dman3
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:09:57 PM
When I was young and growing up from the time I was 12 I was interested in radio not only broadcast radio but CB and short wave .
I was a CBer for nearly 20 years like I said from the time I was 11 or 12 my handle was big-D when I worked in radio in the 70s at a 24 hour a day disco station I was big Rich .
To me I was big-D because I was big and my last name starts with a D but since 90% of conversation was with adults and I was what they called a big chatter box and even skipped school at times just to chat to the adults big-D stood for big Dummy.
In the late 80s earily 90s there was a transistion to computers and the the internet IRC was a new thing, bleave it or not when I started IRC most wouldnt talk they felt my name was to sugestive risque and biteing.well the chatroom I was happy with was a knights of the round table type RPG thing I wanted to be more in roll.
so my nick was changed to Duke-Dman but most said it wouldnt fly no one wanted to have duke in there face all the time they changed my nick and dubed me lord-DMAN in 95 when I started getting in to the web and html design and I started getting small jobs with companys like underwrites labs (UL)helping to make pages for there intranet and internet pages haveing big corprate type emailing [email protected] and and seeing them address me as lord-DMAN just didnt fit no more some how. in 1997 I droped the lord and registered my own domain Dman-N-Company.com which in now my registered and copy wrote name and logo.
the way I now make money income in this business today is online auctions but I still do web work but mostly its for local churches and what not donate the time and its a tax write off.
today I am www.dman-N-company.com I deal mainly in auctions antiques and collectables with my whole family I am email at [email protected]
my buyers and corprate types address me as Richard or sir
But to the many I grew up around I still hear yelled out in the crowd Hey Big-D god it been for ever 
WWW.dman-n-company.com
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jeanyu
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:16:55 PM
Hmmm-the obvious of course, but if I could change my handle? Nah--that requires too much creative thinking--and I'm just too pragmatic. Don't sweat the little things.
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figmente
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:21:58 PM
An imaginary dragon journeying in e space
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ericahayes
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:23:28 PM
mine is a character from a story I wrote.
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shellsputer
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:29:04 PM
My 4 yr. old nephew calls the computer the "puter", and my name is Shell, and it's my puter.
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dixiebee
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:38:26 PM
Long ago, in the days of the old Prodigy internet service, my name was mzzbee. However, when I wanted to lurk I came up with the name southerngrrl. One day I was driving the backroads of Kentucky and saw a road sign for Dixie Bee Highway. I figured dixiebee was a good combination of both of my previous names. I have had this name for about 4 years now.
P.S. My son wouldn't stop and steal the highway sign for me!
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papaswindy
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:52:41 PM
When i was a little girl i talked a lot (well i still do) and my grandpa always called me windy because of it. He's been gone for a long time now but when i was registering here all the names i wanted was taken so i thought of him.
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athena1365
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:55:15 PM
Athena: Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, et al.
How? A bunch of graduate student art historians on a sugar rush and goofy as hell, playing an anally-retentive game of selecting ancient goddesses that personify one another. Or were we drunk? Hmmmm....what another world that was! Oh well
The numbers are day and year of birth.
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EyeOfNute
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posted on September 1, 2000 03:57:36 PM
I think I was drunk.
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VeryModern
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:00:50 PM
I really am an idiot, I thought papaswindy was a fart joke!
Ohhhh man..
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richel
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:10:30 PM
i have nothing exotic to tell about my handle. it's my name. my dad wanted to name me michelle, but some friends they knew named their daughter that, so he tried every letter in the alphabet instead of the 'm'. he liked 'r'. he dropped the 'le' off the end, although sometimes i wish he hadn't. it would make it easier for people to pronounce my name. when i was single, i had a clumsy german last name. whenever role was called in college for the first time, i loved to watch the professor squirm and try to pronounce my name. usually i just said, 'here' when they looked puzzled. :^)
 uh huh. that's what i thought!
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servantstothequeen
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:12:17 PM
I am 45 years old my wife 43, our daughter is 3 ½ years old, and she is without a doubt the Queen of Everything.
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sjl1017
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:17:39 PM
Richel - I can relate to that one!!! My first name (which leads to someone elses handle) is Shani (rhymes with rainy). I spent my entire school career explaining how to pronounce my name. If the teacher looked confused I just said here. I got tired of the entire classroom turning around to look at me every day!!!
My current handle is my initials and my mom's birthday. It's boring but my original AOL handle, MayBTrbl, didn't really seem professional so I needed a quick change so I wouldn't scare off any customers!!!
