[Maritime Q-Scout]

you know it's weird, how much stock we put into our handles. It's not our "name" per say. It's a title to hid behind, a persona to adopt. Yet for each of us, the name we post as has meaning to us.

When I first signed up for CalPuck I was going through a down time in my life. The nicname I post on for every other board reminds me of an old high school flame, as I got the nicname teasing her. To curb missing her at the time I simply posted under my actual name until I came up with Maritime Q-Scout (back in the days when name changes weren't taboo). I've since fallen in love with the handle, and even the abbreviations of Q, Q-Scout, Scout, and MQS. Hell I made my avatar MQS.

I still post under my old handle on other boards (posting as Maritime Q-Scout on a Maritime QMJHL message boards just isn't quite the same). However the stock we put into a name, the emotions and feelings we tie in with it is very powerful.

A well deserved name change. I always had respect for Snakeeye, especially after the posts regarding his friend and her troubles with divorce, that said the respect I had for him carries over.

Cheers,

the Greatest, aka jonpatterson, aka Maritime Q-Scout