what's in a name

[uncle joe]

the more I bounce around on this site and look at posts and read here, the more it makes me wonder; how the heck did some of you guys come up with your
user names?? Some of them are fairly easy to figure out, it's your favorite gun, style of gun or passtime. but some just have to be explained. I searched this site (with my limited ability here) and didn't find a thread like this.
So what do ya say. I'll start it out here
I was an only child, so I guess everybody assumed I would never be an uncle :confused: anyway after I married ( wife's sisters and brothers somewhat younger than she is) it took a while for me to become an uncle and I guess everybody thought it was great. One neice calls me unkin joe which I use as my evil-bay name.
OK your turn
:Fire: :twisted:

[Jim]

I'll pass. We've done this several times.

[10-x]

The ultimate goal or "dream" of competitive shooters is to shoot a perfect "10-x "score. Came close but never did and now with age constraints, never will.
So just a simple "handle" to use.
Black Greyhound is the back yard guard from the evil "tree rats" that raid the bird feeders..:-D
This did go around a while back, but what the heck:drinks:

[uncle joe]

sorry if it's deja vu all over again. I haven't been here very long
ps I'd like to see that hound in a big yard with a couple of tree rats :-D

should have added the avatars in the first one. Mine's an accurized government model

[10-x]

Funny to watch her.......she tries to stalk them......looks like a lion, slowly creeping up on them.............problem is there are to many trees. She almost had one last week, missed by about an inch before it went over the privacy fence.
Unsure of what she would do if she caught it? Figure the tree rat would bite the heck out of her, she would get P.O. and crunch it with those BIG teeth.
BTW Greyhounds are wonderful dogs, perfect disposition, love kids and most people, dont eat much for their size. They will find the softest place in the house, bed , sofa or chair. She has her own big dog bed.
They have to "stay" inside due to their thin skin, no fat and its part of the conditions of adoption from the rescue programs.:drinks:

[trickyasafox]

mine is a spin on an old simpsons episode- homer was 'crazy? . . . LIKE A FOX!'

so I went to trickyasafox. use it on every board I participate in.

[billyb]

one of the people i used to work with started calling me billyb, first name first initial of last name , it stuck. Bill

[danski26]

First name Dan. Last name ends with "ski" and I was 26 years old when I got my first e-mail account . I used danski26 as a handle for that. My avatar is the logo for the Frozen Tundra.....Lambeau Field

[Scrounger]

mine is a spin on an old simpsons episode- homer was 'crazy? . . . LIKE A FOX!'

so I went to trickyasafox. use it on every board I participate in.

Jack Warden had a TV Show maybe 30 years ago called "Crazy Like A Fox." That's what I always think of when I see your Nom de Plume.

[Ricochet]

Back in the mid '90s when I got on Shooters.com, it appeared everyone on there had some sort of shooting related "handle." Ricochet was the first one I tried that wasn't already taken.

[bc3660]

bc from the time I got shocked 3 times in one day and a friend siad " If you were an indian your name would be BLACK CLOUD" 3660 last 4 of a phone # that i had in "MY" first house.

[Rick N Bama]

Well my nickname is Rick, (short for Richard) & I live in Alabama, thus "Rick N Bama"

Rick

[Junior1942]

I almost picked a name that described me--Studmuffin--but I figured you guys would laugh at me, so I picked my name + my year of birth. And Junior was taken.

[DeanoBeanCounter]

My name is Dean so I have been called Deano on and off all my life. But some place on the web someone else already had Deano. I used to work in inventory for the government, my son used to call me a bean counter. But some place on the web someone else already had bean counter. So I just put both of them together to get DeanoBeanCounter. I seem to be the only one so far. The only problem is, is that it's a little bit to long. Go ahead. Make fun of me. I'm use to it. I already know I'm strange.
Dean

[EMC45]

EMC45 E first initial of first name, MC cause I'm an Irishman and 45 cause it's the best!!!

[montana_charlie]

My first name is Charles, and I've gone by "Chuck" since leaving home. But, "Charlie" has a 'friendlier feel' so I use it on forums where I (usually) plan to be friendly...and Montana is now my adopted home.

My avatar is my livestock brand, which is applied to the left hip on cattle and left shoulder on horses.
Someone once asked if the letters in the avatar were supposed to be a mirror image of MC (for montana_charlie).
I call the brand "The Rocking CM", but the official description is:
Reverse C, M, combined, over quarter-circle. Letters are called 'combined' when one letter also forms part of the other letter.

