Screen Names.

[trucker17]

OK....
Someone had started a thread like this at A2A Simulations......

So I thought it would make for an interesting thing to know how each of us got our screen names and what they mean.......

So I'll go first.....
I took the screen name trucker17, due to the work I did...Driving trucks for a living, the 17 is for the day I was born on March/ 17th/ 1962.
Before that my screen name was Budweiser Bandit.....This name came to be when I was 4 years old by my dad, my brother and my uncle.....That was because when I was 4 they would set their beer on the coffee table, and leave the room....When they would return the beer was gone.....I would grab it and run to the bathroom and lock myself inside and drink it......This nickname also became a CB handle when I first started to drive......
When my dad was stationed in the Solomon Islands the Admiral and sailors had another name for me, but we wont go their....

So their you have it for me.....
Lets hear about yours and how you came about it......

[hairyspin]

Before I got an FFB stick I used to stall aircraft a lot dogfighting in CFS2 and 3: sometimes I recovered the ensuing spins, often I didn't. The AvHistory 4.x flight models were particularly hairy, hence hairyspin. Being of the hirsute persuasion also seemed to fit and I've had the name long enough it seemed daft to change it now.

[mike_cyul]

Before I got an FFB stick I used to stall aircraft a lot dogfighting in CFS2 and 3: sometimes I recovered the ensuing spins, often I didn't. The AvHistory 4.x flight models were particularly hairy, hence hairyspin. Being of the hirsute persuasion also seemed to fit and I've had the name long enough it seemed daft to change it now.

Pretty basic here. Mike being my first name, and CYUL being where I originally hail from!


:)

[flaviossa]

Flavio (my name) + SSA (Salvador - City i live) :tongue:

[Daveroo]

i get this name from a chat site called delphi forums,it was supposed to be "Daver",which is a childhood nickname (ive had many over the years)but the delphi gods made me add "oo" to it because there was a daver already in chat.

my childhood nics were:

Daver,given to me by my folks best friends kids.
sewerpipe jr,my family have been plumbers since the early 1900s,great uncle bill was doing plumbing ,yup true,at Lake Tahoe in 1907,,i can honestly say,i dont know what he did in those days plumbing wise..but thats what the family books say.sewerpipe is because when dad was a young adult,he did a lot of plumbing service work,and he and grandfather were the only plumbers from the mid 1940s until around 1980 who had a "snake" of any kind.i our area that is....wasnt until the mid 80s before rotorooter came to be and ruined our business,they were not lic'd plumbers,,yet they would sell people on new piping systems..and if a WC even sweated a little..they would sell the home owner a brand new toilet.we/i would edjucate the person on why it was sweating,and how to stop it from doing so...then we wouldnt charge...but we still got bad mouthed because we "wouldnt fix anything"...which wasnt true
DirtyDave was given to be by a guy named steve bast,who was a world champion speedway rider...he said i was dirty because i didnt fight fair..i was ok with that.

and i was called "DumpsterDave" because i got mad at this guy who kept parking in my carport ,three nights in a row,so i removed his valvestems from his tires,super glued them to his fenders and left him a note to come see me...he made the mistake of pounding on my door,i ended up tossing him in to the apartment units outside dumpster and left him there until morning.when he ended up getting arrested on numerous charges......thank god my best friends back then were all cops...and to add to that.while bouncing at my fav hangout..i tossed a few guys who were being violent inside the bar,into the dumpster.

[arfyhun]

Ar fy hun (spoken; 'are va chheen' [heen if you cannot get the air to pass along both sides of the top of your mouth in a gutteral way]), is Welsh for 'on my own'.

I got the name when, in the mid 60's in my days as a 'rocker' at the Ace cafe & 59 club, I never took passengers on the pillion seat of my 500cc Gold Star. (Still have the motorcycle to this day). The one and only time I did, doing a favour for a bird who wanted a lift from the Dive cafe at Golders Green to the Ace, I got tugged for doing 60 in a 40 mph zone by an "'orse copper" driving a Daimler Dart. Cost me a tenner, that did.

