How did you choose your handle!

[Screen]

Have you ever wondered how members choose their handle?

I will start it out!
My handle is Screen because of the business I'm in -

I know why Schoe is Schoe but why is Catbird, Catbird?

So join in and let me know how you choose yours!

[Schoe]

How about Rainman Screen? There ought to be a good story behind that name. By the way I will need another 100 hats when I get home after April 1st. I will be leaving for a trip to Ky. lake on the 12th or 13th.of April and they make good hand outs. Schoe

[Fatkat]

Its not hard to figure out, I'm fat and I like to catfish. lol

[big country]

well i got mine from my boss about 6 years ago, recon cause i was big and listen to country. he still cause me this to this day....

[capt.kirk]

Back during the days of STAR TRECK i was a supervisor in a large machine
shop,when someone would come to me for there next job,they would ask
whats next CAPT. and since my name is KIRK before i knew it,even MY
boss started calling me CAPT.KIRK after 15 years of this,i thought thats,
what my real name was.BEAM ME UP SCOTTY.:D
KIRK

[Illinoisgiller]

My handle is pretty self explainatory. I love to chase the gills.:D Far too focused on those little scrapers. Mike

[gofish]

everyone on my crew fishes and on raindays we all GO FISH. sides that i thought shut up and fish might be a little rude lol.

[Katmaster Jr.]

I'm just a "Katmaster Jr" thats why I chose that name...lol:D:D:D

[big country]

Where Ya Been Baitboy??????lol

[Screen]

Where is Ray and the others!!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your reply! I think this makes us more like a family!

Schoe - sorry I couldn't talk to you longer yesterday, I was in the prosses of printing T's at a wrestling meet in Camanche, Ia. Will get on that project for you! If I seamed a little distracted my wife was holding the cel to my ear while I was printing - See you when you get back!

Bruce

[Wyndigo]

I've used Wyndigo for about 7 or 8 years on IRC (internet relay chat)
so I just thought I'd use it here :)

Wyndigo aka Alan

[Schoe]

Well Allen, when I'm over there in a few days maybe a couple of us will sneak to Walley World to see you since you cant make it to the tourniment. Is it the Wallmart in Dover? Schoe

[Rainman4u2]

OK Screen, when I was in High School, a bunch of the guys started calling me Rainman, because my first name is Raymond. It's a crappy movie reference, but I use it now for handles/screen names. The 4u2 is just added to make me different.:D

Ray

[Wyndigo]

hey Schoe its the walmart in Valrico,which is just east of Brandon.
I'm there friday,saturday & sundays which kinda bites, but its the busy days when they needed help the most and being that I'm part time, I get those days. now if you'll be around during the week and wanna try out dover ball park let me know :)

Wyndigo

[Tee]

My real name is Tommy, so T is kinda a no brainer... or so I thought. The way it is spelled is where the story is.
When I was a paramedic @ Grady (Atlanta, GA) everybody called me T cause there were several of us whose real name was some form of Thomas.

My partner and I brought a patient in who was approaching the point of "shaking hands with Jesus" from a large caliber gunshot wound to the chest from some punk-@$# doing a drive-by at the wrong house, who happened to be black. At somepoint while both my partner and myself along with the trauma team were working on the patient, covered in blood, the unit secretary, who was generally rude, obnoxious, and *****y, decided that I had an arrogant attitude and was racist.

She felt that I should be writtren up and she needed to do it. So she proceded to walk in the Trauma room during this chaos and said, " yo pardna done told me you name is T, now how do ya spells it?".

Never one to turn down the opportunity to be "written up" I looked directly at her and told her "capital T E E". Needless to say that the name on the write up she filled out was for Capital Tee.

Tee

[akwolf41]

Tee:

Good seein ya online and Alive. How ya been?? Did you ever get a chance to try the Bobber?

My Handle was one I used when I lived in Alaska. I just can't make myself Change it to ARWOLF LOL

Gene

[Tee]

OH YES I used it..... just haven't had time to use it lately, but that is fixin ta change!

My wife said I could "retire" again after Feb 18th....... so fishes look out!

