OT: Why Did You Choose Your KF.c Handle?

[Prince of Purpoole II]

I’ve been wanting to pose this question for a while and as we are deep into the Silly Season and 53 days from the CU game now seems as good a time as any. I hope y’all will answer bc I am truly interested. I understand in some cases an answer may reveal your secret identity but I hope enough folks will play along so this doesn’t flop and is interesting.

I’ll start: The Prince of Purpoole was the name given to the Lord of Misrule at Gray’s Inn, London during the Twelve Days of Christmas in 1594. That whole revelry is a post unto itself but the important things in my choosing the screen name are that the word ‘Purpoole’ appears in the title, it is a nice alliteration and the Prince of Purpoole presided over twelve nights of drunken parties and general tomfoolery.

It seemed somehow appropriate here

 

[Land Frog]

This thread has potential. Mine is boring. Self explanatory.

 

[Prince of Purpoole II]

This thread has potential. Mine is boring. Self explanatory.

Were/are you a land man? I’ve assumed so

 

[Eight]

actually paul mcgann

 

[Opintel]

My job (one of them) in the USN...Operational Intelligence Analyst.

A guesser.

 

[Zubaz]

I wear Zubaz on game day.

 

[Palliative Care]

Obviously mine is an occupation as well. However, I choose my name because it is a kind sounding moniker to bring to the forum.

 

[LVH]

I was sitting in the LVH (now Westgate) Superbook when I made the account

 

[Paul in uhh]

This thread has potential. Mine is boring. Self explanatory.

You are a plot of land?

 

[Frog45]

I was a freshman at TCU and 45 was my basketball number in MS/HS.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

Pretty straightforward. Married into Frogdom and 1995 was my college class (and just “Frog-in-Law” was already taken).

My original handle (for about a year) was AccidentalCynic, which was a nod to comedy sportswriter-cum-ESPN poker announcer Norman Chad, who a great many moons ago used to do a hilarious syndicated column, mostly about football gambling, under that name from his desk at the Baltimore Sun. He was nice enough to keep up a little friendly banter with me in the early days of email for a while before the WSOP money started flowing.

 

[Armadillo]

Nigel Tufnel quote: “We’ve got ARMADILLOS in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening”

Dr. Cooper showed This is Spinal Tap in one of my very favorite classes at TCU, Survey of the Comedy Film, in 1994, my senior year. Wednesday nights, 6pm to 9pm in Moudy, then I’d head down to The Pub for dollar drink night with a buddy.

Much of my inner dialogue is Spinal Tap, Beavis and Butthead and Seinfeld.

 

[tcudoc]

I was very uncreative when I signed up in 1999. Had I known I would be here 24 years later, I would have given it more effort and picked something more creative. Now, I guess I’m too invested in the name to switch.

 

[RufeBruton]

Mine was the name of the TCU swim coach in ‘69/‘70 when we swam in that cesspool next to Clark Hall (20 yard pool, four lanes, with a pipe exiting the pool in the middle of lane2). His name was John “Rufe” Brewton. Since he never ever spelled my name correctly in the one year that I swam for him, I have misspelled his name in his dubious honor.

 

[Horned Toad]

Way back in 97 or 98, whenever this site started, Horn Frog, Horned Frog, etc. was already taken. I typed in Horned Toad and it was available. The rest is History. Loved Bluto in Animal House back in my college days so my avatar was a natural for me.

 

[BrewingFrog]

As an aspiring Zymurgist back in the mists of time, and an avid Frog Fan, the name seemed perfect.

I need to brew another batch of beer!

Edit: The avatar is my fat ass sitting on a beach patio on Eleuthera in 2003. I am wearing one of Froglaw's FrogGear hats, and my Kalik Gold is comfortably ensconced in a TCU longneck koozie.

 

[Prince of Purpoole II]

Nigel Tufnel quote: “We’ve got ARMADILLOS in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening”

Dr. Cooper showed This is Spinal Tap in one of my very favorite classes at TCU, Survey of the Comedy Film, in 1994, my senior year. Wednesday nights, 6pm to 9pm in Moudy, then I’d head down to The Pub for dollar drink night with a buddy.

Much of my inner dialogue is Spinal Tap, Beavis and Butthead and Seinfeld.

This is cool bc I always just assumed it had to do with Texas roots…

 

[Prince of Purpoole II]

I wear Zubaz on game day.

Photos this season please

 

[Chico Dusty]

One of my favorite groups is OutKast. 1/2 of the Mighty O, Big Boi, released a solo album called “Son of Chico Dusty” when I joined.

 

[FrogAbroad]

A Horned Frog fan from age 5, and a '68 TCU graduate, hence "Frog." Resided outside the USofA (for 40 years) at the time I became a KFc member, hence "Abroad." Since then I'm just too lazy to change.