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Subject: OT: Gurupie Handles
Posted by: TaRhEElKiD
- [42109719] Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:35
When I was reading the "Congrats Mr. and Mrs. PD thread I could only help but wondering how did everyone think of their Gurupie handles? I look at some of the names of people who submitted threads...
rockafellerskank
Species
SillySpheres
clach
Farn
RecycledSpinalFluid
Shelby-villian
KKB
Dunkenstein
Roachster
Astade
Culdeus
So guys, and others with unusual handles...how did you think of these? Just curious.
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| 1 | Senator Urine
ID: 501032621
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:40
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The world isn't ready for the reasoning behind Senator Urine. It's too complicated.
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| 2 | KnicksFan
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ID: 30815418
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:40
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Here's a lloooooonnnggg list from the Baseball Forum
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| 3 | Perm Dude
Dude
ID: 30792616
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:46
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Funny seeing a lot of those names who are no longer around. There was an earlier one as well, as I recall.
My name comes from my job: I'm a rights and permissions editor. People in my job ask me all the time if I got the nickname (and email address) because I have kinky hair. Sometimes I have to gently remind them of my job title again until they get it!
pd
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| 4 | TaRhEElKiD
ID: 42109719
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:49
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So much for that idea! Thanks KnicksFan that is interesting reading.
THK
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| 5 | KnicksFan
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ID: 30815418
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:50
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KnicksFan came along because I have a deep, dark obsession with none other than the Golden State Warriors.
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| 6 | culdeus
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ID: 43105818
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 17:56
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Mine was a mangled attempt to develop an irc handle subsequent to a trip to France where a phrase we picked up was:
Je Me La Coule Douce translates to "We are just chilling out"
I never found out how it was spelled until I returned a couple of years later so by then it was too late all my handles here and there were set.
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| 7 | Tosh
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ID: 57721710
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 18:19
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My dog (Tasha) is named after Peter Tosh. I'm named after my dog.
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| 8 | TaRhEElKiD
ID: 42109719
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 18:26
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LOL TOSH!
THK
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| 9 | blue hen
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ID: 298101320
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 19:12
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Remember, it's not the name that's important, but rather the emotions evoked by the name.
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| 10 | Great One
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ID: 298341017
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 19:33
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I used to like The Rock many years ago when this forum was first created (in the old format actually). Many people thought I was a fan of Wayne Gretzky instead.
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| 11 | rockafellerskank
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ID: 599312319
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 19:34
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I'm named after the song by Fat Boy Slim
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| 12 | GoatLocker
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ID: 60151121
Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 19:43
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On Navy ships, the Chief Petty Officer's Mess is called the GoatLocker.
I'm a retired Master Chief Petty Officer who did just shy of 27 years in the Navy.
My way of stay close to my roots.
Cliff
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| 13 | Tree
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ID: 11028719
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 08:39
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it was in the late 80s, and i just transferred from the University of Texas to what was then Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass-Dartmouth), and didn't know a lot of people.
the two people i did know invited me to a party in their apartment, and this kid named Danny greeted me at the door and introduced himself as "Gator" (i presumed because he was a Florida fan - i later found out because he's an instigator in arguments - i.e. he'll sit there with two people, one of whom he knows is a Yankee fan, and the other a Red Sox fan, and he'll throw out a comment like "wow, the Yankees kinda sucked this year," and the two fans would start arguing and he'd just walk out of the room)...
and way, i said my name was Josh, and he said "Josh? like Joshua? like Joshua Tree? man, i f*cking love U2!! i'm gonna call you Tree"....
and it stuck....like glue....everyone i hung with then had a rediculous nickname - Gator, Schio, Shifida Bam Bam, Sugar Ray (later Three-Finger Ray because of a hunting accident), Zahn-hey, Geez, Scampi, How How, Coach, Hollywood, Cheda, and so on.
we just all got together a couple weekends ago in Boston for the first time in 10 years - we'd hung in different groups since then, but logistical issues and people being scattered about made it though for everyone to get together, but, a few weeks ago, stupid nicknames in a fancy restaurant in Boston were all the rage.
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| 14 | Dunkenstein
ID: 39541913
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 08:56
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Darrell Griffith, who led Louisville to the 1980 NCAA
Championships, was nicknamed Dr. Dunkenstein. My
family name is Stein. It therefore seemed an appropriate
"handle" for a basketball fantasy game/forum.
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| 15 | SillySpheres
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ID: 58512252
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 10:29
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SillySpheres was the name of a generic Kix-like cereal at my local super market when I was at college. The cereal was absolutely terrible, but the name has stuck with me for years.
