User Name Meaning?

[Eriediamond]

Dangedifiknow

[Anonymous]

3 guesses and the first 2 don't count! [(-D]

I was so positive this name would generate an "already-in-use" error message, but - surprise, surprise - it didn't! If I could do it all again I would choose the name "prometheus" because I'm a pyromaniac and I love steel mills (esp. the hot-metal processing part). But I'm with tWhite, I don't want to lose any of the pretty little stars below my name...

[ValorStorm]

(Why am I always dead last in these things?) "ValorStorm" is a short story I submitted to the "Strange New Worlds" contest in 1998. I was... not among the winners. It's a great story, and I've posted it permanently on my web site. Go read it, NOW!

One of the contest rules was that nothing in the Star Trek "bible" could be changed in the short story submissions. I didn't actually replace the Starship Enterprise with the Starship ValorStorm, but I don't think the judges bothered to read that far.

Since then my web site title, its URL, my email, and nearly all my user names are ValorStorm. It just felt like a cool name for an ancient starship. I coined it myself.

[DavidJ611]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rotorranch

Back in 1978 I started racing, and working at a dealer, on Mazda Rotary engined cars. I kept aquiring old Rotary Mazdas for spare parts, and eventually ended up with more than two dozen of the little buggars. I also lived on 119 acre plot of woods, known to the family as "The Ranch". Well, with all the Rotor cars parked down there, it became known as "The Rotor Ranch", which is what I called my race team, Rotor Ranch Racing, using the Rolls Royce logo, but with 3 R's.

My passion for the Rotary cars ended up with me being knicknamed "Rotor" at nearly every automotive related job I've had since. When I got my first computer, I tried to think of a s/n that would be different, and it became Rotorranch.

Rotor

Rotor, you make Mr. Wankel proud! [^]
-Dave

[DavidJ611]

QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar

Loathar- of the Hill People. A Steve Martin charicture from the old Saturday Night Live.
He was a caveman named Loathar and he was smart.He possesed language and had opposable thumbs.

[(-D][(-D][(-D] I thought so! I remember Lothar from SNL in the late 1980's; actually he was Mike Myers' recurring character---always talking about wanting to 'walk with woman' [;)] Very funny![:D]

-Dave

[trolleyboy]

Mines simple. I like streetcars model and otherwise.A club I once belonged to was regular steam and diesel which is fine I enjoy that too.Being the good natured bunch in the club that we were we all bugged each other nicknames etc. Well mine ended up being trolleyboy so hey if the shoe fits. Rob

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by HoosierDaddy

HoosierDaddy

I was born and raised in Indiana and graduated from Indiana University, so I'm a Hoosier
I had two boys, when I signed up, and just added a third about 3 weeks ago so I'm a Daddy

Put it together and its a humerous play on words.

HD

Your User name almost sounds like: Who's your Daddy.[:D]
Allan.

[timthechef]

timthechef, because my name is Tim and I'm a chef.

[Anonymous]

All very rational explanations. I wanted to use my first name, Andy, but of course it was taken. I already had Andy typed in so I remembered an episode when I was a teenager. I was picking apples with a crew of guys from Jamaica, lots of singing and joking going on. I told a joke that got everybody going and one of the Jamaican guys said, "Awww, Andy...mon...boy..." I wore that handle for the balance of my teenage years. Strangely enough, now that I'm approaching 50, nobody calls me that anymore. Again, not very trainy but easy to remember. Now was that obscure enough for ya?

[Rotorranch]

Back in 1978 I started racing, and working at a dealer, on Mazda Rotary engined cars. I kept aquiring old Rotary Mazdas for spare parts, and eventually ended up with more than two dozen of the little buggars. I also lived on 119 acre plot of woods, known to the family as "The Ranch". Well, with all the Rotor cars parked down there, it became known as "The Rotor Ranch", which is what I called my race team, Rotor Ranch Racing, using the Rolls Royce logo, but with 3 R's.

My passion for the Rotary cars ended up with me being knicknamed "Rotor" at nearly every automotive related job I've had since. When I got my first computer, I tried to think of a s/n that would be different, and it became Rotorranch.

Rotor

[HoosierDaddy]

HoosierDaddy

I was born and raised in Indiana and graduated from Indiana University, so I'm a Hoosier
I had two boys, when I signed up, and just added a third about 3 weeks ago so I'm a Daddy

Put it together and its a humerous play on words.

