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harris
Dec 7, 2007, 10:39 PM
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Here's something I've always wondered about, and finally thought I'd ask.
Behind the sarcasm is a sincere interest in the true answer and the motivations behind: ACCOUNT USERNAMES!!!
Why the password-like, goofy, oftern unreadable and unpronounceable, attempted (mostly failed) pseudo-cool heiroglyphics for usernames?
Why not just straightforwardly state who you are? Some do. Most don't.
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coastal_climber
Dec 7, 2007, 10:41 PM
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Well. coastal_climber
coastal - west coast of B.C. Canada.
climber - I climb aid, trad, & sport.
That enough info, or do you want my SIN as well?
>Cam
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shrug7
Dec 7, 2007, 10:49 PM
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harris wrote: Here's something I've always wondered about, and finally thought I'd ask. Behind the sarcasm is a sincere interest in the true answer and the motivations behind: ACCOUNT USERNAMES!!! Why the password-like, goofy, oftern unreadable and unpronounceable, attempted (mostly failed) pseudo-cool heiroglyphics for usernames? Why not just straightforwardly state who you are? Some do. Most don't.
There is more to the inter-tubes then this site... I think most folks carry whatever username from one site to the others and even to non-climbing sites... 
and some might stem from the days where you could only have 6-8 characters for a username pre 99 usually.
Or there is this whole web 2.0 deal that's going on these days. Pick a word, remove vowels and tada! !
so... ya... ::shrugs::
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carabiner96
Dec 7, 2007, 10:53 PM
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It's my aol sn.
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dingus
Dec 7, 2007, 10:53 PM
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There are whackos on the internet harris. If you cross them they will track you down and make you submit. You just remember that the next time you drop your soap in the community shower.
Cheers
DMT
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dingus
Dec 7, 2007, 10:57 PM
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BTW, did you know harris was the name of the reporter Hunter S Thompson slipped a mickie to so he could steal his press credentials to get on Nixon's reelection plane in 72?
Huh? Didjya know that????
Nixon ran into 'harris' in the mens roof for a quick piss (Nixon was no homo) and of course Thompson had to troll him.
Thus the famous, 'what about the doomed?' speech by Thompson and the even more famous reply from Nixon, immoralized in Where the Buffalo Roam:
Nixon said,
"Come here harris. Let me tell you something. FUCK.... THE DOOMED!"
And out the restroom door he went.
Ciao
DMT
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ja1484
Dec 7, 2007, 11:00 PM
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harris wrote: Here's something I've always wondered about, and finally thought I'd ask. Behind the sarcasm is a sincere interest in the true answer and the motivations behind: ACCOUNT USERNAMES!!! Why the password-like, goofy, oftern unreadable and unpronounceable, attempted (mostly failed) pseudo-cool heiroglyphics for usernames? Why not just straightforwardly state who you are? Some do. Most don't.
I use this name firstly because it's not some goofy-ass pseudo-cool horseshit, and secondly because it's a combination that is rarely taken within username lists.
If anyone's interested in the origins, it's my initials, followed by lucky number, followed by year of birth.
As for who I'm hiding from, mostly uber-hard sportards who will mercilessly ridicule me for not being able to pull .13s.
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harris
Dec 7, 2007, 11:13 PM
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In only the short time since this post started, your answers have enlightened me. Thank you. My curiosity is satisfied, but keep the responses coming.
Remember this: My question is serious, but offered in a spirit of good cheer and humor. You're all my fellow climbers. I feel a connection to all. Happy Holidays.
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dr_feelgood
Dec 8, 2007, 12:10 AM
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The fascists don't know me as dr_feelgood.
Yet.
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clee03m
Dec 8, 2007, 12:17 AM
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Mine is my email log in, a left over from medical school email, and now here. I acutally started an account with more a more straight forward name (I think my dog's name or something) but I quickly forgot what it was or what the password was so I decided to keep email and here the same.
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Valarc
Dec 8, 2007, 12:18 AM
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I've had the unfortunate experience of being internet-stalked, to the point that people were posting up my picture, place of employment, boss's contact information, and so on, with the express intent that people would harass my boss about something I said on the fucking internet that they didn't like.
I don't go out of my way to give out any personally identifying information on the internet since then.
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majid_sabet
Dec 8, 2007, 12:23 AM
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carabiner96
Dec 8, 2007, 12:27 AM
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majid_sabet wrote: I use my real name in RC but then people started to call me major Sorbat instead
I wonder why...
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yarps
Dec 8, 2007, 12:33 AM
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It would only be fitting that I use my "username" for this site;-)
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curt
Dec 8, 2007, 12:38 AM
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harris wrote: ...Why the password-like, goofy, oftern unreadable and unpronounceable, attempted (mostly failed) pseudo-cool heiroglyphics for usernames?
I wasn't clever enough to think up anything "cool."
Curt
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notapplicable
Dec 8, 2007, 12:59 AM
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majid_sabet wrote: I use my real name in RC but then people started to call me major Sorbat instead
Majid! Fuck man, I thought you fell in a crevasse or something.
Welcome back.
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reno
Dec 8, 2007, 12:59 AM
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I'm hiding from the FBI. You never saw me. I was never here.
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climbsomething
Dec 8, 2007, 1:01 AM
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People know who I am. I used my full name for years, then dropped back to my first name once I became a certified grown-up. But a lot of people here know my first name, where I live, my face (sorry) and a few even know what I do, so it's not hard to find me or believe that I'm real.
Lifers like me also answer to our screen names IRL anyway.
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curt
Dec 8, 2007, 1:02 AM
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climbsomething wrote: People know who I am. I used my full name for years, then dropped back to my first name once I became a certified grown-up. But a lot of people here know my first name, where I live, my face (sorry) and a few even know what I do, so it's not hard to find me or believe that I'm real. Lifers like me also answer to our screen names IRL anyway.
Jesus, I even know what kind of pr0n you like...
Curt
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gobias
Dec 8, 2007, 1:10 AM
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I use gobias, as in gobias some coffee.
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wideguy
Dec 8, 2007, 1:14 AM
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I never had a nickname growing up. All my friends had nicknames,..."Squibber", "Mooch", "PJ", "TJ", "AJ", "Mouth", "Littledick"... I was just Chad. It's not even short for anything. Just four little letters.
So my first day signing up here I thought about just using the only identity I had ever known, but I had just finished "Intard-web for Dummies" and rule #378 "The Intardweb is the only place where it is acceptable to give yourself a really cool nickname."
That really resonated with me. It was the one thing I had always wanted, my own nickname! And here i was being told it was finally acceptable to do so. So I seized the opportunity!
And the rest is RC.n00b history. 
Plus "Chad" was already taken.
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shockabuku
Dec 8, 2007, 1:28 AM
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Don't talk to strangers.
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bent_gate
Dec 8, 2007, 1:45 AM
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It's my Porn Star and Stripper stage name.
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