Where did your name come from?

[Warthog]

I don't know if this question has been asked before, so I figured I'd ask it...

I'm really into military airplanes and such (after computers of course). My favorite and most respected plane is the A-10 Thunderbolt II - a.k.a. the Warthog.

I use this name EVERYWHERE online. It's my user name for my email, gaming zone, message boards, etc. If "Warthog" is already chosen I may use: warthog_ii, warthog_2, warthog2, warthog_22 - you get the picture. The "2" or"ii" part is sort of a mix of the original name of the plane, "Thunderbolt II" and "Warthog".

I'm curious as to how you guys chose your UserName for Sysopt. Is it your real name? something that describes you? a hobby (like mine)? or what?

Warthog

[LJJones]

I always use my initials for usernames, it's much easier for people to remember if you tell them an email address for example.

[Dallasmcse]

Mine is rather obvious, but I am proud of the effort it took to get that title. This same title and 4 years as deskside support is what landed me at my current job(wan admin)

[emcron]

I used to be into X-MEN, the cartoon and comics. It came from there.

[Dominus]

Dominus is Latin for "The Master".

[This message has been edited by Dominus (edited 04-23-2000).]

[noresull]

A combination of my Fiance's last name and my last name, Norenberg & Sullivan

John

[M1pilot]

I was a commercial pilot by trade, and my current personal aircraft is an M1 Mustang, hence the name M1pilot.

-M1pilot

[wtp]

i don't know, letters just came up, well let me ask u, what does wtf mean, well in that "F" word, make it start with a "ph" instead of a "f", so it doesn't sound too profane, and u come out with, "wtP"

[catcow]

My son has a soft toy that's half cat and half cow! Hence... Catcow

:-)

[Megabyte]

Just pulled it right outa the back of Que's Upgrading and repairing PCs(11th Edition)

megabyte - A unit of information storage equal to 1,048,576 bytes.

MB

[stppetty]

I'm a big Nascar racing fan.I'm a Richard Petty fan for years.Stp is the sponsor of the car and petty comes from his last name.Nothing that exciteing I quess.

[grandslammer]

Well, I love baseball, so it was either grandslammer, strikeout or foulball. Which would you have picked?

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M

[Phantom]

I've always wanted to know what some of your handles meant, very interesting acually! (read the old posted thread)

Mine came from an old Mickey Mouse adventure comic book when I was a little kid. Mickey, sometimes, had to thwart the mischievous behaviour of the "Phantom Blot"
My family has always been pretty big on "anonymous" practical jokes, (thank's Dad), I carried "The Phantom" into my adult life to terrorize my brother & sisters!!
BWwwwAaaHaHaHa!! (very sinister laughter)

The Phantom http://www.sysopt.com/forum/icons/icon6.gif

[Chainsaw]

Hey, I cut a lot of firewood, what more can I say?
c:::CHNsaw

[Amarok]

I use to have 3 alaskan malamutes before my divorce. They all look like wolves. Amarok is inuet (eskimo) for wolf.

[jadinolf]

Just my first initial and my last name.

Real original, eh?

[hd581]

I looked around my room to find inspiration for a name and saw "hd580" on my headphones. So I typed in 'hd580'. But Sysopt.com said "That's an illegal name" so I typed in 'hd581', and it said "Ok". 'hd580' isn't taken, either.....

????????

oh well.

[awwall]

like others, first 2 are initials and last is last name. AW Wall

[Eli]

Mine is a name my old autoshop teacher called me one day. It was really funny at the time, since it's pretty close to the first half of my last name.

Go Leafs!

[cyclone2]

Sitting in the driveway is my 1968 mercury Cyclone GT

[Sharpy]

Just my nickname since i was a kid.
I also use Sharpy69, the year i was born and Redstripe which used to be my old CB handle.

[medo]

Hello,

It’s my nickname and it is more often in use than my real name.


Medo

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[shadow]

Shadow is my dog's name, I just like to use it as a net nickname.
PW

[jad1097]

My first son.

[skywalker[TSG]]

hmm starwars
and also it my nick when i play lasertag

[Missing the point]

Grandslammer: I would have picked"FoulBall" but im just that kind of person......


Hence my name, now to live up to it:

I like food. Food is good

[Biff]

Biff is from a pinball game a few years ago, "Funhouse"

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

Ummmmm...... well....... errrrrr....

I think the name says it all.
Navy (Self explanatory)
Dood (Get tired of seeing dude)
F/A18 (Type of aircraft I work on)
Mech (Jet Engine Mechanic)

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Jim

[user name]

Guess.

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[Missing the point]

You should know what mine stands for............


ROFL

[seti]

"POLL: How did you come up with your UserName? (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/003631.html)"

[welsh wizard]

When I left my home country and went to work in England the English co workers gave me the Nick name Welsh Wizard, it stuck, and have had it since the early 70'S
WW

[mgordon99]

First initial, last name, year I joined Sysopt. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alan]

my mum gave me mine back in '66
but my "dad" used other names that would be offernsive to others so im stuck with the first one
alan

[Mntsnow]

Thanks Seti http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I was just about to post the same link!

Mntsnow

[Unsecured Loner]

I paid an image consultant thousands of dollars and this what he came up with. Did I get my money's worth?

[Prospero]

From Shakespeare's The Tempest. Prospero shared my other hobby, building a very large library.

[ytay]

**** shadow thats my cats name too!!!

anyway mine is short for whitey, as my last name is white.....i used to play NTN trivia in a bar and a guy i used to play with used whitey, cause his last name was white also, so i used a variation y-tay and it stuck. i usually get people thinking i am of a chinese background.

[BEOR999]

stole mine from Tolkien!

added the 999 'cause so many have that name in other places I go, so I use the 999 on all comms now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[pickel]

Got mine from Arlo Guthrie's "Motorcycle Song". For those of you who donot know it. it simply goes... "I don't want a PICKEL, just wana ride my motorcyc....le, and anything after that is...... GROOVY!!!!!"

Real name...Edward means " Prince of Happiness" So..Be Happy http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

the pickel

[800XL]

One of my first computers was an Atari 800XL. It was also a model of Sansui reciever and is now the model of a Gateway PC, but those two 800XLs are unrelated.

[sys-eng]

I do configuration engineering for midrange computer systems -- so I'm sys-eng.

[Szech]

Well, last year some of my friends started saying my first and last name really fast, then faster, then faster yet, and it sort of sounded like "Szechwan." So that became my nickname, and Szech is just the abbreviated form.

[saint]

i got mine from the movie the saint

[Tekkitan]

Well, my name is not really deriving from anything...

I liked to play Tekken the Playstation game for a while until some black kid stole it. So i guess that is what it is from?

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[dos7]

hmm,,hey pickel, i had a friend who was nicknamed the same thing, for the same reason, he rode a bike as well..... my name, well , strangely enough, my initials and my favorite number,,siete
DOS Ver 7

dos7

[RobRich]

Mines really original. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Just read the signature.

Robert Richmond

[mattheadfat]

i gots myself one big head