What do your strange handles mean?

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:13PM

I have seen a person named Ajann, Wybrit and Trozau. Also a few other oddball names, whats up is nobody just named Jim or something simple?

MacCrimmon · December 16, 2003 2:20PM

Like radagast is in common usage in the English language!

MacCrimmon is the ancestral piper of all Scotland; the Isle of Skye is where he held court teaching wee lads as myself to tame the islands wild wimmin!!

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:22PM

You got me on that one piper boy!

Luvdawgs · December 16, 2003 2:25PM

Trozau = Troy ounce gold (au is the scientific abbreviation for gold). Trozau likes gold coins.

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:28PM

Let me guess, you love dogs?

Luvdawgs · December 16, 2003 2:33PM

Yes, very good!

trozau · December 16, 2003 2:34PM

So what's the story behind Radagast?

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:35PM

My powers are amazing!

I have four dogs, just muts I saved from the shelter.

Luvdawgs · December 16, 2003 2:38PM

<< My powers are amazing!

I have four dogs, just muts I saved from the shelter. >>

Then I like you already

Mine was from the shelter as well.

trozau · December 16, 2003 2:39PM

So are you an avid Tolkien reader?

0john0 · December 16, 2003 2:40PM

0john0 (those are zeros, not the letter O)

"John" was taken and using my E-bay ID 29john29 only would have confused me. The zeros represent my coin knowledge when I came here. I may be up to "0.1john0.1" by now.

Welcome Radagast (what does that mean), but pace yourself.
So many posts on your first day, you may burn out.

-john

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:43PM

<< So are you an avid Tolkien reader? >>

I have read LOTR about 15 times. I read the Hobbit for the first time in 1962, can't remember a time when I was not a Tolkien geek. Glad someone figured that out, you guys are smart!

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:45PM

<< 
Welcome Radagast (what does that mean), but pace yourself.
So many posts on your first day, you may burn out.

-john >>

radagast was the Brown Wizard in LOTR. He was an animal lover and had power to command them. I am an animal lover, but my dogs are the ones who have power to command me.

cacheman · December 16, 2003 2:45PM

Ours aren't that bizarre...now some of the names from previous members no longer with us were bizarre, like SilverCoinPappa for instance...weird, huh?

Radagast · December 16, 2003 2:48PM

Is that a pope on your coin Cacheman?

Aethelred · December 16, 2003 3:23PM

Aethelred is an old dead king, nothing more.

1jester · December 16, 2003 6:43PM

Jester is just a joker, a clown, a fool, or just a plain old idiot...

cosmicdebris · December 16, 2003 7:31PM

I hope I don't have to explain cosmicdebris?

wybrit · December 16, 2003 8:45PM

My sig line explains my name. "Wyobrit" was what I wanted, but that name was already taken on ebay.

rhound1977 · December 16, 2003 8:50PM

My name is what I use on E-bay, I originally wanted just "rhound" which is short for rockhound, my other hobby. Rhound was taken so I added 1977 to it, the year I graduated from High School, yikes I am getting old.....

ajaan · December 16, 2003 8:55PM

'ajaan' is the Thai word for teacher above the elementary level. I taught at the high school and college level in Thailand and I currrently teach Junior High students in Western New York.

spoon · December 17, 2003 1:45AM

My name represents the fundamental dynamic that rules nature: the spoon is convex, yet also concave; yang and yin. You can see a reflection of yourself in it, sometimes larger than life, sometimes smaller. ...

Naw.. really I was just hungry and impatient when I signed up. Eating yogurt and too bored to try 20 different names until one stuck so spoon it was.. it's better than "yogurt."

spoon · December 17, 2003 1:47AM

Oh, and I liked The Tick.. so if the yogurt story sounds dumb just use that instead.

coinnerd · December 17, 2003 2:05AM

Welcome Radagast. Mine is self explanitory. My kids gave me that nickname when they were teenagers. They would warn there friends not to ask about any coins I was working on. I was just a coin nerd and would give them a story(history lesson) about whatever I had in my hands.

SYRACUSIAN · December 17, 2003 2:19AM

dekadrachm

satootoko · December 17, 2003 2:23AM

A literal translation of my family name from Germanic Yiddish to Japanese goes nicely with my primary numismatic interest.

1jester · December 17, 2003 2:36AM

Roy, you totally lost me on that one!

laurentyvan · December 17, 2003 2:45AM

Radagast the Brown-welcome. We can talk Tolkein anytime you want... Laurentyvan is simply my first and middle names, nothing as imaginative or as colorful as other forum members

newsman · December 17, 2003 3:10AM

It's what I do

elverno · December 17, 2003 3:48AM

I used to play historical miniature wargames (Napoleonics, what else?) and my name came from my command of the brave Spanish army; "ElVerno Supremo". I've found that people begin edging away when you mention the "Supremo" part so I dropped it...

