MEMBER/USER NAMES ORIGIN

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:26 pm

HenryJ's, Jim's, Borderman's and MellowYellow's member names are somewhat obvious

User/Member names are always interesting to me. I enjoy trying to figure out how people chose them. I find myself guessing how they were chosen and why.

Ex......"Rock"

Is it because he is a climber, is a retired US Army Sgt or something else entirely?

I came up with mine in '94 on AOL. The "F9" is a KY State Police assigned call sign when I transferred here. I guess the "F" was because I was/still in federal law enforcement.

The "K9" obviously came from the fact that I was a K-9 handler and I felt lucky to perform in that capacity and actually make a living from it

I'd love to hear from other members and hear the thought process that resulted in their user name.

Jeff, keep silent on this class exercise!

Blaze One · Post by **Blaze One** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:00 pm

well I have been using two names on discussion boards . When it is a car/truck related forum I use "blaze one" because I drive a Blazer and I have "one" and because i have been known to "blaze one" once in awhile

The other I use is "Mr.Pink" . Because i like the character " Mr. Pink" for the movie resevoir dogs .

and on fishing forums i use my real name or "snag"

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:32 pm

ty, Blaze!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:52 pm

I call myself "Rusty" because I have a knack for collecting rusty old relics. I have a garage full of rusty junk.

BobbleSmitty · Post by **BobbleSmitty** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:59 pm

I came up with my screenname by putting my two knick names together. I acquired "Bobble" from my neighbor when I was about 5 yrs old... Not that I couldn't catch a ball or anything, he just put an "L E" at the end of all the neighborhood kids names. I figured that I would use that when I created my first SN on AOL back in '97. When I bought my crew, I got a personalized plate with "Bobble" on it. I got "Smitty" from my shop teacher back in highschool since my last name is Smith. I would have put "Smitty" as my personalized plate, but of course, it was already taken.

BADs Crew · Post by **BADs Crew** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:04 pm

B.A.D. are my initials

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:14 pm

Rusty, I had a bunch figured out and since I was here for the name change "rush" . I knew yours.

Bobble was one that perplexed me and TY!

I hate it when I am exposed as a "softy" and "Bad" burned me righteously.

Thanks for humoring me.

bwenny247 · Post by **bwenny247** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:51 pm

my girlfriend kinda slurred my name one time, like when you're talking to a baby and "Bwenny" came out, kinda stuck ever since. 247 is just cause I'm "bwenny" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

but you guys can call me ben

......pweeeeeease

j0ker v1.25 · Post by **j0ker v1.25** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:46 pm

mine's a derivative of 2 hobbies, computers and the occasional toke or two.

joker 1.25" papers being the wrap of choice

and the "v" prefix being the common prefix to software releases.

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:04 pm

I like to go snowmobiling and the only kind of snowmobile is Arctic Cat

I also go by hooter sense High School because of my last name

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:18 pm

Hmmmm

I picked jeff because its my name

024 because it was my 1st pin # to an ATM card when I was 16 and now I use it because im A GORDON FAN :p

border man · Post by **border man** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:10 am

DUH!!!

<<<<---------------------------:rock:

chumley · Post by **chumley** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:54 am

Chumley was given to me by a guy at work who gives everyone nicknames, kinda like the company clown. If anyone is old enough to remember Tennessee Tuxedo ( I don't and I'm 37) and I didn't know this until about 3 yrs after I got this nickname that Chumley is a big dumb looking walrus! Oh well I guess if the shoe fits...

Steve2003 · Post by **Steve2003** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:44 am

I use Steve2003 because Steve is my nickname. My real name is Stephen and my crew is a 2003

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:52 am

Steve2003 wrote:I use Steve2003 because Steve is my nickname. My real name is Stephen and my crew is a 2003

That's what I guessed but it's nice to have confirmed

quickbiker · Post by **quickbiker** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:50 am

<---- Cause it is. lol

gocntry · Post by **gocntry** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:37 pm

Mine Is Cuz I Live In The City But I Want To GO back To The CouNTRY

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:50 pm

I didn't have a clue on yours but, after you explaining it, works for me

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:09 pm

gocntry wrote:Mine Is Cuz I Live In The City But I Want To GO back To The CouNTRY

And to think, not too long ago, Manassas was the country!

Post by **Walt** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:37 am

Nothing special here

My job constantly requires me to log into computers, and they assigned me "wamason", which is the first letter of my first name, and my entire last name, as a login, and it stuck...

