How did you get your handle?

[AkbarGulag]

The add-on madness has almost abated and after the blood and tears, we need some normality :lol: As we all use a 'Handle' or 'Alias' here in the forums, we must all have had a thought (some thoughts smaller or larger than others) of what we wanted. Sure, it's 4pm on a friday, work beers will be on soon, some of us need to think fast when coming up with a handle.

So how did you all select your alias? And what does it mean?

[tennozan]

Tennozan

A site where a sixteenth-century Japanese ruler staked his entire fate on a single battle. It has come to mean any decisive struggle.

Thanks for asking. Great community building question, especially in light of all the recent unrest. :smug:

JD

[Raptor1]

Raptor1 - The F-22 Raptor was my favourite modern plane, back when i was more obsessed with planes then ships

The 1 part...can't remember...

[Rockin Robbins]

A play on my last name and the 1958 bubblegum rock song by one hit wonder, Bobby Day, tragically repeated in 1972 by Michael Jackson.:rotfl:

[AkbarGulag]

tragically

I liked your use of that word in this context, it really drove your point home :rotfl:

[Torplexed]

Torplexed--a mash up of Torpex and perplexed. :cool: I'm permanently bewildered

BTW what are the origins of AkbarGulag?

[wolfast]

Wolfast
Im the owner of Wolfast Performance Hobbies

No biggie, LOL:D

[AkbarGulag]

Wolfast
No biggie, LOL:D
Makes sense :D

Torplexed--a mash up of Torpex and perplexed. :cool: I'm permanently bewildered
Explosive perplexion :p(is perplexion even a word? it is now!)

AkbarGulag.

In Australia I associated (and worked) with lots of people from Malta among other Medditeranean countries. In Malta they have a unique mixed history, between east and west. So I like this word 'Akbar' it means great, it is a good word. And we all know what a 'Gulag' is, the ruthless prison system.

So AkbarGulag = 'The Great Imprisonment'

[LukeFF]

I used to be a volunteer firefighter, and all of our ranks were abbreviated with the prefix FF. Luke is my first name.

[Syxx_Killer]

The basic gist of my screen name dates to about 9 years ago. Has it been that long already? :o:o Anyway, at the time I played flightsims online quite extensively. I was playing F-16 Multirole Fighter, MiG-29 Fulcrum, F-22 Raptor, and F-22 Lightning 3 which are all made by NovaLogic. When my squad for the MiG-29 disbanded (it was called the Russian Knights), I changed my name. I wanted something that kind of fit with flightsims. I wanted something unique so after some thinking I came up with what I have now. After all these years I still use it because I know that it is unique enough to register on just about any forum.

[AkbarGulag]

Bandit on my Syxx! But your the bandit :p

Cool. That's two in here with names from Aircraft enthusiasm. I actually find it interesting that people that enjoy Submarines, can often enjoy a wide variety of machines. I know who is going to put them out if they go up in flames ;)

[theluckyone17]

The Lucky One - 17. Well, the lucky one's a combination of two things: I fit the lyrics (http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/krauss-alison/the-lucky-one-1408.html) to Allison Krauss' "The Lucky One" pretty well, according to my wife. The only thing I've done to buck the pattern seems to be marrying her... but I suppose it depends on your viewpoint :()1:.

Then there's a bit where it seems like I always have lots of luck... most of it's bad, but when it's good, it's oh so good. Nothin' in the middle, ever.

The "17" simply came about because somebody else took "TheLuckyOne" when I first attempted to register it, at whatever site I registered it first. Seein' as my b-day falls on the 17th, I figured it'd be easier to remember than picking some random number.

[DeepIron]

DeepIron: slang for hard hat diving equipment:

http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/images/hard_hat_diver.jpg

[dcb]

I'm rather ashamed at my lack of inventiveness:oops: dcb are just the initials of my name:lol:

[peabody]

Came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, a guy at work gave it to me. I used to fix computers for co-workers when Win 98 had so many problems, usually caused by a "nut" loose on the keyboard. One guy decided he was a "know it all" and pretty much challenged me and I talked him in circles. He didn't even know what CPU he had in his computer, but he had the "best computer you can get" By the time I got don't asking questions and getting "I don't know" the guy that gave me the name was laughing so hard he could hardly talk. He said "Don't try to snowball Peabody, he forgot more than you will ever know" Actually I didn't know that much, I was learning but I knew where to find the answers and that is kind of my way of thinking, "You don't need to know the answer, you just need to know where to find it." Plus it makes a cool pic on the tail of my F-16 in Falcon.

