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Valued Member
United States
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What a fun topic.
Mine is, I'm afraid, one of those too obvious ones. After lurking for quite some time, I finally decided to start collecting in earnest and needed an account to start asking "is this coin anything?"
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United States
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Parts of the names of my three children smashed together, is all.
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New Member
United States
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Combination of my Kids first names
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Valued Member
United States
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My screen name comes from the love of watching Scooby-Doo sat mornings with my husband we are young at heart. My husband is scooby doo and I'm his scrappy
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Valued Member
United States
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Back in 2016 I started a 3.5 year journey with AT&Tas a wire technician. Your first few weeks in the field you are paired with a proven senior tech. I was paired with Carl a retired Army guy and we were two peas in a pod (probably because I grew up in Fayetteville NC aka Fort Bragg). Mid way through the job he asked me what we did next so I started thinking...(when I think sequentially thru a complex process I tend to look at the ground for a few seconds and fingers on right hand move a little, wife calls it my invisible keyboard).... once I had the answer I look up to see him shaking his head with a confused look on his face, he said "G.D. your weird boy...... just weird..... I'm gonna call you Rainman!" and it stuck.
To keep the "weird" mystic intact, any time a new guy was introduced to me they would inevitably ask how I got the nickname and I always answered, "Because I'm a good driver" then immediately walk away.
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United States
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The greatest character in the history of television, Reinhold Daniel Fielding from Night Court. And no, I am NOT John Laroquette.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The first two letters are the first initials of my first name and my middle name. The final four letters are the first four letters of my last name.  |
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United States
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I had just read an article about Marcus Aurelius. I liked the sound of "Aurelius", so I took that username. (The usernames I really wanted had already been taking.)
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Valued Member
United States
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I was opening a can of beans when asked for my username.
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Valued Member
United States
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I thought that I should think of a creative name for myself. This is what I came up with.
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Valued Member
United States
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My first "real" job in life was as a bartender for the Sheraton Inn in Seattle, WA and a couple of other places. Barkeep became my CB handle and it stuck for other usernames.
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Valued Member
United States
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Mine has a double meaning - I'm a metal detecting freak who grew up during the hippie era!
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United States
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Years ago there was a basketball player named George Gerwin and he was known as the Iceman.....there was a poster with him dunking on someone and it read "The Iceman Cometh" I always liked the way that sounded. Today I am a bank manager and my son calls me the bankman, so when I began collecting and need a name to post with, it was born :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I rarely leave the modern varieties forum, so only just saw this thread a mere two years after it was created. Anyway...
Tropicalbats has been my online screen name for a very long time, so I just used it here like I would anywhere. It comes from the simple fact that I am a professional bat biologist and prefer to work in the tropics when I can. This hasn't been possible since the pandemic, but hopefully will start back with that stuff this coming spring. But I do work full time as a biologist and do a lot of bat work in the eastern US, mostly looking for endangered species in areas where forests will be impacted. Seven days a week from May 15 to August 15 I use mist nets to catch bats, then take a short break to head to Kentucky to teach workshops on bat handling and ID, then six weeks of harp trapping bats at cave and mine entrances to determine what might be hibernating in them. Generally I finish all the US field work around Halloween, and do a variety of interesting projects until it all starts up again the next year.
The "tropical" part of my screen name is fairly well-earned. I have worked with bats on all the greater Antilles including Cuba, lived in Panama for two years, Suriname for two years, Zambia for about half a year, done 25 trips to Costa Rica, 6 to Mexico and 3 to Borneo, as well as various other projects in other countries.
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United States
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I have a fondness for contradictory phrases, so when it was time to pick a user name, I quickly tried to come up with one that was at least vaguely coin-related. "Coin" made me think of "round" and then "circle," so "SquareCircle" it was.
If I had to use a different name, I'd probably pick "1922 Buffalo" (referring to the year in which most U.S. coin denominations weren't minted). Anything else I might want to use would most likely be too long (such as, say, "$1.25 in Large Bills").
BTW, I don't see any recent topic about avatar choices, but I picked the "Not One Cent" one because I found it amusing, even though it has nothing to do with anything I've ever had in my collection.
Edited by SquareCircle
11/01/2023 2:11 pm
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