Mine is very complex - my first name. 99% won't know how to pronounce it. Anglicised spelling, Owen.

My displayed name is just my name. My actual SS username (visible on the status bar if you hover over someone's displayed name) is Tubkas, which I've used on lots of sites, though I always change the display to George Willson. I came up with Tubkas in high school when I was trying to conceive of a character that would be the "me" in some stories I was writing. At the time, I played trombone in band, and I was at the top of my class not only at my school but in the district. An ancient version of the trombone is called a sackbut. Seriously. It's an egyptian thing. I flipped that around backwards (because turning words backwards to give them interesting meanings is what I do) and I got Tubkcas. Since that looked silly spelled that way, I dropped the 'c' to get Tubkas. I further moved the dropped 'c' to the character's first name which also played into my town's name. Therefore, my main character in Bluffs, CO became Cliff Tubkas. It's such a unique name, I was pretty well guaranteed that I'd get it every time I signed up for anything. There you go.

Quoted from Eoin Mine is very complex - my first name. 99% won't know how to pronounce it. Anglicised spelling, Owen.

Thanks Eoin, for some reason when you mentioned that, I pictured the movie "Leap Year"' great movie if you haven't seen it and I believe there was a Eoin in it.

Alex

Because when I smoke the wrong stuff I have some weird dreams. Well, actually it's...


....Because of this place....


http://db.tt/uNrWv3Or


Where I dream of spending more time. Managed to write my first script there this year after I bought FD final draft app for my IPad

Quoted from Reef Dreamer http://db.tt/uNrWv3Or Where I dream of spending more time.

That place looks stunning, Bill... Where is that? It reminds me of that blue cottage from Atonement.

Quoted from pia My family gave me the name "Angry Bear".

Hmm.  I thought it was a joke between you and Bert because of his story 'The Farm' and the angry bear in that script.  :-)


All right, this might take a minute.

rc

Randall Cage was a character in a story that I scrapped when I was in my teens.  I liked the name for some reason and used it as a pen name whenever I would write a romantic piece and submit it somewhere.  (This was back when I only wrote gross stuff.)

Eventually, it turned into an alias for me during my first arrest.  I happened to have lost my I.D. earlier that day, and when the cops asked me my name, (this was back before they ever had a record of Mark Lyons or my prints), I gave them Randall Cage as my name, told them that I was homeless from Texas, then I gave them my social security number backwards.  Nothing ever came up in their system and they decided not to charge me and just dropped me off at the rescue mission, (where I would eventually volunteer at and still do for the past several years.)

RC always pops up somewhere usually whenever I look around.  Especially when I was in my late teens.

-RC Pro-Am was my favorite Nintendo game growing up.
-Royal Crown is my favorite soda.  (It's also an old gas station.  I found one of their shirts at a thrift shop and wear it religiously.)
- Rainclowns was a band I was in for a couple years.  (The name's now being revived with the new band I'm working with.)
- And, of course, most importantly, Rick Carlisle is coach of the Dallas Mavericks!


The 1107 is my birthday.  November 7th.

Jonathan Lebed was a teenager who made a small fortune between 1990 & 2000 by hyping penny stocks online that he owned.

He was prosecuted and was forced to forfeit a large part of his earnings as part of the deal.

I thought to myself, how F%ucking ironic!

A teenager smart enough to come up with sales pitches to make his product (penny stocks) profitable and the FEDS step in and take his money.

I was in the market at the time and was (along with a lot of people) very impressed by how he did it.

Now days, if you turn on the T.V., there is a show called MAD MONEY where that guy (Kramer) I think, does the exact same thing. Pumps his own stocks then short sells them and makes a fortune.

Lebed-

Ledbetter-

Got a text from him on one of the penny sites complementing me on my smart-A$$ choice of screen names.

I've kept it every sense.

Shawn.....><

Quoted from rc1107 -RC Pro-Am was my favorite Nintendo game growing up.

OMG! This!
I practically wore out the cartridge.
Had to keep blowing on the board to keep it going! ;D



Now I want to play! ;D

Regards,
E.D.

Quoted from shawn (aka) ledbetter Jonathan Lebed

And all this time I just thought you were a Pearl Jam fan.


Wow, Bret.  Just looking at that cartridge puts me in nostalgia.

:-)  Lol.  And also, what you said reminds me of that T-shirt with the nintendo cartridge on it that says 'Blow Me' in Super Mario Bros. lettering.  I loved that one.

Well, I suppose I should weigh in on this fine thread...

There's a bit of a story behind my moniker.

The movie, "Electric Dreams" was written and produced by a family friend...



It's a tech driven spin on Cyrano that delivers old style romance.
And deals with computer integration into routine daily life... back in 1984!
The movie was a little ahead of the curve in that respect.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/

There's many reasons why I'm terribly fond of this film.
At the top of the list would be that our family dog was in the movie.
There's a big dopey Airedale puppy that's a neighbor's dog.
He barks at the sentient computer and pees on the floor.
That was our beloved boy, Kramer!

And I love the impish desktop avatar.
Methinks it suits me.

Cheers,
E.D.

Quoted from Alex_212 So you just create a new account and discard the old ??? Can the same email address be used ?

Go to your "member center" click on profile info or something like that then simply change your screen name.

I remember one year on Halloween, everyone changed their user names and avatars. It was funny because you had no idea who was who without doing a little checking.  

Quoted from Pale Yellow Yellow: Pure, bright and sunny yellow is the easiest color to see. People who are blind to other colors can usually see yellow. Yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy. And "I" scream energy...I'm like the burning sun(too much energy at times...often shorting out my electrical appliances, cars, computers) I know crazy but true. Just ask my husband!

I have a yellow car and my insurance company told me my insurance rate is lower than on other cars because yellow is the easiest color to see. Therefore, yellow cars are in fewer accidents.  

Quoted from rc1107 And all this time I just thought you were a Pearl Jam fan.

Makes sense you would think so...

Great song....GREAT BAND!!!

Huge...HUGE Pearl Jam fan... :D

Grunge in general stole my heart when Seattle started pouring it out...

It all started and ended to soon...

Shawn.....><

Cinemachado... I'll ignore the cinema part and tell you my surname is Machado.

FUCK Pearl Jam and all the other crap grunge that tried its best to kill my beloved metal!!!  Metal will never die, it just had to "move" across the pond...which is a perfect lead in to my moniker...

I've always been big into music and especially music with an edge, like metal.

We're going back to the big 80's here, before computers were a household staple, and the internet was just a wet dream.

My sister was a bit of a wild child back in the day, and had the opportunity to spend 1 semester of college in Luxumbourg.  She went to see a Slaughter concert there with friends, and met some crazy Deutschlander, who happened to be in a metal band.  Knowing how much I loved all things metal, she get a promotional CD from this guy's band, named "Dreamscale".

She gave me the CD for Christmas that year, and I fell in love with it, because it was exactly the kind of music I loved and it was far off the beaten path, where I like to roam.

One of the songs was also called Dreamscale, and the song was about one's "dreamscale", which relates to how high or low something is on one's dream scale.  I thought it was cool shit and still listen to this CD today, thinking back to those golden years.

I started using it as my login name for just about everything I do online.

So, there you have it - the dreamscale.  Guess what ranks pretty consistently high on my dreamscale?  

Quoted from nawazm11 That place looks stunning, Bill... Where is that? It reminds me of that blue cottage from Atonement.

Les ecrehous

Try googling it

It's a reef  of rocks Seven miles off  jersey, seven miles from France