What is a "Manstein's revenge"??????

Well for me. I love the Leopard Mbt since we had one parked behind our house for almost a week when was like 6 or 7 years old. And my avatar is the insignia of the Airlift wing I served in during my 12 years in the German Air Force

Mine is simple my initials JT, I build race cars in real life,but didn't want to use my buissness name wasn't sure if that was alowed so I just use race,and 214 is the sprint car I crew chief on..

 

John

So you want to know why I choose Pvt Mutt.

My blood line is Scot-Irish,Dutch,Shawnee and Cherokee= Mutt. 

Simple                                                                                                                           Tony

SMJmodeler wrote:

Guys: I received a PM from JMart and he jokingly said his "unique" forum "handle" was a contraction of his name...kinda' made me laugh and think about our names here.  When I started on the forums I was unaware the "handle" I chose would eventually stick and be how I would be recognized.  Had I known I would have been more creative than "SMJmodeler" (initials + modeler)..as would JMart probably... So it begs the question, "how and why did you name yourself the way you did here?" We've mentioned avatars before too, but some of you are new so let us know why you chose that too!  I'll go first. Me: SMJmodeler (initials + modeler), Avatar: "Spies Like Us"  I love the movie and the particularly this scene...it kinda represents the sometimes crazy and hairpulling parts of this hobby! Thanks guys!

Yeah I'm in the same boat as you,if I had realized I would have thought of something more creative,as it is I just used my name and house #     Oh well-boring!!!! As for the Avatar,I just use diffrent pictures,this idea I robbed from one member I can't quite remember who it was,but he has a picture of himself with the APG Panther,I thought it was cool so last summer i did one next to the Jagdtiger.

 

And yes,,, I await the explanation for "Mansteins Revenge"

Ok, I'll bite. My call-sign stretches back a long way...all the way to high school where I was given the ironic nickname by my 11th grade English teacher of "wild bill" (I was anything but wild, straight-A student, 3rd in my class, etc.). He had a good sense of humor and I would always finish my classwork early and ask for a pass to the writing lab or computer lab so he got tired of writing my regular name (Bill) and started doing creative things...the "wild bill" stuck in that regard. I used that all the time for online forums and such but when I joined the MMORPG "World War II Online", "wild bill" was already taken...so I shortened it down to wbill...but that was taken too...so I added my birth year of 76 to come up with wbill76. That's been my online handle in many places for nearly a decade now...so it fits.

As for the avatar...that's the first ever "tank" designed by Leonardo Da Vinci. I have a love of history (both social and military) and building armor, so the avatar joins the two together perfectly.