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I just thought you were bragging!
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i really should make up a better story!
I hope nobody minds me resurrecting an old thread as I thought it might be nice to see why others here use the forum name that they do!
Mine is the name of my restaurant equipment repair business which I named after my three children Joshua, Matthew, and Sandra!
Mine used to be my name (on lots of forums), but then one day I Googled myself and found all kinds of stuff about me on the internet - and realised what a privacy issue the net can be.
So I picked a new one, I was playing loads of World of Warcraft at the time, and there are lots of similar names on there, Ironforge, Steelgrille, Angerforge, Forgewright etc - so I picked something similar.
I also bought the domain www.steelforge.co.uk at the same time, but never used it for anything...
Nothing interesting to mine. Basically my family and friends call me E or Big E. Ernest is my middle name and I go by it.
Ernest
I don't spend nickels, I save them up and give them to my closest friends. For a brief period in history I was NickelNinja, but that site is gone now.
I do get called nickelking in real life, I got 3 valentines addressed to The Nickel King, and regularly sign my emails with "5¢"
My other oft used alias is JC Hammilton, the initials of my first and last name and my father's birth last name. That one used to be used only when I was doing non-acting work in the theater on technical things such as stage combat coreography. Somehow that one migrated online.
As theater crew I just went by Allen Derjac, an anagram of my first and last name.
Doc is the star of my street show called DR Trinidad's world famous Traveling medicine show. It is a typical old time medicine show found during the 1800's We do magic and sideshow stuff like the bed of nails. We also pitch Dr Trinidad;s muscle rejuvenating and hair restoring tonic. and we prove the worth of our product by shoving our hands into solid steal badger traps. I is a fun filled show of family entertainment. We also have the whats it the body of some poor creature never seen by the eye of man. It is truly a moving experience.
Ladies step right up and prepare to view a marvel now I know that there is not a ladies out there who is not sick and tired of trying to get grass stains out of the old mans pants well worries no more one treatment OF THE wondrous POTION AND THOSE STAINS JUST VANISH AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS FORMULA IS A wonderful STARCH, now I know that each of you ladies have something in your home just laying around on your couch limp as a noodle well one dose of this elixir we have Every thing working properly and starched as stiff as a bone. Why! I had a young bride offer me a car for A CASE OF THIS WONDERFUL STUFF
Doc is the star of my street show called DR Trinidad's world famous Traveling medicine show. It is a typical old time medicine show found during the 1800's We do magic and sideshow stuff like the bed of nails. We also pitch Dr Trinidad;s muscle rejuvenating and hair restoring tonic. and we prove the worth of our product by shoving our hands into solid steal badger traps. I is a fun filled show of family entertainment. We also have the whats it the body of some poor creature never seen by the eye of man. It is truly a moving experience.
Ladies step right up and prepare to view a marvel! Now I know that there is not a ladies out there who is not sick and tired of trying to get grass stains out of the old mans pants well worry no more one treatment OF THis wondrous POTION AND THOSE STAINS JUST VANISH, AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS FORMULA IS A wonderful STARCHas well , now I know that each of you ladies have something in your home just laying around on your couch limp as a noodle and worthless! well one dose of this elixir and we will have Every thing working properly and starched as stiff as a bone. Why! I had a young bride offer me a mattume car for A CASE OF THIS WONDERFUL STUFF. alright now please step forward madame I do love forward women!
Olav is my middle name and Vittfarne means wide traveled, and since I live in Mongolia and have been to Mozambique, among other places, I guess I can call me that.
It also have a nice medieval ring to it, Olav being an old Scandinavian name. Several Norwegian kings have had that name.
I have used Olav Vidstige since early 80's, but Vidstige is what Strider is called in the old translation of LOTR and when the films came out and Tolkien fever was rampant it was sort of dorky to keep it.
"Jockeys" (yes it's plural) was my fraternity name in school. I went for 5 years being called that, by profs, brothers, co-workers and girlfriends alike. I even called myself that in my head.
It's also sort of odd, so in most forums I don't need to add a number to use my normal name.
Cool thread...Stilley is my last name, the 30 was my old hockey number.
Brian
Good thread I think mine is sort of explained in the signature line...
