The origins of our Dudeist names

[Pancake Waitress]

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... 

[BikerDude]

I'll haff zee lingenberry pancakes.

[Terry]

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.

[cckeiser]

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.

Sounds good to me dude!

[cckeiser]

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.

[meekon5]

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

~thinkingdude

It may surprise you that some of the rest of us "think on deep shit" as well here.

As long as you don't start using the phrase "don't make me go too deep", as a previous individual was prone to, then not follow up with substance.

Sorry I'm the in-house Troll

Welcome, any rug in the place bars over there.

[Rev. Gary (revgms)]

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

[cckeiser]

I am always in deep shit with my special lady.

Fuckin' a revgms dude...you got that right mang. We do have the nicest troll on the internet! We just need to feed him a Christian every now and again.

[Caesar dude]

Sorry I'm the in-house Troll

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

Peace dudes.

[meekon5]

...We just need to feed him a Christian every now and again.

LOL. And me not feed for long while.

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

Welcome to the Troll cave, or bridge, billy goat gruff.

[MotherDuderior]

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

[cckeiser]

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

Why did you need to re-register dude?
Welcome back dude!

I'm just one of the janitors here...attempting to keep our nice quiet beach community clean of trash and spammers.

[DigitalBuddha]

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

[Zen Dog]

I've had mine for years. Got it from a cartoon on a coaster of a dog in a boat with shades on.Underneath it says
"He knows not where he's going
The ocean will decide
It's not the destination
But the glory of the ride".
I took it on when I became a rev in the ULC.
I have endeavored a zen approach to life since reading ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach and other stuff and now I know about abiding.

[Rev. Ed C]

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