How did you come by your moniker?

[jlottmc]

Ok, I'm expecting a slow night, and am kinda curious, so I'll ask. How did you come by your screen name? In my case, the first time I logged on to the internet I needed at least one more letter to make an id, and since I was in the Corps at the time, well it kinda fell together that way. Lott being the family name and all, and the j being the first letter of the first name. I'm just curious as to how some of these screen names come about, and think this may be a fun kind of read.

[Bawanna]

In an earlier life BC (before chair) hunting was a family tradition. Family, brothers in laws,step brothers quite a group. I was usually the one that went out and reconned the areas prior to the season.
Based on our kill rate one could say I sucked really bad but I was quite successful at finding areas where there were very few other hunters which is precisely what I was looking for.
Anyhow somewhere during this period I got labelled as Bawanna apparently something to do with Great White Hunter in African hunting. Not sure if this is real or made up, I've actually never bothered to check.

Green Bay on the board. We're off to a good start.

[Indigo]

Ok, I'm expecting a slow night, and am kinda curious, so I'll ask. How did you come by your screen name? In my case, the first time I logged on to the internet I needed at least one more letter to make an id, and since I was in the Corps at the time, well it kinda fell together that way. Lott being the family name and all, and the j being the first letter of the first name. I'm just curious as to how some of these screen names come about, and think this may be a fun kind of read.

My dogs name. Indy for short.http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n618/devito99/2d66a2f9.jpg

[jlottmc]

Indeed, see great stories already. Let's have some more, I like to know the why's and this is great.

[9mmFL]

I am terrible at finding screenames for anything. My emails are all my name but when joining a forum i know it would be bad to have a first and last name. I prefer that method bc everything is always the same and I cannot forget my name, right?... But for forum names I chose to go with 9mmfl because i only own a Beretta px4 qnd Kahr CW9 & I love 9mm ammo it's CHEAP I just graduated college and the $$$$ is not flowing in as fast as my student loan bills are lol!!! and you can always find it in multiple brands at the places I frequent. And the fl is obviously florida where I now live, I miss being downtown Detroit but I love the weather and the beach. So maybe not the most well thoughtout but it is what it is.

BTW I KNOW (j/k)... I need more guns!!!!!! lol

[9mmFL]

Nice dogs btw, I want a Dalmatian but my girlfriend keeps bugging me for some little alaskin white puff ball.... Guess who will get their way...

[cgo99]

I guess I'm the one with the least imagination of all of you, mine is a login from an old job of mine. I can't even remember what it meant back then I just kept it by force of habit.

[Indigo]

Nice dogs btw, I want a Dalmatian but my girlfriend keeps bugging me for some little alaskin white puff ball.... Guess who will get their way...

I've had 6 female Dals over last 20 years they are amazing friends. I have a daughter named after a dalmatian that passed away if that tells you anything.

[jocko]

where are the fire trucks?????

[jeepster09]

I have been involved with and owned Jeeps for a looonnng time.
Have worked as Service Manager at Jeep dealer, factory rep, warranty auditor etc. "It's a Jeep Thing you wouldn't understand."

[jlottmc]

I had a dalmatian once, great dog. The wife has a jeep, I used to have one, I keep going through transmissions though.

[cgo99]

I have been involved with and owned Jeeps for a looonnng time.
Have worked as Service Manager at Jeep dealer, factory rep, warranty auditor etc. "It's a Jeep Thing you wouldn't understand."
Oh I don't know Jeepster I think there are some folk here quite familiar with obsession, we may understand more than you think.:2rolleyes:

[mr surveyor]

I'm a surveyor:)

We do general land boundary surveys, topographic surveys, infrastructure design surveys, mapping, geodetic positioning, development design, and a few other things.

I've had little kids come running saying "Mr Surveyor, Mr Surveyor, how far can you see through that telescope"..... my reply is "All the way to the moon"! It just blows their little minds... even when I tell them I can see the moon without the scope:D

[bigmacque]

I'm a big Irishman, 6'3" and about 245lbs, so the big and the mac work. the que is just to add a little mystique.

[xaircav]

This pic should explain my screen name. I'm 2nd from the right.

[ruf45]

ruf from my name,45 my perfered caliber

[TheTman]

I get called The Tman by some folks, thetman was already taken, so I just added the ski to sound kind of foreign or something. It gets used a in a lot of different forums and stuff.

[Dietrich]

Dietrich is actually my middle name.Some people call me by my first name and some use my middle name.Some call me other names.

