Off-day, off-topic discussion! Derivation of your screenname?

mine stands for
What The Fuck

Mine’s from an MMORPG I used to watch my brother play. It was really clique-y between Japanese speaking and English speaking players (even though it was supposed to facilitate friendship between them, whoops) and he’d constantl run around trying to find people to play with, only to be answered with “JP Onry!” (and they did actually type it like that). He thought it was funny and yelled it a lot while he was playing it and I thought it was funny too, so I sort of picked it up and started using it as my general internet screenname.

Mine stands for tasha k. That is me.
People call me this IRL quite often and it’s also how I sign my emails and stuff.

I was lurking here prior to joining in late May 2006. I had just attended a game with the illustrious TK where she told me there would be some dudes from this blog called McCovey Chronicles attending the game and we should say hey to them, like Willie Mays. It was Grant, DeadTeddy8, GiantJim, and Goofus, I think.

Like I’ve said before I usually avoid sports blogs and stuff on the interwebs because most of the people participating in discussions are idiot males obsessed with their own genitals, and obsessed with their opinions which resemble said genitals. But I gave it a go anyway, reading the blog.

I laughed out loud at several things Grant wrote, but the one that really got me was him making fun of some big display of pageantry that had to do with Tommy Lasorda. In Grant’s post he created a dialogue between FOX (I think) network and programming heads and one of them called the other “Baron Von Current Events” in a sarcastic manner.

I died laughing at that. The rest, history. I’m even less of a baron than Baron Davis is a baron. But I loved the name and instantly loved the site.

I registered for a Geocities site way way way back in the day, but all the logins that related to things I was interested in were taken (I was not smart enough to add a random number to them). So I made up a word.

sandlot game when I was 17, a flat footed future doctor type accidentally got a-hold of one and the result was me losing conciousness (sp?) and two teeth.

I was given the name “toofruss” by some guys in the Navy and I have used it ever since.

A simple reference to Frank Gore’s mastery being unleashed on other teams. Was a member @ Niners Nation first so just decided to use the same name.

when I was like 13 that postcard (that my cousin had sent to me) was hanging above my desk or something, so when I went to make my first ever AOL screenname, that was what I picked. been my name pretty much everywhere ever since.

I’m from the City, but lived in Wash, DC between 2001-July 2007. About five minutes after I created an acct, I realized it should’ve been Andy in DC, but them’s the breaks.

Oh and Andy is short for Andrew, my middle name. Yay.

There was a “bring back crazy crab” petition online somewhere and I used mesokrabby(like me so horny, get it?) as my signature. Later that day I wanted to post on MCC and needed a screen name. MeSoKrabby is a reflection of my loyalty to Crazy Crab and my rejection of everything Lou Seal.

My favorite failed Giants first base prospect.

And since I like it so much, here a bonus for you… My avatar is from one of the all time great comic strips, Pearls Before Swine. The End o’ The World Box just seemed such an appropriate symbol for this season of Giants Baseball.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-xanthan-gum.htm

I got mine here.

...though I do like to point out that I adopted it back when Kruk was just informally eliminating folks, before there was an actual sponsored feature.

Which reminds me, is Esurance still sponsoring that spot? I should hit them up for some money.

My name is not creative. If i had to choose a name that wasn’t boring, it would be:

i am a hotdog

I actually have no idea where I got mine or why did I (originally) spell it “coockyman”.

But I’d say this topic is worth revisiting.

I wanted a handle that was somewhat funny, and involved an obscure Giants player. Stuttering John was one of Howard Stern’s lackeys, while John Tamargo was a Giants catcher from the late 70’s, whom I believe is still managing the Durham Bulls.

“Shock jock meets shocking mediocrity.” – Moggeee

Because I think it’s hilarious that Mike Benjamin got like 14 hits over 3 days to set the major league record. First, I can’t believe they keep a record for that. Second, Mike Benjamin hit like .220 over his career otherwise. Third, that Giants team in 1995 was terrible and no one wants to remember anything about them.

Finally, it plays on the fact that Pete Rose who is clearly a huge douche proclaims himself to be the “Hit King” wherever he goes, Even wearing hats with that phrase on them. Basically, I’m trying to knock him down a peg by equating his career with that of the illustrious Mike Benjamin.

I am Dave. But there are lots us Dave’s. We are every were. No one was using exile much so I thought I would slap it together. It helps that at them time I thought the Front Office had cast my team out of the land of winning baseball. Damn I hate it when I am right about these things.

Also my name in real life is Nat, which in Japanese would pronounced as “natto”. (It sounds more like “not-toe”, in case you were ever curious about it) No, my avatar is not a picture of myself.

Mine is from the infamous “ballpark” where I grew up watching games: The Big O

Furf Rocky, since I was kinda sick of it.

Widget is the name of my dog:

When I came up with it, it was because

a) I had very long hair, a beard, and a mustache, all of which hadn’t been trimmed in years.

b) a “hairball” sounded kind of like a pitch, like a screwball or a curveball.

Over a year ago now, I cut the hair- dramatically. I now have a mostly clean-shaven face, with a small jaw beard kind of like Pedro Feliz’s Abe Lincoln thing but subtler, and very short hair on my head. No stache. It’s all 3/8”, because that’s the setting on my buzz-cutter. I think it still works with the name because I’m fuzzy, like a tennis ball, which is kind of a hairball, if you think of it. Of course, there’s always those things my cat coughs up…

Grew up in a Cardinals-loving part of Missouri, so my option for a team choice was fairly poor (especially as how I hate the f’n Cardinals, despite being named after their greatest player, Stanley Frank Musial). Might have joined the Royals clan, but they weren’t mentioned all that much where I was at.

So I became a Giants fan at the tender age of eight, right about the same time Clark’s second HR cleared the fence as SF pimp-slapped the Cubs.

Gators just came along as Spurrier arrived and was cemented when I attended school in Florida during a brief stint my freshman year. Brief enough to realize I couldn’t expect to attend class while there was a beach within walking distance…

A laboratory guy who dealt the clear.

Thanks to Kim Deal for a killer b line

Also, I was Presidnet of the William Van Luanchingpad (er…VanLandingham) Fan Club before the site changed over to this new format.

Since the change, I notice someone took a similar name.

attending ucsb, my two die-hard giants buddies and i rolled down to anaheim to catch game 1 at the espnzone in front of disneyland. fun times. game six comes around and we say, hey, lets go and do that again. we get there, and this scalper guy offers us tix of a lifetime. we take it. my friends favorite player, shawon duston, goes yard and its magical. Errythang is goin our way.

The rest is kind of a blur. I remember being attacked by a monkey and “fans” with the tags hanging off their brand new hats/jerseys. I remember a long, silent drive home. I think we went to Denny’s? I don’t remember how we got back. Sorry for bringing it up.

At least now its got a happy meaning over at goldenstateofmind.

Patterned my SS play in high school/JC after him.

Unfortunately my hitting was pretty much on par as well.

For years at several different places. If you ever saw WalrusMan(maybe plus numbers here) on AIM, a roller coaster forum, or a Roller Coaster Tycoon forum, it’s probably me. I think originally I got the name from I Am The Walrus, and then I’m a man, and then that was taken on AIM so I added on 13 for my favourite number, well that was taken so I added on 9 for “Number Nine, Number Nine”.

And I just keep on using it. Don’t really have a reason to change at all I guess.

Back in my little league days, they put four kids in the outfield, reserving the extra spot for only the best players that would otherwise be hogging up valuable space on the bench. Naturally, I played that position a lot, showing off my Marvin Benard skills on the field and complementing my Todd Linden abilities at the plate.

In the event that I did get on base (usually via a walk), I could run, so I did steal a lot of bases. I suppose I was a mini Rajai Davis in that regard.

It’s absolutely a sex thing.

Although I have visited this wonderful city three times, I have never actually gone for a swim there. But it looks nice, and makes for a swell screen name.

Well, my first name is Karl, and my last name is Ifornia

i’m a lord of the rings/middle earth dork. Melkor was the person who taught Sauron his ways and was basically the most evil entity in the history of Tolkiens lore. i’ve used it for years for online gaming.

My name is William Rivera. The number 21 is in honor of Roberto Clemente.

I think it’s pretty self-explanatory.

Little Napoleon is a nickname given to Military leaders who are short, semi-succesful, and very angry all of the time.

Having grown up as the shortest male around me (Topping out at 5’5”), and having a firey temper, I identify with the idea of a Napoleon complex. To me, the phrase ‘Little Napoleon’ is a humours way of acknowleding being short without being a complete dick.

freshman year in college the only choice for chugging drinks were Mickey’s, so i liked the green hornet mascot. of course by the time aim screen names games to be the green hornet was taken by all the bruce lee fans, so i changed it to my favorite color and tacked on my birth year.

and the avatar is the scariest god damn picture ive ever done seen.