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| 16 | Addicted
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ID: 331241818
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 11:55
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I played smallworld for about 2 years before I found Rotoguru. Needless to say, I was addicted to fantasy basketball.
So naturally my handle had to be "Addicted".
--Addicted--
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| 17 | Punk42AE
ID: 36635522
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 12:16
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Tree, that sounds like some back yard wresling group!
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| 18 | Rubalamp
ID: 291039913
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 14:47
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At some point in the past few years, I picked up the phrase Rub a lamp. As in, I believe you are going to need a Genie to do something, like beat me at fantasy sports, for instance...
Sorta lame a couple years later, but it is fun, so I keep it...
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| 19 | clach
ID: 4112529
Sun, Nov 09, 2003, 16:37
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My name is Claudio, when I was about 8, my classmates started to call me clach because of cartoon clutch cargo, which was popular in those glory days
It was the first nickname someone gave me when I was a child and the first that come in my mind when I registered in a forum in internet for the first time
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| 20 | longhorn4life
ID: 30956115
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 03:29
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Hey tree, being a fellow UT'er I was wondering why you transferred?
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| 21 | KTx
ID: 79152415
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 03:53
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This is pulled from the old thread of my fellow I-5 Gurupie (the Big Russ line is hillarious):
RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 39446311
Tue, May 30, 12:42
RecycledSpinalFluid was the name for my first Smallworld Football team. It was definitely different than most, and I didn't want to just use my name. Russ P just doesn't have that creative flair that I would prefer. BIG RUSS was already taken (are all guys named Russ called Big Russ at some point in their life?)
As for where the RecycledSpinalFluid team name came from, I don't pretend to understand the voices in my head, I just follow what they say to do. And they told me to use that name. :-)
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| 22 | Tree
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ID: 11028719
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 07:02
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Longhorn - truth be told, UT and i had a difference of opinion on "academic standards"... ;o)
two main things happened that caused the academic standards issue - the first was catching mono from the very first girl i "met" at UT, and i missed 6 weeks of school...
due to stupid rules involving financial aid and housing, if i dropped classes i would have lost both, so i had to stay registered and take the huge academic blow - i thought i could catch up, and i almost did, but two semesters later i just didn't get that GPA quite high enough.
the second part was the fact i've always been a huge music fan - my mom was taking me to shows in seedy clubs in ft. worth and dallas to see folks like Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Reverend Horton Heat loooooong before it was legal for me to go to those clubs - so, when i got to UT, i spent about as much time on sixth street as i did in my classes or in the Jester dorm...
i grew up a Longhorn fan, and to this day i still aim - it pains me greatly when they can't beat the damned sooners or aggies. everything else is just gravy...:o)
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| 23 | MyLakers
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ID: 23957235
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 08:36
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MyLakers, MyDodgers, MyNiners- I have a randomizer program and this is the crap it came up with.
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| 24 | havenbros
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ID: 211049107
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 09:22
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Haven Brothers was the name of the silver "diner on wheels" that used to set up shop every night next to City Hall in Providence, RI during my formative years. My buddies and I were regular patrons for a late night snack after we closed the pubs. Haven't been there in years - funny but once you get married you don't close pubs and then go someplace for a couple of hot dogs and a bowl of kidney beans, at least not if you want to stay married. I'm sure the joint is long gone, especially with the renovation they've done in Providence.
I don't know why that name popped into my head when I was pondering handles, but it did.
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| 25 | leggestand
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Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 09:33
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leggestand-legge is my family name (prounounced leg), and in college, after doing a bunch of kegstand's, some people started calling me/it leggestand. After that, kegstand's were always referred to as "leggestand's" when we threw parties.
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| 26 | Seattle Zen
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ID: 55343019
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 11:09
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Havenbros -
Someone actually sells bowls of kidney beans???? Is it marketed as a syrup of ipecac replacement? I can't envision anything so disgusting.
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| 27 | Taxman
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ID: 441045108
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 12:04
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Tree...that explains your intimate knowledge of the finest cuisine in the world...a fletchers. Did you go to High School in Dallas, mid-cities or Ft Worth.
My handle is pretty self explanatory. On back of my business card should be the motto "committed to the legal bankruptcy of YOUR government". However, I am quickly shutting down the 25 year old tax practice and moving into wife's Invisible Fence pet containment business.
