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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: eskimo2 on September 04, 2001, 05:04:00 PM
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Those of you who speak English as a second language, and have a callsign that probably doesn't make much sense in English, please let us ignorant folk know what your callsign means in your native language.
Is it a word in your language? A name or even your name?
Please feel free to translate and speak for you countrymen who don't read the BB.
Example;
Mitsu, I think I once heard that Mitsubishi means 5 stars... Does your name mean 5, or star, or is it your real name, or what? How about yor new version: Mituzawa?
Thanks,
eskimo
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Mitsubihi means "Three Diamonds" I believe
From the Misubishi website:
1. Symbolizing quality and reliability
The three-diamond Mitsubishi mark embodies a 130-year tradition of earning the trust and confidence of people worldwide. Maintaining the value of that mark as a symbol of quality and reliability in products and services is a top priority at every Mitsubishi company.
Don't ask me where that comes from. AFAIK, "san" is the Japanese word for Three. I don't see "san" anywhere in Mitsubishi.
(http://www.dickhannahmitsu.com/images/header2.gif)
Konbanwa Mistsu-san :D (Still trying to learn Japanese language)
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Wing up, Get kills, Be happy!
Major Midnight - CO
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The 412th is actively seeking P-51 Mustang pilots. E-mail me for more information davidlj@charter.net
[ 09-04-2001: Message edited by: Midnight ]
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eskimo,
Mitsu is a part of my real name. :)
The meaning of Mitsu?
hmmmmm, it's too difficult to explain in my crappy English. :)
Mituzawa (Mitsuzawa) is one of the Japanese last names (though it's not my real last name).
Don't mind about this name, I will go back to Mitsu soon!
Mitsu
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You're right, Midnight.
Mitsubishi is the mark of Three-Diamonds.
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Ok, I explain about my name briefly, eskimo.
My real name is "Mitsuhide".
Mitsu can be read as "Hikaru".
it means "shine".
Hide can be read as "Hiideru"
it means "excel".
My parents wished me these meanings when naming my name.
Though I didn't grow so. :D
Mitsu
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Errrmm the language filter doesn't work on foreign languages.... I'd imagine there might be a handle or two, we would be better off not knowing the translation +)
SKurj
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I beg to disagree Mitsu, you do indeed excel!
Perhaps not in the way your parents wished however. :)
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Animal means "Honorable Warrior"
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LOL...Need I translate Studley. ;)
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My handle means "amazinhunk" when translated in my native tongue (jibberish)
-SW
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I think Kobayashi means little forest... Nice name for an Ace :D
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Nice idea on this Eskimo!
Always wondered what those Japanese and European squad/player names meant.
Mitsu: Meaning changes according to the Kanji right? I remember that being a constant headache learning how to read. And I still cant :) watashi warui gakusei :D
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Chaos because i like the Chaos of war.
68 because its the year of my car (1968 ford falcon)
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Fester...
it means to rot
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Once my callsign was "dupa". Try to figure out the language and what it means. (it was a joke callsign btw, not the one I always use).
[ 09-06-2001: Message edited by: Rendar ]
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Glasses,means am a shrecking 4 eyes that's what it means.
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I’d tell ya what apathy means but nobody cares.
I know it's not foreign but I don't care.
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Oh my Frenchy!
My real last name "Mori" means "Forest"... Nice name for a Dweeb! :D
Mitsu
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My name is short for nomdegurre which is french for "warname"
My nomdegurre is "nomde" yours is "eskimo". My real name is Mark which stands for "warlike" and I figured nomdegurre would be a cool twist. :D
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I'm not going to bother you with basics of Slavic languages (Czech language) and with this already in mind I have chosen my nick to be as much English as possible and still representing my nick in Czech language... My whole nick is 'MadBirdCZ' . I prolly don't have to explain first two words (Mad & Bird) and the CZ at the end stands for CZech Republic :) How did I recieved my nick that in czech looks like: 'Sileny (mad) ptak (bird)' ? Well it was faaaar back in time when AMIGAs ruled the world... There was a WW1 flight sim that could be played over serial cable.... (was it 'Knights Of The Sky' ??? really can't remember well now) but I used to play it alot against my friends and my lovely technique of killing them was droping bomb on their head while dogfighting.... Then there was a game called 'TURBO RAKETTI' (oh how do I miss this one :() we used to play it a lot too.... and I was always wining... and then I can't tell who was the first one to start call me that but it happened and the word MAD found its place in front of my fpormer nick that was just a BIRD... (bird was derived from my surname which stands for a name of a bird)...
