How'd You Choose Your ECF Member Name?

[Scoop224]

Mine comes from another one of my hobbies. I am an active member of the Case/Ingersoll communty of hydraulically driven garden tractors. They are super little machines capable of anything. My primary tractor (I own four of them) is a 14hp model labelled a 224, which has a customized hood from a different model that contains a hoodscoop. So i became Scoop224.

On other forums I use my nickname "kungdrew" which is like kung-fu but but my real name, Drew. I just figured it was time for something different, and like some others, wasn't really planning on being active here, but I got hooked and can't stop now.

 

[Chimney34]

Mine was given to me by several armorers that I had working for me when on active duty. I was the supply sgt for a Headquarters unit and since we had more people that required, I had 3 armorers, all female. Since we just started being allowed to have females in a combat unit, I was protective of "my girls". They worked their butts off for me. I remember a few weeks where we had no time off and I was constantly telling them to go eat, or would say "Time to go to bed girls!" .. they started replying "Yes Daddy!". It soon mutated and they were telling soldiers they were sent out after to "Report to Supply Daddy". just stuck!

Funny story! Thank you to you as well for serving our country!

 

[Devilok]

I like your story! Thank you for your service as well. I was in the Army back in '93 and was stationed at Ft Campbell, 101st Airborne, was 11b, just a grunt

Mine was given to me by several armorers that I had working for me when on active duty. I was the supply sgt for a Headquarters unit and since we had more people that required, I had 3 armorers, all female. Since we just started being allowed to have females in a combat unit, I was protective of "my girls". They worked their butts off for me. I remember a few weeks where we had no time off and I was constantly telling them to go eat, or would say "Time to go to bed girls!" .. they started replying "Yes Daddy!". It soon mutated and they were telling soldiers they were sent out after to "Report to Supply Daddy". just stuck!

 

[Kable]

My nickname in the marine corps was gunslinger. It rhymed with my last name, and I was a pretty good shot. Most people called me "guns" for short. A lot better than a lot of the nicknames people end up with in the service, so I was happy with it.

 

[jasl90]

Mine is my initials and the year I graduated from high school. I started using it when I opened my first hotmail account. After about 20 attempts to find an unused name, I said screw it and tried my initials plus the year I graduated (because it had to be at least 6 characters).
Now I just use it for everything.

 

[r77r7r]

Kinda just Put 2 fingers on the keyboard a wiggled them back and forth..........I was "deep" back in the seventies tho, does that count?

 

[Chimney34]

Kinda just Put 2 fingers on the keyboard a wiggled them back and forth..........I was "deep" back in the seventies tho, does that count?

Absolutely! 7 is my favorite number so works for me!

 

[LV SuzyQ]

I always see so many interesting names on here. Just wondering how did you come up with yours? What does it mean or where did it come from? Where did mines come from you might ask...

Well...when I was in college I pledged a sorority. Yes I pledged a sorority. No not the dumb ditsy party type of sorority either. During the pledge process I would always get caught smoking a cigarette no matter where I was. I would be behind the building, in between some bushes, sitting in my car etc...I was never proud of being a smoker & I wanted to make a good impression. Also I never smoked around non smokers. So that's what they started to call me. After getting caught so many times I stopped hiding while I was smoking and just smoked wherever I was. I guess over the years the name just kind of stuck. So that's how chimney came about. I still blow out clouds of smoke like a chimney but its just water vapor now!

BTW my real name is Daune...pronounced Dawn.
Please share your story or just the thought process behind your name.

Hi Daune,

My name is Susan but everyone's called me Suzy since I was a baby. In my early teens I started playing pool and the regulars in my local pool hall started calling me Suzy Cue .. Which turned into just calling me Q .. I've been known as SuzyQ since

 

[six]

Back in the days before the www when we had usenet and gopher, I participated in some technical usenet discussion groups. Back then, we just used our real names on the 'internet'. Pseudonyms began to be common just a few months before the www started to exist..

Arouund that time, some of the people in one of the usenet groups I used found out I had won a televised dart tournament. It wasn't a really big deal and more of an exhibition than an actual tournament - We were playing 301 instead of the much more popular for European TV 901. A perfect game of 301 is 6 darts thrown - 5 bullseyes and a triple-17 and is called a six dart out. I threw ten perfect games in a row on TV... So, anyway, they started calling me sixdartout. At some point, someone on usenet shortened that to sixdarts. Then a few years later in a gaming forum on the www, someone shortened it to just "six". It just sort of stuck.

