Justify your handle*

I am actually 6’5"…with the afro 6’9".

While I’m at it, let me throw out a word-up to my favorite Chick Hearn fan on CH, Uncle Rico. I bet you could throw a football over them mountains.

Is the name of my military handle

Also I am writing a supernatural themed, character-driven trilogy with Angels (and Fallen Angels) as the back-story.

And I was born in 79’

my name/persona in 9th grade spanish class

and my name is Dan. I never claimed to be interesting.

WIth Elvis Presley as a role model, what did you expect?

I think you guys can figure it out… but for those who can’t:
KG – Kevin Garnett
MN – Minnesota

Plus he got seriously shafted after spending years here with a brand new franchise in the cold and then we send him to Vancouver for crying out loud. Poor guy.

Maybe…. ;)

only less fierce, more goofy, and completely unsuccessful.

Seemed to fit a Wolves fan.

The cat in Alien is called Jones. That’s it.

I also had a twitter account of the same name but I, err, got drunk and deleted it. :(

Wouldn’t justifying your handle be your, you know, next move?

I studied Chinese a little in college (at Madison, for all you WI-nites here). My real name is Jeff, and we used “jian-fu” as a phonetic equivalant to use as a classroom name.

My wife was looking for a job at the time and I had been teasing her that she should become a wet nurse

I’m a huge fan of the band KingsX.

And I won’t be beating anyone down the court. You can pretty much count on that.

I also identify quite closely with the Greek Cynic philosophers. I value reason as a virtue above all else, and reject (or at least disdain) social convention. I reject materialism (though not quite to the extent of Diogenes or Crates). And, most of all, my main forms of communication are sarcasm, satire, and mockery.

it started with Pooh and will end with Rubio.

Die hard Wolves fan but since I’m Asian I’m obligated to like Yao Ming (but not the Rockets)

If listening to music was part of it. I used lastyearsears on a music sight and almost immediately realized it should have been pastyearsears. So this was an opportunity to correct it even though it has nothing to do with basketball.

I find it funny how I assign a mental image to each handle, and how my image often isn’t even close to the printed handle let alone the real meanings revealed here. It’s kind of like (but in a opposite way) the typos and misspellings that people apologize for or make jokes about: I often have to go back and reread because I understood the intended meaning without catching the error.

When I was playing for the Osan base team some guy from Camp Humphries said “that mother f*%^er can stop and pop” after I hit a rather non descript pull up jumper on a hot shooting day. He said it so loud it caught on with my teammates.

The other option was, ironically, “high potential” because I once went to the Clem Haskins high potential camp while being a terrible JV player. See, I’m living proof that it doesnt exist ;) I was the Wes Johnson of Clem’s St Thomas summer camp. %

Also, the Return of Bob Sura was briefly considered for similar reasons to snp. In this case I played with a guy who went to FSU who thought all white guards who could jump were like Bobby Sura.

“Hmr” is for my nickname “Hammer” – comes from the 80’s pro wrestler Greg “The Hammer” Valentine (any guesses what my last name might be??).

I’m from South Dakota, so…

is the first and only nickname I ever remember having. My last name begins with an E, and in 6th grade, during after school skiing at Alfton Alps, some friends began calling me Ebomb for bombing down the runs without turning. My full first and last name are only 3 syllables combined, so nicknames were a rare thing.

Wim (Belgium) is actually called Erwin and he’s from the Netherlands?

It seemed a lot more clever 15 years ago.
On a brighter side, it’s better than Kalani19 (douchey AIM handle), Boss10Slinger (thankfully short-lived, but equally douchey poker handle) or S8cT0wn (current and past location of graduate studies).

The new unveiled slogan was “Run with the wolves” or something like that. I always thought running with scissors was not quite as dangerous as perceived by my grade school teachers and running with scissors would make a great name for a band. However, having no time for a band I figured I would just use it for my handle. There is actually 2 spaces after it because some idiot already took it, so there may be another one of me out there in sbnation.

Been living in Korea for over nine years, and I’m not in the military.

And “Yo, Leo!” is something I’ve heard a lot in my life.

Isaiah “JR” Rider was my favourite player growing up, his number being 34 (also my softball and AFL number in local sports) and wolves being my team thus wolvesjr34 :)

which was one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons as a kid.

For the last 20-plus years as an adult, the Wolves have been my favorite cartoon … so it seemed appropriate.

and wicked smart.

Though after reading all of the other stories on here I kinda wish I had chosen something more interesting.

is my nick, but it’s not because of the band. It’s because of Guybrush Threepwood. And because keelhauling is brutal. Like me.

who doesn’t click to see my profile. When CH started up, I was blogging at The Mississippifarian (TMiss). Sadly, that blog is no more because WordPress got very huffy about my post links to 90-minute music sets every week….

