What's in a name?

[TipBledsoe]

Profile names: we have many members who have come up with very creative names. How did you come up with yours?

I'll go first:
I was born in Tippicanoe county Indiana. My dad was born in Bledsoe county Tennessee. Put the two together and get "TipBledsoe," which is also my SASS alias name.

 

[G O B]

I AM a Grumpy Old Bastard!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

When I first started posting on forums, it was a motorcycle Forum, and I had a ZX9R, my first name is Cam.
I just kept it.

 

[Texas_Lone_Ranger]

Early TV show with a guy named Tanto in it.

 

[bbbass]

First two letters of my nickname and lastname, plus I have fished for bass all my life and my voice part is bass in Community Choir and BBShop/Gospel quartet.

Long ago in North Carolina

But I do also like Salmon and steelhead, so maybe the "ss" could stand for that too.

40lb salmon caught from the bank on a medium/light 8 1/2' spinning rod with 12lb line.

First salmon. Caught at the jetty on an old 7' glass rod 1 wk after moving to the OR shore.

First steelhead. Caught from the bank on the famous Bulkley river in Canada during my buddy's moose hunt.

 

[Hoji]

Hoji. Our first dog.

 

[Texasgordo]

Texas because I love Texas

Gordo is the word for fat in Spanish and I'm a fat bastard


Also use the same name on other forums.

 

[ArmyDub]

army wife

 

[medicmike]

Former medic for an ambulance company, started using this screen name back when I was in the biz on a number of gun boards so I stuck with it.

 

[baboon]

From a safari hunting forum I use my full stuffed baboon in lots of pictures.

 

[Axxe55]

AxxeMan was a nickname a bunch of my friends gave me many years ago when I raced amateur motocross. 55 was the number I ran on all my motocross bikes, and I shortened it to Axxe55. Been using that as username on forums going back to about 2000 or so.

 

[benenglish]

Ben English was a real person and I don't mean the one who is written up in Wikipedia (although I've met him, too, but that's a story for another day). Ben English was my maternal grandmother's paramour. He treated her well and made her happy, unlike her husband. Too bad he was a drunk who couldn't keep a job but, hey, he made Maw-Maw happy so when he passed on, the kids secretly buried him in the family plot. It had to be a secret; my maternal grandfather would have killed anyone in the family who showed any respect to Ben English after he died. (Those last two sentences are family lore that I have not verified, just in case one of you is a geneologist who wants to start searching those gravestone picture sites just to prove me wrong. I know how some of y'all are...)

I adopted Ben English as my nom de plume over 30 years ago and it has since appeared in a variety of odd places.

 

[Axxe55]

Ben English was a real person and I don't mean the one who is written up in Wikipedia (although I've met him, too, but that's a story for another day). Ben English was my maternal grandmother's paramour. He treated her well and made her happy, unlike her husband. Too bad he was a drunk who couldn't keep a job but, hey, he made Maw-Maw happy so when he passed on, the kids secretly buried him in the family plot. It had to be a secret; my maternal grandfather would have killed anyone in the family who showed any respect to Ben English after he died. (Those last two sentences are family lore that I have not verified, just in case one of you is a geneologist who wants to start searching those gravestone picture sites just to prove me wrong. I know how some of y'all are...)

I adopted Ben English as my nom de plume over 30 years ago and it has since appeared in a variety of odd places.

I thought the "English" part might have to do with your love of the English dictionary!

 

[Sasquatch]

About 10 years ago after being laid off from a towing job, I wound up running motor coaches and transit buses for a while. We were providing transportation for Intel's big expansion in Hillsboro - driving construction workers from the parking area to the main gate for their job site. A couple of the other drivers, funny old farts, started calling me Sasquatch because I was one of the biggest people in the crew (6'4" and at the time I weighed in between 305 and 315lbs) and I guess I sort of have a Sasquatch like gait when I walk. The nickname stuck. I've adopted it and have used it in various names since.

 

[2ManyGuns]

2ManyGuns I want but cannot afford! Also, some have told me I have to many guns, I don't argue, I just stand there and give them an incredulous look, wondering at their stupidity.

 

[GPtwins]

At the time I owned two GP100s that I bought 10 years apart. They were both stainless 4” bbls. I configured them the same and referred to them as the twins.


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[bbbass]

2ManyGuns I want but cannot afford! Also, some have told me I have to many guns, I don't argue, I just stand there and give them an incredulous look, wondering at their stupidity.

Yah, I give my wife that look too.

 

[busykngt]

When the Internet first started, I worked as a third shift supervisor in an electronics plant, which lead to some 'busy nights' for me. And my real last name means "shining knight" in Arabic - I've tracked the family name back to the 1200s in England - so I'm thinking it was probably a left over situation from the crusades or some such thing, originating the family name. Thus, "BusyKnight" and since the early days of the DARPA Internet only allowed eight bits, it got shortened to 'busykngt' for use on the earliest DOS bulletin boards.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

For some reason, I always read it as busy "knot"

 

[seeker_two]

Between the name and the avatar, it's pretty self-explanatory.....

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