HD

[Anonymous]

BNSFrailfan!
Meaming.....BNSF Railway.
Railfan.....or (Foamer) for short. Someone who likes Trains.
The BNSF is my favorite Railroad.
[bow]BNSF[bow]

[GRAMRR]

Ficticious railroad that beat the B&O to the Grand River at Lake Erie and built a line south to Monongah and Fairmont, WV to haul coal from the many mines, northward.

[philnrunt]

Guess I'd better throw my 2 cents in here- philnrunt-
phil is this guy I know, he seems really cool and bos and gear and fab...no wait, thats Paul McCartney, I'm phil! Yeah, thats it. Sorry, sometimes I get a bit confused.
-n- a cheap way of saying "and"
-runt- My best friend, my puppydawg. She comes in to work with me, she pretty much goes everyplace I can get by with taking her. She is our department K-8, still practicing to get to K-9. If I show up anyplace without her, I never hear the end of it.
And this is a good post, seems like there are quite a few creative folk out there, Then again, when you take 2x4s, plaster, and moss and create a miniature world, I guess thats a given!
Hope to hear more.

[wd45]

WD45 - I took that from my other fascination; antique tractors. It was a 1950's model from Allis-Chalmers, and I began using it on a tractor board, and just use it for everything so I don't have to continually come up with different names.

[prospekt mira]

Because I used to ride the Red Arrow quite often when in lived in Russia.
I'll be taking the express b/w Moscow and Saratov in two weeks.

[pat390]

pat= first name 390=a random number that i typed

[scubaterry]

ScubaTerry = I am a scuba instructor and my name is Terry. Not real Trainy but easy for me to remember. I have discovered you need a butt-load of lead in a boxcar to keep it on the tracks underwater.
T

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rf16a

rf16a=Baldwin RF-16 Shark diesel. They are neat looking engines, especially in PRR's brunswick green with 5 stripes and circle keystone scheme.

I agree with that, they are quite a sight.

COOL! My first topic over 100 posts! RAISE THE ROOF!

[rf16a]

rf16a=Baldwin RF-16 Shark diesel. They are neat looking engines, especially in PRR's brunswick green with 5 stripes and circle keystone scheme.

[Train 284]

Nothing really, just thought of it when I signed up, I was going for 101 instead of 284, I think I didn't really care and typed in any numbers.

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by railroadyoshi

O, did i mention one lives with me at home
welcome to my visions that are real only to me, and those who are as in love as i am.
the human i love is just going to have to share it (if i ever have a girlfriend-sigh)

Gotta love Yoshi, I hope you find someone who shares your interest for the sweet, sweet, puffy green dinosaur.

[TomDiehl]

I thought mine was pretty obvious.

[railroadyoshi]

O, did i mention one lives with me at home
welcome to my visions that are real only to me, and those who are as in love as i am.
the human i love is just going to have to share it (if i ever have a girlfriend-sigh)

[railroadyoshi]

railroad-yoshi

railroad-hmmmm
yoshi-anyone who is up to date on video games, etc., will know the sweet, sweet, puffy, green dinosaur named Yoshi.
Yoshi is my nickname at school
hopefully by the end of the summer i will have my yoshi costume done!!!!
chuckachaboooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Attaboy]

At work a clean QA sheet indicating we did our job right is often unofficially referred to as an 'attaboy' or 'atttagirl' depending on who gets it. The day I signed on I had received more than the usual number of "Attaboy" sheets so it was the first thing I thought of.

[ac4400fan]

AC4400Fan

Im a real big fan of the ac's going to work in westmont ILL, I would always see the C&NW AC4400's on the bridge,,so there you have it

Carl....

[krump]

the only nickname that stuck, and the one I could live with...

in an identity-change, I'd be signing in as TARDIS (explained to me two years ago by my forum-buddy emeraldisle)

[engineman1]

Engineman - because I used to run REAL steam & diesel locomotives and "1" because I always aspired to be number 1 on the seniority roster. I never made it, however!
Norman

[SSW9389]

SSW9389 was a patriotic Bicentennial diesel. I like the Cotton Belt and was born on the Fourth of July. The combination was a natural for a screen name on this list and several others.

[Anonymous]

Mine's fairly straight forward.

Sask. is the abbreviation of my home province of Saskatchewan.

