What is the story (if any) behind your "handle"

[SetAnOpenCourse]

Mr. Roboto? Come Sail Away?

 

You got it! The latter.

[rotjeknor]

Rotjeknor is a nickname for Rotterdam , the most beautiful city in the world and of course the birthplace of the Holland Amerika Lijn .

[RedneckBob]

RedneckBob

 

Very Simple

 

1. My first name is Bob

2. I was born and raised in Alabama

3. Our family tree dont fork

4. Wait for it; My first cruise with my DW, Thelma, was when we cruised around the parking lot of Dairy Queen :D !

No further explainin to do

[shrimp56]

shrimp was my handle in the early days of telnet. (1994)

When I got my hotmail account I was 56. I am now 73, but still use that account ;)

 

I have been called shrimpie, shrimps and a few other versions.

[Seafoam Green]

I was surprised when a family member (also a poster on CC) asked how I came up with my name.

 

Green, in its many shades, is my favorite color. What's the best shade of green for cruising? SEAFOAM, of course....

 

:D

[ski ww]

We are ski ww, "spending kids inheritance world wide" We're trying hard.

Allan & Marlane

[1884Vic]

We own an 1884 Victorian. So my name is pretty obvious.

 

Although we love the ol' girl, we are only the third owners of the home and she needs a ton of work. The first owner died a spinster at the age of 94 (we think in the house!) and wallpapered everything sometime around the 1950s. The second owner was a "mature" woman who thought she was doing stuff but just added more wallpaper. I am a former curator and my husband is a carpenter so the wallpaper comes down and the house is being properly restored. We're almost 9 years in and we've almost finished the first floor and completely restored the gardens. (Grey Gardens had nothing on this house.)

 

That uninteresting story explains why my travel to-do list is too long - short on funds!

[SeaSharp]

SeaSharp came about because I used to work in the music business. On the piano, C sharp is the same note as D flat -- but that's not very nautical sounding, is it!! Key of Sea would be a good name, too.

[AV8rix]

Feminine form of aviator. Well, aviatrix, that is. I've been using the "av8rix" form for my personal email since the '80s (back when we had 120-baud acoustic modems).

[mountainmare]

This is sad (well to me). I kept my horse on a mountain and last week lost my mare. Now every time I log in I'm sad. WARNING--I'm also sensitive to the "dead horse" comment so be warned if you are tempted to use it on the smoking thread, tip thread, whatever thread right now.

[Rosethorn40]

When I was in high school, a young man that I had a crush on, compared me to a "Rose.........With Thorns." I didn't know if I should be flattered (He said I was a rose! He must think I'm pretty, or at least smell nice), or offended (Thorns? Thorns are not nice, is he saying I'm not nice). I remembered that when coming up with a user name for ebay; Rose-thorn, and I added the 40 because that's how old I was when I first started using ebay. I made it Rosethorn40 for CC because it would be easy to remember.

 

I last saw 40 about 14 years ago :(

[guinnesshalfpint]

Love your story! As another poster mentioned it also brought tears to my eyes..

 

 

 

DH asked today if I wanted to get a Puppy when she goes over the "Rainbow Bridge"? It's only making me sad to think about it.. But after reading your story perhaps an older Pup would be the answer..

 

 

 

Just finished reading this entire thread & enjoyed all the fascinating stories..

 

 

 

Goodnight all, my little one just came to tell me it's time to take her out & put her to bed..

 

 

Hoping your sweet one had a nice night.

 

Guinnesshalfpint is for my puppy. My original Guinness was a Red Devil of an Irish Terrier. Years later I adopted a smaller sweet apricot poodle terrier mix. When he passed, I was devastated and longing for another ginger lad. I was able to find a welsh terrier puppy with a breeder. He was half the size of Guinness and a Black and Tan, so he became guinnesshalfpint. Loki would be a better name since he is mischievous beyond belief. If I had the chance to do it again I would choose an older dog...He wears me out!

 

 

 

Edited September 23, 2015 by guinnesshalfpint

[oldbluff]

My brother Phillip, 2 years and 364 days younger than I, came up with "Old Bluff" in our late teens. My first name "Cliff" easily morphed into "Bluff" and our 3 year difference then probably made me old in his eyes.

 

In 1976, he spray painted "Old Bluff" on the side of my bright orange '63 VW Microbus. The following year I drove it from Bloomington, Indiana to Fort Collins, Colorado, where it ended its days up on blocks in a friend's backyard.

 

Sadly, Phil died in 1984 from a construction accident. The humorous moniker Old Bluff took on more meaning after that.

[ozcruizer]

Mine is easy. Oz because I am Australian - Australia is commonly known downunder as Oz, and 'cruizer' because I love to cruise. Hence Ozcruizer!

[zackiedawg]

Don't think I ever saw this thread in the past...

 

Somewhat simple name for me: when I first discovered 'The Internet' back in 1994 or so, I signed up for AOL, needed a name, and back when I didn't realize you were supposed to pick 'cool' names, I tried my own first name and initial and found it was already taken - a few other attempts to use my name failed, and then my black labrador retriever named 'Zachary' came up to me, and I called him by my familiar name for him: Zackiedog...and that sprung into my head as an easy one to remember. Wouldn't you know it...someone already had that name too! Then I figured I'd go with the more 'slang' style spelling D A W G, and it worked...so I had my first e-mail and AOL name. Every time I signed up to a message board, I'd register with my e-mail address and just to keep things simple, used the same user name. It's stuck ever since then - hard to change once you've become 'known' by a certain name...so I've kept it ever since. Rarely use that AOL e-mail anymore, my beloved labrador has long since passed away, but the name has stuck!

[pnica]

P is my first initial and nica because I live in Nicaragua. (and because it was easy for me to remember)

[CaveDiving]

The pictures say it all.

 

Scott & Karen

Scott.pdf

[sapete]

The sa is for San Antonio.

[Bad Dog]

Mine is named after a Boutique Beer produced in Western Australia.

 

"Bad Dog Beer with a bite"

[kftw]

k for Karen & ftw for Fort Worth where I was living at the time.

[gr8life]

Great Life !

[cruz chic]

Great Life !

 

It's a great handle.

[tomworldwidewaftage]

My handle is my name Tom, then the daily web site worldwidewaftage my DW started writing in March of 2012.

 

As we started to prepare for selling everything. No home base, no storage and travel the world renting vacation homes.

 

We have been traveling for over 3 years, and 11 cruises. We are booked out to Oct. 31, 2017, including 8 more cruises already booked.

We will be adding more bookings as time goes on.

 

http://www.worldwidewaftage.com

[crusinpsychRN]

And here I thought you enjoyed an occasional can of sodapop!

 

I guess anyone could figure out where mine came from. I signed onto TripAdvisor last year for our Antarctica expedition as Victoriann, and I wasn't allowed - I had to have a number or something, so they suggested the "o" should be "0".

 

I was thinking more beer...!

[crusinpsychRN]

I'm a psych ARNP but I figured most don't know what an ARNP is but they do know RN. It wasn't after I did it I realized I spelled cruising wrong!!!