Bruce · December 17, 2003 5:04AM

Is Bruce simple enough for you?

MyWorldCoinTypeSet · December 17, 2003 5:08AM

Is Bruce simple enough for you?

No, please change to something simpler.

hetman · December 17, 2003 6:07AM

Hetman should be simple enough for you, Ratgast. It means ruler, chief, master, overlord, commander in chief. Good enough?!?

oldshep · December 17, 2003 6:27AM

Last name Sheppard and I'm a senior citizen

Nickname is Shep --- therefore

Shep

laurentyvan · December 17, 2003 6:33AM

Hetman should be simple enough for you, Ratgast No, please, Radagast

tbirde56 · December 17, 2003 6:47AM

My handle stands for: This Boy Is Really Doing Exercises.
NOT!

Like Spoon, I was in need of a quick handle and the only thing that came to mind was my car, a '74 Thunderbird. I had to add the e at the end to satisfy the 6 letter minimum. Later, when I found that handle to be fairly common or used I added the year of my birth to the end of it.

laserart · December 17, 2003 6:56AM

Laserart, it's simply a computer file name I use to put certain artwork in for our lasers. My real name is Ken.

Radagast · December 17, 2003 9:17AM

It is great to meet everyone, I hope to spend a good long time here.

a2labmom · December 17, 2003 9:37AM

When I first joined the forums, I had 2 labradors, hence a2labmom. I now have 4 (2 pure bred labs and 2 mixed with lab breed rescues) but can't change my name withoug loosing my post count. That's why my sig line says just labmom. This way I don't limit myself to the number of critters I share my house with.

Welcome, Radagast.

1960NYGiants · December 17, 2003 11:16AM

Mine is my favorite sports team (having a rotten season) and my birth year.

Welcome to the darkside Radagast the Brown. (Tho I admit I had forgotten the LOTR connection)

Gene

JohnZ · December 17, 2003 1:16PM

My handle is a complicated juxtaposition of vowels and consonants whose enigmatic meaning is yet to be deciphered by the small minds of this forum.

shirohniichan · December 17, 2003 2:05PM

'ajaan' is the Thai word for teacher above the elementary level. I taught at the high school and college level in Thailand and I currrently teach Junior High students in Western New York.

So what is the Western New York word for teacher?

My handle is my nickname-- my Japanese name (Shiroh) coupled with the word for big brother (niichan).

JamminJ · December 17, 2003 2:44PM

My handle is a shortened version of a joke name added by my wife to my e-mail, with the long version is "Jammin J the Hipster." Imagine my surprise when negotiating for a new job using this e-mail account one of my interviewers asked me if I was truly a "hipster."

-JamminJ

shirohniichan · December 17, 2003 3:37PM

<< My handle is a shortened version of a joke name added by my wife to my e-mail, with the long version is "Jammin J the Hipster." Imagine my surprise when negotiating for a new job using this e-mail account one of my interviewers asked me if I was truly a "hipster."

-JamminJ >>

Were they impressed when they found out you were a Grand Masta?

JohnZ · December 17, 2003 5:27PM

Big Brother Shiro.

And to think I cringed at Huxley's vision before...

ajaan · December 17, 2003 8:27PM

<< So what is the Western New York word for teacher? >>

Sap!

cladking · December 17, 2003 8:48PM

I collect modern US and world coins and was among the first to do so. I'm not only the pretender
to the throne to rule these areas but also know that most collectors would see any such legitimate
king as having no substance and no way to hide his "shame". The name is merely an assurance that
I truly am "clad" and that I have no shame.

Welcome aboard.

newbiecollector · December 17, 2003 10:31PM

Mine explains itself.

It may look foolish but, it is accurate. I hope I can retain this "attitude" for the remaining time I collect.

laurentyvan · December 17, 2003 11:30PM

I collect modern US and world coins and was among the first to do so. I'm not only the pretender
to the throne to rule these areas but also know that most collectors would see any such legitimate
king as having no substance and no way to hide his "shame". The name is merely an assurance that
I truly am "clad" and that I have no shame.

Radagast- Cladking writes some of the most intelligent, complete, and thorough posts on this forum-in or out of his specialty!

ccrdragon · December 18, 2003 1:08AM

My handle is the strange juxtaposition of my initials along with my favorite mythical creature (and no, my initials are not D R A G O N)

Lynch · December 18, 2003 1:33AM

Mine is my preferred suicide technique after realizing I was attracted to Churchill crowns.

What do your strange handles mean?

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