Just for fun - how did you choose your handle/user name

[Flat top]

Preferred hair style.

 

[WhittleBurner]

With so many new members I thought it might be fun to dredge up this old thread and learn about the newer members forum names .

 

[USA in a Chevrolet]

Rob, I enjoyed reading through your story about your user name. I am very happy for you. It’s terrible losing a loved one & some people can never move on. How did you meet your second wife? Was it a conscious choice to start looking for a new partner or did it happen when you didn’t expect to meet someone?

I picked my user name because I’m a life long Chevy guy & my wife & I wanted to see this beautiful country of ours. I remembered the old Chevy slogan, “See the USA in a Chevrolet “ & it just worked for us!

 

[Second Chance]

Rob, I enjoyed reading through your story about your user name. I am very happy for you. It’s terrible losing a loved one & some people can never move on. How did you meet your second wife? Was it a conscious choice to start looking for a new partner or did it happen when you didn’t expect to meet someone?

I picked my user name because I’m a life long Chevy guy & my wife & I wanted to see this beautiful country of ours. I remembered the old Chevy slogan, “See the USA in a Chevrolet “ & it just worked for us!

It was a conscious choice, Ray.

Rob

 

[MoonShadow_1911]

Moon Shadow has been my handle through CB radio, before-the-internet BBS' (Bulletin Board System), programming, the internet, etc...

The 1911 came about because that is my pistol of choice, and the cops and military guys I used to shoot with gave me the nickname Kid 1911. I was 12 at the time. Yes, shooting a 1911... The Beretta most of them used to shoot with was to big for my hands. One of the military guys came over with his full size 1911 and let me shoot it. First time with the gun and I out shot almost everyone else on a combat training course. That was the best shooting day of me life.

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[attaboy]

Attaboy

Taken from my first and last name.
Bob Attaway

 

[CX500T]

I have a Honda CX500 Turbo, hence CX500T

I use a different username on other forums that was my callsign in the Navy but isn't exactly family friendly.

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[Captcolour]

I am/was a color technologist for the coloring of plastics. Guys in Detroit starting calling me Captain Color in the early 90s. Kinda stuck. Captcolor wasn't available on aol at the time, so used captcolour.

 

[RoJoSo]

Ro = First two letters of my first name.
Jo = First two letters of my wife's name.
So = First two letters of our last name.

 

[IBEW Sparky]

IBEW Sparky

IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Sparky = it's just what most other trades call us out on the job site.

I went to vo-tech school for electrical back in highschool in the mid 70's and retired from the trade 2½ years ago. Wife and I try and get out as often as we can with friends and family. Started out camping as a kid, raised 3 children with the camping lifestyle and bought our first RV (pop-up camper) in 1999. Then in 2001 set off on a 7 week 8800+ mile trip across the USA and parts of Southern Canada. Owned a 31' travel trailer after that and treated ourselves to the GD 5er after surviving throat cancer. My motto is "every day I can put both feet on the ground is a good day"!

 

[IBEW Sparky]

Nothing too witty on my part. It my last name, and there are the three of us. Me John , wife Carol, and our kid with the big nose and furry coat Hexy.

This should be a enjoyable thread. Thanks for starting it.

John Joscelyne

? Love all the Philadelphia sports stuff! I'm also a big fan of all of them. We're not to far apart and I grew up in Bucks County in Chalfont.

 

[CX500T]

IBEW Sparky

IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Sparky = it's just what most other trades call us out on the job site.

I went to vo-tech school for electrical back in highschool in the mid 70's and retired from the trade 2½ years ago. Wife and I try and get out as often as we can with friends and family. Started out camping as a kid, raised 3 children with the camping lifestyle and bought our first RV (pop-up camper) in 1999. Then in 2001 set off on a 7 week 8800+ mile trip across the USA and parts of Southern Canada. Owned a 31' travel trailer after that and treated ourselves to the GD 5er after surviving throat cancer. My motto is "every day I can put both feet on the ground is a good day"!

I used to drive by the IBEW Local 103 hall daily when I worked at Pollak (the trailer plug people, plus a bunch of electromechanical actuators in your trucks you don't care about until they don't work) on Freeport Street in Boston. I started off trades, then went to college, ran out of money, joined the reserves, finished college but still use my "Tradesman" skills a hell of a lot more than my engineering degrees. Glorified bus driver now according to the CEO where I work. (also another union job, ALPA Council 66)

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

IBEW Sparky

IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Sparky = it's just what most other trades call us out on the job site.

I went to vo-tech school for electrical back in highschool in the mid 70's and retired from the trade 2½ years ago. Wife and I try and get out as often as we can with friends and family. Started out camping as a kid, raised 3 children with the camping lifestyle and bought our first RV (pop-up camper) in 1999. Then in 2001 set off on a 7 week 8800+ mile trip across the USA and parts of Southern Canada. Owned a 31' travel trailer after that and treated ourselves to the GD 5er after surviving throat cancer. My motto is "every day I can put both feet on the ground is a good day"!

44 years with the IBEW here.

 

[Capt Bob]

Ran a charter in So. Fla. where both my wife and I are from originally so I'm Capt. Bob.

 

[Scott'n'Wendy]

IBEW Sparky

IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Sparky = it's just what most other trades call us out on the job site.

I went to vo-tech school for electrical back in highschool in the mid 70's and retired from the trade 2½ years ago. Wife and I try and get out as often as we can with friends and family. Started out camping as a kid, raised 3 children with the camping lifestyle and bought our first RV (pop-up camper) in 1999. Then in 2001 set off on a 7 week 8800+ mile trip across the USA and parts of Southern Canada. Owned a 31' travel trailer after that and treated ourselves to the GD 5er after surviving throat cancer. My motto is "every day I can put both feet on the ground is a good day"!

35 years IBEW Canada here. Been called sparky more than a few times...Course we only 'spark it up' when we do our job wrong.....

As for the username...not too imaginative...I'm Scott...wife's name is.....Wendy.

 

[Keniston]

Our last name…. Easy peasy

 

[Sportsdad60]

My kids played just about every sport growing up so our entire world revolved around getting them from one practice to the next. Vacations were either camping or traveling across the US with travel teams.
Thus, Sports Dad (and year I was born)

 

[Corky2]

Corky2 or Corky II is a female Orca Killer Whale that first lived in captivity at Marineland of the Pacific once located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast in Los Angeles County. I grew up near Marineland and visited it many times throughout my childhood and as a young adult before it closed in 1987. I spend lots of time in or near the Pacific ocean throughout my life just hanging out, swimming and fishing. Remembering Corky is remembering life in southern California back then which also no longer exists. Orca whales are intelligent mammals, family oriented, social and have no natural predators.

I can relate to a captive Orca as I too feel like we are increasingly living in captivity.

 

[Cannon07]

Lazy, just my last name.

 

[Buckethead305]

Went to get a cowboy hat with my Uncle years ago. My head is rather large and the salesman said I'd be better off with a five gallon bucket. Seems Stetson doesn't make a one size fits all. Miami's area code is 305 , we don't mention 786.