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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: tatertot on December 04, 2003, 09:15:40 PM
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Just curious why some guys pick there handles? mine comes from a unfortunant nickname ive had since i was 6 (last name somewere in it ) i know some guys use squad lingo in theres but i was curious how some people decide on them
all tatertot
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>>>>>>> king of the potato snacks!!!!!!!
im sure you know most of us JB's have our name from JaBostaffel then a number.
mine is the year i spawned on this earth.
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My original handle (Estes) came from my old highschool hobby of model rockets. The one I currently use, (Glue) is one Fester let me have when my account exploded and I had to make a new one.
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Cause I drink. Both large in frequency and in quantity.
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lol jb73 had my handle since the yr you spawned by the way give jdw1 a raffle ticket will ya plzzzzzzzzzzzzz :)
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hands JDW1 part of a raffel ticket.....(keeps the other half Muhahahaha)
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Mine comes from the last words of the fated Lancastrian Stardust:
ETA SANTIAGO 1745 HRS STENDEC
More information can be found here (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/stendec.html) , for anyone interested.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/images/sten_stardust2_l.jpg)
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Got the Idea from a sequel with Wesly Snipes.
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Brotherhood of Nod from the Command and Conquer series
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Named for a Spitfire XII pilot I got to know who passed away a few years ago by the name of Tom Slack.
He's the guy in the avatar
Dan/Slack
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Do you guys really want me to get into the political theory aspect of the name "Leviathan?"
Hint: It refers to Thomas Hobbes and not the big fish from the Book of Job. Sikboy, tell 'em!
-- Todd/Leviathn
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well from the online game i came from (was no really online had online option) the F14's where were usually in the "Skull" squadron and the 12th pilot of that Squad was usually the 1 F14 that would surive (btw this was F22 raptor game) cause i killed the mig or Su (gawd i hated those damn MiG's! Specially the MiG-29! Damn SOB was only thing that ever killed me.). at the i really like the F-14 and i picked12 cuase i saved that pilot all the time. hehe
skull12
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I have no idea where mine came from.. one day.. it just popped into my head.
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Becuase Mr Red sounded funny:aok
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Originally posted by tatertot
(last name somewere in it )
Ahah! I know who you are now!
(http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/00/83/21_1.JPG)
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I liked the name.. roland
and he's a cool stephen king character
and I thought Goose or Maverick would be too dumb.
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...well...pretty obvious, I guess.
When I first signed up for AW, I figured that I would clearly be the oldest guy flying there. After all, no grown up man would play a computer game, right?
- oldman
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My name in Air Warrior was -Elf-, can't use the symbols here and Elf was taken. Soooo...since most people just called me Elfie anyways in AW. ;)
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Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Hint: It refers to Thomas Hobbes and not the big fish from the Book of Job. Sikboy, tell 'em!
Sikboy was my license plate back in '93 when I first flew AW.
But why did your license plate read "Sikboy?"
Because "Sickboy" was taken.
But why did you want "Sickboy?"
Oh, it's from a Social Distortion song, check it out sometime.
-Sik
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Cause I love the Sax---If I ever learn to play it I could die a happy man.
Of course there is a better than average chance my wife will kill me before that day.
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Theres a long story behind this, and that makes it a valid call sign.
The first thing you need to remember is that there are three types of call signs:
Ones you give yourself
Ones given to you by your friends (hehehe)
Ones that you earn by nigh unto legendary acts.
The first are the kind that you see in the movies. Maverick, Iceman, etc. Cute, but really only says what the person wishes were true about himself }:-> (sounds of flame throwers cranking up in the background.)(duck, dodge, weave)
The second is for just being you. It usually is a play on words dealing with the pilots name or characteristics about him. ie "Duke" for someone named Ellington, "Rabbit" for someone who likes carrots or has big ears, "Beans" for someone whom you don't want to sit next to in a movie :-> etc.
The last is the "Best" in the eyes of the fighter pilots I know. It is given for a single spectacular incident.
Case in point: Squadron CO is doing a flyby in his F-14 across the beam of his carrier for the movie people on board. As he starts to pass the ship, he kicks in the burners. His engine explodes and the F-14 goes toward the horizen trailing flames and little pieces of airframe. After a little swim, the CO learned he had a new Callsign.
Comet.
Mines not that good, but I like it anyway.
