Explain the meaning of your screen mane

[thebook]

[/quote] was playing blackjack in vegas at new york new york and had a few drinks in me. people started asking if they should hit or not, so i told them. another guy asked the dealer what he should do, dealer said "ask the book" and nodded at me. since a few friends were around, it stuck. sooo when seeing 15 and the dealer shows 8 (or when seeing a beautiful woman) thebook says "you gotta hit that". book out.

[AOR rules]

My name is another one made up in a heat of moment without much thought put into it. I just wanted to tell with the username the style of music that I like most which is bands like Toto, Foreigner, Survivor (yes yes I do like also Styx when they are not in their progressive mode).

[Zan]

EK,

Nice to meet another '88 H.S. grad.

Hear! Hear! Class of '88 rules. Where did y'all graduate? South Plantation High (Plantation, FL) here.

[Zan]

Monker, is your niece a DeYoungian?

[Monker]

Monker, is your niece a DeYoungian?

Like most 12yr olds in the world, I doubt very much that she knows who Dennis is.

[Zan]

Monker, is your niece a DeYoungian?

Like most 12yr olds in the world, I doubt very much that she knows who Dennis is.

I was going for the 'monster'/humor angle...

[styxmike]

Yep, afaid mine is self explanatary, me names Mike and I like Styx

My wife is buying me the licence plate S2 TYX for my car for a christmas pressie cool or what!!!!!!

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or did Froy neglect to tell us about his purchase of a Bowflex machine a few months back ????


I did mention that I had a lot of pictures of Froy from Canada

Suite
are you sure that is a picture of Froy on your avatar???????? if so, who is the half naked cowboy????????

[Ash]

I use several. Ash is one I used briefly.. but it's actually my favorite.

Ash is the main character in the Evil Dead movies and specifically the movie "Army Of Darkness".

If you've seen those movies, you'll know that Ash is my hero


"Lady.... I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store."

[bugsymalone]

Yep, afaid mine is self explanatary, me names Mike and I like Styx

My wife is buying me the licence plate S2 TYX for my car for a christmas pressie cool or what!!!!!!

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or did Froy neglect to tell us about his purchase of a Bowflex machine a few months back ????


I did mention that I had a lot of pictures of Froy from Canada

Suite
are you sure that is a picture of Froy on your avatar???????? if so, who is the half naked cowboy????????

OK, big spit take on this one, styxmike!!! Cleaning off the keyboard now.... LOL!

And as for your license plate. VERY cool indeed. However, can anyone see it since you all drive on the wrong side of the road over there??:D

Bugsy

[styxmike]

And as for your license plate. VERY cool indeed. However, can anyone see it since you all drive on the wrong side of the road over there??

LOL, we have licence plates on the front AND back , so if they can't see me coming they'll sure know I've been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bad flashback to Disney World 2002, I took a BRITISH right turn INTO 4 LANES OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC bloody scary

[SuiteMadameBlue]

styxmike says:

Yep, afaid mine is self explanatary, me names Mike and I like Styx

LOL, I was hoping you would have a good story with this one Mike's a good name, that's the name of my oldest

Suite
are you sure that is a picture of Froy on your avatar???????? if so, who is the half naked cowboy????????

I'll never tell Do you like the half naked cowboy (oo la la) or should I put Rob Thomas back up?? (LOL)

Zan says:

Where did y'all graduate?

Well since most of the people on this board know most of my life story and can stalk me at any time (LOL), I'll answer this one and even add more useless Suite information. LOL

I graduated from Germantown H.S. (WI) Class of '84 I'm sure if you look outside of the locker rooms, you'll still see STYX carved in the wood done by yours truly. My favorite class was detention hall, since I spent most of my time there - LOL I was also on a lot of sports teams too.

[sadie65]

LOL, I was hoping you would have a good story with this one Mike's a good name, that's the name of my oldest

I'm partial to the name myself. And pulling a British right...ohmygawd! How lucky you lived to tell the tale. Of course here in Chicago...we never drive reckless...right Suite?

I'll never tell Do you like the half naked cowboy (oo la la) or should I put Rob Thomas back up?? (LOL)

If those are our only options....(Esai) LOL
Zan says:

I graduated from Germantown H.S. (WI) Class of '84 I'm sure if you look outside of the locker rooms, you'll still see STYX carved in the wood done by yours truly. My favorite class was detention hall, since I spent most of my time there - LOL I was also on a lot of sports teams too.

