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

[mathman47]

I use to use just "mathman", but I had a hard drive starting to go and had to set-up a lot of user names new.  Unfortunately, my son got there first and started calling me "mathman47," instead of just mathman.  I use mathman because I have a B.S. in math and a M.B.A in Quantitative Methods and Analysis, which used to be called Operations Research.  Needless to say, this requires a lot of math.  My university doesn't even off this major anymore!  The 47 comes from my year of birth, 1947.  Whenever I sign-up for something new, I usually find that mathman is already taken.  Guess people like the moniker.  P.S.:  I am a retired manager from EMD, and if you have to ask what EMD stands for, you have the wrong hobby!

[ouengr]

OUENGR 

OU = The University of Oklahoma

ENGR = Engineer

I graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Oklahoma 

[tgindy]

The last name is Swiss heritage with thirteen letters, Gindlesperger, and I learned early-on that many high school scholars couldn't pronounce it correctly let alone spell a name including 1/3 of the alphabet.  So, it became Gindy.

There are two other ways we describe it...

1st, what is Gindlesperger spelled backwards?  Answer:  "Ridiculous."

2nd, when asked if the last name is German...  the answer is...  we heard our ancestors were Irish, and they were told by Customs to take off the O' because our last name was way too long. 

[myred02]

Well, mine is a little different. I'm named after my car! You see, I have a red 2002 Chevrolet Camaro. It's mine, it's red, and it's "02" for short. I got my first screename on a car website, and I figured I'd keep it for other sites.

Here's a picture.

Pretty good for a 17 year old, eh? And hey, if you want to race me sometime, meet me on the Hopkinsville dragstrip, *ahem* I mean "Ft. Campbell Boulevard"  here in Kentucky.

-Ricola (otherwise known as Brandon, my inner circle just calls me that sometimes cause I look Sweedish with my blonde hair lol)

 

 

[Printer]

I have to chuckle about this.
I guess I've explained this in another post but a Printer is what I am.

My born name is Scott and friends have called me Scooter for more than 35 years. Scooter was already in use here. We have a Scott running around here somewhere too, but I really don't care for using that name. I was 22 years old before I ran into anyone else with the name of Scott. I hated it. When a teacher would walk into the class room and call SCOTT, I knew it was me. We had 25 BOB's but only one Scott.

So to sign this with a name...
Scooter (Scoot)

[Gandy Dancer]

This thread runs quite often.   I can't find a screen name I like.  I keep trying different things at every opportunity but no luck yet.  All my D&D character names don't seem appropriate.  Maybe it is because I like my real name so well and can't use that.  Someday Gandy Dancer will give way to something way cool.  Maybe it will take a game or two of Railyard Wars to find a good name to use.

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[WCfan]

I came up with my name beacuse I model, and rail fan the Wisconsin Central (WC). But don't be fooled by the name, I also like Soo Line.

[Anonymous]

First is Fred last starts with a K.  Go by FredK almost everywhere except Altas somehow that got messed up years ago when the first computer blew up.

[Darth Santa Fe]

I get my name from a combonation of one of my favorite Star Wars characters (Darth Vader), and the railroad that made one of my favorite paint schemes for diesels (Santa Fe). A lot of times it gets shortened to "Darth" or "DSF," I guess mostly because it's so long, so the shortened names would be easier to type.

[howmus]

howmus, came out of my business: Howard's Music Services.  Couldn't think of anything catchy so I just used that.

[pcarrell]

It kinda started with my parents.

They named me Philip Carrell, and I shortened it to pcarrell.

Pretty unbelievable story, huh?

[Robby P.]

Mine is not that hard to figure out.  First name is Robby last name Putnam.  Now, my yahoo name for messanger and email is rich handsome.  HAHAHAHAHAHa.

Jeff, I use to live like 2 hours from the Cherokee in NC.  I went there alot as a kid and took my wife a few times before we moved to Pa.  Great people and VERY nice.  You have some good blood in you.  They say if you can prove you are cherokee, they will give you some land up there.

[Anonymous]

Always blowing off steam or hot air, your choice. Ive been told constantly to watch that temper when I was younger. Now I feel too old to care. =) But if you didnt hear it from me, I doubt anyone would.

[ChessieFan13]

welll lets see...................my home town is Huntington wv so there is csx main line that was chessie system b4 that it was thc c&o i model thoes 3 roads.

 

!13 well that is my lucky number!

[MOJAX]

Mine came about as a shortcut of sorts. MO are my initials and the JAX is the designation for my home airport. After I quit flying the name just sort of stuck and my pilot buddies still call me by MOJAX.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Mines the first and last part of my real name. Jeffrey Scott Reneau-Wimberly. My grandparents, being hardcore Native American (Cherokee) called me Running Bear.

[Fortkentdad]

My children went to college and we discovered it was fun to chat on line via MSN, so I needed to create a Hotmail Account and an on-line name,  since I figured my only use would be communicating with my children at college.  I was Dad, and I live in the tiny hamlet of Fort Kent, hence I became Fort Kent Dad, fortkentdad.  I discovered the on line model railway community and often found my name abbreviated to FKD and it has stuck, and works for me just fine. 

 

FKD  aka Fort Kent Dad, aka David

[jalajoie]

My first name is Jacques, middle name is Wilbrod and last name Lajoie

It is the combination of the first two letters of JAcques and LAJOIE thus jalajoie and I sign

Jack W. 

[SOU Fan]

I'm a big fan of NASCAR, and Tony Stewart is my favorite driver. He has the nickname "Smoke".   He also has his wn barbeque sauce named "Smoke"

-Smoke

[Gryphon]

Well I got my nickname Gryphon from a character I player in a Roleplaying game. My character was Gryphon Pier Noir, being non of the players remembered my name of Dennis I got called Gryphon. When I moved to Seattle, a guy asked " I dude what's your name?" I replied, "Gryphon" and it has forever stuff since then. and that was back in 1997.