How did you get your on-line name?

[FireDancer]

Hi all,

This a true story.....
I was just sitting here laughing with a freind about my on line name FireDancer and how it came about. Well let me tell you it wasn't easy or painless!!!! Where I live in Western Kentucky I own a vast amount of property...

1000 acres to be exact and when we clear the land of trees and what not we clear it with D9 Cat BullDozers.

We knock down the trees and push them to a area that they can be done away with by soaking them for a days with diesel fuel and burning them for sometimes weeks.

Well some time ago I belive it was the spring of 1996 myself and 4 others cleared 20 acres off with the dozers and moved all the debris to a far corner of the property. Now so you know, once the debris has been set in a certain position we soak it and set a fire line.

A fire line is a diesel soaked cord run from the debris to a safe area about 75 feet from the pile so we can light it saftley, and on this particular day I was setting the fire lines at one side of pile (which was about 25 feet high) shaped like a tee pee so to speak. After a few days of soaking we went out to start the burn process, I was on one side and a few others were on the other side. I hollard out to move the vehicles back and to get ready while I was checking that the lines did not dry out.

Welp I am still here to tell you they didnt dry out!!! When Mike my partner moved the pick up truck it let off a spark some how and ignited the cords at that side of the pile while I was still basicly inside it!!!! OUCH!!!! When I came running out..well of course I was on fire.

My partner got me put out and called 911 on the cell phone. While in the hospital my wife, family and friends came to see me and as I got better the jokes started and mike made the comment to my wife that when I came out of the pile, for a moment he thought "this is all a dream" and that I looked like one singular flame had jumped out and started dancing around on it's own. I am all better now thanks to some great doctors and alot of love from my wife and kids :)

I am still clearing land on a yearly basis as well. This year I bought a new D9 Cat Bulldozer and when it arrived on both sides of it was there was a name on it
just under the operators nest "FIREDANCER". I still think my wife and Mike snuck down thier and had the Cat dealer put that thier as a reminder but no one is owning up to it :) You know what they say....If the shoe fits..... So? how did you get your on line name?
Hope you enjoyed!!!

Regards,
~FireDancer~ ;)

[Mr.Blaze]

:D i think this a perty good topic belive it or not most these names come out for a reason or at least gives you a window to some ones personality

Will my name was first created at LFN la femme nikita bord at wb message bord.

i was a newbie to the whole message bord thing and at first used my real first and last name.

when i posted and asked qustions i wasnt geting much replys.

then i notice every one used wyrd names so i thought you know i need a name that screams respect yet sounds cool.

so the first part Mr. to me always comanded some form of customery respect

but then what after that.

The word Blaze just poped in my head cause im the type of guy to go out in a blaze in a fight for what ever i belive in also in my youngher years i use to smoke pot and always blazed up.

so Mr.Blaze fit the bill

after that i got more feed back on topics lol

also at wb i learnd my first newbie baby word the word LOL

[Peaches4U]

I live in the orchard [lots of peaches grown here] & wine area of British Columbia ... Before I was married I was named Peach Queen at a Peach festival. Now when I do stuff for others I am often told that I am a real peach - these people had no idea of my past history as peach queen. So it seemed appropriate to use the name Peaches4U. ;D

[LowWaterMark]

On-line name? What do you mean exactly? ???

Sincerely,
Low W. Mark, Jr.


;D

[Mr.Blaze]

:Dyour kiding right that really your name lol it does seem belivable.

but then algain me and you share same since of huemor lol

[Checkout]

"Checkout" couldn't be less interesting. When I started getting involved in security matters, there was so much software to check out... You can stop yawning now. 8)

[mr.mark]

i put mr. in front of my first name

[Mr.Blaze]

;Di keep thinking mark is the guy from tv show called screensavers i think for some reason he the guy you call for help

[meneer]

mr. is meneer in Dutch ;D


-edit: I found a tux tied to fit the description

[FanJ]

Hi FireDancer,

I'm very happy that you survived that disaster !!!!!

Best wishes, Jan.

[FanJ]

FanJ = "fan Jan" :D.

[Mr.Blaze]

;D

[hayc59]

I bailed hay for about 10 minutes one day
on a farm in Florida!!
hence the name and hayc!!!
'59' lucky number!! ;D ;D

[Acadia]

My wife and I fell in love with the Mount Desert Island region of Maine where most of Acadia National Park is located, in fact, one week from now we’ll be packing for another 9 day stay up there. We hope to retire to that region some day.

http://www.acadiamagic.com/welcome.html

http://www.acadiamagic.com/Photos01.html

Acadia

[Detox]

Well I'm another boring one - I bought my first online war game (Delta Force 2) and had to name myself so I just typed in Detox as in purifying the souls of my impure cyber-opponents ;)

Of course now I'm known my all the people I hang out with and play online games with by this name, and I find it best to use the same one everywhere I go. I've had it long enough it seems to be my name just as well as my real name.