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:57 am

mine's Hcrab backwards and I was born in 1997

coreylubahn · Post by **coreylubahn** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:06 am

barch97 wrote:mine's Hcrab backwards and I was born in 1997

Sure you were....and you'll get your license to drive your crew in about 8 years...haha....good one.....

Mine is simply my name....a lot to figure out there....

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:35 am

After tinkering in the garage with one of my "toys" I'm starting to think I need a new name that reflects my masochistic tendencies or at least something that conveys the fact that I'm TERMINALLY INSANE!!!

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:46 am

I'll give you 2 guesses...

bubaloo1983 · Post by **bubaloo1983** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:58 pm

my gf calls me my name so i thought it was unique

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:16 pm

AZS10Crew wrote:I'll give you 2 guesses...

Please do not tell me that it is that easy

Steve2003 · Post by **Steve2003** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:28 pm

f9k9 wrote:
AZS10Crew wrote:I'll give you 2 guesses...

Please do not tell me that it is that easy

maybe he should change it to INS10crew

kf6kmx · Post by **kf6kmx** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:47 pm

Mine is just my ham callsign.. guaranteed to only be one with the callsign

so I usually get it first try on most signups (unless I've been there before and forgot).

coffeedrnkr · Post by **coffeedrnkr** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:16 pm

coffeedrnkr15 is my aim name from like 8 years ago and I just used coffeedrnkr b/c I felt like it

Actually this is the only forum I go by coffeedrnkr on, I usually go by OOBER and I don't think I can change it

I can change it if you like -HJ

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:05 am

Mine's pretty hard to figure out.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:18 am

about as hard as top_sgt

:

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:56 am

who woulda guessed

Pauleo · Post by **Pauleo** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:11 pm

I wish I could come up with something clever. But truth is, I stole it from someone else!!! My first name is Paul. The "eo" has no signifigance what-so-ever!!! I just saw the name somewhere before & I "assumed" it!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:34 pm

Pauleo wrote:I wish I could come up with something clever. But truth is, I stole it from someone else!!! My first name is Paul. The "eo" has no signifigance what-so-ever!!! I just saw the name somewhere before & I "assumed" it!

Ah! Identity theft! And I do believe we have a couple of cops here.... Hmmm?

SONOMA915 · Post by **SONOMA915** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:02 pm

I dive the luxury version of the S-10. S-10ers dont get offended, just playin. Sonoma and the other part is the area code.

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:07 pm

SONOMA915 wrote:I dive the luxury version of the S-10. S-10ers dont get offended, just playin. Sonoma and the other part is the area code.

SONOMA915 · Post by **SONOMA915** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:11 pm

What did you do to that Ford? Is that why you bought your GM?

1337vending · Post by **1337vending** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:57 pm

1337 is 'leet' spelled in numbers, meaning 'elite' usually in reference to computers. (which I work with every day for my job). I got the vending part from a room in the main building at college, which happened to be room#1337 and had the title 'Vending'. Hence, 1337vending. Thought it was a pretty unique name...

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:25 pm

1337vending wrote:1337 is 'leet' spelled in numbers, meaning 'elite' usually in reference to computers. (which I work with every day for my job). I got the vending part from a room in the main building at college, which happened to be room#1337 and had the title 'Vending'. Hence, 1337vending. Thought it was a pretty unique name...

Might as well have been a Navajo code talker that came up with that one. I have to admit that yours was one that really had be curious

Thanks for sharing

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:59 pm

Steve2003 wrote:
f9k9 wrote:
AZS10Crew wrote:I'll give you 2 guesses...

Please do not tell me that it is that easy
maybe he should change it to INS10crew

I like it in Indiana, but not that much.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:22 pm

You appear to be doing quite well in Indiana. I just wish we had met before my yearly trips to Elkhart came to an end. I still want to make one more trip there to reunite with my K-9 mentor quits the business and hopefully we can meet.

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:45 pm

f9k9 wrote:You appear to be doing quite well in Indiana. I just wish we had met before my yearly trips to Elkhart came to an end. I still want to make one more trip there to reunite with my K-9 mentor quits the business and hopefully we can meet.

Things could be worse I guess.

Let me know when you might be up here. I'm only 30 minutes or so from Elkhart.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:20 pm

AZS10Crew wrote:
f9k9 wrote:You appear to be doing quite well in Indiana. I just wish we had met before my yearly trips to Elkhart came to an end. I still want to make one more trip there to reunite with my K-9 mentor quits the business and hopefully we can meet.
Things could be worse I guess.

Let me know when you might be up here. I'm only 30 minutes or so from Elkhart.

