Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Jesse on February 19, 2011, 11:49:59 pm
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Some of you guys have some interesting names on here. Tell us how you came up with it or how you got it. What it means, etc.
Im talking about those with screen names other than their real name :)
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Good topic Jesse! I'm interested to hear some of the explanations.
Mine's not one of the weird ones...just my initials. If I could do it over I'd just use my name...
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mine is because i am a VERY PROUD father of 2 sailors ;D
thought i should add
once they are done in the US NAVY i will probably change it to my OOGA BOOGA name ;)
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Started out with something else then decided my name was better.
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ElDestructo......"The Destroyer"......because I am a maniacal Destroyer of All Thing Wood....this name was given to me by someone special to me...He got Me into Primitive Archery...and Bow Building....so I use it to Pay Homage to Him
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Short for Tim Ott ;D
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Little league 1970, there were six Davids on the team. Coach asked pointing at each one of us, " what month were you born?" He then points at the kid with the earliest month and says, "your David, the rest of you sap suckers use your last names or call yourself Nancy the choice is yours, now take the field." From then on our last names followed us all the way through school and beyond. Oh and if you had an error, coach automatically called you Nancy, and other names that would send some modern parents into fits and lawsuits.
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When I first started making primitive bows, when I was a kid, I always used hickory.It has always been my favorite and most successful bow wood. And my real name is Bill, hence HickoryBill.
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Pat B = Pat Brennan! ;D
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Lombard i gotta say i like your reason the best so far
Nancy ;D :D
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I thought long and hard,,,,,then I rememberd my name! ;D
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Lombard i gotta say i like your reason the best so far
Nancy ;D :D
Yeah thats a good one. El D what was the new nickname Sarah gave you? " EL sweetheart" something like that :D
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And Sara still calls me.....EL SWEET-O....and Marie just calls Me....EL Nice-O....or....El Dot-O......but I still have not been able to figure that One out...... ;)
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I was given my nickname by a wise old China-man ( I don't mean to be offensive, that's what he calls himself). Ever since then it stuck.
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Got mine due to the fact that every stirng I have ever made stretched.
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gstoneberg = George Stoneberg...it's been my email handle since the company decided to assign them instead of use our preferred ids. As Dilbert would point out, glad my name wasn't Brian Utthead. ;D
George
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And Sara still calls me.....EL SWEET-O....and Marie just calls Me....EL Nice-O....or....El Dot-O......but I still have not been able to figure that One out...... ;)
After the 08 classic there were a number of us who started calling him El Kissupo I never found out why. >:D
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When I came here all of the good archery name were already taken so I wanted to come up with a name that said something about where I'm from as well as who I am. Cracker is a slang and somewhat derogatory term for "Old Blood" southerners from Ga. And Maybe Fl. It also meant a Wagon driver which my grandfather and great grandfather were.
Thanks "Cracker"Ronnie
P.S. I thought about Peckerwood but my wife talked me out of it. Thats working class southerners FYI.
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I had my handle way before I started using computers.My sons friends would come over to the house an ask where is your Dad, the answer seemed to always be Outback. the phone used to ring an someone was looking for me an wife would say He will call you later he's outback. When I came on to computer an needed handle OUtback came to mind an I added first name an year I was born to clarify me from other Outbacks Later Outbackbob48 ;D
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I wanted a name that had something to do with osage since that is what I blessed with. I live on property that is mostly osage, we used it for firewood the first 20 years of my lilfe! So I came up with Osage Outlaw. That is the name I sign my bows with.
I go by scrub-buster on a couple of other sites. That's what my brother-in-law called me when I was younger because I killed litttle scrub bucks every year.
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Nickname and the year I was born.
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No Robin Hood here just one of the merry men. Kenneth
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In high school when I wanted an email, my name was taken so I added my football number.
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Easy... Professor (short hand) plus last name.
