How did you pick your Beesource.com name?

[magnet-man]

OK, lets just say the cat is very curious and is about to die. There are a few of us that have unusual names on this board. Some of the names are easy to guess and others are not. So lets share the source of our names. There has to be a story behind the name “wishthecuttlefish”.

Magnet-man is from when I sold neodymium magnets on eBay.



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[Michael Bush]

Mine is a tough one. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif I didn't think I had anything to hide, so I just went with my real name. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Rob Mountain]

Ok, Rob Mountain, yes my last name is Mountain, first name Robin.

I suppose I could have used some of my Zulu names.

This thread should be inserting


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[magnet-man]

I knew, I really really did, I should have put a qualifier. I had a feeling you would say something like that Michael Bush. Did your package come today?

[Barry Digman]

Well, my real name is Barry, and I figured that could get confusing real fast. Coyote has to do with them being tricksters in Native American cultures.

[Barry]

My real name is Barry. I feel honored that there is another Barry among us. Maybe we're actually the same person, just playing out our different sides? I prefer to be straight up with people on lists like this and not be somewhat elusive with my identity. Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough to come up with a good "handle".

How about the rest of you coming clean with real names?

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[magnet-man]

OK Barry here it is.

William Marshall Samples, II (Bill)

Named after my Grandfather. The name Marshall has survived at least 6 generations that I know of. I did guilt my sister into using the name. “But Stephanie you have to make Ryan’s middle name Marshall. Dad is a Marshall, I am, your dead brother was, your uncle is and Grandfather was. You are the only grandchild that has a male son. If you don’t use Marshall the name will die, besides it will make Grandmother and Dad happy.”

Two years later my wife had a son and he is Robert Marshall Samples. We all know where the Marshall comes from.

[JohnBeeMan]

My grandmother's maiden name was Beeman. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

[honeyman46408]

Having had many "handles" since 1975 in the CB craz, some people call me " Big Ed " among other things http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif I am the only person selling honey in the 46408 Zip code aera Soooo now you know!!

Edward Rice

[Dick Allen]

>How about the rest of you coming clean with real names?

That is my real name. Well, actually it's Richard. Like Michael, nothing to hide. Some of these nicknames are a real http://www.beesource.com/ubb/confused.gif on gender.

[Frohnho]

First 7 leters of my last name. Its my computer name. I use it for every e-mail address and every web site screen name. Never found a site where I couldn't use it.
Just call me Bob
Robert C. Frohnhoefer

[Sharkey]

Well, Sharkey is a nickname, but a "real" one. People who knew me prior to , oh... about 10 years ago, know me by "Jim Pruette".

About that time, I formed alittle band with a friend, my wife, and her daughter. They were my backup singers. We lived on Sharkhead Circle, so we thought it would be funny to name the band, "Sharkey and the Vendettas". We did, the name stuck on me, especially after my biker bros picked up on it and started using it.

So........ most of my coworkers and the folks around town and so forth know me for the past ten years as Sharkey. Ta da !!!

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It's Not The Destination, It's The Journey. We Cannot Change The Wind, But We CAN Trim The Sails.

[dragonfly]

Dragonflies are very numerous on my gorgeous piece of Texas because of a wooded live creek that runs through it, and if I was told that I had to choose an insect to become, a dragonfly it would be. They start out as water creatures, and morph into creatures of the sky.

[Michael Bush]

No package yet.

[aufingers]

I am a jeweler by trade with a custom shop in my home. When I am working with gold I get gold dust on my hands, hence aufingers (gold fingers) It does seem a little out of place when I come in from working with the horses and sit down to set diamonds, look down and see a little horse processed hay on my boots.
Have a great week,
Earl White

[BULLSEYE BILL]

I own and opperate an indoor shooting range called BULLSEYE!. I answer the phone "Bullseye, Bill speaking", so everyone calles me Bullseye Bill. Except my ridin' bros, they still call me Chaindrive. In the Society for Creative Anachronism my registered rank and title in the college of heralds in England is Duke Syr William V'tavia, K.S.C.A., O.L., etc. etc.
http://www.sca.org/

[dtwilliamson]

Just decided to go with my first 2 initials and my last name. First name is Daniel. Siblings and parents call me Daniel. Everyone else I know calls me Dan.