Tinplater refers to my love of collecting and operating vintage tinplate trains.

[trainfan1221]

Just the only thing I could come up with at the time. And my birthday. Am I creative or what?

[Anonymous]

Real name is Cor Bos and in Europe we (used to) call 4 axels locomotives "BoBo" and six axels "CoCo". So leaving two letters out of my real name would give a nice link to railroading.
Though it was nice when I made it up.
Brgds
Cor

[Hawks05]

Hawks05

Hawks - my old high school's nickname, really the Blackhawks, Hawks for short & legal terms I think.

05 - year I graduated, and 5 is one of my lucky numbers.

[Anonymous]

Earl - I saw this stitched in red on a mechanic's workshirt someplace.

Sporktong - This is Lower Slobovian, which loosely translated means: "Tong of a Spork".

[Anonymous]

Nathanial Taggart was a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged He built a railroad empire without the help of government subsidy; A nod to James Hill of The Great Northern.

James Hill- The unofficial hero of American capitalism

[GMTRacing]

GMT for Greenwich Mean Time where time begins on the 24 hour clock in Greenwich England. From my days watch standing in the Navy it has significance. From my families predilection for English cars, it has significance. For my business preparing English race cars, it has significance and also explains the Racing part. J.R. Oh yeah I'm also into initials no? [:D]

[BigOzzy86]

Big....... Im 6'6 about 265 lbs
Ozzy...... Nickname
86.... football number in H.S. and College

[TrainFreak409]

Hmmm, this went on longer than I thought it would.[8D]

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton
Brunton

Any relation to the company that is renown for geologic field equipment? Even though the patents have expired and I now carry a "Codet" compass I still call it a "Brunton" and everyone knows what I mean.

[fievel]

Fievel : a character in the animated movie " An American Tail ".
The username I wanted had already been swiped, so I took this.
[:)]

[ort007]

Ort.... the first three letters of my last name and my nickname in college.
007...Bond, James Bond.

[Trainnut484]

My user name comes from being a Trainnut in general, and 484 stands for 4-8-4 wheel arrangement of a popular type of steam locomotive.

Take care,

Russell

[mustanggt]

My favorite car.

[hdbob]

mine came from two things, my name is bob and i worked for home depot part time so it came out as HDBOB not creative but works for me!

[Pruitt]

Brunton

One guess.

[cspmo]

cspmo= Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha.

[Anonymous]

Mine is my first name. Since it's unique, it is usually available to use. I am sure all of the good PRR user names have already been taken.

[Anonymous]

Polizi = mispelled Polizei German Police. tried correct spelling didnt take so I mispelled it and there you have it. I always like the word Polizei from when I was in the US Army as an MP and well its my 110 lb german shepards name he like it too.

[littleboom]

Little Boom Babies...that's what my wife calls our cats...[:I]

[trainchris]

No real meaning,tried chris did not work ,tried trainchris and here I am.

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oleirish

OLE'IRISH
Because I'am 3rd genration Irish and hard headed,with an iri***emper(slow to get mad but a long time to cool down)
JIM

Im with you on the irish and the temper thing

[oleirish]

OLE'IRISH
Because I'am 3rd genration Irish and hard headed,with an iri***emper(slow to get mad but a long time to cool down)
JIM

[loathar]

Loathar- of the Hill People. A Steve Martin charicture from the old Saturday Night Live.
He was a caveman named Loathar and he was smart.He possesed language and had opposable thumbs. I kind of feel like the smart caveman in the group some times.
Vampire- I like your Aliens reference. They mostly come out at night...mostly....

[Darth Santa Fe]

Darth Santa Fe, because Darth Vader is my favorite character from Star Wars, and I like Santa Fe. I like other railroads too, but the silver and red warbonnet is one of my favorite paint schemes on diesels.[:D][:D][:D]

[1shado1]

The "ones" have no significance. The "shado" part is a reference to my favorite TV show. Gerry Anderson's "UFO", from 1970.

Jeff

[CraigN]

CraigN

My name is Craig and my middle initial is N
also, I happen to model N scale

[Anonymous]

Well I guess this is a no brainer: Great Northern Rail Road
They were the trains I grew up with and loved since I was old enough to run out the track and see them. That I guess was since I was about five or six years old. To see that flag fall was truly a heart breaker. It was almost like someone died in the family. :(

[Anonymous]

Trainnut 1250???

