What's the Etymology of your PF Name?

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The discussion revolves around the curiosity and humor surrounding the usernames of forum members. Participants share their thoughts on the meanings and origins of various usernames, such as Hurkyl, Integral, Boulderhead, and others, often speculating on their significance or making light-hearted jokes about them. Some members explain their names, revealing personal stories or references, such as Hurkyl's connection to a role-playing game and Evo's name derived from his daughter's charm. The conversation also touches on the importance of names in online identity and the playful teasing that comes with it. Additionally, there are anecdotes about past experiences, humor about drunken antics, and a nostalgic reference to the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Overall, the thread fosters a light-hearted atmosphere where members bond over their unique usernames and share personal stories.
  • #91
Ok, there is a probability that there is one girl your age out there like me. Now you have hope. :biggrin:
 
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  • #92
Evo said:
Ok, there is a probability that there is one girl your age out there like me. Now you have hope. :biggrin:


Clever Evo, but not clever enough. A probability, but not necessarily a significant or even nonzero probability.

Come on now, I read Kafka, you didn't reallythink i would fall for that, did you?
 
  • #93
franznietzsche said:
Clever Evo, but not clever enough. A probability, but not necessarily a significant or even nonzero probability.

Come on now, I read Kafka, you didn't reallythink i would fall for that, did you?
I know, it was a lame attempt to give you hope. :redface:
 
  • #94
Evo said:
I know, it was a lame attempt to give you hope. :redface:

Downright cruel. No hope is better than false hope, no matter what they say. I'd rather be Gregor than Grete.
 
  • #95
Well, as noted by Les in the first post, my name is pretty self explanatory. An interesting side note, pertaining to my infamous spelling abilities, I was initially Intergral, thankfully, after I realized the error, Greg fixed it for me!

A final, but unimplimented part of the initial scheme, was to always sign off with "That Sums it up".
 
  • #96
Integral said:
A final, but unimplimented part of the initial scheme, was to always sign off with "That Sums it up".


That is really corny, and yetstill entertaining. Althoughit would ahve lost its humour after a while.
 
  • #97
Intergral said:
I was initially Intergral ...
What's wrong with that? That's how our president pronounces it. :smile:
 
  • #98
Evo said:
When I was 14, I had not read "The Castle", I think I had read everything else. I went once a week to an "artsy" theatre that played some off the wall movies and one week they were playing "The Castle". It was pretty interesting, the land surveyor comes to this village that has a hold on it by this mysterious, foreboding Castle. He is just about to go to the castle and discover what this dark secret is when (wait, I don't want to ruin this for anyone that doesn't know).
That was close. One more detail and it would all have been given away. At least you didn't mention the assistants... o:)
 
  • #99
franznietzsche said:
That is really corny, and yetstill entertaining. Althoughit would ahve lost its humour after a while.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. :biggrin:
 
  • #100
Evo said:
I also enjoy Dostoevsky.

Yeah, two of my favorite books are Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.

Hey, as moderator I think you should PM Boulderhead and tell him to get his story out or you are making one up for him involving the moon and drunken bears . . . :smile:
 
  • #101
Les Sleeth said:
Yeah, two of my favorite books are Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.

Hey, as moderator I think you should PM Boulderhead and tell him to get his story out or you are making one up for him involving the moon and drunken bears . . . :smile:

:eek: BoulderHead was there too!? I'm never going to live that night down. :cry:
 
  • #102
has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe Boulderhead can't remember why he was named that? He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the cupboard.
In fact, has it ever occurred to anyone that perhaps Boulderhead is his given name?
 
  • #103
Funny story. So I’m sitting on the computer and I find PF. It asks me for a username, and I have no idea what to type. By chance, my physics book happens to be right next to me. So what I do is, close my eyes, open the book, take my index finger and VOILA!..Decibel
 
  • #104
I had never seen a moon so fool before or since…

Moonbear said:
:eek: BoulderHead was there too!? I'm never going to live that night down. :cry:
It was one of those embearassing moments. :blushing:
 
  • #105
BoulderHead said:
It was one of those embearassing moments. :blushing:

Or could it have been an em-bare-assing moment? :smile:
 
  • #106
Les Sleeth said:
Yeah, two of my favorite books are Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.

