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The first newsgroup I posted in (anyone remember usenet?) was an economic group back in 1991. I was faced with needing a "handle" for the first time and the first thing that popped into my head was a term paper I had written in school for an Economics Systems class on Thorstein Veblen. I liked the irony created by combining TV (opiate to the masses) with Veblen's economic theories in TVeblen. Anyone who has studied economics would get that joke (so far: 2).
Since then I have used many Usernames, pretty much a different one in every group or forum, but I continue to use TVeblen in forums I consider "serious".
Interestingly I have found 5 other TVeblens out in the interwebs. One of them is certifiable. One day I will need to hunt him down and fix that.