Well, I was originally Flos in Air Warrior when I first started playing there nearly 4 years ago. We were restricted to 5 characters and I first tried for Floss, but it was already taken. Floss was supposed to be short for the handle I had chosen of Florence; I didn't particularly want Flo as it reminded me of the buxom cartoon wife of Andy Capp, with her arms folded and holding a rolling-pin! Not the sort of image I wanted!
I tried Flos and that was accepted.
I had chosen Florence as a handle because I wanted something associated with my husband's handle of Zebedee (Zeb for short). Zebedee was a character from a 70's cult cartoon series here in the UK called
"The Magic Roundabout" - a five-minute program which used to be aired immediately before the early evening news, guaranteeing a big audience.... so popular was it, that people would stop what they were doing to watch it. Zebedee bounced around on a large spring, being the lower half of his body, announcing to everyone that it was "time for bed". My husband chose this name, partly because of the way he kept "bouncing back" to Air Warrior (he used to be Rusty) and also because of the way he landed one of his favourite rides, the P38 - always bouncing several times down the runway.
I had been watching Zeb play for about 6 months before starting my own account, and Flos was born. In Aces High, I was Flos when I first tried the game, but of course it was unavailable when I returned nearly a year ago.... I could have asked for it back, but by then was often referring to myself as Flossy anyway, so decided to use Flossy instead and have been Flossy ever since.
