Screen names?

Linefinder

We have everything from pretty straightforward to gobbeldy-**** for screen names. How did you come by yours and what, if it's not obvious, does it mean?

I'll start....

My ex boss in Louisiana bought the rights to 5 hunting leases in 2 years. Unfortunately, the exact boundaries weren't well marked on 4 of them. He wanted the exact lines marked, but didn't want to pay the highway robbery prices professional surveyors were quoting.

I told him I was a former Eagle Scout, former Marine, and knew a little bit about maps, compass, and topo. I got elected for the no-pay job.

I guess I knew more than a little. Turned out I was extremely good at it using a compass, 50' rope, and USGS topo maps.

So that's me. I can find lines with the best of them. I've never used a GPS, which makes this all pretty much a useless old school skill, but I can usually hit a USGS marker within a foot or two over a half mile stretch using a magnetic declination adjustable compass, a USGS topo map (regardless of year published), and 50 feet of bright white rope.

WMG thought I painted lines on the highway for living. Nope....wouldn't know how to begin. But I can find lines.

Mike

Linefinder

Before I get accused of attempting to bypass the auto-censor, I was trying to spell gobbeldy g o o k.

Learn something new every day.

Mike

Spk

Linefinder said:

Before I get accused of attempting to bypass the auto-censor, I was trying to spell gobbeldy g o o k.

Learn something new every day.

Mike

I find your obsession with straight lines...

I will now bypass the auto-censor...

On your command.

Linefinder

I once wrote a haiku, but I lost count of the syllables somewhere in the middle of it. I think I invented rap.

Mike

Diver43

Diver43 was originally Diver41, but lost access and created a new screen name.. At 41 I was one class away from being a SSI Dive Control Specialist. Ear injury kept be above 60 feet per the Doc. Instead of getting better it got worse over the years. Today I just snorkel.  Next summer I will try again to get down to 130 feet and become Divecon61 if my ear holds up. If I make it, it will only have taken 20 years and over 750 dives to do it.

Linefinder

Diver43 said:

Diver43 was originally Diver41, but lost access and created a new screen name.. At 41 I was one class away from being a SSI Dive Control Specialist. Ear injury kept be above 60 feet per the Doc. Instead of getting better it got worse over the years. Today I just snorkel.  Next summer I will try again to get down to 130 feet and become Divecon61 if my ear holds up. If I make it, it will only have taken 20 years and over 750 dives to do it.

An ear injury kept me out of SCUBA training, so Marine Recon passed me over on my  very first application. A half year later I was initially accepted for Marine Scout/Sniper training, but they later found out I had a history of tobacco use. That killed that, too.

Looking back....my personal failures may well be why I'm alive today. You never know from what direction a gift horse will come.

Mike

Jayhawker

I was born in Kansas....a Jayhawker...Turned into a radio call sign.

earlyagain

I have a propensity for being early. Derived from an obsessive anxiety of being late.

RugerFan

I like Rugers. 

Plus, it was all I could think of.

jaywapti

My mane is Jay and I hunt elk ,screen name was supposed to be jaywapiti, expect i misspelled wapiti and it became jaywapti

JAY

Linefinder

I've always figured there was an elk buried in there somewhere. 

Mike

tennmike

I'm from Tennessee, EAST TN to be exact, and my first name is Mikel to folk I don't know, and Mike to friends. So tennmike? Mikel is pronounced the same as Michael, but I'm Scots-Irish, not Italian, so that should explain the spelling.

Linefinder

tennmike said:

I'm from Tennessee, EAST TN to be exact, and my first name is Mikel to folk I don't know, and Mike to friends. So tennmike? Mikel is pronounced the same as Michael, but I'm Scots-Irish, not Italian, so that should explain the spelling.

There you have it.

My first name is Michael, although from the first day that I could hold a Crayon I thought it was spelled wrong.

Thanks for clearing that up. By lineage I'm Scot-Irish too, although my mother was a British War-Bride.That accounts for the mis-spelling I'm thinking.

Mike

breamfisher

My preferred genera when angling in aquatic systems, be they lacustrine or riverine, is Lepomis.

Linefinder

breamfisher said:

My preferred genera when angling in aquatic systems, be they lacustrine or riverine, is Lepomis.