Peabody

[peabody]

A play on my last name and the 1958 bubblegum rock song by one hit wonder, Bobby Day, tragically repeated in 1972 by Micheal Jackson.:rotfl:

Hey, Rockin Robbin, when you dive does your horn go "Tweat, Tweat, Tweat"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBXGN44-Y4

Peabody

[Snuffy]

Mine is not very creative at all.

I logged into my first forum about 6 years ago and I had a massive allergy attack going ... :damn: the rest they say is history.

[clayp]

Clayp is short for claypidgon witch I got from flying flight sims and being so easy to shoot down....

[Deerdiver]

A combination of two of the passions in my life. Deer stalking (That's hunting to you Americans) and scuba diving. A strange combination, true, but life enhancing none the less. I find that the skills required in deer stalking fit quite nicely into a Subsim. Stealth, patience and a good aim.

[theluckyone17]

Deer stalking (That's hunting to you Americans)
Hahahahahhahahahaha! The next time I go out hunting, I'm gonna tell the wife I'm stalking deer. I can't wait to see the look on her face! :cool:

And we return to our normally scheduled program (apologies for the off-topic tangent)...

[1480]

It's my star number.

[Rockin Robbins]

A play on my last name and the 1958 bubblegum rock song by one hit wonder, Bobby Day, tragically repeated in 1972 by Micheal Jackson.:rotfl:
Hey, Rockin Robbin, when you dive does your horn go "Tweat, Tweat, Tweat"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBXGN44-Y4

Peabody

No, it's something like "Tweet, Tweedly-deet" if I heard it right.:up:

[Rockin Robbins]

It's my star number.What kind of star number? Is it SAO 1480, RA 9h 17m 28.479 sec, DEC +79 deg 48 min 36.27 sec, visual magnitude 9.2? (epoch 2000 coordinates)

[Boris]

Who says we all have a hadle or alias... Boris is just what my parents named me :yep:... maybe they had a few after-work beers when coming up with it back in 83 :lol:

The name Kessler in my sig isn't my real surname though... but it could have been. My grandfather (being a Volga-German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German) defected from the Red army to the Wehrmacht during the war. Because he thought the Russians might one day come looking for him, he decided to register under his wife's name instead, when they moved to Argentina after the war.

[Torplexed]

The name Kessler in my sig isn't my real surname though... but it could have been. My grandfather (being a Volga-German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German) defected from the Red army to the Wehrmacht during the war. Because he thought the Russians might one day come looking for him, he decided to register under his wife's name instead, when they moved to Argentina after the war.
Smart move. A lot of those Russian who served in the German 'Ost' battalions in Normandy and were turned over by the Allies to the tender mercies of Stalin after the war, were never heard from again.

[Powerthighs]

The name Kessler in my sig isn't my real surname though... but it could have been. My grandfather (being a Volga-German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German) defected from the Red army to the Wehrmacht during the war. Because he thought the Russians might one day come looking for him, he decided to register under his wife's name instead, when they moved to Argentina after the war.

Hey, I'm of Volga-German ancestory myself! The Oberlanders of North Dakota, immigrated to the US in the mid-to-late 19th century.

[Nuc]

In the 1960's it seemed the best way to subs was nuclear power, hence:

College degrees in Nuclear Engineering
Qualified in Submarines as nuclear trained officer
Instructor at Naval Nuclear Power School
30 year career as commercial nuclear power plant designer

best 6 months: Asst. Engineering Officer USS Cobbler SS 344 (DBF! :up: )

[FIREWALL]

I didn't think FIREBUG was appropriate.

Don't get invited to to many functions. :p

[THE_MASK]

Its an anti-handle as some suggest :lol:

[sqk7744]

Great thread!

Actually mine is a reverse (for below sea level) of my Avsim handle.

SQK4477 for the Transponder Squawk code 4477 reserved for use by SR-71 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71), YF-12 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YF-12), U-2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2) and B-57 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-57_Canberra), pressure suit flights, and aircraft operations above FL600.

RR LOL!


No, it's something like "Tweet, Tweedly-deet" if I heard it right.:up:
Clayp is short for claypidgon witch I got from flying flight sims and being so easy to shoot down....
That's classic Clay, glad ur in the Navy with us :up:

[Digital_Trucker]

My handle changes with the type of game/activity involved. When I race "virtual" MotoGP bikes I'm RoadRash (because I spend lots of time sliding across the pavement) or JokeRR (as producer of racing videos), when I traverse to the "dark side" and play shooters, I'm DedSoonBe or Corpse2B (for the same reason as clayp:yep: ).

