What's the story behind your Screen Name?

Alright, dump this if its a repeat.

Everyone has a story behind their screen name. Most people are left guessing.

Why did you pick the user name (for this forum) that you use?


For me, welllllllll.............................

Outside of my family, I have 4 things that I'm really passionate about: my rockets, my kites, my boat, and HOCKEY.

Do I play? Have you ever seen a short fat hockey player?

(In other words, NO!)

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and have been a Blues fan and hockey junkie since my dad took me to a Blues vs. Islanders game to celebrate my 1st Communion (if you're not Catholic, don't worry about it) in the 2nd grade.

So, "forecheck" is spelled incorrectly. The first internet forum I ever participated in took your screen name as your "first name" and "last name." The system then took those and separated them by a single space and that was your screen name upon registration. It was the closest I could get.

BTW- Blues 3, Nashville 0 in preseason play as I type this and listen on-line. "There are two seasons in a year. Hockey season, and summer."

I have had my screen name since, oh, about 1997. The first time I ever signed up for a chat group, Astrowolf67 was born. At the time, my main hobby was astronomy. I also loved pictures of wolves. The 67, is the year I was born. I put all three together, and that's what I came up with.

airforce.
My son was in the Air Force.

I got my name because I started the Model Rocketry hobby and started work on a trike from a mail jeep. Well the jeep is still a workm in progress and the Model haobby went to Rockethead Rockets. So iguess you can see what has came first.

I like Blue Ninjas! I had two days to build one before NARAM this summer. I had to rush it, yet it flies well.

well, see, my first name is "James", or the diminutive "Jimmy" or "J im". My last name is "F lis". Now, I just love L PR and I rises are my favorite flower and my favorite fish is the S almon.

So, there you have it

jf l i s

jflis



man, I need some sleep... :kill:

It's the name the dude gave me.....lol

my screen name is about my gerbils, gotta love those furry things

MarvSRG

Marv: My nickname (short for Marcus only to me...my friend Joe started calling me Marvcus for some reason, then shortened it to Marv, and after that the name just spread)

S: Sax...I'm a bigtime saxophone player (tenor sax mainly, but I also play soprano and bari sax)

R: Rockets

G: Guitar...I love playin' the git-fiddle

Stymye is my (now deciest) Iguana
named after the little rascal
he had a brain tumor
I borrowed his name

When I was a kid (when I began rocketry) I was too poor to afford the big motors, so I used Estes A-B-C-D stuff.

Now I am too old and crotchety and cheap to shoot off many of the 'big' motors. Besides, I don't have a good spot to launch the really high performance E-F-G birds and be able to get them back.

So . . . blackpowder motors . . . powderburner

Well, I love rockets and I am crazy about them, so I put them together and got Rocketmanic (Yes I know it's spelled wrong, I would change the spell to Rocketmaniac if I could)

I'm a Davey who likes Fire... or you could just say I stole my name from the electric match company who we all have come to love (Daveyfire 28Bs are the standard for ejection charges these days, not to start a debate over flashbulbs vs. electric matches, cause Ematches are far superior ...).

All my friends called me Rocketman because of the Elton John song. My other hobby is live sound and recording. I had an internship at a recording studio and I loved the mixing board they used, the Mackie 24-8. It's a 24 channel, 8 bus board. That's where I got the 248.

I ran into trouble on many forums (fora?) as my usual nickname (alchemist) is taken) so I adopted elbmod - which is domble backwards, which is my son's nickname (short for Dominic).

Last name followed by initials. It was assigned by my work for my email and login. So I use it for home email and screen names too.

Greg

Well.....
People dont tend to realise till i tell them this...
But in actual fact It's My Name yes belive it or not, It is my actual name given to me by my Parents.

Eugene is actually a nickname for "Eugenio" which is my full given name. It's funny how people get that question mark, deer-in-the-headlights look, when people see "Eugenio". So, all my life I've been called Eugene.

FL, well, I'm in FLORIDA! Woohoo!

Originally posted by elbmod
I ran into trouble on many forums (fora?) as my usual nickname (alchemist) is taken) so I adopted elbmod - which is domble backwards, which is my son's nickname (short for Dominic).

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I have a son named Dominic too, but mine's nickname is Pickle.

Now, that's a long story...........


BTW - do people around you inexplicably call your son "Dominique" (with the inflection on the 3rd syllable) and think their pronouncing his name correctly? Happens all the time here in Texas. I don't get it........

Mine's a play on my last name (Chiles) - it gets mispronounced a lot! It got picked up as a nickname in the Marines and it's stuck ever since.
The Buzz Lightyear icon comes from my kids. They still want me to build a rocket with Buzz strapped to it...

I needed a screen name for playing Doom Deathmatches, all those years ago, when I was at Uni. As I had a 'thing' for cheap millitery-grade cyder ('Special Red' - 8.4% alcahol, 1ltr for 98p; back in those days), the name CyderMaster came into being!!

gothique_97 is the only screenname I frequently use that is also family-friendly.

Well, that's not completely true. Its a yahoo ID I created in 1997 while I was DJing gothic and industrial music on a college radio station in New Hampshire. I kept using that e-mail address instead of making a new one each year.

Most of the internet world know me as mrcluster..cause I'd rather fly a cluster of BP motors than anything..from back in the stone age before there was dirt actually now my second favorite activity Than Quest introduced the Micro-Maxx motor (and RTF models)... well.. I just went completely bonkers over the little jewels....started building scratch, scales and downscales of the classics like crazy (90+ flyable now) Some of the guys in the MR club I attend seeing my preoccupation with micros started calling me the micormister..It stuck! so when I regiestered here I thought I'd use it... sorta sorry now its a bit longer to type in each time but I think i'll keep it

DPatell....like Matt's.....and Martin's.....

D for Dan

Patell for Patell, and thats with 2 L's mind you...I'm French Canadian/Ukrainian.

Exciting stuff!!! My AIM screenname is sumthin else though, x3xCxOxLxDx3x You'll have to IM me on that one.

At one point in my Navy career I was an Electronic Counter-Measures Officer (ECMO) in EA-6B Prowlers. Thus the Prowler. One of the birds I flew in training was #901. And, there you have it - Prowler901.

Regards,
Todd

BTW - Cool thread Fore Check

And you're from Clifton Park!!! Thats really close!!! Like 5 minutes!!! lol, we may have to arrange a launch or something

Rev comes from the fact that I'm a Pastor and Keith is my first name. I'm not much into titles and I sure don't feel very reverend so please just call me Keith.

Keith

Originally posted by DPatell
And you're from Clifton Park!!! Thats really close!!! Like 5 minutes!!! lol, we may have to arrange a launch or something

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That would be cool I was supposed to go to an ASTRE club launch today. But, we had to cancel due to weather. Send me an e-mail and we can try to set something up sometime.

Regards,
Todd

Simple formula for me: first initial + last name.

However at my first 'real' job, everyone's username used the same formula except that it had a maximum length of 8 characters...which meant I was lalligoo (lose the 'd'). Everyone loved pronouncing it "lalley-GOO" Thankfully at my current job I "graduated" to a place where usernames are > 8 characters & I (finally) inherited the 'd' on the end

Originally posted by Prowler901
At one point in my Navy career I was an Electronic Counter-Measures Officer (ECMO) in EA-6B Prowlers.

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The EA-6B is one of my favorite military jets!!!!! That is soooo cool that you flown them!!! Yes, I am totally jealous. I did not fly during my military career (I did get to ride in C-141's and C-5's, but that is not the same)