Mad, crazy science teacher, who perspires too much aka Mr Driskel.

I am none of the above, but 25+ years ago, I needed a username for the an internet account and that was the first thing that popped into my head, without planning. I later needed to justify the name

I ended up being is some form of a cast for a full year - full let, 1/2 leg, boot. By the time I started rehab my calf was about the size of my wrist. Anyway, got back to myself not soon after, and no lingering effects. Although, my orthopedic told me I lost about 1/4" in my right leg. I still cycle and run occasionally, but never really noticed the difference.

As far as my card playing, quite the opposite - Oklahoma Baptist University spades champion 1990. That and sneaking up to the boys dorm attic for our Friday night poker tournaments (I was an R.A., so I had a key )

I love knockers! Big ones that bang the side of the cabinet..

I thought u were paying homage to an ex wife!

Favorite band back in the day + favorite video game console back in the day (not the *best* mind you, but my personal favorite for a slew of reasons).

I was trying to think of an online name that made sense for a pinball website, and I wasn't on any other online forums so didn't already have other online names.
Hmmm, ...something-pinball, ...pinball-something.
Pinball-is-great is what stuck in my head, so I went with that.

Another interest of mine is canoeing & kayaking, so sometimes I use canoemike for online names.

To this day
I swear that when I eat a 3 Musketeer bar,
i still taste a hint of strawberry in the light fluff filling.

Perhaps an ex wife who works at Deeproot?

MY name is Joe. I am a Mold Remediation Contractor. Everyone in my business community calls me The only Funguy you want in your house,

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Mold remediation....is that like therapy?

Dan Q is my first name and last initial.

I share a birthday with Elvis.

Elvis famously muttered "Thank you very much" a lot.

But wait, there's more to the story!

Look closer at my avatar. That's not Elvis, it's Andy Kaufman doing his (excellent) Elvis impersonation.

And of course, Andy's "weird foreign guy" character said "tank you veddy much" after his impersonations.

Long story short, it's that voice I hear internally when I contemplate my username, I really don't think I'm as cool as freaking Elvis when I make one of my pithy comments. I put myself out there, trying to be funny mostly, then I meekly, internally, say "DanQVerymuch."

My favorite vacation spot back in the day... The Beechwood section of Ludington state park. So awesome. Like pinball. So it stuck.

Man mine is so boring.

First name and first initial of my last name.

"beadwindow" is a term from my military days. if that word was said over comms, it meant that some sensitive info was inadvertently mentioned on the net and everyone needs to be advised. it was also followed by a number combo that gave specific data relating to the nature of the info. of course, we used it (or some other previously agreed upon term) to let all the guys know that one of the jefes was listening in on our team comms and to keep things business-like.

Mine is due to the fact I've always like Williams games. I remember playing them when I was really young. My first games was a Williams. I like the pointy art figures on the late 60s early 70's EMs. And when buying used ones that aren't from an ad, they always seem to from Williams.....

First name, last initial, degree...when I receive messages addressed to mr. Mee I get suspicious.

Trying to will a Ready Player One (book, not movie) pin into existence...

Doug and (n) Andi (my wife’s and my first name...also stands for deoxyribonucleic acid...what I extracted from grasses to sequence during college for a job, and what makes us us. pac stands for Physician Assistant-Certified...what I do. Thus dnapac.

When I lived in Stevens Point, I would call it SPoint for short. 28 is for the Z28 I had in high school.
And of course my name is Tom.

First and middle initial, plus the name of the main character from one of my favorite John Carpenter movies.

JK

My college degree is in film production and I worked corporate film and video for over a decade, still do shoots when I can squeeze them in. More of a Cinematographer by trade, but The Director sounded cooler. So, I went with it and have used on all gaming related forums since.

I know the feeling.

Because Defender is an awesome game!
I got my Defender Vid in 1992 and my Defender pin in 2006.

They never get old!

The mainframe computer login that was assigned to me in the early 1980s that has been forever etched into my brain, as I came to use it across multiple systems...

goes back to the 90s when MKII was huge (baraka). NDL is an acronym for a drum line i was in.

My Username is a simplified pronouncing of how my family has always pronounced our last name which is "Rumsey".

Friends and visitors would come over and loved hanging out in my game room. Lots of pins,arcade games, neon signs and monster memorabilia. Huge bar full of liquor and craft beer too. A few guests said this place is like dave and busters but the games, beer, liquor and food are all free. This is the ultimate game room!
The name stuck even tho it is far from some of the insane collections I’ve seen here on pinside.

Stretch is always taken so i have to add a number after it.

Bublehead is a shortened version of bubblehead which is what Submariners (like myself) in the US Navy are called by the Surface Warfare types, i.e. the blokes that we liked to call “targets”. They thought it was a great put-down. Submariners are a crazy lot, so we started calling ourselves bubbleheads just to get their goats. In the early days of the net, IRC chat rooms only allowed a nickname 9 characters long, so I dropped the extra “b” and became Bublehead on all the forums. Hit me up for some crusty sea stories from the cold war, buy me a pint of my favorite, and I’ll spin a yarn for ya matey.

I had no idea the etymology of your username and glad you explained this. I have always read it as "Barak and I" though when I've seen you post over the years haha

Crash Bandicoot.

I flew F-16s in the US Air Force and my tactical nickname was Toucan.
So my user name here is ToucanF16

Thanks for your service.

Mine is pretty boring as well and self-explanatory to the folks here and I use it in other areas as well, but... a few of the members in my car club misread it and thought it was "HomeGrown". I was wondering why everyone was always asking me for weed....

They still refer (reefer?) to me as HomeGrown.

I wired an electric fence transformer to the bird feeders to keep the squirrels off of them.
My wife thought it was funny and came up with the name for her EBay handle.
I stole it from her.
She was pissed.

E.

Me almost 20 years ago . Pinball is safer. Glad I’m still here .Suzuki GSXR

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kinda self explanatory - I just made mine up spur of the moment however many years ago when I was dipping my toes in the Pinside pool after hearing everyone on rgp bitch about all the prima donnas over here.

Had I known I would become one of them, I may have spent more time on my username...

First 3 letters of my last name raised to the 10th power.

Shorter than typing:
zen_multiplied_by_0b1001010100000010111110010000000000

Please don’t beat me up and take my lunch money.

So it turns out you can request to have your username changed!

In other news, symbols don't show up properly on my phone, and I may have just reported my quoted post.

I almost went with Needles’n’pins. Being a T1 diabetic I though it was a pretty good mash up until my wife said to most people it might make me look like a junkie.

We should start our own club. Us T1's need to stick together.

Since I am here...

My username stands for "Straight Down The Middle in St. Louis" It is reference to what happens too often when I play pinball.

I have been a coin op amusement and vending technician since 1982......we are known as 'star techs', probably due to all of the space and sci fi themes in video games and pins, etc. I would create a name called Startech *does anyone remember the startech journal?) but it was always taken so i went with Startek.......then some big company created a cell phone called the startek phone and all of a sudden my email account went down so now it is Startek2......

Cause Dean Malenko was the best!

Maybe there is one already. Haven’t really looked.

I played 8 ball on the circuit for awhile and live in Texas. Bonus , I played eight ball deluxe back in the early 80's and now want to buy one. lol