Most of the time, I'm just plain old, Digital_Trucker. Sixteen years of what they used to call "Computer Programming" back in the day plus 12 years of cross-country truck driving caused that train wreck of a nickname:rotfl:.

But, no matter what, I'm just plain old "Joker" :arrgh!: (my CB handle since the FCC quit making us use callsigns).

[SuperCavitation]

Got mine from the Shkval. Figured it was appropriate for Subsim. :cool:

[Kirby_TFS]

Mine came from an old WWII TV series call Combat. Kirby was a private in the squad along with Little John, Cage, and Doc. Sgt. Sanders and Lt. Hanley were the leaders. I used to watch this every week, and now it is on re-runs on the American Life Channel in the evenings. The TFS which stands for Task Force Strangers is the name of a clan I used to belong to when we were flying in F-22 Raptor Lighting 3 many years ago.

[Nuc]

Mine came from an old WWII TV series call Combat. Kirby was a private in the squad along with Little John, Cage, and Doc. Sgt. Sanders and Lt. Hanley were the leaders. I used to watch this every week, and now it is on re-runs on the American Life Channel in the evenings. The TFS which stands for Task Force Strangers is the name of a clan I used to belong to when we were flying in F-22 Raptor Lighting 3 many years ago.

Remember it well. Vic Morrow was the Sarge. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055666/ Only thing like it since then was "Tour of Duty". There was another series when it started called the "Gallant Men" http://www.tv.com/the-gallant-men/show/5940/summary.html which was cancelled after a few episodes.

[JREX53]

Mine is: J from 1st letter of my first name, REX first 3 letters of my last name, and 53 the year of my birth.

[CCIP]

Cool thread! I did wonder about Boris, so that answers it. Lucky of your family indeed :) I myself have Russian-German ancestry, not Volga Germans though - either from the Ukraine or court nobility that went straight to St. Petersburg.

But that has nothing to do with my nickname. It also doesn't stand for "Cisco Certified IT Professional" (I'm not even a techie, I'm a linguist). Like a few others here, it came from my flightsimming hobby. Like clayp, I'm not much of a dogfighter, but I'm a pretty good fighter-bomber. In modern sims, CCIP (Continuosly Computed Impact Point) is the best targeting system for direct, low-level bombing (my favorite type), so, there you have it. My avatar purports to show a CCIP pipper over a sub, too :p

I originally registered this nick on the Ubi forums about six years ago when reading about the then-unreleased LOMAC, where my CCIP-ness was excited by the promised inclusion of the A-10 in the game. Then I came back on the Ubi forums shortly before the release of SHIII and actively posted there for a while. Via there I ended up lurking at subsim, and when push came to shove and I needed to register here - I decided that it's best if people who knew me at Ubi should recognize me here too, so I went with CCIP. Now, they don't know me at Ubi, but they sure know me here (I think).

[AkbarGulag]

Sober the anti-handle :p

Clayp, you had me in stitches. I was recovering until I read why we have a Firewall :lol:

Don't worry Clayp, there are more planes in the ocean, than submarines in the sky.

Mine is: J from 1st letter of my first name, REX first 3 letters of my last name, and 53 the year of my birth.
Numbers and letters from names addresses etc... are a bit of a trend here.

[CDR Resser]

I'm afraid mine isn't very imaginative either. I participated in the Pacific Thunder Campaign for several cycles and I attained the lofty rank of Commander. I liked the way that it sounded with my last name, so I adopted it and became CDR Resser.
Considering my current profession, its nice to come here and be addressed with a modicum of respect.

Great thread. I have always wonded where some of the more original names came from. And to think I had almost used that SR-71 squawk myself.:up:

[d@rk51d3]

A combination of two of the passions in my life. Deer stalking (That's hunting to you Americans) and scuba diving. A strange combination, true, but life enhancing none the less. I find that the skills required in deer stalking fit quite nicely into a Subsim. Stealth, patience and a good aim.

Stick & String?

[LobsterBoy]

I became a member right after my first pool session becoming a scuba diver. It turns out I'm allergic to neoprene :damn:

I was bright pink for about a week (hence the handle). I finished the class and my wife and I were certified off the Kona coast of Hawaii almost a year ago. Needless to say I use other means of exposure protection.