You detention hall...never would have guessed .

I finished high school 1983. I never got detention. I was a brainiac in school. Went to Lane Tech in Chicago. Wonder where I went wrong

[bugsymalone]

And as for your license plate. VERY cool indeed. However, can anyone see it since you all drive on the wrong side of the road over there??

LOL, we have licence plates on the front AND back , so if they can't see me coming they'll sure know I've been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bad flashback to Disney World 2002, I took a BRITISH right turn INTO 4 LANES OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC bloody scary

I did the EXACT same thing in England....up near Yorkshire.

I blame it on that dang right hand drive and left hand stickshift!



Bugsy

[bugsymalone]

Bugsy's High School -- Lamar, Houston, Texas. I will let you figure out class of... Hint: Long, LONG time ago!!!

Famous graduates -- Tommy Tune, Jacklyn (Ellen back then) Smith, and, of course yours truly. OK, not so famous.

Bugsy

[swwskj]

Zan,

I graduated from East Mecklenburg High (Charlotte) in June of '88. Now I'm sure from that little tidbit of info will allow the memories to come flowing back.

Scott

[Abitaman]

My screen name Abitaman is what we are called at work. I "worked" for Abita Springs Water Company on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Everyone called us Abitaman. And I "was" THE Abitaman, up untill Hurricane KAtrina came along and destroyed my route like it did a lot of lives down here. Since I am now unemployed and will no longer be a Mississippi person anymore as of this weekend, I guess I need to change my screen name. Is that possible? Seems like years since I have been here!!!! Over at friends house email list to insuurance company (They just came out Tuesday), so I thought I would drop by. Will be moving to Dyersburg, Tennessee this week. Family is already there. Now to find a job, and get back on with my life. Maybe a couple of weeks before I get by online, but form the looks of it I have (and have not) missed a lot, if you know what I mean!?! Did not mean to get depressing there. But I would like to thank everyone who sent me cards, and emails. and prayers. THANK YOU!!! I got a Journey vid and Shy cd from someone over on JRNY board, could not make out who it was from, but I think it was from NIG. Thank You!!! I will get around to emailing those who sent stuff, but will be after we get moved in.
If we can change screen names let me know. Already got an idea or two. Any ideas let me know. See you soon-ERIC

[bugsymalone]

Welcome back, Eric. Great to hear from you!

You probably won't see this for awhile, but I think you just need to see what name fits with your new life.

And I look forward to seeing it on the board in the near future.

Best of luck with everything.

Bugsy

[sadie65]

((((Eric))))

So glad to hear from you! While it is a really rotten thing you have/are going through, I am glad to know you have such a positive attitude.

Thanks for letting us know how you are doing. I will send as many positive thoughts your way as I can humanly do.

[Abitaman]

It's good to be back, even if it is just for the next 10 minutes.-ERIC

[Zan]

Ditto what Bugsy said, Eric! And you'll always be our Abitaman! Don't change!

Funny story about my aol SN...I am StyxZan70 because of my favorite band (duh), name (double duh), and the year I was born. My best friend asked my new address back in 2000 when I signed onto AOL and said, "You mean to tell me there were 69 other StyxZans???"

Ass. LOL

[Abitaman]

Talk to yall soon, thanks for the pick up-ERIC

[LordofDaRing]

Eric:
Love that Abita water, but I am bummed, I was hoping your moniker was for the even better Abita beer (Purple Haze). My family was one of the lucky ones over here in Slidell, little or no damage. I still have my job, went back this week, extremely happy and depressing hooking up with friends and loved ones, lots of stories, tears, hugs, unbelievalbe pics of lifes turned upside down, lots of anger, sadness and a few laughs too. As our heros say, we will all carry on. Eric good luck in the next stage of your life, you sound very much like a survivor and one who will not allow themself to be down, like many of my friends. I think you ought to keep the moniker myself. I will buy me a six pack this weekend of Abita Turbo Dog and watch LSU beat Auburn.

[PsychoSy]

My old man's nick name was "Sy". Everybody called him "Sy". He and I didn't get along because he saw in me everything he hated about himself and, between him and being bullied at school, it didn't take long for chinks in my normally cherubic armor to appear. I didn't attend the Monroe district schools for a number of years and when I came back to the Monroe district, there was rumors swirling around that the reason why I wasn't at Monroe for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade was because "I went nuts" and had to go to a "special" school. It only half-right -- I didn't "go nuts" .... but I did end up going to one of those "special" schools in the Mason district way out in BFE where I rode the "short bus" and spent 6 hours being educated in a "self-contained" classroom for the "emotionally impaired".