[Ol'coot]

Ol'Coot was a nickname that was give to me by one of my apprentice toolmakers many years ago, if I remember correctly I do not think he was very happy with the job I had given him and with the detailed instructions and words of wisdom that followed. The other toolmakers in the shop thought it to be funny and that it fit well, and it just somehow stuck.:biggrin1: Being the gentleman that I am I always thought it must have been a term of endearment since it caught on on fast. LOL!:rolleyes:

[getsome]

Mine came from the scene in the movie "Full Metal Jacket" when Joker was on the helicopter with the Marine gunner shooting at VC on the ground while yelling Getsome, Getsome, Getsome...Joker asks him how he can shoot at women and children and he says "Easy you just don't lead them as much" One of my all time favorite movies...

[Bawanna]

I'm glad we got that clarified. That was a great movie for sure.

[Just One Shot]

Do I really need to explain?
:D

[Jeremiah/Az]

Most people call me Jer, which is short for Jerry. When I got into black powder & mountain man doins, I picked Jeremiah. That name was taken on the board, so I added Az., as that is where I have always lived.

[kramm]

Kram is my name read backwards, a nick name my brother gave when we were kids. I had to add another m cause kram was already taken. I started useing the name after my brother died.

[ltxi]

........Joker asks him how he can shoot at women and children and he says "Easy you just don't lead them as much" ...

Sadly from the perspective of 40+ years later...pretty much true.

London Taxi

[yqtszhj]

Man, I wish I could come up with something good about my screen name. Unfortunately the best I can come up with is it was a login for a company that I work for and not being very good at remembering things :confused: I just used it here too. Keep it simple you know. I still use one from another company from 20 years ago sometimes.

When someone ask me my phone number I may even have to scratch my head and think for a minute. I never call myself and the wife is on speed dial so I don't have to remember. Funny though. I can remember every detail of a communications network, picture it in my mind, and tell you how to fix it but cant remember my zip code sometimes. :crazy:

Well I guess I remember the things that get the bills paid and buy my "toys" so I maybe the rest doesn't matter.

[capriaz]

Back in 1990 a friend's brother had just finished his tour in the army. my friend and I were going to lunch and he said he would drive. He had his brother's car a 1986 mercury capri with a 5.0, 5sp. I was driving a 1982 pontiac TA at the time. I could not believe how fast this little car was a immediately was on the search for one. I found capri's are rarer than their for brother the mustang. I have had 3 mustangs but always wanted a capri.
Once we moved to AZ I went on the hunt for a new project car. Out of dumb luck I found a 86 capri 5.0, 5sp for sale by the origional owner. I bought it and completely rebuilt it (minus cosmetics) and raced it at fun ford weekend. I still have the car and expect to make it pretty one day.

Carpiaz = mercury capri in Arizona

[noslolo]

My last name starts with Lo and during my younger years "Lo" is what people called me. I have a love for fast cars and driving fast, so it is really No slow Lo just shortened and squeezed together.

[O'Dell]

I guess that mine is the most unimaginative of all - it's my middle name but the one I go by. very few people know my first. Now my password - that different. It was my callsign when I flew for the Navy.

[Cruizer]

It's what I drive, an 07 PT Cruiser

[jlottmc]

This pic should explain my screen name. I'm 2nd from the right.

A Cayuse, great ride, but they feel like you're riding in a blender. Fun to fly though.
All great additions. Thank you all kindly folks, now let's get the rest of the usual suspects rounded up, and get their stories too. ;)

[Ljutic]

I just posted my shotgunning story on another thread and this is related. In the 90's when AOL was a dial up affair and you were charged by the minute, I was shooting a Ljutic shotgun and used that as my first email address so why not use it as my nick on bulletin boards? It's been unique enough that I've used it for over a decade and have only run into one or two boards/forums where it wasn't available.

[pappy42]

I was gifted with the moniker "Pappy" as a 25 year old Marine Captain on my second tour in Viet Nam. The 42 is in remembrance of the Marines I lost.

[jlottmc]

Pappy I was fortunate enough not to have been in charge of anything when I saw Bosnia, boot PFC's are like that. Having said that, when I made NCO, I could imagine no worse fate than for me to lose Marines. Thank you for answering the call, but more importantly, thank the Marines' families of those 42 for answering.

[getsome]

+1000 Amen and Semper Fi....

[swampman]

swampthing and the monster of the black lagoone are my father and mother,and the famous Lizzard man is my cousin,so swampman is my real name :)

[Bawanna]

Is that your kin folk I see on the TV catching them alligators with a clorox bottle attached to a big hook.

You pull em in and let bubba shot em with a nasty looking 22 rifle in all the excitement of the gator trying to get away wiggling all over the place.

Looks like it would be a blast to watch first hand maybe from the deck of the USS Missouri.

[swampman]

Is that your kin folk I see on the TV catching them alligators with a clorox bottle attached to a big hook.

You pull em in and let bubba shot em with a nasty looking 22 rifle in all the excitement of the gator trying to get away wiggling all over the place.

Looks like it would be a blast to watch first hand maybe from the deck of the USS Missouri.
Yes one of them is my d'uncle,The rest are various creek kin and cousins etc. :)

[getsome]

I love that show but wonder why they don't use a cattle prod in the water to stun um first but maybe that's not manly enough...If it were me I would be using sticks of dynamite at first sight.....:eek:

[Bawanna]

Loved that big alligator stew or whatever it was they cooked up to give the women folk the day off. Looked like it would be perfect for getting synthetic finishes off rifle stock when refinishing or maybe even the paint off your truck for a new paint job, if it stopped before it ate the metal.

I bet I could fit in down there pretty good, I only got 6 teeth left on top. Corn on the cob is becoming a real challenge.

You got some brave kin down there, won't catch me wrestling no gators from no aluminum boat. NO way. I'll be watching from the beach inside a 4x4 truck running. So I don't get stuck trying to get away.

[ZenthaneX]

First off i wanna say thank you to all of you on this board who have answered the call for service.... you are the real hero's. Now my name came from a hat i started wearing about 12 years ago when i started paintballing. I wore the hat backwards under my paintball mask and people behind me would call me Zenthane cause they could read it. Ever since i've been Zenthane, Zenth, Zen, ZenthaneX and Zenthanezombie. Just an interesting fact i've discovered recently is that Zenthane is actually an industrial paint used as the top coat on many american military vehicles.

[joshh]

my name is josh & my last name starts w/ h. not very creative & not nearly as meaningful as some i've read. i have nothing but respect and admiration for the servicemen of our country. god bless

[jlottmc]

Well there was a few more, guess we'll see if we have any more takers.
There was a thread some time ago where Jeep45238 thanked a veteran in a most appropriate manner. Search for it, and if the opportunity presents itself, go for it. You'll have to mine the archives for that gold nugget. I'll give a hint, it'll bring a tear to your eyes.

[blademsr]

Coolest little electric R/C helicopter in the world sitting in front of me on my desk. The Blade mSR. :D

And, I had to make up another moniker because my original account was closed for some reason and I never received a response as to why. :rolleyes:

[8th SPS USAF]

The USAF outfit I was in in SEA 1973/1974

[MikeyKahr]

There was a thread some time ago where Jeep45238 thanked a veteran in a most appropriate manner. Search for it, and if the opportunity presents itself, go for it. You'll have to mine the archives for that gold nugget. I'll give a hint, it'll bring a tear to your eyes.

http://kahrtalk.com/showthread.php?t=2248&highlight=veterans

[Popeye]

I was in the Navy many years ago and have a I am what I am, with a what you see is what you get attitude. So I got named Popeye by a couple friends.

[Old Salt]

Salty looking is, or was back in the day a term that you had, time in. Your utilities were faded because of the salt air from being at sea for an extended period of time and you were older looking. He’s salty or he’s an old salt. Being I was in the Maries and I’m definitely older, old salt. Not sure if the term, old salt came from the Navy, the Marines were founded in 1775 to conduct ship to ship fighting. Today they are part of the Department Of The Navy.

[Catshooter]

Well . . . . . . . . .


Cat

[Bawanna]

Well . . . . . . . . .


Cat

I had my suspicions, I guess this pretty well clarifies them.

Check your PM box would ya, I sent you a couple.

[jlottmc]

Catshooter, I feel your pain with them. I am looking as always for a quiet method of urban ah removal. I've tried the aquila primer only rounds, and pellet guns, no joy on them. I may have to suppress a 22, but then that's a pain in the butt. Anti-freeze works well (the green stuff), got any other ideas?
Old Salt, I got yours from day one, I still have some of my salty cami's.
Great stuff all, keep them coming.
P.s. Mikey nice link effort.

[OldLincoln]

My next door neighbor (recently moved to Bawanna country) told me about a time before I moved in when he tried to scare a cat in my to-be backyard with an arrow. It's well over 150' from his fence to my far fence and I guess cat's are quick, because he aimed for the wood fence above the cat but the cat must have heard to twang and jumped right into the arrow path.

He told me cat's are about 90% empty fur and he hung that poor thing on the fence then had to go over and finish the job. Said it made him sick and he'll never do that again.

