What was the inspiration for your Username?

[blackdeuce]

Back in 2003, I bought my third Harley-Davidson. It was a black Deuce.

 

[Sabre29]

Here's a topic that came up on another firearms forum I frequent which proved to be most interesting, so I figured that I'd post it here as well.

This is actually the 3rd Username I've gone by here, but I'm going to skip right to my current and final one because the other two were just throw-aways I came up for in a hurry for lack of anything better.

Over the years posting on this forum, I've developed something of a reputation for the stories I would tell about my life experiences as well as my tendency to parody Wannabe Operators, Keyboard Commandos, and Mall Ninjas, which lead to folks asking me if I was Gecko45, (in jest or in earnest) whom I'd previously never heard of and had to look up.

For those who don't know, Gecko45 was the origin of the phrase "Mall Ninja" as he was a regular across multiple forums — most notably Glock Talk — back in 2001 who would tell tall tales of his career as a Shopping Mall Security Guard who was trained in Ninjutsu and regularly had to deal with all sorts armed robberies, hostage situations, terrorist attacks, etc which occurred inside his mall with the help of his elite task force of fellow mall guards.

For those who've read my posts, — especially in recent years once I mellowed out and stopped taking threads so seriously — the similarities are obvious. I worked for about three years as a Security Guard for a certain Retail Store, — which I won't specify both for the sake of privacy as well as the fact that I did have to sign a sort of nondisclosure agreement not to post details about it online — I do know a thing or two about martial arts including Iaido, and I had a few crazy encounters while working there with a variety of strange shoppers, dimwit thieves, and teenage troublemakers which I may have mentioned every once in awhile in threads. Last but not least, I've always been rather impatient with armchair drill sergeants who presume to instruct others on everything from selection of an "optimal" concealed carry loadout, to safe handling/storage of firearms, all the way down to tactics & training despite having at best dubious qualifications, which has lead me to often parody such individuals either to get them to dial it back or lighten the mood when everyone gets too uptight in threads on any of the aforementioned subjects.

So as of early this year I decided to change my username to Echo40 as a homage to the late (M.I.A.) great Gecko45 since so many users liked to tease me by asking if I was him, and so I shall remain because Handejector told me that he would never again indulge me in any name change requests, which suits me just fine since I feel this username is much more appropriate to my online persona than my previous throwaway usernames Dirty Harry Calahan and Forte Smitten Wesson.

What about the rest of you? Where did your username come from?

My username is "Sabre 29". This was my call sign in Vietnam 71-72. Flew "Guns" for 229th AHB.

 

[double-dipper]

Retired Army working a DoD Civ job at the time I joined. The non-military Civilians called us "Double Dippers!"

 

[handejector]

I think my favorite name change story on the forum is Absent Comrade Art Doc's.

He was "Saxon Pig" for years.

Every now and then someone would refer to him as "Mr. Pig," inadvertently for newcomers and occasionally just to poke the bear for fun by old timers, and he would go berserk! He'd gnash his teeth and rant and rail about how he was being insulted and wouldn't stand for it, etc.

It was great fun to watch! And for some reason he never seemed to make the connection to the name he had chosen for himself simply being shortened by others as often the practice here when posting.

Eventually the Big Griller took pity on him and let him call himself Art Doc. (He was a professor of art history, I believe.)

Anyway, I miss him. He was a good guy.

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My handle, Onomea, comes from a Hawaiian neighborhood on the Big Island where I first bought land.

Not exactly how it happened.
I had explained to him several times that he chose the name and his rants just weren't necessary and I was growing tired of them.
Me "growing tired" of something is a good hint that something will change.
After his last tirade, I simply told him he would not keep doing this and disabled his account till he could come up with a new User Name. OR, it could just stay disabled.
He decided he could live with "Art Doc" and was much less trouble from then on.

 

[old bear]

My user name? Just look at my sign on photo, enough said.

 

[Muddyboot]

I work in construction; therefore I often have Muddyboots.

 

[Mule Packer]

Pretty simple really. I've had a pack string for over 30 years now with a variety of mules during that time. Seemed like a pretty easy choice.

 

[GF]

Saxon Pig, knew that a Standard barrel was not a pencil barrel.

... and +P.
Is it safe to shoot.

 

[91B40]

91B40…My Army MOS (Medical NCO)

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I have my own personal code based on chivalric outlooks.
I have worked for people over the years who "were not good or honorable people" (putting it mildly) and made more than a few enemies because I "wouldn't play the game" or be their female canine.
I have outlasted the vast majority of those people and in some cases was the person who walked them off the property after they got canned.
Hence The Last Standing Knight

 

[Grimjaws]

From my first D&D character back in the 1970s

 

[Model29-26.5]

Self explanatory

 

['79 Magnum GT]

That's my car. I've had it since April 1979 when I bought it new off the lot. I got the idea from "75vette". I thought that was a cool name so I borrowed it and substituted my car. My former name was Ariandshan meaning two of my collies Aristotle and Shannon. The two twerps in the old avatar are Atlas and Apollo. I should have made room for my last collie Alexander somewhere.

Rick

 

[quikdraw67]

It's a play on my last name and my birth year. I spelled it without the "c" when I went for an e-mail account back at the dawn of e-mail and "quickdraw67" was already taken.

And the rest is history.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

It's a play on my last name and my birth year. I spelled it without the "c" when I went for an e-mail account back at the dawn of e-mail and "quickdraw67" was already taken.

And the rest is history.

ahh, Qweeksdraw!

 

[EllDee]

My initials are LD. Way out there, I know.

 

[SSGRock]

SSGRock is a combination of my military rank and nickname.

 

[quikdraw67]

ahh, Qweeksdraw!

Baba Looey!

 

[DEF3]

Yep, just initials and suffix.

 

[oberon]

2nd largest moon of Uranus.
Also the fairy king in Midsummer Night's Dream.
I am not queer.
My first two choices were already taken.