What is your screen name story?

[bored383]

I used to have some older Mopars - and in particular some 1966 Plymouth Furys. My favorite one had a built for performance B block - in the rebuild the motor was punched out .040 over so . . . bored383

[XEMON]

It isn't so much that I like it as much as it simply isn't used anywhere. Even to this day I can register 99% of places and it isn't taken. I have seen a few close.
These days there is so much result in web search that it isn't truly an alias for me any longer.

Same here ...

And if you watched action/fantasy TV series in the 90s, you know the reference for my username ...

[spikeball]

Like many here, it was a messenger chat name that came out of a briefly used high school nickname. The nickname came about because I was heavily into punk (really anything fast and loud) and often wore a spiked shoulder army jacket. The ball is obviously paint ball.

Now someone created a GAME out of my name, and I still wonder if someone saw my username somewhere and came up with the idea... Do I get royalties?!

[Nish]

I have no imagination

[Cdn_Cuda]

My country and my car.

[Grendel]

Nickname "Grendel" I picked up playing paintball as a newb because the players picking teams between walk on games did not know my name and I was wearing a Grendel Tee Shirt. During that game others "including my Navy friends" started calling me Grendel and it stuck. Stuck so well a teammate of mine who happened to work for the same company as I do referred to me as Grendel during a meeting and everyone else in the room had a blank look on their faces. So I had to explain Joe, knew me first through paintball and by that nickname so he had a habit of referring to me as Grendel even when not playing paintball. It [nickname] now has been shortened with both paintball and non-paintball friends to just "G".

This is the Tee Shirt I was wearing at the time, didn't even have anything to do with the Beowulf epic but instead the comic book by Matt Wagner: (I still have quite a collection of Grendel Comics even after disposing of much of my collection)

[Grendel]

Oh, can we get one of these enumerable nickname threads stickied somewhere for future reference? It seems this question pops up every few months it seems.

[Sharkytrav]

I was surprised that I have never seen one. There was something a while back titled “What’s in a name?” Or something similar, but it turned out to be a very different topic. Must have just missed previous versions.

[Memornix]

Back in the early days of the call in the BBS using a modem (this was before the internet kids now stay off my lawn) a user name was needed. A Memorex cassette tape was sitting near a Technics stereo component and the two names were combined. Since it had to be cool, the "cs" was swapped to "x" and the rest was history.

[Diomedes]

Greek mythology, prominent in The Iliad, cool dude, less of a jerk than most of the other characters.

[JeeperCreeper]

I suck at picking screen names

[AnarchicArctic]

I thought it would be a good name for a metal band. Never started the band, but needed a screen name

[DocsMachine]

[cracks knuckles]

Back in my very early days in this sport, we very rarely had any kind of an organized field, so it was basically all outlaw. And came down to anywhere we could get permission to play- or at least wouldn't get caught. (Right away. )

And this being backwoods, Alaska, we had to be self-sufficient. We had to figure out where to get CO2, how to fill tanks, how to fix our own guns, etc. I was the most mechanically inclined of the group, and being one of the biggest enthusiasts, I collected together a tool kit to bring to the field, as well as investing in a 20-pound CO2 tank, making my own fill station, and so on.

One summer, one of the regulars had gotten a cheap blowback, and had thrown some aftermarket parts at it, kind of willy-nilly. As such, he was constantly having problems with it, and since I was more or less the only one with tools (and the knowhow to use them) he kept bringing it to me between games.

Which became kind of a running joke: "Kin ya save 'im, Doc?", or "Will he live, Doc?" and so on. I recall he once yelled "Code Blue, Code Blue!" on the field.

It didn't really turn into a nickname, it was just kind of a running gag for the day, and would occasionally pop up later- "Gun's not workin? Take it to the doctor over there."

What really fixed it was, right around that same time- and this was a while ago- I got my first Windows computer and an internet account. First thing I looked up was, of course piantball, and just about the only resource that existed back then was WARPIG.

WARPIG had an early BBS-style bulletin board called Tech Talk, where players could share tips and tricks bout their markers. I, shall we say, knew a thing or two about a good many markers back then, and started answering a lot of questions. As noted above, this was back when nobody used their real name online, so needing a quick nickname, "Doc" was both something we'd already kind of been using, and tended to give my then-wet-behind-the-ears kid self a little more 'authority'.

