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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Werewolf on May 06, 2009, 01:00:19 PM
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I'm gonna just toss this out on the table and say that for most of the folks here who post using a handle instead of their name that there is a story about how one acquired that handle. Those stories will range from interesting to funny to boring to wow and will in most cases be worth a read.
Here's mine:
During my service in the US Navy full beards were permitted. Though I normally wear a goatee, on my 1st Med deployment I decided to grow a full beard. My beard line is high up on my face almost to my eyes. When my shipmates saw it in full bloom more than one commented that I looked like a Werewolf. The name stuck and for the rest of my Naval service I was called wolf or werewolf by my shipmates - especially when on the beach.
What's your story?
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Well, I was Delta9, because my first "real" kite was a delta with a 9' wingspan. I like kites, even if I don't have much time for them.
That changed when I was thinking about attempting to join the service as a lawyer. I figured (mostly correctly) that the physical requirements would be more lax for lawyers and I had a shot at getting in. Turns out that I'm way too decrepit to even lawyer for the Marines, or even the Navy, but when I was still working on that, I googled me one night just in a random attempt to see what made it to google, and learned that Delta9 is a somewhat obscure but still pretty clear reference to marijuana. I didn't think that either bar associations (I'm almost certainly flagged for extra investigation when I apply to the bar) or the military would be cool with that, so I changed it.
Now I'm bridgewalker, because it's about as harmless as it gets and ever since kiddo #1 was born, my family walk the Mackinaw Bridge every Labor Day. Kiddo will walk is for the fourth time this fall, when she's three years old, and kiddo #2 will only be a bit over a month old, but she'll come too. I like all things Michigan, and the Bridgewalk is as Michigan an event as it gets.
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I chose mine because when I first got into firearms I was partial to Smith & Wesson.
Also, I'm not afraid to clue cyberspace in to the fact that I'm a female...who likes guns. :cool:
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I'm from Central New York and I'm into geocaching. Threads on the geocaching forums about which guns to carry which caching, and someone's sig line link to www.a-human-right.org is what got me on THR and eventually APS.
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I chose mine because I am unimaginative, lazy, and have a complete lack of interest in being someone else, even for you bunch of crazies. =D
Brad
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Mine is going to be a boring one... :laugh:
I'm into amateur astronomy (as well as geology somewhat) so Regolith made a natural handle. "Regolith" is the dusty/rocky surface covering of celestial bodies such as the moon and Mars. It's also a name for a rock layer here on earth, and means "blanket of stone" when translated from Greek.
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I lived in New Zealand for a year as an exchange student. My host family never had kids of their own and had forgotten how much a 16-17 year old boy can eat. My host-dad took to calling Sump, because like a sump you could just pour stuff into me and it disappeared. I was probably eating 4-5000 calories a day and was not gaining weight. I was close to my current 6' and tipped the scales at a whopping 145lbs.
After returning home email was just starting to get popular enough that I decided to sign up for a Yahoo mail account. After a few tries at a handle based on my name without success I decided to try sumpnz in reference to the nickname Sump and the fact that it came from NZ.
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1. Brad Johnson is not the real Brad Johnson. I went to school with Brad Johnson, and you sir, are no Brad Johnson. =D
Scout26 was my "Hollywood" radio call sign while I was platoon leader in the army.
Callsigns break down thusly:
(Catchy nickname) then
1- S-1 (Personnel)
2- S-2 (Intel)
3- S-3 (Plans and Ops)
4- S-4 (Logistics)
5- XO (Executive Officer)
6- Commander
7- Senior Enlisted (Either 1st Sergeant or Sergeant Major)
Platoon Leaders are then 16, 26, 36, 46 and platoon sergeants are 17, 27, 37, 47.
I could have been Stinger 35 (From when I was deputy Provost Marshal), etc... but I had already started using scout26 before I got off active duty.
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I picked mine in my very early teens because it sounds cool.
No seriously, that's almost all there is to it.
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I was in Navy bootcamp in 1988. My CC was walking down the line reading off names. He got to me and said "Wing---? More like wingnut!" and kept going. It stuck, and there are still a lot of people that call me that. Not bad, as far as nicknames go.
I added an 'x' to the end when some some guy on IRC kept taking my nick, and I use the same name everywhere I post.
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Mine needs to be changed once I get creative. I started at THR trying to figure out the value of a .41 magnum pistol I inherited thinking that would be about all the involvement I had in that forum...
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As explained at least once before, I seem to have the inate ability to bring people to a sudden and alarming stop by asking the right question(s) at the right time. Someone in the bureauracracy once said that they could tell where I had been by all the skidmarks in the hallways - thus my name.
I had to be "vaskidmark" here because I somehow screwed up my initial registration and could not get it back. I added my geographical location, and here I now am. =D
The tag phrase I sign off with came from Vietnam, when everyone was advising me to "take care." I appreciated the advice, but always replied with my own wish that they "stay safe."
stay safe.
skidmark
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mine is what the kids at day care call me when i drop off the brats
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Well, it's because I have an extra...
No, seriously, back in '92 out of High School I had a job selling PC's from a local IT/mainframe firm that did wholesale builds for the smaller mom-n-pop PC stores. The guy I shared the office with thought it was funny that I'd say "Dual Floppies" when taking orders from these computer stores.
He then assumed everyone with a first name of "Andrew" had a middle name of "Jackson" because of the president. I informed him it was not true, but he started calling me "AJ Dual" on and off. He was a nice guy to share an office with and it didn't bother me.
When I left the company, I forgot about the nickname for some time.
