Author Topic: What's Your Story? (Read 10409 times)

MechAg94 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 06, 2009, 04:46:05 PM »

Texas A&M, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 1994. I started using the name on a couple Aggie forums and decided to keep it on THR and here.
Yes, it is boring and not much of a story. :)

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #26 on:** May 06, 2009, 04:54:35 PM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on May 06, 2009, 04:46:05 PM

Texas A&M,

Always knew there was something a little wrong with you...

Brad

LadySmith · « **Reply #27 on:** May 06, 2009, 04:57:42 PM »

Quote from: Fistful Savalas on May 06, 2009, 04:42:04 PM

Everyone was fistful something or other at one time in the distant past. I'd seen a film/picture of Telly Savalas, so I decided to do put the two together.
The old moniker is Geronimo45, which comes from owning a .45 and adopting the pseudonym Geronimo during a Physics lab. There were only two people left in the course, and I was half of them. Only one lab report was turned in per team, so it stood to reason that the names were pretty unimportant.
It was a fun lab, though, sometimes. Proved that water doesn't freeze at 0 F.

Geronimo45? So that's who you were! I thought I recognized you.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 06, 2009, 05:16:31 PM »

Nick couldn't shoot a 1911, so he registered for THR.org.

Problem solved, BTW. Limp wristing.

Tuco · « **Reply #29 on:** May 06, 2009, 05:30:56 PM »

Yoosta come home wet to the crotch after an afternoon of frogging. Pi$$ed my dad off to no end. I'd get beaten on occasion, but it didn't stop me. As I grew, the draw to the swampy places became stronger. Duck Hunting, Trout Fishing. I share this love of swamps with my daughters.

I heard the term "Cold Soaker", I believe, from the comedy team of Bob and Doug MacKenzie - Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie in reference to a wet foot from going through the ice during hockey practice.

And then, years later, when I became a victim of teh intrawebs, I needed a handle. The waders were leaking, and I'd recently gone a little over the tops of my wellies while trailering a boat.
It was for a fishing BBS, so it seemed natural, if not a bit cumbersome.

Two Cold Soakers = Wet feet from fooling around in the water.

crt360 · « **Reply #30 on:** May 06, 2009, 06:17:34 PM »

It's just an abbreviation of my name that some classmates in law school came up with and a number. As I recall, the first number I tried to use was unavailable (as was probably the second, third, fourth, etc.), so I picked 360. I don't remember the exact reason I picked it, but the reference was to 360 degrees. I don't even remember what I first used it for. It was a long time ago. Since then, people like Anderson Cooper have copied me.

lee n. field · « **Reply #31 on:** May 06, 2009, 06:31:25 PM »

Quote

What's your story?

"Lee N. Field"

Capiche? Not so difficult.

Lennyjoe · « **Reply #32 on:** May 06, 2009, 07:22:35 PM »

Like Brad Johnson, I put alot of thought into my name. First name Lenny and middle name Joe = Lennyjoe.

My family played a minor part in that name also.

Thats what most of my family called me when I was a kid since my dad has the same first name. Instead of mixing us up in the conversation they would refer to me as Lennyjoe.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #33 on:** May 06, 2009, 07:33:13 PM »

Quote from: Fistful Savalas on May 06, 2009, 04:42:04 PM

Everyone was fistful something or other at one time in the distant past. I'd seen a film/picture of Telly Savalas, so I decided to do put the two together.
The old moniker is Geronimo45, which comes from owning a .45 and adopting the pseudonym Geronimo during a Physics lab. There were only two people left in the course, and I was half of them. Only one lab report was turned in per team, so it stood to reason that the names were pretty unimportant.
It was a fun lab, though, sometimes. Proved that water doesn't freeze at 0 F.

