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explain your Username!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#161
Originally posted by Ed Fuqua
and my real name is Don Higdon, so all those basses must be mine, mine I tell you .....
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Actually, the guy's real name is Hig Dondon, but he made his username an anagram so Ed couldn't look him up in the phone book, get his address, and snag his basses.

By the way, "Fuqua" is a Trafamadorian slang term for "serial endpin killer". See, what set him off the first time was when Elvin threw a drumstick at his Polytone and ripped the grill...ah, but that's another story...
 
#172
I hate to put us back off topic(?)

When I am not thumping out a bass line in my band, I serve as a rapid oxidation suppression specialist. You see, I mitigate people's problems as they happen, where they happen, in a timely fashion so as to allow them to continue to lead normal, productive lives.

(O.K., I'm a firefighter.)
 
#173
Well, I'm the iceman, and that's that.

Heh heh, actually it was a nickname I got when my friends and I were goofing around during tennis practice in high school. We all kind of had alter-egos when we played and it was pretty funny. I "iced" someone when I won the point by smashing it by them or something like that. I guess I thought I was pretty damn cool.....and come to think of it I was!!

And plus I can say cool stuff like "Ice to meet you."
pretty clever, huh?

So, it has absolutely nothing to do with playing bass, or even music----I just couldn't think of anything better when I chose my username.
 
#174
Back in 1990, me and my favorite buddy guitarist were driving home from band practice one night, bitching about how crappy the attitudes of our fellow bandmates had gotten. Me and Vince (who was 10 years older than me and raised on Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZTop, ACDC, etc.) had already been jamming with another drummer for a couple of weeks with unbelievably cool and fun results, and Vince said,

".......Screw Terry, we'll just hook up with Todd and be Throbbinut and play whatever the hell we wanna play."

He just pulled the name out of the air. I almost wrecked the car I was laughing so hard. We had fun as Throbbinut, but it eventually dematerialized due to Todd's crappy girlfriend. I still have a tape to prove we made the coolest unrehearsed jam music ever produced, though. 87 minutes of crap, 3 minutes of ecstasy.

As Vince would say after we'd had a good hard jam session, "Man. That stuff makes me wanna go rob a liquor store." He still rocks, and makes me laugh my butt off every time I see him.

Chris
 
#177
Before I owned a computer,I was doing a solo act with MIDI sequencing etc. which I dubbed "Ray and the Virtuals",so the day I got the computer I also signed up for Internet service,and the salesperson needed a moniker for the account,and that's the first thing that popped out.Isn't that special?
 
#179
A friend and I wrote a play when in 5th grade, where I was supposed to play a character called "Ostron" (swedish for "Oyster"). The play really sucked, I am very happy we never put it up, but "Ostron" later became my nickname. I put a "-man" after it (no reason whatsoever) and as a screen name I believe it's far more catchy than my real name, which frankly sounds plain silly when you try to pronounce it in English.
 

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