I had a variety of names on the internet pre-web, and when I started posting on web boards, I was often "Andrew Walkowiak" due to a lack of imagination. I noticed people were sometimes having trouble referring to me or quoting me because of my "complicated" last name. The only nickname I've ever had that I could recall was "AJ Dual".
Since I mostly reside on the various gun forums, it kind of fit. Perhaps it has connotations of a cowboy with a "dual rig", or Dueling. (shrug)
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First intarwebz forum I joined was TFL and I saw everyone else there had aliases... many of which were based on favored firearms. Very very few people used real names.
I've just kept the same handle I came up with for that site, and used it elsewhere. I've used this handle on martial arts forums, tech support forums and other places.
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1. Brad Johnson is not the real Brad Johnson. I went to school with Brad Johnson, and you sir, are no Brad Johnson. =D
That's not what the voices tell me... :laugh:
Brad
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Charby? Some hooker I met in Shanghai.
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I'm a mountain biker. Actually, I ride more on the road these days, but I've had "mtnbkr" since 1996, so I just stick with it. Except on bike boards, where it's almost always in use. :)
Chris
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Back when I was a kid and my father set up our first dial-up internet account he shortened our last name and used "fabe" for the login. A few years later I added my first initial to it when I got my own account, and have been using it since. Not really all that interesting.
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Boring, really. There was a local pizza place (late '70's) in my town that had some strange character on its commercials called "The Noid". I suppose I was considered equally strange. I ended up repairing friend's radios, stereos, TVs, and other electronic doo-dads. Somebody tagged me with the label, and it stuck. 30+ years later, I'm still fixing stuff (more advanced, but still stuff).
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Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
Harry Tuttle: ...well, that's a pipe of a different color.
Harry Tuttle: Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork.
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Started my web life as SA (San Antonio) Scott, and after several relocations became SAD (initials) Shooter (why I participate in most of the forums I do.) About as vanilla as it gets, I suppose.
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Harold Tuttle, thanks for the flashback to Brazil. I had forgotten that clip. Excellent movie, Brazil.
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My screen name comes from a small suburban bedroom community in Snohomish County, about 25 miles north of Seattle.
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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. :laugh:
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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. :)
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Texas A&M,
Always knew there was something a little wrong with you... =D
Brad
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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. :laugh:
Geronimo45? So that's who you were! I thought I recognized you. :lol:
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Nick couldn't shoot a 1911, so he registered for THR.org.
Problem solved, BTW. Limp wristing.
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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 (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.
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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.
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What's your story?
"Lee N. Field"
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F3%2F3b%2FLee-Enfield_Rifle.jpg%2F800px-Lee-Enfield_Rifle.jpg&hash=90f8563b1666c6e29cf0a0b047d5ded78aca9b0d)
Capiche? Not so difficult.
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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.
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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. :laugh:
I was wondering who the hell you were before you changed your name to Fistful Savalas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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<--- The reason is pictured over there.
I do the high power rocketry thing, Level II certified and all that. Hence, "RocketMan".
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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.
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What's your story?
I could tell you ... but then I'd have to kill you.
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"I was born a poor black child..."
(Bonus points for naming that movie!)
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"The Jerk", with Steve Martin.
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Well, sometime back in the 70's a dude and a chick...
Oh. Wait. Wrong story. :cool:
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I study physics. Go figure eh.
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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.
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I'm a mathy type of person, sort of. (studying engineering).
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Shortend first name, middle intial and shortend last name and the year of my birth.
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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
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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.... =D
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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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First name = Jon.
Last name begins with B.
My imagination knows no bounds! I'm known as Jon B. on at least one forum.
jb
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One of my hobbies is woodorking.
That is, making firewood from very expensive hardwood.
Sawdust
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jackdanson is a play on my real name... just rearrange the letters. I used to be paranoid about using my real name, or something that implies my real name, but I don't really have anything to hide and I don't post anything on here that I wouldn't say in real life.
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Two Cold Soakers
Yoosta come home wet to the crotch...
Coulda stopped right there and had a great explanation. =D
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My sister is fourteen months older than me. When I was first brought home she couldn't say "brother" properly and Bubba is what she and my mother have called me all my life. When Big Sister had her first child in 1989 and I went to see them at the hospital she said to her newborn daughter, "Your Uncle Bubba is here to see you." I didn't know she was going to have her children (she had a son in '98) call me that and it tickled me immensely. I started using it as an Interweb handle when I first got online in 2000 and have stuck with it ever since.
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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
I was there for the old board....reply links & text & all....that was the very first bulletin board I ever joined. I stayed with the modern forum for awhile, but drifted off to TFL and later THR as my interests changed....now, I'm more interested in the sixgunner side of shooting than I was when I started.....
Have you been to the "resurrected" Sixgunner board? And, if so, DOES JOHN TAFFIN STILL POST IN ALL CAPS?.... :lol:
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Which resurrected one? There was the replacement for the one we both knew, it is now gone. www.singleactions.com is the closest thing to a replacement. And yes, JT still replies IN ALL CAPS. :D
Chris
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I got banned from THR when I was 14 for posting stupid crap. My former screename was similar. That's were I got the idea to change it to Freedom Lover when I joined up here around 9 months ago. I like to think I am more wise now. I'll be 18 next saturday.
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Which resurrected one? There was the replacement for the one we both knew, it is now gone. www.singleactions.com is the closest thing to a replacement. And yes, JT still replies IN ALL CAPS. :D
Chris
That's the one....I've posted one there once or twice, but I don't go there alot....spend too much time here... =D
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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,
So where is the original Fistful? Sorry, haven't been on here enough to keep track.
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So where is the original Fistful? Sorry, haven't been on here enough to keep track.
The original fistful is still here. Look in one of the computer threads we've had recently.