Curious about forum user names

[nightowlhooter1]

nightowlhooter1- I had the name nightowl as a cd handle name for years. When I went to register with aol, that name was taken. I thought a nightowl hoots and I give a hoot about a lot of subjects and people. But that name was taken also. I kept adding to the name with a er. That was taken also. So I added a 1 after the name and that went through. I have went by that name for years now.

[MaShep]

Hey Ed- end of nov. for ours. Congats to you, how about Ol'GrandRivet?

[MrSalt]

Great thread.

Matthew&Gigi -- pretty obvious. But you've got me to thinking, RivetED (congrats!!) - it's usually me posting, and we both try to only speak for ourselves....

everywhere else I've always gone by WorksofMan - I'm a metalsmith/jeweler/maker of some sort , inspired by architecture, old machinery, bridges, the highways, and the imperfections of mankind... Works of Man is the business name - although "business" still seems like a weird word when I make things I like and sell them for a living!

Any thoughts out there in the Airstream world?

Matthew, of Matthew&Gigi

[aztlanco]

I got my user name from my company "Aztlan Construction Co.". Aztlan was the ancient land of the Aztec indians which is believed to have existed in our South West before they migrated down to Mexico. The South West is where we conduct our construction business.
Ernie

[Van]

mine is just an abbreviation of my surname.

VanDehey.


I also use a couple of differing variations of it depending on the forum i am on, gaming, motorcycling, etc.

[Over59]

New trailer is a 1959 Overlander.

[roger n cindy]

similar to other couples i use both our names but i post. we differ in our opinions yes. i having been beaten to death and revived many years ago find i need a chapperone ( sounds better than baby setter ) at times. so we appear as a pair, most everywhere i go cindy goes. we travel 20k a year doing NSRA car shows. shes lucky enough that one of my sons travels with me to metalmeets and she gets to rest. god gave me a second chance at life, cindy gives me a second chance at living. so were Roger n Cindy
roger

[flyrodbldr]

Hi....my name is what i do for enjoyment...I hand plane (build) bamboo flyrods in the way they have been built since the 1920s...i learned from a gentelman who had built them that way for many years and past it on to me.... I ended up buying his business from him several years later and have built them as a hobby biz til I retire then........
but is only not only what i do it is my passion..... I own a flysop in So. Florida and a home in SW Montana....That and my work as a propmaker forman for the motion picture industry keep me verrrrry busy......and don't allow much time for fishing ,hunting,or traveling.....but soon very soon.........

[davidz71]

davidz71 is a combination of my 2nd born son and my '92 Chevy Z71. I was going to give it to him for graduation in '01 but he rolled it missing a deer on a silty back road. Besides that, craigz71 was already taken on the www.pickuptruck.com forum.

[aluminauts]

Our screen name came from trying to compromise on something like alumi-nuts, which my wife could not agree with.
After several interesting spellings and searches of the web, google came up with the site for the historical aluminum submarine, the aluminaut.
http://www.smv.org/info/aluminautEX.htm.
Her crew where the aluminauts. Problem solved!

[Janet H]

Well - the name is obvious - I have NO imagination! We did however, name the trailer "Acoustic Argosy" and install a name plate (using existing holes from an old dealer label) right next to the door - we're in the music industry and it seemed sort of fitting.

[Iceboy117]

Started using Iceboy117 on another forum since I have been to Antarctica several times. The name was taken but I added the 117 as they were the next three keys I hit..... Jim....

[Janets Husband]

Look at Post 91.

[gryphon]

My last name is Griffin and I have always used gryphon on the internet-- for privacy reasons. 14 years.

Gryphon.

[Creampuff]

We were in AZ and looking at the RV Trader ads and saw "her". She was advertised as 'A Real Creampuff'- the rest is history!!

[alvinator]

My real name is Albert; a joker in the office with the name of Craig decided I was to be called Alvin after the chipmunk, I guess. So I came up with alvinator and Craig is now called Craigypoo!

See, you should not have asked where these goofy names come from!!!!

[zamboni]

from my first job out of college...operating a zamboni at a local ice rink...Dad was sooo proud!)

[cosmotini]

I took my wife's favorite adult beverage, COSMOpolitan, and mine, marTINI. Hence, BOB!

[blucloud]

Back many many moons ago.....just out of school (1967), I bought my first Corvette.... A blue convertible...for some reason and I cannot remember why I named the car Blucloud.... but the name stuck, hence my screen name 'blucloud'.
If you're wondering what happened to Blucloud.....we've been together for nearly 36 years....many many miles...a couple of scrapes...and a few tickets.

Dave

[bredlo]

Plopping down on the sofa as a little kid next to mom, she's say, "How ya doin, Bredlo?" It wasn't all that often, but it always stuck out in my mind as a strange thing to call your kid.

Years later as I began signing up for websites, eBay, online banking... I'd need a username that wouldn't be as easy to guess as my name... Bredlo.