[Mr.Blaze]

:D lol and all this time i thought you had a drinking problem and the reson why you choosed detox is cause your perty clean now except for ocastional drink

[maes]

I was registering at another forum (sorry, I do visit other forums besides this one :-\ )
And I was drinking a beer. I had alot of beer but very little imagination, so I shoose the beerbrand as my online name.

That was about 3 years ago, and it hasen't changed since.

So Maes is a Belgian beer :)

[the Tester]

How I came up with my forum name is boring compared to most.

I couldn't think of a cool name so I use "the Tester" because it describes me.
I like to test things,software programs in particular.
This behavior can be addictive! ;)

I normally use "the Tester" or a variation of it in most forums that I frequent so people know it's me.

[Mr.Blaze]

:DBlaze show up with crow bar whats this other forum blaze pat crow bar in hand where is it at im have a little chat with that forum lol


gimme addy lol

ill rolll up in there like the sopranos

[Antarctica]

When I register to the Forum, I was listening the
music from the motion picture soundtrack "Antarctica"
by the Author Vangelis. ;)

[Acadia]

-{ Quote: " quoting: Antarctica link=board=27;threadid=13933;start=15#msg88722 date=1063925797]
When I register to the Forum, I was listening the
music from the motion picture soundtrack "Antarctica"
by the Author Vangelis. ;)
" }-

Men Without Hats also did a song titled Antarctica; I really liked it.

Acadia.

[Pretender]

I'm always trying to pretend that I know something when I post in forums and, thus, Pretender seemed appropriate. Wow! How exciting :-[

[Weber]

Weber is my last name... boring :-\

[puff-m-d]

Well, mine actually came from my last name... It is german and people are always mispronouncing it... It usually comes out as "puff" (Pfaff pronounced with the first f silent like paff)... So some of my best friends started calling me puff (new friends I had made right sfter moving to Florida) and that eventually became puff the magic dragon and later puff-m-d (hence my avatar)....

Regards,
Kent

[BWMerlin]

Mine came about in the days of diablo 1. I was the mage and was very into magic and so i thought id call myself Merlin after the great magic user in King Aurther. I was then invited to join a caln called the blood wolves, they asked that i put BW~ in front of my name so ppl would no which clan i belonged to. So the name has stuck as BW~Merlin or if ~ is not supported its BWMerlin.

[spy1]

My full name is Steven Peter Yevchak - and (since I'm one-of-a-kind.....) Pete

[beetlejuice]

I got mine from the guys at work about the way my hair (what I have of it) looks when the wind blows it. I do look like Beetlejuice in the movie. :o I don't know if it's something to be really happy about, :-[ but it works well for Halloween. ;D Oct. 30th B-day too.

[snapdragin]

i just like snapdragons (the flower)...but to be a bit different...i spell it with the "i" instead of the "o". ;D

[Mr.Blaze]

:Di like the little kity snapy is it a neo pet or a pokeymon

[LowWaterMark]

-{ Quote: " quoting: Mr.Blaze link=board=27;threadid=13933;start=15#msg89548 date=1064357110] :D i like the little kity snapy is it a neo pet or a pokeymon" }-

I like this one better. :D

[snapdragin]

ROFL....LWM...those are my Easter Ears. Halloween's next, hummm....what will i wear?? ;D

Blazey...you are right, it is a Pokemon. "Mew" is it's name. i didn't draw it though, well, the ears i did, and other clothes it's worn. LOL. It's a fun avatar. Hey...we should have a "How did you find your avatar" thread. ;)

[Mr.Blaze]

;Dlol yeah after all they do seem to be part of are little personaltys on the web lol

[Vorpal]

Hi All

I was registering for SpywareInfo's forum when I came up with the name - I've always liked the poem in Jabberwocky and as you may know that forum's avatar uses either a sword or something to smash some spyware. So, out came "Vorpal" as a screenname - short for vorpalsword [preferred weapon of jabberwock hunters worldwide!) It is something unusual yet short enough that I would remember it ! ! (Apologies to Mr. Wilder and Mr. Blaze for belonging to other fora, :D )

Great topic idea!!

[GoonMan]

I got my years ago because of the way I looked in my younger days when i lifted weights, large chest small waist while in Uncle Sams Canoe Club. But now my chest has dropped to my waist. I guess I should change
my nic to fatman. ;D ;D
So when I started chatting and surfing the net I used GoonMan.

[bigc73542]

It was kind of just pushed on m by some of my friends. bigc73542 Big because I am six feet two and a half inches tall and weigh 290 and the numbers are the zip code where I live. I would like to chang my screen name but no one I know would know me online so I guess I am sytuck with it. :'(

[bigc73542]

I really do appoligize for my typing but I am going to get the cast off of my hand monday and I hope all of the typos will go away. Ay least I hope the typos give you a laugh

[GoonMan]

That's ok bigc I have been reading my own typos for years. LOL ;D

[bigc73542]

At least now I don't feel so all alone with the typos.

Thanks GoonMan :)

[Uguel707]

Uguel sounds like my real name and 707 was the number I used to wear for long distance running competitions.


Uguel :)

[greyfox]

Well, my hair is getting really gray and I like to think I'm kind of a fox ......for an old lady. ;)