GemStar Custom Rifles is where the GS comes from
"Sixgun" has been my signin name forever and a day... Way back when video games first came out, for high scores it was always Sixgun, Six, or Gun that I would put in there... Later it just stuck because I was always shooting somthing or making somthing to shoot....
Wow... I wish my name was as cool! I just stole mine from a comic book mini-series I happened across when I was younger , "Spanner's Galaxy". the "o" at the beginning and the end was a practice back in the early 90's on AOL when someone else had the name you wanted!
http://members.tripod.com/originalvigilante/spanner.htm
My ebay name, oGADJo, comes from a little creature in the series that is a scavenger/mechanic.
Did I mention the main characeter uses a rather cool throwing "axe" to fight people with blasters? Hmmmm.... now that I think of it maybe I can use my RAD to fight crime! :hmmm:
I had a lacrosse buddy in High School obsessed with the movie Mallrats. I was a rather rotund kid at the time so he dubbed me Lunchbox. That, or some variation thereof, has survived to this day. In undergrad few people knew my real name, everyone called me Box, including my g/f at the time. It finally got to the point where it was weird when I was addressed by my given name. I'm still not totally used to it, but 4 years of graduate school has eased the transition a bit (damn professionalism). I still sign a lot of emails "LBX." 16 is my favorite number and what I used to wear on the lax field.
Mine is short for my original screen name, Limitup55. Limitup is a term used in commodity trading. It means the price of any one commodity can rise in one days trading, hence, LIMITUP. The 55 was my age when I first got a computer.
RU Grad 02~I graduated from Radford University, in Southwestern Virginia, in 2002. Hence the name, rugrad02.
Kyle
My family is from County Kerry, Ireland
and I was born in 1971, so kerryman71.
John
Can you guess, I have Dobermans. It was only 2 reds, but now I also have a black. The Devil Dog, as I call her.:nj
w12code3... W12 (pronounced "William Twelve") was my unit number when I first got started in my law enforcement career. Code 3 is radio code for "responding with lights and siren at top safest speed". So if I was at work and called "w12, code 3" I would be letting dispatch and the other officers know I was responding with lights and siren. I guess it seemed 'cool' when I was a rookie:rolleyes:.
Of course, I have since had a bunch of other call signs, William 9, William 7, Robert 72, 1-Paul-28, 1-Sam-28, and currently 1-Sam-2.
Like a lot of the other guys who have posted here, I just kind of picked a user name very early on in the popular history of the world wide web and I suppose I have just stuck with it out of habit and familiarity... except for gaming where I have gone as BuddyTheIdiotDog; but thats a whole different story.
Justin
My screen name matches my avatar and should be self explanatory.
2007 was a VERY GOOD YEAR!:y
2007 BCS NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS
2008 NCAA NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS
TIM TEBOW - 2008 HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER
My last name is Kasper, and I was given the nickname Kasperitis in high school by some less-than-friendly people. So, being the genius I am, I use it as a handle online. It means "inflammation of the Kasper". Apparently I'm inflamed or something.
One of my buddies makes fun of it and calles me "Kapernicus" as an intentional mispronunciation. I kinda like that though.
see if i can explain this one. i play volleyball. sometimes you get a bad call against you. ball hits the line but the referee did not see it. something like that. the next play, the other team screws up by doing something stupid like serving out or in the net. we always said that was the volleyball gods speaking. correcting human error.
then in my 20's i formed a team called volleygodz. we were all young, great shape, great players, winning quite a bit. then when the web hit me, i got tired of using volleygodz and shortened it to vgodz. then i realized it was just me. vgod. i use it almost everywhere as an id.
vgod
A PA-23-250 is a Piper Aztec, a light piston twin that is lots of fun to fly, even if it does burn some fuel in cruise! (36 gal/hr @ $5.30/gal for aviation gas:gth Ouch...)
It's the airplane I got my multiengine rating in (I'm a pilot) just over a year ago. I still have a real soft spot for it, so I figured, why not?
Live in Sheffield, shave, often with Sheffield blades.
You can't have a blade too sharp so "too sharp" seemed the right handle for me.
bj
When I got my first internet account (until then I had hookups with the school's computer lab, so I could use the school's dialup from home) I decided to make up a permanent IRC internet for myself.
