What's The Story Behind Your Username?

[Mark Vanderberg]

Looking at new members sign up every day I sometimes wonder what's the story behind the username. Some of them are pretty unique and I know there has to be a story.

Years ago after I was able to get a local Internet connection that was not related to AOL. I signed up as MARKAV and that after I moved on to a much bigger and faster company for my Internet access I was unable to get that username so I started using markav2. But over the years I've used MrNRA on forums. I even have mrnra.com domain name. But as I got more and more involved in protecting our second amendment rights about six years ago I started using gunrights and that is what I go by on most forums today.

What's your story?

[xmunckx]

Well, , ,
Munck is my actual last name. . 
And I used to be pretty big into the straight edge hardcore scene, , we add X's to the begining and end of pretty much everything . . .. soooooo that's about it. . .I've been using this Handle everywhere for a long long time now and I've never once seen it taken before me. .


Munck

[Panhead Bill]

Pretty simple, I ride a 1956 Harley Davidson Panhead (when it runs, it's actually down in pieces now), and on a motorcycle forum I had been using Panhead Bill for awhile so I just kept it.  Recently, since I opened my law office I've been using Reilandlaw on other forums, just a spin on my last name.

Bill

[Blackwing Shooter]

The name of the club I shoot at is "Blackwing Shooting" and I shoot there.  I thought it would be a natural.  Not exotic but it works.

Keith

[daemonpi]

When I first started this whole internet thing, on AOL, I used comilit, a conjunction of computer iliterate, but unfortunately I couldn't use that anymore because I started learning about computers, a little.  So I had to come up with a different one, so I bastardized my first name to daemon (and I like the more original spelling of demon), and then added the pi because I thought it sounded cooler.  Nothing original or meaningful here.  But I like it and I use it for many things.

[Devereaux]

There is a writer who was also a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, named Bill Granger. He wrote a whole series of books with a main character named Devereaux. No first name, no notable history, didn't really know his parents, had no roots. He worked for a fictitious intelligence agency of the US, but was obviously a loner. (the usual modern intel story). I rather enjoyed the character in that he was pretty true to himself, tough, not particularly constrained by "social mores", and Granger was a pretty good author, a rarity these days.

So when I started shooting SASS, I had to come up with an Alias, since ALL cowboy shooting is done under an alias. I chose to shoot Gunfighter right from the start, so I chose Devereaux as kind of a modern gunfighter.  When I asked the lady at SASS about it, she thought it would be taken - but it wasn't! So my cowboy alias is Devereaux. Subsequently whenever I sign up for a forum, or onto things like Amazon.com, I use Devereaux. Once in a while I find someone else has taken it (as in ebay) so I usually add some numbers.

[Mark Vanderberg]

The story behind this topic.

It was a long and boring 12 hour workday today because I was notified last week that I would no longer be allowed to listen to my MP3 player while at work. I've been doing that for the last six or more years and now I am extremely bored. So let's where this topic came from, my boredom.

[NS2]

The story behind this topic.

It was a long and boring 12 hour workday today because I was notified last week that I would no longer be allowed to listen to my MP3 player while at work. I've been doing that for the last six or more years and now I am extremely bored. So let's where this topic came from, my boredom.

Get a set of these wireless bluetooth ear buds and tell them they are ear pro...

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-MOTOROKR-Bluetooth-Headphones-Packaging/dp/B000NKCO5Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1298342794&sr=8-3

[Charlie Foxtrot]

Long story.

Every time I have too much time and money, I buy a sailboat and go yacht racing.  

This last go-round was as a co-owner of a Hobie 33, raced out of Newport Beach.  We were in a regatta, a series of short offshore races.  On the second race of the day, we were approaching the downwind mark under spinnaker (the colorful parachute like sail.)  We were second in our class, right in the midst of the faster A Fleet, with most of our B fleet close behind.  As tactician, it was my responsibility to determine when to take the spinny down, in preparation for going upwind again.  With our class nemesis right on our butt, I held the faster sail until last moment, figuring we had just enough time if things went well.    

They didn't.

It was a Cluster Fook of monumental proportions.  We wiped out in the middle of the A and B fleets, right at the mark.  Other boats wiped out trying to avoid us. In the strong breeze, boats were going every which way -- nobody in control -- everybody screaming -- mostly at the idiot in the Hobie.

Back at the dock, the skipper, my boat partner, started the debrief with; "Hey, we didn't sink." When it was my turn to talk, I started to describe the disaster as a Clust..., then stopped, and changed my wording to a Charlie Foxtrot, in deference to our bowman's date, and her (*)huge(*) personalities. She sneered at me and said; "It certainly was Charlie.

That was it.  I was F'n Charlie Foxtrot the rest of the regatta.  I bought beers for anyone who addressed me as "You @$$hole".  That name hung about my neck like the damning albatross; so, what the hell: I adopted it. I wanted to use it as my SASS alias, but the little lady (the reason I will never again have too much time and money) put her size 10 hobnail boot down.  
 

[Not2late]

I didn't "get it" about gun rights and how much fun shooting can be until I was 60 years old. That's pretty late in life, but not too late. Hence, my name Not2late.

[NavyBlue99TA]

My favorite formerly owned car:  a 1999 navy blue Pontiac Trans Am. 

[cwrovers]

I'm a Land Rover enthusiast and off road junkie. Many years back I started lurking about various Land Rover forums. One day I found one called Guns And Rovers hosted by the late Art Bitterman. It was the best Rover forum I'd found and I signed up so I could contribute. Best of all, they were talking about guns too.  Art was a gunsmith and Rover enthusiast.

My initials are CW, so my user ID became cwrovers and I've used it ever since.

cw

[smokechecker300]

300 WM is my favorite caliber. Smokecheck is a term used by spec ops snipers for elimination of a target coupled with the fact that I am a volunteer firefighter.

[Jarhead0093]

Well I used to be a Marine, hence the Jarhead. 0093 is the last four of my phone number. A lot of people ask what the MOS 0093 is lol. It doesn't exist. I was 0317. Semper Fi

[Devereaux]

?Is that now a primary MOS, or your secondary, and your primary 0311 or 0321.

[kilopaparomeo]

kilopaparomeo
phonetic alphabet of my initials

[Scott Currie]

Stuck with it since birth.

[melski]

Just the first name and the typical Polish ending.  A lot easier than writing out the whole last name than no one can pronounce any way.

[mountainyeti]

Mine is a combination of an old college nick name and a connection to my inner nerd.  during my freshman year in college a buddy of mine said that I looked like a Yeti.  When asked why he thought that he said " Simple, your a big, hairy white guy.  Thus Yeti".  We all got a chuckle and the name stuck.  I live in the northeast and have a deep connection to the northern mountain landscape.  Not to mention I play a card game called Magic: the Gathering (yes my nerd badge is bigger than yours ... not you Shelton, the other guys  )  and my favorite card is "the mountain yeti " for no other reason than it has a big red beard.  Not unlike yours truly.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

.
LOL, Mount Yeti! Nooice play of the geek card!

'course... I used to believe in Astro Boy and Gigantor.  Ooooooold school geekery.