Hey, as moderator I think you should PM Boulderhead and tell him to get his story out or you are making one up for him involving the moon and drunken bears . . . :smile:
I am quite capable of making up lies of my own, but thanks for the thought! :-p

Actually, I have had it prepared and ready for cut and paste since yesterday. I'm in consideration mode. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
  • #107
Moonbear said:
Or could it have been an em-bare-assing moment? :smile:
Yes, it could have been that too. Serveral humorous variations came to mind. :-p
 
  • #108
Moonbear said:
I'm still waiting for Les to tell me more about that bear mooning episode. That night is all such a blur now. Last thing I recall was sitting out by the campsite, and someone mentioned having a bottle of tequila. Nobody had a shot glass, so we were just swigging from the bottle...I think...it's such a haze. I just know they were all looking at me really funny the next day and laughing and not telling me what was so funny.

Okay, I didn’t want to have to reveal this but here’s the real story of how Moonbear got her name.

Moonbear was not her original name, Little White Dove was-a her name, such lovely sight to see. She was raised by a lost tribe of Seneca Indians by a river in Eastern Ohio. When she was 18 she got the hots for a young brave on the other side of the river named Runnin’ Bear. But their tribes fought with each other so their love could never be. The tribes would regularly lob dirt bombs at each others teepees, give each other the finger, pee upstream while someone from the other tribe was bathing . . . needless to point out that it was a horrible situation.

Poor Little White Dove couldn’t seem to get Running Bear to notice, so one day while he was washing his hands in the river, she turned her backside to him and lifted her buckskin skirt. Well, that got Runnin’ Bear’s attention, who dove in the water, Little White Dove did the same. And they swam out to each other through the swirling stream they came. As their hands touched and their lips met, the ragin' river pulled them down. Now they'll always be together in that happy hunting ground . . . well, not quite.

Little White Dove got caught in the current and was pulled miles down stream where some campers from Steubenville found her half drowned on the bank. They carried her to their campsite, and while they nursed her back to health asked her name and what had happened. All she could do was moan “mooning bear, mooning bear.” So the half-drowned girl became known as Mooning Bear (I’m not sure but I think some guy named Johnny Preston even wrote a song about the whole river incident).

If that were the end of the story, it would be a happy one. But unfortunately Mooning Bear got addicted to flashing her rear until she became known far and wide in Ohio country as Mooning Bare. After numerous arrests and years of therapy, she’s finally been able to control the urge (though sometimes when she’s alone in the lab, she can’t resist flashing the rats, who are quite appreciative). Someone from Ohio who got obsessed with her backside has been following her around from website to website, begging for just one more view, so she changed her name to Moonbear at PF hoping he wouldn’t realize it’s the famous Ohio flasher here in our very midst (her picture in her profile isn’t a risk since her admirer has never seen her face).

Well, that’s the story, and it’s true every word.
 
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  • #109
Les Sleeth said:
Okay, I didn’t want to have to reveal this but here’s the real story of how Moonbear got her name...

Well, that’s the story, and it’s true every word.

:eek: How did you find that out?! I thought I had put that life behind me.

Moral of the story: Never swim in the Ohio River! :biggrin:
 
  • #110
Mine rhymes with username.
 
  • #111
loseyourname said:
Mine rhymes with username.

That's pretty funny. I'd imagined you were making a philosophical statement about leaving one's identity/ego behind while participating here at PF.
 
  • #112
Les Sleeth said:
That's pretty funny. I'd imagined you were making a philosophical statement about leaving one's identity/ego behind while participating here at PF.


One might think that, the Johansson avatar just wouldn't fit then.
 