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Zygote means "Fiery Chieftan sprinkled in Cinnimon and baked on a high heat for 45 minutes"
Only foriegn name I know here is Grunherz, meaning Green Heart I think.
Cya
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Naso means "nose" (italian language), has been my nickname since I was young.
I always asked myself why they called me that way.
:confused:
;)
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Fariz = knight
It is arabic, not azeri.
Fariz
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Mora is a Swedish knife brand. Local gypsies here use them a lot in "public relations" both vocally and physically. :)
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Staga is a slangword for icehockey stick. Got that nickname 15-20 years ago when we were playing icehockey.
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Hiyas,
In Irish 'Gremlin' means 'He who like to kick nit and rook ass, but is not very good at it'!
;)
Flt.Lt.Gremlin
56th Firebirds "Fighter" Squadron RAF.
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[ 09-05-2001: Message edited by: Gremlin ]
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straffo mean really nothing (well it has something to do with my teddy bear when I was young but I won't explain further it's personnal :D and it's also related to my love for a strange US plane with 2 engines and an abnormal number of 12.7mm (0.50) in the nose )
smurtz mean ... sCHmurtz with a typing error (yeah ...I'm a dweeb ;))
SCHmurtz equal in computing science (in france) to a "whatever" "something not clearly defined" "a piece of rotten whatever" if permit to define the level of schmurtzification of a project (depending on the input of the marketting dept. and some other 4th dimension factor) the schmurtzification level help to define the schmurtzen code the about to be schmurtzen code and the un-schmurtzen code (pretty rare in fact).
schmurtzen code : code rotten beyond all recognition (aka fubar code aka it work but nobody can say why or it fail and nobody can say ... why ...).
Some math with schmurtzen logic and the basic schmurtz properties :
- schmurtz² = schmurtz² or whatever
- schmurtz * schmurtz = schmurtz² (sometime)
- (schmurtz / schmurtz) * schmurtz = schmurtz
(but it's not sure until further test)
- schmurtz - schmurtz = schmurtz or 0 (depend if the 1st schmurtz is equal or not to the 2nd and depend strongly of the schmurtzification level )
Don't forget a schmurtzen variable has is own life and behaviour in a project and is not allways called schmurtz but can be hidden under a "innocent" variable name and cause acces violation without any evident/logical reason.
The schmurtz can be used with a pifometre
for further explanation look at this page (use an online translator if you are not french) http://www.anat-online.com/pages/delires/pifometre.html (http://www.anat-online.com/pages/delires/pifometre.html)
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"Santa" because my real name is Claus
StSanta because i can be..interpreted differently :D.
Am thinking about switching to Judas. That name sounds good.
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Flt Lt J. de Selys Longchamps DFC (http://www.609.org.uk/longchamps%20j.htm)
Belgian pilot flying a Typhoon at 609 West Riding Squadron RAF.
He attacked alone (and against orders...) the Gestapo building in Brussels. He got an award but also got demoted for this...
He died on the night of 16 Aug 1943 while returning of a night intruder mission above France. He crashed during final approach. The plane wreck showed flak damage.
For those visiting Brussels, a commemorative monument (bust) can be seen in front of the former gestapo building, in the 'avenue Louise - Louizalaan'.
Using his name as handle was my (modest) way to show my respect and consideration for this brave man.
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Saw = > Short for Saintaw, or...nothing, just posting to piss off creamy.
:D ;) :p :) :eek: ... want more ?
[ 09-05-2001: Message edited by: Saintaw ]
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MANDOBLE is a spanish word that means "large and heavy two handed sword", same as MONTANTE. Just like a 190A8, not very fast, not very agile, very poor E retention (for the swordman ;) ), but tremendous punch if you hit (1 of every 1000 attempts ;) )
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rotfl ;)
I just noticed I swapped MANDOBLE and MANTEQUILLA (butter :D))
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ROFLOL, straffo, you may earn a lot of money translating chivalry novels from spanish to english:
... And the black and perphidous knight smashed repeatedly the king's head with his tremendous and bloody butter ... ;D
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It may work if it's an EEC frozen butter ;)
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To tell you the truth my callsign doesn`t
mean a thing,when I signed up,I had a lot of troubles,,,so i ended up kicking the keyboard randomly,until it worked(temper temper :D ).
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Pepe=diminutive for Joseph (José), altho it's not my RL name.
