Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

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 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.