May have to change handle to safe@home
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| 28 | JackHammers
ID: 236482918
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 12:18
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Another one named after a dog. Named my first baseball Roto team 12 years ago after my now deceased retriever Jack and my last name Hamilton. JackHammers seemed appropriate for my old strategy of "draft power and trade it". Of course I've abandoned that because everybody and their grandmom hits 30 homers now. "Atomic926" I use for some team names here and there, after a pair of indestructable atomic 926 sidecut skis that have no business still existing after the unbelievable "agony of defeat" wrecks they have endured
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| 29 | havenbros
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ID: 211049107
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 13:01
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Zen: Everything was served to go and the beans actually came in a large styrofoam cup, so bowl is not entirely accurate, but that probably doesn't improve the visual for you. However, hot dogs and beans (preferably with brown bread) is a long-standing yankee staple and ordering a side of "kidneys" with our dogs was perfectly customary.
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| 30 | Tree
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ID: 599393013
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 13:23
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haven brothers - Haven Brothers was the name of the silver "diner on wheels" that used to set up shop every night next to City Hall in Providence, RI during my formative years.
after leaving UT, i ended up in Dartmouth/New Bedford, Mass, and spent many a night in providence, quite a few of them at the old Club Babyhead, and damn, Haven Brothers was one of the the better ways to end a saturday night....
Taxman - Did you go to High School in Dallas, mid-cities or Ft Worth.
ft. worth - started off at RL Paschal, but then, because my mom decided i was too smart for my own good, i bused to a magnet school called "The High $chool for Finance Professions at Polytechnic High School", aka H$FP at PHS.
Polytech was a primarily african-american and asian school in a really bad neighborhood, and it was part of an effort to integrate the school - they bused in "smart" white and hispanic kids, under the pretense of it being a magnet school - it was only integrated in the hallways, because we had seperate classes, and naturally, as lunch, you ate with your friends and classmates.
it was a weird weird situation. we didn't really want to be there, and they didn't really want us there, and there just some really ugly situation that happened. :o)
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| 31 | wiggs
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ID: 4991311
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 14:33
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my handle came right from my last name.
Wiggins=wiggs. I wish I had a better story like tree, but i dont.
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| 32 | Species
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ID: 569221717
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 16:01
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To those that missed it in the linked Baseball thread.....
Species is shortened for "Endangered Species", which was the team name me and some buddies picked for our first Rotisserie team in 1994.
There were some creative names in that league, so we decided to look at the horse racing results in the Sports section, because those horse names can get pretty creative. We saw "Endangered" and came up with Endangered Species as our team name. To this day the wife still nags me with "What does Species have to do with baseball?", but it just stuck.
Not as cool as Tree's story either. And....three-finger-Ray? Ouch! I'd hate to be YOUR friend and lose my leg! ;-)
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| 33 | TaRhEElKiD
ID: 42109719
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 19:17
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Tree-
BOOMER SOONER! ;-) 77-0 last wk vs A&M, and it could have easily been 100! I won't mention the Texas (sucks) game, because I am sure you already know the last 4 outcomes! ;-)
THK
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| 34 | longhorn4life
ID: 30956115
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 19:24
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Very true THK. Hey nice win for UNC last week. They are that much closer to that always hard to get third win.
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| 35 | TaRhEElKiD
ID: 42109719
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 19:29
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Thanks longhorn4life-
Don't let me sound like I abandon my team in the football season! TaR HeeLs are and will always be my #1 team in EVERY sport. That was a good win actually, lol...3 here we come!
THK
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| 36 | longhorn4life
ID: 30956115
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 19:36
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Hehe,
It's all good. We are still a little sensitive about sooners down here. Wish i could have a good of sense of humor about it as you do. UNC only ranked 1 ahead of us in the basketball poll. Good luck in that season (but not too much);)
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| 37 | biliruben
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ID: 589301110
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 22:50
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Mr hooper - are you a Jaws fan?
Yeah, that's real fine expensive gear you brought out here, Mr. Hooper! `Course I don't know what that bastard shark's gonna do with it, might eat it I suppose.
-Quint
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| 38 | a-squared
ID: 391030423
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 22:54
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I always assumed he was just a big Sesame Street fan.
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| 39 | KnicksFan
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ID: 30815418
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 23:14
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I thought he was a fan of Norm MacDonald's new sitcom, "A Minute With Stan Hooper".
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| 40 | Ender
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ID: 13443221
Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 23:52
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Or a Burt Reynolds fan.
NOTE: The above reference in no way should convey the fact that I myself am a Burt Reynolds fan.
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