Well much as I don't like to admit it, I am a trainnut and 1250 seems to roll off of the tounge just right.....

[chateauricher]

chateauricher = Chateau-Richer ... the city in which I now live -- bought a house and moved there in Sept 2004.

I am a night-owl/vampire (I work full-time nights) and could have gone with something like that for a username, I suppose. Oddly enough, I usually sleep best when the sun shines...

I could have chosen CFCR, for chemin de fer de Charlevoix (a shortline CN subsidiary) ... the railroad that passes my house.

I could have gone with IslandViewRR... the name I have chosen for my layout (because I can see the Island of Orleans from the window in my layout room); but I only decided on that name after signing on here. So I use it instead as my AOL address reserved for train-related correspondance.

[fiatfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BigRedneckRob

Why?

QUOTE: Originally posted by fiatfan

I am (very slowly) restoring a 1971 Fiat convertible.

Tom

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment! [D)][banghead]

Tom

[ChessieFan13]

ChessieFan............well Let me see........?????? I like the Chessie System and 13...well some think its a jinxed number ..............for me it has always brought me luck....

[choochin3]

My wife has a lot to do with my screen name.
When I go down to the local MARC station to watch trains, my wife would say,
"are you going choochin again?"
I thought that would be a unique name but lo and behold.
choochin1,and choochin2 were taken so I would be choochin3.

Cheers,
Carl T.

[grandeman]

Uh, well, uh... I'm kinda enthusiastic about the Denver & Rio Grande Western RR. Did anyone guess that yet? [:D]

[ACRR46]

ACRR46

Allegheny Central is the name of my model railroad (got the idea from Tony K. of RMC and MR Magazine who called his freelanced railroad Allegheny Midland). 46 is the year I was born.

Frank

[electflr]

electflr because I build and fly RC Planes as well And when I first went on line I was flying all the time Had not got back into trains Another one that I have is loneflyr

[UNIONPACIFIC4018]

Union Pacific cuase I like UP
4018 one of the remaining Big boys that is nearby.

[Anonymous]

toolbox_guy_va=maintenance technician, a guy, from virginia

[medic_149]

medic_149

medic because I am a medic/911 dispatcher....149 is my employee number

[Kurn]

Kurn was the name of a Klingon character from Star Trek-The Next Generation,and also the name of one of my Dachshunds.I thought about something from the B&O,but all the good stuff was already taken.

[GDRMCo]

mines a freelanced RR of mine:
G=Great
D=Dividing
R=Range
(Its a mountain range that goes from North QLD to almost Victoria, I used to live on it)
M=Mining
(It's influenced by my dad's occupation)
Co=Company

[eng22]

eng22

Engine Company 22

I'm a firefighter

[retsignalmtr]

i was a signal maintainer for the nycta for 31 years. retired at age 49 six years ago. it was a civil service job.

[AggroJones]

Aggro: Aggravated

Jones: typical American sur name

[fec153]

Lived 3 miles from the Medley, Miami FEC yards. 153 -the Pacific engine that brought survivors from the keys when the overseas rr was destroyed. It was/is on static display at the Gold Coast RR Museum.
fec 153

[Anonymous]

Why?

QUOTE: Originally posted by fiatfan

I am (very slowly) restoring a 1971 Fiat convertible.

Tom

[CP5415]

CP = Canadian Pacific which happens to be the railroad I'm modeling

5415 = the # of the first locomotive I bought when I got back into the hobby in 1997 which happens to be an Athearn SD40-2.

Gordon

[DavidJ611]

First Name + Favorite Loco (N&W J-Class #611) [^]

-Dave

[espeefoamer]

Mine is a no brainer.Southern Pacific is my favorite railroad,and I have been known to foam,especially around steam.

[Anonymous]

My nickname is Turk. I'm a tugboat captain.

[fiatfan]

I am (very slowly) restoring a 1971 Fiat convertible.

Tom

[mike33469]

Willist, Belive it or not its my parrots name[ Willis T.] So its actually his username he just lets me use it.

[Anonymous]

Take a wild guess.............

[ereimer]

ereimer

ernie
reimer

too simple . but then if i don't keep it simple i forget and can't sign in (LOLAM!!!)

[Virginian]

Duh.....

