how did you come up with your "member" name??

[d mowery]

As My Minnasota pard says dmowery is me Don Mowery da shadow, Arby some have real faces and some have Joan Rivers style

[scooby_doo_m2002]

As for my screen name, When I was born I had a cleft/club foot and was sent to Riley Childrens Hospital in Indianapolis IN. There I got my foot fixed after just one operation. I have hearing problems so I went there for that also. (now that you know my medical history, lets get to the point here)

When my brother was born he had some problems also, during his first 21yrs of life, he has had the following # of surgeries: 12-eye, at least 21 ear surgeries (including getting "tubes" put in) in which he also got a cochlear implant, 4-heart caths, 3-openheart surgeries (including a donor aortic valve, god bless you donor in heaven and your gracious parents) So as you can see I spent alot of time up there as a youngster, And it kinda s*cked all this kids worse off than my brother and I were just lying there. No hope for them to live into adulthood, parents have went on about life working or whatever and I was determined to one day put a smile on their face. I kept applying for volunteer jobs but wouldn't get accepted "You live too far from our facility" So back in 2002 I got a room at one of those weekly motel thingies, opened up a p.o. box (even though, I never got any mail, but I had a local address though)got a temp job working for security at night and during the day I would dress up as Scooby Doo and play with the children there and at times it was hard, but by golly I got atleast a lil grin from every single kid I saw. Some of the bigger kids that where able to go home wanted someway to stay in contact with me, so I set up an email addy. but the problem was, I had to have numbers in my email. so instead of Scooby_Doo_Mike, I resorted to Scooby_Doo_m2002. When my summer was over I came back to southern IN. but kept the email addy with yahoo. Don't get email very often, maybe 1 or 2times a month. But anyways, I just use scooby_doo_m2002 on everything because its easy to remember.

[PachiAddict]

What can I say about mine? I started using my wife's ebay name (Laurierocs). She actually found this forum and signed up with that name, but then she got upset when she found me using it and made me pick my own.

[dattia]

Not too original for for me....let's see if you can figure it out. My real name...Dawn Attia

[keesterdog]

personally i've never named my "member"

[dattia]

Hmmmm....Keesterdog. I'm not sure if I believe you. I thought we all did that at some point in our lives...then again, maybe it's just a chick thing.

[azlew]

My member name was quite difficult to come up with as everytime I had one I did a search on the members names here and they were all taken (arby...,Tulsa,Lddrizzt,Logicprobe etc....). So after hours of consideration I came up with what has to be the most original member name AZLEW

[johntofva]

. So after hours of consideration I came up with what has to be the most original member name AZLEW

So...............would that be Arizona Lew

[hootiehoo]

sorry to join in so late. been out of touch for awhile. Mine came from the old andy griffith series. one day gomer pyle was helping ole barney out on a stake out. he hid in a trash can and told barney that if somebody was commin' he'd make like an owl and holler hootie hoo, hootie hoo. my friend and i picked that up as a greeting and have used it for years and years. i guess it was just a natural progression to use it as a screen name since i still use it all the time at work and the kids even use it like when they first come in the door to let us know whose home...

[minnesotabrad]

One of my favorite all time shows, The Andy Griffith Show. They don't make comedy show like that anymore. And I thought of that show the first time I saw you name and even say it like that.

[MrGneiss]

Lots of new members since June, so...........

[Sid]

Sid short for Isidoros.
thats what they call me..

nothing too exciting...

[SteveFoxUK]

Oi Sid, when it comes to member names, I bet I can be more boring than you!!!!!

Cheers,

Foxy

[rupan777]

My name comes from Lupin the 3rd, mainly the pachinko machine (my first time winning over $1000 was on it). The reason it's spelled "Rupan" is that's how the Japanese "spell" it in katakana, ルパン, and I had no idea that Lupin was a real person/character so I took the spelling from the Japanese version. 777 is self-explanatory.

[cwstnsko]

My username is my first initial followed by my last name with all of the vowels dropped (except for the last O, which makes it sound right if you try to pronounce it.)

I use this ID almost everywhere and I've never had a problem with another use already having it

[luckydog]

Rupan, i thought 666 was the lucky number in Japan ????

[rupan777]

Rupan, i thought 666 was the lucky number in Japan ????

[Kodai]

Mine is the family name of Kodai Susumu from Space Battlecruiser Yamato.
In english he was Derek Wildstar on Starblazers.

Yamato was the first piece of anime that I knew was Japanese. It made a serious impression on me. I've used Kodai as my online name for more than 12 years.

[sacpinplayer]

Before I discovered pachislos I was, and still am, a collector and player of pinball machines. I live in the Sacramento area, so I added "sac" to my eBay ID, pinplayer.

[Thomas P.]

Thomas Potthoff here ... I know, boaring. I've found that as I age, I find myself more formall. There was a time when I would have come up with some crazy name,but no need for that any more, just keeps it a little simpler.
Cheers!