Your Username

[dtothec]

Mine is pretty simple. D is for my first name Darrell and C is for my last name Calloway.  My golf buddies call me dtothemfc.   I think you all know what the MF stands for.  So I drop the MF for these purposes.  :-)

[5a quilt top]

A tribute to the fantastic top on my first Alembic: SCSD S/N 10SC14089:

[adriaan]

Just my first name, after my maternal grandfather.

[811952]

811952 is the serial number of my '81 Series 1.5 (master volume, LEDs and a custom body shape were all upgrades from the Series I back then).


My other online persona is Scarysharkface, which comes from needing a username on short notice and conveniently noticing a shark logo in my peripheral vision from where I sat. I didn't think I'd ever actually use it, and now I use it pretty much everywhere except here.


John Ford is my meatspace user name.


John

[Twocan]

Twocan:


A college nickname that I was given, having to do with a combination of my drinking habits and nose size.

[peoplechipper]

A friend and fellow bass player said that's what my tone sounded like; I took it as a compliment(it was) and have had similar reactions from other bass players...my friend was working at a meat plant at the time so he heard the Cow chipper...sometimes I wish I stayed vegetarian...but that's a whole other thread...

[paulman]

Ok I'll play.

My first guitar that I ever loved was a 78 Gibson Les Paul "The Paul" Walnut with an Ebony fretboard.  Man I miss that guitar. 

So like the song "Soul Man" I became a "Paul Man".

I have an account for email named Alembic Man, but the handle here was created long before I got my first Alembic. 

Who's next on deck...splain it!

[mica]

It's my first name and my mommy gave it to me! My dad was driving her to the hospital in the morning the day I was born. There were springs trickling down the coastal mountains, and they were talking about the mineral mica that was making things sparkle and glimmer even more than the water alone. If you're wondering it's pronounced MY-kuh.

[hieronymous]

Mica, thank you for some of the details of your name.

I'll start. My name is Jonathan Alan Levine and I'm a physician. Nothing too original here. 

Jonathan, I have to admit, every time I see your username I read it as "javelin mind"!

As for myself, my "real" name is Harry Pearlton Bridge III. I was never happy with my name - "Harry" was old fashioned and sounded like "hairy" and I had never (and still have never) heard anyone with the name "Pearlton" besides my dad. I got really into the Beatles in 7th grade when we moved to Japan and I wished the P in "Harry P. Bridge" could stand for Paul.

It wasn't until after I turned 30 that I had a flash that "Harry" could be short for Hieronymus, as in Hieronymus Bosch, so I adopted it as part of my musical identity, except I misspelled it with an extra "o" - hieronymous - and I've stuck with it ever since 2002.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Twocan:


A college nickname that I was given, having to do with a combination of my drinking habits and nose size.

Would that be only 2 cans, or 2 at once?

It's my first name and my mommy gave it to me! My dad was driving her to the hospital in the morning the day I was born. There were springs trickling down the coastal mountains, and they were talking about the mineral mica that was making things sparkle and glimmer even more than the water alone. If you're wondering it's pronounced MY-kuh.

I could have sworn there was a thread a while back about old paperwork where someone asked who Michael Wickersham was, and you allowed as how that was you, and Mica was a nickname.  Am I losing my grip?

Peter

[Twocan]

Would that be only 2 cans, or 2 at once?

Yes.

[mica]

I could have sworn there was a thread a while back about old paperwork where someone asked who Michael Wickersham was, and you allowed as how that was you, and Mica was a nickname.  Am I losing my grip?

You're close! Michael is what the hospital put on my birth certificate, and it was an error - when my mom said, "Mica, just like the mineral" we figure the nurse thought she was a crazy hippie and meant Michael, and that is what my legal name is. However, I didn't even know until I got my driver's license that my name wasn't legally Mica. When I started working here, I used my legal name on everything. But then later I just morphed into all Mica all the time.

[carsbybigd]

Ok......I used to build race cars[C.A.R.T cars,now Indy cars] and all my friends used to call me "Big D " so......carsbybigd !

[rv_bass]

RV = my initials and bass is what I play

[edwin]

My username is my name, which my parents gave me. Apparently I was unnamed for a long period of time (months) before they could come to a decision. They named me after a friend of my grandparents and one of my mom's mentors, Edwin Dickenson, an early and mid 20th century painter who was influential in many schools of 20 century painting (and was one of the first artists to go to Provincetown, MA, arriving in 1912 to establish a long tradition of art). I only knew him as a scary old man in his 80s when I was a wee lad. Later, I found out he was quite dashing in a Hemingway sort of way in his youth.