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

<-- company name.... Bill is my real name, but who wants to talk about bill's, (as in paying the bills)...

Now, my company name came from a Kate Bush song; Lionheart; 'Oh England my Lionheart....' Loved the song. I was going to build cars in my younger days, and when working for Range Rover engineering, I came up with Lionheart Design Studios Ltd.

Only made one car on my own... argh..

(note to self, get a lottery ticket)
 
Wanted the handle "yank", it was already taken (on whatever the forum was at the time), so I just added my age and stuck with it since then...;)
 
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Back a good number of years ago, Canada had aircraft carriers, and I was a back-seat crewman, flying from our last carrier, HMCS Bonaventure. One of my jobs as crewman was radio communications -- keeping in touch with the mother ship while we were out there flying around the open "oggin", doing whatever the mission called for.

Bonaventure's international voice callsign was "HIGHGROUND", and her side number was "22". Since we're shaving with her, these days, I just wanted to keep her name and memory alive -- for me, if nobody else.
 
Well, I got mine from online dogfighting. I started in Fighter Ace and flew under my brother's nic "Master Of Sparks" on his account, when I was asked to join the Devildog's Squadron. So I figured it was time for me to get my own account; especially since it was confusing to people who talk to you who you didn't know, only to realize they thought I was my brother and vice versa.

Of course, all the cool names like Thunderbolt and Lightning, etc., were already taken. But there was a lyric in a Rush song, "Sundogs fire on the horizon..." which I took out of context and thought it was an appropriate name for joining the Devildogs Squadron. It stuck with me through FA, Aces High and on into IL-2 (With small stints in EAW, Janes WW2, WW2OL, Warbirds and Air Warrior along the way). Anyway, all of my online friends knew me as Sundog, so I've just stuck with it.

Now I can only hope that BOB: Storm of War is actually released this year. :)
 
Easy, first names Curtis, and while related to the Wright brothers, a big fan of Glenn Curtiss who I think did more for aviation. P40, my favorite aircraft for about the last fifty years.
Curt:kilroy:
 
Well, let's see now....

Back in the early '90's there was a pop band called "Marky Mark and the Funkybunch".
My first name is Mark. My friends started calling me 'Marky Mark' or just 'Funkybunch'.
When I got my first computer in '99, I needed to come up with an email address, so I dropped the U's from 'funkybunch' to shorten it to "fnkybnch@.....". This has been my ID ever since. I know it's left more than one person wondering!:icon_lol:
 
The Kowalski bit comes not from a character from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", or "Stargate" the film, or even from one of the Penguins from the film "Madagascar",as people have in the past variously postulated, but from the main character of one of the greatest & coolest road movies ever: Vanishing Point!
The 65 bit comes from the year I was born
 
When I was a kid, my Grandpa was picking at me and pegged me with Willy. It just kind of stuck.
 
Bjoern said:
Yes, insect? What is it you want from this representative of the godly caste of engineers? ;) :d
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Godly?!.....sorry to tar you with the same brush here buddy my experience of engineers is the REME... thats an anagram for Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually (Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers), try telling them that whatever is running a bit lean and i guarantee they'll cower in the shade at the prospect of work :icon_lol: i know guys lets come up with a new 'Handle' for Bjoern.... :icon_lol:
 
Smoothie said:
Godly?!.....sorry to tar you with the same brush here buddy my experience of engineers is the REME... thats an anagram for Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually (Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers), try telling them that whatever is running a bit lean and i guarantee they'll cower in the shade at the prospect of work :icon_lol: i know guys lets come up with a new 'Handle' for Bjoern.... :icon_lol:
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:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
Ted
 
When I started playing FPS's online i randomly had to come up with a user name... I was going to Wittenberg University at the time and had an obvious interest in aviation, and thusly...

Wittpilot
 
I got mine from pounding out bush scenery on a weekly basis many years ago. (or so I like to tell people that's where it came from - wink, wink! LOL!)

Don
 
On my 13th Parachute jump my main chute failed to open all the way, so I reached for my reserve chute, pulled the Ripcord and just threw it away. After landing safely and gathering my gear my buddy asked me where is your reserve Ripcord? Never found it.

S! Rip
 
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