It all starts at Texas A&M University back in the Fall of 84. On campus there was a group of students who formed a student organization to play wargames. It was known by many names, Gamers, GRAMETS, and finally NOVA. For those of us involved, it was a time we will never forget (though we often wish everyone else would forget parts of it :->
One night I'm gaming, minding my own business, sitting on the back of a chair, when out of nowhere the damn thing decided it didn't like it. Pieces of chair go everywhere and I end up bleeding on the floor. Now you have to understand, I only weighed about 130 lbs at this point, and there was no real reason for it to go. But no problem, I stayed all night and quietly bled while playing SFB and Squad Leader. Now the only thing of note here is that this was the first meeting that Tim "Chuckie" Gray (Who flew as Noid in ck for a while) ever attended.
The next week, were doing something involving dice again, and someone knocks a handful off on the floor. Several of us get down to collect them and, almost immediately, the table takes a severe dislike to my being under it. Once again the blood starts to flow. Tim was also there. His second meeting.
The next week, (and no, I am not ****ting you) Tim shows up and makes some smart comment about whether or not I'm going to bleed. I laugh it off (silly me). We game for a while and all begin to get hungry. Being a poor college student, I had just enough money to pay for the burger and drink from the snack bar downstairs.
I, in a typically witless fasion, begin a headlong rush up the stairs to get back before they change the position of any of my squad. On the final flight of stairs, I, of course, slipped.
Now literally, on the way down to the floor I had time to consider the following facts:
No matter what I do, this is going to hurt
I have no money left
I'm still very hungry
I'm also very thirsty and need the caffine
I'm going to lose either the hamburger or coke if I stop myself from falling
So, I thought as I went down:
Coke or Hamburger
Coke or Hamburger
Coke or Hamburger
FACE (SMACK)
Needless to say, Chuckie was highly amused when I got back to the room, bleeding again. Still have the scar over my right eye from that one, BUT I saved my DINNER.
I was then awarded the nickname of Ouch, which has unfortunately stuck with me through my entire life.
Now, you also need to understand that this propensity for self injury did not start in college, nor did it end when I left.
Next time you see me, you might want to ask about :
How I permanantly injured my shoulder (tore my rotator cuff) turning off a light switch
How I broke my toe on a blade of grass
How I broke my thumb falling UP a flight of stairs.
And the list goes on.
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When I was in the Corps, I was assigned to VMFA314 "BlackKnights"
BlackKnight is usually related to any online name I use at various locations.
Hmmm...I was in VMFA531 "GrayGhosts" too.....lessee
GrayGhst....well if I ever need to change my handle ;)
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Originally posted by Elfie
Soooo...since most people just called me Elfie anyways in AW. ;)
except me, smurf...
;)
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hey ouch
do you lurk on every online flight sim forum looking for "why your handle" threads so you can write that thing?
:D
I even thought about it when I saw the thread.. remembering the 3 types of handles..
I, in fact, have the 3 kinds of handles
1) Roland. I gave that to myself.
2) James. A variation on my last name. also Horse Instincts.
3) 60 minutes. aka Sore Tongue
:p
"I'm Primo Sindone. They call me Johnny Long. Some of yous know me as Mickey Gaga... some of yous know me as Joey Bumbats"
"My name is Ben Sobel...leone. Ben Sobelleone. I'm also known as Benny the Groin, Sammy the Shnoz, Elmer the Fudd, Tubby the Tuba, and once as Miss Phyllis Levine, but that was a party, it was years ago. I smoked a titibit, and I had a quaqualuude, and then suddenly I'm in fishnets and singin' show tunes. These things happen, but has nothing to do with what I'm here with you fine gentlemen today. So, I apologize. That being said, I am also known to the people who know me the best as the ****in' Doctor."
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I ate, slept, and drank hockey from the age of 5 (1959) until I was 22 (1976). I played left defense my whole career.
It believe that is was sometime in the early 70's that Bobby Hull made the "slapshot" the most feared shot in hockey. Well, of course all of us had to develop such a shot and playing defense, the slapshot was quite logical to take when at the offensive blue line.
Well, I worked day and night, 7 days a-week, 365 days of the year on my slapshot. I developed the ability to hit it high or low and with great speed and impact.
My personal game plan was that any opportunity that presented itself to release the slapshot during the 1st period was to aim not at the goal, but rather at any opposing player that was in between me and the goal.
