What's In A Screen Name ?

Hey everyone..did you ever see all the great screen names at XMT
for example and wonder how they came about ?..I know I literally
had a dozen or more names down on paper before I made a decision.
Most of them had to do with Watches, Star Wars or Sports teams that
I like ! Do you guys have any stories on how you came up with
your screen names ? Have you always had the same screen name or
have you had others ?..It's always been a cool part of Watch Forums
IMHO ! Thanks !

Z-freak was pretty obvious...

Anomaly came from liking how it was used in The Matrix. It seemed a fitting name for a watch forum that I wanted to be different from the others as well...

My user name is how my name is abbreviated for the network at work. I use it as a default ID because I can remember it. If I'd only known these watch forums were more than a passing interest, I would have come up with something else.

I just combined my name and the company I work for. I use the same handle on other forums...

Smellody- Before that idiot Clinton made me loose interest, I used to collect vintage saxophones from the turn of the last century. Most modern saxophones are in B or E flat and alternate between sopranino and bass. Tenor, the most common saxophone you usually see in the key of B flat. Alto, the other most common saxophone is in the key of E flat, this is the horn that most students learn on. Adolph Sax originally intended saxophones to play in orchestras and designed horns in the keys of F and C (a piano is in the key of C). Before the radio, families of the teens (1910's) and twenties would sit around after dinner and play music. Mom or dad would play the piano. Although cheaper than the records that replaced them, sheet music still had a cost. It was therefore in the interest of economic families to have a horn in the same key as the piano so it could play the melody line. Hundreds of thousands of saxophones in the key of C were produced in the teens and twenties and sold to happy families. The C-Melody horns were sized right between the modern alto and tenor saxophones. The saxophone eventually gave way to radio and guitars in the 1930's. Those 100,000s of C-Melodies ended up spending the next 60 to 70 years of retirement in mom and dad's attic. Ever been in an attic of an old house? That smell gave C-melodies the nick name smellodies.

When E-bay first started I was still interested in saxophones and collecting these stinky old relics. . . smellody was born. I love old silver and gold plated horns. I like to take them apart polish them and make them sparkle. They go from black to shiny with the right amount of elbow grease.

smellody wrote:

Smellody- Before that idiot Clinton made me loose interest, I used to collect vintage saxophones from the turn of the last century. Most modern saxophones are in B or E flat and alternate between sopranino and bass. Tenor, the most common saxophone you usually see in the key of B flat. Alto, the other most common saxophone is in the key of E flat, this is the horn that most students learn on. Adolph Sax originally intended saxophones to play in orchestras and designed horns in the keys of F and C (a piano is in the key of C). Before the radio, families of the teens (1910's) and twenties would sit around after dinner and play music. Mom or dad would play the piano. Although cheaper than the records that replaced them, sheet music still had a cost. It was therefore in the interest of economic family to have a horn in the same key as the piano so it could play the melody line. HUndreds of thousands of saxophones in the key of C were produced in the teens and twenties and sold to happy families. The horns were sized right between the modern alto and tenor saxophones. The saxophone eventually gave way to radio and guitars in the 1930's. Those 100,000s of C-Melodies ended up spending the next 60 to 70 years of retirement in mom and dad's attic. Ever been in an attic of an old house? That smell gave C-melodies the nick name smellodies.

When E-bay first started I was still interested in saxophones and collecting these stinky old relics. . . smellody was born. I love old silver and gold plated horns. I like to take them apart polish them and make them sparkle. They go from black to shiny with the right amount of elbow grease.

That is facinating. I played the hell out of a sax growing up. Show us some of your collection!!!

My username indicates just what a nice guy I am.

AWESOME stuff guys !!! This turned out to be just as fun as I
thought it might..even better in fact ! It's cool to see and hear
things like this. Sometimes you might have an idea of what someones
name refers to..but then other times you may not !..I honestly never
knew much of this..so Thanks for sharing..it's really VERY intriguing
and nice to hear !..For myself I just wanted to implement my name
into a word and thought maybe Atomic..like Atomic Time might be
good. It was kind of Time related and so I went with it. Otherwise
it would have been a Star Wars character or something ! So
in any case, thanks again everyone..this was terrific !

[/quote]That is facinating. I played the hell out of a sax growing up. Show us some of your collection!!![/quote]

Here Poli- Not really a picture of the horns, but you can see some of them on the left. . .

