July 07, 2010 07:41 PM UTC

How did you come up with your handle?

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• by: Go Raiders*

(This is a lighthearted piece by a pols regular that has evoked a lot of response as a dairy.  In it, Go Raiders confesses he is not really a Raiders fan.  That goes a long way to renew my faith in human nature 😉 – promoted by Voyageur)

After reading this site for several years, I started wondering how some of the folks on here came up with their Handle’s.  Some of the ones that I see commenting are downright hysterical, poodlelord this means you, but it would be interesting to hear why you chose that one.

I know Dan Willis and David Thielen were kind of stuck with their names since birth so they really didn’t get to choose them, unless there is a back-story that they changed their name from Mr. Spock or something like that.

Now that I am asking all of you, I figure I better cough up with the info about my handle.

– More after the Jump –

Truth be told… I am not a Raiders fan.  That is an AFC team, and for some reason I have never really considered the AFC to play football.  It is probably because I have never been a fan of the finesse game, and much prefer the smash-mouth down your throat version of football that the NFC plays.  But I digress…

I actually do think the Broncos Suck, and have been known to refer to them as Johny Chokeway and the Denver Suckos.  I did it mostly just to poke fun at the Denver fans, especially when the Broncos couldn’t buy a Superbowl win if they had just won the European lottery and Powerball on the same day.

So why did I choose Go Raiders, and then Go Raiders* as my handle?  Well it was primarily to piss people off a little bit.  Hey this is politics, and the vast majority of things that politicians do at least pisses someone off.  I am pretty sure the philosophy is that if a politician isn’t pissing someone off, then they are not accomplishing anything.  The other reason that I chose this is that the fan base in Denver is damn near fanatical, so I figured since 90% of the posters here would be rabid Broncos fans.

Using this handle has turned out to be kind of fun in another respect.  The vast majority of posters here are, in my view, on the left, so being in opposition to them in both screen name and political views is like a double whammy.

So how did you come up with yours?