Avatars/screen names what about yours?

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

I just updated mine. I was able to get a picture of an otherwise camera shy Redtailed Hawk the other day while running a few errands.

I always figured you were either a M*A*S*H fan, or that the only book you ever read was "Last of the Mohicans"...

the Baron wrote:

Nice pic, Gerald!  I love raptors, especially the hawks.  We have a decent population of them here in Bethlehem, too, they seem to have adapted well to the city, and there are plenty of squirrels and pigeons.  We're right along a migratory route, too, along South Mountain, so there are red tails, goshawks, I think Cooper's hawks, too.  Some falcons, too.  There was a pair that built a nest on the PP&L skyscraper in Allentown a couple of years ago. I saw one enjoying a snack on top of a fence post at the back of my yard one afternoon.  It had caught a squirrel, judging from the fur that was all over the ground. Still, for as fierce as raptors are in our imaginations, it's interesting to see a flock of songbirds chase one away. Great pic!

A flock of songbirds or just one mockingbird. They are fearless.

Nice pic, Gerald!  I love raptors, especially the hawks.  We have a decent population of them here in Bethlehem, too, they seem to have adapted well to the city, and there are plenty of squirrels and pigeons.  We're right along a migratory route, too, along South Mountain, so there are red tails, goshawks, I think Cooper's hawks, too.  Some falcons, too.  There was a pair that built a nest on the PP&L skyscraper in Allentown a couple of years ago.

I saw one enjoying a snack on top of a fence post at the back of my yard one afternoon.  It had caught a squirrel, judging from the fur that was all over the ground.

Still, for as fierce as raptors are in our imaginations, it's interesting to see a flock of songbirds chase one away.

Great pic!

I just updated mine. I was able to get a picture of an otherwise camera shy Redtailed Hawk the other day while running a few errands. 

Voidses wrote:

My screen name is put together from two words  Void and Voices with s intead of c. It comes from a poem I made: The void of voices... bla bla bla ...

See, now I thought it was a Gollum reference, "Voidses, yes, precious, voidses is pocketses with nothing in them..." 

Aaronw wrote:

I wasn't very creative when I first got online, I just used my first name and initial, and I pretty much use it for all my model sites to maintain some consistancy. My avatar changes but is usually something emergency vehicle related, since I like to build emergency vehicles and I work as a firefighter. My current avatar is a screen shot of an ambulance from the TV show Emergency!      MaxSheridan wrote: My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars!   If you ever lived in the Southwest that sign would make more sense to you. Flash floods are a daily occurance during the monsoon season, that nice flat road in front of you with a little standing water was often a dip with 6 or 7 feet of water above the roadway.   I'll never forget forget the look on this guys face when I lived in Arizona. There was a roads department guy holding traffic, some out of state tourist was gripping at him for stopping traffic because "the road was a little wet". Finally the roads guy let a local in a Jeep Cherokee with a big lift (probably a good 8-10" over stock) go through, the water was past his door handles at one point. The complainer quietly went back to his small sedan to wait until the water level dropped. It is just how it is down there, after 3 o'clock you just expacted to wait for 45 minutes to an hour until the water dropped back to normal.  I remember another time running across a woman in a Bronco 2 who was stuck in a wash filled with water. I stopped to ask if she needed help, but she said her husband worked at the Army base and was bringing his truck to get her out, right about then a big military 5 ton came around the corner and she said "here he is now". Talk about over kill, I didn't stick around to watch but that little Bronco must have popped out of the mud like a cork in a champagne bottle.

now we have the the stupid motorist law.

Mine has to do with my education/career...  I graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in mechanical engineering (and work as an ME in the same college town - Corvallis).  "Gearhead" is a sort of slang term for us mechanical types, to tell us apart from the Sparkies and Bit Pushers out there.  The avatar I found on the web - and added the OSU logo.

Cheers!

