User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

[Maxperson]

It’s one of only 3 aliases I remember using. My first was based on my email. I chose Dannyalcatraz to replace that. In recent years, I’ve started using “BubbaIMHOtep” in some circles- a portmanteau of IMHO and “Bubba Ho Tep”, a cult classic movie.

Don Coscarelli is a family friend through my uncle who was in Bubbu Ho-Tep. He got a small part in the film as the drummer in Sebastian's band. It's a very fun movie to watch.

I once got invited to Don's Halloween party. If you want to see a house done up fantastically for Halloween, go to the house of a writer/director of a horror film. It was amazing. One of the other guests showed up with her dog and sat down in the living room opposite to me. I kept staring at the dog whose breed looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. The dog stared back at me unfazed. Eventually I asked her what breed it was and she replied, "It's a Timber Wolf." While trying to figure out the breed, wolf was off the table. My mind wouldn't leave the realm of dog, because middle of Los Angeles and all. Anyway, that's when I realized that I was staring down a wolf and figured it would be a good idea to avert my gaze.

Edited to add a few words that I left out of a sentence.

 

[Maxperson]

So my story goes back to high school. The first day in my high school biology class the teacher was reading off the names for attendance. When he got to my name he thought my last name wasn't politically correct and started calling me Mr. Maxperson. Fast forward a few years to when AOL started and I had to come up with a name for my account and was having a hard time. That's when I remembered that class and Maxperson was born on the internet. Since then I have been Maxperson, MrMaxperson, MightyMaxperson(created when I was young enough to think it was cool), and SirMaxalot at least once, though that might have been in a game.

My avatar is Goku, because I really like Dragon Ball Z and Goku is the best.

 

[Maxperson]

I've heard that someone can subsist entirely on something like 5 or 6 pints of Guinness and a glass of whole milk. Apparently the Guinness fell short in the calcium or vitamin D department.

If you haven't watched it, there's a documentary called How Beer Saved the World. It's a really interesting watch.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My other hobby is golf.

Thank goodness.

 

[Maxperson]

“Life is like a box of chocolates…that are actually a mimic.” ~ Eric Noah’s Grandma

Only takes one bite out of each PC to see what they taste like?

 

[Waterbizkit]

The year was 1996, I was in middle school. Someone called me a cracker, they were serious about it. Using the sort of clever repartee children in middle school are known for I asked "What kind of cracker?"

This got me a confused look, so I went on... "There are a lot of crackers. Saltine, graham, oyster, water biscuit..." This got me a string of profanity in response to which I shrugged and walked away.

For some reason the part of the incident that stuck with those friends who witnessed was the fact I knew there was a type of cracker called a water biscuit. Fast forward a little bit to my first AOL account and Waterbizkit was born. It was the 90's so of course biscuit had to be spelled bizkit. It's been my one and only online handle used everywhere ever since.

I don't have an avatar on here... I don’t think. My avatar of choice is found easily by Googling "like a sir". Maybe I'll update it after I post this...

 

[James Gasik]

I mean .... given the breadth and depth of my popular culture knowledge ... that I haven't seen one thing?

Besides, thunder or no, we all know that the cats are just waiting for us to die so that they can eat us.

They're not impolite about it, they'll give you three days!

 

[R_J_K75]

If you haven't watched it, there's a documentary called How Beer Saved the World. It's a really interesting watch.

Was this on History Channel or Amazon Prime? It sounds familiar, I think I've seen it and rather recently, within the last 5 years or so.

 

[Maxperson]

Was this on History Channel or Amazon Prime? It sounds familiar, I think I've seen it and rather recently, within the last 5 years or so.

I saw it on Netflix, but now it's on Prime. I swear, shows are like musical chairs these days with which streaming services offer them.

 

[payn]

It’s one of only 3 aliases I remember using. My first was based on my email. I chose Dannyalcatraz to replace that. In recent years, I’ve started using “BubbaIMHOtep” in some circles- a portmanteau of IMHO and “Bubba Ho Tep”, a cult classic movie.

Don Coscarelli is a family friend through my uncle who was in Bubbu Ho-Tep. He got a small part in the film as the drummer in Sebastian's band. It's a very fun movie to watch.