[HEMISENT]

I used to own a musclecar restoration business catering to 60's and early 70's Hemi Dodges and Plymouths. Hemispherical Enterprises. Still own a couple of them.

[gimpy117]

lol...i stepped on a nail and walked funny ang the 117 if for halo (that was my original use for my screen name...it's prolly still sitting on a freinds X-Box)

[AkbarGulag]

I used to own a musclecar restoration business catering to 60's and early 70's Hemi Dodges and Plymouths. Hemispherical Enterprises. Still own a couple of them.
I did a ground up rebuild on a plymouth Roadrunner pillarless coupe once. Can't remember the exact date... 67-69 somehwere. Those cars are HUGE :o You could almost fashion a complete mazda out of just the hood and a door :lol:

[snakeyez]

Well, due to an eye injury I had while attending forestry summer camp at college in 1998, I had to wear an eye patch for a short period of time. My friends that were with me when the injury occurred joked and told everyone that a snake had bit me in the eye (don't know where that story came from) and the nickname "Snake Eyes" came out.

No one really called me Snake Eyes after the patch came off, but I took the name and messed up the spelling to "snakeyez" to be a little more unique for an online handle.

[klh]

I'm rather ashamed at my lack of inventiveness:oops: dcb are just the initials of my name:lol:

Don't be ashamed, I'm unimaginative too! klh are my initials.

[Sub146]

146 is my online stock car number and sub , well , because it's a submarine forum :arrgh!: quite simple and now you know :)

[McBeck]

Mine comes in one part from my famely name "Beck" and I thought it sounded cool with the "Mc" infront like McFly :D

Better than my original: DaffyDuck :rotfl:

[AkbarGulag]

McBeck, I think a play on your name puts you in the same league as Rockin Robins.

Theres a few more Initial based like dcb and klh. Lack of inventiveness matters not! Look at it this way, you have already made one story out of it ;)

But we have a new challengers, the injury parties! Lobster, Gimpy and Snakeyez :p

[Mush Martin]

Clayp is short for claypidgon witch I got from flying flight sims and being so easy to shoot down....
:rotfl:

A Fusion of my Name and the Name of the Submarine Captain that originally
captured my imagination twenty years ago. I was joining Subsim and choosing
my name about four months ahead of the release of SHIV and I wanted a name
that would make the transition as the US Boats have always been my favourites.
along with tropical sun over the grey north atlantic winter.

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

I got mines from a line from Iron Maiden's 'Run Silent Run Deep' song. Goes something like this- ....all the way down to Davy Jones...':yep: and also 'Footlocker' where someone special to me gave me something that made me one happy sailor for life. It was placed inside my Dad's footlocker:yep::arrgh!:

[Major Johnson]

Ask my girlfriend?? :lol:

Actually, it's the name I use in every forum I peruse. I just thought it was funny. I find it hard to believe someone else didn't scarf it up before me!

[Jinx_]

Jinx comes from playing shooters, my regular server had a betting system on it and when you died you could bet on the remaining people. when ever it came up that it was me agianest 3 or more players everyone would bet agianest me i would win and get all the money so i got the nickname Jinx.:rotfl:

[Dogsbd]

Mine comes from the developing a great deal of respect for the tenacity of Sir Douglas Bader upon reading his biography "Reach for the Sky", many years ago. His call sign, Dogs Body, was based on his initials and I shortened it to Dogsbd.

[kiwi_2005]

In 2004 i re-registered in Subsim before that i was registered under another name ( can't remeber the name thats why i started a new one lol) I first joined up around 2001 when SH2 came out and remeber ordering of Neal the Pacific aces and Aces Campaign mod CD, great mods BTW. I only visit the site rarely as i use to visit only when at work (had no internet at home back then). Then 2004 i registered under kiwi_2005. Kiwi means New Zealander and thats about it really :)

[fred8615]

Somebody asked this on the Ubisoft SH4 forum awhile back. Here's my answer from there:

Mine is a suggestion that was given to me by the old Delphi Internet Service. It was the very first forum/BBS I joined when I got online. When they rejected my original username choice (it was already taken), one of the suggested alternates was a combination of my first name and street address. I used it, and have used it nearly everywhere since.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Mine is Latin for Chuck Norris.

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[fred8615]

Mine is Latin for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris doesn't speak Latin. He lets his hands and feet do his talking.

(I'm going to have to check if something like that is on the website.)

[Doolittle81]

Primarily a FlightSimmer until SH4...

