It's All in the Name...

FISMA

I have to admit that sometimes I cannot make heads or tails of some of the user-names in the shooting forum.

Some names you can make out: bunny_Shooter, CliveJ, gunhappy_ie, and the Big Fella for example.

Others, I have no idea: Ezridax, GixxerThou, bazzaz888, ormondprop, and such.

So, if you care to, please give us some background on your user name.

All invited, even those we think we understand.

whiteley91

well mines pretty simple?
whiteley is my second name and 91 is the year i was born! about as simple as they come! easiest to remember!

Cass

Mine's a character in a SciFi i was watching when i first registered. Seemed as good as any.:)

FISMA

Me next.

Always liked Newton's second in school F = ma.

When you have to say F is ma often enough, you wind up saying FISMA.

Feidhlim Dignan

pretty straight foward, my name

Justashotgun

When I joined I had just a Shotgun , now thats changed as I got a CZ 452 .22, but im not gonna bother changing it, lol

homerhop

Always known as homer and made ****e of the leg a few years back which left me with a bit if a limp.

Bananaman

Nuf said

Tackleberrywho

I wanted to be Tackleberry, someone had the name.
as it would not let me select it.

Then he dissapeared and and another guy took the name.

So I was left with Tackleberrywho

Many guys use anagrams of their name, 2 or 3 come to mind.

Several lads use their real names :eek:

Bananaman

Be under no illusions - there is no anonymity on here - most people know who everyone is - it's not hard to figure/find out

B'Man

Bananaman

Whenever the Mrs says she's not that old I just point out to her that most people leaving college this year don't know who Jack Charlton is or know why Joxer went to Stuttgart -they don't remember where they were when packy saved that penalty

whiteley91 wasn't even born - probably has no idea who toto schilachi is

B'Man

Tackleberrywho

Bananaman wrote: »

Be under no illusions - there is no anonymity on here - most people know who everyone is - it's not hard to figure/find out

B'Man

I know, works both was B'man !

The only anonymous persons are those unregistered guests lurking in the background ...............

djflawless

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easy enough im guessin

Arcto

Years ago I was trying to come up with a unique email address. I got sick of regular variants on my name so I made up a word....until the email provider announced it was already taken! So I slapped a few numbers onto the end of it and made the email address.

Turns out Arcto means Bear in Latin....guess it was in my sub-concious or something weird

Longranger

I wanted loneranger cos I love getting out into the wild on my own and getting lost for a few days. It was taken however,so my mate,who is a chopper pilot,suggested longranger,I asked him if it was cos he thought I was a good shot,he said it was because I was a crap shot but made more noise than his helicopter:)(a Bell 206 Longranger) Smart pr!ck:)

Sparks

Bananaman wrote: »

Be under no illusions - there is no anonymity on here

Hence Rule 5...


And it was a school nickname that stuck for some reason (used to do amateur radio when I was that age; got told to setup the electronics bits of the physics labs so the teacher could have a cigarette break; and then some lovely chap turned the voltage on the power supply all the way up for a laugh while I was testing a full-wave rectifier. Power supply had no current limiter. Hence, sparks).

ormondprop

I play rugby with nenagh ormond and my position is prop forward

Rosahane

... a very remote graveyard in Wicklow where ancestors are buried:cool:

Glensman

I'm from the Green Green Glens

marlin vs

The rifle in .17HMR that I use.

poulo6.5

mine is straightforward, my deer cal at the time of registering was a 6.5x55 and poulo is a variant of my name hence poulo6.5.

i thought (poulo.22magnum22lr.223,6.5x55swedish.308rabit,fox&deershooting,and-i-have-a-shotgun). was a bit to long:D

ormondprop

poulo6.5 wrote: »

mine is straightforward, my deer cal at the time of registering was a 6.5x55 and poulo is a variant of my name hence poulo6.5.

i thought (poulo.22magnum22lr.223,6.5x55swedish.308rabit,fox&deershooting,and-i-have-a-shotgun). was a bit to long:D

Should have just called them oatabix

Deerspotter

My name is one of my favourite hobbies. I love spotting deer. I am very good at it.

bunny shooter

I reckon it's obvious :cool:

LB6

I'm a female who used too ride a Suzuki Bandit 600 ---> LadyBandit600 was too long, so it became LB6

dermot218

=my first name and my number for stock car raceing

clivej

I can't think offhand why I chose that handle??????
'cos my real name is PaddyMaArse :rolleyes:

gunhappy_ie

Great thread, I love hearing the reasons behind them, hence all the thumbs up

I particularly like......