Mind you, seeing the idiot struggle out of the car with his boots and plus fours on made it worth it...wot a plank...Didn't find it at all funny when I did a couple of 'orse noises...And I was doing about 95 at the time I heard the bell ringing. Thought it was the bike going tech so I rolled it off....

The down side? It was dark and the girl wasn't pretty even then...

Graham.

[strykerpsg]

Stryker (family of 8x8 armored fighting vehicles, link:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker) PSG (Platoon Sergeant E-7) I was a infantry platoon sergeant in 3rd and 4th Stryker Brigades for 5 years. Oh the memories, good and bad. Now, after being a 1SG (First Sergeant E-8), I'm a staff guy awaiting Command Sergeant Major or retirement.

[Navy Chief]

Me thinks my screen name is, er, pretty obvious!

[henrystreet]

Me thinks my screen name is, er, pretty obvious!

Mine is pretty obvious too.

[falcon409]

falcon409_Pretty simple also. . .From 1986 to 2007 I was stationed at Carswell AFB, Ft Worth and worked on the F-16 "Fighting Falcon". The 409 was my Apartment number.

[Roger]

Roger...because that is my name. Not very imaginative really.:untroubled:

[ViperPilot2]

I've always had a fascination with the F-16 and the Colonial Viper... that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

:wiggle:

[Cees Donker]

Cees Donker is my name. LOL!

[William Njurmi]

There was a movie comedy called "Mad Finland" and its main character, the hair oil millionaire William Njurmi, offered a suitable nickname for me. It was given to me by fellow glider pilots back in eighties. They claimed I changed my personality after a few drinks and that other personality behaved like a millionaire... and my family name is Nurmi. They still use it with a grin on their faces, when we very rarely meet these days.

[HighGround22]

As back-seat aircrew, I flew from Canada's last aircraft cararier, HMCS Bonaventure, better known as "The Bonnie". The ship's international voice callsign was Highground and her painted side number was 22 . Although we're shaving with the old girl now, I wanted to retain something in her memory.

[WarHorse47]

I picked Warhorse47 to represent my passion for horses and the year I was born.

[gaucho_59]

As back-seat aircrew, I flew from Canada's last aircraft cararier, HMCS Bonaventure, better known as "The Bonnie". The ship's international voice callsign was Highground and her painted side number was 22 . Although we're shaving with the old girl now, I wanted to retain something in her memory.

I got mine in the old days of chat rooms in ICQ.... I am originally from Montevideo, Uruguay... land of the gauchos (cowboys in southern Brasil, Uruguay and Argentine)....
Although city born and bred... and the only potros (broncos) I ever broke... were either in the merry-go-round at the Parque Rodo carnivals.. or the penny pony
rides... I thought Gaucho was an appropriate moniker then... tried it but there were other gauchos.... and was asked to alter it... the suggestions were 'underscore something'
To make a story short... I emigrated to the USA to go to school in 1959... it was 'underscore 59'.... It's been my pseudonym everywhere on line since...

Cheers from basically a city dude that passes for a cowboy....

[PRB]

My initials. It probably wouldn't have occurred to me to use that as a "screen name", but way back when I was a wee lad in the US Navy, somebody started calling me that. One could "acquire" a worse nick name, I suppose, hehe. The mugs in the pic are from the 1980s. :)

[andersel]

Mine is based on my e-mail address, which I've had since '85. When I first started doing computer related stuff I was working in the DoD Fire Service. My Chief sent me to a computer class (DOS) and the first thing we did was to get an e-mail account. At that time your address had to include your last name and your first name initial.

I've had the same e-mail address ever since. It seemed only natural and, at the same time, very simple to just use it when I signed on with SOH.

LA

[gradyhappyg]

I am Grady and people just started callin me Happy G after that goofy golf Adam Sandler movie came out cause he used my last name in the title.
Honestly it beats the heck out of Shady Grady. I was plum sick of that.

[AussieMan]

No brainer really after all I do live in what I call the greatest country on earth :).