Dan T. Williamson

[wishthecuttlefish]

The source of my name is from a character that I play in an online massive player game called "The Final Challenge". This is a text only real-time role playing game similar to D&D. My character is a walking talking cuttlefish names "Wish". For more information see www.finalchallenge.net (http://www.finalchallenge.net) or www.mudconnector.com (http://www.mudconnector.com)


Kai

[wishthecuttlefish]

Oh yeah, one more thing. My real name is Kai Richardson. And no, "kai" is not short for anything, nor is it a nickname. It's Finnish for "John", or hawaiian for "water" or "ocean", and no, I am not Finnish or Hawaiian, I am just a plain old mulatto from Kensington, Maryland.

Kai

[Mitch]

Ok this is an easy one.My real name is Robert Mitchell.Hence i sign Bob and alot of people call me Mitch with a few other ones we wont get into here.

[Phoenix]

I've been self employed my entire adult life, on August 19, 1996 the building my business was located in burned to the ground. I had no business insurance, having been assured all my equipment was covered under the insurance of the business I was renting space from. Come to find out, only $3000 dollars of other vendors equipment was covered, which I had to split with another vendor. After much soul searching I decided to rise up, start over, rebuild from the ashes that contained my livelyhood... Hence, the name Phoenix, from the Greek mythological bird, symbolizing the sign of re-birth, rising out of the ashes or flames.

[BjornBee]

Bjorn is from my wifes families side. Her father is Vagn Predbjorn Jensen, who is a rather distiguished author in Denmark. There is some major debate as to what the "Pred" means, some saying "strong", and a few others that are hard to translate into english. Bjorn is scandinavian for bear. Predbjorn is my wifes middle name, and my daughter. It is also the name given to my bee business, Bjorn Apiaries.

My real name is Mike. And no sense killing that name any more than it already has been. I've also been called "The Frug(cooking skills after the chef, Steve Smith), Doc, the Stork (after my football days), and some other colorfull names not to be mentioned here, but those are people who have never shook my hand or actually have come to know me.

[ikeepbees]

Self explanatory! Real name is Rob Koss. I have a standing offer to buy dinner for any of you should you travel through Mobile, AL (I live there) or New Orleans (I work there).
Just give me a few days notice!

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[magnet-man]

Oh how I miss New Orleans. Do I miss the po-boys! http://www.beesource.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Sharkey]

Hello Ikeepbees,

Mobile is my hometown, though I live about 100 miles east of there now. I was visiting a couple of weeks ago, went to the flea market on Schillenger, and went to a fund raiser for USA that night.

LAST weekend, went to New Orleans just to visit, went to Magazine street looking for an armoire, had lunch at Casamento's, breakfast at Croissant D'ore, beignet's and cafe au lait at the Cafe DuMonde. And other assorted luxuries.

Maybe I will catch you next time.

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[Mitch]

honeyman46408
AKA Big Ed Do you still have a cb radio.
If any of you are CBers and Here the Beekeeper in the Buckeye State That would be me.Oh yes 27.285 (Chanel 28 AM)
Bob

[beekeeper28]

beekeeper28 = bee keeper and my birthday is on the 28th day of the month. When I first joined I was in ahurry and so I just typed in the first thing that came to mind and intended togo back later and update my profile or chaneg my name, but never have.

My birth name is Tomas Lee Neal (no "h" so it has the spanish pronoucation)
my CB handle was bookworm when I was growing and I would ride w/ my trucker Dad (goathead) I was always reading a book as we traveled the roads.

[honeyman46408]

Mitch
I still have the first CB that I bought in 1975 and it is in teh truck and the mag mount is laying in the bed I don`t use it much any more or the two meter ham radio next to it http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif CU in the ROOM!

[odfrank]

As in Oliver D. Frank. Not Odd Frank, as MB insists, although aren't all of us beekeepers a bit odd?

[honeyman46408]

odfrank
That is the general public openion I think.

[sugar bandit #2]

I found that a local supermarket was having a sale on granulated surgar (limit 5). I got caught in the checkout lane with about 20 or 30 bags over the limit. (Always use the checkout lane with the newly-hired cashire).I got this tip from a well known beekeeper in the area that I happened to be mentoring with, so I decided to add the #2 to my user name out of respect. Ever since I've been labled as the notorious "sugar bandit of Madison county". I'm currently seeking counsleing for my little problem.