Rosahane wrote: »

... a very remote graveyard in Wicklow where ancestors are buried:cool:

:cool::cool::cool::cool:

I use this name on several forums because its me Im a happy chap into firearms and ill forget if I have different names on every forum.

GH

Deerspotter

Rosahane wrote: »

... a very remote graveyard in Wicklow where ancestors are buried:cool:

Love this name too and love this part of Wicklow. It used to be a great place to see huge stags during the rut, but it didn't hold them year round. Someone shot the hell out of it though.

DJandDeid

Combination of poor memory and romance! Joint account on another forum (accounts for the 'and' in the middle) and the fact I can't remember too many different user names, so I use the one! I'm the DJ bit.:)

J.R.

J.R.........my initials.......nothing to do with the 'Dallas' series during the '70's / '80's.

Sika98k

Spunk84

I had a teacher in school with a lisp and everyday he would be going off at me, calling me a "punk" but it came out like "Spunk". And the 84 is the birth date

insertclever

Not that I ever really post, I tend to just lurk and read the shooting forum and nothing else, but trying to figure out a clever name was too much and "insertclevermoniker" seems to have been already taken... so insertclever had to do

Doubt anyone on here know's me, well apart from gunhappy whom I talk to every now and then :P

charlie10

charlie being my first dogs name and ten is his address!!! gixxer thou is a model of a motor bike.(GSXR1000)

gunhappy_ie

Sika98k wrote: »

ERRRRrrrrrr I dont get it :P :P :P

Vizzy

Take a guess

ghostmantra

mine is an anagram of my name :cool: "can you tell what it is yet"

lefthooker

Simple. I'm one of those awkward southpaw shooters:rolleyes:

poulo6.5

ghostmantra wrote: »

mine is an anagram of my name :cool: "can you tell what it is yet"

Seamus:p

poulo6.5

Vizzy wrote: »

Take a guess

he's a smashin looking dog do you have him on deer

Spunk84

Vizzy wrote: »

Take a guess

Isn't that a ridgeback:rolleyes:

Tackleberrywho

Spunk84 wrote: »

Isn't that a ridgeback:rolleyes:

No......

Differents parts of the world entirely.

I only have ever seen a ridgeback once in the flesh and it was very obvious it was not a Vizsla

Yawlboy

I'm male and I own a boat

Norwayviking

FISMA wrote: »

I have to admit that sometimes I cannot make heads or tails of some of the user-names in the shooting forum.

Some names you can make out: bunny_Shooter, CliveJ, gunhappy_ie, and the Big Fella for example.

Others, I have no idea: Ezridax, GixxerThou, bazzaz888, ormondprop, and such.

So, if you care to, please give us some background on your user name.

All invited, even those we think we understand.

Pretty obvious mine i guess,lol.

Grizzly 45

Comes from an actual handgun .
Full title would be AMT Grizzly 45 Mk 1 Winchester Magnum.Which is rather long.So shortned it to Grizzly 45.
One of the more aggressive handguns I have shot too,and I liked it as it has a rather large grip which fits my "paw" alot better than most.:D

dev110

Dev is part of my surname and 110 is just a three digit number that I have been using for years

It wasn't me!

ghostmantra wrote: »

mine is an anagram of my name :cool: "can you tell what it is yet"

Yes, but I presume you don't want it revealed to the audience either.

A Country Voice

Good thread.............

I used to be involved in a sports league in limerick city, and it was mainly run by city clubs, with some clubs from out the country. I eventually managed to get myself onto the committee and I was the "Country Voice"

ormondprop

ghostmantra wrote: »

mine is an anagram of my name :cool: "can you tell what it is yet"

Thomas Grant?

It wasn't me!

ormondprop wrote: »

Thomas Grant?

I had a different one, didn't see that actually, nice spot.