Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

life is full of irony! I currently sport full beard and I subscribe to a shaving forum....Go figure!


sometimes me

former me

most of the time me

This all plays into my hobby of American Civil War History Living Historian or reenactor. All sorts of 19th century facial hair style to play with!

Great old thread.

My choice of username is pretty straightforward. Simply put, I like to make stuff.

I don’t have a particular talent for making anything, mind you, as most of the items I produce usually end up more expensive and lower quality than what I could have purchased (which always makes my wife roll her eyes), but I simply get a kick out of trying to make things with my own hands. Always have. I drive a desk for a living and I guess making stuff with my hands satisfies an itch that doesn’t get scratched during my normal routine (there must be a repressed mechanic, carpenter, or engineer hidden somewhere inside of me). If I’m being honest with myself, however, I start most projects for the mere prospect (or excuse) to buy more tools – acquiring tools being another AD of mine.

One of my other hobbies is backpacking and a large portion of my equipment is homemade. I make my own tents, sleeping bags, stoves, clothing items, and I even attempted to forge my own camping knives (yes, I have a blacksmithing forge in my garage, homemade of course). Maybe one day I will be adventurous enough to attempt forging a razor. Wow, imagine the collection of tools I can “justify” with that project!

A while back, before I became a teacher, I was a Chef. I was 25 when this story happened. So, I started working at this new restaurant, and my routine was to be at work by about 2pm, but I'd spend about 2 hrs training in the gym before hand. Anyway, in those days I was in pretty good shape, and it was also around the time when Gladiator was popular. I was in the co-ed changeroom one day at work, putting on my chef coat, and one of the female servers walked in and casually said "Hello Maximus"; learned later that that was what the female staff had been calling me for a while. When I questioned her, she answered "Well....you look like a Gladiator". The name stayed, but got shortened to Maxi by the boys. Haven't cooked in a couple years, but all my old kitchen friends still call me Maxi.

Mine is pretty simple really
I own the GreenLight Jerky Company in CA.

I like seeing the basis of everyone's username.
cool thread.

Mine is pretty str8 forward I own/run a Fork lift company up here in Ontario called Trillium Lift Truck.

Originally Posted by GreenLightJerky

Mine is pretty simple really
I own the GreenLight Jerky Company in CA.

I like seeing the basis of everyone's username.
cool thread.

And how might I go about purchasing some of your fine wares?

fire department initials and badge number

I'm a merchant mariner, grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, recently graduated from a maritime academy - what can I say? I like boats.

"The Heckler" happens to the name of what has to be the worst comic book/super hero plus it compliments my last name. After I found out about the comic book it became my online persona plus it warns people of my personality

Skippy is a nickname I gave myself from the peanut butter brand of the same name.

The avatar is just a funny picture I like. I'm not an Ostrich.