If I took it low, I would get ankle shots (gotta experience one to appreciate the pain) or take it chest high (kinda like a fastball brushback).
Well after about letting at least 6 of those fly, everytime I wound up for the next slapshot, the bodies would part like the red sea and I had a direct shot at the goal/goaly. Both my Junior and Senior year in High School I was high scorer on the team.
I took the name SlapShot due to the fact that everytime I entered the hockey rink, whether at home or away, I would always hear someone say ... there's that guy with the "SlapShot" ... and it keeps me linked to great times past gone.
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More suited for infantry than Air Corp?
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Its what Canadian infanteers called themselves when I was one of them.
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history of poor anger management.
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There was a time in my life that things couldn't get much better.
Now I'm at a time when things can't get much worse.
It's a sad story.
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Was hard up for a unique handle. Went to this web site that generates call signs by typing in your name.
So I did and that's what popped out.
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TBolt refers to the P-47 Thunderbolt & also the A-10 Thunderbolt; I love each of these monsters.
(But, in the MA, I'm actually an improving Bf109 driver.)
TBolt
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I dont have a handle...
Maybe I could be CBTrucker...
::ssss...breaker... this is CBTrucker...ssss... Big 10-4 Good buddy..ssss::
:rolleyes:
I do have a Pilots "Callsign".. Grimm ;)
It goes way back with gaming, Iv been Grimm online since the mid 80s. It was just a character name, nothing special but it stuck.
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Slap, my very first game in High School was the first game my parents had ever attended together. Slid in front of a slapshot from the point.. was near the top of the left face off circle.. direct hit to cup... my parents heard it up in the stands. Thank God I didn't get a name from that game.......would have been named something like: Crawl, Blue-Nuts, Gag, or Puke. Didn't actually puke after I made my way to the bench..... was close though.
Only time in my life I soaked my sack w/ a bag of ice after the game(and after the period).
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Originally posted by STENDEC
Mine comes from the last words of the fated Lancastrian Stardust:
More information can be found here (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/stendec.html) , for anyone interested.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/images/sten_stardust2_l.jpg)
Wow, I never new about that til now. I buy the theory that the radio operator was trying to send "Stardust", but for some reason garbled it to "Stendec", being that they are so similar in code.
BTW, I'm "Slim03", and other variations of "slim" because I'm, well,.....slim. Not as slim as I used to be, but still svelt, if I squint when looking in the mirror.
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Originally posted by Arlo
Ahah! I know who you are now!
(http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/00/83/21_1.JPG)
Larry Tate....DOH!
ROTFLMAO!
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Well, its a big gun and just rolls off the tongue rather well in my opinion. Or it could be that I'm just compensating for something that may be lacking... :confused:
I've used many handles whilst playing LAN games, but they all seem to be a bit ... well ... dirty (Donkeypunch, ChiliDog, Cleveland Steamer, TheHitler... you get the idea). So I decided to clean up my act, fly straight and pick something that doesn't offend so much.
I will have to say though, when the time came for a change, it took me a day or two to think of "Howitzer", but it always amazes me how many people mispell it when they are chatting with me (Most comonly: Howiser).
Just remember, you asked :D
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Originally posted by tatertot
Just curious why some guys pick there handles? mine comes from a unfortunant nickname ive had since i was 6 (last name somewere in it ) i know some guys use squad lingo in theres but i was curious how some people decide on them all tatertot
Well, my name seems obvious....
Almost nobody comes up with the idea of using their own name :)
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Originally posted by frank3
Well, my name seems obvious....
Almost nobody comes up with the idea of using their own name :)
Well, maybe two other Frank's did :)
-Sik
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because on a hot texas day..... nothing sooths the spirit like a bottle of my favorite soda....(sweet carbonated redness in a bottle)
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Originally posted by Steve
Slap, my very first game in High School was the first game my parents had ever attended together. Slid in front of a slapshot from the point.. was near the top of the left face off circle.. direct hit to cup... my parents heard it up in the stands. Thank God I didn't get a name from that game.......would have been named something like: Crawl, Blue-Nuts, Gag, or Puke. Didn't actually puke after I made my way to the bench..... was close though.
Only time in my life I soaked my sack w/ a bag of ice after the game(and after the period).
ROTFLMAO !!! Been there done that.
Had you slid in front of my slapshot they might have called you Shirley or Squeeky.
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Originally posted by Sikboy
Well, maybe two other Frank's did :)
-Sik
... or 3, or maybe 4.