My original screen name was 'Bigfella', a nickname I acquired when I was working on the railways. This came about as I was pushing the scales at about 125 kilos at the time. Although I was a tradesman we always mucked in and helped each other with lifting and moving parts. Anyway when they needed my help some bright spark called me Bigfella one day and it stuck.

When I discovered the internet and chat sites like ICQ that was the name I chose to use but people misconstrued the meaning and I got sick of trying to explain the meaning of the name so changed it to Aussieman and have used it ever since. There are a couple of forums where I have had to change it because someone else had taken the name but the Aussie part has always remain with numbers at the end.

[jmbiii]

Mine really took some thought. Initials - J.M.B. III

[paiken]

Just kept it simple. First initial and last name. Thought about using something witty or punny (like wingnut) but decided to make it easy to remember. After all, I'm not getting any younger.

[Overshoe]

Long ago and not very far away I was chatting with the FBO at a nearby seaplane base when a beat-up truck bounced to a stop and a disreputable looking bum climbed out with a big steel gear in one hand. He headed toward a sad looking Cessna 120 on floats when the FBO yelled, "Hey Sonny? You gonna file a flight plan?" The guy replied, "Ayuh. I'm gonna fly this gear out to East Overshoe and I'll be back before dark."
When it came time to select an online name, I chose East Overshoe but the forum made me drop the East part.

[Deacon211]

Mine is my old callsign and squadron number. The origin of the callsign is best kept between myself and the clergy. ;)

Deacon

[modelr]

Mine was given to me when I was working for Ford as a mechanic. I was building a model of one of the new cars we got in at the dealership, along with one of the boss's kids car. It just stuck, as it seems I'm always building some kind of model.

[Bushpounder]

I'll let you think about mine for a bit longer! LOL!

Don

[Taco]

Got mine while eating dinner, and needed a quick name, of course, we were having tacos for dinner.

Jim

[sarwulf]

A nickname I pulled up from my Coast Guard days flying the (then) new HH-65A Dolphin. When our AVDET (Aviation Detachment) deployed aboard a cutter, the cutter crew started calling the aircraft SARWOLF because it bore somewhat of a resemblance to AIRWOLF in the TV series. The "SAR" of course meaning Search and Rescue. The name kind of stuck with the cutter crews and many refered to the HH-65 as SARWOLF. I just changed the O to U to make it more unique. Some of the aviators in the USCG were refered to as SAR HOUNDS if they got a reputation for always getting more SAR missions than anyone else in the unit. Some other nicknames thrown about included: TUPPERWOLF (because of all of the composite materials in the aircraft), and PLASTIC CHICKEN (for the same reason). That's it.

[Jafo]

Jafo....

If you don't know what it means you're possibly in the wrong game...;)

I started as a Motor Race Official in 1975 .... as a 'Comms/Observer' ...and am still doing it. This year's Australian F1 GrandPrix was my 30th consecutive AGP and the only 'Jafo' who has done them all [and the 5 prior ... also AGPs but not International F1]...;)

[Sundog]

I got into flight simming when my brother first started flying the first Fighter Ace beta, I think that was around 1995, or 1996. Being an aviation nut and aero-engineer, he thought I would like it. I hated it until I shot someone down, then I thought it was kind of cool and started getting the hang of it. After a while I was playing it regularly and was very good at it. I was flying under my brother's nic, "Master Of Sparks," when I was asked to join a squadron forming there, The Devildogs. Even though the guy who formed it had been in the USAF, his cousin had been a fighter pilot in the Marines, hence the squadron name.

Anyway, I was trying to think of an "aerial phenomenon" to use as a name, but of course Lightning and Thunderbolt were already in use. Then I remembered a lyric from a Rush song which is, "Sundogs fire on the horizon...", which I took out of context and thought since I was joining the Devildogs squadron would make sense. I kept it when we moved to Aces High and all of the first people I knew online were from that sim fighter squadron and that's how everyone has ever known me as online and in online messaging, etc.

