Geist wrote:

Like a few of you have mentioned, my name spawned from online gaming as well. Specificaly Call of Duty 1. For those that don't know German my name means ghost. My avatar is just the eagle that appears on some modern German flags.   Erik

Erik, the eagle is the so-called "Bundesadler" or Federal Eagle, aka as the federal Chicken and is the official coat of arms of the Federal republic of Germany and can be found on all official flags flown at official buildings. here is a link if you would like to know more about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany

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Never believe a statistic you haven't done yourself - Winston Churchill

Member IMPS Pastic-Surgeons, West Des Moines, IA

Amazing how often this thread shows up-this is the third time I've contributed an answer on this site alone! LOL!

Mine is my longtime girlfriend's "pet name' for me. 

She has two big 90-lb dogs, Toby (left) and Sebastian, (right);

They're brothers. 

One day, after she had a particularly rotten day dealing with customers at the restuarant where she is head hostess, she came home to find tails wagging, tongues flappin', and got the normal amount of affection and excitement to see her--which caused her to remark "even on the worst of days, nobody loves you like your doogs!"

So,.....natch, I became a "doog' as well! (She always greets me "HEY DOOG!" LOL! )

I finally wised up and kept the answer to this question on a document so can do a quick paste with a little editing for the dates...

My favorite comic book in the 60's was Enemy Ace, along with Sergeant Rock and The Haunted Tank, etc... In 1998, I started flying a WW1 air combat sim called Red Baron II, then later Red Baron 3D, on-line and most of the other sim-pilots took historical WW1 pilot names, or the usual crop of the nonsensensical or humorus ( I was partial to Lt Pat McGroyne, my "Allied" persona)  but there were several of us who went with fictional ones. Hans Von Hammer, "The Hammer Of Hell" was my first pick as a German pilot-name, and I've carried it to other forums as well..  

Even the CAF has hung "Hammer" on me as a call-sign (for a different reason though.  My first name is Mike and the CO at the time was a fan of Mike Hammer detective stories and hung that on me), so it got put on my name patch as well.  I didn't let on to the fact that I liked it, since one of the "Call-sign Rules" states, "If you like it, you can't have it"...

My avatar changes periodically, just to keep folks guessing... Currently, it's a picture of me back about a hunnert' years ago, when I was a young Army Staff Sergeant and the Section Chief on an M109A3 SP Howitzer...  I prefer pics of myself as avatars, mainly because I think it helps folks communicate better in forums if they get a face and a name...  Plus, I just love a good "Hero Shot"...

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Colonel, 55th FG
Great Plains Wing
Commemorative Air Force

A decade ago my snowboarding buddies decided to nickname me "bufflehead"   Not knowing what it meant I looked it up:

(n.) a small North American duck (Bucephala albeola), black on top and white underneath

(n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.

Hmmmm...which one would you have picked? 

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Ernest

omg, devo.

Crack that whip!!!

Wirraway wrote:

Wirraway 'cause I'm from down under, and it is recognisable as one of the few Australian built aircraft.  The Devo Power Dome 'cause I'm still stuck in the 80's and they're one of my favorite bands.

I saw Devo on a televised concert the other day, and I realized just how old I'm getting!

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Noli nothis permittere te terere

(talking in a low whisper) For myself, I've always loved the F-105 Thunderchief. Hence, one of the nicknames is Leadsled. I know it may be sacrilegious to announce that in this forum but I have turned 45% to the dark side (45% remains in aircraft & 10% in autos)

THUDS FOREVER

Im not really sure how mine came to mind.

I was reading a story about the red army pushing back the Grerman army at the end of WW2 and it kinda just popped in to my head.

"They rolled in to the Germans like a giant Russian fist".

I am a big fan of the T-34 and many things russian.

It just sounded cool to me.

As for my Avitar, well I just thought Godzilla chewing on a model boat was just to good to pass up.