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We keep some of our horses year around in a couple of huge pastures across the road from the house. Sometimes they are out of sight for several days and I go looking for them to see if they had become wolf bait. Have not lost one yet, but have had to actually run some wolves off when they had some of my horses surrounded. There has been lots of cattle losses in the valley and one horse due to the wolves. In the winter after the elk season is closed the gate to the forest is closed and I can see the horses as they wait to be fed in the snow and cold. We can see them most of the time from the kitchen window. Early on Mike "Hawkbow" Huston started calling me wolfwatcher and there is not a day goes by that we don't start the day and continue to watch for them. We saw three day before yesterday in the front pasture. They seemed to be only passing through and as long as we have the big elk herds the wolves feed on them. We see them in the hills, but are not allowed to shoot them due to the "Endangered Classification"! I got the Indian Joe name in the early 70s going to the grade schools dressed in my Indian gear to demonstrate knapping and tell the "Indian Story" and that name has hung on ever since!
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How about Pokie, Pokie? ;D
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My name was given to me the day I made eagle scout by a native American friend at first I didn't like it you know being young and stupid I wanted something more manly like runs with axe lol. So the years went by and I then picked up the blacksmithing trade and all of my friends had cool names for there blacksmith business like hillbilly hilander forge, and dragon forge ect... So I spent a few days thinking and then it hit me my name was skyarrow why not use skyarrow blacksmithing for my business name and then on people started calling me by may given NA name and i love it and now I am into PA it fits very well pluss I think I lived like my name when I was younger I was like the flying arrow I tried to fly high and far and now that I am older I found my path and now stable and close to the ground. So here I am I think it's amazing how my NA elder friend new the perfict name lol. I could have made it bloodmoonwidow which is my Xbox live gamer tag and a charicture from world of warcrat pc game lol ttyl and hope y'all enjoyed my story
Sterling " skyarrow"
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Pat, :-[ :-[ All these years I thought it as (Pat Beard) :D :D :D
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Surname is Hatch
BIG fan of MetallicA
Back in secondary (high) school - I went by the moniker HatchA (drawn the same way as the bandname - with the hooks on the first and last letters).
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Sonny was my Dad's nickname and now that he's no longer around I use it in memory of him......
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well after readin these mines not interesting , first name and year i was hatched ... and cracker was already taken!!
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Some interesting ones and ones I was wrong about. OutbackBob---I thought it meant outback like Australian outback not out back in the back yard :D :D
Wolf watcher-- I didn't realize you actually watched wolves daily cool 8)
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Pat: I lived off and on many times with my Indian Grandfarther. He gave nick names to all of us kids. I am just glad that "hyper" had not been invented yet. My wife calls me Pokie when she likes me and all my old friends do also! One of them is dead and the other on lives in Nebraska! Considering some of the names I have been referred to I would choose that name a lot. I have been thinking of having a double name tag at the Classic as I still have trouble putting two monikers together. Sounds like there will be a lot of new faces there this year and I am anxious to meet and talk to them and maybe learn both their names.
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Mine's first initial and last name then the year I met my better half, same year I graduated High School.
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It took a while for me to come up with a name because I have so many different hobbies and skills. I'm a jack of all trades. I thought, OK I'll pick "jackofalltrades" but that was taken as an email address. So, I thought, how about "jackofallcrafts" but that was taken also. So I just shortened it to "jackcrafty". ;D
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I was a rifleman with the Walking Dead battalion of the Ninth Marines in Vietnam. We were called grunts because that's how we lived and communicated, grunts and gestures. Funny how things stay with you.
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I live in Iowa and like to bow hunt. People are from all over so I thought it would be cool to have a location as part of the name. Also WHAT IS COOLER THAN IOWA!!!!!!!!
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Daniel Boone and many many others would travel from NC to Kentucky for extended hunts to collect animal hides, mostly deer. They would return and trade for what they needed. The extended hunts and hunters became known as "longhunters" for the long periods of time they hunted away from home. I'm in NC, so hence "NCLONGHUNTER". I have participated in 18th Century reenacting for many years traveling to Tnn, Kentucky and WV.
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My friends bck in India called me Shikari which means hunter in the language as I was the only hunter in the group and it stuck.
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We were called grunts because that's how we lived and communicated, grunts and gestures.
I heard many years ago that they were called "grunts" because whenever anyone asked what their IQ level was, they'd reply "huh?" ???
