Author Topic: Stories behind the names. (Read 3647 times)

Roscoroo · « **Reply #75 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:57:34 AM »

<--The original (all others are dreamers, worshipers, and or thieves )

kilo2 · « **Reply #76 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:43:26 AM »

Kilo short for kilogram the base unit of mass in the international system of units it equals 2.2046 pounds, and 2 because I like 2.

I thought it was easy and I liked the the fact it was the base unit.

evenhaim · « **Reply #77 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:43:28 AM »

I'm freez formarly known as evenhaim my last name, freez comes from the weather on my training base which was all I thought of back then

rkanjl · « **Reply #78 on:** April 28, 2009, 05:03:57 AM »

Quote from: AngelHunter on April 28, 2009, 02:19:13 AM

When I left flight school the callsign I was given was "Boots," because I was the only member of my class who was never hit on inspection for unshiny boots. I was Boots for most of my career.

During my first trip to Afghanistan, I flew a load of wounded Marines to a hospital ship. One of those Marines' mothers got her whole town together and wrote my CAG bunches of letters saying I was their unit's guardian angel. They made a little white flag with angel wings and a halo and hung it on the back of my chair in our squadron's ready room, and my name changed to "Angel Boots". After that, whenever a pilot on my boat flew critically wounded grunts to saftey the flag would get moved to their chair and they would become "Angel Whatever":

"Angel Hal"
"Angel Oak"
"Angel Ranger"
"Angel Sooner"
"Angel Mach"

etc. etc.

After the flag was on my chair a while, the "Boots" fell out of use and "Angel" stuck. We still passed the flag around, and they were still doing it when I left. When I got moved to a different boat for OIF-1 I went back to using just Boots.

Hunter is my middle name. I thought it sounded kind of badass. It didn't all fit in the game.

Awesome story AngelHunter, I love how the flag on the chair became a unit tradition. Thank you so much for your service to the country.

I think I should be worried, do you only "hunt" regular angels or rkanjl's as well?

rkanjl

Nilsen · « **Reply #79 on:** April 28, 2009, 05:16:40 AM »

Nilsen is the name i use in the game, on the bbs and in real life. Figured it would be easyer to remember when i get older.

Now.. what was the topic of this thread again?

Oh yes.. flowers.

I have som yellow flowers in the garden. My desk has a few stains so that is prolly why my dishes aint done mom.

Who are you?

LYNX · « **Reply #80 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:04:01 AM »

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before 'save' (1996) I used the name 'kaka' (swedish for cookie).

It's also Irish Gaelic for what that cookie is after digestion....glad u changed it.

lazydog · « **Reply #81 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:27:37 AM »

mine came from a sqaud i was in .from fighter ace "the demon dogs" all members had dog in there name and im lazy

ColKLink · « **Reply #82 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:39:40 AM »

I think hogans heros came on right after school,....then at 7 pm was rat patrol....then flipper...... then huntley/ brinkley news......

rkanjl · « **Reply #83 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:51:10 AM »

Quote from: ColKLink on April 28, 2009, 06:39:40 AM

I think hogans heros came on right after school,....then at 7 pm was rat patrol....then flipper...... then huntley/ brinkley news......

I used to race home from school to watch Rat Patrol, us kids would talk about the show the next day. I saw it was in reruns on TVLand, got so exited, watched half an episode. Some things are better left as memories. I couldn't believe how bad it was!

rkanjl

texasmom · « **Reply #84 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:08:31 AM »

It's appeal hasn't disappeared. My sons have the dvd set of Rat Patrol & love it.

Greebo · « **Reply #85 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:24:03 AM »

Greebo is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels which I was reading in 2000 when I signed up to AH. He's an evil tempered one eyed housecat who beats up the local wolves.

IIRC it was a 3rd or 4th choice as the other names I tried had already been taken. Still, it has become rather appropriate as the Hellcat is my ride of choice.

PiratPX · « **Reply #86 on:** April 28, 2009, 09:45:51 AM »

SZD-30 Pirat was the first single seater glider I've flown and to this time it's my favorite. PX painted on vert stablilizer and rudder are the competition markings of the one I used to fly most often, also used as its R/T callsign.

bongaroo · « **Reply #87 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:09:46 AM »

Quote from: rkanjl on April 27, 2009, 05:58:56 PM

3.

ding ding ding

winnah!

rkanjl · « **Reply #88 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:15:57 AM »

Quote from: texasmom on April 27, 2009, 03:18:54 PM

I wanted you to know that you got shot down by a girl... but I didn't want all of the provocative stuff, so I made sure Mom was in there so it would be apparent that the kitchen is closed.

Watch out, the kitchen may be closed but the pantry is open and that's where she keeps her cans of Whoop A**!

rkanjl

Becinhu · « **Reply #89 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:51:36 AM »

Becinhu
I used to play a MMORPG called Dark Age of Camelot. SInce I have no imagination I would create a character and hit the generate name key until I got one that looked decent and didn't have 10 consonants in a row. It became ironic when the game creators included emotes in the game, on of which was "beckon". SO...since this toon was an assasin and could become "invisible" I could taunt people and freak them out since they couldn't see me. The name became "bec in hu" as in beckon you. I started this game several years ago and since I have no imagination I just stuck with the same name. People started pronouncing my name "be c in hu" as in Be seeing you. Most of my ingame friends just call me B for short. Besides "evilpinkfluffybunny" was too long....

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