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

I received the general nickname "Tony Bones" as my "streetname" from a close friend of mine who, among other things, loans money at exorbitant interest rates, one of those lucky scions of immigrants whose name ends in a vowel. He had offered me a job(collecting defaulted "loans") but not being part of his ethnic group I had to refuse, plus I don't wield a blackjack except for strictly personal reasons. He did give me a streetname however, and I am known in several cities as Tony "Bones" due to my former work as a mortician. The "2112" came from one of my favorite record albums, 2112 by RUSH. I chose another email due to the TB2112 email has been practically taken over by porn spam(I prefer live women, not pictures)and I have abandoned it. This was done to me back in the says when I thought someone was a friend and actually wasn't, but that was in my early days on the Web.

Yopu got to be real careful about who you meet on the internet.

Had I known there was such a proliferation of Japanese aircraft for CFS2 I would have chosen as a username my little joking signature I use sometimes, "Bonesimoto". If ever I have to re-register I think that's the ID I'll go with.

Bones
 
I've got three versions, one of which might be at least partially true...

1) Being tall , oldest, and named McIntyre, Big Mac was always a popular nickname in school. Which was often shortened to Mac or MacMac. (which isn't really shorter, but easier to say). Leave off the pesty M, and it is Ack-Ack.

2) Anti-aircraft artillery - AAA, triple-A, Flak, the golden BB, Archie, AA, Ack-Ack.

3) Mother in law lived in Nantucket, the airport code is ACK, and all the luggage routed there has my username on it.

4) Bill the Cat from Bloom County said it a lot. *this one is not true, but is the reason for the avatar, since someone here pointed that out the last time this question was asked...

Brian
 
AckAck said:
I've got three versions, one of which might be at least partially true...

1) Being tall , oldest, and named McIntyre, Big Mac was always a popular nickname in school. Which was often shortened to Mac or MacMac. (which isn't really shorter, but easier to say). Leave off the pesty M, and it is Ack-Ack.

2) Anti-aircraft artillery - AAA, triple-A, Flak, the golden BB, Archie, AA, Ack-Ack.

3) Mother in law lived in Nantucket, the airport code is ACK, and all the luggage routed there has my username on it.

4) Bill the Cat from Bloom County said it a lot. *this one is not true, but is the reason for the avatar, since someone here pointed that out the last time this question was asked...

Brian
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The only thing I miss from the 80s(besides the poverty) is Bloom County, and Bill was my favorite, he said it all. What he had to say is still relevant.

"ACK!"

Bones
 
First thing I thought of based on one of my e-mail addresses. Wish I had chosen something to do with my Avatar instead now as my Dad worked on those in WWII, still got some of his photos from that time. Henry's favourite aeroplane and one of mine too. Now let me see how do you spell M-s-ie? If I knew it was possible and how to do it then I would change it.
 
My Mom is Chacha, I am her daughter, so I am Little Chacha. Pretty soon I will be a big Chacha and she will be the small Chacha. I grow faster. I am Hannah Elisha - my Mom is Elisha Hannah, she has eight names I have only two. Bye. From Hannah. :wavey:
 
tigisfat said:
About the time I made my first screenname, I had a fat cat named tig walk into the room. I couldn't think of anything better.:mixedsmi:
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My goodness, it's so obvious! How could I have been so blind?!? *Slaps forehead* :d
 
Canned my second name. Didn't want to go back to the first name, as I have some people in the FS community that don't really like me and like to follow me around critiquing my posts. Had to come up with a new name!

Whenever I'd check my email to see if anyone had made a purchase, more often than not Outlook would tell me.... :frown:
 
Hi All

My nick name is a words joke found when I've had to enter a name to do a cfs2 campaign
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I searched for a frenchy name that had to have to be connected with the aeronautic thing....
A "Jambon Beurre" (ham butter) is for the french like is the hamburger for the american people the typical national sandwich View attachment 9951


Bon appétit !:ernae:

JP
 
JorisVandenBerghe said:
Sort of a German "Tally-ho!", eh ?

Mine is just my first and last name...obviously :).
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Hallo Joris! From what I have read perhaps "Horrido!" would be the better translation of "Tally Ho!" than " Pauke! Pauke!" The night fighter operations on both sides appeared to have been conducted with less bravado than day time operations. Flying at night in Europe during WWII was very difficult. The air to air radar was very primative and the dialoge with the ground control radar stations could be very intense when attempting to vector into a target. I suspect that gaining visual contact with the target was a questionable moment for the night fighter pilot. They were all chasing shadows against the star field. There could have been many times that the pilots tracked a target and just punched holes in thin air. I have no doubt that more than a few night fighter pilots were uterly suprised that the shadow they had tracked and fired upon burst into flames after engaging it with cannon fire from their aircraft. Radar was still an unknown quantity in those days and pilots were reluctant to put all their faith into so new a technology. They would have strained their eyes to get visual contact even if the radar intercept officer or equivalent crew member was telling them that the target was right in front of them. I think the R/T chatter at night would be rather subdued and the R/T message of "Pauke! Pauke!" would be called out in a matter of fact fashion in most cases. If a kill was acheived that might be a different tone of voice all together. It's hard but interesting to try an get inside the head of aviators that were pushing the outside of the envelope during the Second World War. So many have passed away. You have to go by their writen memoirs if you can find them.

A very good book on Night Fighter operations is "Night Fighter" by J. R. D. Braham.

:jump::jump:

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I'm a Kiwi, but my parents in law live in a village in Normandie not far from BA105 Evreux, or also know as Fauville AFB, plenty of C-160's, A319's doing circuits and the occasional visitor (E-3F etc dropping in over the N13), hence Fauville.:france:
 
I've always enjoyed the richness of the English language, so when it came to choosing a user name I drew myself up a list of possibles that had a quirky slant to them.

My own was a taunt that I used to use when mistakenly picked on as a skinny kid (You 'n whose army).


The others:

Harry Stockressy
Dan Glebitts
Llewellyn Dowd
Arnie Dadrink
Amos Skittow
Aaron C. Reskew
Mitch Ubishi
Perry Chute
Scott Chunsoder
 
golly... just FI, MI, LN. Boring yes, but easy to remember.

pretty tempting to go make a new one now, you guys are wonderful imaginitive.

Body Piercing Fowler
 
A buddy and I do road trips every year and I picked up the nickname "Lim" from him. He sort of reminded me of Jack Nickelson so I called Him Jack. Put them together and you get Limjack!!! WHoooooHOOOO. My current avatar shows are shadows...me on the left taking the picture and he is on the right looking all scary!

Jim
 
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