I am trying to plan a trip npw. I feel that my buddy, in Elkhart, and I are very close ftiends

Am needing a few tips from him on my current pup and he is the one to line one out in 2 days that I may never do in 10 yrs

24digger · Post by **24digger** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:42 pm

Nothing to complicated here I like jeff gordon and I dig for a living.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:51 pm

TY 24digger!

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:59 pm

I am throwing patience out the freakin' door

Spill the beans a2b

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:43 am

f9k9 wrote:I am throwing patience out the freakin' door

Spill the beans a2b

*Hint

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:31 am

barch97 wrote:
f9k9 wrote:I am throwing patience out the freakin' door

Spill the beans a2b

*Hint

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:33 pm

f9k9 wrote:
AZS10Crew wrote:Let me know when you might be up here. I'm only 30 minutes or so from Elkhart.
I am trying to plan a trip npw. I feel that my buddy, in Elkhart, and I are very close ftiends

Am needing a few tips from him on my current pup and he is the one to line one out in 2 days that I may never do in 10 yrs

Well...if you go the way I think you will (US 31...north of Indy anyway), you'll pass within about 1/4 mile of my house, so just let me know when you're passing through.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:21 pm

Will do, I pass through there on 31 before I hit the South Bend bypass

RocK · Post by **RocK** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:21 pm

K, I guess mine comes with a little story...

Back around 94 when I was 15. I bought my first car, a 1984 Monte Carlo. It had the 4.3 and a bad tranny. So me and a bud fixed er up and slapped in a 305 so tired that you could turn over by moving the fan. LOL. 2 months later the 350 was intro'd. That was the end of my "ever have money life" Six four bolts and about 20 Grand later I had me a 10.92 @128.46MPH Monte Carlo. That was my daily driver too. MPG=5.

Anyway, I thought I would need some sweet license plates when the whole project began so I put in for ROCKN84. Two weeks later I get my plates. Hmmm......ROCKN82. So now everybody at the Byron Dragway (in IL) Is asking me if it is an 82 cause it didnt look like one... Shortly there after somebody tossed me the nick ROCK. And It stuck. The rockn82 has been my aol screen name since aol 2.0 and every screenname since. You can just about email rockn82@whatever and get me. LOL. I have even met women down in fort hood cause of them plates. Chat'n online and my name pops up. She said she saw the plates like that at the gym and yada yada.

Well thats my story... and I miss my car again.

By the way we do the National Wheelstand Championships in Byron. You get trophies for the longest/sickest wheelstand and you should see some of the stuff people do to their vehicles because they refuse to lift. They yank the wheelie bars off for these. Car Craft Mag covered it last year and Here are some links.

Check out the "most violent" Hear how he is still on the throttle and ready to roll. God I love it.

You'll prolly have to use Quicktime cause I can't get the Win Player to work.
http://www.carcraft.com/av/116_0505_whe ... index.html

Yeah and I guess I really Don't have to explain the "Watch This" in my Signature. I try not to say it anymore, I dont have the time/money.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:55 am

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:05 pm

Hey Rock do you still come down to Byron Drag Way for those races?
Because that is not to far were I live i'm just 15Min away from there. Maybe we could meet up some time?

RocK · Post by **RocK** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:31 am

I grew up in Kirkland and lived in Davis Junction untill i went in the Army. I went last year but I dont make it down there all that often anymore. Do you do any trail riding down there? And have you ever gone to the freeport dirt oval?

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:57 pm

No, not unless it is putting snowmobile trail"s for the winter and takeing them out in the spring

. thats as much as I do. no I have not been to the dirt races at Freeport.

2bunik · Post by **2bunik** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:00 pm

2bunik = to be unique

My mustang has always been differant because of all the mods I have done to it. It actually looks like an import now.. Anyways I was fishing around for a name for the entire project, and came up with 2bunik. So That was what my mustang project was named.. It was supposed to be on a license plate but i never got around to it... I have one other log on that I use. it is TRAI_38 that was randomly chosen for my yahoo email account back in 1996 or something.. and I have used that ever since...

chumley · Post by **chumley** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:38 pm

24digger wrote:Nothing to complicated here I like jeff gordon and I dig for a living.

Are you a hoe operator? I ran some Iron up until about a year ago, now I'm a foreman. I still get in the seat occasionally

24digger · Post by **24digger** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:31 pm

chumley wrote:
24digger wrote:Nothing to complicated here I like jeff gordon and I dig for a living.
Are you a hoe operator? I ran some Iron up until about a year ago, now I'm a foreman. I still get in the seat occasionally

Yes I've been running a Case hoe for about 22 years now.

