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Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: jmcnamara96 on February 01, 2009, 10:16:27 AM
What is the reason for having your username on here
Mine JMcNamara96 J my first name anitlal McNamara my mothers maiden name and 96 my lucky number
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: EddieJ1984 on February 01, 2009, 11:52:37 AM
Eddie Jacobs is my name (hence EddieJ) annd I was born in 1984
so EddieJ1984.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: NJxxJon on February 01, 2009, 12:29:22 PM
NJ - state I am from.

xx- to space the word from JON (my name)

Jon - My name.  :insane:
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Crawford on February 01, 2009, 05:20:24 PM
My name is that of my first character I ever created in Dungeons and Dragons. Crawford was a kick ass cleric whose specialty was destroying undead and hellish creatures.  I managed to him to level 32. He was a walking holy arsenal and would later give his life to destroy this massive keep which was the gateway to the negative plane as well as a factory floor for the creation of new and terrifying creatures. His daughter Eve would later become our world's first cleric/magic user split class character. ahhhh the good ol days.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Ames#1171 on February 01, 2009, 05:53:07 PM
Ames#1171 =  I worked for Ames store 1171 im Parma, OH.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Marc82 on February 01, 2009, 06:11:27 PM
Marc - My Name.

82 - The Year I was born.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: C3Nostalgia on February 01, 2009, 06:12:03 PM
C3 --> Century III (Mall)
Nostalgia --> Because of my research, I get quite nostalgic
 
C3Nostalgia is just the name I use for my research on Century III Mall in West Mifflin, PA.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: kendra on February 01, 2009, 08:29:09 PM
It's my name.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Zayre88 on February 01, 2009, 08:37:14 PM
Zayre was acquired by Ames in 1988 = Zayre88

I first used Zayre88 in 2000 when i launched my website, formerly called Retailers from Woolworth to Wal-mart, then Wool-Mart, and since january 2009 = Zayre88.

www.geocities.com/zayre88
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Ameskid on February 03, 2009, 07:35:43 PM
I'm a kid...and I like Ames.  That's all there is to it.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: rjstheiv on February 03, 2009, 07:46:32 PM
Well my name is Robert John and my last name starts with an "S". And i am the forth in my family so i chose "rjstheiv".
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: standa on February 03, 2009, 10:09:15 PM
Standa is the name of an Italian store chain.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: dmx10101 on February 04, 2009, 02:44:43 AM
Well no real special meaning behind mine, I made it up as a username when I first started using computers in the late 90's and it just stuck with me. dmx is a rapper I liked and I just added the 1 & 0's to make the name longer and because in most cases just dmx was already taken.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: AmesNewington on February 04, 2009, 04:07:45 PM
AmesNewington=I liked Ames and I'm from Newington (CT).
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill) on February 08, 2009, 04:16:48 PM
ShopKoFan = I am a fan of ShopKo, the largest regional discount store in the U.S., based out of my current hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin. I also use this nickname at my blog, aptly titled "BlogKo."
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Caldor1999 on February 09, 2009, 01:50:38 AM
well caldor the store and 1999 when they went out
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: gu4ever on July 19, 2009, 11:44:05 PM
You can read my BIO when you click my username.
GU is for Grand Union
4
Ever.
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: GothicPrincess on July 21, 2009, 07:46:00 AM
because I am one. ;)
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: reitelle on July 21, 2009, 10:25:39 AM
It's my last name "Pelletier" backwards; minus the P... i think it looks beautiful so its my SN for pretty much everything :D
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: beachgal26 on July 21, 2009, 02:20:38 PM
Hi, C3Nostalgia!  I used to live in the Pittsburgh area and still remember when they blasted out the area that would become Century III Mall.  It was one of the best I had ever seen and am so saddened to hear that it's fallen by the wayside and may end up closing one day soon.

:o:hurt::(
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: beachgal26 on July 21, 2009, 02:22:11 PM
For my name, it reflects where I always wish that I could be (at least in the summer since Memphis is kind of land-locked) plus my lucky number.

;):bigsmile::)
Title: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: The Adamantium Elbow on September 08, 2009, 06:14:45 AM
I got the idea from a character on The Fairly Oddparents cartoon. One of the characters is a superhero in a comic book known as The Crimson Chin. He fights a bad guy known as The Bronze Kneecap. The Adamantium part I got from my favorite X-Man Wolverine since that's what his claws are made of.

I was really bored when I thought it up.:insane:
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: IGA/Kmart Is Forever! on June 08, 2013, 09:33:59 PM
The #1 Discount Department Stores that my mother took me to shop at back when I was growing up were Gold Circle, Hills, & Kmart. My mother also went to an Ames Department Store that we had that was local to our area. However, when Ames went through their first bankruptcy back in 1990 there were no more Ames Department Stores in my area for my mother to shop at and take me to. The only Ames Department Store that we had locally shut down in their first wave of bankruptcy store shutdowns. However, when Ames Department Stores bought the Hills Department Store Chain in 1998, it made Ames local for me to shop at again. Only problem was that Ames went out of business four years later. By the time that 2002 hit, three of my four favorite chains that my mother took me to shop at while I was growing up were all gone which was Gold Circle, Hills, & Ames leaving me with just Kmart. The last thing that I want to see happen to my last favorite Discount Department Store of my childhood is suffer the same fate as Gold Circle, Hills, & Ames. Therefore, I created my user name in what I hope and pray becomes reality which is: Kmart Is Forever!
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: TheFugitive on January 30, 2014, 05:57:08 PM
My boss at a particular Ames store where I worked only had one arm.

People started calling me The Fugitive because the one-armed man was
ruining my life.   ;D
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Hudsons81 on September 10, 2014, 03:29:40 PM
Hudson's-the defunct department store chain that operated in the Detroit area for many years and I have fond memories of shopping at their location in Southland Center in Taylor, MI.

1981-the year I was born.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: TRU7536 on September 10, 2014, 04:20:45 PM
TRU7536

Tru: toys r us
7536:  the newington ct store number

Worked for toys r us on the pike on and off from 97 to 2004.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: MikeRa on September 11, 2014, 12:18:11 AM
MikeRa

Basicilly my first name and the first two letters of my last name.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: ynkeesfn82 on September 11, 2014, 10:07:43 AM
Marc B - It's my name. Marc is my first name. B is the first letter of my last name.

All my life even people who should know better misspell my first name. And they can't pronounce my last name even though it's simple. You see my last name in my signature below - Bramhall. If you can't figure out how to pronounce it you break it into two words. Bram Hall. That's how it's pronounced.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: busman_49 on November 06, 2015, 12:59:47 PM
I've liked buses all my life and 4 and 9 are my favorite numbers.  It's been my Yahoo handle since 1999 and just to make life easier on myself, I try to keep the same name on any forum I join.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: JSIDA17 on May 12, 2016, 06:16:41 PM
My user name is from slamming the first seven keys I saw on my keyboard!
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: giantsfan2016 on August 10, 2017, 05:37:48 PM
Should've did this a few months ago when I made the change. I changed my name here to Brammy because it's my new nickname. My last name is Bramhall.
Title: Re: The History Behind Your User Name
Post by: Retail Regents on June 14, 2019, 10:01:58 PM
The Retail part is from an interest in nuances in retail and the Regents part stems from the New York State Regents exams, which were the swellest exams to take at the end of every school year.

Humorously enough, I created a mock Regents exam in current events in retail.