Thread: Your Handle? What does it mean?

Its what I do Fabricate metal in useable things, and sometimes scrap nobody is perfect.

Hello, everyone:

My handle is my show name: Obie. My full name Obelit. I was named after the Assyrian king Ashur Uballit I (1363-1328 B.C.). The spelling has changed.

When I came to America way back when, I could not speak English. My high school teachers (Senn High School, Chicago) had a nightmare trying to pronounce my name. On my first day in class, where I had no idea what the hell was going on or who was saying what, my teacher asked, I assume, what my name meant. "What is this Aristotle saying?" I remember muttering to myself in Assyrian.

One day that same teacher called me Obie — and it stuck. I have never much cared for the name "Obie," but I was stuck with it. I continued using it in radio, because I knew there was no way anyone could fully understand my name Obelit, let alone pronounce it.

So here I am, ladies and gentlemen: Obie.

Regards,

Obelit

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*Sigh* I'm usually a little more creative with this sort of thing.

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