What did your FT Handle/Name come from? (Merged Threads)
Sep 24, 2009, 11:23 am
#766
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA
Programs: AA PLT, 1.8mm
Posts: 6,988
yes. and we've been calling you Shorty behind your back for years. or sometimes Little Man.
I wish I could change my screen name. I'm really more jaded than cynical. Apparently, cynical leaves people with a negative first impression, and I'm actually a nice guy. And winner of the coveted "most friendly" award in my senior high school class poll.
I wish I could change my screen name. I'm really more jaded than cynical. Apparently, cynical leaves people with a negative first impression, and I'm actually a nice guy. And winner of the coveted "most friendly" award in my senior high school class poll.
Sep 24, 2009, 11:28 am
#767
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Half way between SAN and TIJ
Programs: Welfare
Posts: 1,506
Me too. 
Subconsciously, the mind sees the "S" and then sees "horty" and automatically links them up since that makes a word people are familiar with. It is similar to the Jumbled letters reading where your mind still makes out the word.
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Subconsciously, the mind sees the "S" and then sees "horty" and automatically links them up since that makes a word people are familiar with. It is similar to the Jumbled letters reading where your mind still makes out the word.
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Sep 24, 2009, 11:37 am
#768
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, UA Silver, dirt elsewhere
Posts: 46,919
Sep 24, 2009, 11:45 am
#769
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 44,553
Yes, you know why? Because the capitalized U, from a distance, looks less like a letter of its own, and more like part of the small h, making it capital H. I mean, obviously, if you're looking close and paying attention, you're going to realize it's not an H.
Sep 24, 2009, 11:51 am
#770
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: PHX and LIH
Programs: AA: 2 MM
Posts: 85,575
"anonymous, please" - expl.: it's common knowledge that you're never really anonymous on the internet, unless you jump through all kinds of hoops to retain anonymity, but out of a sense of mutual courtesy (betw. myself and the board and community), the screen name I chose when I signed up (at a time in my life when I traveled much much more than I do now) is a simple request that I prefer to be anonymous. Though after 7 years here, I've exchanged addresses and numbers with a few people, even found out I worked once with someone here back in the 80's!
Sep 24, 2009, 12:29 pm
#773
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SAN
Programs: Delta Silver; 0.75MM: AA; Alaska; Southwest
Posts: 1,155
Sep 24, 2009, 12:53 pm
#776
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: FW, TX, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Programs: 2008 FT1 Fantasy Football Champion
Posts: 10,584
Sep 24, 2009, 1:29 pm
#778
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Vancouver (Not BC), WA (Not DC)...I'm in a PDX flight path.
Programs: Elite peon; MR Gold; HH Silver; BW Diamond (status match)
Posts: 985
wsucougar - Went to Washington State University, home of the Cougars.
chick - last time I checked, I'm a female.
05 - year I graduated from Washington State.
chick - last time I checked, I'm a female.
05 - year I graduated from Washington State.
Sep 24, 2009, 1:36 pm
#780
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Newport Beach, California, USA
Posts: 36,062
So did I.
Oh, and my first name is Paul, my last name starts with "T" and I like travel, hence PTravel.