Emotionally impaired, hell -- I beat the piss out of the Mason people.

Took them a while to get over that: a "short-bus" riding, long-haired, stoner retard who wouldn't just back down from a fight but actually start 'em! Oh, and if I couldn't get close enough to beat the hell out of them, my "weapons" (typically consisting of airborne chairs and desks) usally did the trick. I got close to them most of the time because I didn't believe in going around obtacles -- I either went thru or climbed over them. For example, on two occassions, some students reffered to my class as "The Retard Class" -- one of whom I chased in the hallway back to his homeroom where he shut the door, placed his face up against the small "chain-link" style glass window inside the door and stuck his tongue out at me. I drilled my fist thru the glass and he had to go to the hospital because some of it landed in his eyes and cut his tongue.

On the other occassion, the offender was on the other side of the lunchroom diagnal to me so I jumped on the tables, bolted accross them, tackled the SOB, dragged him in the hallway, found someone opening their locker, shoved him aside, poked the offender's head into the locker, then processed to slam the door repeatedly.

After so long of getting bullied, I decided to start doing unto others before they done unto me so when Mason had enough of me and I went back to the Monroe district for 9th grade. That's when the rumors began. Of course, I saw the vantages of not confirming or denying the rumors and silently milked the ever loving shit out 'em. I wasn't a total arrogant blowhard like the old man because I believed that talk is cheap ... so do it last. You know, after you've made your point physically.

I was a little more calmer in 9th grade because I always showed up for school either stoned or drunk and it was on these one occassions that I earned the nickname "PsychoSy" from my best friend and class mate Tim -- my teacher kept hounding me to clean my desk. I refused because I claimed it was "organized mess". When I returned from lunch, the entire contents of my desk was spilled onto the floor and she said to me, "Now would be a good time to clean your desk." So I obliged her. After cleaning my desk, I walked to the front of hers, hunkered down, placed my arms perpendicular on the top edge of her desk and rested my chin on my arms.

"Ms. Kiebler, I cleaned my desk," I said smiling sweetly.

"Uh-huh, I can see that," she said dryly.

"Is there anything more I can do for you?", I asked

"You can go back to your seat and be quiet."

"Only on one condition, Ms. Kiebler!" I chimed.

"You're in no position to declare conditions to ..."

"I want to see you clean YOUR desk," I screamed back at her and, standing up, I used my arms to sweep the top of her desk right into her damned lap.

The class of 8-10 students gasped/laughed etc. Since my friend Tim was laughing the loudest and hardest, she gave us both an in-school suspension. Out on the hallway heading downstairs to the principals office, Tim said, "Man, that rocked! You a freakin' psycho, Sy! I'd have done the same thing." Anytime Tim saw me after that day, he would cheer, "Hey, Psycho Sy, what's up?!?" or just plain, "PsychoSy!" sort of like those bawls of "NORM!" on Cheers.

Going on 20 years now.

[classicstyxfan]

Great stories Sy, I bet most of the faculty was scared shitless of you......

and me being 5'10 / 130 lbs during my high school career, I'd have probably steered clear of you, or offered to share a bowl to get on your good side.

I particularly enjoy the sory of hitting the obnoxious kid right thru the door....I bet he thought twice before provoking you or anyone after that.
I had fantasies about doing something like that, but not the strength or rage to go thru with it.

[PsychoSy]

Great stories Sy, I bet most of the faculty was scared shitless of you......

There weren't scared -- reserved was more like it. They knew when they were going too far with me. Plus, they knew better to lay a hand on me. That would set me off.

and me being 5'10 / 130 lbs during my high school career, I'd have probably steered clear of you, or offered to share a bowl to get on your good side.