I wasn't very creative when I first got online, I just used my first name and initial, and I pretty much use it for all my model sites to maintain some consistancy. My avatar changes but is usually something emergency vehicle related, since I like to build emergency vehicles and I work as a firefighter. My current avatar is a screen shot of an ambulance from the TV show Emergency!  

MaxSheridan wrote:

My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars!

If you ever lived in the Southwest that sign would make more sense to you. Flash floods are a daily occurance during the monsoon season, that nice flat road in front of you with a little standing water was often a dip with 6 or 7 feet of water above the roadway.

I'll never forget forget the look on this guys face when I lived in Arizona. There was a roads department guy holding traffic, some out of state tourist was gripping at him for stopping traffic because "the road was a little wet". Finally the roads guy let a local in a Jeep Cherokee with a big lift (probably a good 8-10" over stock) go through, the water was past his door handles at one point. The complainer quietly went back to his small sedan to wait until the water level dropped. It is just how it is down there, after 3 o'clock you just expacted to wait for 45 minutes to an hour until the water dropped back to normal. 

I remember another time running across a woman in a Bronco 2 who was stuck in a wash filled with water. I stopped to ask if she needed help, but she said her husband worked at the Army base and was bringing his truck to get her out, right about then a big military 5 ton came around the corner and she said "here he is now". Talk about over kill, I didn't stick around to watch but that little Bronco must have popped out of the mud like a cork in a champagne bottle.

MaxSheridan wrote:

I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan

LOL Using that formula my name would be Chico Octavia. Hmmm.........

Both my screen name and my avatar have deep personal connections to me.

My Screen Name "Gamewarden5" was my call sign when I last served in Iraq. I was the platoon sergeant for 4th Platoon, Small Craft Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2d Marine Division.
Generally the call sign anything "5" is reserved for the executive officer of a command. Since our company did not have an XO I inherited the moniker Gamewarden 5.

The term Gamewarden stems from the connection our company had with the Gamewardens of Vietnam. These hard core warriors were the riverine task force that ran the rivers in the Mekong Delta. Since our company was a riverine force we adopted the callsign "Gamewarden" 

My Avatar: The purple heart medal. On January 1, 2005 I was wounded in action in Haditha, Iraq. Without getting into all of the details, I will say that it was a savage firefight that resulted in the death of one of my Marines L/Cpl Brian P. Parrello, and the wounding of myself and three other Marines and my Doc Juan Rubio (awarded the Silver Star for heroic action in this fight) So my avatar is a silent memory to these Marines and Sailor so that their sacrafice will never be forgotten. Also it is my tip of my hat to all those who have served in all branches of the Military who have shed blood in our nations defense.

Brian Vinciguerra 

My screen name is put together from two words  Void and Voices with s intead of c. It comes from a poem I made: The void of voices... bla bla bla   My usuall online game name is Chrull btw. 

The avatar I use change from time to time but the one I use right now is Lucy from the anime Elfen Lied.

 Maybe you should move, Bill....

                <---- at Bill!!

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Boba Fett wrote:

DURR wrote:  Badger wrote:  TacoBuff wrote: I like tacos... alot. When I was in college we called it Taco Hell.    we still call it taco smell  cause 30 min after you eat there,  well........... Or Taco Barf. Well, taco smell is better!

Not from where I'm standing!

DURR wrote:

Badger wrote:  TacoBuff wrote: I like tacos... alot. When I was in college we called it Taco Hell.    we still call it taco smell  cause 30 min after you eat there,  well...........

Or Taco Barf. Well, taco smell is better!

Badger wrote:

TacoBuff wrote: I like tacos... alot. When I was in college we called it Taco Hell.

Puma_Adder wrote:

Mine is from my days playing mechwarrior 3 multiplayer on gamespy arcade about 8 years ago. I started using a mech called "Puma". In the fluff story of the Battletech universe, the puma is one of two names this mech has, the other is "Adder". hence the name, Puma_Adder. the underscore is just becaus the program wouldent let me have any spaces.

