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Pilkenton is my mom's maiden name.

 

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With a first name of Richard and living in Honolulu, mine is kind of a thoughtless use of what is at hand. Certainly not of much original thought involved. At it's worst, it lets people know where I'm coming from. Almost as good as a zip-code.

For those having visited our 50th addition, our tropical paradise in the Pacific, I live directly behind Diamond Head. Inland [mauka] and at the foot of the mountains [uka] ending the coastal plain. The locals call the area East Hono, but it"s the township of Kaimuki. Can see tourists climbing the cut-in-stone steps leading to the extinct volcano summit while keyboarding this comment.

 

I love Japanese Sumo wrestling and a Yokozuna is a "Grand Champion." You have to win 2 tournaments, called Bashos, in a row and be voted in by the Sumo governing body. Some times winning 2 Bashos in a row will still not get you the title of Yokozuna. It all depends on how you win and how the Sumo governors view your overall performance. Six Bashos are held each year. Once you are a Yokozuna you cannot be demoted, but you are expected to keep on winning or retire. A Yokozuna that puts himself or the sport of Sumo in a bad light is also expected to retire. The rules of pay in Sumo depend on who you beat, your win/loss record for each "Basho" and if you are ranked lower than a Yokozuna and you beat him in a match, your pay goes up for each match you fight during the rest of your career. MOST Sumo wrestlers have and will never make it to Yokozuna. Another way that Sumo wrestlers are paid is by sponsors that put up money for a match between 2 competitors that are both expected to win or are popular in the sport. Each sponsor has a advertising banner that is carried around the ring before the match. The sponsors put up about $6000 each and 1 match could have 5 to 25 sponsors. Some call this enticement money. Half of the money is paid to the winner in envelopes at the end of that bout and half is put into the winners "Retirement" fund. The Yokozunas make millions of dollars depending on how long they stay in the sport. The sport is thought to around 900 years old and is full of tradition. When a Yokozuna retires, his hair is cut in a special ceremony. In the 900 years of Sumo, only 65 men have held the title of Yokozuna. Some periods have had no wrestlers at the rank of Yokozuna with other times that 4 men have held the rank at the same time. If a Yokozuna looses to a lower ranked wrestler in a match, most of the fans throw the seat cushions into the ring to show their disapproval. Sumo wrestlers are HUGE, with the lowest weight in professional ranks at around 300 pounds. Some Yokozunas have reached the 550 to 600 pound level. They can be very hard for the lighter weigh wrestlers to move.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about Yokozunas and Sumo. Sorry, but you asked

In other words. I like Sumo and I used the name Yokozuna to honor the sport.

Ben

 

Mine is quite obvious, I steal things! Haha just kidding guys

It just came up while I was trying to think of a username for a game

 

I chose the name of 1970 Silver Art because I love to collect 1-oz silver art bars that were minted in the 1970's.

 

Mine is my wife's middle name and our last name. I have several emails with that and it sticks for everything.

 

Mine is a nickname based off my first name, Chris.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Krispy Kreme brand doughnuts as many may first assume.

As a child, a family member took to calling me 'Chrisper' but this never crossed over to usage with friends and others. Chrisper may have been a derivation of Christopher.

I used to watch a lot cartoons growing up and I always liked the spoofs of Jimmy Durante that you might see in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Durante also was a voice in the animated cartoon of Frosty the Snowman. Then in the 1980s Post Crispy Critters Cereal had this TV commercial running with a character that again spoofed Jimmy Durante, complete with a big nose. At that time a friend of mine remarked something about how I should call myself Crispy and do Durante impressions. We joked around about it for a bit as we both enjoyed humorous parodies.

When I needed a screen name for use on the forum, I decided to go with 'krispy', in part it's a derivation of my name, now with the C changed to a K it goes a bit further yet is connected to the above life long references. It also suggests the concept of 'crisp' notes as my avatar picture depicts a note and sums up one part of my numismatic collecting interest in which crisp notes are a very good thing. :smile

 

A character in my Dad's comic strip.

 

Dimeguy-own an example of almost every dime from 1916-2007. Yes, my avatar is the reverse of the Franklin half, and I realize it's a slight contradiction to my username. I started to collect them because because those Barber dimes are bit too much out of the graduate student price range. Regardless, the dimes will always be my precious.

 

Bourbon and Ice for me please

 

Mine is from a movie called 'Idiocracy', a Mike Judge film (creator of Beavis & Butthead), with Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live fame). Luke Wilsons character is in the Army, the MOST average guy in the Army, and volunteers for an experiment that keeps him asleep for 1 year. Project gets scrapped, he wakes up 500 years later, the world's IQ plummets (hence 'Idiocracy'), and each individual has his/her personal info tatooed into a scan on the wrist. When Wilson's character is put in jail, due to his being unscannable, due to his being in a 500 year coma, he must get tatooed....when asked his name for tattooing, he 'isn't sure', so he say's 'I'm not sure'......and thus, his name 500 years later, becomes 'Not Sure'......oh, he's also determined to be the 'smartest man in the world'......becomes President of the United States, and blah, blah. A funny, funny movie (but I have a weird sense of humor....and it IS from the creator of Beavis and Butthead, so....). BUT, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

 

djaeon = DJ Aeon. I used to be a nightclub DJ at several underground clubs in San Diego. I chose the DJ name "Aeon" because one of my favorite songs when I started out as a DJ was "Flux" by Covenant, and one of the words in the chorus I really liked, "aeon". Did that for about 10 years, and during that time I started going online. "djaeon" is what I used as my first internet handle, so I just kept using it, even after I stopped spinning several years ago.

 

Brawndo....It's what plants crave......
Great movie

 

Big J has been my nickname since High-school. 6'5 and been 200+ lbs since I was 17 or 18 even hit 300 for a bit...usually somewhere in the 250 range...and the PST "pacific standard time" Ha just kidding. Pasadena scooter trash

 

I'm honestly not sure how I came up with my name. I've been using this online alias just about everywhere I go for the past decade.

The earliest I remember this name was from a night-fright that I had in late JrHS where I had an evil persona of myself trying to take over the world using meta-human powers. The name of my evil persona from that night fright was what I have been using online since.

 

bigjpst....'Welcome to Costco...I love you!'......You must be one of the 100 or so people that have seen it! lol

 

It's got electrolytes!

 

fretboard = used to be guitar player and collector in vintage condition!!

 

Dok U Mint=

My handwriting is awful.

I like coins.....and they must come from somewhere.

I have problems spelling words the same way all the time.
And I spent enough time being called "Doc".
Plus~
I used to document stuff.

it can be abbreviated as "D~U~M"

Dylsexics! Untie!!!!:rollling:

 

Comes from an old Jeff Beck tune called "HiHo Silver Lining"

If you are English you will have sung it many times at football games and later in the pub.

That's the short version anyway.