[jfischer]

> I got caught in the checkout lane with
> about 20 or 30 bags over the limit.

Here in the mountains of Virginia, such
a purchase would prompt a visit from the
polite, neatly dressed, and heavily-armed
young men from the bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms, as this is moonshine
country.

And yeah, before you ask, there has been more
than one moonshiner who decided to keep bees
and use the honey to make moonshine to avoid
the bulk purchase of sugar.

"The bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms"...
is this a great country, or what? All the
good stuff is handled in ONE department!


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[magnet-man]

Now lets stay on topic people.

The topic police

[Dee]

rarely does anyone ever actually call me Dee (and i'm not sure why) but its a short user name so thats why i went with it
my real name is Deanna Briggs so therefor for all of you who ask -- no i am not Dee Lusby (i do believe she always uses her last name) had i know there was a "Dee" user name here already i probably wouldnt have used it

anyway, have a good one, Dee http://www.beesource.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[Dick Allen]

It's great knowing who some of you folks really are, especially your gender. I sometimes wonder if I'm responding in a post to a man or a woman and hate to say "she then wrote...." when it is a man and vice versa. Still there are some who haven't said one way or another on the gender issue. Are you unknowns gynandromorphs? http://www.beesource.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Hillside]

>>Are you unknowns gynandromorphs?

I can keep you guessing. My actual name is Dale and I chose Hillside because Hillside Greenhouse is the name of the business I run. It just makes it simple if I use that name for all things internet.

[dragonfly]

Jeez, haven't been to the Cafe du Monde in about twenty years. I miss going to that part of the world (DH is from that area), but he has no more family connections there, and we haven't been back to visit. Nothing beats a benet on a damp cool N O morning.

[BULLSEYE BILL]

>"The bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms"...
is this a great country, or what? All the
good stuff is handled in ONE department!

You forgot the "and Explosives", B.A.T.F.E.

[dickm]

Dick, (or Richard)is my name. DickM is to differentiate between Dicka, Dickb ... etc.
While I've got your attention: Does anyone know why "Dick" is a common nickname for Richard? Mr. Allen?


Dickm

[clintonbemrose]

clintonbemrose is just my name with no spaces Clinton Bemrose
I have a wife and 2 sons over 24.
Clint

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Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan
Beekeeping sence 1964

[TwT]

well TwT is my initials (Teddy W Tate). its just faster to type in.

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[chemistbert]

Sorry, I guess I am one of the gender andromorphs. Real name Matt McCarrell, real gender Male.
Systems Admin and Chemist. My workplace is exactly like the movie Office Space. I feel like Dilbert a lot and when I chose the handle I use I was still a lab rat. Now I moved up to computer geek, so I think that's good. Hence chemist (proffesion) bert (cartoon reference).
Now you know and like G.I. Joe used to say, knowing is half the battle.

[Ian]

Not mutch imagination here, just Ian Steppler, from the great white north, Eh?
Not much of a typer, or speller for that matter. Ian is nice and short...

Ian

[MIKI]

My real name most of you already know is Gary. My daughter is Michelle Kristen I started calling her MIKI and it stuck, then I incorporated it into many passwords (old and unused now). My wife Sylvis is also a member she is TONI our sons name is Antony.

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[Gregg]

I plead guilty also to not being very imaginative. Actually, when I first came on board I just used the first thing I happened to think of, which happened to be my first name. Only nickname I get called much is "Stew" (again, not very imaginative).

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[BerkeyDavid]

Hi all

Well I have 20 acres near Berkey, Ohio, which I call the Berkey Bee Honey Farm. Pretty pretentious name for what is really just a bunch of weeds (pollen plants), pond, house and workship, with 3 TBH and 3 Langs. I got into beekeeping so I would have an excuse not to mow my lawn and let stuff grow. scared up 19 pheasants in a walk this afternoon.

Berkey, Ohio is a pretty interesting place. Our post office is in the feed store where you can also buy a case of motor oil, horse saddle or some rat poison. Post master gets pretty excited when I get a shipment of bees...