I was wondering who the hell you were before you changed your name to Fistful Savalas.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #34 on:** May 06, 2009, 07:38:52 PM »

Mine is a reference to a Warren Zevon song that I thought was particularly amusing. It's also unique enough that I can use it anywhere and expect it not to be taken already.

grampster · « **Reply #35 on:** May 06, 2009, 07:41:29 PM »

I gave my grandkids some nicknames when they were old enough to kind of understand things like that. The grandkids then started calling me grampster about the same time. Now nearly everyone calls me grampster, so it only seemed proper for a screen name.

BMacklem · « **Reply #36 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:17:38 PM »

On here it's just my first initial and last name.
On most of the other interwebz boards and game forums I participate in, it's usually
Khazad Dhum, or a variant thereof...
It's in reference to the Lord of the Rings, and there's a chasm the group of characters has to cross... The bridge over Khazad Dhum....

I liked the name when I read it years and years before I even had heard of the internet, and needed a name for a D&D character, so I stole that because it sounded interesting, and I just used it for years on any board I went on . ugh....AOL it was, I had nearly forgotten my years using them for an ISP.

RocketMan · « **Reply #37 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:18:50 PM »

<--- The reason is pictured over there.

I do the high power rocketry thing, Level II certified and all that. Hence, "RocketMan".

thebaldguy · « **Reply #38 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:31:32 PM »

I'm a bald guy. Been that way for a long time, even before kids started shaving their heads for the alternative look. After my first military haircut, it never grew back as well as I had hoped...

People looking for me in a crowd always know to look for the bald guy.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #39 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:39:53 PM »

Quote from: Werewolf on May 06, 2009, 01:00:19 PM

What's your story?

I could tell you ... but then I'd have to kill you.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #40 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:13:08 AM »

"I was born a poor black child..."

(Bonus points for naming that movie!)

RocketMan · « **Reply #41 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:17:08 AM »

"The Jerk", with Steve Martin.

digitalandanalog · « **Reply #42 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:47:52 AM »

Well, sometime back in the 70's a dude and a chick...

Oh. Wait. Wrong story.

Physics · « **Reply #43 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:57:32 AM »

I study physics. Go figure eh.

RevDisk · « **Reply #44 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:31:08 PM »

I'm named Disk because I used to cart a lot of disks around. I was hailed by "Yo, disk dude" on many occasions, which eventually shortened to "Disk". The Rev part is short for Reverend. Simple enough.

I get called "Disk" more often than my first name.

cosine · « **Reply #45 on:** May 07, 2009, 02:09:48 PM »

I'm a mathy type of person, sort of. (studying engineering).

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #46 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:33:30 PM »

Shortend first name, middle intial and shortend last name and the year of my birth.

gunsmith · « **Reply #47 on:** May 08, 2009, 01:42:58 AM »

I used ( many years ago ) frequent the "world political forum" on craigslist, where I got into many heated debates
& had gotten all my monikers banned...I can't remember now why I chose gunsmith because I can barely field strip a glock, but I'm glad I did.
I had to register many similar names at CL because ppl there would call me groinsmith etc instead of engaging in debate.

Jim March turned me onto thr so I just kept gunsmith, I like it because when I google my handle I never find myself.
I was paranoid for years, I had some serious enemies on craigslist-including craig newmark!
I stopped going to their forums years ago because its to much like yahoo, a million moron a millisecond posting over one another, no real discussions plus, they sent me some weird thing it looked like a pacman, it just ate up my screen.
After that I simply never went back there and pretty much inhabited thr...funny enough...I hardly am on thr anymore.
any gun question I have could be answered here

seeker_two · « **Reply #48 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:39:57 AM »

seeker_two is a phonetic play off of my first and last name....I've had it for almost ten years when I started on the old "Sixgunner" board and when I had an ad on Yahoo Personals.....

....I can actually say that I found my wife using Yahoo....

mtnbkr · « **Reply #49 on:** May 08, 2009, 07:03:05 AM »

Seeker, you were on Sixgunner? Was that before or after it changed to a multiple forum board? I was pretty active there when it was one forum, but lost interest when it was redesigned into a more modern forum.

Chris

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Author Topic: What's Your Story? (Read 10409 times)