it but the name was already locked pending confirmation so I had to pick something else. Doing stupid things like that keeps me feeling like a newbie.
If I'm not at a coin show, on-line shopping for coins, or reading something about coins, then I'll be in a poker game. As you can see from my nickname I'm not a very good poker player ("shortstacked" on chips), so if you're in town and want to play........
SMS: Dear, Where the coin that just came in the mail. MoS: you mean the one that samantha just ran off with. SMS: O SHIT! And yes this did happen it happen to be a coin Art sent us. She tried throwing it down the toilet.
This is a cool thread. I need to put aside some time to go back and read them all! From what I've read so far, many handles come from interests outside of coin collecting. Mine fits that category.
About mine: I'm an "old school" video gamer that migrated from the arcades to the PC to the Xbox (over the past 20 or more years). When I got to beta test for Xbox Live, I chose the online name, a.k.a gamertag, Xbob because my real name is Bob and I figured it would be easy for others to remember both names. I still play Xbox live quite a bit. I still play PC Games too and even classic arcade games (as you can see here: My home made arcade cabinet). Hence the affection for quarters and arcade token collecting.
So, I decided to use the online handle for more than just games. It actually ties in with some of my other interests too, as does my groovy new icon.
-Bob collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens. The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
my handle name, ellewood, is a nickname that my family made up for me when I used to get out my coin collection at a much younger age. For some reason, coin collectors have always been tagged with that "geek" personality.....and I think that they all thought the name "Ellewood" is sort of a country-bumpkin-type-name....pretty funny. No offense to any of those on the boards here who's real name is Ellewood!!!!
Obvious. I collect PFUC 70 State Quarters along with proof gold eagles. I also collect many other coins but I like the look of proof coins. I used the dime icon just to see if anyone would notice. I use the same name on ebay. Collecting modern crap is fun.
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New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Billy
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My 1949 Mint Set
Hi Doc. Welcome to the forum. With a PhD. in organic chemistry, I am sure that you would make a fine Coin Doctor.
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Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
It's part of a song I like really well from an anime called Noir. the song is called "Salva Nos" by Yuki Kajiura. The song was modified a bit for a few episodes to be vocals only, and that's where I got it from. You can hear the vocal-version (short clip of it anyways, since the whole version of it was never on any of the OST's, just the standard version).
File format is ogg vorbis (you'll have to remove the ".jpg" extension to leave it with ".ogg", since I can't upload an ogg file) (Winamp 2.81 and up will play vorbis straight out of the box).
Compressed to 48.3 KB, so the quality isn't top notch, but much better than what MP3 would give you.
Right click this, and save target as. Remove the ".jpg" before you click "save" and what-not.
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Man that was a fun crew.
I can quit collecting anytime I want to.....I just don't want to!
What if you found a portal to a parallel universe?
What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds
where it's the same year and you're the same person,
but everything else is different?
And what if you couldn't find your way home?
and
bu=brilliant uncirculated
man=man
chu=choice uncirculated
Plus, I'm terribly unoriginal so I had to use someone elses nickname made for me.
-Daniel
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
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Gator - Florida Gators
5220 - Final score of their first National Championship
Gator5220
(Dangit, I hate it when I respond to an old thread, only to see that I already posted a year or more before...)
a....Augie, that's me!
j....Jackie, my wife.
i....Ian, my drumming, waterpolo playing son.
a....Amanda, she plays sax, violin & ukulele! Also likes to sing!
<< <i>OK, I know this is a little off topic, so don't shoot me.
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
My handle is the name of my business and also that on eBay and NGC forum.
From the anime Noir:
Salva Nos; Save Us
Lyricist: Kajiura Yuki
Composer: Kajiura Yuki
Arranger: Kajiura Yuki
Vocalist: Kaida Yuriko
=================
Dominus Deus
exaudi nos et misrere
exaudi, Dominus
Dona nobis pacem
et salva nos a hostibus
Salva nos, Deus
Dominus exaudi nos
Dominus misrere
Dona nobis pacem
Sanctus, Gloria
dona nobis pacem
e dona eis requiem
inter ovas locum
voca me cum benedictis
pie jesu domine, dona eis requiem
dominus deus, Sanctus, Gloria
Get the MP3 here. 6.06 MB, --alt-preset standard LAME encode. Hosted on my PC, so it has a max of about 25 kBps upload speed, plus I have no idea how long MiniHTTP will last. If the download stops working, then MiniHTTP has crashed while I'm away at work.
">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"
Complete Dime Set
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"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
"If it don't make $"
"It don't make cents""
I am also a long time flyer (51 years!) of English performing pigeons called Birmingham Rollers. They fall out of the sky 10 to 40 feet like a backwards spinning ball and when you really have them right, you can get a whole kit or flock to roll together like a bunch of spinning yo yo's. So I'm a Rollerman on this forum...but I really like coins too, and fishing and bowling and NASCAR and.......well you get the idea.
I'm a retired professional hobbiest to hear my wife tell it. I'm never bored!
All the best, Pete
Louis Armstrong
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Actually, I initially signed up as Sitting Duck for the same reason, but I screwed up the form. Forgot a dot in my e-mail address, so was not able to receive the confirmation e-mail. I tried to re-do it but the name was already locked pending confirmation so I had to pick something else. Doing stupid things like that keeps me feeling like a newbie.
blue skies!
david
-Bochiman
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
-unknown
then I'll be in a poker game. As you can see from my nickname I'm not a very good poker
player ("shortstacked" on chips), so if you're in town and want to play........
MoS: you mean the one that samantha just ran off with.
SMS: O SHIT!
And yes this did happen it happen to be a coin Art sent us. She tried throwing it down the toilet.
Immortalized forever in the works of R. Crumb.
Steve
SMS
What else could it stand for?
www.Numismatic-Playground.com
About mine: I'm an "old school" video gamer that migrated from the arcades to the PC to the Xbox (over the past 20 or more years). When I got to beta test for Xbox Live, I chose the online name, a.k.a gamertag, Xbob because my real name is Bob and I figured it would be easy for others to remember both names. I still play Xbox live quite a bit. I still play PC Games too and even classic arcade games (as you can see here: My home made arcade cabinet). Hence the affection for quarters and arcade token collecting.
So, I decided to use the online handle for more than just games. It actually ties in with some of my other interests too, as does my groovy new icon.
collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
Toby
Pass the gyros and baklava.
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My WLH Short Set Registry Collection
Obvious. I collect PFUC 70 State Quarters along with proof gold eagles. I also collect many other coins but I like the look of proof coins. I used the dime icon just to see if anyone would notice. I use the same name on ebay. Collecting modern crap is fun.