There were 80 crewmembers on the famous April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.

During the period 1969-1971 and 1972-1974, when I was a young Captain in the USAF, one of those raiders named James Macia was still on active duty serving as a full colonel in the position of Chief of Staff of a major USAF Intelligence organization. I worked directly with/for him on a number of special projects and came to respect him greatly. To some degree, I saw him as my link to History. I was presumptious enough to assign myself the forum screenname/nickname of Doolittle(raider #)81.

[V.C. Sniper]

V.C. = my initial and Sniper because I like to put one well place shot into my targets at super long range: headshots from 1,000+ yards , 1 torpedo under the smoke stack at 8,000 yards. :arrgh!:

[bratwurstdimsum]

I have a very strong collecting interest in German militaria, Helmets, medals especially and now branching into the Kriegsmarine. Thus the "Bratwurst"

I am also Malaysian Chinese raised in Australia.

Thus the "Dimsum"

And I LOVE food. :rotfl:

[Hans Schultz]

It's my grandfathers name.

[Powerthighs]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/PowerglideProfile.jpg

http://www.optimusrhyme.com

[Captain Vlad]

'Vladmir' is an oft-used RPG name on my part. He was my first TES: Arena character (A Nord barbarian), and when I started playing a text-based RPG a couple years later, I used the name again. Since I played the game, off and on, for about eight years that incarnation of the character became one of my RPG 'hall of fame' characters and versions of him have appeared on everything from Knights of the Old Republic to Sid Meier's Pirates. Thanks to his wanderlust and a tendency to have bizarre things happen to him, several other players have said they think all the 'versions' are in fact, the same person, and he unconsciously hops times and dimensions just to find the next cool thing to do.

Thanks to the extended amount of time I played that game, I've also ended up with more people who know me as 'Vladmir' or 'Vlad' than as 'Larry', and thus, Vladmir is my usual web identity. When used in a nautical or military themed environment, such as this one, I often attach 'Captain' to the front, and thus, my user name. In such cases, I almost always shorten the name to 'Vlad', as it sounds more piratical.:arrgh!:

[AkbarGulag]

When used in a nautical or military themed environment, such as this one, I often attach 'Captain' to the front, and thus, my user name. In such cases, I almost always shorten the name to 'Vlad', as it sounds more piratical.:arrgh!:

:rotfl: Awesome :up:


I am also Malaysian Chinese raised in Australia.
Thus the "Dimsum"


I tried expalining to some Australians that DimSums were aussie food. They tried to tell me it was first made in Korea :lol:

[ReallyDedPoet]

The dead ones are the best ones.


RDP

[Skipbo]

Skipbo was a nickname given to me by my son and daughter and their friends during the late 1980's. They often played a card game called "SKIP-BO" and for some reason started calling me Skipbo or Skip then and ever after. I was normally reading, working, watching TV, listening to shortwave or police band scanner radios - anything except playing SKIP-BO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIP-BO

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Skip-Bo.JPG/150px-Skip-Bo.JPG

[skwasjer]

Well, uhm. This dates back about 11-12 years to Quake 1 (FPS game). I played online probably as 'Player' (default name), and after a while came up with 'squasher'. However, since I wasn't 'that' good at the time, I wanted to dumb it down a bit and sortof rewrote it phonetically in Dutch as skwasjer. Since a few years, I like to keep it short: skwas

[1480]

It's my star number.What kind of star number? Is it SAO 1480, RA 9h 17m 28.479 sec, DEC +79 deg 48 min 36.27 sec, visual magnitude 9.2? (epoch 2000 coordinates)

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....

[Rockin Robbins]

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....
:up::up::up::up::up::up::up:

[capt_frank]

"Capt Frank's" is a great Seafood Market on Boynton Beach Bld., Boynton Beach, Florida. The name just stuck with me...:D

[Mush Martin]

The dead ones are the best ones.


RDP


Career note to self: Never become a professional poet
or visual artist.

[Iron Budokan]

I was sitting home one day watching my dog lick himself when the phone rang. A disembodied voice said, "Report to 601 Shayla Drive at nine o'clock tonight. Drive by once and flash your headlights twice. Then park across the street and go around back behind the dry cleaners... and come alone."

Being in the habit of following advice from disembodied voices that tell me to visit scary parts of the neighborhood, I immediately drove to the reqeusted address. I walked around back. At the end of a narrow alleyway I saw a guy wearing a trench coat with the collar turned up. The shadow of his hat brim shaded his furtive eyes.

