Nicknames and Usernames, how did you come by your's?

[Hoople]

Hoople wasn't my idea. My grandad made it up for all somewhat "silly" and/or train enthusiasts. Of course he always called me that when I was younger... but in 2002 we found out he had lung cancer and he passed away in july of 04.

I decided to keep the name to remind me of him.

[yougottawanta]

Loather , Really ? I thought it was Loath her . Like in Loath her ex wife . You just never know.

[Virginian]

I am one, and rather proud of it.  And, my Great Grandad helped build the railroad of the same name, and my Grandad worked for the N&W.  I am glad I got to see, and even remember, some of the finest steam locomotives that ever were.

[loathar]

Loathar (of the Hill People) A Steve Martin character from the old Saturday Night Live. (re-done by Mike Meyers) He was the smart caveman that walked up right, possessed language and had opposable thumbs.

I always wondered if it was related to Lothar and the Hand People, a 60's band that most people have forgotten.  They never achieved much success, but some credit them with being the first band to tour using synthesizers and a weird electronic instrument called a Theramin, which was played by moving your hand around a central wire.  The electronics converted the changes in capacitance to audio tones.

Interesting. I've never heard of them. It's been my E-mail name for over 15 years. I spell it different so I don't have to add any #'s after it. Lothar is already taken on most ISP's.

[egmurphy]

Interesting stuff.  Thanks for posting.  While I know this has come up before, it's always interesting to hear some of these stories.

I joined the forum back when I was still working (pre-retirement) and was used to using my initials and last name in documents and emails.  Without really thinking about it I just automatically typed it in when registering.  I have a similar username on Yahoo groups related to trains, and Ed M on another RR site.

By the time I thought about choosing a catchy moniker, it seemed like too much trouble to reregister.

Regards

Ed Murphy (who really lacks enough imagination to come up with a catchy nickname....)

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I find it pretty cool how people's nicknames, etc. come about.  I find it most of the time that you, yourself don't come up with your nickname, etc.  For instance, mine.  LilBeckett.  I'm the youngest of three brothers, and the people that met my oldest brother would just call him Beckett, then the middle brother middle beckett, and then when they learned that there was another one, they just nicknamed me Little Beckett, but that has since be shortened to "Lil".  That's my .50 cents of the story (Have to adjust for inflation)

LilBeckett

[claycts]

Mine was simple CLAYCTS was a business my wife and I had a long time ago. Clay County Technical Services.

[Gandy Dancer]

Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.]

I am still unaware, who hates it and why?  Is this like the 1800's Granger's hate of railroads?

[SOU Fan]

Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.]

I am still unaware, who hates it and why?  Is this like the 1800's Granger's hate of railroads?

I don't know why people hate it but here is the site.  csx-sucks.com  check out the top bar for some photos.

-Smoke

[Gandy Dancer]

Mrs. Beasley, by the way, was the name of the little girl's doll in some old sit-com that I didn't watch.

Yup, that is what I think of every time I see your name on a post.  That sitcom would be "Family Affair". 

[CAZEPHYR]

 

The California Zephyr inspired my User name.

 

I am not a cowboy, I just found the hat!!

 

Cheers

[inch53]

Inch was a nickname I got in Boy Scout's, when a guy from another troop couldn't remember my name [Myles] and it stuck for a long time. The 53, the year I was hatched.

My CB handle is, pinball, hung on me because I use to bounce from one project to another.

[Anonymous]

I took my user name from a road that I pass rather often- Foul Rift
Rd. It's unusual and the more I thought about the more I liked it. It
is also the name of my under construction switching district.

There
is another  road with an unusual name but it is way too long to be
used-Shades of Death Road. No joke this name is for real. It is so
unusual that the street sign has been stolen more than a dozen times.
That event even made it to our local newspaper. Bob

[ShadowNix]

Nix = nothing, so my name is the "shadow of nothing"... basically an ol' hacker handle I have had since the 80's...

Brian

[loathar]

Loather , Really ? I thought it was Loath her . Like in Loath her ex wife . You just never know.

That's hysterical!! I never thought of it that way! (that works too I guess!)

