What does your screen name mean?

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Mine is the gamer name I used at LAN parties back in the early 2000s. Probably a bad choice as is sounds like I'm looking for a fight.
You know, I have a name on a combat flight simulation forum that has also changed with context. I'm so lousy at it that I took the name "Human Drone", as in target drone - very easy to shoot down. But then UAV's started getting very combat capable and now it looks like I think I'm a stealthy, lethal combat machine!
 

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Let's see.... I've been techrat since the 1980's. There was a cartoon called "Jem and the Holograms", which had a doll line. But it was about a musical group and I liked the songs.

My wife's cousin played "Rebecca" in the Jem and the Holograms movie a few years ago. With any luck, you have avoided seeing the film. :)

My user name is an obscure reference to Harry Nilsson. On the cover of his Aerial Ballet album are a number of handwritten short notes. One reads "Everyone should own a little jade box."
 
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i rescue and foster kitties,this time around (well, 11yrs ago) foster turned into daddy for the four sisters, Pickles is the champagne mink tonkinese.... born of a russin blue mother.... cat genetics are wacky

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some things never change

she is not my avatar kitteh, thats my oldest pinky
You're the one I've been wondering about, thanks for the explanation and pictures.
 

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Dear glory I have the same shirts for my "crew!" And either my NASA meatball ball cap for myself or a horrible cheap "old man" ball cap, dark blue with large white letters "R & D" and mesh in the back. You know the kind that makes your head look 3 inches taller? My beloved HATES those! Which is the only reason I kept it... Or another souvenier from the old Westinghouse R&D center, later (W) Science & Technology Center - "STC- Serving The Customer" which I'm sure she'll also hate!

Now back to the thread, apologies to @hobie1dog
 
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its a formula ive used for a while for online stuff.... Baron Von Chickenpants, Bongo McSizzlechest, Slappy McFlipperfeet, etc. It doesnt mean anything per se, but I have nicknames for the kiddos, like Booboo McSillypants or Pooky McGhee. Anyone who has had multiple animals, esp from the same litter knows how specific and wildly different their little personalities are, so i give them pet names, as it were, to match.

Some may remember the Boaty McBoatface debacle...... NEVER ask the public to name something, we are in the age of memes.
 
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I found another picture of my chocolate Labrador Retriever named Hobie when he was only a year and a half or so old:
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