What does your screen name mean?

[buzz]

I am bumping this for the new people ...This is a great thread it keeps a good record of all the people that have been a part of this board. Buzz did you add to this thread?

My screen name is extremely cryptic, and I'll only divulge it's meaning to a select few via PM.

-Buzz

[cinda]

My screen name is extremely cryptic, and I'll only divulge it's meaning to a select few via PM.

-Buzz

So where's my PM?

[CptnBlues63]

Ok I'll jump in............

My first name is Curt. I have a little sister who's a couple years younger than I am. Back in the late 60's she, my mom, and I used to sit and watch Star Trek religiously every weekend. My little sister used to call me "Captain Curt". Hey, she was like 4 or 5 at the time and to her Kirk and Curt sounded the same.......LOL. It sort of stuck but only saw use inside the family and only on occasion.

Some years later while in highschool I discovered the poem "Invictus" (see my tagline at the bottom) and when people used to tell me what to do I'd say, "Hey, it's MY ship and I'm the Captain" (as in go away I don't want to hear it, it's my life and I ruin it how I bloody well please......lol) slightly twisting the meaning of the poem to suit myself. This lead to some acquaintances calling me captain too.

In the early 90's I got into computers and shortly thereafter discovered BBS's. While joining the very first one I was asked for a screen name, so I thought, "Captain". Now, being basically lazy, I thought, why use 7 characters when I can get away with only 4 (also, remember my real name is Curt - 4 letters) so I went with an abbreviation. I chose "Cptn" instead of "Capt" because I like to be different.

Around 95 I got connected to the internet. Any time I was required to have a username for something I continued using Cptn. For most of 10 years, I used it without issue because of the odd spelling. Suddenly I found it was already in use in some places so I added "Blues" because I like blues music and I figured it was long odds on anybody else combining Cptn + Blues to make a username.

Whether someone else started using that same name (or several someone's as the case may be) or some sites just wouldn't accept it, I started finding places online that wouldn't let me use CptnBlues so I added the year I was born at the end and, voila! The present iteration of my username....

If anybody's interested, it's been about 5 years now and I've yet to have this username refused for any reason.

[JiveTurkey]

In middle school, I started a fake gang called the Jive Turkeys, which was inspired by the "Airplane!" movie franshise.

We even had our own gang sign: Hold your hand out with fingers spread, fold in and connect the ring finger and thumb, covering the ring fingernail with the tip of the thumb, and repeatedly bend/wiggle the pinky while saying "gobble, gobble."

After a bloody battle with, and narrow defeat over, the other fake gang at school, the 8 Balls, I was the sole surviving member of the Jive Turkeys (read: everyone else got bored and moved on), so I inherited the name to keep it alive.

The name died off for a few years until one day in high school, someone remembered the Jive Turkeys and my nickname was resurrected and has lived on since.

There are some people from the college days that will only refer to me as Jive. I'm not entirely sure they all know my birth name.

[badwhale]

Shadykaricta & CptnBlues63 & JiveTurkey

[MemphisFred]

In middle school, I started a fake gang called the Jive Turkeys, which was inspired by the "Airplane!" movie franshise.

I get it, the white woman talking street to the brothers...lol, that movie was hilarious.

But I thought maybe you got it from watching old episodes of Sanford & Son...ol Fred used to call Lamont that all the time, well...that and dummy.

[JiveTurkey]

I get it, the white woman talking street to the brothers...lol, that movie was hilarious.

"Oh, stewardess, I can speak jive."

[cinda]

Bump for the new people

[buzz]

So where's my PM?

It's coming soon... the story is quite long and I've only typed out the first 3 chapters.

-Buzz