"Howdy," I said. "What's up?"

"I hear you play Silent Hunter. Heard you're kind of a freak who even plays at 1x sometimes. Heard even your little boy likes to play and that he's a better kaleun than you are."

"Yep. We both love it. Great sim, great immersion."

"Maybe you don't know this, but there's a super website that caters to subsim gamers like yourself. It's called Subsim.com."

"Hm. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check into it." I turned to go.

He grabbed my arm. "Wait. You can't just log onto the site and start jabbering. You have to have a proper handle." He took out a notebook and ticked off a name. "From here on you will be known as Iron Budokan. Remember that name. Iron Budokan. This will allow you access to Subsim.com."

"Sounds like fun. Thanks. Any last instructions?"

My strange benefactor lighted a cigarette. The wavering flame illuminated his face, highlighting his red beard. He looked vaguely familiar. "Sink them all. Oh, and download GWX."

"Gotcha." I started to walk away. "By the way, what's your name?"

"You can call me Thomsen." Then he turned away. My interview was over.

I walked back to my car and pulled out of the parking lot. As I drove past the alley I glanced back inside but the man who had been there was gone. How strange, I thought. But I drove back home and logged on to Subsim.com and have enjoyed it ever since.

[FAdmiral]

Back in the early days of internet gaming online, a friend told me about this
brand new gaming site called "America Online". He said I would need a handle
to log into it to play games & such. Being that the strategy naval was my best
strong point, I went for FleetAdmiral but it was already taken, Admiral was too.
So I picked an F for Fleet and added the Admiral to it. I have been know almost
everywhere as FAdmiral for the past 19 years.....

JIM

[Keelbuster]

I've got this thing about breaking keels....:arrgh!:

[Zoomer96]

I took mine from the old song: "From the Halls of Monte ZOOMER, to the shores of Tripoli".......And I was the 96th one! OooH-Rah! :p

[Terror_666]

"Terror" is my nickname from high school, given to me by a buddy of mine, because it is only 2 letters removed from my real last name.
It has stuck with me for the past 10 ish years.
the _666 is because when I began using my nickname online Terror was usually already taken.

[hyperion2206]

My nickname was born when I read the books about the British Naval Officer Bolitho written by Alexander Kent. In one book he gets to command the ship of the line HMS Hyperion. I emmiadetly liked that name and from this time on it has become my handle.

[Zayphod]

<SFX>Old guy, 95 years, no teeth

Many, many years ago, before the internet was popular, when BBS' were all the rage, I signed on to High Society BBS in Fort Lauderdale.

I just happened to see the BBC version of the Hitchhiker's Guide on PBS just a few weeks earlier. Zay was cool. :sunny:

Someone had already picked "zaphod", then abandoned the account. Since the owner wanted to boast of having thousands of subscribers, he'd never, ever delete any screen name, ever, period.

Therefore, "Zayphod" came into play (pronounced the same anyway). This was back around 1983 or so. Kept the screen name ever since (on my AOL account, too).

</sfx>

[AkbarGulag]

Many, many years ago, before the internet was popular, when BBS' were all the rage
</sfx>

There are new BBS sites recently.. a bit of a BBS revival going on, with inter BBS events being organised. I got back into them about a year ago, but wandered away again. LORD was all the rage still.... But I always preffered Falcons Eye :yep:

[ATR-42]

The ATR-42-320 was the first airplane i flew commercially with passengers for my airline :)
ahh the memories

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/klehmann/ATRsm.jpg
ATR-42

The years have past, and ive since moved into a larger "office" :) ...but never had the heart to change my handle to reflect it...

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/klehmann/737.jpg
B737 :)

[Capn_Sinky]

From the book Submarine By Ed. Beech. The guy that installed the first ice cream maker in the Trigger. He wanted everyone to call him Sinky, but they soon found out his nickname was Stinky at the academy. Just thought it was one of those interesting and funny things that goes on. And I like ice cream :p

[MONOLITH]

MONOLITH

Main Entry: mono·lith
Pronunciation: \ˈmä-nə-ˌlith\
Function: noun
Etymology: French monolithe, from monolithe consisting of a single stone, from Latin monolithus, from Greek monolithos, from mon- + lithos stone
Date: 1844

1 : a single great stone often in the form of an obelisk or column

2 : a massive structure

3 : an organized whole that acts as a single unified powerful or influential force


ME (http://www.mayhemonstrings.com/Images/ME.jpg)


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[Sailor Steve]

Most of the websites I've ever visited (all two of them) know me by my real name, as they are serious history discussion fora. I first used mine when I came here and saw that pretty much everyone had a screen name. I came up with this one simply because I was in the navy back in the Vietnam era and I like alliteration. I don't really care if people know who I am, it just seemed to be what people were doing at the time.