Berkey is also the home of the baker of the oldest fruitcake, although it is now a few miles north in Michigan. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/22/offbeat.fruitcake.ap/

Finally, Berkey is the proud home of Roger Durbin, who convinced our Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur to try and build the WWII monument. http://votemarcy.com/wwiiusa.html

In real life I am a trial lawyer, as you can probably guess since I like to talk (write) excessively http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

Happy Holidays to all! Hope next year is a sweet one for you!

david

[BerkeyDavid]

Oh yeah, my real name is David Zoll, and yes, I am a 53 year old man with a wife and 2 married kids!

http://www.beesource.com/ubb/wink.gif

[GaSteve]

Live in Georgia. Name's Steve Nofs. It is a very rare name, but there is a good size contingent of Nofs in southern Michigan. If I'd known how great this forum was when I signed up and that I'd still be reading it 8 months later, I would have come up with something clever.

Grew up in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Went to Virginia Tech. That's where I was introduced to beekeeping. It looked like an interesting elective class and it's stuck with me ever since. I still follow my Hokies pretty closely. Hope there's no Auburn fans here. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif Married 15 years to a wife who thinks beekeeping is extremely weird but she's very tolerant. My hives are just outside the back door. Got two kids -- 8 and 5.

I am a civil servant at Robins AFB in Warner Robins, GA. Sidewinder missile engineer to be precise. I agree with Chemistbert. Dilbert is not a comic strip, it's a documentary.

[Dick Allen]

Say BerkeyDavid, do you know any good lawyer jokes to share with the group? http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

[BerkeyDavid]

No

[Darrel Wright]

Well, since I DO have a lot to hide, and since people are bound to get tired of my Socrates act pretty quick and try to make me drink hemlock, I'd figured I needed a pseudonym. There is an interesting story behind this name that I can divulge without giving away too much information about my real identity....

You see I grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and now live in nearby-but-mostly-rural college town of Hiram, Ohio. Or maybe I don't. Maybe that is just a red herring so you won't find me out...Anyway, one day when I was out fishing a stream that runs behind the College with a professor friend, a gaggle of hippie students came walking by on the path in the woods. I say walking, but that isn't right at all. They were kind of galumphing along, gently flapping their arms and making these ridiculous undulating movements with their necks and backs. These students filtered by, one by one, each more ridiculous than the last, as we gaped and laughed at their silliness.

In the middle of the pack an older Asian fellow waltzed along, making similar motions--though obviously more practiced--and also a strange cooing sound that I guess identified him as the alpha-bird. Apparently this was a visiting professor teaching his asian culture class about some kind of walking tai-chi dance form--and judging from the students' zeal and attentiveness to the cooing, he was grading on this exercise. That's the kind of multi-cultural silliness that passes for higher education these days, even to some extent at venerable 150 year old institutions like Hiram. At the tail end of this bizarre procession came two guys who my friend recognized as members of the Hiram College football team--the first one looked exactly like the bigger, dumber looking "Darrel" brother from the Bob Newhart show. The second one a few yards behind him looked pretty much like the smaller and not quite as dumb looking "Darrel". Anyway, these two were obviously lagging to reduce the number of female eyes on them, and flapping in a completely demoralized manner.

My friend knew these guys and couldn't resist taunting them in their misery. "Why look here, it's Hiram's own version of the Wright brothers, Darrel and his other brother Darrel. You know boys I think Orville and Wilbur had to flap a lot harder than that..." etc..etc....He was merciless--and the Asian alpha bird swooped back to make sure the boys stayed in character, making it all the sillier and more painful for the jocks.

A big dope trying to fly by flapping his arms is certainly ridiculous, but somehow this distorted version of an earth-bound Icarus struck me as just right. So that became my pseudonym-- Darrel Wright.

[scsasdsa]

Hi all
Nothing too tricky here first and middle initial. mine my wife first son and second son. stuart charles (astbury),sheri ann, stephen daniel and spencer allen used as screen name on all internet sites.
scsasdsa@aol.com

[wayacoyote]

Waya Uwasaalisido <a Tsalagi name. And for those of you west of the Mississippi, yes, I know that Waya translates to Wolf, but as we have no wolves here in Alabama, and as coyotes are "recent" immigrants taking their place, many started using that word to discuss coyotes as well.

Not the trickter "coyote" that Coyote describes. coyotes aren't a historic part of our heritage. However, I was pleased to know that some legends reveal that the Creator put Coyote in charge of the welfare of the planet, an asignment that I take seriously.