[TARPSBird]

TARPS is the acronym for the Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System used for photo recce on the F-14 Tomcat. My last tour in the Navy was at VF-101, the F-14 training squadron at NAS Oceana. I taught TARPS intro and photo mission planning and graded the syllabus photo hops flown by the student aviators.

[ColoKent]

I live in Colorado, and my name is Kent!

K

[SpaceWeevil]

I'll let you think about mine for a bit longer! LOL!

Don

Hope for me when I get to your age ;) . A space weevil is a fictional pest from 'Red Dwarf' that eats all the crew's food (so it's quite apt) and gets served AS food. Crunchy king prawn anyone?

[euroastar350]

I am named after my favorite helicopter of course, Eurocopter Astar AS350 which I created almost 14 years ago for my very first email address. My real name is George, but it's cool to call me by my screen name:wavey:

[bully707]

Hi there!

When I was a kid (in the early 1980s) there were 2 other kids on the Handball team with my first name, to make it easier on the coach we were given names based on our favorite cars...mine was at that time the Volkswagen Transporter which in Germany was called "Bulli"...
That stuck with me all through the other teams I played for. When I joined the German Air Force and started flying on the E-3A that became my call sign, only to have the "i" being exchanged for a "y"...and the 707 for the love of my life (well next to my wife that is...) the B707 I flew on for 7 years...

[Mathias]

Mathias is just my plain good old first name. :-)

[odourboy]

I plead the fifth. :US-flag:

[Double J]

No connection what so ever. I just hit the keyboard a few times I use the same username on all flight forums.

[b52bob]

Obvious but,
that damn plane was in my life at an early age as I lived near the Boeing plant in Seattle. Kept seeing new ones lined up. Later didn't want to join the military so I enlisted in the Air Force....and ended up with those damn buffs again .

[hae5904]

Well, Hank was already been taken by someone years ago (though in all those years never seen.....), so I simply became hae5904...hae are my initials and 5904 was the number of my house at that time.

Cheers,
Hank

[Chris Sykes]

Well need not say anything here... But my BF4 gaming name is N00b1nat0r, the reason being i always use shotguns and rock!

[Landman]

Mine is my profession. It involves a lot of tasks. When an oil company is interested in drilling in a certain area they contract me to research who owns the minerals under the land, contact the landowners, and negotiate a mineral lease.

[Smashing Time]

With family ties to 8th AF B-17's I chose this 381st BG aircraft.
Although with the amount of time I've put into this hobby, the name is appropriate.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/SmashingBomb/381_Bomb_Group_zps14b37574.jpg~original (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/SmashingBomb/media/381_Bomb_Group_zps14b37574.jpg.html)

[Daveroo]

i think this is a great thread..thank you trucker,good call.

i asked Bud Anderson how the name "Old Crow" came about,when it seems most of the planes in his group are named after girlfriends or wives,he said that after his folks had moved,he reached up in a cupboard to be sure nothing was left behind,on the top shelf ,far to the back,was a bottle of Old Crow,which had been opened and a quarter or so gone...whats special about this?..his folks were hardcore "tea totalers" ,he said he got a good chuckle from his find and when it was time to name a plane...he had his name.

[Dumonceau]

Mine is after http://www.350sqn.be/biography/Du%20Monceau%20de%20Bergendael%20Yvan.htm

Started out with 350 Sqn but later took command of 349 Sqn.

He's also the "Parrain" of my promotion in the Royal Belgian Military School.

Dumonceau

[Marvin Carter]

Mines pretty simple, I is who I is,LOL

[Hughes-MDflyer4]

I came up with my username back in 2008 when I first started registering on various flight simulation forums.

I've always been a fan of the Hughes/MD 500 line of helicopters. The "flyer" part because I flew them in the sim at the time, and I liked the number 4. I don't use the dash when I create new accounts on other sides anymore, however.

[Victory103]

Big fan of the F-14 and had then VF-103 (now VFA-103) in our air wing on both my USN cruises. VF-84 had just decomm'd and -103 picked up the "Jolly Roger" tradition, including the tactical callsign of "VICTORY". I've since moved on to the "green" side (Army) but kept the screen name despite the Turkey being long gone from US service.

