How did you get your handle? - Page 6

Zoomer96 · 03-06-08, 10:39 AM

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 · 03-06-08, 12:17 PM

"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 · 03-06-08, 12:51 PM

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.

03-06-08, 01:09 PM

<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.

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).

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AkbarGulag · 03-07-08, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Zayphod

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

ATR-42 · 03-07-08, 02:26 AM

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

ahh the memories

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...

B737

Capn_Sinky · 03-07-08, 11:22 AM

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 · 03-07-08, 11:34 AM

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

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Sailor Steve · 03-07-08, 11:46 AM

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.

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Originally Posted by 1480

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".....

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 · 03-07-08, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

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Originally Posted by 1480

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".....

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

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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 · 03-07-08, 01:50 PM

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 · 03-07-08, 01:51 PM

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

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

This is a great thread btw!

Cheers,
Howler

Lightning61 · 03-07-08, 05:32 PM

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 · 03-07-08, 05:52 PM

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

howler93 · 03-07-08, 05:55 PM

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Can I keep this avatar?

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

03-06-08, 10:39 AM	#76
Zoomer96 Helmsman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 106 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 0	From the old Song 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

03-06-08, 12:17 PM	#77
Terror_666 Watch Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Monitoring my back-yard SAM site. Posts: 30 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Nicknames last forever "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. __________________ Evil, Malice, Death, Decay. Just another working day.

03-06-08, 12:51 PM	#78
hyperion2206 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 1,227 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Career of Captain Jack Shaftoe:

03-07-08, 02:26 AM	#81
ATR-42 Commodore Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 606 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 6	The ATR-42-320 was the first airplane i flew commercially with passengers for my airline ahh the memories 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... B737 __________________

03-07-08, 11:22 AM	#82
Capn_Sinky Bosun Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Winder, GA Posts: 64 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ Good Luck and Good Hunting! Capn_ Sinky (aka Stinky) O.I.C.I.C. Officer In Charge of Ice Cream Current Command: USS Drum Apr42 "Frankly the idea that a stinkpot could smell so bad that men who haven't bathed or changed their clothes in months would choose to abandon their ships mid ocean rather than fight, scares the heck out of me!" Unknown Historian

03-06-08, 01:09 PM	#79
Zayphod Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	<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. 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>

03-07-08, 11:34 AM	#83
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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 . __________________

03-07-08, 01:50 PM	#86
cwelt Mate Join Date: May 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 52 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	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???

03-07-08, 01:51 PM	#87
howler93 Medic Join Date: May 2007 Location: Telluride, Colorado Posts: 162 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Howler: Just returned from surfing in Costa Rica and was amazed by the Howler monkeys 93: Used to be a big Toronto Maple Leaf hockey fan. Loved 'ol Dougie Gilmour #93 This is a great thread btw! Cheers, Howler

03-07-08, 05:32 PM	#88
Lightning61 Loader Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 82 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	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?

03-07-08, 05:52 PM	#89
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	All this talk of how names come about really makes me miss The Avon Lady. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo