Usernames...how did you come up with yours??

[HAIRDUDE]

Well ... I was at an outage at Fermi and Patty Apker was sitting next to me in training. She made some comment about my hair and asked what I put in it to make it look the way it looked. I answered "Alberto V05" she laughed her butt off. I guess I was a little obsessed with the doo for a decade or two there. But, the next day she and several other fems on site began to refer to me as "Hairdude" and it stuck. Go figure.

[vikingfan]

well mine comes from the fact that i grew up in minnesota rooting fo the vikings, hence the name vikingfan !

JJ

[incrediblehulk]

I shortened it. It was actually IncredibleHulkcomb....a play on my name. Ray Thompson hung it on me, and it's been perpetuated by The Atomic Punk.

[sboudreaux]

first initial is s.  last name is boudreaux

[highradsnake]

The name "highradsnake" is rather easy to decipher. "Snake" is my nickname from my "crew" back in SW Pa. in the late 80's. The "high rad" part is from the mid to late 90's when an 18.1 senior assigned to balance of plant duties was not much more than a high radiation escort for any work group needing access to the area. I know that I'm making a generalization but I had more responsibilities as a new junior than I do now as a 3.1 senior. I understand that this is the way it is.

[Overclocked_Toaster]

I came up with this username to make fun of the people who think overclocking will make up for user error.

I expected a lot more real names since big brother already knows all.

[Aerosquirl]

  Well, my nick name is Squirly and I taught aerobics, hence Aerosquirl since Squirlbics and Squirlaero didn't sound to good. I do get asked if the name means the flying squirl, Nope but flying down the road with wind in my hair, watch out you road rats. 

[War Eagle]

That's what we yell when we beat up on Alabama!!

[illegalsmile]

Guess.....(cough, cough, cough)

[RDTroja]

Guess.....(cough, cough, cough)

Stole it from John Prine?

'You may see me tonight with an illegal smile, it don't cost very much but it lasts a long while,
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone, I'm just trying to have me some fun..."

[incrediblehulk]

Well Done
Hot Dog bun
   My sisters a nun.


Here's to ya Prine fans everywhere!

[RDTroja]

Well Done
Hot Dog bun
   My sisters a nun.


Here's to ya Prine fans everywhere!

I almost put that part in but wanted to leave a tease for other fans... well done (etc.)

[RADBASTARD]

Radtech + We use to call everybody a bastard or fat bastard= RADBASTARD hence the name.

[Fermi2]

Broadzilla is the best band in the country.

[mlazyj]

I took my user name from the brand that is registered to me that I use on my horses. M with a lazy J underneath. The M is the first letter of my last name and the J is the first letter of my first name.

[llamagramma]

We had 3 llamas since 1988. Only Sugar is still with us. Since my husband, Marty took the name Llama I changed mine to  Llamagramma when our grandson was born in 2001.

[bethlehemstarr]

Beth is my middle name
Starr is my Grandma's maiden name
lehem just goes really well with Beth
+ there's that obvious double meaning....

[SloGlo]

got mine ona ceebee radio a little while ago.  the story of that is on anudder thread around here somewhere.