WB handles were 4 characters long, so, since I love Pepe LePew cartoon (talk about tenacity), the choice was simple enough for a spaniard :)
Cheers,
Pepe
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My callsign NATEDOG means Bad Mutha F*****. :D
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Does SUPERFLY mean PERK FLY??? :D
Mitsu
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My real name is Scott, my brother has been calling me Scooter for years. Also when I signed up I was not in a very creative mood.
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Zippatuh = a word jumble from “Pizza Hut”. Used as a kid when I was playing D&D, a thieving assassin who fought with rapiers and poison. I also don’t have to worry about my handle already being taken hehe.
Ok, so I’m not “foreign” but I am from Kansas City. Some people may consider that another country :D.
Zippatuh
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Sour is short for sourkraut. My ex-Mother-in-law suggested this handle back in the days of CB radios. The hell with her but a nice callsign.
Oops, just noticed that this was "english as second language". Oh well, us americans don't speak english anymore.
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Fat is a term used to indicate a substantially overabundant diet. The suffix TY stands for Thank You. As in, Thank you for the beer, may I have another?
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sometimes, yes english becomes my second language, real beer (canadian brews) can do that to ya. (and no i ain't no frenchie)
SKurj, short for scourge , as in scourge of the seven seas.. (certainly not the sky of late) AW only permitted 5 characters
SKurj
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skernsk
A name my brother taunted me with for years. I got used to it over time.
In Arabian Kight language it means "smelly lizard"
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Superfly is the pimp star of the Blackspoitation movie, "Superfly". It's one of my favorite Curtis Mayfield songs. (He did the soundtrack to the movie.) :D
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Great reading folks!
I just realized that even I can add to this post...
There is a player in this game who's name is the Eskimo word for the noodle bone of a walrus.
It is a surprisingly large bone that Eskimos use for scrimshaw carving, probably only second to tusks.
This player, is of course, my brother, 0osik.
So the next time you see 0osik online holler:
"How's is goin? YA BIG FAT WALRUS DICK!"
eskimo
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when I joined VF14 IRONANGELS long time ago back to FA they picked me this callsighn - VF14_GHOST.... been GHOST ever since.... when came to AH seen Ghosth and even I dont get suffix F I still wanted to go for it (sorry Ghosth for inconvinience it has caused to you) started to think what I could pick for a callsighn with GHOST in and found GHOSTy - like something really small and funny... wonder if you see it same way I do :)
Anyway people who know me call me Dmitry... or ghosty... sometimes its vfg :) all are fine with me :)
Now I am in new squad for several reasons... but VF14's are still my best friends just as Flying Tigers... I will not trade vfGHOSTy for anything :)
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Originally posted by Rendar:
Once my callsign was "dupa". Try to figure out the language and that it means. (it was a joke callsign btw, not the one I always use).
[ 09-04-2001: Message edited by: Rendar ]
Hehehe "dupa" means "ass" in Polish, if memory serves :)
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he he he
discod <-- means Disco"D" which is short for "Disco Dave" which is short for "Disco Dude Dave" which is short for "Disco Dude Dave The Man" which is short for "Whoa Groovy Man Disco Dave The Man Is Freakin Out!" which is short for "That's the way uh huh uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh"
No I'm not really a disco freak. I got this nick name because I'm always...."Ahh ahh, ahh, ahh stayin alive! stayin alive! ahh ahh ahh ahh stayin alive! stayin alive! Stayin Aliiii--iiiiiii---iiiiii--iiive! Stayin Alive!"
:cool: he he he
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Dupa is prettythang allright but my memory serves me that its in Hungarian... cant remmember whats it in Polish... could be dupa too :)
Should you ever read Adam Yashek's "Histories of a brave soldier Shveik" (not sure of the translation at all) you could probably have a lot of laughs... Also I am curios how our friends from Czech republick like Yashek?
Anywho I reccomend highly this set of novels for any FDB members... HIGHLY (if its been ever translated into English tho ) - very educational thing to read.. lmao :)
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I'm the antithesis of the subject.
Once a week: "DejaVu.. are you French?".
