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Topic: Where did you get that handle? |
topdown
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 posted Feb-02-2005 03:08 PM
  
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Originally posted by Tibbar2:
Hi Top Down -I just bought a new 2004 Miata. (Love it !!!) We should talk off-line sometime. Tibbar2 Sorry to digress, everyone.
just in case you don't spend enough time on Forums... miata.net ------------------
topdown
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The Squirt
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posted Feb-02-2005 03:44 PM
I am the thing in the middle of a run that makes you go faster! When me and the Missus run together, hence plural, we make you think quickly, like "Where's a bush?"Actually being small I have gotten many names that refernce my lack of height and physique, not real sure why I choose Squirt though. ------------------
--TS aka Peter
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FreshAir
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posted Feb-02-2005 09:10 PM
There is just nothing better than clean, fresh air at 5am each day. It's hard getting out of bed when it's freezing outside, but once you get out there and going, it's great!
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rip van racer
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posted Feb-02-2005 10:20 PM
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Originally posted by FreshAir:
There is just nothing better than clean, fresh air at 5am each day. It's hard getting out of bed when it's freezing outside, but once you get out there and going, it's great!
Hope you don't live here.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2005-02-01-air-quality-us_x.htm
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Andele Andele Arriba YEPA
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posted Feb-02-2005 11:44 PM
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Originally posted by Spareribs:
...We're waiting. Let's hear from everyone. Spareribs
Here ya go... http://www.nonstick.com/wsounds/speedy.wav
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StarrRuns
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posted Feb-02-2005 11:59 PM
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By the way, you were the one who asked Lioness to post. What happened to her, and Bob Catt? Seems the feline crowd has gotten shy. Spareribs[/B]
I guess we never heard fron Lioness at all, Maybe she is even more shy than I am! (There doesn't seem to be many gals here in B&B). I have no great story for my name either, other than since my first name is highly unusual, I chose to use that. I think a few of my first choices were taken, so ended up with this. When I typed starrruns, it looked weird, so I put in the caps. My older siblings were 18 and 17 when I was born, and they picked out my name from some movie they watched... I have a sister 18 months older than me, so it was kind of like they were our aunt and uncle not brother and sister. I can't imagine my mom having a baby at 41 and also having a toddler,,,, I read a book on running and there was a chapter that talked about if you are jogger or a runner. I decided right then and there that I WAS a runner, albeit a slow one. My first 5K in Dec was 31:20 and I haven't run at that pace since! Starr in MN
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Spareribs
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posted Feb-03-2005 08:02 AM
Yes, there's no question Lioness is actually a Chicken.Thanks for posting Andele! As to your defining yourself as a runner, not a jogger Starr, I admire your choice. Great post. Spareribs.
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denmudpup
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posted Feb-03-2005 10:50 AM
I'll play
My first name is Dennis, and I have worked my entire life in the pre-cast concrete industry (manholes and the like) well people who work with un-cured concrete (mud) are known as "mudpuppies" hence Denmudpup
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nemak
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posted Feb-04-2005 06:53 PM
The explanations seem to fall into two categories: clever and functional. I'm afraid I'm in the latter group, but I'm glad I'm not alone. NE - state of residence
MAK - my initials There's something about being prompted by a computer to input a "handle" that makes me freeze up. I am creative at times, but I can't force it. Mark
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3wyoboy
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posted Feb-04-2005 08:41 PM
In the less populated wilds of Wyoming, you can tell where a fellow Wyomingite is from by their license plate.Hence:
3 - Sheridan county (The 3 pre fix means that at one time it had the third largest population in the state. Laughable now since the whole state wouldn't start to make a dent in the population of where I live now, North Hollywood, CA. If you had a 17 prefix, you would be from Campbell county, 16 - Johnson county, etc.) Wyo - The state boy - as in former cowboy.
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Hydro
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posted Feb-05-2005 04:16 PM
Mine is a variation of my original german first name. When I first came to Canada in 1985 and went to help out in a christian summer camp(with my english as poor as it was back then I did not even understand what it meant!), everybody had to have a camp name. Well, since I could not think of anything, some one found out my real name ( I usually just go by Heidi), and "Heidrun" turned into "Hydro"-voila!
How fitting when it comes to running, how much more enrgy can it be?
(By the way I love the "helives", guess because I can relate.)------------------
".. running with endurance the race that is set before us..."
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Hydro
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posted Feb-05-2005 04:23 PM
Hey, that's the second time I have heard of someone named "Starr", StarrRun-ever.
We have apatient in our office and her name is Starr as well, but I used to never know whether it's a boy or a girl. Dohh!! Just kind of a neutral name-not bad-just unidentifiable. No pun intended!------------------
".. running with endurance the race that is set before us..."