bethlehemstarr.... eye guess i shood thank yinz fer bringing dis thread back on n.y.day.  i started on it n@ 'n wuz reading back when i ran into dis old post witch finally reminded me that da udder thread got dumped when there wuz a great site crash.  watt wuz dat, '04?  sew, eye gess itz thyme two retale da storee.  knot dat ennybuddy gives a flying........
ennyfreekingweigh,  my name is an old citizen band radio handle.  itz one dat i got while ona road.  me 'n da ex wuz dune i-40 acrost new mex (maybee ok, it wuz many miles ago) 'n wuz ona radio wit a trucker, cause der weren't much else to do, at leest knot much that woodent git ya inta trubble or go flying offa rode (butt dat's anudder thread dat ain't bin started yit), 'n pritty soon he wants ta no why were going to so cal from da burgh.  after going thru alla obivious answers, like "it's freeking january, yinze bin in da burgh in january recently?" eye toll him what i did fer a living.  he comes back with dat same old rejoiner, "ya glow ina dark?".  well, da ex grabsa mike outa my hand 'n tallz hymn dat da onliest part of me dat glows is watt she's lookin fer. sew he laffs a bit 'n sez dat i "muss be slow to glow, huh" witch crakz us all up.  'n he calls me slowtoglow fer da resta da time weir motoring downa rode togather.  fer da resta dat trip, i used dat handle, but wit "mister" in front of it.  den after eye had to fire songs as a plant of employment 'n hed nort, i started using it agin, but quickly dropped da "mister" 'n da "to" elements 'n slowglow wuz borned.  after a good long while, i dunno maybee afew yeerz, i wuz gitting harassed on rte 401 ona westbound side frum montreal area to toronto by a cupla
"vary freendly menz, s'il vous plait" 'n when dey axed me how i spelt my handle.  eye toll dem "ess, ell, oh, gee, ell, oh".  whale, de wuz vary contemporary ina ainglish language,  'n wuz axing me why eye didn't haffa dubble yews in my name.  i tole dem dat der were know dubble yews cause a dubble yew wuz like a "we" (ina sound, bare wit me, it wuz radio, remember) 'n der weren't no "oui, oui" in sloglo...... we, miss yer!  (fer dat lass part, ya hadda be der, it wuz radio!)    ennyweigh, i tink dey yelled an incomprehensible epithet or too at me 'n eye never herd frum dem again.  whew!

'n dat's da storee of sloglo, aincha sorree yinz wasted alla dis time reeding dis, n@?

[SloGlo]

I can read SloGlo(ian) and it doesn't effect my poor little mind anymore.  Direct conversion.  I don't believe it. 

won don, thurteen kay two goe.  my werk iz cut out fer me.   

[Gonzo]

I've had mine so long I can barely remember..   lot's of folks never knew me by any other name, even after years working together... (A-Punk, I think you only learned my real name after you became my site coord wasn't it?)... 

but the truth is, back in the 70s i had a supervisor whose name i always misstated...   
when he asked me why, i just said he looked like a 'bob' to me...   
so he decided i looked like a 'gonzo'...  somehow it stuck..

in one instance it actually could've been useful..  in the late 90s when hunter thompson's book made a comeback, i walked into the front of pokey's computer store and asked for him.  the young gal at the front desk asked who was asking and i said 'gonzo'...   i guess she'd been reading thompson's book cuz she got a wide eyed look and asked if i was hunter thompson....    i don't know, maybe if i'd lied i could've got lucky.....

[Atomic_Punk]

(A-Punk, I think you only learned my real name after you became my site coord wasn't it?)...

That's not true, back in '91 when Ted Maine and myself were whipping boy juniors, he says to me, "Hey, we're on (insert your real name here)'s crew".  To which I replied, "WHO?".  "Gonzo!" "OH!  Cool!" Little did I know what I was getting myself into. ;^) 

BTW, don't forget to feed the mice for my wife. :^)

[Gonzo]

BTW, don't forget to feed the mice for my wife. :^)

actually, i can't cuz since her shoes have been gone they've stopped coming into the trailer...  but we were seeing alot of small spiders dropping down out of the ceiling's air ducts, at least they were until the cold weather hits us...    there's just something about a doe site....

[Brett LaVigne]

Nickname from a small circle of friends at SONGS circa 1997.  I am not a cartoon super hero fan but the name has always brought back some fond memories so I went with it.

[fluxmama]

Several years ago when I joined Nukeworker I couldn't decide on a nickname.  Radbitch was taken and there were a lot of 'Rad' names already in use.  My husband, who is also in Rad Protection, was looking over my shoulder as I logged in and said, "How about fluxmama?"  We both laughed hysterically and he dared me to use it.  End of story.

[Mike McFarlin]

Parents gave it to me.