What Does Your Username Signify?
08-15-2006, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by OCBen
A couple stints in the cooler will do that to a guy. 
Nahhh, I'm still my old self......the kinder, gentler type.
Nahhh, I'm still my old self......the kinder, gentler type.
08-15-2006, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by OCBen
No one will ever accuse you of being the paranoid type.
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08-16-2006, 12:46 AM
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Deven = my 1st name (not very original I know). In retrospect it would have be more imaginative to get a different 'handle' but it is too late now.
As a side note, one thought would be to get your own domain name, costs $15-20 per year, and it will be yours forever (as long as you pay the annual fee). I have two (gujrathi.net, and gujrathi.org), so my perminent e-mail adress will be deven@gujrathi.net. (gujrathi is my last name). My wife will have hername@gujrathi.net, and all my children will have firstname@gujrathi.net. At the domain site (such as domaindirect.com (there are many others including godaddy (remember the superbowl commercials)) they have unlimited e-mail forwarding, so if you ever change ISP carriers, you will never have to change your e-mail address, just the forwarding address. The only thing is your will have to once inform everyone of the email name change.
Originally Posted by gravedgr
And it is - I pay $9.95/mo. for dial-up that I don't use just to keep my email even though I have broadband through Comcast.
08-16-2006, 01:34 AM
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M3Pete: Dual meaning:
Eventhough I'm a P-car owner now, I've always loved the M3 since I was little boy and still have one. My first car was an old Fiat 131 that I fixed up to make it look like an M3.
The 2nd meaning is actually the 3pete part. Pete being my first name, but the term 3-Pete was used by my favorite basketball team, the LA Lakers when back in the 80's they won 2 Championships in a row and termed the phrase for the third as "3-Pete". Ever since then, that term is used in various sports after a team has won 2 in a row and are going for their third. I haven't heard it used in any other area. "Three-Pete".
The username I was kind of curious about was gravedgr. I thought he might own a funeral parlor or something
Eventhough I'm a P-car owner now, I've always loved the M3 since I was little boy and still have one. My first car was an old Fiat 131 that I fixed up to make it look like an M3.
The 2nd meaning is actually the 3pete part. Pete being my first name, but the term 3-Pete was used by my favorite basketball team, the LA Lakers when back in the 80's they won 2 Championships in a row and termed the phrase for the third as "3-Pete". Ever since then, that term is used in various sports after a team has won 2 in a row and are going for their third. I haven't heard it used in any other area. "Three-Pete".
The username I was kind of curious about was gravedgr. I thought he might own a funeral parlor or something
08-16-2006, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by M3Pete
...the term 3-Pete was used by my favorite basketball team, the LA Lakers when back in the 80's they won 2 Championships in a row and termed the phrase for the third as "3-Pete". Ever since then, that term is used in various sports after a team has won 2 in a row and are going for their third. I haven't heard it used in any other area. "Three-Pete".
Yep, it was Riles (Pat Riley) who coined the term "three-pete" after promising after the first championship win that the Lakers would repeat as Champions and then delivered on that promise. After the 2nd championship in a row he said the Lakers would go for the "three-peat" but didn't promise that they would, which they didn't.
It was widely believed that he had trademarked that term. Don't know for sure if he did.
08-16-2006, 01:47 AM
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Now that I think about it, the most significant cars I've owned have had a "3" in it -- 3 Pete:
1: First car Fiat 131
2: BMW Z3
3: BMW M3
4: Porsche GT3
1: First car Fiat 131
2: BMW Z3
3: BMW M3
4: Porsche GT3
