Rationale for your username

[brian1961]

Mine's easy---first name followed by the year I began collecting baseball cards. I was a few months shy of turning 7. ---Brian Powell

[mrvster]

my ebay handle.....my friend Mike used to call me the "vster" because my last name , vanderbeck.....was a nickname of sorts...then he added "mr" one day...]


hence mr "vster"

I just carried over from ebay

pretty dumb, but back in the day all the ebay handles were taken

btw...

pronounce mr "veester"

[Sean1125]

Originally Posted by mrvster

my ebay handle.....my friend Mike used to call me the "vster" because my last name , vanderbeck.....was a nickname of sorts...then he added "mr" one day...]


hence mr "vster"

I just carried over from ebay

pretty dumb, but back in the day all the ebay handles were taken

btw...

pronounce mr "veester"

I always read it "Merv stir" LOL

Name/Birthday

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

I always read it "Merv stir" LOL

Name/Birthday

Wow! You were born Jan 1 of 1925!

[Tabe]

Mine is a childhood nickname based on my last name. Hardly anybody other than my parents, my wife, and a couple co-workers calls me by real name. To everybody else, it's "Tabe".

As for the avatar, well, a few years back there was a web site where you could submit a photo and it would create a "Simpsons" character of you based on your photo. A co-worker friend of mine did that for our entire group, with hilarious results. Mine actually is a fairly good representation of what I actually look like and so I've adopted it as an avatar.

[gypsyking13]

Mine comes from a contest I won with Topps. I got a card in the 2013 Gypsy Queen set where the title of the card was Gypsy King. My sports number in high school was 13.

[birdman42]

My username and avatar come from my first passion, birds. The 42 is because it's the answer to everything, so it should be a part of everything.

The pic is of an osprey diving for dinner. Spent last weekend working with the Cape May Raptor Banding Project; more ospreys, hawks, falcons and eagles than you could count.

Bill

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

I always read it "Merv stir" LOL

I always read it as "Marv Stir"

[jefferyepayne]

I've found that the older I get, the less I remember so have made my name my user id for pretty much every account that I can. I figure it's the last thing I'll remember before they cart me away

jeff

[mrvster]

it!

[Centauri]

I took mine from a character in the movie Last Starfighter - a favorite of mine as a kid. Also, I post on several internet sites, and the name is not common.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by Centauri

I took mine from a character in the movie Last Starfighter - a favorite of mine as a kid. Also, I post on several internet sites, and the name is not common.

LOVED that movie as a kid!!

[chipperhank44]

Back in the early days of the internet, I needed a screen name for AOL instant messenger. In all my 13 year old wisdom, I picked my two favorite baseball players (Chipper Jones and Hank Aaron) and combined their names. To follow the popular form, at least among my friends, I needed a number on the end. Hank Aaron's 44 was the natural choice.

[emmygirl]

Mine is in remembrience of a beautiful Springer Spanial I had as a pet for many wonderful years. Her name was Emmy but I called her Emmygirl. Still miss her.

[asoriano]