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Offline Squire

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #75 on: July 16, 2013, 05:12:18 PM »
Wanted something that was easy to remember and not overly common (although I have seen a few versions come and go from other players) and I didn't want a # callsign like "sixgun36" or something like that. Nothing more than that really.

PS it help to get a vox chk 6 call if your friends can pronounce your in-game id easily. It beats trying to say "Hey Clefanger guy? there is a Fw 190 coming down on" you to a player who's id is Clwfng56 and you are not sure hot to pronounce the darn thing. Pick something we can say fast over vox and we aren't left with a ??? feeling.  ;)
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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #76 on: July 16, 2013, 05:12:51 PM »
GhostCDB because I was in a squad named "Ghost" and CDB are my initials.

Original name was 3065, didn't think I would be into this game so I didn't bother making a legit name.
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Offline ROC

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #77 on: July 16, 2013, 05:22:49 PM »
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, then +HMR+. Became either oHAMMERo or xHAMMERx (can't remember, but was with x on the BBS)
It was oHAMMERo, I'd cry out on the vox OHHAMMERNOOOO when you fell to the ground in a burning wreck. Happened a lot, so I remember it well  :rofl


Mine is easy.  Flies like a ....  well you can figure it out.

<ROC> in AW, took the tags off in here.
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Offline 5PointOh

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #78 on: July 16, 2013, 06:55:35 PM »
My first name was 5PointOh referring to the engine size in fox/SN-95 Mustangs.  I've had quite a few over the years and just seemed right. 


My first 5.0, drag raced it all the way through high school and college.  Traded it for a 91 GT


5.0 #4 (Project Name: Stocker) 89 LX Coupe, lots of work done in the drivetrain and suspension.  Also stripped of all sound deadening materials, A/C.  11.60 at 129mph 1/4ET


5.0 #5 91 GT Meant to be a cruiser...didn't keep it long..


5.0 #6 95 GT GT-40 Heads, Cam, Injectors, Mass Air, Throttle body, gears, and it was fat...3600...13.5s best the thing would do on radials.  Sold it for a 93 Lightning


#7 82 GT 331 GT-40 Alum heads, 650 carb, cam, intake, gears hopefully leaving this weekend to finance my Twin turbo Ranger build...



Then after an ex deleted my account "accidently" I became Coprhead (nasty snake and hair color for me)...seemed good at the time...
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Offline Shifty

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #79 on: July 16, 2013, 08:17:52 PM »
Quote from: Zacherof on July 16, 2013, 05:10:59 PM
Your awesomness just went through the roof :old:

Eh I just fixed em and launched em. I'm living proof anybody can do it.  :aok
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Offline Brooke

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #80 on: July 16, 2013, 08:20:04 PM »
When I first started flying online in Air Warrior in 1988, it asked for a handle.  I didn't have anything in mind to use, and it seemed to me presumptuous to pick my own handle (lest I pick something above my station).  Who knew where I'd end up?  I was, after all, starting out as a lowly noob.  So I just entered my first name.  As I then became known by that handle, I didn't want to change it thereafter.  So, I'm still "Brooke."

In the USAF, other guys pick your handle for you, so you don't always end up being called things like "Mr. Awesome" or "Combat King" and instead can get a handle like "Lumpy" or "Wobbles".
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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #81 on: July 16, 2013, 08:31:11 PM »
You know, "Lumpy" or "Wobbles" could work well for WWII RAF pilots.

"Hello, Squadron Leader.  How was it?"

"What ho, Squippy.  Wobbles pranged his kite right in the 'how's your father.'  Lumpy dicky birded, fell back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers, and caught his can in the Berty!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek
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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #82 on: July 16, 2013, 08:34:57 PM »
Quote from: mechanic on July 16, 2013, 09:52:20 AM
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     Kinda wondering why you need wings with those gigantic ears up there  :D
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Offline mechanic

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #83 on: July 16, 2013, 08:42:06 PM »
extra lift, like a biplane!
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Offline Rino

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #84 on: July 16, 2013, 08:44:54 PM »
     Started out as Phantom JG54 in AW in 1990, couldn't think of anything original, used to work on
these guys:



     Decided to go with Phan <after having cool names like 3488 and 6004>, later changed it to
another F4 nickname "Rhino" but had to shorten it to +Rino when I joined the Nomads.  Went back
to Phan a couple of years after I got here.

     
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Offline Shifty

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #85 on: July 16, 2013, 08:49:17 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 16, 2013, 08:20:04 PM
In the USAF, other guys pick your handle for you, so you don't always end up being called things like "Mr. Awesome" or "Combat King" and instead can get a handle like "Lumpy" or "Wobbles".

I was watching a Brokov special the other night where he was on the USS Stennis. One of the pilots last name was Purdy, his callsign was mouth.  :lol
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Offline Dragon Tamer

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #86 on: July 16, 2013, 08:52:26 PM »
It seems I'm late to the party as usual...  :noid

My forum name is Dragon Tamer because that was the nickname given to me in high school (I used to draw some pretty bad bellybutton dragons).

DragonTamer didn't fit in the handle in game so rather than butcher it up into something that no one could read I went searching for a different name. I went with Player1 because in every other video game I had ever played I was always Player 1. You couldn't rename yourself to something else. I still use the name Player 1 for video games (whenever possible) and I still use the name Dragon Tamer for forums (whenever possible).

One thing I've noticed is that when it comes to people that like the name it's usually a 50/50 split. The guys who are a bit older tend to like it a bit more. The guys who grew up in the heyday of video games tend to think it's a pretty good throwback name. The younger kids tend be brats and say that it's a stupid name and lacks creativity... like naming yourself Rambo in every single FPS you play is creative...   :rofl

I actually had a squaddie address me as Dragon Tamer in game the other day and I responded instantly... I haven't had someone speak the name Dragon Tamer to me in 3 years.  :confused:

If anyone has a problem with my name they can kiss my dragon!
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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #87 on: July 16, 2013, 08:53:02 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 16, 2013, 08:31:11 PM
You know, "Lumpy" or "Wobbles" could work well for WWII RAF pilots.

"Hello, Squadron Leader.  How was it?"

"What ho, Squippy.  Wobbles pranged his kite right in the 'how's your father.'  Lumpy dicky birded, fell back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers, and caught his can in the Berty!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek

Fist fulla handles there, what?  :D
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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #88 on: July 16, 2013, 08:53:41 PM »


I'm also a big Clint Eastwood fan madrid311.  This isn't one of his greatest movies, but I like the name.  I was flying a set of B-17's a few years back and somebody commented on range
"Coogan's Buffs".  
I might get back into the game, just to try and get a bomber squadron together.  :)

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Offline Mister Fork

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Re: how did you pick your name tag, here is why I changed mine
« Reply #89 on: July 16, 2013, 09:05:52 PM »
At a now infamous military mess dinner, the base Colonel at the time and soon to be our country's future Chief of Defence, called out to me as I stumbled into a waiter and knocked over the dessert cart during his speech, "stick a Fork in that lad, he's done."

Kinda stuck with me for a while.... :D
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