Henry
Retired SOH Administrator
yes its possible
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User Names...how did you come up with yours?
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Blackbird686
SOH-CM-2025
It's a bit of a long story but it basically began with a pet crow (literally) and an old "gym/fitness club" membership number.
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Chiming In...
Not a long Story, but lots of History...
In the realm of Professional Drag Racing [NHRA] there exists the sub-culture of "The Sportsman Racer".... AKA The Little Guys, whose entry fees actually pay the bills for The Pros.
After a lengthy career in professional racing as a photojournalist, fabricator, engine builder and (yes) "Go-fer", I started a family and raised my own pit crew - 2 daughters.
When the girls were old enough to come to the races with me, I built a new dragster for myself as a family project. They Helped, and even got to drive it later on.
The class we competed in is called Super Comp - a sportsman "Index Class" where you're limited to an elapsed time of 8.900 seconds, but a maximum of 200 MPH. It's somewhat affordable [or was at the time...] and a load of fun.
My Class Identification number was / is SC7500 - short for Super Comp - Division 7 (California) / Car # 500.
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Given that my short term memory was destroyed during several rounds of cancer surgery [and a nasty allergy to the anesthesias used] early this millennium, I decided to utilize an easy to remember moniker for my "call name" here and elsewhere.
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Now that I've relocated to Iowa [Division 5], I have to re-qualify / re-license, and will likely renumber the car... But I'm hanging on to sc7500, 'cause it's all OVER the place !
Hard to screw up what's painted on the side of yer car...
So there ya go !
SC
[PS - Besides, Henry was taken.....]
PPS - the Ball Turret Gunner Images are a tribute to my uncle, who was a BTG killed over Normandy.
Not a long Story, but lots of History...
In the realm of Professional Drag Racing [NHRA] there exists the sub-culture of "The Sportsman Racer".... AKA The Little Guys, whose entry fees actually pay the bills for The Pros.
After a lengthy career in professional racing as a photojournalist, fabricator, engine builder and (yes) "Go-fer", I started a family and raised my own pit crew - 2 daughters.
When the girls were old enough to come to the races with me, I built a new dragster for myself as a family project. They Helped, and even got to drive it later on.
The class we competed in is called Super Comp - a sportsman "Index Class" where you're limited to an elapsed time of 8.900 seconds, but a maximum of 200 MPH. It's somewhat affordable [or was at the time...] and a load of fun.
My Class Identification number was / is SC7500 - short for Super Comp - Division 7 (California) / Car # 500.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Given that my short term memory was destroyed during several rounds of cancer surgery [and a nasty allergy to the anesthesias used] early this millennium, I decided to utilize an easy to remember moniker for my "call name" here and elsewhere.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now that I've relocated to Iowa [Division 5], I have to re-qualify / re-license, and will likely renumber the car... But I'm hanging on to sc7500, 'cause it's all OVER the place !
Hard to screw up what's painted on the side of yer car...
So there ya go !
SC
[PS - Besides, Henry was taken.....]
PPS - the Ball Turret Gunner Images are a tribute to my uncle, who was a BTG killed over Normandy.
Mine "Screen Name" history is quite simple, actually. I decided early on that using "Bill" was a non-starter, as everywhere I went I'd have had a different screen name! Bill0134 might be fine here, but elsewhere it might have already been in use, so that idea went down in flames quickly!
I wanted something entirely unique, so my amateur radio callsign worked out quite handily!
There is one -and only one- N4GIX in the world!
Although there was one website that didn't want me to use just "N4GIX" and insisted I'd have to tack on some number to guarantee it's uniqueness...
...until I wrote to the webmaster and pointed what should have been obvious...
I wanted something entirely unique, so my amateur radio callsign worked out quite handily!
There is one -and only one- N4GIX in the world!
Although there was one website that didn't want me to use just "N4GIX" and insisted I'd have to tack on some number to guarantee it's uniqueness...
...until I wrote to the webmaster and pointed what should have been obvious...
in '68 I was hitchhiking in San Francisco and a couple picked me up. The guy handed me a bag of pot ans said "roll a joint, John".
I said,"That's my middle name".
He said"Till the end of time I dub thee Middlejohn", so it seemed like a good enuff handle at the time and I kept it. Over the years friends started calling me Middle and now I can't get rid of it....
so it goes!!!
I said,"That's my middle name".
He said"Till the end of time I dub thee Middlejohn", so it seemed like a good enuff handle at the time and I kept it. Over the years friends started calling me Middle and now I can't get rid of it....
so it goes!!!
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sky pilot
Guest
fish
sky pilot
I got my user name from being a Rc. modeler and they fly better in the air than in the ground !
I know what a oscar is as I used to have one24" long when I lived in Seattle Wash.,
sky pilot
I got my user name from being a Rc. modeler and they fly better in the air than in the ground !
olderndirt
Charter Member
Olderndirt was a name used, after a few libations, for my flying, hunting and drinking mentor - a WW2 Mustang pilot, F86 in Korea. When he passed, I bequeathed it to me - hope I can come close to him.