How did you choose your Appleseed username?

[dwarven1]

How did I choose my screen name? Therein lies a tale... come, draw up a rock to the fire and I'll tell you.

For about the last 30 years my nickname has been Dwarf - I'm short, stocky, bearded, I work in metal (or did back then - I was a machinist) and my shop was underground. Fast forward some years, when email is becoming common... and so is spam. Dwarf is a nice short word... and the spammers were using "dictionary" searches; IE; sending their cursed missives to [every_word_in_the_dictionary]@majorISPs.com. So I was getting more than my fair share of it. Well... a friend of mine had the habit of starting off phone calls to me by saying "Hi, O dwarven one!"... and back then, putting a number in an email address was a good way to avoid the dreaded spam monster.

So Dwarven1 I am. And please... the "1" is NOT silent!!! But I also answer to "Dwarf", too. (Not like Snow White's seven companions - think the kind of mountain Dwarves who crafted Thor's Hammer, Mjolnir)

[Castle Mountain]

Try googling or datamining for a letter of the alphabet...

When Appleseed came knocking I was in my dark gloomy mood of hiding and keeping a low profile, a gray man.

So many great quotes for liberty in V for Vendetta so it seemed a good fit.

Appleseed has changed me. I wouldn't choose it now. We mustn't hide, stand up, fight the good fight.

The more I found out about him the more my hero is Samuel Whittemore, there are some parallels with my own life story. But I will never be fit to bear that name or anything derived from it so I'll stick with V.

Verily, this vichysousse of verbiage doth veer most verbose...

Cheers
V

So what you are saying is that aggravating verbosity introduces a non-facilitative environment for Appleseeding?


Cheers,

Castle Mountain

[bravo2uniform]

My first radio call sign in the military.

[LaneArein]

It is my name.

[BlackSheep]

A play on my family name....
My dad named his boat "Golden Fleece" and the dinghy was "Jason"
Growing up my brother's nick name was "Stew"
My nickname was Ba Ba

BlackSheep
A well armed Lamb!   

[DGMilty]

Combination of first, middle, last initial plus nickname at previous employer.  Try to use this on all forums!

[LawDog]

It's actually my wife's name.  She signed us up on a gun-related website long ago and selected that as our user name.  I have kept using it so I don't have to remember others. 

[Puma Mami]

It's sort of like a "Mama Bear" idea. But I like cats quite a bit, and pumas are the largest of the "small cats." They can actually purr, unlike lions, etc. and they keep their cubs with them for a fairly long time to help them and teach them. If I had a "spirit animal" it would be a puma.

In the original language "puma" came from it means "strong." With my youngest having special needs, and doing homeschooling to keep him out of an "EBD" center at a public school (where his behavior would be managed--maybe--but he would not get a real education), I have to use a lot of strength on many levels to get through each day! 

Then "mami" is the Spanish for "mommy" and it's pronounced the same. We have a smidgen of Spanish heritage from Spain way back (mostly Irish Catholic and English Protestant--yep, those two sides of my family don't get along ). I don't speak Spanish (maybe someday). I used to dance a lot of salsa before my youngest was born. So that was an inspiration for using a Spanish type of name.

Dancing salsa would have probably kept me thinner if I had kept it up. As it is now, I look more like Puss in Boots from the Shrek movie where he is pretty heavy than a sleek puma.   Participating in Appleseed and taking up hunting turkeys, deer, etc. with my older son is inspiring me to work on my fitness! So maybe I'll be sleek once again some day.

[Uncle Davey]

I chose mine in honor of my favorite hero of WWII, Shifty Powers of Easy Company, 101st Airborne

[Dinky Dao]

I'm glad this thread has been revived. Reading it had been completely enjoyable. 

[Baminal]

Came from my high school football coach.

BAM are my initials, merged with 'animal' for my apparently less than gentle approach to the noseguard/middle linebacker position.

C-ya on the trail

[Wheeler44]

I prefer bolt action rifles, pump shotguns and revolvers, hence Wheeler (plus it's a family name) I'll let ya guess what caliber of revolver I liked when I picked my name.

W44

[Gramma Goats]

Okay I will  jump in .   I had no idea people GAVE you your 'name'.  I logged onto the AS forum after my first AS  (haha i had so much equipment trouble i am sure they thought i would NEVER be back)   and I needed a name. 

I have raised goats for , well let's say a L O N G time.  One day my oldest granddaughter was trying to get my attention at a goat show.. (she called her 'other' gramma  . .  gramma cats (you can figure that one out) i guess at home she called me gramma goats to make a distinction.  So at the goat show, Morgan, trying to get my attention and not having any luck, yells out as load as only a three year old can  "GRAMMA GOATS".  Well i 'knew' that voice and the name was out of the bag... i have been Gramma Goats to the special kiddies in my life ever since.

I had the avatar designed as the logo on a website  'TheGrinningGoat' that i had ,  so since i had the handle and the custom avatar . . .  let's just say . . It worked for me.   Now i find many of my AS friends just call me GG (i like that just fine).

Gg

[Wheeler44]

GG...Is it possible that I saw your daughter at a shoot in Wyoming in the fall of '08 by any chance? If so, did she ever make rifleman?

W44

[Gumballhead]

I don't think I ever answered this here...

