Forum Name

[mudd]

Mine began back in the days of the CB radio. You all remember CB's. That's what people like us did before there was this interweb thing.
Anyway, before I had my own radio, I was sitting with my friend who was talking on his CB. Someone on the radio asks who that is they hear in the background. My friend whispers to me "Don't use your real name." so I just said the first thing that popped into my head; "Major Mudd", which was a kids show in Boston in the 60's; which I really liked when I was a kid... living near Boston... in the 60's.
Anyway, it stayed with me when I finally got my own CB and my friend just shortened it to Mudd.
Since then, whenever I've needed an alias on the Net, I've aways used Mudd. (Not the character from the original Start Trek, as most people guess).

BTW, that's the real Major Mudd in my avatar.

[Perldog007]

I got my handle in the last century during the dot com/dot bomb days (daze?)

I ran with a small herd O' geeks. The elder of the tribe and the weakest programmer. A good troubleshooter/rubber meets the road man though. I could fix things and make them work when some of the stronger programmers could not, and when the best of us was short on time.

There is an old script floating around in the public domain called formmail.pl written in perl. Seems like I was a formmail modifier for a solid year. Then Handle Perldog suggested itself. Of course somebody had taken the AIM nic already.

My boot camp company number was 007. So Perldog007 it has been for about a decade now.

[Hachiman]

Hi folks

My nick reflects my fascination with all things Japanese (e.g. History, food, language, religion, martial arts, etc). "Hachiman" is the Japanese Shinto god of war and peace, and his shrines are often found guarded by foxes (one of my favourite animals).

Coincidentally, Japanese mythology has a "fox spirit" called a 'Kitsune', which love the small, sweet rice-and-tofu rolls called "inari" rolls - also a big favourite of mine.

Anyway, so I needed a nick online when I started chatting on IRC... and Hachiman has been mine ever since.

Cheers

Hachiman
(but y'all can call me Ken, if'n you wish)

[Kiltedfirepiper]

Kilted fire piper

I wear kilts

I'm a firefighter

im a piper.......
and I pretty much use it for everything, myspace, email, and all the forums I belong to.

do a google search on kiltedfirepiper and you'll come up with 70 pages! ( about 80% are XMTS posts lol)

Ayin, we need to talk!! I hope to soon start brewing Mead, and Mead liquor! that and I'm also in the SCA. Connor Maquade is my persona name.



KFP

[CelticRanger66]

My is simple Celtic for my celtic heritage and Ranger because I am a U S Army Ranger!!!
and 1966 is my birthyear!!

[The Celtic Gypsy]

For many years I was The Keltic Kraute but was quite often mistaken for a guy. When i decided to start my business I need to have a bit softer image and came up with The Celtic Gypsy. Kraute and Gypsy are for my heritage German-Romaine, Keltic/Celtic for my interest (and business) of things Scottish. I liked the alliteration of the Keltic Kraute and the Celtic Gypsy has a sort of calligraphic alliteration. My other internet name is Anakar which is the name of a WitchMate in a series of stories.

And by the way - the WhiteStar can beat any of the rest!

[mexpiper]

mine is Mex- because of my Mexican ancestry,
Piper- because I am in a long journey to learn how to play the highland bagpipes
hence i became: mexpiper

[Clockwork John]

I've been a part of the punk scene in one form or another since '98. At the time I registered for the forum, I was heavily into anarcho-punk and D-beat. The term "crusty" was origionally intended to be an insult, but many in the scene embraced it, myself included.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusty
Like a few others, I wish I had thought a little more before choosing my forum now, as I am no longer a crusty. I'm still very anti-fascist, anti-racist, but now I'm also very much pro-union, and now I'm all about my celtic heritage, so it just seems to fit...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead

[emolas]

I used to hang out on a few boards back in the '80s playing door games and stuff. I can't even remember any of the names I used to use but one day I decided to mess with a friend of mine on Tradewars so I created an account he didn't know of and commenced to harassing him. Being quite unoriginal, all I could think of was my last name backwards and I've been using it for everything ever since. I really do have to think about changing it though because some people see the "emo" in the front and assume I'm a psycho kid who cuts himself for attention.

John Salome

[Zardoz]

'Zardoz' of course comes from the 1974 cult film by John Boorman. I have been a card carrying member of that cult since the 70's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz

I started using Zardoz as a handle for playing NTN, a national bar trivia game. I just thought a name that is sort of it's own trivia question would be cool, for a while my Dad and I were ranked in the top 10 NTN players nationwide. I am a fount of trivial information!

And oh yeah, while the Serenity has no doubt the cutest looking mechanic in the universe, a Klingon garbage scowl could put it down!