When I joined, I was involved with quoting for ships propulsion systems, including Diesels, gear boxes and particularly controllable pitch propellers - usually abbreviated to CP Props, I thought this would not get the “ someone is already using that name” and I was correct so that’s the one I chose.
Explain your screen name
- Thread starter Barbsjw
- Start date
Help Support Dimensions Magazine:
I first showed up at Dimensions in the mid-90s (the Dark Ages!) and have had at least a few handles since then, probably none of which I can accurately remember ... something to do with hippies, sunflowers, etc. Eons ago, an old member (Vince B from, I think, Australia?) challenged all of us to use our real names, which I subsequently did.
Chubbypeter
New Member
hmm, do I need to explain? 
, hopefully soon I can rename my nick to fattypeter
, hopefully soon I can rename my nick to fattypeter wrenchboy
Well-Known Member
When I first joined I was a mechanic also known in the industry as a wrench turner.
And boy somehow fit better than guy or man.
And boy somehow fit better than guy or man.
I come and go often online. Tempere= Temporarily here.
When I was first on the forums which later became the Dimensions forums I suddenly had to come up with a user name. I was trying to think of something descriptive of my interest in the FA/fat-accepting/feedist community (this was pretty much THE place on the web for all things fat-love related back then, so it pulled in all kinds). But I felt that I was a bit of FA and a bit of liking being fat and a bit of a feeder and a bit of a feedist -- or to sound a bit more pretentious about it all I was a tad of this and a tad of that, and voila I had my user name.
(I did change to Edx for a while (Ed is my middle name, x was because I'd tried Ed, Ed2, and Ed3 but back then names were not registered, you chose a name every time you logged in, and those others kept getting grabbed, so being a math nerd I made the obvious sequence jump of '0, 1, 2, ...., x' and went to Edx. When other sites on the web began to cover portions of this community I was using Edx here and kept that name on other sites. Then I switched back to Tad here because nobody understood 'Edx' without an explanation. Then later I had the idea to change my name on those other sites to Edxl (Ed, sized XL), which is outdated now but Ed2xl seemed even more confusing ... I'm glad I'd just switched back to Tad here)
(I did change to Edx for a while (Ed is my middle name, x was because I'd tried Ed, Ed2, and Ed3 but back then names were not registered, you chose a name every time you logged in, and those others kept getting grabbed, so being a math nerd I made the obvious sequence jump of '0, 1, 2, ...., x' and went to Edx. When other sites on the web began to cover portions of this community I was using Edx here and kept that name on other sites. Then I switched back to Tad here because nobody understood 'Edx' without an explanation. Then later I had the idea to change my name on those other sites to Edxl (Ed, sized XL), which is outdated now but Ed2xl seemed even more confusing ... I'm glad I'd just switched back to Tad here)
I don’t like using the same name everywhere, so I picked a random animal. Penguins aren’t even my favourite lol
penguin is a great name!
Mine is really simple and I may have posted it on here before. First and middle name and year of birth. Now I would probably come up with something more interesting, but I wasn't really thinking about that way back when lol!
Loopy was actually the name of my pet snake when I was 12.
First account on anything anywhere with that name was Loopy3000143 on Neopets,18 years ago, hah.
First account as loopytheone was my deviantART account not long after.
First account as loopytheon was this year, because I can't type.
First account on anything anywhere with that name was Loopy3000143 on Neopets,18 years ago, hah.
First account as loopytheone was my deviantART account not long after.
First account as loopytheon was this year, because I can't type.
DazzlingAnna
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Loopy was actually the name of my pet snake when I was 12.
First account on anything anywhere with that name was Loopy3000143 on Neopets,18 years ago, hah.
First account as loopytheone was my deviantART account not long after.
First account as loopytheon was this year, because I can't type.
a pet snake
My first name on my birth certificate is Frank. However, my mother's side of the family, which is for the most part Georgian, wanted t have me baptized with a Georgian name and did so. They chose the name Shotha. As no one else on their side of the family has this name, I can only assume that they named me after the Georgian poet Shotha Rusthaveli, who wrote the Georgian national epic poem Vepkhist'q'aosani (The Knight in the Panther Skin). So, the name might not be my official name but I can claim that it is a real name. I've used it as a screen name on several sites.
I had several pet snakes growing up. I only named the first three, though.Loopy was actually the name of my pet snake when I was 12.
First account on anything anywhere with that name was Loopy3000143 on Neopets,18 years ago, hah.
First account as loopytheone was my deviantART account not long after.
First account as loopytheon was this year, because I can't type.
Sydney was my first. He was a Texas Bull Snake.
Pete was my second; a six-foot red-railed boa constrictor. He was actually the personal pet of the guy who ran the fish and reptile center at the pet store, but he gave Pete to me as a birthday gift when he had to go back out on the road. He was a truck-driver, primarily.
Herbie was my third; a Speckled Kingsnake.
I had a couple of others over the years, including a rescued boa, and a grey-banded kingsnake, but I reached a point where I didn't feel comfortable keeping anything in a cage, so I stopped keeping reptiles as pets.
I still catch them occasionally, though. Especially venomous ones that encroach on the property of wherever I've worked. I catch them to ease the anxiety of my co-workers and release them elsewhere, in places where they are less likely to come across humans.
Honestly, I do it more for the snakes, so they won't get killed by ignorant people, than I do for the humans.
Last edited:
squeezablysoft
***
Loopy was actually the name of my pet snake when I was 12.
First account on anything anywhere with that name was Loopy3000143 on Neopets,18 years ago, hah.
First account as loopytheone was my deviantART account not long after.
First account as loopytheon was this year, because I can't type.
I like Loopy cause it makes me think of Froot Loops. I'm a notorious cereal killer lol.
DazzlingAnna
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
A pet snake as a birthday present - that was how my very personal nightmare would begin.
Generally speaking I like animals but snakes kind of freak me out...
Yeah, I love animals, but not a fan of snakes over here either lol!