[jxtrrx]

My two hobbies; Model Railroading and I collect Rock N Roll Oldies (was a radio disc jockey for years). Railroad tracks and rock & roll tracks. My first name is Jack. Could've done JacksTracks, but i thought the "RR" in "trrx" was cute since it captured Railroads and Rock n Roll. If I was doing it over, I'd just use my name.

[Anonymous]

Out on the High Iron. Evokes a story recalling glory in steam...

aww never mind.

=) I sometimes dont know what to think of when these internet sites ask for a handle.

I did haul steel and aluminum for a time with a Covered Wagon (Not F units darn it! =)

[cefinkjr]

Registered when I first found the MR forums in ????. Still can't remember the user name from that first registration. Using my name (and my eMail address) solves the memory problem.

Well, almost solves the memory problem. I have a Very Local Home Page (it lives on my C-drive) with user names and passwords for most of the sites my wife and I visit frequently. THAT really solves the memory problem.

Chuck

[Seamonster]

Seamonster is an in joke between my daughter and me that started when she was just a little girl. No, I won't go into the details and embarass her because she's all grown up now and has a daughter of her own. She's very artistic and has drawn many pictures of Seamonster, including the one in my signature.

[Anonymous]

verse2damax: versatility to the maximum

When I was in college I was very good at a number of different things:
illustrating (realistic & cartooning), model building, soccer, basketball, academics, singing… I'm boring, yes I know. Anyway that's for real, I do not in any way limit myself, once the interest is there I'm going all out.
Regards

[Anonymous]

Way back in the second grade, back in the early 1960's, my Grandmother gave me some old Tarzan books with really impressive dustjackets and I discovered I could buy books in school from Scolastic Press. My best friend started calling me a bookworm. It stuck. I still have the Tarzan's and have added a few thousand other titles.

I can't spell. Thats another trait I have embraced.

bukwrm.com is my web site.

bukwrm is my trucks license plate number.

[Anonymous]

My model railroad name!

Bob Boudreau

[steveblackledge]

Well,,,,Steveblackledge,,,,It's My Name

[Anonymous]

Midniteflyer.... An a huge Eagles Fan and love the song.

[electrolove]

I Love Electro music or to be more precis Electronic music with artists like Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Arcane, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Johannes Schmoelling, Edgar Froese, Mike Oldfield, Terry Oldfield, Rainbow Serpent and much much more. I have a collection with around 1000 electronic music CD's. That's where my name is from...

[rockisland4309]

For mine, I'm a big Rock Island fan.
4309 was a Rock GP38-2 which was named "Kansas" and Kansas is where I'm originally from.

[roadrat]

RoadRat
road = because I'm a truck driver and spend alot of time on the road.
rat = because while in the Navy I got drunk in france and got a tatoo of a rat on my left arm ( no special reason for the rat, it was all that I could afford.)

bill

[Anonymous]

BigRedneckRob

This has stuck with me since high school. I'm a big redneck, and my name is Rob. Not railroad specific, but then, that means I am the squrare peg that can fit into the round hole. I am a tried and true Central of Georgia and Southern Railroad fan. My all time favorite locomotive is the EMD E and F units. Primarily because I rode on the last outing of the famous Nancy Hanks II in 1971. I was only six, but it is chiseled in my mind like words on a tombstone. Although at the time the Nancy Hanks was part of the Southern Railroad, at one time it wore the beautiful colors and proud badging of the Central of Georgia. Although not including either of these road names in my layout, that doesn't mean they might not make a surprise appearance right along side of a Shay or UP Challenger.

[Anonymous]

For mine, well it's Denver & Rio Grande Western. My cousin got me hooked on it when I was little, because he has a layout based on the DRGW.

[SilverSpike]

I wanted to sign up originally with Golden Spike or Gold Spike in reference to the famous transcontinental railroad event but they were both taken, so I tried Silver Spike and the rest is history....

- Ryan

[ukguy]

Well .. need I explain?

UKguy...... My real name is Karla and I was the first female miner in Kansas so UK = Under Kansas . My first husbands name was Guy and I never really got over him, plus I love the name.

OK, OK, nothing exiting or creative here, I'm a guy from the UK.

Have fun & be safe
Karl.

[RoyalOaker]

I live in Royal Oak


besides, Dave was already taken

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

Mine came basicly from frustration. When I signed up, I wanted to use my first name. So I
tried Dave, Dave1, Dave2... and so on, but they were taken.