AKDejaVu
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Holder. Hmmm, why did I choose it? Actually I didn't it chose me. Years ago when I first tried to sign up for WarBirds the damned screen demanded I give it a callsign. Blankness swept my brain. I tried something cool :cool: .... "coyote". The screen burped back "Callsign Taken. Select another." :(
More blankness. A few synapses closed and the image of William Holden (the actor) came up out of the dust. Why? :confused: I have no idea. I think he was in a war film I liked, or it was randomly generated by old LSD residues. I entered "Holden" and the screen burped back, "Callsign Taken. Select another." Having no fallback I panicked and typed "Holder". I got back "Callsign registered...Holder". :eek:
Oh christ! What a dumb callsign. :rolleyes:
But, it wasn't totally dorky. It's slightly mysterious, in that it doesn't really mean anything (a holder of beer? of ultimate coolness?). :cool: So I stuck with it. Still am. I mean, I'm Holder on-line, how could I change it? :D
[ 09-05-2001: Message edited by: Holder ]
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My handle miko does not really mean anything.
My handle in WB was miko-- but the bulletin board did not allow anything but letters, so I had to register as "miko 2dashes" there until it crashed and I switched to "miko2d" which I kept when switching to AH - just as a login.
So please, call me miko, not miko2d, but if you do, I would not be upset.
miko
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Beeger is as much of Beegerite as would fit. Beegerite signifies one who inhabits a Beeger. A Beeger is a 30' Southwind Class A motorhome that got it's name from it's inhabitants, the Beegies. The Beegies evolved from what my wife and I used to call each other in 5th grade 45 years ago. We started with Honey Bucket which was then shortened to Oney Bucket and eventually as we got older and more sophisticated O.B. and Beegie. How's that for a tender love story for somebody who spends hours trying to kill others?
Beeg
P.S. In my next incarnation I'm going for Cholo which is what my Spanish ancestors called the natives in my father's native Peru or maybe I go for Amos to remind me of the beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch country where I live.
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in highschool my friends all decided to goof around and go by mock 60's spy show villian names.
when we met we would say meaningless things in code like "the blue tiara is on the red cow" which roughly translated meant "let's ditch class, get stoned and go watch the pink floyd laser light show at the planetarium..."
some of my friends were: drkraw(evil doctor), professor nonsense (whose talent was saying things that didn't make sense to confuse his enemies into submission), natasha(after the cartoon character on bullwinkle whose talent was well...ah hem), the 7-11 guy (whose disguise was that he worked at 7-11 and got us free shi7) and of course 'the infamous and evil mrfish'. it doesn't mean anything, it is just obscure and makes a good villian name.
:D muhahahaha!
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"Russian" means that I'm Russian ;) , which I am. My game name is "SimFreak". Becouse I like Flight Simulations and people say that I'm a freak. Which I am too :D
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Originally posted by miko2d:
[QB]My handle miko does not really mean anything.
Oh but it does in slang Spanish in parts of Latin America. It can mean love triangle, vertical smile, snatch, and so forth...
It originally meant something like small hairy monkey but I guess it got adapted to other meanings.
Rogue out
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Originally posted by Dmitry:
Should you ever read Adam Yashek's "Histories of a brave soldier Shveik" (not sure of the translation at all) you could probably have a lot of laughs... Also I am curios how our friends from Czech republick like Yashek?
Anywho I reccomend highly this set of novels for any FDB members... HIGHLY (if its been ever translated into English tho ) - very educational thing to read.. lmao :)
Well... I am from Czech Republic, I know the series of books, I have seen the movies abu I have never ever heard of Adam Yashek??? (It is a guy who translated it into your language?) because the whole series was writen by a famous Czech author Jaroslav Hasek :D And yes I like Shvejk a lot...
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true true .. Švejk from Hašek is realy coool guy... brw.: if you cant see chars correctly, then you will never see how this name looks like in original native language :)
:D
Orel
[ 09-06-2001: Message edited by: EagleC ]
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Well I'm Swedish, but picked the name of the US Ace of Aces in world war 1 as my nickname when I discovered MUSHes in 1994. I've been Rickenbacker online ever since, and have even talked to Rick's grandson who said it was OK for me to use the name :).
And it's got _nothing_ to do with guitars. You hear me, NOTHING!
:D
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fradim is sorta diminutive form of monk in Brazil, which I´ve chosen to honor one of our greatest characters of political cartoons: Fradim here is a sadist and sardonic yet funny monk ;-)
http://www.henfil.hpg.com.br/Fradim/imagens/peido.gif (http://www.henfil.hpg.com.br/Fradim/imagens/peido.gif)
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Recoil, because I love the feeling of recoiling guns, :D.
"Every day without a BOOM is a lost day"
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I was wondering about the meaning of the following names, but never asked:
Wilbus - The Swedish student who flies German iron :)
Harppa - The Finnish entrapenuer, who is also usually in Luftwaffe aircraft,
Darling - The Finnish webmaster, not in AH currently
Marleen - A Japanese guy - I think
Hanzo - A Japanese guy - I think
Do these names have any significance???