I also carry the sir name "Gillespie" but that only explains two branches of my vast family tree. (I was proud to hear that my sister gave my neice Gillespie as a second middle name to insure at least one of her ancestor's lineages is remembered.)

Most friends call me coyote as few speak Tsalagi (including me, unfortunately. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/frown.gif

[demerl51]

Hi Guys,

Well that would be a long story with a new chaper almost every year :> )

Have a great holiday.

Regards
Dennis

[tnttommy]

Can I still participate in this since I am a new registered user??

tnt is the initials I would leave on a video game as a kid after making a high score. Tommy- well, you can call me Tom.

[Scotty]

Well, my name is Scott. I used to dislike being called Scotty, but everyone does it so as you can see I've gotten quite used to it.

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Weekly progress of my hive(s): http://bees.total-x.org

[SippyBees]

Well... "Sippy" is an AFFECTIONATE slang of the great state of Mississippi, of which I am proud to be from despite its history and reputation : )) Bee of course is for my hobby-soontobe-business. "We" are Masha and Clark Burrell. I was intro'ed to beekeeping by a commercial Queen breeder who lives just down the road from me, Russell Apiaries in the ABJ. I am a radiochenist at a nearby Nuclear station/ ex-Navy Nuc operator. My wife is a degreed programer from St Petersburg Russia. We both are doing the bees together, she does ALL the grafting for Mr Russell and will do our grafting also. I build all the woodenware and any heavy grunt work, as my wife is only about 5' tall and maybe 95#'s. I have been searching for something "agricultural" to do since I bought this 20 acres we are on 15 years ago. Have sold gourmet coffees, raised a plethera of different animals including Emu's (don't ask, I don't wanna talk about them : )) Bees offer the freedom I have been looking for for 20 years. All the comments about Dilbert is TRUE... it IS a documentary, not just a cartoon, for those that work in todays industrial settings. Bees will make a person a living, is not a fad, will not go away. I am not afraid of sweat or hard work... what I hate most is ASSININE policy and management techniques of todays business world. Therefore I hope bees will be my eventual answer to the need to eat.. : ))
There are many great people here on this
site, and I appreciate all those who posts and share ideas....
Best wishes to all on this forum.
Cheers
SippyBee

[Busuke]

I am relatively new user, and yet to have my first bees, but I also decided to share. My name is Vladimir Marinov, I am from Bulgaria. (No, Vladimir is not only a Russian name, it is Slavonic).
I have been living in Japan for more than 6 years now and my wife is Japanese. Busuke is how she calls me when she is being naughty. Ususlly, my friends call me Vlado. BUT, Japanese cannot:
1) pronounce the sound "v";
2)pronounce the sound "l";
3) pronounce two consonants without a vowel between them.

So, Vlado becomes Burado, or Buu for short, which in turn gets extended to Busuke, which I think is a character from some Japanese anime or something. I have a major lack of interest in Japanese anime, so I never asked for details.

Vladimir

[danno1800]

My chess rating was around 1800 when I started playing online. My real name is Dan O'Hanlon, and I grew up watching Hawaii 5-0 with McGarrett saying, at the end, 'Book 'em, Danno' So, danno1800 became my online name.

[Old Buzzard]

Now that I have somewhat gracefully reached middle age. I can recall that when my father (who taught me to keep bees) was the age that I am now I thought he was old.(what do kids know) Couple that with a playful twist of being a beekeeper, with bees buzzing about,hence Old Buzzard.
To further date myself along with insight into my humor, I always appreciated the Beat in The Beatles.

Jerry L. Stowers

[nursebee]

WOW. Couple of good laughs here reading things over. Interesting story sippybees, now I really wish we had met when you were here.

Nursebee is easy for me. I pay the bills working as a registered nurse. Most of our "sales leads" take place through work. So for a long term name I thought to use Nursebees or Nurse bees or Nurse Bees as a "company" name. I generally do not have much to hide, addign my real name to posts as a signature along with my location. If beekeeping related interests want to call upon me (or my father Joe Miller III) then to do telemarketing, then I will think I have made progress!

Joe Miller IV, RN
Greenville NC, USA!
Eat Mo Honey and stop using MSIE
Mozilla rocks for me