What's up with your screen name?

WakinAZ · Post by **WakinAZ** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:46 am

OK, this is a silly topic. What does your screen name mean (to you)? Since I'm asking, I'll start. Wakin means "goldfish" in Japanese, and AZ is because I live in the last of the lower 48 states to join the U.S. (uh, Arizona). Unoriginal and unfunny and nothing to do with our beloved instrument - Because I am lazy, I just used the name I use on the online aquarium forums I visit when I'm not wasting your time here.

Eric "thinking this will get 1 response or 100" L.

SRanney · Post by **SRanney** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:02 am

First initial first name + last name = impossible to forget.

SR

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:05 am

....... do I really need to explain mine ? Once a band nerd always a band nerd . I'm just not young anymore. Ok, at 45 I'm not really that old either but it sounds funny . It's even more funny when I tell people this is what I look like :

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trseaman · Post by **trseaman** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:41 am

Greg wrote:I can tell that's not you. The guy in the picture has a lacquered baritone not a silver euph...

Agreed... And don't you use a walker instead of a cane???

(First two initials + Last Name = trseaman)

Tim

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:25 am

In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were five kids named Jeffrey. Because my last name is Benedict, I became "Ben", There wqas a rather loud mouthed guy three houses down who used to announce my presence by yelling "It's The Big Ben" so....

The Impaler · Post by **The Impaler** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:44 am

My screename was dubiously given to me after my first summer session with Pat Sheridan in AZ, by Pat himself. Everyone there is given a nickname of some sort, and since Cale is my middle name (and what I go by), he felt like Impaler worked pretty well.....

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:50 am

tubafatness is a name given to me by older brother Dan. When I started playing tuba, he was as well, so he gave me the name. Nothing too fancy about it.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:06 pm

Chuck(G), because I lack originality.

BopEuph · Post by **BopEuph** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:25 pm

Bop: My favorite genre of music is Ba'akan tribal chant (so lovably known to us as the pygmy tribe).

Euph: This means I'm a trombone player (secretly).

Nick

ai698 · Post by **ai698** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:42 pm

Mine was my first email address back in 1994 from a freenet. It's easy to remember.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:44 pm

Doc wrote:Wonder where Mr. Juilliard is now.

In Abilene.

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:06 pm

Well I originally used "Jonathantuba", because my name is Jonathan - I know not very original. Then when I tried to change my email address I got locked out due to that problem with AOL which I believe Sean has now fixed.

Anyway, I then had to set up a new screename and by that time had got my big Mel Culbertson Neptune, so "Neptune" it became. I have come to prefer to my original choice, but am sorry I lost the 775 posts on the counter

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:39 pm

Tuba - well duh,
Ryan - what finer name could I have used? (don't answer that)
12 - because 124 wouldn't fit on my original AOL screen name.

Mr. Originality!

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:58 pm

A combination of tuba and euphonium. Because I play both equally as bad!

I picked this name before I discovered there was a Tubonium. Sounds like I copied, but I didn't.

Also I was first with Location: Location! Location!

WakinAZ · Post by **WakinAZ** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:03 pm

Mark wrote:
Doc wrote:Wonder where Mr. Juilliard is now.
In Abilene.

As the principal tubist at Hayseed U., I resemble that remark.

This is fun so far, but I'm still waiting for iiipopes to chime in...

Eric "recovering former performance major from back in the 80s" L.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:49 pm

Back when I was playing tuba parts on bass trombone I couldn't find a log in that ebay would accept and kind of accidentaly fell into it. Never liked it much but didn't hate it enough to go to the trouble to change it. Now I'm too old to remember a new one.

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:29 pm

the elephant wrote:
Mark wrote:
Doc wrote:Wonder where Mr. Juilliard is now.
In Abilene.
Heh, heh, heh . . .

I'm still cleaning diet coke off the screen. hilarity

Mine is a screenname from 8th grade. I worked at the local radio station ( a job my 6th grade choir director got me ) as a Disc Jockey, Weatherman, and Weekend News guy from 8th-12th grade.

I'm just too lazy to change it now. Disc Jockey Wes Pendergrass. It was our email addresses at the time. djwesp@ktloradio.com

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:54 pm

People call me Doug, and at the time I created the name I was at Georgia Tech. Hence...

jbaylies · Post by **jbaylies** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:43 pm

SRanney wrote:First initial first name + last name = impossible to forget.

SR

Same here

Although my other screen names are:

TubaFart73
TubaFart74
KitchenRaider
SomethingHard
BayliesJ

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:58 pm

djwesp wrote:
the elephant wrote:
Mark wrote: In Abilene.
Heh, heh, heh . . .

I'm still cleaning diet coke off the screen. hilarity

Ditto.

Hands down, the funniest thing I've ever read on Tubenet. Well done, Bloke, Doc, Mark, and Elephant.