Since they are my initials, I sign my posts...
CM

[Alchemist]

Alchemist...cause alchemy was medievel scientific theory that lead could be turned into gold. Looking at prices for cast bullets nowadays, anybody that turns lead into boolits is turning lead into gold.

Want the recipe?? :roll:

[James C. Snodgrass]

Well mine is realy Bob Smith.

[Ricky P]

Most people call me by something I cant use here so I just used my name

[Blammer]

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Blam!, Huh? Oh well.. Keep shooting.


Blammer

[uncle joe]

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Blam!, Huh? Oh well.. Keep shooting.


Blammer

you keep messin wit dem b's we'll have to start callin you beemer :mrgreen:

[Mumblypeg]

When I decied to percipitate here I needed one and that was the first thing that came to mind. Years ago I was instructing at the (police) academy and another instructor and I were out on the town after the doors where locked at the dorm. When we got back the guy at the door asked for a password and the guy with me said "MUMBLYPEG". The guy at the door said that was it and opened the door. I fell over laughing and that just stuck in in my head ever after. I'v never played the game though...

[geezer56]

The young punks I work with call me geezer, and, when I joined up I was a VERY young 56 yrs. old, so geezer 56. Could be worse, I guess, I could be geezer 99!

[Molly]

Well, I've gone by a number of nicknames. "Dutch" was because my initials (KLM) also stood for Royal Dutch Airlines.

"Molly" (which is current) is because that's how my family name begins. "Gunny", "gunner" and Gunsmith" were because of a serious illness I had some years back, and still suffer with from time to time. When I was a kid in one of the more remote 'hollers' of West-by-gosh-Virginia, the neighbors could always tell when I was home on leave or something by the gunfire from our place. On one occasion, I only got off one shot before a neighbor yelled for me to come over and say hello, " ... right this minute, young man!"

I've also been called other things, such as the time I had to ask a couple of cops in their patrol car to stop and wait a minute because my cannon's fuse was burnt right down to the touchhole, and it was aimed at a dirt bank on the other side of the (VERY seldom used) road they were on ...

Hmm. Speaking of roads and shooting, I now recall another name I was once given by an old fellow on a mule. Seems he didn't think I should have been shooting at the head-high weeds "... rat down the middle 'er the main road to town" ...

I was also called 'Splain' for a short time, because I once offered to personally explain some social issues to a small group of thugs in terms they would find easy to understand and remember. For some reason, none of them seemed inclined to take me up on the offer. They just sat there and wondered what the BLEEP was taking the cops so long to get there. Seems they didn't feel nearly as assertive when dealing with a 6'2" 200 lb man with a pistol instead of a 75 or 80 lb petite gal with a purse ...

Believe it or not, our town cops have been known to stop cold in the middle of a narcotics raid to knock and ask permisison to go across our property to conduct said raid. Pap's only reaction was to ask "Need any help?"

I've been called a few other things too, but we don't need to get into that do we?
Molly

[nvbirdman]

I live in Nevada and I have a Pontiac Firebird.

[Rick N Bama]

I sure do wish that "twotoescharlie" would reply to this thread:roll:

Rick

[MtGun44]

One of my favorite pistols. Actually in the avatar pic that is my first one
rebarrelled to take to RSA for warthogs. Never switched back because
it shot too well to change. Bought a new Mountain Gun S&W 629 .44
magum revolver to replace it as my bear country piece.

And thereby hangs the handle. . . . . .

Oh - and MtnGun was taken.

Bill

[Doc Highwall]

Doc Highwall, because I have a bunch of them, 22lr to 45-90Win other wise my friends call me JW.

[Papa smurf]

The younger guys I worked with before I retired stuck that on me, maybe cause I'm short have a beard .

[Bigjohn]

A closer look at my avatar will tell part of the tale, and my first name is.............

BTW, there is an interesting story behind that picture. The other person in the picture is a close friend whom I have a small shooting challenge with on a permanent basis. We challenge and counter-challenge each other to mini competitions to see who gets to hold the J & T Trophy.

On that day; I had travel 300 + miles for that photo to be taken only to have the equipment break down. Moments before it was taken Tony, myself & David (T's BIL off camera) had been laughing our heads off about the situation. :-D

When the photographer said he was ready to try for a photo we would have to hold our laughter which resulted in the strange looks. :-D[smilie=1:

John.

[floodgate]

Bigjohn, 4-finger, Grumpy, and all the others:

I wish we-all could somehow get together with you-all, our Antipodean friends; what a GREAT bunch of guys!!!

