What's the Origin of Your User Name?

[Mighty5]

My cats name is Mighty and there are 5 members in my family. "Mighty5"

[WildBill]

My cats name is Mighty and there are 5 members in my family. "Mighty5"

Welcome Mighty5!

[gilligan]

During my time in the military, I was assigned to the !st Special Operations Squadron based at Clark AB in the Phillipines. The commander had everyone pick a nickname and we had patches with that name put on our BDU's as our name. My nickname was Gilligan.

[Scottishredneck]

Well I am from Scotland, born and bread, but I got to Texas as quick as I could lol. My wife is a native Texan, and she says I am more of a redneck than she is... so there ye-al have it

[n5wmk]

I play the bugle. More specifically, I sound live Taps for Military Funeral Honors at Houston National, and/or where needed, for our veterans through an organization called http://www.BuglesAcrossAmerica.org. We try to give every veteran Live Taps instead of a recording when possible.

That's a great service! A long time ago I went to the graveside funeral of my best friend's father who was a WW2 veteran. Before the days of CDs and MP3s, they played Taps on a cassette deck. The tape was wrinkled/stretched or the pinch roller/capstan needed to be cleaned. That version of Taps was more depressing than the funeral. I love the idea of live Taps!

[WildBill]

Well I am from Scotland, born and bread, but I got to Texas as quick as I could lol. My wife is a native Texan, and she says I am more of a redneck than she is... so there ye-al have it

Welcome to the forum Scottishredneck. But if you want to be a true redneck, it's y'all not ye-al.

[Scottishredneck]

Thanks WildBill, must be the Scottish coming through, even in the writing lol. Hope y-all have a great day

[Jaguar]

Jaguar comes from my initials, J. A. G. My dad flew model planes when I was young and he had a plane called the Jaguar. He told me he was named it after me, so it kind of stuck and I've been using it on forums all over the net.

Now my avatar is a different story. I found a photograph of my Great-Great-Grandfather taken in 1888 on findagrave.com. I took the photo and I am currently using it as my avatar. I also have one of my Great-Grandfather, Grandfather, and Father. I will cycle through those when I feel the need to change and maybe even put up one of me someday. By the way, findagrave is cool, I traced my family back to before the Revolutionary War. Started doing some digging and found my sir name came here in 1634, shanghaied by a family member no less.

[TamRae65]

Shortened first name, middle name and year I was born.

Tammy Rae

My aunt started calling me TamRae when I was about 10.

[EKO]

last three of my Call sign

[Robert*PPS]

Brand new to the forum after lurking for a while. I decided on my user name after reading a passionate debate happening in the Crime Blotter section about the "road rage shooting" in Houston. It was mentioned in that debate about the anonymity of the user in forums, posting your real name...integrity, etc (if, by some add reason you have NOT read that thread, you've got to go check it out). I'd never really thought about that aspect of it, so I decided...yeah, I'm just going to use my name and be in full ownership of what I say on here...or anywhere.

So, My name is Robert and my pistol is a PPS (or at least it will be when I receive it)

[jayinsat]

First name is James. My high school buddies called me Jay, short for my break dancing nick name
"Jack Master Jay" .
I live in San Antonio. Therefore: "Jay" in San Antonio Texas = jayinsat

[shaolinmom]

Mine's pretty easy: I practice Shaolin kung fu, and I'm a mom.

[UTMacGuy]

I work at UT
I love Mac computers
and I'm a Guy

UTMacGuy

[Whisky]

"Whisky" is from the phonetic alphabet - the letter "W" (for the "W" in my given name, "William") - it's the spelling that used-to-be (no "e" back then). Too much time spent in the Army (9 yrs) and as a Commercial Pilot (31 yrs) where phonetics were the norm

(middle name is Thomas - "Tango".....my EMail address starts with Whiskytango, or WT, or William Thomas)