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Air_ReCoile have you seen these (http://www.accuratereloading.com/videos.html) videos?
Talking about recoil :D
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My real name is D.J.
My callsign happened when I used to run a chinese restaurant.
I worked with several mexican immigrants who would write notes to me about what got done at night after I left. They always started the note off with "Diche".
For weeks I searched every spanish/mexican dictionary I could find, trying to find a meaning for the word "Diche". But there was none.
I was complaining about this over a few beers one night when a friend started laughing.. He explained to me that D.J. can't be said in spanish, the nearest they could do for the "J" would be "che"
Hence my name, Diche (DeeChay), or D.J.
So anyway, in AW, I was TK421 which got shortened to TK. But that was taken in AH, so I had to find something new.
TK/Diche
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Originally posted by Gunthr:
I was wondering about the meaning of the following names, but never asked:
Wilbus - The Swedish student who flies German iron :)
Harppa - The Finnish entrapenuer, who is also usually in Luftwaffe aircraft,
Darling - The Finnish webmaster, not in AH currently
Marleen - A Japanese guy - I think
Hanzo - A Japanese guy - I think
Do these names have any significance???
Well...
Wilbus - hmmm, gotta ask him ;)
Harppa - Only a modification from my real name Harri, which is a Finnish version for 'Harry' ( Can you imagine !!? )
Darling - He's an Icelander actually :)
Marleen - Something to do with Lili Marleen ? No Idea...
Hanzo - After knowing Chikara-san from days of Warbirds, after countless hours of H2H with him, I really agree with his callsign, which means 'Great Warrior'
<S> Hanzo
Hope this made it a bit clearer, Stephen :)
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/harri.j.niemi/HarpDog.gif)
Harppa
Flaming Sideburns
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Yup. Danke, Harri :)
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MadBirdCZ said:
Well... I am from Czech Republic, I know the series of books, I have seen the movies abu I have never ever heard of Adam Yashek??? (It is a guy who translated it into your language?) because the whole series was writen by a famous Czech author Jaroslav Hasek And yes I like Shvejk a lot...
damn my bad and i appologize... havent held his books for more than 10 years now... I managed to almost get last name right Yashek=Hasek... Adam was way off tho...
see in my language it pronounce as Gashek actually wich equals to Hasek i imagine.
P.S. we have in Kiev street named after Hasek, do you have one too?
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In TAS-ese, mine means:
The Omnipotent Almighty Diety
Actually, one of the greatest sticks and all round good-guys I ever met in the AF was my XO. He called all of us below the rank of Captain "Toad".
As in "you little Toad... get out of my office" and "Look, Toad.. if you plan on making the AF a career you had better figure out...".
First time I logged into AW as a newbie and it wanted me to "set my handle" I thought of old Harry... and "Toad" it was.
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Hehe...there was a waiter in Warsaw, Poland whos name was "Jan Dupa". :) He was pretty funny.:P
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I think Diche is a slang for something spicy or a jalapeno pepper/sauce.
Maybe its your "hot" personality? who knows? lol. Ask a native mexican, im sure its slang.
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SOB = Son of Buzz (Dad's name was Buzz)
My squaddies might come up with a different meaning if you ask them :D
SOB
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Not foriegn but my Nic came from my wifes Ex-Husband. He said I was a sneaky bastard. When looking for a nic when I changed squads my wife told me this and we came up with Jackel. I was called a dog and a sneak...Jackel seemed to fit.
VFGhosty got his nic by me mainly. the way he flew at the time was , he was there , then gone. He was just flat good at dissappearing anf reappearing on your ass...LOL...Ghost fit. He is our friend and we respect him more than he knows. :)
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thank you for your kind words, it really means a lot for me
;)
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PropNut is twofold ...the first and obvious is my love for prop-driven aircraft (especially WW2 war birds) I was in the aviation buisness for many years and used to work on many of the old stuff like P-38,P-63,A-26,C47s and many others. I dont need any kerosene burners :p and the second meaning of my name is because I like collecting movie props ...so hence PropNut :)
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Well my name is joker because I am always serious and in control when I am flying. :D
It has been my name since I started the VF squad with Jackel, Condor, Gene, and Ghosty. These guys truly rock and I enjoy my time flying with them. Ghosty not only appears without warning in the air..but he has a tendancy to do that on Roger Wilco as well :p The Flying Tigers are lucky to have him!
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err.... Russian space dog, and no I'm not Russian