After a very short while, people were asking for my help, specifically, eventually getting to the point where I had people offering to send me their guns in order to be repaired or modified.

A few trusting sorts did just that, got back what I like to think was good work, word spread, I went full-time in 1998, and never looked back.

Doc.

[un2xs]

Weren't you known as the Spyder Doctor at one point?

[Axel]

I always assumed "Doc" came from your penchant for writing a dissertation to answer a simple question 😁

[JeepDVLZ45]

Long story with several iterations of Screen Names. Back when I actually watched college hoops, I was a huge Duke fan. So my old SN on AOL Instant Messenger was NDuke127 (N for Nick, Duke for Duke and 127 for Jan 27 (my B-day).
I was one of the many victims who was “hacked” on AIM, so I had to pick a new name. I tried to keep the Duke theme going, so I went with BlueDvlz45 (45 was by baseball number in HS and College) eventually that got hacked and I got my wrangler. So JeepDVLZ45 was the next logical step when I signed up for JeepForum. The rest is history….

[BrickHaus]

Edit... it submitted as I got up... I have size 13 wide feet. Have had em since 8th grade. One of my friends started calling Brick Shoes as my shoes were shaped like bricks. I didnt like it then, but over time I found it funny. Years later I joined my former paintball team. I had to submit a callsign for my jersey. They wanted it to be one syllable for easy of field talk. So I thought back to ole brick shoes. And suggested they call me Brick. That was on my jersey for 7.5 years.

fast forward to now.
My Battle.net, steam, and discord names are all BrickShews for the laughs. When I made my MCB 3.0 name, I figured BrickShews was too quirky as Ill actually meet some of you.


Ive also used Brick House in other contexts as I think of it like a brick shit house, and I like to tell myself Id hit like one.


Im also mostly German by heritage from what Ive been told.

That being said, BrickHaus is a spin on my high school name, my callsign, and my heritage mashed up into a screen name for this beautiful place. Now that Im ingrained, I realize BrickShews would have worked well enough too, but I use both names interchangeably today, so its all good.

[FredMnkyDad10]

[cracks knuckles]

Back in my very early days in this sport, we very rarely had any kind of an organized field, so it was basically all outlaw. And came down to anywhere we could get permission to play- or at least wouldn't get caught. (Right away. )

And this being backwoods, Alaska, we had to be self-sufficient. We had to figure out where to get CO2, how to fill tanks, how to fix our own guns, etc. I was the most mechanically inclined of the group, and being one of the biggest enthusiasts, I collected together a tool kit to bring to the field, as well as investing in a 20-pound CO2 tank, making my own fill station, and so on.

One summer, one of the regulars had gotten a cheap blowback, and had thrown some aftermarket parts at it, kind of willy-nilly. As such, he was constantly having problems with it, and since I was more or less the only one with tools (and the knowhow to use them) he kept bringing it to me between games.

Which became kind of a running joke: "Kin ya save 'im, Doc?", or "Will he live, Doc?" and so on. I recall he once yelled "Code Blue, Code Blue!" on the field.

It didn't really turn into a nickname, it was just kind of a running gag for the day, and would occasionally pop up later- "Gun's not workin? Take it to the doctor over there."

What really fixed it was, right around that same time- and this was a while ago- I got my first Windows computer and an internet account. First thing I looked up was, of course piantball, and just about the only resource that existed back then was WARPIG.

WARPIG had an early BBS-style bulletin board called Tech Talk, where players could share tips and tricks bout their markers. I, shall we say, knew a thing or two about a good many markers back then, and started answering a lot of questions. As noted above, this was back when nobody used their real name online, so needing a quick nickname, "Doc" was both something we'd already kind of been using, and tended to give my then-wet-behind-the-ears kid self a little more 'authority'.

After a very short while, people were asking for my help, specifically, eventually getting to the point where I had people offering to send me their guns in order to be repaired or modified.

A few trusting sorts did just that, got back what I like to think was good work, word spread, I went full-time in 1998, and never looked back.

Doc.

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