Glad to have it corrected by someone that was/is one :)
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My dad's from eastern Kentucky. When we would go there on vacation I always came back with that Eastern Appallation draw and my friends would call me a hillbilly ::) It only lasted a few days, and then it was back to talkin like a dang Yankee ;D Year I was born on the end of it.
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I came to this site a year or so ago to research "how to make a wood bow" for one of my other hobbies,with no intention of actually getting hooked. so I picked a dorky name, paying homage to a Mony Python like film "Eric the Viking" (I know not a Python film but directed by one of them and starring two more). Although I am Danish on my mothers side(Jellison). Oh and my first name is Eric.
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When I first got on PaleoPlanet and then Primitive Archer I thought we had to have a fake name. So, I chose mullet because my ancestors were commercial mullet fisherman and oyster men. Mullet is the only fish to have a gizzard like fowl. Now It seems like I'm really stuck with the "mullet" nickname, now.
Joe; You're "Indian Joe" nickname really hits home, that was my Grandfathers name when he rode the rodeo circuit in the thirties.
"Cracker", Ronnie, down here a Florida Cracker got that name for popping the bull whips driving the Scrub cows out of the Swamps during round-up, or Cattle Drives to Kissimmee or Punta Gorda.
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Hi Eddie the wagon drivers got it for cracking the whip to make the horses pull.Ron
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jamie, i hated my name as a kid because i grew up during the the bionic man and woman series on tv (jamie summers, bionic woman). used to get picked on relentlessly till one day i snapped and beat the snot out of 4 kids at my bus stop. i constantly moved as a kid and everytime a handful of dumba$$es would start on me at whatever school i was at. id be patient and deal with it. then my mom would get the phone call. now i carry the name proudly. real name is james and its too formal for me.
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Kind of speaks for itself. ;) :) To tell the truth ,Have a good friend in the club and several years ago,about 18 or so I needed reading glassies,I couldn't stand the big ones cause I could see far away[that was then not now] ;) ;D Any way I started wearing little reading glassies down on my nose and between that,getting gray and being one of the oldest in the club he started calling me Pappy and it just stuck. :) :) Now most don't even know my real name. :)
Pappy
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Pappy
Maybe it's got something to do with having the wisdom and personality to back it up. Around here if you get called Pappy on the job it's cause you're the wisest and best teacher on the job. Somebody's gotta train the young folks.Cracker
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We were called grunts because that's how we lived and communicated, grunts and gestures.
I heard many years ago that they were called "grunts" because whenever anyone asked what their IQ level was, they'd reply "huh?" ???
Glad to have it corrected by someone that was/is one :)
Huh!!!!!!
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You might not be able to see it these days but when I was a young man I was thin,very thin.At 6'4 and 150lbs I looked like a bone pile.They didn't sell 28 X 34 pants back in the day so mom would take the back pockets off my britches and sew them up slimmer,I did't have front pockets I had SIDE pockets ;D
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predator caller kind of sums it up.I enjoy hunting everything but there is nothing like hunting the hunters.I,ve called in coons-foxes-coyotes(my favorite here in the east-quite the challenge)bobcats and an occasional black bear.have a great day-Lloyd
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This is actually my third name here. When I first came to the PA board I just logged in with my first name. Then I switched it to my full name with underscores and used that for a few years and finally went with what I have now. Never had the interest in using anything but my real name
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Not much to explain, just the same one found on my birth certificate. Jonathan did come from the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but that's about the only thing that needs explination.
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DNA.
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^^^LOL. I went through and read everyone's explanation of their screen names and some of them are pretty cool and creative. Mine is just my first name. When I first came here my screen name was "deftones3333" which is just my email address. (@yahoo.com) I went to the Classic for the first time 2 years ago and whenever I introduced myself, I was like "my name is Josh... oh my screenname on PA is deftones3333". As soon as I got home I changed it to my first name to simplify the conversation at future events. It is so much easier to say "my name is Josh and my screen name on PA is also Josh. Nice to meet ya." ;D ;D ;D
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I like that explanation Hillbilly. ;) ;D ;D ;D Cracker,Thanks I wished that was so, buttttt I don't think that is what they were thinking when it was gave to me,something was said about being an ornery OLD coot. ;) ;D ;D
Pappy
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Eddie I woulda bet my last penny that your's was from a hair-do from a couple decades ago.