The truth is, I am MAYNHOLUP trapped in a 58-year-old body.

was a pure meaningless free association. So, it may have personal meaning but it’s unknown to me.
;)

My first ever username and I still use it. I think I created it around 2000-2001 if not earlier.

For the best wrestler of all time, Chris Jericho (Y2J) and my first and last initials.

Could be considered lame….but honestly, HE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD.

I think I was about eleven years old, and I was at a friend’s house that wanted to do a fantasy baseball draft, so I needed to create a Yahoo account. He was sitting at the keyboard creating an account for me while I was looking over his shoulder. The first five screen names I told him to put in were already taken, so in frustration I said “Dumbhead62” half-sarcastically, figuring that probably wouldn’t be taken.

I was right.

At that time, I was not aware that the login name was also my screen name for everyone to see, but I grew to love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zznR_KTY0Q

efforts of the front office one too many times. Of course wolfpile would have been more obvious, I suppose,but once you’ve seen a steaming pile of canine crap it gets hard to discern any subspecies nuances….

you will, no doubt, not be surprised to know that I can fling scatological references with the best of them….

Didn’t turn out well.

I use this moniker a lot of places – actually surprised it’s almost always available.

The funny part is while I like fishing I really only get out 2-3 times a year. Gotta work on that.

So many names we never see in game threads emerge. It’s great to see. Come out and join us, fellow CH’ers.

My handle: I totally loved Hanna-Barbera’s Laff-A-Lympics as a 5 year old kid. Watching the Scooby Doobys, the the Yogi Yahooeys, and the Really Rottens compete every Saturday was a highlight of my adolescent week. I was weird though…I hated seeing the good guys win…it was so boring. So I cheered for the Really Rottens, and what I thought was their leader Muttley.

As an adult, I learned through copyright law that I was, in fact, cheering for “Mumbly”…a character that had shamelessly been ripped off from the Dirk Dastardly & Muttley series of cartoons. After that, my inability to get a user ID as Muttley on basically any on-line community led me to personalize it by dropping a letter and using my location (IL=Illinois). Who knew Muttley had such a following? Maybe they were actually were Mumbly fans too?

I spend most of my free time connecting seemingly unrelated things, in passionate pursuit of the profound; which for me is typically made up of intuitive “right brain” discoveries (like people’s unique motives, giftings & perspectives).

what other reason could there be?

John Doe seemed like a fitting nod to the inherent anonymity of an online handle, though my first name actually is John. And since it’s not specific to the Wolves, I can use it whenever I need a handle anywhere online, though plain old ‘John Doe’ is often taken. Also, I get to have an avatar of one of the most badass movie characters ever.

during my short-lived stint on the Onion Personals, which is where I met my (now) husband. The PD refers to my job/calling :) (I am a public defender). When I created an SB Nation ID, I did so without much thought, as I wasn’t doing much with it (I lurked for a looong time before I started commenting), and this is what came to mind. In retrospect, perhaps it should have been gender-neutral, but I am not about to change it and forfeit my O.G.-ish “member since June 27, 2008” cred ;).

Or that’s what I want to think, anyway.

when I first started using this in 2001-02 or so, I never figured I’d fail to think of something better in the intervening years. So I use this near everywhere.

Should be obvious; it’s certainly not very creative.

taken from anchorman “stay classy, san diego.”

Joe is for Joe Mauer.

Stay classy, Joe Mauer.

I was reading CH during Mauer’s press conference for being named MVP and it was the first thing I thought of.

I am a sleep psychologist, ergo “Somno” = sleep; “doc” = doctor. See what I did there?

call Albatross Comics …plus I think KG shot our Albatross when when he left.

and use the Voodoo tag often for various nicknames because of that (Voodoo Child is my all time favorite Hendrix song)

And Magic just sound cool to go along with it

He was so awesome in word and deed, so I stole his name and use it here. True story.

Trying to get Love to see that if he loves himself too much (aka requests too much money to sign a long-term contract with us), he will do to us what KG did: force us to surround him with near crap (OK, Spree and Cassell were above average, but they were a “Grasp”).

I really don’t think Love Loves Love- he seems pretty down-to-earth, albeit getting a bit edgier the past 2 years. I DO think he is a stellar player, and that rebounding is a more important stat than scoring since it both ends the opposition’s opportunity, and give our Wolves one of their own.

Truthfully- the handle was just a funny thought I had, it got meaning shortly after I picked it when I knew in a couple years Love would be up for the biggie contract (I was a firm believer in Love back in the “Trade Al or Love” poll days (re-read that thread for grins a couple days back).

FYI- my avatar is of my 2-year old daughter riding her dirt-bike many years back. (yes, yes- she had training wheels, a governor, helmet, and every other piece of protective equipment one could cover a kid with… and loved every minute of it).