 

[JerryRM]

Mine is my first name and the suffix of my Amateur Radio (Ham) callsign. When I was active in radio, there was another local guy who was also named Jerry. To avoid confusion, the guys would refer to me as JerryRM or just RM. When I started vaping and joined the ECF, I decided to use it here too.

Thanks to all the military members and veterans for your service. I was Army, 1969 - 71.

Nice thread, Daune (Dawn).

 

[Chimney34]

Loving reading about the background behind everyone's name! However, I don't think anyone would want me playing pool or throwing darts. Lets just say I'm far sighted! Lol! To thine own self be true! I know my limitations! Although I am getting a weapons permit in the next couple of weeks. My father insists even though I'm a grown woman. I'm a country girl so I know how to handle myself around those. Tried my hand at pool a couple of times & I was pretty dangerous. Still can't understand how I made the pool balls pop off of the table & into the air.

 

[flintlock62]

I shoot and build flintlock rifles. However, I shoot much better than I can build! I started shooting muzzle loaders because all the lawyers and doctors who can't seem to tell the difference between a deer and a cow kind of made me nervous. I found it was much more of a challenge, and also more peaceful having the woods to myself. I now do all my hunting with a flintlock.

 

[fourthrok]

Mine is a name I used in numerous forums a few years ago. I'd stopped using it awhile and was using the nickname "emeleste" for a long time (which is inspired by my initials) but when I joined here I decided to resurrect my old moniker. It's a play on the old TV show "Third Rock from the Sun" and refers to my proper first name (which I don't use except for legal papers and such).

Follow all that? hehehe!

 

[daventura]

My name is David.
I am from Ventura, a beautiful little beach town near Southern California.

Way back when, when there were BBS' and AOL 1.0, I shortened DavidfromVentura to daventura.
I have been daventura ever since.
Except for the short time I lived in Reno, then I was davereno.

A lot of people still assume my name is Dave Ventura, it is not.

And, if you spell it like this... d'aventura, it means adventure in Spain.

 

[serenity21899]

When your name is Susan, I think you are automatically given the nickname susieq at birth. The rest is my zipcode. When I first joined I did not plan on participating to the extent I do, so I picked a username I commonly use elsewhere. Now, I wish I had picked a different user name with a bit more originality, but thats okay.

 

[JerryRM]

When your name is Susan, I think you are automatically given the nickname susieq at birth. The rest is my zipcode. When I first joined I did not plan on participating to the extent I do, so I picked a username I commonly use elsewhere. Now, I wish I had picked a different user name with a bit more originality, but thats okay.

You can have your username changed, if you want to change it.

 

[LV SuzyQ]

Loving reading about the background behind everyone's name! However, I don't think anyone would want me playing pool or throwing darts. Lets just say I'm far sighted! Lol! To thine own self be true! I know my limitations! Although I am getting a weapons permit in the next couple of weeks. My father insists even though I'm a grown woman. I'm a country girl so I know how to handle myself around those. Tried my hand at pool a couple of times & I was pretty dangerous. Still can't understand how I made the pool balls pop off of the table & into the air.

My lessons used to be 50 dollars for a half hr and 75 for an hr ( and this was over ten years ago!) but come out to visit and your lesson is free!

 

[mecocina]

I've been using this name for over 10 years now. I needed a name for a forum and I was in my kitchen baking at the time. So I came up with me cocina. I'm usually in the kitchen cooking/baking/crafting something.

 

[serenity21899]

You can have your username changed, if you want to change it.

Thank you for the info, but really, in the end, it isn't really about my username, but more about what I have to say and what I learn here.

 

[MarleysChains]

I have a few different reasons for choosing mine. One and the most obvious is that Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is one of my all time favorite Christmas stories. Also, one of my current favorite bands uses Marley's Chains in a lyric of one of their songs. But I think the reason that I actually settled on the name has to do with the meaning behind the chains that Marley wears in the story. The chains that Marley's ghost wears according to the story were forged in life according to what he had done with his life. So, for me the name symbolizes my past as a smoker.