Floodgate

[yondering]

I like to explore, always wondering what's over the next hill, over yonder. If you've ever read Louis L'Amour's true stories of his "yondering" years in the '40s, it makes sense.
The "yondering" lifestyle makes me a natural tinkerer and experimenter as well, which can get dangerous when explosives are involved but I still have all my fingers, toes, and eyes, so I won't be going by "twotoescharlie" or something like that anytime soon! [smilie=1:

[Boerrancher]

My wife and I raise Boer goats. They are much larger than most other goats and have only been in the US for about 15 years. They were imported from the Boer Region of South Africa, Hence the name. Here is a photo of my herds Grand Sire

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Sasquatch.jpg

Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,

Joe

[HABCAN]

First letter of surname, in Alberta (AB), CANada.

[Heavy]

Nick name of a friend in Viet Nam.

[Buckshot]

..............My grandfather gave nicknames to everyone. Mine was Buckshot.

............Buckshot

[chickenstripe]

For all of you motorcycle riders out there.... they already know the meaning of the term.

Chickenstripes are the edges of a Motorcycle tire (section in green) that are usually unused, showing how little the motorcycle has been leaned over... tell-tale signs of either an inexperienced rider, or one that's afraid to lean the bike over.

Holdover from the MC forums, and it just kinda stuck I guess....

[Shotgun Luckey]

Shotgun Luckey is my SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) alias.....My Dad called me Shotgun and I grew up near a town named Luckey

[runfiveslittlegirl]

mine is pretty simple... my dads username is runfiverun and im his daughter so runfiveslittlegirl just made sense to me. lol

[EasyEd]

I was voted 'Class Mother' by Second Class when I was in OCS, and EasyEd just comes naturally...

[windrider919]

Got my nickname the day I busted 165 MPH on my Honda CB 919 (a naked CBR 900 RR) and lost my shirt when the wind tore it off me.

[Molly]

mine is pretty simple... my dads username is runfiverun and im his daughter so runfiveslittlegirl just made sense to me. lol

ROFL gal. As 'Molly", I can sympathise. Coming as I do from coal mining country, I very nearly went by the handle "Molly Mcguire". It has a rough history. My mother-in-law used to tell us of the time when she was a little girl, and the miners went out on strike for better living conditions. Men, women and sick children were forcefully ejected from "company housing" in the middle of winter.

There is an attractive brick home community on a flat along the Kanawha river at Kimberly, WV. In those days, it was a low, wind-swept plain of brush and weeds, where the miners set up improvised tents to keep the snow off of their families. Dode (my mother in law) would tell of the day when a long train of canvas covered flatcars came slowly up the river, and stopped at the flat. When the train stopped, the canvas was thrown back to reveal sandbagged machine gun enplacements manned by regular US army troops. They opened fire on the entire camp, with absolutely no provocation.

Retaliation was not slow in coming: Despite their advantages of surprise, training and equipment, the well-fed US Army was driven back by spontaneous armies of starving coal miners with nothing left to lose, and a burning desire to take a few of their tormentors with them. A goodly portion of WV was taken over militarily by the miners until army reserves were called up, and the miners were put down. But never defeated, and we've never forgotten either. When an enlisted man in the service, I was once asked what my response would be if given orders to fire on civilians. I replied that as fast as I could get a shell in the chamber, I'd shoot the son of a bitch in the head who gave that order! Sir!

I was never asked such a stupid question again. The Molly McGuires were a part of that era, and had wide popular support. To this day, the call "Coal Strike!" is nearly the same as "Target Practice!" in some areas. And you won't find much confusion about the meaning of the second ammendment either.

Sorry. I didn't experience it myself, but a lot of my relatives did, and as you can see, it's a long way from forgotten by their descendents. I've had a number of experiences that make that a particularly fine trigger for me. I guess I really didn't realize just how fine that particular trigger is. I'm surprised at myself.

Off the soapbox. Someone else's turn.
Molly

[DnA]

DnA is from my bestfriends name Dawn(runfiveslittlegirl) and my name Alex so its DnA

[noclue]

I had "noclue" what I was doing when I wanted to start casting boolits.

[#1wife]

i picked #1 wife as a joke because runfiverun and runfiveslittlegirl was taken, and the guys on the chat was getting all confused who they were talking too.

[GP100man]

i once owned 7 GP100revolvers ,so i was called GP for a while & when i started on the forums it was just natural to us GP100man as a handle .
wish i still had 7 GP100s !!!!


GP100man:cbpour: