Fun Poll: How did you come up with your online name?

I'm afraid my story is rather sad. (pitiful rather than unhappy)

Way back when, around 1994, I was getting an email address at the, then new, Hotmail Corporation. I looked high, I looked low, but for all my looking, I could not find an unnumbered UID. Someone even stole my name! At long last I gave up and started creating names based on my full name, and those were taken too! I finally has to settle on Jobeleca, pronounced Jo-Bel-a-KA, which stands for JOshua BEnjamin LEe CAldwell.

I really hope someone has a better story than mine

We've had this thread before. A few months ago. Whats the title of your next thread?

ok give me a couple minutes

Cut and paste from my LiteSTEP 'Readmefirst.txt'...

"JAFO" is Airforce/Navy derogatory slang for an Observer [co-pilot].
[The movie "Blue Thunder" with Roy Scheider made reference to the term].

I've worked as an Observer[communications] Official at the Australian
Grand Prix for the past 23 years [and the 500 Motorcycle Grands Prix [MotoGP]], WTCC, World Superbikes, not to mention the first Nascar race outside the U.S., Truck racing, etc... hence the name.

BTW, JAFO = Just Another F**king Observer.
[People only ever seem to be aware of the Trackside Flag Marshals, and any
other Trackside Officials go un-noticed.]...

Superhero becasue im always helping ym friends out with stuff and they are always saiying im thier hero so i just upped that to superhero and canadian becasue well im canadian

ym

MY!

Just filling in for JAFA

becasue because
im I'm
saiyin saying
thier their

so there!

I had a small company that made Aluminium flight cases. I called it "BoXXi Flightcases". It looked good on the letterheads and was easy to remember.

Man, what a cool story!..............................Not.

i love Kroong Thep Maha Nakawn - Bangkok, and have many old friends there. But, having been born in Texas, i'm always drawn back to armadillo country by an inexplicable force stronger than gravity. i get to go to Bangkok to play, but alas, never to stay. cheewit gaw bpen yang-nan.

Disc jockey handle rockinmike aka RcknMike, since 1984. That's my story and i'm sticking to it

It's the sound a silent but deadly fart makes....just kidding....jafa was already taken so I used a little known mongolian throat singer lyric that means 'the one who brings much pleasure to himself'....then I applied another little known aboriginal algorithm based on the mating call of the (also little known) striped wallabee/gopher. This resulted in truly un-spellable mish-mash of letters, that when translated to swahili produced the another un-spellable mish-mash of letters.....I got fed up at that point and ended up misspelling Jeff....I don't know anyone named Jeff so I stuck with peff.

Jafo it seems I owe you an apology, for my earlier typing error. I was really confused by all the amusement this generated. But this certainly explains it.

BTW, JAFO = Just Another F**king Observer.

That would of course translate to

JAFA = Just Another F**king A**. well you get the picture. sooo sorrieee

Feel free to be sorry in public, I know you're laughing privately.

why did you star out the word "artist" in that last post?

I guess it would normally be Jafo and when he gets into one of his spelling kicks it would be Jafa

Think BoXXi, think! rtist & ** differ in number of characters

Maybe he meant something else that was innocous though

Peff...that would be 'wallaby'.
'Tis a bit of a bummer when the psychotic spell-ckecker is also an Aussie...

{I'm ignoring the others]...

ckecker = checker

Even MORE psychotic, now...

because when a full moon comes out i grow fangs, lots of hair, my eyes turn yellow and I get an unnatural appetite for chauffers and chocolate fuzzy things

my tail made me do it!

backwards it's spelled kirnik
forewards it's spelled kinrik

...almost one of those backward-spelled-same-as-foreward-thingies...

...but not quite...

foreward = forward