I'll be orderin some more bobbers from ya in a couple of weeks. I want some "big" ones, I am just trying to decide "how big"

T

[Stump Bumper]

I named my boat " the Stump Bumper" because I sure have bumped my way through alot of submerged tree trunks, stumps and logs to get to where the fish are. I just kept the handle....Ray

[Environmentor]

Didn't get the internet till about 5 years ago, and didn't know a thing about the internet. Just finished my first year of college at the time. Originally signed up as a fishery biology or icthyology major, but changed to an environmental science major because I became a conservationist/environmentalist. My mom said we were getting AOL and we weren't going to be allowed to change our screennames ('cause she wouldn't allow us). I wanted to have "environment" but it was taken. I knew more about environmental science then even some instructors. Started a env. campus organization. Just knew a lot about env. sci. People kept coming to me for env. sci. help or information. Figured I was kind of an env. sci. "mentor" or teacher. Decided to go with "environment" "mentor" or "environmentor". Name stuck, now I use it everywhere I can, even though I ended up changing my major to General Biology.

[Catbird]

Catbird was the name I gave my first boat, a 1970 Mustang tri-hull. I use it as a nickname and is also the name of my present boat. Actually, I guess the new boat should be Catbird III...lol

[Screen]

Thanks All!!!
It is amazing how much you learn about someone, just from a handle!

[Schoe]

You are right about that Screen, I am really glad you started this thread. Mine is very easy to figure out, first half of last name.
Since this web site is family oriented I certainly couldn't use one of the names I have been called in the past. Schoe

[hushpuppy]

Well my real nick-name is Big dawg and my buddies call me Dawg. When I was informed of this site and was asked for a handle I couldn't think of nothin' beter. But I can say that Hushpuppy's are on my mind when the fishin' day is done...lol

p.s. this was a good idea for a thread.

[Ol' Man]

The Mrs. calls me her "Ol' Man ", my kids call me their "Ol' Man", the neighbors refer to me as "that silly Ol' Man" what other choice do I have...

What they say: Developed after years of research What they mean: Discovered by pure accident.

[nosnag]

My old fishing partner gave me my handle because of the way I fish logjambs.He would lose his rigs about ten times to my one.Taught some others my method,and they did well with it.Called him Norigs,and he used to counter by calling me Nosnag.

BILL

[Annie]

Annie is actually what my parents call me, my first name is Andrea

[FisherBuddy]

Well, after reading everyone else's stories mine is bland. When I was little my grandmother loved to go fishing all the time. She hates swimming, but she loved to fish! Anyway, she used to call me her little fishing buddy. So...

She doesn't get to go much any more, but we try to take her every chance we get. She's moving on 80 and has had heart problems. I consider fishing her therapy. :)

[Slingblade]

Kinda slow to find this thread. I really like the movie 'Slingblade' so i just use it. My otherhandles are Tatersalad, Mr. Nipples, and Bubbles.

[Soupy_1us]

Go Figure ! You guys know I'm from KY so I'm a little slower than the others getting here!.....

The nickname "Soupy", the guys as old or older than me know where this name came from... With the last name of "Sale".. Played baseball in school worked in the coalmines all my life with the last name of "Sale" Nobody ever says "Sale" it's always "SALES" So, hince the nickname "Soupy Sales". In school they called my older brother "Big" Soupy and me Little Soupy or Soupy Jr. Now they are all gone so that leaves me as being just Soupy ! To the young'uns on here Soupy Sayles use to be a TV show in the 50's (remember "Fang")

[ambulance_girl_04]

I have the handle ambulance_girl_04, because I am an EMT, and the 04 is for the year I graduated. Corny huh.... ha ha
Katie

[wewamohawk]

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[Pegleg]

I decided on my handle after I lost my leg due to complications from a wild cow hookin me off my horse. Oh well just another bump in the road. :D

[nosnag]

Hey Pegleg,
After those"complications",I'll bet you really enjoy biting into a steak.;)
Those rodeo bovines can and do get pretty nasty at times.I get the impression that you are as tough as shoeleather. :cool: Thumbs up to you guy.
BILL

[wewamohawk]

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