What does your username represent?

[CaptnJack]

The 7378 is classified, but it's often mistaken for my DOB. I wish!

The number of polygamous wives you have hidden in an Austrian basement?

[airsix]

Ben,
Thanks for starting this thread. It is really fun.

Thanks Georgia. I'm enjoying it too. :smt038

-Ben

[spatman]

The 7378 is classified.

your ATM PIN number?

(joe, grab his wallet...)

[Sounder]

(joe, grab his wallet...)

(NO Joe, not his , his WALLET!!) ](*,)

[Pez7378]

Classified? Hmmmm..... How about... It was 1994 and you were dating this girl. She said she was born in '73, but she was actually born in '78. Since then you've been living under an assumed name, and spending as much time underwater as possible. When you can't be underwater you hide in prison because they'd never think to look there. Did I get it?

No

The number of polygamous wives you have hidden in an Austrian basement?

Nope

your ATM PIN number?

and..............No.

(joe, grab his wallet...)

(NO Joe, not his , his WALLET!!) ](*,)

NOoooooooo!!

Dammit, NO means NO!

[Tom Nic]

The 7378 is classified, but it's often mistaken for my DOB. I wish!

Classified? Hmmmm..... How about... It was 1994 and you were dating this girl. She said she was born in '73, but she was actually born in '78. Since then you've been living under an assumed name, and spending as much time underwater as possible. When you can't be underwater you hide in prison because they'd never think to look there. Did I get it?

-Ben

This place never ceases to amaze me...

[scottsax]

first name.

on BBSes in the 1980s i used to go by either Shadow (due, obviously, to my first name and the radio show), or when that was often taken, The Alaskan Shadow, which just added where I was born + lived at the time.

WOW! Lamont Cranston.... I haven't thought of that since I was a kid. That's so cool...

Mine's fairly straightforward. My name's Scott, I play the sax. I've had a number of screen names over the years, but as I've switched ISPs and whatnot, scottsax has been the one that stuck. I like Revjunior and saxdiver-they're other email accounts I have, but 2 years ago when I signed up, scottsax seemed most representative for me.

[Nwbrewer]

For those who didn't already know, the first message board I joined was a homebrewing board. When I started joining other boards I was too lazy to come up with something new.

SCUBA has cut significantly into my brewing time, but I still brew occasionally. Mmmmm beer.....



Jake

[Sounder]

For those who didn't already know, the first message board I joined was a homebrewing board. When I started joining other boards I was too lazy to come up with something new.

SCUBA has cut significantly into my brewing time, but I still brew occasionally. Mmmmm beer.....



Jake

(Sounder drools on key board saying "mmmmmmm... beeeeeeeeeeeer") :occasion5:

[Ken G]

Whats can I say. Ken Gustafson kinda says it all

[Burntchef]

the name pretty much says it all, after about 17 years of cooking ive burned myself on top of just healing burns!!

[spatman]

the name pretty much says it all, after about 17 years of cooking ive burned myself on top of just healing burns!!

well, at least it doesn't mean that you burn the food you serve!

[dwashbur]

the name pretty much says it all, after about 17 years of cooking ive burned myself on top of just healing burns!!

well, at least it doesn't mean that you burn the food you serve!

Yeah, after all, you'll heal, the food won't!

[airsix]

the name pretty much says it all, after about 17 years of cooking ive burned myself on top of just healing burns!!

well, at least it doesn't mean that you burn the food you serve!

I was thinking the same. All this time (2 or 3 years?) I was worried about the food! Sorry to hear about your burns, Howard, but now I'm curious about what you're cooking. Well prepared food is like art and music. You have my respect (I can't prepare nuth'n).

I have to share - I met Josh and Howard last year and Josh said "This is burntchef" and I thought he said "birdshaft" and for a week I couldn't figure out what the heck "birdshaft" was supposed to mean. When I got back from my trip and got on the board I realized who I'd met. I hate that. I did the same thing a few weeks ago - PEZ introduced me to CaptnJack and it wasn't until later I realized who I'd met.

-Ben

[Joshua Smith]

ROFL! I might just have to change his username to "birdshaft" for a while. I really like that one!

[Sounder]

Good thing nobody thought Ben's name was "hairsex!"

[Pez7378]

Whenever I think of Burntchef, I think of the Swedish Chef on the Muppets. That character CRACKED me up!

[Sounder]

Whenever I think of Burntchef, I think of the Swedish Chef on the Muppets. That character CRACKED me up!

[Zen Diver]

Well, I've had a few names but the one I like best is Zen Diver. To me, diving puts me in that Zen state, peaceful, meditative, one-with-nature etc. I'd wanted to use it on my last forum, but I spaced when putting down my name

-Valerie

[BUZO71]

So, BUZO is a spanish word for diver, not Bucero, which I first thought..... 71 is for my year of birth.... BUZO a tribute to my favorite diving- central/south america

[Pez7378]

For those who didn't already know, the first message board I joined was a homebrewing board. When I started joining other boards I was too lazy to come up with something new.

SCUBA has cut significantly into my brewing time, but I still brew occasionally. Mmmmm beer.....



Jake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i5k4I1AOEI

[nwscubamom]

Well, I've had a few names but the one I like best is Zen Diver. To me, diving puts me in that Zen state, peaceful, meditative, one-with-nature etc. I'd wanted to use it on my last forum, but I spaced when putting down my name

-Valerie

So why are you Zen Diver 2 instead of just Zen Diver?

Enquiring minds want to know....

[nwscubamom]

So this one is pretty easy to figure out of course,

NW for Northwest, and Scubamom because I have 4 kids, 3 of them also certified to dive about the same time I did 9 years ago. If I remember right, Scubamom was taken, so I threw the NW in front there, and it made it unique enough that I've been using it as a username for many boards through the years.

Now the kids are all pretty much grown and gone, and the youngest is about to leave the nest. :hello2:

And really, now technically, I should be nwscubagrandma, but that just doesn't have the right ring to it!

Here's our crazy family photo we took the other day with all four kids and all four grandkids (I'm the one in the middle with the light blue shirt):

Jackie, Val and Georgia - you'll notice that my son next to me stole the Red Croc Society crocs for the photo!! Thief!

- Janna

PS: This is a GREAT thread!!

[Burntchef]

I was thinking the same. All this time (2 or 3 years?) I was worried about the food! Sorry to hear about your burns, Howard, but now I'm curious about what you're cooking. Well prepared food is like art and music. You have my respect (I can't prepare nuth'n).
-Ben

the burns are just part of the job, and ive seen some pretty amazing ones over the years . my career has taken me from executive dining, to very formal seetings, to tourist traps and all between . the best part of having this kind of background is i can go anywhere in the world and find a job easy. and i love people who cant cook, they keep my gear shed full!!!

[Diver_C]

Oddly enough, my favorite pronunciation of my user name is actually a mispronunciation by my regular dive buddies....Pen-oh-poly-pants.

Wow, that's funny. Had no idea (until I read this) about the mispronunciation...