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:08 pm

Rusty Shackleford is the alias that Dale Gribble on King of the Hill uses when he orders pizzas or signs important documents etc...

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:11 pm

Welcome aboard!

I caught the meaning in your replay to HenryJ,

Have fun here but, not at other's expense............Barch!

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:48 pm

To whom it may concern...Thank you for the Dale Gribble picture thing. Like I have said before, I am computer illiterate and wouldnt know how to do anything like that. My wife and I got a big kick out of it...Thanks again!!

Rusty

Post by **HenryJ** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:53 pm

Rusty Shackleford wrote:...Thank you for the Dale Gribble picture thing.

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:14 pm

Glad to see a normal crew on here

welcome on here

there is some

people on here but they know there stuff.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:12 am

BADs Crew wrote:B.A.D. are my initials

I bet the ladies give you a wide berth with a nickname like BAD sCrew

gairbear · Post by **gairbear** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:33 pm

well my name's Gary....but My mom started the whole Gairbear thing and my friends got wind of it and it just kinda stuck..

Retep · Post by **Retep** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:44 pm

Kind of stupid...........but................you asked...............
A good 10 years or so ago, I was working at a mechanical design job shop. Our system/network administrator thought it would be a good idea to implement Windows NT 4.0 He took every person in the office and inverted their name. Viola, they had a user account. So my first ever user name of any kind was my name spelled backwards. Retep or Peter.
I told you it was stupid....You asked............

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:48 pm

I still like, and appreciated it Retep. I do not know if you remember but, I mentioned I grew up there and my closest friend is still living in Kettering

Retep · Post by **Retep** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:26 pm

f9k9 wrote:I still like, and appreciated it Retep. I do not know if you remember but, I mentioned I grew up there and my closest friend is still living in Kettering

Yes, I do remember.... and I would like to meet you and wheel some day.

I am glad you started this thread. actually, it is a topic I have wanted to start but never did.

I have a new job now that keeps me busy. Unfortunately, I am unable to keep up with the forum like I used to. I used to do all my forum surfing at work. However, when at home, I just don't get online much. Sucks, kind of like moving far away from family....

Take care,
Pete.

P.S. If you ever come "home" to visit family or your friend, look me up. If I remember correctly, you told me the street where your friend lives. I am within walking distance.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:31 pm

PM anytime!

BADs Crew · Post by **BADs Crew** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:04 am

HenryJ wrote:
BADs Crew wrote:B.A.D. are my initials
I bet the ladies give you a wide berth with a nickname like BAD sCrew

Well you know how its used both ways " Dam thats one BAD truck" We have a super at work. His last name is Watt and all our users names are first initial and last name. his first name is Troy

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:19 am

I use Jim because I can...getting in on the forum early aloud me to do that. I'd rather not use nicknames given to me:
Slopper 17 year old Corvette restorer / detailer...I was always under a car on the lift with water and a scrub brush. This was before the time of body off restorations and back when the white glove treatment was more important than being correct, all the work was done overhead on the lift. Hours of cleaning, sanding, masking and painting.
Weisy High school...part of my last name.
Jimmy-d-mote When your a senior in high school with a factory 1969 427 COPO Chevelle you could expect a nickname like that.

Feather Foot When you have the fastest car in the school but rarely get on it...because you feel you don't have to prove anything

I still tend to detail everything.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:23 am

BADs Crew wrote:...Troy

OMG, that is funny

There is always something worse isn't there?!? Years ago I worked for a company who's owners name was Richard Dick, calling him Mr.---- really seemed disrespectful. Thank goodness I never ran into his brother Harry. No way could I have kept a straight face.

BADs Crew · Post by **BADs Crew** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:36 am

We have a chain of store here called WAWA. I don't know if you have them your way but if you ever get a coffee there look at the owners name on the side of the coffee cup. Its Richard Wood

LUVMY02CREW · Post by **LUVMY02CREW** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:14 pm

Mine is just a little heartfelt shout out to the old chevy luv and the rest hopefully self explanitory(even though technically I should be LUVTHEBANKS02CREW

FYI...I just found this thread and I'm betting there has been a few members added in the 2+ years since the last post. And as a newbie, I'm just trying to follow the guidelines in the linked video from this announcement...Welcome new users

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:50 pm

Wow, forgot all about this thread, LUVMY02CREW!

This was actually my first forum venture and I almost freaked out over a few remarks made to me as a newbie and I wanted to actually bail out of the whole scene.

I am glad I had support and hung in here.