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Offline mbailey

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #135 on: November 29, 2009, 11:19:34 AM »
First initial and last name.....................man, now that i look at it, I'm really not that creative   :(.
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Offline Sweet16

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #136 on: November 29, 2009, 11:35:28 AM »
My fathers airplane was named Sweet Sixteen it was a B-29
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Offline Changeup

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #137 on: November 29, 2009, 11:46:12 AM »
Played baseball as a pitcher at the University of Oklahoma....throwing the ball 90+ mph got me nowhere because I was missing the finest pitch in baseball.....the changeup.  It comes at you in many forms...circle change, palm change, off-set 3 finger change, split finger change.  It seemed appropriate to name myself after a pitch I didnt have, while flying a plane I can't really fly, in battles that don't really exist and it was better than my Navy callsign - Horseshoe :rock

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Offline Banshee7

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #138 on: November 29, 2009, 12:02:35 PM »
I started out as "ghost51."  "51" for obvious reasons, and Ghost because I thought I could come in for a quick kill and be gone before they knew what hit them. (that went really well for a n00b  :noid).  Soon changed to Ghost208 (208 added for the first squad I joined [whom actually recruited me on my first day online]).  After becoming infamous and hated by all due to my immature mouth and affiliations with other immature adults, I decided to try and get a new start (this is all within my first 6 months in the game).  I thought about it for a while, but I couldn't quite come up with a name I liked.  After looking through one of my books with WW2 Aviation paintings, I found exactly what I was looking for:


"Showdown Over Berriere" by Roy Grinnell


"Banshee" - somewhat similar to ghost, AND it was on a 51.  BINGO!


Name has stuck ever since, and I will have played Aces High for three years in March.

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Offline DMBEAR

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #139 on: November 29, 2009, 01:04:00 PM »
Quote from: JunkyII on November 29, 2009, 05:53:27 AM
lol watch out Skuzzy will be getting back to work in a day :D

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Offline A8balls

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #140 on: November 29, 2009, 02:09:22 PM »
I fly with the Aces & 8s, plus I got balls.  :D
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Offline Chapel

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #141 on: November 29, 2009, 05:24:20 PM »
A fictional Comic Book character that inspired terror through his villainy, and later turned to fighting evil.
Seemed fitting for some reason.
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Offline ATC

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #142 on: November 29, 2009, 09:51:41 PM »
At the beginning of Aces High, from Air Warrior.
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Offline branch37

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #143 on: November 30, 2009, 12:24:12 AM »
Branch is my first name and 37 is my lucky number  :cheers:
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Offline jollyFE

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #144 on: November 30, 2009, 09:58:41 AM »
when I started palying,  was still active duty.  Decided something to reflect my job so
jolly ( for our units callsign jolly(HH-60G's), because we were the jolly greens....anyone familiar with csar will know it), and FE for my job... Flight Engineer.
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Offline OOZ662

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #145 on: November 30, 2009, 10:49:06 AM »
I've used mine everywhere since I was 7.
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Offline thumless

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #146 on: November 30, 2009, 01:36:05 PM »
Lost most of my left thumb in an accident while working at a wielding shop in 1985 when I was 19.
My friends would at times refer to me as "Thumb less"  so any time I needed a call sign or the such in flight games I would use Thumbless.  I always thought it was unique.
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Offline Coach

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #147 on: November 30, 2009, 02:04:26 PM »

I flew to Mirimar in the early 90s while a friend was in TopGun school.  In the evenings we would visit the local bars and I would listen as his classmates and he would recount the days dogfights.  They informed me that callsigns are not picked, but given to you by your squad.  My friend knew I flew online flight sims and decided I needed a callsign.  Since my last name is Haden.......... I was given the callsign Coach..... from the TV show.
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Offline RedTop

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #148 on: November 30, 2009, 05:12:38 PM »
I have Red hair...been called RedTop all my life....easy to pick.
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Offline 68Wooley

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Re: How'd you get your game ID?
« Reply #149 on: November 30, 2009, 06:52:28 PM »
Wooley comes from Major Woolly, Squadron Leader in Derek Robinson's classic novel on WW1 aviaton 'Goshawk Squadron'.

Book starts with the Major watching each member of his squadron landing their SE5a in turn and announcing to the world 'I hate that bas****'

For the record, I actually quite like some of the 68th... ;) :D



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