I spell it Loath A r

 

[Walter Clot]

I ran this thread in the spring of 06.  I'm glad its back.  I found it interesting.  My name came from my name.  When I was signing up, I didn't realize I could use something else.  The last name is pronounced "Clo" which rhmes with "depot." 

[0-6-0]

Hello  my dads first train was a mdc 0-6-0 and he gave the same train to me and it was my first train. So I took the 0-6-0 for my user name.Thanks frank

[SteamFreak]

I suppose it's self-explanatory, because I've always been nuts about steam locos. I'd seen plenty of trains as a young kid, but the bug didn't bite until I rode the Durango & Silverton at the age of six.

I came up with it 3 or 4 years ago when I was trying to sign up with Trains.com to read some of their articles, but all of my better choices were already taken. I wish I'd rethought it when I signed up for the forum, but I can't change iron horses in midstream now. I'll leave it up to all of you to decide if the 'freak' part fits.

[on30francisco]

I decided on mine because I modeled On30 and live in San Francisco, hence, On30francisco.

[SqueakyWheels]

Mine kind of gives me away:

 

Grumpy old TROLL- ER I mean MAN!

[hohon3]

As the only narrow gauger in an all HO modular group, I got a lot of questions on why some of my tracks were so close together and small.  Throw in a new truck (1:1 scale) and the desire for some customized plates . . . HOHOn3 came to be in a way to destinguish myself as the narrow gauger in the club.

And those plates were hard to get . . . It took several appeals with the State DMV licensing Board to get them approved.  Seems like they didn't like the reference to "HO" and they didn't understand the meaing behind "HOn3".  I finally got the plates when I explained to them that I'm a big white guy, driving a big white truck, who plays with trains, and there is nothing that could connect me or my truck to that kind of conclusion.  Although I must say, in several distance communities, the reactions to those plates have been great.

HOHOn3

Modeling the DK & Pacific Mountain Railway in HO and HOn3

   

[Jake1210]

Well, Jake came from my nickname, which is oviously a shortened version of "Jacob" and the 1210 is just a random sequence of numbers I came up with a while ago for use when a screename was taken. In this case, the username "Jake" was already taken, so I added my 1210 to make the name valid. So chances are, if you see a name with 1210 in it, it could be me, but not all of my names have it.

[medic_149]

Mine is my profession. I work for the ambulance service. and 149 is my call number.

[dinwitty]

I did the who's on first routine in High School, 1974, Abbott and Costello, but used their Naughty Ninties movie names, Sebastion Dinwitty (Costello) and Dextur Broadhurst (Abbott). I found PLATO, an interterminal system in 1977 and it had TALKOMATIC. Looking for a nick I used "dinwitty" honoring A&C. I stick with that nick everywhere. Internet came, so did I. History.

 

[Hawks05]

My high schools mascot was the Blackhawks, but everything was shortened on uniforms, and due to potential lawsuits by Native American tribes we went by Hawks for most everything. I graduated in 2005.

I also have the nicknames of "Rev" and "Ching Chong". My buddies in baseball couldn't pronounce my lastname so they called me "Ching Chong". "Rev" came a few summers ago when I was playing amateur baseball. I didn't drink, don't smoke, don't chew so the guys said I was pure like a reverend. So they shortened that to just "Rev". Those are my nicknames and such.

[ezielinski]

My username was inspired by my mom!  It's not very original (first initial, last name), but my ideas are.

As for my nickname, it's RocketMan, inspired by my previous "moth-balled" hobby of high-power rocketry.

[choochoobuff]

ChooChoobuff was a couple of things.  I am a buff of the railroad industry, and last year I was in Chattanooga and saw the Chattanooga Choo Choo.

[garyla]

not all that it implies, just my first name, middle initial, and last initial.

[twhite]

No big secret--my first name is Tom and my last name is White.  Not the most adventurous tag on a forum, but at least I can remember it, LOL! 

Actually, I've never had a nickname until last year, and it's become "Doc" from my choir guys at Jesuit High School because I 'fix' things with their singing.  One of the priests thought it up, when he came in and listened to me working with the guys and said, "Listen to the Doc, gentlemen, he's 'fixing' you."  Now, if I only had a real Doctorate to go with the nickname, LOL!

Tom

[SD60M]

" border="0" />This pic is why i call myself SD60M, it was the best looking loco on the BN and my favorite!