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Worked on and rode in F4B's & F4J's for nearly 10 years. It was commonly known as the F4 Phantom II. When I first started flying online and joined a squad they hung the call sign Phantom on me for my longtime association with the F4. When I started flying AH back in early beta Phantom was already taken so .....
Phantom4
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In rememberance of:
Lt. C. D. Miller, USN
VA-163
Assigned to his first carrier, they told him that there were seabats that lived up in the beams of the hanger deck.
He went and looked for them.
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Stony is my handle in the game and was given to me probably 25 years ago by one of my friends(don't remember which one though). Why? Because in those days I indulged in the "kind" quite a bit. My nickname should have changed in the early 80s because that's when I stopped "indulging". I still go through periods where I "space out", so it's probably had long term affects on me.
:lol
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Originally posted by SlapShot
... or 3, or maybe 4.
Wouldn't that make him Frank5?
-Sik
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Curval (or more properly President de Curval) was chosen because only a few utterly debaucherous individuals would ever understand it.
"The President de Curval was a pillar of society; almost 60 years of age, and worn by debauchery to a singular degree, he offered the eye not much more than a skeleton. He was tall, he was dry, thin, and had two lusterless eyes, a livid and unwholesome mouth, a prominent chin, a long nose. Hairy as a satyr, flat backed, with slack drooping buttocks that rather resembled a pair of dirty rags flapping upon his upper thighs; the skin of those buttocks was, thanks to whipstrokes, so deadened and toughened that you could seize up a handful and knead it without him feeling a thing. In the centre of it all there was displayed - no need to spread those cheeks - an immense orfice whose enormous diameter, odour, and colour bore a resemblance to the depths of a well-freighted privy than to an prettythanghole; and crowning touch to these allurements, there was numbered among this sodomizing pig's little idiosyncrasies that of always leaving this particular part of himself in such a state of uncleanliness that one was at all times able to observe there was a rim or pad a good two inches thick."
- Marquis de Sade
"The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings".
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Played a halfling rogue in everquest for 2 years... hence Urchin. Plus ******* wouldn't get through the filter.
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Mac was taken. As was Tmac. Both are real-life nicknames. Tarmac seemed like the next logical step.
ed: Curval, that still doesn't explain why you would name yourself after such a, erm, colorful person. You have some deep connection there? :)
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Had you slid in front of my slapshot they might have called you Shirley or Squeeky.
Have you ever heard me on vox? ;)
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Originally posted by Steve
Have you ever heard me on vox? ;)
dlamb?
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Originally posted by Tarmac
ed: Curval, that still doesn't explain why you would name yourself after such a, erm, colorful person. You have some deep connection there? :)
Nope...a guy lent me the book the day before I joined up on AH. I needed a handle and couldn't think of anything witty, funny or cool. So I chose gross and disgusting instead.:)
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Originally posted by Sikboy
Wouldn't that make him Frank5?
-Sik
Frank
Frank0
Frank1
Frank2
... Frank3
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Frank42... it's twice 26!
-- Todd/Leviathn
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Was 'named' by an AW oldtimer named Broken Drum. When I started playing AW in '90, if you didn't pick a 'handle', you had the handle of 'New User'. I played as New User for about a month when BD told me that is was "nobad...but you need a handle". I figured Nobaddy would be good enough (not like anyone would ever try to 'steal' it :D).
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i had just installed AirWarrior and was getting ready for my 1st hop ever. Many of the AOL WidowMakers were up, and i was in a hurry to try this new game all the guys were waggin' and waving their hands over in the smoking section at work (*cough* AOL ) If I recall, my buddy blze (now dmdblaze) had already gotten his name figured out, and I was in the middle of deleting ANOTHER CPID i wanted and was already taken, and finally said fek it, i'll change it later. lute was left on the screen (combination typo, and aborted delete job) and the rest is history.
Lute was a total accident.
-Lute III/JG26 9th ST WidowMakers
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Frank
Frank0
Frank1
Frank2
... Frank3
What? no |= |2 4 |\| |< ?
-Sik
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pre-teen jokes aside, fediddlein AW thing wouldnt take JC229 about 10 years ago (THOSE are actually my initials), so i took the first part of my aol addy BJjud--(wifes' initials..YES, she had bad time in high school when they found out her middle name was Jean;)... anyhow, it been my cpid since mid 90's