So, what's your screen name mean? (And why'd you choose it?)

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So, what's your screen name mean? (And why'd you choose it?)

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I'm always fascinated by the screen names that people choose.

Some, of course, are obvious: I'm pretty sure I know what Taylor Larimore means (and why he chose it). Others (e.g., Findelglorin, nisiprius, and 555) are less so.

So, what's the story behind your screen name?

Mine's pretty straightforward: I'm a magician.
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Mine's pretty straightforward: I'm not a Diehard.

See also previous threads on the subject. :)
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I found it on my driver's license.

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Mine is short for semi variance, an improvement over standard deviation.
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The Kite is soaring like I wish my investments had done 15-25 yrs ago when I didn't know better.

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Either I like to giggle a lot....or Eaglesman was already taken (for us Phila. Eagle fans)
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"Fallible" reminds me that I am, and it reminds me of its keen awareness by our Founding Fathers, e.g.:

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My early investing style matched the performance of a certain latenight stuntman. I apologize to the younger generation, who missed out on his "success".

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My screen name is the first name + last name initials of my idol. An extremely awesome(charming, and handsome to boot!) guy I know...

Me.

:wink:
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rylemdr wrote:My name is the first name and last name initials of an extremely awesome(charming and handsome to boot!) guy I know very well...

Me.

:wink:
You forgot "modest".

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You'd have to ask my mom. :razz:
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Name is John. But I learned a long time ago not to give my name to the hostess at a restaurant when waiting for a table - too many Johns. So I always say Jake - not so many. 1946 is my birth year. Simple.
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Jupiter Jones was my favorite character from the "Three Investigators" series of books. And he shares my actual initials. :-)

My avatar is Davish "Pops" Krall (AKA "Gold Five") from Star Wars. His most famous line is in my sig. Appropriate, no?

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Sam I Am wrote:
SuperDaveJ wrote:My early investing style matched the performance of a certain latenight stuntman. I apologize to the younger generation, who missed out on his "success".

--Dave
Super Dave Asbourne (sp?) right?
Osborne.

I have a friend who was Cary the mime in The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave.
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JupiterJones wrote:Jupiter Jones was my favorite character from the "Three Investigators" series of books.
Alfred Hitchcock: they had a clubhouse in a junkyard.

I loved that series!
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magician wrote: Alfred Hitchcock: they had a clubhouse in a junkyard.
With several secret passageways through the junk to get to the clubhouse. How cool was that?

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I am a fan of Boglehead pizza...

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Post by SP-diceman »

I like the concept that dice represent probability and risk. (in gambling games)

However, when you try to join forums with a name like “diceman” it will typically be taken.
I added “SP” in front (from the SP-500) works well with the concept of stock market risk.



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SP-diceman wrote:I like the concept that dice represent probability and risk. (in gambling games)
For a presentation on project risk management I came up with a routine in which dice disappeared from one hand and reappeared in the other, changed color, and multiplied. It's a fun routine to perform.
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Post by SP-diceman »

livesoft wrote:Mine's pretty straightforward: I'm not a Diehard.
Is that the same as “not a Boglehead” or something else?


It would have been interesting if “Boglehead” was your choice to flip instead of “Diehard“.

CramerRearEnd
KenFisherToe
are two that scream out at me. :)


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my name without spaces.
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My initials plus the month of my birth plus my favorite number at the time I created this screen name back when I was a teen.
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JupiterJones wrote:Jupiter Jones was my favorite character from the "Three Investigators" series of books. And he shares my actual initials. :-)
I loved those books - that and the Mad Scientists Club, for some reason.

Mine's a nickname from grade school, from the wonderful Schoolhouse Rock.

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From a suburb of Bombay(now Mumbai) I grew up.
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Sriracha is a favorite Thai chili sauce of mine. I happened to be enjoying a meal laced with it when I decided to register here.
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Sriracha wrote:Sriracha is a favorite Thai chili sauce of mine. I happened to be enjoying a meal laced with it when I decided to register here.
Unfortunately, most people in the US think Sriracha sauce is this Vietnamese monstrosity:
http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sriracha.htm
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Langkawi wrote:
Sriracha wrote:Sriracha is a favorite Thai chili sauce of mine. I happened to be enjoying a meal laced with it when I decided to register here.
Unfortunately, most people in the US think Sriracha sauce is this Vietnamese monstrosity:
http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sriracha.htm
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Langkawi wrote:
Sriracha wrote:Sriracha is a favorite Thai chili sauce of mine. I happened to be enjoying a meal laced with it when I decided to register here.
Unfortunately, most people in the US think Sriracha sauce is this Vietnamese monstrosity:
http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sriracha.htm
Yeah, the Huy Fong version is pretty different in taste and texture ... even color ... than the traditional Thai version.
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My last name means "plum tree" in French. But now that I'm older, I'm more like an old prune.
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In Ancient Greek the word praxis (πρᾶξις) referred to activity engaged in by free men. Aristotle held that there were three basic activities of man: theoria, poiesis and praxis. There corresponded to these kinds of activity three types of knowledge: theoretical, to which the end goal was truth; poietical, to which the end goal was production; and practical, to which the end goal was action.

I got the above definition from Wikipedia. I'm not a philosopher. I liked the idea of taking action. I was at a crossroads of a sort with my finances and the knowledge I discovered here helped put the pieces together for me in a way that was clear enough for me to "take action" and make some changes that were overdue. I will always be grateful for that. I commemorate that free choice with my name, "praxis".
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Something that had absolute no relation to me or my previous screen names. I've noticed that I have become identifiable by blogs, facebook, and pictures with my previous sn's.
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I'm a doc in the South. :)
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My name is William Patrick
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I'm a electrical lineman. Thus I've clumb sme poles.
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Mine is so boring.

It is the first three letters of my first name, the first three of my middle name and the first three of my last.

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Mine comes from my native american ancestry. I first used spiritrider as an email address about 1990. I posted this beforein another thread

As was told to me, it is the myth/legend of an aparition of a "Spirit Rider" astride a "Ghost Horse". He appears to those troubled souls who need to be lead out of the darkness. It has differnt meanings in different tribes and the more recent past.

Mostly I just used it because I liked the way it sounded. Of course, the "diehards" helped lead my troubled financial soul out the darkness of using expensive full service brokers.
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Mine's an Aesopian synonym for "Stay the course."
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as mentioned in a previous thread, this is the address in the Bronx where I spent the first 16 years of my life.
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I have several animal hats and among my favorite are my bear hat and my wolf hat. I thought BearWolf would be appropriate for an investing forum. My favorite hat is a buffalo hat but that didn't sound like a good investment forum name.

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I once had a dog named Arthur... his sister Isabel is my avatar dawg...

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Beantown1-Beantown84 were taken.
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