[Bjoern]

Screen name? I have no idea...

[brad kaste]

Like some other chaps that have already posted,....giving my first and last name as my forum name worked fine. Guess it falls into the K.I.S.S. category.

[Curtis P40]

I always wondered how my parents came up with name, Curtis, but now I know...it goes with one of my favorite fighters.

[b24_witchcraft]

B24_witchcraft - Volunteer and supporter of the Collings Foundation.

"Witchcraft" is the current name used on the B-24. Info on "Witchcraft" here - http://www.collingsfoundation.org/tour_b-24j.htm

Current information on the Wings of Freedom tour can be found here - http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_schedule-wof.htm

[limjack]

I was always called lim by my buddy on road trips we take every year ( he saw a resturaunt sign in Redding California with this name and applied to me). I thought my buddy kind of looked like Jack Nickelson the celebrity in the early years. Now the tricky part, tried to create a screen name using lim and it was already being used so added jack to it. bingo!

:biggrin-new:

Jim

[rvn817j]

During my years as a middle aged adult I owned several small aircraft (a Chief and a Citabria), but I never found them to be much like the aircraft Uncle Sam let me fly when I young (bring on the Eric Burdon and the Animals...check this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58). So, I ordered a kit from Van's Aircraft (founded by the very talented Richard VanGrunsven). The serial number of my kit was 80017 (one of the earliest RV-8s). After several years it became operational as N817J. My icon is the Vertigo Studios version of N817J. If anyone is ever in the vicinity of KLVN I'd be pleased to give you a tour. Best regards to all.

[T6flyer]

Because, well basically used to do a lot of T-6 flying in the 80s and 90s......and plan to do some more this year!

Martin

[Quicksand]

Mine is also my "nom de guerre," so to speak, from my twenty plus years on the road as a long haul trucker. These names, are bestowed on the new guys by the senior drivers after they observe the FNG for a while. Being given your "handle" is a right of passage for a trucker, as it means you have been accepted into their brotherhood. Mine was chosen for me by the most senior driver in the company. He had been driving trucks for almost forty years when I started. He told me, "We are going to call you Quicksand, because you're falling in love with these trucks, and you're sinking fast." Sadly, my friend passed away several years ago. I remember him every time I log in here...

[jankees]

Nothing special here, just my first name

[Dev One]

Not very special really, it was just my radio call sign when I worked as the Head of Engineering Development section at EGOD.
Keith

[Pepere]

Simple. "Pepere" is French for grandfather.

David

[huub vink]

Cees Donker is my name. LOL!


Nothing special here, just my first name


We Dutch must be quite simple people as Huub Vink is what my parents named me. The story behind my avatar is perhaps more interesting, however I will keep that one for myself.....

Cheers,
Huub

[rpjkw]

My screen name consists of the initials of both my sons and myself. Almost all other sites include II tacked on the end, but darned if I can remember why:dizzy:.

[Obie311]

First internet forum I joined was for Hammond Organ digital emulators, "clonewheels" they are called. I was playing an Oberheim OB3 at the time and 11 has always been a lucky number for me. C'est tout.

[Flyboy208]

A very interesting thread .... my screen name Flyboy 208 comes from many friends calling me "flyboy" because of my real-world flying, I originally used this name at Flightsim ... I intended to be "Flyboy203" , the 203 signified my time with my second US Navy F/A-18 squadron, VFA-203 ... somehow that name was already in use at Flightsim , so I opted for "Flyboy208" ... the 208 is the designator for The Cessna Caravan. Including a real pic of my Sister and I in front of the Pilatus P-3 that I used to fly ... Mike :wavey:

[Peter SWE]

I'm not native englishspeaking so i opted to write my name, Peter (Mileving for last name) and where i come from, Sweden in hope that everytime i mess something up, grammaticaly or spellingwise you guys will give me some slack. :wavey: