How did your Moniker name come to be?

[Orion Bailey]

After meeting so many people this last weekend ( Im terrible with names), I started wondering about everyones Monikers and what they mean to each person. I thought maybe everyone can give a bit of insite as to why their Moniker is what it is.

Sly, are you really a good poker player>
Sedated Fork????????

See what I'm sayin?

So for me, I have always liked the star constellation Orion and one night back in CO about 18 years ago, a buddy and I had a bottle of baileys open playing guitars under the stars and the name just came to be and has been my musical name ever since. Orion Bailey.

Now.. Your turn!!!

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

1. Because when I joined this forum I randomly picked the name of some anonymous member to piss off by stealing his moniker and adding "Daddy" to it.....

Or........

2. Back in the day on the playgrounds, I schooled Cliff Robinson and made him my bitch....

Or.....

3. I have a son named Cliff......

Personally I'm goin with #2.....

 

[Natebishop3]

I thought Nate Bishop sounded a lot cooler than my real name....

 

[Sedatedfork]

My moniker began as a troll account elsewhere on the internet. There was someone named Hyperspoon, so I made a troll account Sedatedfork. Then I kind of liked it and kept it.

 

[riverman]

1. Because when I joined this forum I randomly picked the name of some anonymous member to piss off by stealing his moniker and adding "Daddy" to it.....

Or........

2. Back in the day on the playgrounds, I schooled Cliff Robinson and made him my bitch....

Or.....

3. I have a son named Cliff......

Personally I'm goin with #2.....

Thanks for the multiple choice..I always do better with those...I'm going with #3

 

[riverman]

Riverman was given to me by friends who knew I liked hiking fresh water rivers whenever I got the chance..I wrote a song about a riverman when the cement company in Taiwan destroyed my favorite river spot in the mountains and I used that as the inspiration for my moniker..my son has great memories of growing up and going on these hikes with me

 

[Pinwheel1]

The first Blazer message Board I joined back in about 99' had a thread for most favorite version of the pinwheel. My favorite was option 1.....So I decided to sign up using that name...... Pinwheel1

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I used to travel all over the PNW buying cars for a large local car dealership. I had played poker in college and always enjoyed it so I started playing when I was on the road right when Texas Holdem started to explode in popularity. Lots of people were playing online and thought they were great players. They would show up for a tournament, get knocked out very quickly and then move over to the cash game tables. They would sit down with something to prove but no real experience with playing poker in person and I would be waiting for them. Man I killed some fools.

Around that same time I started posting on Oregonlive's Blazer forum. Signed up as PokerDog, soon got banned. Signed up again as PokerDawg, banned. PokerrrDog, PokerrrDog, BigPokerDog, BigPokerDawg, so many combinations and variations of dog and poker. Finally thought of SlyPokerDog. Around the same time I started chatting with Casey Holdahl who at the time worked at Oregonlive. So SlyPokerDog would get banned, I would email him and he would unban it. People got to know me as SlyPokerDog, it seemed to fit so it stuck and I've used it ever since.

 

[riverman]

Where I taught my son to swim...Taroko Gorge Nat'l Park in Taiwan

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I had a character in one of my short stories in college (1990's) named Caravan, and I've used it in various forms in my online usernames ever since.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I used to travel all over the PNW buying cars for a large local car dealership. I had played poker in college and always enjoyed it so I started playing when I was on the road right when Texas Holdem started to explode in popularity. Lots of people were playing online and thought they were great players. They would show up for a tournament, get knocked out very quickly and then move over to the cash game tables. They would sit down with something to prove but no real experience with playing poker in person and I would be waiting for them. Man I killed some fools.

Around that same time I started posting on Oregonlive's Blazer forum. Signed up as PokerDog, soon got banned. Signed up again as PokerDawg, banned. PokerrrDog, PokerrrDog, BigPokerDog, BigPokerDawg, so many combinations and variations of dog and poker. Finally thought of SlyPokerDog. Around the same time I started chatting with Casey Holdahl who at the time worked at Oregonlive. So SlyPokerDog would get banned, I would email him and he would unban it. People got to know me as SlyPokerDog, it seemed to fit so it stuck and I've used it ever since.

Curious, why did you keep getting banned? too many puddles left on the floor?