Note, The ADD isn't gonna tell you what his avatar is because, sooner or later, it's gonna change! (hehe, sorry Puma! I abuse you over this way too much...)

razordws wrote:

Bgrigg wrote:  MaxSheridan wrote: Contrary to popular (or not so popular) belief, my name isn't really Max Sheridan. That is, in fact, my "porn name". My name is actually Mark. I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan Try it for yourself, it can yield some funny results......especially for women! My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars! LOL I've heard the porn naming convention before. Mine would be Hunter Chick-A-Dee. Great first name, but... That's pretty funny...  mine would have been "Rusty Main"  Not sure what to make of that?!?!?!

Sounds like you should maybe think about retiring!

TacoBuff wrote:

I like tacos... alot.

When I was in college we called it Taco Hell.

I have recently changed my screen name from RemcoGrob (my real name) to Borg R3-MC0, which is my name mixed up and a reference to star trek (which I like very much).

I have no avatar, I always look at this site without the avatars, signature lines etc. I find that to cluttering. (and my internet connection wasn't that fast until recently)

My screen name. I was in a very bad mood one day years ago and kept snapping at my wife any time she tried to talk to me. She said I need to quit being such an ogre. I thought it was funny as no one hardly uses the word ogre for anything. It's what she still calls me from time to time. As for my avatar,

Go away! Or I shall taunt you for a second time!

The Holy Grail, still one of the funniest movies! 

My screen name comes from my vocation...I'm a United Methodist pastor. After the birth of Methodism in the 1700's, because of a lack of pastors, most preachers served more than one church. They would preach at one church then ride to another and preach there. The churches they served were know as a "circuit"...hence the name "circuit rider".

My avatar reflects my love of Winchester firearms.

Shadow Lexington

I like tacos... alot.  And I like history...alot (named History Student of the Year last year, hence history buff).

It started as a gamer name for BattleField 2, since I couldn't think of anything Bad A$$ enough.  It started as TacoBuffLord, but that seemed to long.

Friskie Second St.

My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH!

It ain't about the government thinking folks are all idiots... It's the fact that EVERYTHING that's written has to written for the dumbest sonuvab*tch out there...

razordws wrote:

Bgrigg wrote:  MaxSheridan wrote: Contrary to popular (or not so popular) belief, my name isn't really Max Sheridan. That is, in fact, my "porn name". My name is actually Mark. I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan Try it for yourself, it can yield some funny results......especially for women! My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars! LOL I've heard the porn naming convention before. Mine would be Hunter Chick-A-Dee. Great first name, but... That's pretty funny...  mine would have been "Rusty Main"  Not sure what to make of that?!?!?!

Mine would have been Gonzo Blair.

Bgrigg wrote:

MaxSheridan wrote: Contrary to popular (or not so popular) belief, my name isn't really Max Sheridan. That is, in fact, my "porn name". My name is actually Mark. I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan Try it for yourself, it can yield some funny results......especially for women! My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars! LOL I've heard the porn naming convention before. Mine would be Hunter Chick-A-Dee. Great first name, but...

That's pretty funny...  mine would have been "Rusty Main"  Not sure what to make of that?!?!?!

in the Air Force my jobAir Transportation, my nickname is Crash thanks to some expert driving as a youth.

me playing with a SAW on a deployment

MaxSheridan wrote:

Contrary to popular (or not so popular) belief, my name isn't really Max Sheridan. That is, in fact, my "porn name". My name is actually Mark. I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan Try it for yourself, it can yield some funny results......especially for women! My avatar, I try to change it up once in a while, the latest is a sign I found online showing how government thinks we're all idiots. Come on, "road is wet when raining"!? DUH! What a waste of taxpayer dollars!

LOL I've heard the porn naming convention before. Mine would be Hunter Chick-A-Dee. Great first name, but...