phrazz wrote:
bodhi wrote:
these are GREAT! Thanks for all the awesome replies everyone! The mysteries of the universe (or as I like to call it, the Jew-niverse) are opening up to me....
Curiously enough, you have not told us the origins of your handle. We could guess (bhodisattva seems like an obvious guess).
My nickname "Phrazz" is actually a truncated version of "Razzlephrazz".

Well, my name is bodhi. My legal name... Long story where that came from and here is the short version:
I didn't like the name Jon, which my parents gave me, and my last name being what it is, got me the nickname "Nads". Which worked fine in high school and then college (a friend from high school educated all my new college friends about my name) but when college ended (prematurely) I decided that "Nads" just wouldn't work in the business world and "Jon" wasn't doing it for me... So I came up with Bodhi, which I got from the Dharma Bums (a Jack Kerouac book) which was short for, you guessed it, bodhisattva.
So, there you have it... I legally changed it a couple years ago, but my grandmother has not yet updated her brain and still refers to me as Jon. I guess that's better than her calling me "Nads".... I still answer to that name, by the way....