What's in a Name?

Back in the 70s I began my adult reenacting efforts with one of the first Rev War scout start up groups in my area, during the bicentenial.

They were into tatical exercises and invented a sentury removal game that was played at night using chalk in place of a knife.

I had just returned from doing unusual things with unusual people in strange places far, far away.

I drew a picture of Casper on one guy and he never knew it till morning. They tagged me with Ghost that morning.

I've been the Ghost since '76. Long before Mell.
:thumbsup:

 

[Xtramad]

When I first started discussing on bullitin boards I tried in vain to find a username that described my personality and wasn't allready taken. After trying countless cool handles and getting rejected, I just typed in what I was feeling, Xtramad.
It's not a description of my level of sanity, it's the rest of the society that is mad. :youcrazy:

 

Hah! As you can see I don't use one, but when I was in the Army (1968-1971) I got the nickname "Pogie" because (at Ft. Benning) a little truck used to circle the post selling snack food and burgers--we called it the "pogie truck"--and I used to sneak off during maneuvers to supplement the C-rations with a little "pogie bait". I have yet to decide on a nickname that fits my period image......

Well now see mine comes from my days in the army. See after 9 years and making SSG I decided to take a commission and see how the other side lived ,Well 5 years later I made it to Captain.
Now I dearly love cheetos and always had a bag in my butt pack, I just love the things. Well anyway one day I was signing some report that was going up to brigade and it seems I didn

 

[vanstg]

Mine is probably the least creative of all handles... Believe it or not, Vanstg is actually my last name.

 

Yer right I don't believe it. Just like sse don't believe he's ever gonna see his BUCK TWENTY NINE! :blah:

 

[sse]

That buck 29 was last seen going into a register, but it SHOULD be seen again coming up from Fort Pitt by way of a runner, it should.

Regards, maxeebawl, Y not so H & not so OS, sse

 

[GobblerKnob]

Mine comes from a little plot of heaven I now call mine. It was christened Gobbler Knob in the mid-70's as I listened to 13 gobblers doing their level best to out yodell one another. They're still at it today...

 

[No Powder]

13 is an unlucky number, I could come help you lower that number to 12, or lucky 7. If I could just remember the Powder. :curse:

 

Just like huntinfool, I got led down the garden path with captchee. I would have bet that it meant something a bit more Native American. Captain Cheetos is outstanding!:crackup:

I hope this thread goes on for awhile, it has been most interesting and humorous! It's sure a good way to get to know some of the folks around the campfire.

Thanks to all who have contributed already.:haha:

Just Plain Ole

 

[doverdog]

I got mine from the first post I made here on the Forum, telling about a flint I got 254 shots from. One of the resident weirdos (moderators) came up with the appropriate avtar to use. :haha:

 

well sorry hate to pop your bubbles LMAO :: there isnt much more then that , "its ggggreat to be cheezy " :thumbsup: cheezer cheezer

 

[Zonie]

What's a "zonie"?

Well, it could be the place a blond parks the car, as in "I don't know where it is, I parked it in that "zonie thingie" right over..........THERE IT IS!"

For those of us who read the Baby Blues cartoon strip it is the thing Hammie likes to run his dump truck into. You know, his sister Zoe('s) knee.

For Claude who lives in San Diego, California it is what they call the 60,000+ Arizonians who move into their city during the latter part of summer filling up their streets, beaches and hotels.

For me it's just a simple name like people have been using for a hundred years out West to describe the State they came from.

 

[Musketeer]

Well, durn it! Zonie done stole ma thunder! A "zonie" is indeed a person from Arizona! I believe it may have started out as a derogatory term used by them folks in the Peoples' Republic of California ( y'all know how mean-spirited them folks is!), but now many of us use it, too.
:shocking: :thumbsup:

P.S. I didn't mean no offense to Claude 'n' his kin. I knows theys lots o' good folk in California! I jist hope one day, they'll all sneak past the watchtowers, guard dogs and razor wire, and join the rest of us here in the "Free Zone"! :shocking: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :thumbsup:

 

[Teleoceras]

Frank:

My cyber-name is pronounced Tee-lee-ah-sir-ess. The Teleoceras was a hippo-like rhino that lived in North America from 12 to 5 million years ago. They were the second to last rhino to die out on our continent. I did my Master's Thesis (COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF TELEOCERAS, MAMMALIA:RHINOCEROTIDAE) on animal 14 years ago.

I kinda have this thing for history ya see and it doesn't matter how far back I have to go since I enjoy all of it!