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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2011, 09:17:39 AM »
Mine comes from my other hobby, 8bit computing. I had a collection back in England which I stupidly sold when I moved to here, so I no longer have the good British 8bit systems, but I started again over here and built up a nice collection ( atari 400, c64, ti99/4a, timex1000 - but I still miss my spectrum and BBC )

The avatar is rockford, which is where the name comes from, an 8bit computing cult-hero especially to the nerds who used to read zzap64 back in the day.

Ahhhh the bbc and acorn the cool computers for schools also remember that magazine was neat, also the whole c64 demos and rob hubbard stuff :)
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #31 on: April 17, 2011, 09:20:01 AM »
It's my English Bulldog's name....
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #32 on: April 17, 2011, 10:45:06 AM »
I assumed you were a DEVO fan.

Devo was very prominent in the early 80's -- the height of the classic arcade days.  It's the cover of the "Are we not men?" album with the song "Jocko Homo" which Devo uses as their anthem in live concerts.  I thought this was hilarious:

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The first performance of "Jocko Homo" in 1975 went on for over twenty minutes. When asked to open for Sun Ra, as a joke they performed a half-hour rendition of the song to annoy the crowd, according to Mark Mothersbaugh in an interview in 1997: "We'd play "Jocko Homo" for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, "Are we not men? We are Devo!" for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists."

Similar in intent, the full user name a friend and I invented to troll the BBS message boards was "Jocko T. Itch".  It was only used on a handful of threads, but we had a laugh, and it worked quite well to liven things up.  I thought the name was a dead giveaway and the posts made were obvious in their intent, but no one ever called us out on it.

That's the historical version of it.
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #33 on: April 17, 2011, 11:02:25 AM »
I keep looking at my avatar trying to remember why I picked it

you inspired Boobiecon 2010. thank you for that.

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #34 on: April 17, 2011, 11:42:54 AM »
Avatar:  I started this pinball fantasy of mine trying to find a Whirlwind that used to be at this arcade here in St. Aug growing up...very nostalgic for me and i am very happy to own it now.

Name: A best friend of mine used to call me Pre. It kind of stuck and when i first moved back to Florida and would sit around wondering what to do with my life I came across that movie about the famous runner Prefontaine. I never got the movie out of my head (or Donald Sutherland) as it motivated me and reminds me that life is sooo short sometimes. Been trying to live it up ever since! ...I was born in 1979.
 
This is a fun topic by the way..have often wondered what everyone's name/avatar meant. Thanks for posting
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #35 on: April 17, 2011, 11:57:30 AM »
I assumed you were a DEVO fan.

Devo was very prominent in the early 80's -- the height of the classic arcade days.  It's the cover of the "Are we not men?" album with the song "Jocko Homo" which Devo uses as their anthem in live concerts.  I thought this was hilarious:

Quote from: Wikipedia
The first performance of "Jocko Homo" in 1975 went on for over twenty minutes. When asked to open for Sun Ra, as a joke they performed a half-hour rendition of the song to annoy the crowd, according to Mark Mothersbaugh in an interview in 1997: "We'd play "Jocko Homo" for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, "Are we not men? We are Devo!" for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists."

Similar in intent, the full user name a friend and I invented to troll the BBS message boards was "Jocko T. Itch".  It was only used on a handful of threads, but we had a laugh, and it worked quite well to liven things up.  I thought the name was a dead giveaway and the posts made were obvious in their intent, but no one ever called us out on it.

That's the historical version of it.


I assumed the Devo or possibly a Subgenius/ Bob Dobbs reference on the picture. Both are related since Mothersbaugh is in some of the subgenius stuff, http://subgenius.com/

Gotta love Devo, they do fun stuff like take a well known blues song and re-arrange it backwards... chords melody and all. Play it on a synth, change the words and its Devo.., I think 90% of what they do is just to crack each other up.

My name is from a nickname I had way back in NYC when I was in a cowpunk band with a steak/meat reference in the name.. therefore I was called tbone.

The 1 is because computers suck and I registered Tbone but it didnt take so then I redid it as Tbone1 because I was too lazy to get it fixed.  :P

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2011, 12:03:52 PM »
mECHsLAVE is a handle from Unreal Tournament '99.   I played it night and day when I broke my hip and was stuck home all day long, and became quite good at it if I do say so myself.  

avatar is a piece of a pic I found on the net of a T-800 made of legos, always thought it was cool and somehow fit with "mECHsLAVE"  
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2011, 12:34:15 PM »
The 1 is because computers suck and I registered Tbone but it didnt take so then I redid it as Tbone1 because I was too lazy to get it fixed.  :P

I'm sure if ask nice enough Jack would help if he could getting the 1 taken off.

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #38 on: April 17, 2011, 01:02:15 PM »
The 1 is because computers suck and I registered Tbone but it didnt take so then I redid it as Tbone1 because I was too lazy to get it fixed.  :P

I'm sure if ask nice enough Jack would help if he could getting the 1 taken off.

well, funny story there: Jack wanted Number One!, but his computer keys got stuck, so he ended up with Number Six...after 5 attempts. :P
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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #39 on: April 17, 2011, 01:10:02 PM »
I am thinking of changing my name to "Sofa King"

I am having a blast with that clip!!!!

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #40 on: April 17, 2011, 06:39:31 PM »
The name is from a Blue Oyster Cult song off of their Spectres album.  Some Enchanted Evening has a great live version.  The avatar is BOC's logo.

My favorite avatar on the board hands down is Spiney Norman's.

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #41 on: April 17, 2011, 06:43:14 PM »
Mine should be pretty obvious...

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #42 on: April 17, 2011, 06:55:53 PM »
Mine should be pretty obvious...

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #43 on: April 17, 2011, 08:26:29 PM »
My user name comes from another hobby as well ... fantasy football. All of my FF teams are called Metal Militia or Mighty Metal Militia or something like that. When I signed up for a football message board about 10 years ago, I chose Militiaman as my handle and it has stuck with me.

On my fishing and boating message boards, my handle is my boat name - Oceans Eleven. So, when I signed up here I had to decide between Militiaman or Oceans Eleven. There you have it.

My avatar is from Boobie Wars as well - I thought it was clever at the time and now I am simply too lazy to change it back to my Militiaman logo.

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Re: What is the meaning behind your Avatar and User Name? I wanna know!
« Reply #44 on: April 17, 2011, 11:13:41 PM »
My username is a combination of my first name and my last initial.

My avatar is one of the built-in options from the forum software.  I don't actually have a Space Invaders (video game or pin), but I'll gladly take one if you're throwing it out.

I guess I don't rank very high for creativity...
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