I thought I had yours figured out pretty well, but I'm confused as a bluegill in the Gulf now.

Mike

GunNut

Mine requires a lengthy explanation and I just don’t have the time... 😁

wddodge

About 30 years ago, I acquired a '79 Dodge step side 4x4 that for some reason I thought it'd be a good idea to bring it back from the dead and make it drive-able again. It was so ugly that it had character. My daughters were in grade school at the time and named the old truck Wally. Ole Wally became my daily driver for a number of years and my kids still talk of Wally D. Dodge.  Hence- wddodge 

Linefinder

  

My 30 YO step daughter still calls my '94 Ram "Truckster".

Mike

sakodude

Lack of imagination and a lust for Sako rifles.

zorba

Stage name from when I was a Greek folk dancer - my late Father In Law gave it to me.

Zee

Work related.

Z is the designator for a “Zulu Unit”.

This site required 3 characters for a screen name, so I added two. 

hawk18

Linefinder said:

  

My 30 YO step daughter still calls my '94 Ram "Truckster".

Mike

My granddaughters call my Samurai “Papas Barbie Jeep”. It’s white with teal and purple graphics. 

Hawk18 is because, since the fifties, my friends have called me Hawkeye or Hawk. And when we first got internet and needed a password, Hawk1 through Hawk17 were already taken. 

Hawk

Jermanator

My real name is Jeremy. Jermanator is kind of a cross between that and terminator/germinator. Plus I spelled it with "man" in it instead of "min" (to make it more manly).

Anyway, I thought it was funny. I crack myself up sometimes.

Jermanator

Linefinder said:

My ex boss in Louisiana bought the rights to 5 hunting leases in 2 years. Unfortunately, the exact boundaries weren't well marked on 4 of them. He wanted the exact lines marked, but didn't want to pay the highway robbery prices professional surveyors were quoting.

I told him I was a former Eagle Scout, former Marine, and knew a little bit about maps, compass, and topo. I got elected for the no-pay job.

I guess I knew more than a little. Turned out I was extremely good at it using a compass, 50' rope, and USGS topo maps.

So that's me. I can find lines with the best of them. I've never used a GPS, which makes this all pretty much a useless old school skill, but I can usually hit a USGS marker within a foot or two over a half mile stretch using a magnetic declination adjustable compass, a USGS topo map (regardless of year published), and 50 feet of bright white rope.

So by lines, you meant property lines all these years? Interesting. I thought you were a coke fiend.

Boy... this is embarrassing.

When you think you know a guy...

orchidman

Got my name from growing Orchids and exporting the flowers. Used to supply local restaurants with the export rejects in return for free meals..........got to the point where when I opened the door to a restaurant all the female staff would yell out "Its the Orchidman" and mob me for free flowers. Dated quite a few of the female  staff at different restaurants over the years and they all called me orchidman.........

True story, some of the ones I dated didnt ask me my real name until the 3rd or 4th date!!

Jermanator

GunNut said:

Mine requires a lengthy explanation and I just don’t have the time... 😁

Ok. I get why you ruled out GunBolt, because that can be confusing, but what was wrong with GunScrew or GunSpring?

Jermanator

knitepoet said:

A very special friend that used to live in Columbus OH gave me this name MANY years ago (back in the 300 minutes/mo $0.05/min over that AOL days)
I have been known to write poetry and she said since I wrote poems and was also her "knight in shining armor" I was a knight poet

That spelling was taken on AOL, so I changed the spelling to this one and it's been available everywhere I've ever tried to use it

I thought you were a poet for knights. Kind of like this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8

Jermanator

Zee said:

Work related.

I bet.

mitdr774

Screen name I have used across many forums that started on a car forum many years ago.  It was a combination using an old license plate number.  

Spk

mitdr774 said:

Screen name I have used across many forums that started on a car forum many years ago.  It was a combination using an old license plate number.  

All this time, I thought you were an MIT professor.

Spk

zorba said:

Stage name from when I was a Greek folk dancer - my late Father In Law gave it to me.

I thought you might have borrowed it from the musical.

There was a billboard for the show in a movie I saw once. I can't remember the movie though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_(musical)