I'm posting for the first time. I have been reading your posts for awhile now and am fascinated by your monikers.
Would anyone care to share, if not personal, why they chose their particular user name?
I chose ABC because it's generic.
Also because it seemed to fit what it's all about here.
I'm a basic type person.

Well, I'll start. I stole the name of a person who's someday going to be known as the foremost punster of the 21st century. The E in TEd was a fumblefinger that cannot now be reversed.

Hello, hello, ABC.

My name is a combination of "Spartan" and "Buckeye," the nicknames of my colleges, making a not-especially-appropriate nom de keyboard for this board, but an apropos one for the sports boards I haunt.

Welcome aboard ABC - greetings from sunny Perth, Western Australia. To answer your question.........

Your surname is Staley. You are known to everybody as stales. You have no choice.

BTW everybody, the anagram generator at the "front" of this site is a lot of fun for generating handles - no doubt you've all tried it? (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html for those that didn't know.) I become LARGE_OYSTER or GORSE_REALTY, among others!!

stales

Dear ABC: I am so original yet so modest (bashful icon) that I used my initials wwh which expand to William Woodbridge (aka Woodenhead) Hunt

Some of the experienced hands around here may tell you this is a YART, but it seems to be bringing some new folks onto the board, which is nice.

My name is the name of a genus of a kind of tree frog. I had to pick an online name at one point, and had recently acquired a few tree frogs as pets for my son, and just liked the way Hyla sounded.

Ah, do we have a preponderance of gentlemen here?
Remington...any relation to the wonderful western painter, Frederick Remington? For those of you not American, his work of the wild west is extroadinary!
So, sports buffs abound, and Kermits, as well as international posters.
I shall enjoy this interesting group!

Welcome aBoard, ABC!
My name is less imaginative than a doctor bill--just my name.

Now--as to your question, my dear: there may be a preponderance of male subscribers here, but I'm not sure any of them are gentlemen! [running for her life emoticon] Yippee!

search for "Handles" for the ancient history...

My handle is kind of basic, I guess: I have long hair. It's as long as my arms. And they're pretty long.

I see that the ayleur with one of the most interesting handle(bar?)s is back - FishonaBike, a.k.a. Shona. His is an interesting tail, and I hope that he will tell it again reel soon. In fact, one could (and TEd probably would) say that I am waiting for it with baited breath.

His is an interesting tail

Nah, it won't tip the scales, Max. Practically without weight, and certainly not worth putting in the ledger.
My advice is to spare the rod, as you'd be flogging a dead seahorse on this one.

Egad, back on AWAD 5 minutes and I'm already a basket case.



[belated realisation of location]
Hi ABC, nice to meet you.
You'll get to my story, and a few other secret origins, if you click on this:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=7567
Feel free to throw in a post of your own, which will serve the purpose of resurrecting the thread...

Fisk

For the Newcomers who may not be savvy about archives and how to search them (I still have trouble
Welcome to you all to the more civilized Board on the WWW in my not-so-humble opinion of which I have many!
My moniker has two meanings ... pals and acquaintances of all ages call me Wise Old Woman, somtimes meaning it sometimes as a means of bringing me back to my senses!

For the second meaning just turn wow upside down.
wow

and the first time around it was like pulling teeth to get that info out of wow!

..it was like pulling teeth to get that info out of wow

Ah, tsuwm, but a wise old woman's teeth will fall out of their own accord if you're patient enough

P.S. Congratulations to you and the other vets for reaching the undiscover'd country..

re Fishonabike

I had been wondering about your handle and am somewhat relieved to know the reason (visited your site for further info - thanks for the effort).

Why was I a bit funny over it? Well, being the good little "PC" person I am, thought it best not to say anything.............coz round these parts "A fish on a bike" has strong lesbian connotations!! Gloria Steinern's quote "Women need men like fish need bicycles" was EVERYWHERE in the mid to late 70's in Sydney - on bumper stickers, protest placards (eg at pro-abortion rallies) and screamed by those of the burnt bra set.

(BTW - If you wanted to set up a commercial website for the Australian lesbian community I doubt there'd be a better name for it!!)

stales

My name I chose to reflect certain syntactical difficulties confronted when returning from the Third World did I.

OK, Fish!! I admit it!! I NEED you!! (as an auntie, only, you understand) Welcome back, oh scale o' my scales!

(um, stales, re: Steinem, I hate to tell ya, but your YART is showing, man)

What's a YART?

Yet Another Rehashed Topic .. it does happen, and it is sometimes to the good when new "talkers" join the conversation.
wow

stales remembers: Women need men like fish need bicycles

The way I remember it is: A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My rework was: A man without a bicycle is like a woman without a fish.

Seems logical to me.

I'm still trying to complete the line: Invert the subdominant _________.

Taradiddle doesn't quite hack it but that's the best I've gotten so far.

A gander at my profile will continue the process for our new alphabetical friend. the lack of Caps is, as TEd, fumble fingered.

The subject of this post was changed to reflect where I was before finding these wonderful people...

In western music, "inverting the subdominant" gets you something very "leading", and ,anticipation is everything there.

musick, if you also sing, I can play the comb and tissue and one finger on the piano.

Welcome ABC and I hope that you like the many varied experiences you will receive from people all over the world.
They are not really the basic, average people, but interesting, unique individuals---which I think that you are to by your opening letter. You will "fit like a glove"

[purple ]My name----well I am not a Hell's Angels type of biker, but I ride a variety of bikes, as does each member of our family of 5. My two teenage sons taught me how to ride dirt bike and street motorcycle, so hence the name "bikermom

enthusiast