Where I taught my son to swim...Taroko Gorge Nat'l Park in Taiwan
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That is awesome!! Truly beautiful. I hope your son knows how special that is. I learn in a frog infested pond...lol

 

[riverman]

This is Tien Shiang Temple way up the mountain..heck of a hike

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

In the old country, our family surname was "Sexual".

In a classic case of Ellis Island panic, my Great-grandfather changed our last name to "LovesKoolAid", thinking it was more American. It seems to have stood the test of time.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I was in Mexico the last time i changed message board handles

sent from a phone you've probably never heard of

 

[riverman]

In the old country, our family surname was "Sexual".

In a classic case of Ellis Island panic, my Great-grandfather changed our last name to "LovesKoolAid", thinking it was more American. It seems to have stood the test of time.

Nobody likes being called Uncle Sexual

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Nobody likes being called Uncle Sexual

Sly does!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Curious, why did you keep getting banned?

On Oregonlive's Blazer Forum you can flag a post for any reason. The mods of that forum are in New Jersey and moderate a bunch of different forums. People would get in arguments and all you would have to do is flag a post and write racist for the reason you flagged it and the mods would ban the person without even reading it. Also I fully admit I was an ass at times.

That's why when I became a mod here I really pushed the no personal insult rule. There are people over on Oregonlive who have these weird feuds going for over a decade. "10 years ago you called me a....." "I did that because you called me a ...."

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

My first name starts with J. And some of my buddies would call me Jfizzle when I was in middle school. When I originally started posting in forums, it was on an Oakland raiders forum when I was about 13. So I created the bane Jfizzleraider. Then I jumped over to fanhome right before it died and before an exodus occurred to bbb.net. then people just started knowing me by the name and it stuck.

 

[e_blazer]

I started posting on Blazers message boards about the time that it seemed every website was e-something or other, so I went with e_blazer. Exciting, hunh? I'd change it to something more innovative, but I ain't giving up my post count and likes.

 

[Natebishop3]

On Oregonlive's Blazer Forum you can flag a post for any reason. The mods of that forum are in New Jersey and moderate a bunch of different forums. People would get in arguments and all you would have to do is flag a post and write racist for the reason you flagged it and the mods would ban the person without even reading it. Also I fully admit I was an ass at times.

That's why when I became a mod here I really pushed the no personal insult rule. There are people over on Oregonlive who have these weird feuds going for over a decade. "10 years ago you called me a....." "I did that because you called me a ...."

People still do that here, but differently...

"10 years ago you posted that you thought such and such player was blah blah blah"

They never let you forget about anything.

 

[blue32]

i use various names for different sites. for this site, during creation of name, i had a blue VW 2004 R32, hence blue32. now car is long gone and name persists.


Edit: although people get me confused with the other blue guy that posts. So i should probably ask for a rename at some point.

 

[Jon]

it's my name....

 

[Orion Bailey]

it's my name....

HAHAHA best one yet bro!

 

[dviss1]

D-V-ISS (devious) was my stage moniker. I've done Hip-Hop music and toured regionally.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Sly does!

I only like it when your wife says it to me, when you say it it's just creepy.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

People still do that here, but differently...

"10 years ago you posted that you thought such and such player was blah blah blah"

They never let you forget about anything.

Yes but challenging someone about their opinion or idea encourages debate and discussion. Insulting someone just leads to more insults.

 

[Orion Bailey]

D-V-ISS (devious) was my stage moniker. I've done Hip-Hop music and toured regionally.

So when you gonna come over and throw down some tracks?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Just a nickname bestowed on me by a friend about twenty years ago. Been stuck with it ever since.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I had three monikers I'd use the most on OLive: SuperDaveW, HyperBully, and SuperSillyUs.

Which one I used depended on the forum and the context of the post.

EnglandDan, MrsDan, and some other guy were playing pool and drinking rather heavily after a preseason (IIRC) Blazer game. I had a pretty danged big beard at the time, and my hair was as long as it's ever been. He and the other guy got cut off (I was drunker than both of them put together, but the bartender said specifically that he was willing to keep serving me). When the lovely and charming MrsDan asked Dan what he would like to do next, he turned his head, wobbled momentarily, and said, "I wanna do whatever the Wookiee's gonna do."

I created BlazerWookee the next morning (they had a 12 character limit on usernames at OLive at the time). I even had WOOKEE plates on my car for quite some time. My stuffed Chewie still rides in the back window of my new car.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I graduated in 05. If you cant figure the rest out...