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Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

(OP)
Some people have chosen names/aliases on this forum which seem to have at least some meaning to them.

This sometimes gets me curious.
It might also be interesting to know where people are from.

I'll start things of with a short explanation of my own alias.

Zesti
= Greek for "heat" and heat is of course an important factor in HVAC. (I am Dutch but have friends in Greece, so I chose a Greek alias on this forum)

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Maurice Stoker is a character from the book Giles Goatboy. He ran the power plant which was more like a zoo, and was best known for carnival desires and goatlike tendencies.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Maurice,
Was that truly 'carnival' desires?  Or another word that I misread it as the first time I read it?
Regards,
EEJaime

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

The carnival desires were mostly carnal, and certainly goatlike.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Young Frankestein

The way we build has a far greater impact on our comfort, energy consumption and IAQ, than any HVAC system we install

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Berkshire Manufacturing.
A company I used to work for, that built the first all fiberglass sailplane built in the united states in the 1970's.
 However lest you think I am out of place in this section of the forum. I served a 5 year apprenticeship fabricating and designing mechanical systems in the UK with a company called West gate Ventilation and  Ducting Ltd..
B.E.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

AbbyNormal,

When I worked at a pathology research center, a large brain tumor collection used to be kept in formaldehyde jars stored in cabinets along the basement corridor. There was always an "AbbyNormal" sign on at least one of the jars. I used to time visitor walks through the facility to pass Abby before lunch. Never failed, someone had to open the cabinet door and see AbbyNormal. Tough to eat chitlins afterwards.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Trashcanman = interesting character (totally nuts firebug) in "The Stand" by Stephen King.

 

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

KiwiMace - I'm from NZ (US resident at present) and Mace is short for my last name, Mason.  Not much of an abstraction, but if the alternatives are tumor samples and pyromaniacs, i'm ok with it.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

KBS- my initials... alas I have no imagination.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

HEC - Hutton Engineering Consulting, not much imagination here either!

Mark Hutton


 

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Just a shortening of my first 2nd and surname. First used as a hotmail address about 11 years ago.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

My daughter name..... to whom i love most :)

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

there was already an Ellis.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull
I became a private pilot in 1972, bought a 1942 Taylorcraft L-2, taught myself loops and spins etc. in 1973.  The poem/book referenced was hot that year thus other local pilots called me Jonathan Livingston Seagull back then.  I used this in a pilot forum and now here too.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Jlseagull,
Richard Bach was a customer of Berkshire MFG.
B.E.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

ehh die vsn mij snap je wel.
Mine is easy.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

I just made mine up. Random letters I guess.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Hey ChrisConley, me too!

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

HVAC68 - Whatever little I know is HVAC.  I added 68, which is my year of birth !  Absolutely, NO imagination at all !

HVAC68

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

desertfox

The nickname given to the WW2 german general Rommel by the alllies fighting in North Africa.

desertfox
 

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

I consider myself very lucky to be alive after all I been through and greatful
IMOK2

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

Rugby player who graduated from college in 1980 and only just hung up my boots in 2006.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

One of my hobbies.  Was told via a work group Hermann Brain Dominance test that my artistic tendencies were lacking so I found a medium that involved high heat, large hammers and a modicum of artistry.

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

KiwiMace - I'm from NZ (US resident at present) and Mace is short for my last name, Mason.  Not much of an abstraction, but if the alternatives are tumor samples and pyromaniacs, i'm ok with it.

I resemble that remark! heh!

RE: Any meaning to your alias/name and where are you from?

MedicineEng:
I am engineer and I have a past related with drugs...

I've worked in pharmaceuticals for 9+ years.

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