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mtnmama
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:19:48 PM
Mtn Mama - need I say more? 
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Muriel
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:25:38 PM
"Muriel" is the name that I assigned to my spirit guide. If you're going to talk to your spirit guide, you need to give her a name. Then my psychic told me that my spirit guide is a man. So what else should I do with an unusable spirit guide name? (And you all thought I was normal. Fooled you!) I still don't have a name for my male spirit guide. I felt so silly that I had been calling him Muriel all this time, that I just call him "hey you" now. Any good ideas for a spirit guide name for a man? 
Muriel aka Doofus Gerbiltushie 
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kurzon
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:25:52 PM
kurzon - a character from star trek ds9 but with a 'k' instead of a 'c' because my real name starts with a 'k'.
kurzonis (the name i use on ebay and yahoo)- a variation of kurzon and orionis. orionis was my old nick from the early days of the net.
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kawfeenjunque
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:43:51 PM
kawfee-n-junque:
can't be online searching for junk without my cup of coffee....
hence:
kawfee {denotes my German heritage}
N
junque {because the trash I buy is "collectible"}
and yes...I have CONSIDERED professional help, thank you!
Same Kawfee-n-Junque as on eBay...I aint afraid of who I am! 
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toolhound
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:47:27 PM
I buy and sell tools and friends say I can sniff out old tools anywhere they have some to sell. Like an old hound dog.
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Beadalchemy
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:57:38 PM
Bead Alchemy is the name of my beadwork site & my home business. Bead cause I love to work with beads in any form. Alchemy cause the blending of color & texture to make a piece of jewelry reminds me of this ancient science.
Bead Alchemy
[ edited by Beadalchemy on Sep 1, 2000 05:05 PM ]
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angel5497
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:59:16 PM
Angel is my youngest daughters name and 5-4-97 is her date of birth.
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jt-2007
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:00:20 PM
jim terri
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noteye
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:03:46 PM
Mine doesn't mean what you would think ..
About two days before I registered here .. I was involved in an accident that left me with stitches on my face and a 'knot' over my left eye .. the local dealers around here began calling me 'ole knot eye' .. in fun (I think).. anyway, when I registered I was on pain pills and feeling a little 'giddy' ..
noteye
Well, THAT'S attractive!
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mtnmama
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:09:01 PM
Muriel, "gerbiltushie"??? ROFLMAO!
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dmndperl
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:10:36 PM
I was like Borillar - trying out hundreds of nicks on Prodigy and finding they were all taken. Geez..some of them were nonsense, made-up nicks!
I finally hit upon DimndsnPerls. My father owned a jewelry store, and any piece with diamonds and pearls always caught my eye. Later, I shortened it to dmndperl to fit my ISPs ridiculous rule about 8-letter aliases. And even still later, to Perls.
Now my own brother even calls me Perlie
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Muriel
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:12:06 PM
The Doofus Gerbiltushie came from a thread here quite awhile ago. It listed a bunch of really funny words with corresponding initials. You just picked the first initial of your first name, and I think the first and last initial of your last name - or something like that - and that's how you got your kookie name. Does anyone still have that list? 
Muriel aka Doofus Gerbiltushie
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MichelleG
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:19:47 PM
Muriel/Doofus
Enjoy:
http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=28&thread=15682&id=15682
MichelleG
(it really IS my name )
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labrat4gmos
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:25:19 PM
LabRat 4 GMOs = Lab Rat for Genetically Modified Organisms.
I was mad at a government official the day I came up with it. I have severe allergies, and that stuff [transgenic food & medicine]is being put on the market without adequate testing for new allergens. LabRat
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yuper592
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:33:27 PM
A Yooper is someone from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Seemed like everyone used that name up everywhere I went, so I changed the spelling a bit. Well, yuper was also used up, so I added the 592....my oldest childs birth month and year.
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deco100
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:35:37 PM
My original name was cookiestwo. Cookies being my pawn shop. When one of my kids goofed up my account I came back as deco100(meaning a 100% art deco fan) I like to keep the name short and the same as my aol address.
All the variations are taken now so on yahoo I will be suziegold (for Suzanne and gold being what I hope to be after or just a throwback to the pawnshop)
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roxw
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:46:33 PM
roxw is my part of my first name and the first letter of my last name. So boring! I would love to think of something witty, but I tend to agree with jeanyu, it's just to hard to think of one. A question to those of you who have the same name as you do on the auction sites, have you ever had a problem with that? I'm thinking of changing my AW handle to my eBay username......
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roxw
I'm learning to laugh!
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