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....
:up::up::up::up::up::up::up:
That's very bizarre. I mean the Blazing Saddles part. You do realize that Mel Brooks took that from John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre? If not, you should definitely see it sometime.

[1480]

Most of the websites I've ever visited (all two of them) know me by my real name, as they are serious history discussion fora. I first used mine when I came here and saw that pretty much everyone had a screen name. I came up with this one simply because I was in the navy back in the Vietnam era and I like alliteration. I don't really care if people know who I am, it just seemed to be what people were doing at the time.

The star shaped piece of tin that sits on the left side of my chest at work....but most of us are like the banditos in Blazing Saddles "badges we don't need no stinkin badges".....
:up::up::up::up::up::up::up:
That's very bizarre. I mean the Blazing Saddles part. You do realize that Mel Brooks took that from John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre? If not, you should definitely see it sometime.

Yes I do SS and a great classic. I as a child was "forced" to watch all the classics on a show called Family Classics every Sunday afternoon hosted by Chicago broadcasting legend Frasier Thomas on channel 9. Channel 9 btw is now the superstation wgn. I just thought Mel Brooks parody was better context ;).
I get to relive a bit of my childhood with my 4 year old every Saturday night, a local station plays 2 hours of the Stooges, followed by a classic B&W horror movie. So I'm trying to do my part, in a twisted sort've way!

[cwelt]

Well I followed the "keep it simple stupid" approach and used my first initial and my last name.. but being of german decent helped during SH3 as my last name (althought shortened from it's original version) still has meaning in the german language :)

But usually I pick a name for a forum dependant upon the subject matter for said forum, during my FPS days I went by "Stalker" but seems every forum you go to now has about 50 variants of said nickname. But tales of BBS'ing bring me back to my first ever screenname (which would actually work well here too) Midnight Hunter.. :hmm: is it possible to change one's login or must we re-register???

[howler93]

Howler: Just returned from surfing in Costa Rica and was amazed by the Howler monkeys :o

93: Used to be a big Toronto Maple Leaf hockey fan. Loved 'ol Dougie Gilmour #93

This is a great thread btw!

Cheers,
Howler :arrgh!:

[Lightning61]

A very close, (now deceased), friend and former employer called me lightning because my temper would flair very quickly when the insurance adjusters would come poking their noses in my collision repair work, and try to convince me to do a shoddy job.
I'd usually start by throwing a hammer down and screaming "You *******ing idiots need to just stay at your desk and out of my shop"!

An after market parts guy brought a sub-standard bumper to me, and it was blatently obvious it would NEVER fit on the car.
I politely threw the bumper out in the street and told him to "Get the ******* out of here before I unload the rest of your junk and throw it in the street"!

Many many more stories very similar to those two, but I'm not overly fond of typing while reaching over my steering wheel.

Forgot to add: the 61 is my year of birth.

Can I keep this avatar?

[Sailor Steve]

All this talk of how names come about really makes me miss The Avon Lady.

[howler93]

Can I keep this avatar?

:rotfl:
I love that one too! It's gotta be the best one of all :yep:

[aanker]

I'm rather ashamed at my lack of inventiveness:oops: dcb are just the initials of my name:lol:
Don't be ashamed, I'm unimaginative too! klh are my initials.

Same here with the 'imagination' part .... just my name. I came here when Pacific Aces was released and entered my SHCE 'public' username in the form.

Happy Hunting!

Art

[Ducimus]

http://www.redhorseassociation.org/photos/image.php?source=51

[The Fishlord]

Fishlord, because I'm lord of the fish...the torpedoes, that is.

I thought of "suicidal fish" in reference to the many dud torpedoes I would expect in the career but decided Fishlord had a better sound to it.

[Rockin Robbins]

Howler: Just returned from surfing in Costa Rica and was amazed by the Howler monkeys :o

93: Used to be a big Toronto Maple Leaf hockey fan. Loved 'ol Dougie Gilmour #93

This is a great thread btw!

Cheers,
Howler :arrgh!:
My wife is FROM Costa Rica and she always told me stories of the howler monkey's white scrotums and loud hoots.