  • #113
Les Sleeth said:
That's pretty funny. I'd imagined you were making a philosophical statement about leaving one's identity/ego behind while participating here at PF.

I figured people would think that. Part of the fun of having the name.
 
  • #114
he'da qu'i a' yanaji
(Here is the scenario)

As may have been noticed I capitalize two letters. I do this for three reasons; they are initials to my name, to honor a history behind those Deities from which my name comes and finally to pay a small but polite respect to a country which had those same initials, where I spent a portion of my life and was most likely born (long story). It is, certainly, a most unholy trinity but as such remains my own.
As to the name; I was affectionately teased by childhood friends with nicknames having to do with a not-so spectacular rock formation which, when viewed from a certain angle, was said to resemble my profile. I wanted a user name that would reflect all of this. Of course, having learned English, I felt BoulderHead had better connotation than either “aj nuj po'l” (big head) or the more used “aj tu'nich po'l” (rock head). Please resist any temptation, haha. That is the half of it.
 
  • #115
Mine is indeed a unix command. Unix has a history of very short, almost cryptic program names, presumably to save keystrokes. Some unix program names are quite amicable, like "sed" and "awk." Others are kinda weird, like "ls" and "cp." Others are just downright awful, like "rmdir" and "chroot."

As it happens, when you use unix a lot around friends, you start trying to pronounce the unpronouncable onces, and it becomes a big joke. Eventually, one of the friends begins using "chroot" as a username precisely because no one is really sure how to pronounce it.

- Warren
 
  • #116
chroot said:
Mine is indeed a unix command. Unix has a history of very short, almost cryptic program names, presumably to save keystrokes. Some unix program names are quite amicable, like "sed" and "awk." Others are kinda weird, like "ls" and "cp." Others are just downright awful, like "rmdir" and "chroot."

As it happens, when you use unix a lot around friends, you start trying to pronounce the unpronouncable onces, and it becomes a big joke. Eventually, one of the friends begins using "chroot" as a username precisely because no one is really sure how to pronounce it.

- Warren

Well, there are exceptions to the ones that are actually `words.' When I hear someone pronounce `vi' like "veye," I run like hell. Pronouncing `sed,' as "said," and `awk' like "awk" is acceptable.

I suppose if you pronouce `chroot' syllabically, you get "sh-root," or "c-root (holding the h silent)."

It's funny when UNIX users unite. :-p :-p
 
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  • #117
Les Sleeth said:
Okay, I didn’t want to have to reveal this but here’s the real story of how Moonbear got her name.<snip>Well, that’s the story, and it’s true every word.
Les, that's hysterical! I always knew there was more to that name than she would let on. :smile:
 
  • #118
graphic7 said:
Well, there are exceptions to the ones that are actually `words.' When I hear someone pronounce `vi' like "veye," I run like hell. Pronouncing `sed,' as "said," and `awk' like "awk" is acceptable.

I suppose if you pronouce `chroot' syllabically, you get "sh-root," or "c-root (holding the h silent)."

It's funny when UNIX users unite. :-p :-p

Funny, I just assumed you pronounced it the way it's spelled. "Ch-root "
Maybe it's good to know nothing of computer programming. :biggrin:
 
  • #119
Moonbear said:
Funny, I just assumed you pronounced it the way it's spelled. "Ch-root "
Maybe it's good to know nothing of computer programming. :biggrin:

Well, you might be right, but "Ch-root" is kind of broken and harsh. Regardless, it's tradition to separate the `c' and `h' and then say "root."
 
  • #120
relskid... hmm...

rel is the last part of my last name (shidler) spelled backwards (hey, if you're lucky, i might just tell you my social security number, and my mother's maiden name too!).

"skidlebop" was the my first username ever; some word i made up back in 8th grade.

i think chose my name as that because when spelled backwards, it spells "diksler." the only thing need to keep this immature bozo going is that "diks" part.

i mean... diksler. come on.
 

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