"Screen names?" Topic

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the founder and first king of Wessex. Possibly a real person, possibly a myth.

I just happened to be reading about him at the time.

By the way, it is pronounced with a 'hard' c. As in Kerdick. The name Cedric is thought to have originated as a Victorian spelling mistake while attempting to revive an ancient name from the 'romantic' past!

My nickname from my days in the U.S. Army. My last name is "Rogers" and the number is my house number from my home address. I know, pretty original…not!

Saber6

Old Call Sign

Same here …

COL because I am a US Army Colonel, Scott is part of my last name, ret added when I retired from the US Army.

BTW retiring does not mean you lose your rank, you earned it you keep it for life.

Not asked but answered: my personal logo is a ranger tab because I earned it the hard way (208 days- don't ask if you don't want to know)

I understand pretty much all of that, Sir … And I was only a lowly CPT …

MiniMo,

Wow! I don't know how fast you were falling, but from that photo it looks like your right kneecap was about to experience a boatload of impact.

Dan

It's my first initial and last name. I see TMP as among friends and would rather use my name.

Family name given a Hittite suffix: result of painting up a Hittite army and General for the 1998 Big Wheels chariot game, at that years Historicon.

I was originally named The Nigerian Oil Minister, after the most trustworthy purveyor of scams in my spam folder. Then I found that the real Oil Minister was a woman of rather spacious dimensions rather than the smooth Ph'at Daddee I had in mind, so I changed to a more miniatures appropriate name. It's all a bad internet joke, really.

My two favourite animals.

My great great grandfather's regiment in the ACW.

Mine is a nickname a friend made up for a website he created for me, around 1995.

It's what I am.

80's youth playing console games. Playing the game Snafu on Intellivision. Looking it up in the dictionary thinking "cool" swearing! Followed by rocking my 300 baud modem over telephone line with the family Apple //e logging into The Electronic Odyessey and other Detroit area sites. We called them BBS (Bulletion Board Systems) back then and screen names were Handles. I was the original Snafu but it's usually taken on modern sites. It evolved to Private Snafu as my love of WWII grew. TMP is in many ways like the old (glory) days of BBS's.

I was researching the Great Italian Wars at the time that I first got an email account roughly 20 years ago. "El Gran Capitan" of Spain greatly impressed me with his skill and character, so I used a form of his name as my screen name.

Named after the Great Patriotic War medal.

Read somewhere the SAS in the 80s called their Heckler and Koch MP5s "Hocklers" and it stuck in the old memory bank.

@Cacique, good eye. Yes even with high-end knee pads, I had a bruise on that knee that lasted for several weeks. And I bet her left knee matched. We were in the corner, so probably about 10-12mph. Can hit 16+mph in a full-out sprint on the straightaway.

Although what derby players spot first in that photo is that my body check kept my shoulder in front of hers. A jammer gets a point for passing a player on the opposing team. Moment of passing defined by the shoulders! So I took her down and didn't give up my point ^,^

WOW! A thread with 67 posts and no one has been attacked or DH'ed. A new record.

Thanks guys and let's get a few more.
Dave

The day is young Dave …

My first email address was constrained by the old 8-character limitation. So I left out the 'e'.

from "The Brass Fish", my nickname.

LT

Playing a WWII era Germans vs US Army city combat game as the referee one of the other players said I was the Dungeon Master, no Burgermeister, no Bunkermeister!

I have used it for 25+ years now.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com

Brass 1 that is the 23ID "Americal" patch, yes ?

If you don't know who Khusrau was, aka Chosroes, then you have no business being a historical gamer.

I don't know who Khusrau was, and I don't give a damn.

Named after one of my favourite actor's lines in one of my favourite films. Michael Caine in Zulu if you haven't guessed, "At 100 yards, volleyfire!". It was that or something said by him in Battle of Britain, but there was nothing that could be taken as a single word out of context and still have a recogisable meaning. I use Spring Chicken on the Wings of War website since I'm christened Simon and one of my favourite sequences in BoB is when 'Simon' is taken up for a bit more training by Robert Shaw and Edward Fox utters the immortal line "Spring chicken to *hitehawk in one easy lesson".
Dakadakadakadaka.

I don't know who Khusrau was,

A Persian King, IIRC there were two. Khusrau the 1st and the 2d … They were supposed to be pretty good leaders, etc. But I was not there … so …

Its from a D&D character I had way back in the 1970s. I recreated him as an Everquest character and played him as my alter ego for over a decade!

I'm really called David but most of my school friends used to call me Cid as in El Cid, for reasons we won't go into. Some of them have forgotten that it's not my real name in the intervening 50 years!

I was a big fan of "Life of Brian" (particularly the "Latin lesson from the Centurion" scene, which I am convinced must have been modelled on one of my Latin teachers at school, a former PoW of the Japanese in WW2) and decided that was the way to go and, well, Biggus Dickus was too obvious and low-brow.

On other fora, I am Baron von Wreckedoften (a tribute to my now-fading, yet still less than legendary drinking skills) and Ronan the Librarian, who is – or was, he must be dead by now – a real person. Ronan McCarthy was a "locum" (being semi-retired) working in the public library service in Dublin, introduced to me in a bar one night by my wife's youngest maternal uncle, who, in that head- way peculiar to Irish families, was younger than her. Despite having recently read, "Colin the Librarian" by Rich Parsons and Tony Keaveney, the name only clicked as my uncle-in-law-to-be and I were walking home after chucking out time.

I'm a career firefighter. I ride the "step". The 3 is my Company Number…"3 Truck"…BCFD

Legion 4 asked

Brass 1 that is the 23ID "Americal" patch, yes ?

Yes, I was at Chu Lai with the Babykillers for the first half of my second tour. When the division stood down at the end of '71, I went north to Danang and ended up with the provisional engineer company of the 196th Infantry Brigade. Stayed until after the Easter Offensive and then they sent us all home.

LT

Thank you for your service Brass. My ROTC PMS, an INF LTC,'75-'79, wore the 23ID's patch on his right shoulder. As he too served in combat with the 23d in Vietnam. But don't remember the years.

He was very much a "realist" and pragmatic. I believe I may have picked a little of those traits up from him.

Per ardua, Latin motto of the Royal Air Force Regiment, meaning, through Adversity.

Now a former member.

My favorite army of all time, the imperial Russian army from 1805-1856. With the federal army of the civil war coming in second. (7 direct ancestors, 16th Missouri cavalry, (3), 70th Ohio (1), 88th Penn (3).