But I already knew first-hand. I was dockmaster at the New Smyrna Municipal Marina back in the late 70's. A chinese junk rounded the bend in the river, and this little guy just flowed up the mast to the top and made the most godawful hooting you ever heard, much louder than any marine horn and comparable to a railroad horn. The volume just made you cringe at 1/2 mile! When they arrived at the dock they demonstrated how the monkey could open a pop top Coke can and rotate it around the correct way to drink it. I was fascinated.

[ReallyDedPoet]

93: Used to be a big Toronto Maple Leaf hockey fan. Loved 'ol Dougie Gilmour #93


93 was also great year for them :D , tough losing to LA though :oops: Gretzky had his way with the blue and white :yep: Dougie was all class then, still is.
So close....

Also what is this about used to be :hmm:


RDP

[bert8for3]

:oops: No good story about mine. Nothing to do with my real name either. Just cooked it up without giving it any thought.

[StandingCow]

Mine was originally a joke, in the FPS "Firearms" a mod for HL1 a clan I wanted to join had a member named SittingDuck... so I jokingly put my name as StandingCow... and decided to keep it.

:D

[DS]

I used to run a subsim web page called Deep Simulations. It was Sub Command focussed. It ran for a year or two, and a few of my mission pack are still floating about out there (I think Bill Nichols has a few on his page). Eventually, I had to redirect my energies into other things, and dropped the web site.

[MONOLITH]

Sub Command

Good memories. :up:

[Von Manteuffel]

Knew absolutely nothing about submarines when I first bought SH3 and found Subsim, but knew quite a bit about the land war. Decided to use the name of one of the great German generals: General der Panzertruppen Hasso-Eccard Freiherr von Manteuffel (1897 - 1978) one of only 27 holders of the Knights Cross with Oak leaves Swords and Diamonds. Aim high, I always say.

[AFRIKAKORPS]

Well I've always been interested in the Rommel and the Afrika Korps, so I thought this to be a suiting name. I find it funny that some people confuse me to be European because I use K's instead of C's in the title.

[navy_ae]

well mine is back to my service in the navy i was an AE

[Charlie901]

"Charlie901"

My old "Callsign" on Road Patrol...

[SNAKE1937]

In the USAF (56 to 60) as a rescue & survival guy I came by the "call sign" SNAKE do to my catching snakes for the crew on survival training and cooking them ( they do taste somewhat like chicken & froglegs).

Being born in 1937 took care of the rest.


Thanks for looking SNAKE1937

[Type941]

got mine after the biggest submarine in the world. :p Typhoon that is.

[Defiance]

Hiya's,
When i found the internet many many years ago i also found M$ Fighter Ace

Got into sims and beta tested Aces-High (Hitech)

In AH you had to have an 8 character ID so through many ID's i settled on Defiance

So most places i am Defiance or a slight variant off it

Ciao

Def

ps: any ex-AH players i was Titanium before Defiance

[dean_acheson]

man, it ain't a handle, it's a lifestyle!

[howler93]

93 was also great year for them :D , tough losing to LA though :oops: Gretzky had his way with the blue and white :yep: Dougie was all class then, still is.
So close....

RDP, I was hoping SOMEone would remember :up: Cheers!

By the sound of most of these posts, it seems as though we've got a "well-seasoned" crew around here :rock:Love it!

Howler :arrgh!:

[CinC Battleforce]

Got mine from when i belonged in a club, at the University of Central Oklahoma, that played Harpoon, not the computer game mind you but the paper and counter game. I was very aggressive with my tactics so the guys nicknamed me "Battle Force" and well my ego just played off that....hence CinC Battleforce

[Slick Wilhelm]

If you were around in the 1990's and paid attention to American politics, you won't need to ask where the inspiration for my callsign came from. I just thought it would be funny to make it a play on words.

Hey Titanium/Defiance, it's your old buddy "Wanker" from Aces High. Good to see you in here as well, mate. S!

[Defiance]

Hiya Wanker,
<S> Matey

Damn i thought it was a long shot that any old AH'ers were here, But nice to know at least one is :)

Keep checking back at AH but really can't find a joystick to justify subbing to it again :(

I do miss the old crowd from my AH days :(

Had many a fun time playing on usa time and working on uk time lol

Well maybe i'll try and find a decent stick for vista and dust the rust off and have a fly in a dora he he

Well i wish you well sir :)

Take Care

Have Fun

Def (Tit)