What's the Origin of Your User Name?

[longtooth]

Welcome aboard. I dont understand any of that but am glad to see Dads playing w/ their children.
Glad to have you here.

[Yankee Girl]

First stuck on me when I moved South from PA after college as a CB handle (yes, that proves I'm old because it was when CB Radios were big stuff). It wasn't meant as a compliment, but I was just stubborn enough to take pride in it instead of taking insult.

[bigred90gt]

My first love, vehicle wise, was my 90 Mustang GT. It just so happens it was red. I've got some friends that refer to everything as "big", including me, who somehow was given the nickname "big daddy" (even though I'm only 29 and have no kids, but that is beside the point) and "big dog", depending on who you are talking to. The first message forum I ever joined was a Mustang message forum, so the name bigred90gt just kind of seemed to fit. In the interest of keeping things simple, I've just continued to use it for every message board from cars, to golf, and no guns.

[wninja]

2 years ago, my title at the company I work for was warehouse associate. On April Fools day, I changed my name/title placard to read warehouse ninja. No one noticed until a week after April Fools day. I've since been promoted to material coordinator, but the nickname stuck.

[Mage218]

When I was younger I was obsessed with magic and scifi and had to come up with a username for AOL/AIM, so I came up with ChaosMage218. Not sure how or why, but somewhere down the road "Chaos" was dropped and Mage218 has since been my name on everything from forums to my Xbox live gamertag.

[jotusery]

When I was 20, I had a job at Trail Dust by Grapevine Mills Mall as a waiter. My name is Collin, but on the tickets that went to the kitchen, it printed as Colli.

The cooks all thought that I was a girl for a while, until I yelled at them for messing up one of my orders. They started calling my Colli-Joto. (Spelling?) It's Spanish for gay. (I'm not.) My brother found out and thought it was hilarious, so he used it, too.

It evolved for Colli-Joto to Colli-Jotus to Jotus to Jotusery-Gold to Jotusery (hotusery). And there it is. I know it's not the best, but it stuck and it's unique.

[Pawpaw]

Mine was hung on me by my first grandchild (a girl).

I now have 5 of my own, plus 7 or 8 by marriage. At one point, 7 of them were living with us and I was called "Pawpaw" so much I almost forgot my real name.

It's now a badge of honor.

[xperthunter]

I was a crack shot as a child, took the nickname when i got into video games, used it to identify my gear in the military.

[PRO]

It's just my initials.

[tetralaw]

Mine was a employee ID at a previous employer, used certain letters of my full name. I liked it, so I stuck with it.

[hangfour]

I'm a hang glider pilot (and a sailplane pilot). The rating for skill levels in the sport of hang-gliding are hang1, hang2, hang3, and hang4( advanced pilot). I worked hard over a number of year to attain my hangfour status ... It's a user name that reminds me of many satisfying flights around the country.

[TacticalProdigy]

I am a patriot, a student of life and a lifetime student of tactics, I have had a fair amount of Milsim and tactical training. I love tactics in all its entities and am always learning and willing to learn form who ever I can. There is wisdom in multitude of places and people in this world, especially our elders which I think most people my age forget these days. I love shooting and learning all I can about firearms in general.

[chefkristian]

Mine is easy... I am a Chef.

[WildBill]

Mine is easy... I am a Chef.

Welcome to the Forum Chefkristian. Some of us on the Forum appreciate fine cuisine.

[chefkristian]

Thanks WildBill! What a coincidence... I happen to like making fine cuisine :)