What's in a name ???

[eastcoast]

How did you come up with your forum I.D name ?

Mine is from the area that I model and that I am from
the east US. Hence, eastcoast.

[AggroJones]

Where do you think my forum name came from? [:p]

[eastcoast]

Dumb Question I admit.
Gotta have something to gossip about.

[Anonymous]

I was too enthusiastic about having bought the microsoft Train Simulator and the Flying Scotsman was my favorite loco, hence the name. (real name is Charlie)

[Hawks05]

the school i go to our school name is the Blackhawks but since most teams with terms used by Indians now are being sued and what not we usually go by the Hawks. that is what is on all our jerseys and on the basketball court. but still we are the Blackhawks. 05 is the year i graduate and 5 is my lucky number.

Hawks05 - school name plus year of graduation.

[Jetrock]

My screen-name goes back to about 1987 when I had a character for a science-fiction roleplaying game (the hobby I temporarily left model railroading for in high school and college) by that name. I started using it online in 1988 when I called the Steve Jackson Games "Illuminati" BBS and have used it as an online handle ever since...

[Anonymous]

Union Pacific Grayhound Challengers #s 3977-3980. Arguably the most beutiful locomotives to ever exist and my altime favorite. (Followed in a close second by a GN Big Sky Blue F-Unit) So that is how I became Grayhound Challenger.

[Anonymous]

Trust me, you don't want to know ;)

Jay

[Hawks05]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NTDN

Trust me, you don't want to know ;)

Jay

yes we do.

[eastcoast]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NTDN

Trust me, you don't want to know ;)

Jay

[}:)]
YOU HAVE MY INTEREST !!!
[:p]

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Where do you think my forum name came from? [:p]

I'll take a shot at it,
Last name = Jones and your into Agriculture. Hence Aggro + Jones

or at least growing something!!! [;)][:D][:p]

Hey at least I'm willing to try to disect your forum name and risk insult and injury[:D]

Mine is stupidly simple
Vsmith = Victor Smith, duh![:p]

[Anonymous]

It took a lot of thought... [:P]

After being away from MRR for about 15 years I came to this forum because MR mag was and still is my favorite mag. However, when I joined the forum I had no idea what name, handle, to choose. Now that I have named my RR I would like to change my forum name to reflect my RR name.

Is there a way to change your forum name/handle?

[Hawks05]

ya i kind of want to change mine in a way to. i have a tendency to do this. i go to probably 10 other sports, music, and railroad forums. on half probably i want to change my name but to no avail can i. i think if you want to change your name you have to sign up for another account.

[Anonymous]

Tramp as already taken.

[Anonymous]

I think mine is obvious!!

[EL PARRo]

I got my username from three things:
1. my real last name is Parr (and no, I don't hear nearly as many golf cliches about my last name as you might think)
2. I like Spanish, even though I know very little and what I do know I'm very lousy at
3. having mostly caps seems to stand out
I use the same username (or some varient, i.e., EL_PARRo, elparro, etc.)on every message and forum on which I am registered, as well as my e-mail address and my AIM address, although EL PARRo was already taken on AIM, so I just added my jersey number from baseball.

[Anonymous]

Well, mines obvious. I choose my name in honor of my all time favorite locomotive, the Big Boy. The 4884 came from it's 4-8-8-4 wheel arangment. But you knew that, didn't you? [;)]

[Hawks05]

EL PARRo

what is your AIM name. is it just EL?

i'd like to talk to people my age in the hobby.

[EL PARRo]

My AIM name is "EL PARRo 15"

[FThunder11]

In mine THe F is for Farlow my last name Thunder is forthe ice hockey team i play on and 11 is my number. Its just an screen name i use for everything because it easy to remeber. just for all u young people im 14 and my aol is hckymaster4.

[Anonymous]

Well, the Sask in my name is an abbreviation for Saskatchewan, the province I live in. Tinplater refers to my love of collecting and operating "tinplate" toy trains.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'm a British guy who likes US Railroads, so it's fairly obvious!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dhuff

It took a lot of thought... [:P]

After being away from MRR for about 15 years I came to this forum because MR mag was and still is my favorite mag. However, when I joined the forum I had no idea what name, handle, to choose. Now that I have named my RR I would like to change my forum name to reflect my RR name.

Is there a way to change your forum name/handle?

Although it doesn't have anything to do with my RR name I thought it was a cool nickname so have re-signed up as Snake. "Snake" is the nickname for a switchman.

[Anonymous]

Wedge Antilles the least known character in all of the Star Wars movies but still my favorite character.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Cmdr.WedgeAntilles

Star Wars. Duh.

Cool name. I'm a Star Wars freak as well.[;)]

[Anonymous]

JETROCK- Hey, I just gotta say, "Illuminati" is one of the best games ever! The collectible version seemed to take a lot away from it, but they did the right thing by releasing a packaged full set so that it could be played with the old rules. My only problem is finding somebody else to play against.

My forum name... refers to the run-down crime-ridden section of town that I call home (Avondale) and is ironic in that you'd never expect a superhero to emerge from here. YET HERE I AM, ready to squelch bad grammar wherever it may be found, able to leap the tall piles of laundry which litter my floor, strong enough to cut styrene with my bare hands (and a sharp X-acto blade)!

Just a whacked-out screen name I came up with for forums way back when the net was young, and an identity that stuck.

[Anonymous]

Use it all over the web and ported it here.....

[Anonymous]

LightBender, it's what I do for a living. More commonly called a gemcutter. I put those little tiny polished flat facets on rocks to make them sparkly and convince your girlfriends and wives to waste good modelrailroading money making themselves feel pretty.

[ndbprr]

NDB - my intials PRR - The Standard Railroad of the World

[Anonymous]

The "trainjunky"part of my screen-name is fairly obvius (I hope). I figured that it would be better than something involving "railfan." The "29" is from a steamer which I like (and, surprise, surprise, it's no.29)!!!
And I support Avondaleguy: let's get rid of bad grammar[:)]! To whomever might be interested: impact should never be used as a verb, and someone needs to submit railroad terminology to the dictionary companies[:D], especially "railfan!!!" And finally, remember to use your and you're, and its and it's, correctly[8D].
And with that, I'm going to go back to horrifying my old grammar teacher with "hoghead," "cattenary" (surprisingly, it's not a word found in the dictionary), and other non-dictionary slang[;)].
And, bigboy4884 is using a new signature...oh well[:)][:D].

Not nearly as grammatically perfect as I would lead you to believe[^],
Daniel