When I joined here, I was racking my brain trying to think of some name that would be Maude-ish, even though I'm not much like her (I love her character, though!) - and couldn't come up with anything. So, I just looked at the character listing at imdb.com and thought "Pancake Waitress" was kinda funny for a forum name, so... 

Heck, I just thought I'd take it easy by not twisting my brain trying to figure out a fancy handle and used my own name.

I came up with my name from all the thinking I do on deep shit.

~thinkingdude

Sounds exhausting dude.
Welcome to our nice quiet beach community.
Pull up a rug...kick off you jellies and take er easy dude.
Dudeism is all about taking er easy...Low standards and even lower expectations dude.

Dudeism: even are trolls are very nice fellows, and thurruh.

Sorry I'm the in-house Troll

I thought troll was just another name for any forum member? 

Peace dudes.

Hey dudes!
Ive had my Dude Name for a long time now. Just seemed very apt for me.

Another janitor saying welcome dude, help yourself to a lane have a roll.

I guess I've never posted up why I use the handle I do, but...

I've had handles in various forums/games I've played online, and I didn't feel like using one of those here.  I felt like here I needed to just be, well, myself, in name as well as spirit.

Where my full name is 28 letters long:  Edward Richard Harold Churchman, I've always liked to crunch it down to just Ed.  Brevity on high   Or Take my R and H and quish it on to make Rhed (which is commonly take in popular places, so becomes rhed_c.

So, I like to go by my two-letter handle, nice and simple, Ed.  However, just because I don't wanna manolopise Rev. Ed from all the other Rev. Eds in the world, once again, for the Forum, I added in C, just to leave the market open for my like-named compeers

But, you know, you can just call me Ed