The song Firestarter by the Prodigy was playing on the radio and since I always liked playing with fire (whenever I went to science camps, I was always the one in charge of maintaining the fire even though I'd always be youngest by far), I decided to use that one. The IRC network that I was on had a limit on the number of characters, so I had to cut it short. Been using this nickname for a while. I am almost completely cured of my irc addiction, but I use this nickname here, on the SMF, the 'tex (even though I don't drive a dub any more, but still dream of a mid-90's Audi) and a few motorcycle-related forums.
Well, mine is just easy. Ken Rupkalvis. In the Army I would answer to "alphabet" too.
Mine is my initials. My full name is Kenneth C. Ackerman.
My parents gave me the nickname Casey at birth spelling it out rather than just using intials. Guess that last part doesn't really explain my username but I just thought I'd share.
Casey
A good friend of mine asked me, back in the day, what username I was going to use on the 10 network to play Duke Nukem. I told him Bluto. He asked how I came up with that, so I proceeded to explain to him that Bluto was a big dude with dark hair and a big effing belly that used to torment Popeye. Since I have dark hair and a big effing belly, I thought Bluto would fit the bill. (We were talking on the phone, and I forgot that my buddy is 6'4" and 396 lbs. He is actually built like Bluto.)
Most other places on the web, I go by SlyBoar...it is a play on my last name. Most people call me Joe.
Mine was sort of an inside joke between my youngest daughter and myself. The stupid t.v. show "King of the Hill" has the character in it named Dale Gribble. He uses the alias Rusty Shackleford whenever he is on the phone ordering pizza and stuff. I saw it one time and used to go around telling my girls that they'd have to address me as Rusty Shackleford from then on. It sort of stuck and now I use it all the time on a couple of other forums and an online game I play with my mates.
-Pary
Remember when you used to travel by horse and carriage or by steam engine? Remember when a letter was written on a piece of parchment paper, folded then sealed with wax? How about when there was no T.V and you simply read a book, whilst smoking a pipe by the soft glow of an oil lamp? Perhaps you remember when you could go to the store, buy a bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, some confectionery and still have change from 20c?
Those are the days I long for.
Hence the name OLD_SCHOOL.
Double cool, gents. I kept my King 2B from junior high and high school; my youngest daughter now plays it in her school band.Quote:
Originally Posted by rtaylor61
First initial, middle initial, last name. If you ever see anything of mine published, it will probably be under that same combo.
Has the advantage of being easy (for me) to remember--no small advantage these days, I tell ya.
I am a home beer brewer. I've used this name on many internet forums.
When I started visiting various forum sites that use a username, I was a Radioman Chief Petty Officer (RMC) in the Submarine community (SS). I thought of changing it to RMCS_SS later (after I was promoted to Senior Chief) but never got around to it.
Years later, I was selected for a commission as a Limited Duty Officer (LDO). It had been long enough and I figured I should try somthing that wouldn't change much.
With RMC_SS_LDO, it reflects where I came from and who I am today; Once a Chief, always a Chief but on a new path....
v/r
Allen
Garry is my first name :) I was going to use my initials which are GO'D I felt just using my first name was me suited ... my nick name is Gee or Gadge all stemming from my first name - Garry makes life simpler
Way back in the 7th grade, a friend and I enrolled in a karate class. Before long, one of the wits in our little circle began calling him "Jutoman". Being a fan of the old WWF, and Mr. Wrestling #1 and #2 in particular, it didn't take long before said wit hung the name "Jutoman 2" on me. For a long time after, we were regularly regaled with "Tonight...Iiiinn the Omni...it's the Jutomen 1 & 2 in a no-disqualification cage match..." I guess it kind of stuck, though I did shorten it to JutoII because I was too lazy to write Jutoman.
Dave
Simple really...phonetic spelling of the initials of my name.:)
I prefer squarepoint razors.
Squarepoint was taken as a Yahoo username.
I wanted a name similar to others on the original SRP yahoo site.
I wanted it to relate to straight razors.
I am from South Dakota thus SDSquarepoint.
MikeB
Hitchhikers Guide is one of favorite book series. I had just watched the movie the night before I signed up.
I go by cabo sailor simply because I own and sail a Cabo Rico 38 cutter. It's where I spend all my spare time and money.