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Econo
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posted Feb-08-2005 04:34 PM
Sorry..took me a while to notice this thread. "Econo" because I'm cheap and I have a couple of degrees in economics. Wonderful to meet you all!Renee from Oregon
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Spareribs
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posted Feb-08-2005 07:55 PM
What are the odds you would find a cheap person who has degrees in economics and calls herself "Econo." Fabulous handle. Have to put her in the drawing for one of the best stories, right up there with Stealthrunner. Spareribs
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Econo
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posted Feb-08-2005 09:50 PM
oops, my bad! I didn't think about the implications of the word "cheap"...I mean "thrifty", not, like, you know...
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Kanaka
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posted Feb-09-2005 09:48 AM
well......the literal translation , "A native of the Sandwhich Islands" is not entirely truthful. I did however live there for 24 years, from age ten to...uh.....le'see...ah...and carry four, no wait...um......plus...ah! got it! 34! (CPA I ain't <grin> ). In case any others spent time there, I graduated from James B. Castle high school (a miracle in it's self) in 1975. I thought of using the handle SPAM_musubi (a island food staple) but didn't want to air my addictions publicly. You'll have to pardon my occasional haouli-boy regressions into an inadvertent "pidgin" phrase or two...they say you can take the boy from the islands but never the islands from the boy.Aloha e a hui Hou! Likeke
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BACKDOORMAN
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posted Feb-09-2005 10:10 AM
Big fan of Willie Dixon, and Howlin Wolf, old blues music.
Any other Mississippi runners out there besides me and Kudzu?
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Dustypups
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posted Feb-09-2005 10:50 AM
Our golden retriever's name is Dusty. She was a puppy when I first needed to come up with an online name. Hence - Dustypup. Someone else had that name on this site so added the 's' at the end. Dusty's a 'B&B' - she's 11 now.
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Beckwith
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posted Feb-09-2005 11:08 AM
Oh this is so fun! I have to play too - even though mine is not a clever as some of yours.My "official" name is Rebecca. Anyone who called me that gets a fist in their arm. Even my darling 75 year old mother. My "real" name is Becca. It gets shorted my husband and siblings to Bec. My husband's name is Paul. So naturally to most of our friends and family we are Bec & Paul. That leads to Beckwith Paul. As for the crew chief thing - we run a Land Speed Race Program for motorcycles at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and I am the crew chief for all the teams.... ------------------
FL Crew Chief
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nhsrm105
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posted Feb-09-2005 09:42 PM
I am a high school teacher. Nampa HIgh School, rooom 105------------------
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lioness1
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posted Feb-11-2005 03:00 PM
I'm so shy b/c I hate to have you all find out that I'm not really a large cat.  But I am a cat lover, and I chose "lioness" b/c of a comment Mary Slaney made after making the Olympic team in the 5k. She called herself and her team-mates "lion-hearted women." And I thought, "I want to be a lion-hearted woman!" When I run, it's a positive image--especially if I'm having a tough race...I can carry with me the courage of a lioness, and keep on running! Also, I have an orange/yellow tabby with 'tude--I think she too has the heart of a lioness! Her front paws seem lionlike too, with six toes. My sister the vet says it's a genetic aberration. I say it's b/c she's part lioness.  (She's lying on my lap as I write this.) Although very athletic, she doesn't run long distances (that's for you silly humans, she reminds me), but does enjoy doing sprint workouts up and down my apartment. She's also very adept in the jumping events, although she shuns the pole vault, feeling she doesn't need a stick to help her jump high. Finally, she excels in gymnastics, performing maneuvers that would make an Olympian proud. And, of course, she's an excellent personal trainer, providing me with my morning wake-up call, grabbing any piece of me that's not under the covers, walking around or in extreme cases across my head. You don't sleep in when you live with a lioness, even one in a tabby's body.
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anderspank
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posted Feb-11-2005 03:07 PM
its something someone called me in college and its the only dam thing i would be able to remember, my last name is anderson. i was thinking anderknockers which was another popular name, but its because i like big breasted women.
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Barley
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posted Feb-11-2005 03:17 PM
Mine's boring as well. My name is Michelle, and all of the usual alterations on the name were already taken, so I've taken on the name of my Chesapeake Bay Retriever/Great Dane mix named Barley. Barley got his name because my husband and I are home-brewers and his brindle coloring looks like spent barley. Michelle from Oregon [This message has been edited by Barley (edited Feb-11-2005).]
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oldguyrunner
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posted Feb-11-2005 05:29 PM
i'm 50. so i guess i'm old (although i don't feel old)
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devinicus
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posted Feb-11-2005 05:38 PM
Mine is like Martacious - my brother has called me Devinicus for years. (My real name is Devin.)
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