[#ditto]
Tried all the names I liked/wanted which were taken (some by people who have posted once and never heard from again) and then discovered by misspelling I could get something.

Unfortunately everyone assumes the Texas part is more significant than the Zephyr part. While I think Texas has a great heritage for her citizens to be proud of, and I did spend some time at UT in Austin, I totally disown it. Unfortunately the C&S train that ran from Denver along the front range has Texas in its name..... Colorado Zephyr would be better. Hmmmm I wonder if I can change my user name?

[cheese3]

Cheese3- Well I really like Cheese and 3 because cheese and cheese2 were taken

[NZRMac]

Well My name is Ken Mackay, and I really like New Zealand Rail NZRMac!!

Would love to model NZR but it's mostly 1/64 scale and all kit set locos etc.

I have trouble putting easy kits together!!

Ken.

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Vampire

Vampire - because I mostly come out at night.... mostly.

Hehe, I could use that one. I'm faired skined, and burn with SPF 30 sunblock. I don't like the light at all.[:p]

[twhite]

TWhite--no mystery there. First initial, last name. I was going to be clever and use something like YellowstoneM4, but the day I signed on, I wasn't feeling very creative. Besides, if I changed now, I'd lose all those cool stars above my posting number, right?
Tom [:P][:P]

[Anonymous]

gbailey, because (choose one):

a) It's a Wonderful Life (that has trains in it !)
b) My name is Jimmy Stewart !!
c) My name really is George Bailey !!!

[Anonymous]

06archerd
06 the year i graduate high school
archer- my last name
d- my first name initial, Daniel!!!

[Vampire]

Vampire - because I mostly come out at night.... mostly.

[simon1966]

Simon 1966

Any self respecting Brit that has an interest in football (real football) will know what the year 1966 means. I was only 5 at the time and don't really remember it, but sincerly hope that England will hoist the World Cup at least one more time in my lifetime.

[selector]

Selector- first because I started off in old Centurion battle tanks, and the first drill in the turret when coming up to battle readiness is ensuring the armament selector lever on the gunner's controller is in the 'off' position.

Later, when I decided to change my work in the Canadian Forces, I undertook training in Personnel Selection, among other things do do with Industrial/Organizational Psych. At one point, several years back, I was responsible for Selection Policy for the CF.

"Selector" tied both career-paths together. [8D]

[IRONROOSTER]

Ironrooster from a book title "Riding the Iron Rooster" by Paul Theroux . It's about railroads in China. It's all caps because I fatfingered the Caps Lock key instead of the shift key.
When I tried to change it I could not access my profile (my password was all caps also). Eventually, I realized what I had done, but then found you can't change user names ....
So it stays.[:)]
Enjoy
Paul

[orsonroy]

Orsonroy: two typos in various magazines. "Our son Ray" became "Orson Ray", and "Ray Breyer and his horse..." became "Roy Breyer..."

Lots of people got a kick out of the typos, but only my dad actually calls me Orson...

[West Coast S]

Well, I reside in the Los Angeles aka West Coast and do my SP modeling in S scale, enough said [8D]

Dave

[Anonymous]

CSXGUY:

CSX-duh
guy-i'm a guy

500th post! Yay!

[dave9999]

Mine came basicly from frustration. When I signed up, I wanted to use my first name. So I
tried Dave, Dave1, Dave2... and so on, but they were taken.
I finially said forget it and tried dave9999 and it worked. Not very original, but
I was trying to get on so I could ask a question. I have thought of changing it, but
I have had it too long and people know me by it now. Dave

[johncolley]

jc5729...because I'm one degree off of tangent. Really...If you know how railroad curvature is layed out in chords of 100 feet, by so many degrees offset from tangent, the actual radius in feet can be determined by dividing 5729 by the degree of curvature. i.e. it is the radius in feet of a 1 degree curve.

[Anonymous]

IronPenguin - I do Ironman triathlons (8 since turning 50).

The "penguin" part is a running thing: "penguin" runners are slow, but serious runners. My Ironmans are slow ,16 hours plus - a last hour finisher. But I finish.

Mike Tennent

[SpaceMouse]

SpaceMouse--Walter Lanz comic book character from the 60's.

[Anonymous]

Chewie8han

thought it would be funny if Chewie got hungry one day and ate Han. Han was a goober anyway.