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User Names...how did you come up with yours?

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Just out of curiosity, how did ya'll come up with your user names?

Mine is a nickname given to me by other members on a fish keeping forum that I used to spend hours and hours a day on...before I got addicted to flight simming and started spending hours and hours on this site...still visit the fish keeping site daily. My user name there is OscarbitteninOhio....I had an Oscar, it bit me, and I live in Ohio. It took too long to for people to type OscarbitteninOhio...so they shortened it to OBIO. I like the ring of the name, so I use it on all the forums I have signed up on since that name was given to me. Heck, I even use it for my online gaming.

OBIO

Oh..Oscar as in the South American fish, not the gold trophy given out to actors and such.
 
simple, the nickname i was given in my first week in the Army, on the basis that i have no discernible regional accent and well i have a bit of a silver tongue with the ladies... how i got my Girl... :icon_lol:

Other Nicknames of mine: 'Edge', 'Apxaggelos' (thats Archangel in Greek-lish, based on the fact that in all jumps i've done not one of my team has been injured) and of course the occasional nickname of "hey you?" :icon_lol:
 
I recieved my Handle, from a hippie friend many years ago..
it appeared(the name) during a Grateful Dead show, at Glo Wood campground (DeerCreek) venue..
Once My Biker friends and family learned of this..Everyone desided it fit..
As the joke went; I was a hobbit that happened to Live in a house, thus Househobbit..
After a lifetime it still is what my friends and family call me..
Doesn't help I smoke a pipe that is 2 feet long.. My Hobbit pipe..
As has been said, "In 15 minutes You can learn everything there is to know about a hobbit,
and yet after 100 years they will still surprise you"..
:applause::applause:
 
Just my good first name.
Just took the opportunity at one of the various forum crashes to get rid of my old nick "AMmace" that I earned when playing a show while suffering a serious lumbargo.
Lost control over myself due to pain and stumbled over a floor monitor, made a 360° roll forward and landed fairly save on my feet in the crowd.
Our singer who is a Brit shouted out "Matze, amazing!" what turned into Amazing Mace and then AMmace in the following. :d
 
I just love these threads...:ernae:
Mine originates from before I discovered the Internet. At the time I was into dirt bikes and had the habit of naming my motorcycles and cars. I had a Honda Spree named Fiddler (after the Soviet Tu-128), a Mercury Cougar named 'Starhunter IV' (NO idea where it came from), and a Yamaha XS850 Midnight Special named appropriately 'Black Sunshine', among others.
The dirt bike I had when I came across the Internet in early 1996 was a 1980 Suzuki DR400--a big offroad 'thumper' and a general blast to ride. Naming it was simple--it had 'DR' on the saddle and the short form of Suzuki was 'Zook'. And so my first logon id became 'drzook'
 
Chacha...

That is my real nickname.....
I always wear my Mom's chacha shoes at home when I was a kid (maybe two or younger)
...Dancing all over the house, like a cinderella...

I remember falling off and hurt my forehead,
When the doctor asked me what happened,
I told him I fell off my chacha shoes...
He laughed on top of his lungs and it made me so mad...
He added insult to my injury,
My pride was hurt...
Every time I visit him,
..(he still lives)..
He calls me Chacha,
...and everyone else in the entire family tree...
.. and even at work ...
 
I'm from Texas and I police a national physicians network, forum and database hence txnetcop
Ted
 
T Square

Nickname I got in the Air Force. Had 3 or 4 Tims in a shop I was assigned to I was the only one that first and last name started with T (Tim Thompson), thus I became T Square.
 
My wife and I build large kites and we had quite a reputation internationally a few years back for the kites we designed and built. Both China and Japan have a long history in kite building (well over 1,000 years) and my 'handle' is often used among the kiting fraternity. It's Japanese and it means 'Kite Crazy'.

As I am a Brit and the RAF often referred to their aircraft as 'kites' it seemed rather fitting for the flight sim forums I frequent. I am known by a different handle in the kite building/flying world.
 
A number of years ago I had two flight attendants that I was crewed up with for a month. They were friends and flew together alot, and the bond they had together tended to make them a bit insuboordinate and aloof. Rather than call them out on it when it became aggravating, I started mimicking Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies and saying "Throw me a bone people". They thought it was funny and started calling me bone, and then it sort of caught on with a few others.
 
Gained it while in the RAF, everybody called me Hendo.
I spent 3 great years in Germany, loved the beer, and
soon after earned the nickname 'rubberlegs'! I really
think I prefer Hendo. (Short for my surname)
 
My sister gave me mine 54.5 years ago when I was born. Been with me ever since. It must work okay, because when they call me for supper, I'm never late!!!!
 
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