I thought it was sort of obvious when I started on here over a year ago that it referred to Section 311 of our ballpark, and that I had had the temerity to name myself the mayor of that section. (It’s true that I’m the most frequent regular in View Box 311, and before the Heir of the Mayor came along, I kept score at games and know all the rules, so questions about the game would inevitably come to me. Hence my mayoral, uh, “credentials.”)

Turns out, not so obvious. In the previous discussion of screennames, I learned that a lot of young people on here thought it was a reference to some musical combo called 311. I have never heard them, but I’m sure they’re a nice bunch of kids.

from a fake pitcher we used to pretend to be when we were pissed off at each other while playing baseball in my yard. headhunter rollins always squinted and then plunked whomever was at bat. started a lot of fights for sure. we used to talk about him with such disdain at school that kids thought he was real..fun times

After a lot of lurking I had an urge to say something one day. E, was already taken and I found that I uncharacteristically could not come up with anything at all

i live in SLO

and it is very lonely here for people with orange skin. I suppose that holds true for most places.

no, but seriously in a 1400 person high school there are approximately 8 Giants fans and like 1700 dodgers fans.

it’s horrible.

circa 1999, I think.

created by a fellow McCoven (McCovii?) for a certain half-filipino pitcher

I moved to San Diego almost two years ago from SF and started posting here because I missed talking Giants baseball with people who are not my Padres-loving girlfriend. Thankfully, between here, Extra Innings and having tickets to every Giants game in SD, I get my fill. (Also, I grew up in a household of A’s fans, so even as a kid I was a bit of a Giants fan in exile.) Little wordy but seemed to work when all smooshed together. Just an FYI, I also post over at BBTF sometimes, but there I’m SantoFan (always admired Ron Santo, needed a name… voila). If I had thought about it I probably would have gone with KrukKuipFan here.

That’s 1975 CB talk but that was in Von Joshua and Dave Rader’s days….first TV game I ever saw (1961), my Dad tells me, “McCovey hits Drysdale like he’s his cousin.” Bewildered as I was, he explained that Willie Mac has really roughed up Drysdale in his short time in the majors….so I went with the handle…..I looked up his stats against the hated Dodger….12 homers, .338 BA, .680 SLG….thanks cuz.

OldJacket sounds like a screen name.

Also, I own more than one vintage sport coat. That’s about as much thought as went into it.

I use Green Apron Monkey for most comments left on blogs on the interwebs, because I started a blog under that name years ago while working at Starbucks. I don’t remember why I didn’t use that here.

So there I am, one night, in Paris. I’m sitting in a bar with a drunk artist, a very drunk anarchist, and a sober me. We decide that because we are 24, 19, and 18 respectively, and we’re in Paris nearly unanimously drunk, we need to come up with a new theory on how to live life.

Thus was born “Brute Sentimentality and the Existential One-Life Stand.”

Basically, it means:

• Sometimes to be nice to someone, you’ve got to hurt them.
• Live life like a one-night stand. If there’s another day after it, awesome, but just in case there’s not, do everything you want to and don’t go to sleep early.

A few years later, I asked the guys if they minded me using it for a new screenname. (One said yes, the other said dog. Guess which was which.) It oddly fits, because I’m usually an a**hole in telling people what I think or feel.

Grew Up In San Diego in the 60’s and 70’s. As a small fry, the expansion Pad’s really had nothing to draw you in as a fan. The Giants had Mays, Marichal, et al. Much more interesting and great history as well. Been a Giants fan/Dodgers hater for a long time.

Have had many other screen names on various sites, but when I joined McC last year, NVSFG just popped into my mind. I have since converted all of my other screen names to it. It is sufficiently vague, but very descriptive once you figure it out. Pretty much always available as well.