Justin was taken, so I added NC for where Im from.....I know I know, originality like this doesnt happen often, but I assure you, I'm just as humble and regular as the rest of you ;D
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My first name translated into Gaelic.
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We had a club when we were little kids and all had animal names. Several years later I bought a cb radio and used it as a handle. When I bought a computer 25 years later it was the first thing that came to mind.
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My screen name is my actual first name. The story behind that is lame, but true. My parents hated nicknames such as James = Jim, David = Dave, Lawrence = Larry, etc. And, they wanted a one syllable name. Thus, my first name is Dane, which means basically “man from Denmark.” I think they found it in a baby naming book, as it wasn’t some dusty old tradition in the family.
I can relate totally to Jamie and his name. I got ragged a lot years back for having a “girl’s” name. And, no one seems to get it right. 9 times out of 10, it is misspelled or completely changed to something else.
Regarding Grunt’s explanation on the origin of the term Grunt, I served as a grunt, which in Army parlance is an 11 Bravo. The USMC has another designator for that MOS. Everyone not an infantryman is (or was in my day) known as a REMF, but I think the term pougue is now what the guys on AD use. In line units, REMFs are really not well thought of.
No one is sure what the origin of the term is, it probably originated during Vietnam, but we understood it to mean we humped a LOT. Humping is carrying a very heavy load, usually on your back in your handy ruck. Since I was RTO, I also had the PRC77, which alone will make you grunt after a few days in the field. Add the rest, the rats and the M16 or M203 or mortar tube, ammo, two to four canteens, extra socks, all the rest, and you really start to grunt, and eventually, any other form of verbal communication is pretty much impossible, nor desired.
One story says that grunt is an acronym for “government reject, unfit for normal training.” :) And considering that there were tons of stupid jokes about things being “infantry proof,” a lot of our non-infantry fellow soldiers maybe did really think infantrymen were stupid or low-speed. More colorful terms really do apply more appropriately to grunts, though. :) Some not so flattering, of course.
Which leads me to my little anecdote when I had to go into the local police station to be interviewed as part of the process to get a license to carry in my state. I asked if I was still required to do the firearms class they make you take in MA, and if my time in service could be used to waive that requirement. The LT laughed and said yeah, you do, even though you probably shoot better than all of my guys. I laughed and said probably, but I was trained to waste everything and then hold the position, so the class is probably a good idea.
Dane
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justin im guessin you never saw the 70's pic of eddie with the man-fro!! ;D
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Back when I was in high school my brothers and one of my cousins always spent the evenings playing poker. We all came up with some kind of a knickname, like Taco, Maddog, Paco, and mine was Commadore.
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Started to use " The Bald Wonder" or simply "Redneck" but decided not to brag.
Lane
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Started using koan cuz i heard the internet wasnt a safe place, lol..koan is a riddle with no answer so you can clear your thoughts for proper meditation( use to practice Buddhism)...now I just use beer...and I cant figure out how to change it to just Brian, lol
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I do primitive buckskinning rendesvouz. One time we had a horse camp and my horse went south on me so a guy had a mule but no saddle. had to use my big saddle on a skinny mule and right in the middle of showin' off for some touristas, the saddle slid under his belly and me, gun powder horn fell off. So my camp name was dismount. The dang mule was a killer I tell ya', a killer. Phil
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I got a good laugh out of that hehe... dismount thats a great one!
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n2huntn, my email for many years n2huntn@mchsi.com. Fits nicely on a liscense plate too!!
Jeff
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Jamie----- I can relate. Jesse can be a girls name as well. I moved around a lot as well and was a fighter as a youngster. I didnt really like fighting but I always ended up in one ;D When I moved back from Africa I had a pretty strong accent for a few years so I have always kinda been an outsider. Sometimes people call me Jess but I like my name "Jesse". In the Bible it was King Davids father's name. :)
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Old Grandad started callin me Traxx,cause i was allways followin tracks.the 2 x's on the end represent tracks.
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Later i learned of an ancestor,who was called,Tracks the enemy.
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My screen name is my actual first name. The story behind that is lame, but true. My parents hated nicknames such as James = Jim, David = