Introduce Yourself: What's your User Name based on?

[rottie007]

well my user name is simply the user name I use in all my online forum activities !! (missus says its due to my temper)
just bought myself a VC20 (yes VC not VIC) its not quite a runner yet but il lpost a thread in the repair section for this....


anyhows !!! Hi from the UK !

[shem]

I would like to wish everyone Happy holidays and a Happy new year I hope santa has been kind to you and brought you some nice commodore related items

I have been away from the commodore forums for some time but i have returned
Its good to be on familiar forum


Happy holidays everyone

shem...

[gklinger]

Welcome back to Denial too, shem!

[Legacy]

Legacy refers to obviously the usage in 2009 of the CBM VIC 20 machine, but the name is a bit older then that, probably stemming from my online games where I was still using windows 98 in 2005 when XP had been a widely accepted OS by that time. I thought the name was fitting. Getting back on the Vic 20 after all these years and actually understanding what it is I'm doing this time is more rewarding, and I'm hoping to gain real knowledge from this community of fellow users. And some of you have already gotten e-mails from me, Thanks for your time and wisdom.

[dano]

I'm new here and wanted to say hi. When the retro-computing but bit me in the mid 90s, Ward Shrake got me started collecting Vic-20 hardware and carts. Being more of a hardware nut than a gamer, my interests quickly expanded to other systems, but I never lost interest in the Vic. I recently ended up with 3 more of them and some more carts too I'm glad to find a place with some other people interested in the vic-20 instead of just the C64. Anyway, my user name is just first name, last initial... and nickname for way too long too.

[Mayhem]

Welcome... Ward might be retired from the retro scene but many of us are carrying on his fine groundwork

[dano]

Thanks. Because I have the good fortune of having a messy "mailbox" I thought someone might get a kick out of the following (from 3/3/98):

"Hi there. Glad you liked the page, and I "sold you" on the Vic20. That gave me
a smile; no one else has specifically commented on that part of the FAQ, as yet!"

Ward's reply when I e-mailed a bunch of questions when first taking an interest in the Vic

[Barney]

Well, I came up with my name like this: I like dinosaurs and I like the color purple. I decided to put them together and I came up with "barney".


barney

[PaulQ]

Well, I came up with my name like this: I like dinosaurs and I like the color purple. I decided to put them together and I came up with "barney".


barney

It's a good thing you cleared that up; I was thinking of this when I saw your name:

[Barney]

DigitalQuirk, who is that guy. He looks like Han Solo in tights with a cowlick from hell.

Barney

[gklinger]

That's Barney Calhoun. Pretty obscure. I would have been less surprised if he had gone with:

[PaulQ]

Yep, Barney Calhoun from my favourite game series, Half-Life.



I liked him better before he put on the weight.

[Ian Colquhoun]

Calhoun eh? That's a common misspelling of my last name Colquhoun. Pronounced call-hoon outside of Scotland, ca-hoon inside. Apparently the error creeped in as early immigrants to the US and Canada were often illiterate and didn't even know the correct spelling of their own names. Immigration officers got creative, hence Calhoun, Calhoon, Colhoun, etc, etc...

[Pedro Lambrini]

^
Only if you speak Gaelic!

I'm Scottish and so is my girlfriend and we would both pronounce the 'L' in it ie/ Cal-hoon. Maybe it wasn't just the early immigrants that were illiterate? Either that or you foreigners have corrupted us!

[Ian Colquhoun]

^
Only if you speak Gaelic!

Not exactly... however it may be a Glasgow/Edinburgh thing. My dad is from Glasgow, and oddly, all the other Scots that I associate with regularly in my pipe band are also Glaswegians. Who knows? ... or cares for that matter.