I got relocated to Reno, NV in 1994 by my employer. The SFG part should be obvious :-)

Mine is taken from a long, very old and absolutely marvelous Tom Paxton song about baseball and fathers and sons. Its about a young kid who loves pitching, at age 17 he’s signed by the Cards and dazzles in the minors and life is just the greatest:

That was my favorite spring, I could do anything
Full six feet tall and lean, I was just seventeen
My fastball was nothin’ but smoke, my curve ball snapped and broke
My change-up made ‘em look bad, they couldn’t hit a thing I had

Korean war breaks out, he enlists in the Air Force and goes to Japan, plays on the squadron team (“we were all Far East Champs”). Then during a game there (“bottom of the 7th, throwin’ easy as can be”) he blows out his shoulder and his playing days are over. He comes back to the States, gets settled, has a son and “the first time he asked I taught him everything I know”.

The song then ends this way:

And this is my favorite spring. He can do anything
Full six feet tall and lean, he’s just seventeen
His fastball gives ‘em the shakes, his curve ball snaps and breaks
His change-up makes ‘em look bad, people say he takes after his dad…

I was never any kind of athlete, but I’ve loved baseball and the Giants for over 40 years now. During the last 10 years or so my own son has become a huge Giants fan too, and in many ways a much more knowledgable one than me in his understanding of the nuances of the game. In the last 8 or 9 years we’ve gone to a bunch of games at PacBell, and watched or listened together to hundreds on tv or the internet. Those of you who have kids can appreciate how sweet that is for me. I think its pretty sweet for him too.

I introduced him to McC a while back and he posts here quite a bit (I’m sworn to secrecy regarding his identity…). So McC, Grant and all of you have become a part of this too. Ain’t that cool?

a friend in high school called me larson randomly (but only very, very occasionally), and i never found out why. i added the numbers to be futuristic. been using it off and on since then.

also, some of you may know the importance of 42.

and it helps that gary larson is a genius comic creator.

I found that my prior on-line moniker would confuse people as to my disposition (I chose it to be funny, but like most inside jokes, few if any people got it: Biased Giants Fanatic; I’m not very biased, being a math nerd, I am more comfortable with numbers and facts) so I chose one that was closer to the real me. Plus, I was moving on at that point from bad experiences while using that moniker and thus it seemed like a good thing to change at that time. And ogc has felt right to me.

It’s kinda self-explanatory, isn’t it?!?

I’m not unique. I’ve got no stories from distant lands. No initials or nicknames, no other names already taken.

So ya…who wants a drink?

And lack of orginality for my new screen name.

Is an independent record label that’s based in San Francisco. 23 represents a certain basketball player who happens to have the same last name that I do.

was my original usenet name from back in the day before we had the real interwebs (ca. 1990). It’s a pseudoanagram of my name Ben Hitz.

was one of my better fantasy baseball team names, if I do say so myself. It was probably around 2002, when folks were starting to suspect that steroid/HGH use was rampant, and that certain baseball players were either animatronic or products of late 20the century genetic engineering, ala Khan.

around that same, a friend of mine and I were doing so-called imitations of Gene Hackman yelling in Crimson Tide and Unforgiven. so the Gene Hackman seemed pretty apropo.

Mine comes from the old “Goofus and Gallant” stories in “Children’s Highlights (the magazines for kids in the doctor’s office. They depicted how the two boys would go about doing things in an efforst to teach kids manners and such. (“Gallant knocks on the old lady across the street’s door to see how she’s doing…Goofus knocks on her door and leaves a flaming bag of poo.)

Plus, it sounds just plain goofy.

But it comes from my childhood memories of the ‘Stick… and my dad saying ‘You get drunk faster watching Johnny Disaster’ after another error.

Cockman.

I think he’d have a pretty good story for this one.

I think its pretty obvious.

The monicker “Kid Fresh” goes back to 1994- – I was 23…. just when the interwebs were taking off. Kid Fresh has been my online pseudonym since day one. .... I’m not so much a kid anymore, but after 14 years, I don’t feel like changing.

cp stands for Cal Poly, where I am currently getting my degree in sports management, and 756 because being at AT&T park in center field during 756 was seriously the greatest moment of my life

When I was a kid, one of the animals I saw at the Bronx Zoo made an impression on me as the most beautiful and noble of em all. I’m talking, of course, about the Bengal Tiger.

I keed. Anyway … I still love the SL. Like me, they’re not so big but they’re fierce, they’re mysterious, they’re affiliated with Buddhism. So, it’s my DJ name, it’s one of my tattoos ( ), it’s my screen/account name whenever I can get away with it …

You can help defray my legal expenses here...

I used to be DeadTeddy8 because my first band was called The Dead Teddys and 8 is my number.

Now, I’m on an anti-anonymity kick.