What's in a screen name?

Back in the days when I still played video games. I played a lot of Metal Gear Solid and got the inspiration from the main character's name Solid Snake. So I made my screen name GreySnake.  

Always thought the Hawker Tempest was a beautifully ugly plane.  I was born in England. First name is John but some of my closest friends used to call me Johnny.  

Just a play on words that a friend came up with of an earlier username I was using on a different forum we both belonged to. I liked it & kept it.

My AWC supressor is an Archangle and it is fun to shoot when attached to my Ruger 10/22 or Walther P-22.

Scott

I lack imagination.

wayne baker

I lack imagination.

Don

It always bothered me when arrogant sanctimonious commentators would write what they called  "reasoned" opinion, so there. 

Actually mine speaks for itself. I've always been a big Mustang fan and I've owned three 67 Mustang coupes and this 1989 Mustang 5.0 LX. I had alot of fun with the 67's but this 89 was simply the bomb for me. I threw ALOT of money into engine and drivetrain, added a non-practical but cool looking wheel/ tire package and let er rip! This was a fun car in its day. Faster cars started coming off of the assembly line with 400+ hp motors being the norm and I decided to just drive this around and have fun driving it instead of racing everything in my path like I did when I first built it. Back then it could more than hold its own (and not marginally either). LOL. Anyways here's couple of shots:

Awesome thread! My name is because I build business jets for a living. I'm currently building the center fuel tank for the fastest business jet in the world!

Little Timmy  was a name given to me waaayyy back in the day.  I was a little hoodlem in high school and occasionally ran afoul of the law.  I cant go into details here as this is a family friendly forum but I can say that I have outgrown my destructive, scoff-law behavier. I am now 47 and many people still call me littletimmy so it just seemed like a good idea.

No ..... I am not little.      6 feet tall and 210 lbs.   With a pot belly no less !

My avitar is my favorite model. U - 217

( p.s.) dont get me started talking about U-boats........  I can go on and on and on and on and on............................ 

One of my favorite bands is Rush, and my favorite album by them is Exit Stage Left.

Dave

Great thread! Mine is made up from initials & "motorvation" (see avatar)

You guys all hav great stories behind yours!  Mine's on the boring side.  My name is Eric, hence the "e".  My wife is Cherie, hence the "c".  My last name is Holmberg, hence the "holmberg".

You see...I, too, lack imagination.

Eric

One of my other passtimes is bagpipes.  The chanter is the part of the pipes that the melody notes are played on.  I have played all over, but by far the most memorable was when I was part of the Canadian Forces Pipes & Drums contigent that went to Moscow to take part in Russia's first ever tattoo, the Kremlin Zoria. 

Chanter,

What an experience! I'm sure that will last a lifetime. Oh, and nice hat!

Lyle.

jb4406

Great thread! Mine is made up from initials & "motorvation" (see avatar)

Geezer

Chanter,

What an experience! I'm sure that will last a lifetime. Oh, and nice hat!

Lyle.

Dittos on the cool threads!

Chanter - nice get up. I've always love to see bagpipers marching and it always sends chills up my spine hearing them play.

Ish, the first three letters of my last name and what almost everyone calls me.  47 for the fact that I've been a CH-47 cargo helicopter (not P-47 jug as some modelers have understandably thought) mech/crewmember for 20+ years, and I'm male.  Finally, my avatar looks a lot like me when I was in my 20s.

My name 'minimagneto' is pretty random.  I like things that are 'mini', and I think magnetos are neat...that's about it, lol.

-Blake

stikpusher

Once upon a time I used to exit perfectly good (debatably) aircraft in flight for Uncle Sam. The last man out the door of a group of jumpers (stick) was call a stick pusher, and I was often assigned this position. When I first went online and needed a handle (and was still on jump status) I chose it. I left out the "c" to make it mine. My avatar photo here is a close up from a pre jump team photo taken a few weeks before 9/11.

Cool, stik. I've often wondered if that was really you in your avatar photo. Kinda wished everyone would use an actual photo of themselves, as I like to see who I'm conversing with....

the doog

My fiancee, Jenn had a particularly bad day and week, and came home from work from her old job as a hostess at a big Italian restaurant where she'd had some rude, disconsolate patrons. She came in in a bad mood, but then her two dogs (whom she calls her "doogs")  ran up to her -- as they always did--and started kissing her and begging for her attention. She brightened up and smiled and said "Ya know, you can have the worst day in the world, and yet when you come home, nobody loves you like your doogs"

Naurally, being her fiancee, I became a "doog" on the spot,.

Now THAT is a great story! I love it!

Chanter

One of my other passtimes is bagpipes.  The chanter is the part of the pipes that the melody notes are played on.  I have played all over, but by far the most memorable was when I was part of the Canadian Forces Pipes & Drums contigent that went to Moscow to take part in Russia's first ever tattoo, the Kremlin Zoria. 

 

In my opinion, you have just surpassed everybody else's screen name story. Bagpipe player! That is very cool! Love the sound of those things. I actually have an entire album of nothing but bagpipe music of many different bagpipe bands from around the world (I'm assuming that they're called bands - is that the correct name?).  

Mine comes from the fact that I'm a former Marine - I guess that much is pretty easy to figure out. But Devil Dog was already taken, along with the many sequential numbers that could've come after it (Devil Dog01, etc.). So, I tried Devil Dawg (to give it a slight Southern flair, as I grew up in Memphis), and it was actually available. Real name is Gary Mason, and that is my picture in the avatar. The photo was taken in April 2008 in Naha, Okinawa, during the wedding of my oldest Marine son and his Okinawan wife.

in 94 i was the proud owner of an english mastiff...225 lbs of pure joy.he was my four legged kid. he went everywhere with me and was heartbroken if i left him home. his nickname was BubbaDog. one day my wife commented if you looked quick you couldn't tell us apart.one of my girls yelled..he's BubbaDog and thats BubbJjoe..it stuck and i've used it as my handle since then

Thanks all.  

Devil Dawg - you are right, they are called bands.  Do you know any of the names of the ones on your album?  There are some amazing ones out there for sure.

We're gearing up for the Virginia International Tattoo in April at the Scope Arena in Norfolk.  It is a great show to do, plus it gives us Canadians a nice little head start on Spring. 

Allen

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

my name and my avatar is me in my tom clancy look.

Enlightening thread.