[jlottmc]

I knew I needed to take up the bow. I had one that I hit in the breadbasket with that Aquilla load. If I had hit him with a real 22, I would have had to patch my house. I hit this cat (next door neighbors, they turned it loose, and it got into everything), I hear a WHOOOOFFFP kind of sound, the cat falls off my fence, makes a great fall and splat sound, then runs home. No blood trail, no broken skin. Their fur must be almighty great at stealing velocity from pellet guns and those things too. Funny part was, when I shot it, my dog was oblivious at the time, never saw the cat. I see no reason to share a cat with the world, if you want to have a cat, then keep it inside. The damage they do is incredible.

[RONDO]

Many years ago, when the earth was cooling, there was a soft drink called RONDO. :D Their TV ads featured a guy chugging a RONDO and then smashing the can on his forehead, "Slam down a RONDO!" While in USAF flight school after my initial solo in the supersonic T-38 .... tradition mandated excessive alcohol consumption.:eek: Well, I was slammin down several, when I got the idea to crush a beer can on my forehead! :o .... several stiches later, I was annointed with the call sign RONDO & it followed me thru assignments in the F-4, F-5, & F-16. :) Years later to all my friends, family, & business associates ... it's still RONDO.:D

[OldLincoln]

Yep, you fly thousands of hours in-country, do they call you pilot - No. You shoot down 11 Migs, so do they call you Ace - No. But smash just one beer can on your forehead and they forever call you - RONDO! Sigh....

[RONDO]

Roger That!:rolleyes:

[Kahrcarrier]

It just kinda popped into my head...:yo:

[PSLFL]

On another forum I tried a cool user name and it was already in use. So I just when with where I live. Easy to remember

[stu454]

Stu454.

Stuart plus letting a .454 Casull pop me in the noggin equals stu454.

[mad1ben2]

My first child is Madison, my second is Benjamin...

[Bawanna]

My first child is Madison, my second is Benjamin...

I'm sure glad you posted on this thread, I've been a wondering what your handle was all about? Good plan.
Any pics of Madison. Never mind, I just slapped myself till my face is red. I'm ashamed of myself for asking and loathe that I even have to hang out with myself.

I shall repent.

Incidently my first was a Benjamin.

[mad1ben2]

Your comments about the ladies is one of the things that makes me laugh the most... you always have a snide comment to make and I look forward to the next... however it will make you feel even worse when you learn that Maddie just turned 10... :)

Still gotta love DOM (Dirty Old Men)....

[MikeyKahr]

Maddie just turned 10

That's all we need, Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC coming here on KahrTalk to set up a sting. :w00t:

[Bawanna]

Your comments about the ladies is one of the things that makes me laugh the most... you always have a snide comment to make and I look forward to the next... however it will make you feel even worse when you learn that Maddie just turned 10... :)

Still gotta love DOM (Dirty Old Men)....

Heck that ain't so bad, I asked Jlott for pics of his daughter and she's only like 3, maybe even 2.

I gotta look up snide, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[PaiN]

If anyone wants to know where I got mine....I'll give you my mom's number and you can ask her :w00t:

[rltw]

I have been lurking here since last summer, never posted, an interesting and fun thread
rltw

[Bawanna]

Enough with the lurking already.

Is that a M1 Carbine in your avatar?

Lets have a contest and guess what rltw stands for. You abbreviation guys should be good at this.

Hmm Rick Likes Tall Woman? I could be a winner right there.

[rltw]

M 14
Rangers lead the way

[Bawanna]

M 14
Rangers lead the way

Dag Nabbit, that was my second guess. RLTW, I had it, it was so close.........

I dig M14's. I have one on my desk and another in the armory. Full Auto selector switch. Good times for all.......

[jlottmc]

Bawanna my tyke has just turned 3. In those pictures that I posted, I had just come back from my CHL renewal, and she was playing with my headphones, and glasses. Me being the bright one I am, put them on her thinking it would stop there. Nope, so I got my pellet gun (didn't have anything to shoot from it), and let her hold that for the last of them. It then dawned on me that she was rather cute like that.

[steve666]

Just to irritate/freak out folks. I love sticking my finger into the eye of uptight people.

[jpshaw]

Just a slaughtering of my actual name. Use it on a lot of forums.

[mad1ben2]

snide (snid) adj. sneakily derogatory, sarcastic :)

[Bawanna]

snide (snid) adj. sneakily derogatory, sarcastic :)

Thems all pretty big too and all sound bad. I'm bad. I knew it. Sneaky and bad.

[mad1ben2]

I'm bad. I knew it. Sneaky and bad.

Just the way we like you... Don't go a'changin:)