Syn is short for synthesizer. I have owned more synthesizers in my life than watches. My synthesizer collection is worth 5 or 10 times the value of my watches, although I'm now under 20 of them in my studio.

watchcollector1968 wrote:

Mine is self explanatory...I was born in '68

Ha-ha...I got married in 1968!

I started selling watches on the web 7-8 years ago (very low volume) and adopted the name pacifichrono by merging "pacific" (San Diego) with "chrono" (time). I dropped the double cc in the middle for a cleaner look.

sorry...I cannot disclose what andrema means.

However, my alias "Yankee" was because I am from the northeast...plus my favorite MLB team...

Docrwm wrote:

andrema wrote:

However, my alias "Yankee" was because I am from the northeast...plus my favorite MLB team...

Well, we'll let you hang around here anyway.

That is mighty nice of you!

Awesome sled Randy!

andrema wrote:

sorry...I cannot disclose what andrema means.

However, my alias "Yankee" was because I am from the northeast...plus my favorite MLB team...

BTW - Yankee doesn't like you guys...especially Poli! He is mad about his exile from WG and is hoping to get a call from JS to give him a pardon...

bodypeersur1 wrote:

andrema wrote:

He is mad about his exile from WG and is hoping to get a call from JS to give him a pardon...

Well Yankee is SICKER than I thought!!!

No kidding!!! He is a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal!!

I moved from the great Adirondack region and Mohawk Valley of the Northeast to the great Cascade Mountain range and Willamette Valley of the Northwest. Both places are beautiful but the place I now call home is The Northwest............so the name says it all:

noahfuller wrote:

Hi I'm Noah

Noah your screen name is just right ! Perfect !!!

Well, since you asked I used to go by thebestMAX. Its still active on a few boards back from the early CompuServe days. There were several variations of Max being used and since my GF always said I was "the best" I just combined the two. Seemed to egotistic to keep using it on watch forums so I shortened it.

Where did the Max come from? My real name is Marc or so I thought till I went to get a Passport and needed a birth certificate. On there it says Max. Seems my Mother hated the name and always called me Marc because when the Doctor wrote out the birth form his handwriting looked more like Marc and she liked it. Marc is on everything legal, school records, Degrees, Military records (how did they miss that?) everything.

I guess I dont exist which could lead to a cool user name in itself.

My screen name is my kids names, Sophia & Domenic.

max wrote:

Seems my Mother hated the name and always called me Marc because when the Doctor wrote out the birth form his handwriting looked more like Marc and she liked it.

Quite a story about your name Max/Marc. A couple of questions that comes to mind are; was your mom there when you were named? She gave you a name she didn't like?

porschefan wrote:

max wrote:

Seems my Mother hated the name and always called me Marc because when the Doctor wrote out the birth form his handwriting looked more like Marc and she liked it.

Quite a story about your name Max/Marc. A couple of questions that comes to mind are; was your mom there when you were named? She gave you a name she didn't like?

I guess things were quite different then. My Great Grandfathers name was Max and my father wanted me named after him. She went along with it but what happened after that I just dont know. What I do know was by 1st grade I was Marc. I asked her for my original birth certificate many times but she always had an excuse for not producing it. It was lost in a flood while I was in the Air Force so I never thought about it again till I needed a Passport. Ill tell you I was shaken for a few days when I got a copy of the BC from the Court House.

max wrote:

porschefan wrote:

max wrote:

Seems my Mother hated the name and always called me Marc because when the Doctor wrote out the birth form his handwriting looked more like Marc and she liked it.

Quite a story about your name Max/Marc. A couple of questions that comes to mind are; was your mom there when you were named? She gave you a name she didn't like?

I guess things were quite different then. My Great Grandfathers name was Max and my father wanted me named after him. She went along with it but what happened after that I just dont know. What I do know was by 1st grade I was Marc. I asked her for my original birth certificate many times but she always had an excuse for not producing it. It was lost in a flood while I was in the Air Force so I never thought about it again till I needed a Passport. Ill tell you I was shaken for a few days when I got a copy of the BC from the Court House.

Wow, what a story. That would be a shock to find out, so many years later. Funny the Military just went along with any ol' name.

Fantastic stories guys !!!!! Max..That is actually pretty cool with your name !
Kind of reminds me of James Bond or something. It may have been a bit shocking
to find this all out at first..but it seems to be working out just fine sir ! ..Sophenic,
your name is great as well !!!..I mean how cool must it be to have your Kid's names
right in your screen name ?! It's not only NICE..but unique at the same time !!!
Thanks guys..VERY cool !