How did you decide on your screen name?

[BehindBlueI's]

Mine is from my other hobby that I am now in hiatus from until the kids are a bit older... I also skydive, and until a neck injury I shot video for competition teams and tandem skydivers looking to get a video of their jump. And we dont just jump out the door. To get the best shot we will climb outside the plane and hang like a monkey, letting go as our target jumps out. They actually install steps and handholds for us to do it on the larger planes. So my nickname was born...

Like this Super Otter that holds 19 jumpers. This is a screen grab from a video I was shooting as I climbed out and started to make my way toward the far end of that handle... (some planes can hand up to 4 jumpers outside at once)

You know if you stay inside, those things eventually land and just let you out, right?

 

[lovemachine]

I chose my screen name because I AM the lovemachine.












That, and I was listening to the song Lovemachine by Smokey Robinsin and the Miracles when I created the email back in high school.

 

[Cameramonkey]

You know if you stay inside, those things eventually land and just let you out, right?

PFFF! You obviously havent seen our pilots land.

 

[Sylvain]

Actual first name.

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[halfmileharry]

I ended up stuck with it in the late '60s. Back then I was pretty fair with an M14.
It's not my name but I guess it had a little zing to it.

 

[Frosty]

But I have such a supple wrist.

 

[87iroc]

I drive a Mustang

 

[wolfman]

Mine comes from the fact that my only "kids" are the 4-legged variety (which has grown to include cats as well as dogs).

All of my "kids" are 4-legged also, but if a woman had "doggy" as part of her username I think things would not go well.

It would make for an epic thread right before it got locked

Meh ***,, a thread that good most likely would just go "POOF" and disappear leaving nothing but fairy dust and memories.

My screen name is my CB handle that was given to me by Casket Runner back in the mid 70's. His came from the old hearse he drove to school.

 

[chezuki]

I drive a Mustang

 

[Sylvain]

Maybe he thought it was the "What do you drive" thread?

 

[chezuki]

Maybe he thought it was the "What do you drive" thread?

No silly. An "'87 IROC" is a Camero, not a Mustang.

 

[actaeon277]

If I told everyone, they wouldn't have to ask when they meet me.

 

[pudly]

I hear he KILLS at pinball.

yeah, but he doesn't listen for ****

But I have such a supple wrist.

You can't open the book of his life and jump in the middle. Like women, he's a mystery.

[video=youtube_share;-GE8nR-5kL4]http://youtu.be/-GE8nR-5kL4[/video]

 

[pudly]

My parents gave it to me.

Worst. Christmas. Ever.

I wanted a Red Ryder BB gun. All I got was an INGO screen name.

And I always thought it was because you were a Who fan...

[video=youtube_share;e9-3RZkzpwM]http://youtu.be/e9-3RZkzpwM[/video]

 

[Bounty Hunter]

I posted this in a thread a couple years ago....

Mine is a little personal I guess, and kind of long winded, will try to make it short.

My brother was killed, walking along the road by a hit and run driver.
I came through and found him just minutes after the fact.
The police could not find who did it. After a year, I had heard rumors, and things around.
Needless to say it was very difficult, not knowing exactly what happened.
I got fed up, and started asking around, and I wore a wire when talking to people, and in a few weeks, told the police what I had found out.
He had joined the military to try and hide from what he did. When they went to interview him he confessed.
After the trial and sentencing, he was sentenced to four years.... out in six months. I heard he was arrested again twice in another state.
I went back to detective, and they arrested him again and he served the rest of his time, because he broke his probation.

I had someone make a Bounty Hunter reference after the fact, and I guess it kind of stuck.

Very long story actually, but that is the short of it.

Felt pretty good to find him.
Felt better to watch him walk into prison...Twice!!!!!!

 

[mac45]

Males of Scottish descent are automatically nick named Mac.
45 would be my favorite caliber.
Screen name on pretty much every forum I'm on.

 

[stormryder]

To make it short and simple.
Riding home on my Sportster, Got caught in middle of Massive Thunderstorm that turned into a tornado, refused to stop and race home.
Made it home, told the story and the name stuck.
Funny thing is afew years later a book series came out with the same name.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

I read something on the internet about how hillbillies were buying lots of guns and throwing fits about their constitutional rights around 2008. The author disparagingly referred to this phenomenon as "The Bubba Effect". While reading this article, I realized the author was talking about me. Rather than shy from the appellation, I chose to embrace it.
Scary how accurate people can be without ever meeting you.

 

[warthog]

I have always like the looks and firepower of the A-10 Warthog. Never flown one but I have seen them in action practicing while in Tucson. IT'S AWESOME and so I decided I would pay homage to it by using Warthog as a screen name where ever I sign up for a forum.

 

[RedneckReject]

No silly. An "'87 IROC" is a Camero, not a Mustang.

You know an IROC is a Camaro, but you can't spell Camaro right? Now I'm even more confused....