[OnlyHitsCount]

I'm not very fond of my username.  This is something that an instructor I was fond of would always say, and when I signed up in a hurry I didn't figure I'd be sticking around here anyhow.     Thought about changing it but (a few) friends already knew me as

OnlyHitsCount.

[starfox]

Got my nick "Starfox" back in the days of the dialup chat channels / BBSes.  You know in those days when you had to put a phone on a cradle to get to the InnerTubes. 

Has NOTHING to do with that infernal Nintendo game Starfox.   

And the ever inventive "alonso1" should quit giggling at my handle. 

[B9]

Mine was on here. Don't know where it went.


Original was B964. Part number for a cotter pin on a manure spreader.
I work in the parts business. One small insignificant cotter pin can either make or break a complex machine and sometimes a machine can go on just fine without it.

Now is B9.
Still has the same meaning to me but adds in "benign". A medical term used to describe a condition that is harmless. It also brings in that I am a pacifist.
A well armed and well instructed pacifist with a very short temper.

[Nickle]

Mine is my DeadHorse MC biker name, and the story is something to hear in person.

[GoldFish]

I'm glad this thread has been revived. Reading it had been completely enjoyable. 

So, Dinks, why don't you tell us how you got your nickname?

[Cooper]

So, Dinks, why don't you tell us how you got your nickname.

Hmmm... I suspect it has something to do with a phrase I heard a number of times 3 decades ago in the 'Yard house:   "You dinki dai, trusong Coopta, dinki dai! But you still numba one!"

[Kosciusko]

It was late at night and I was in a hurry, couldn't think of anything witty or clever. 

So, originally, my forum name was kmk,   my initials.

"Kosciusko" popped into my head for a moment, but  I thought it might be considered pretentious.

My ancestors escaped Europe and  came here in 1883.   I'm 100%   Kashubian/Polish on both sides. 

Had my parents owned  a home 2 miles east,  I would have been a K-6 student at  Washington-Kosciuszko Elementary School.

After attending a few more Appleseeds and wandering about the RWVA site, I got a better feel for things, so I changed my forum name  to honor this man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciusko

In the opinions section:

Napoleon Bonaparte called Kosciuszko: "the hero of the North."

Thomas Jefferson called him: "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known."

French historian Jules Michelet called him "the last knight."

Jewish Cavalry Leader Berek Joselewicz called Kosciuszko "a messenger from God Almighty."

Lord Byron: "That sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear - Kosciuszko!"

Catherine the Great called him "a beast."

Mikael Dziewanowski claims he was a "pioneer of emancipation and a spokesman for racial democracy and justice in eighteenth-century America."


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Out of curiosity, how many of you have ever heard of him before?     Cooper and vmt193 would make  two.

[KuRRDoGG]

Picked up the name in college.  Some guys in the forestry summer classes noticed my blind eye was a way different color than may good eye.  In Louisiana there is a dog called the Catahoula Cur, so they all started calling me Cur Dog.  I rearranged the letters to make it as orignal looking as possible.  I have since had my bad eye removed and replaced with a prosthetic but the name has stuck.

[Ramblin' Wreck]

Mine is not very imaginative but I earned it by cramming 4 years worth of undergraduate work into 10 years at Georgia TECH.  I was surprised when I entered it and it wasn't already taken as it usually is when I try to use it on a forum.

[Spanner]

 
I chose my name back in 1997 or so, when I started playing online computer games.  I played Real Time Strategy games like Warcraft 2 and Age of Empires.  These are games with a large economic component:  you must find, utilize, and control resources that are scattered over the map (gold, lumber, oil etc.) and build up your economy and military.  I was good at expanding quickly and covering a large portion of the map.  Borrowing a term used frequently in computational quantum chemistry (my area of research) and mathematics,  "span", it was only natural to strike fear into the hearts of my online opponents by advertizing myself as Spanner (one who spans).

Hence the avatar of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the text ".. cover the continent .."

So don't believe those that would tell you that "cover the continent" really means "impregnate the chaste".   

[George Hacker]

"Shadowman" is the name of the logo for the company I work for.



Perhaps I'll take on an orange hat and have it upgraded in time to a "Red Hat". 

- George (aka ShadowMan)

Just an update: As you can tell from my status I've taken the orange hat.  Red hat, here I come.

[Roland]

Heh. Not very many get mine. Roland is the character from Stephen King's Dark tower series. He is the gunslinger. I thought it was a cool name.

[k209]

I chose my name because I shot a 209 and had it hang over my head till the September shoot in taccoa shoot where I shot a 219 and followed it up with a 210 in the same day I decided to take the orange hat to pass on what I knew about shooting to others

[Karl]

I was registering for the forum and while cruising around I saw some really great monikers. I'm sitting at the "confuser" wishing that the creative side of my brain would function just this once     ............After what seemed like an eternity I looked to the stack of mail I received that day and resigned to my uncreative fate............sad but true.  ..........I should have tried harder in art class when I was a yoot.

[RiflesnReins]

Well I wanted my name to be Marlingirl, but Mom suggested otherwise. So I combined what I loved most shooting Rifles and Riding horses/training cart horses (mostly Half-lingers and miniature horses). Hence the name RiflesnReins. Hmm if only I could combine the two..............   

RnR