Posted July 2, 20186 yr Hey guys, Thought it might be fun if we all explained the rationale for our usernames. From the absurd to the easily explainable, might be cool to know! I'll start, obviously. I am, admittedly, a fan of Barstool Sports - most notably the Pardon My Take podcast - and "yabo" is a catch phrase of one of the hosts, and 7/13 is my birthday!
July 2, 20186 yr My initials.... Kenneth James Prendergast. I'm too old to hide behind cute forum names. I don't care if anyone knows who I am or not. Just get off my lawn. Oh wait, I live in a mid-rise condo.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 3, 20186 yr My initials and the year I graduated college. (Seemed much better when it wasn't that long ago.) "Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston, Tampa Florida...."
July 3, 20186 yr I picked up the nickname E-Rock at about the time Eric Turner was drafted, I'm not sure if he was a Brown first or not. When I logged onto AOL for the first time "E Rock" was taken but "E Rocc" was not. I also have the license plate and the .net domain.
July 3, 20186 yr Good choice. Sounds like Gilmour went with a humbucker on that one. He didn't do that too often.
July 3, 20186 yr My username is my name. When Chris Cousins emailed me to sign up for this forum back in 2004 or so, I didn't realize that I was creating my username when I created my username.
July 3, 20186 yr Where I went to college (and lived for 10 years) and my hometown. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 3, 20186 yr It was 2010 and I had just graduated from Miami U when I signed up for this account.
July 3, 20186 yr people used to call me mrbgsu and mrbg because i went to bgsu and briefly wku, so when i moved it became mrnyc.
July 3, 20186 yr The first forum I ever signed up for was a Geauga Lake forum, so I picked a random roller coaster from the park. Stuck the 80 at the end because Big Dipper happened to have been in operation for 80 years when I signed up. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
July 3, 20186 yr haha i suspected that -- by far my favorite, or should i say favourite lol, era of theirs. i love those noodlely soundtracks and meddle is just the best.
July 3, 20186 yr My username followed Rob Pence's format. I can't remember the number in his username, but I know it was his address on Washington Boulevard in the West Central neighborhood of Fort Wayne. I was acquainted with Rob, who is stilled missed on UO, when I lived in West Central back in the nineties. The 908 is my address in Cleveland Heights, though, rather than my old address in Fort Wayne.
July 3, 20186 yr http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80548?redirectedFrom=gramarye Obsolete exc. arch. 1. Grammar; learning in general. Obsolete. ... 2. Occult learning, magic, necromancy. Revived in literary use by Scott. ... For the connection between senses 1 and 2 (cf. glamour n., and French grimoire).
July 3, 20186 yr My birthday (May 1st). Coincidentally, also the name of one of the best Bond villains (played by Grace Jones in 'View to a Kill'): clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 3, 20186 yr people used to call me mrbgsu and mrbg because i went to bgsu and briefly wku, so when i moved it became mrnyc. DOUBLE BOWLING GREENS
July 3, 20186 yr When I was going to Ohio State, my friends found out I was in the golden gloves when I was 16. Someone asked “What did they call you, “Punchin’ Pat?” When I responded “well, yes” people laughed so hard, I’m sure beer came out of people’s nostrils. I guess I’m not all that intimidating. Anywho, for about 10 years more people knew me as “Punchin’” or just “Punch” rather than Patrick. When I signed on urban Ohio all those years ago, I just used that nickname
July 3, 20186 yr Dougal was my dog, who was at least as smart as I am and much more charming. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
July 3, 20186 yr Birthday Profound. I always assumed you to be a gearhead. 327 is a popular Chevy engine.
July 3, 20186 yr One of my sister's boyfriends had a Motorola cell phone that had the (new-ish) ability to display a static text greeting on the lcd screen. It was pretty limited in terms of characters it could display. Most people would have chosen something like their name or nickname or maybe something obscene or cute. His just said Sizzlin' Beef. It stuck with me for whatever reason.
July 3, 20186 yr Birthday Profound. I always assumed you to be a gearhead. 327 is a popular Chevy engine. A buddy in high school had a 327 Camaro. He thought he could outrun the local cops. He couldn't. They actually had 350 corvette engines under the hood. They all had a good laugh about it and then they threw him in jail.
July 4, 20186 yr Birthday Profound. I always assumed you to be a gearhead. 327 is a popular Chevy engine. A buddy in high school had a 327 Camaro. He thought he could outrun the local cops. He couldn't. They actually had 350 corvette engines under the hood. They all had a good laugh about it and then they threw him in jail. When you converted 1960s horsepower to the way it has been measured from oh, 1980 and later, 275hp drops to about 215.
July 4, 20186 yr Birthday Profound. I always assumed you to be a gearhead. 327 is a popular Chevy engine. My dad is so I picked up a little of it but I'm more of a Pink Floyd person.
July 4, 20186 yr Why not both? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film was directed by Ian McArthur,[1] and included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, as the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race in 1991.
July 9, 20186 yr On crowded L trains in Chicago in the 1980s, when I had to stand, I tried to do so without holding onto anything. I called it urban surfing.
July 9, 20186 yr JYP was a college nickname. Everyone thought I was related to or looked like Chow Yun-fat at the time. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
July 10, 20186 yr Oak Hills High School I took the SAT there hungover. I took the PSAT quite drunk, and started late. I had forgotten it was that morning. So I only tied for best in the school. My brother took the ACT 3 years out of high school, the morning after his band played, so he only got 97th percentile.
July 10, 20186 yr I took the ACT blindfolded while the proctor beat me over the head with a baseball bat, so I only got a 36.
July 10, 20186 yr Author I took the ACT blindfolded while the proctor beat me over the head with a baseball bat, so I only got a 36. I was on qualuudes sitting in a pile of my own feces when I took the LSAT - only got into Yale.
August 17, 20186 yr Spent a summer driving to Massillon Oh From Cincinnati every weekend and later found out the car had an exhaust leak due to a cracked manifold. Good times.
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