I was the same size in high school. But I was very quiet and most of the time had my own lunch table to myself. People were leary about me. Thing was, if people actually had the balls to sit down and jaw with me, I immediately had respect for them because they didn't let my cold demeanor or the rumors phase them. It wasn't always good, though. One time, I looked around the lunch room and over my left shoulder and the best lookin chick in the school -- cheerleader and all -- looked me dead in the face and mouthed the words, "You're cute." I immediately turned away and acted like I didn't see it. Later that day in the hall, we passed each other and she yelled, "Stuck up!" That hurt me alot because I wasn't stuck up -- just shy as hell and I was like a deer trapped in her headlights. In fact, I about told her off (my exact words we going to be "Apparently, it didn't occur to you, you stupid bitch, that despite the fact that I think you're the hottest thing in this school, I'm shy and don't trust women ... and after your blind-assed assumptions, who can really blame me?!?") but I kept on walking because I figured if she's that quick to write me off, she wasn't worth the time. Besides, her reputation as something that's been under the bleachers more often that insects and field mice preceded her and I prefered my women loyal, classy, and somewhat innocent -- regardless of their looks. Unfortunately, that didn't matter either because when women either witnessed or heard about the things I've done, they'd give me a wide berth. They'd smile ... but still give me a wide berth. I think they thought that if they pissed me off, I'd do the same to them. Nothing could be father from the truth as I'm more liable to half-kill a guy slapping a woman that slapping a woman myself. But because of the crazy and unpredictable reputation I had, women never approached me and never got realize my tender side. And since I was too shy and timid to approach them, that meant no prom, no homecoming, or anything like that for me.

I particularly enjoy the sory of hitting the obnoxious kid right thru the door....I bet he thought twice before provoking you or anyone after that.

Nope. He still ran his mouth to most people. Every once in a while, he'd run his mouth to me and I'd ignore him but after a while I'd get sick of hearing him. After a glare that seemed to say, "You know what I capable of" he would stop. But not always. That's when I'd take a few steps toward him and he'd back away bawling for his teacher. She'd come out bitching, "Why are you picking on him?" and I'd say, "Why is he running his yap to me when he knows I'll tear his head off and punt it down the stairs?" Later on he'd say he was sorry and act like a friend only to start his mouth up 2-3 days later. I left him alone because he got his ass beat everyday by someone else and I knew if I got my hands on him again, I'd kill him. One time, he ran his yap and was about to get jumped by three guys. Seen me walking past and said, "There's my friend, PsychoSy! Touch me and he kick all your asses!" The three guys were a little scared of me but were surprized when I said, "Nope, I gonna watch!"

I had fantasies about doing something like that, but not the strength or rage to go thru with it.

So did I. I didn't think I had the strength to do the things that rage compelled me to do and when I acting on those impulses, I was as surprized as everyone else. Like my fist drilling the window. For a split second, I thought, "This is going hurt me worse than the window!" and I didn't hit Steve -- he started to back up when he seen my overhand right coming and all it did was shatter the glass and bended the checkerboard-like fencing reinforcing it. But the glass just flew out of there and he didn't back away nor retract his tongue fast enough. Cut my hand a little bit and swollen a few knuckles but that was nothing a fat doobie after school wouldn't take care of.

I wasn't a big dude but I just didn't know my own strength and it actually worried me alot. Also, I was more of an anti-bully. Hated bullies who pestered people and I stood up to them. There was this one dork that always got shoved around alot or tripped down the stairs (which were marble, for crying out loud). When I witnessed a bully tripping the dork down the steps heading for lunch, I got right behind him and waited. When he took his first step, I drove my heel right into the back of his left knee and sent him sailing down the steps. When I reached the landing, I made him pick up all the dork's stuff or I would send him flying down the next flight of stairs. Nobody messed with that dork again after that unless I was suspended or I decided he deserved it (he liked to run his mouth sometimes, too). The cool thing was the dork eventually learned how to defend himself. He just reach the same "do unto others before they did unto me" boiling point and discovered he could scrap! Total George McFly moment and women flocked to him after that point. That damned dork had tons of female friends!

[SuiteMadameBlue]

This "thread" always made me giggle.

It's interesting how people come up with their usernames......

Any newbies want to tell???

[Hollywood]

Just my last name.

[bugsymalone]

This "thread" always made me giggle.

It's interesting how people come up with their usernames......

Any newbies want to tell???

Wow, Suite!! You found an old chestnut back there, didn't ya?


Bugsy

[MtlLady]

"Zan" is short for Suzanne - a name which stuck after co-workers started calling me and my other co-worker, Suzette, "Zan & Zet."

Well darn, you learn something new everyday. Had no idea your name was Suzanne. Interesting ....

[MtlLady]

OK, since we're kind of in a Styx/DDY lull here, I would be interested in the story behind the names people have chosen to post under here.

Mine was very unimaginative, <snip>

Same here, but here goes, I live in Montreal (Mtl) and if you can't guess where the "Lady" comes from nothing else in this forum will make sense either.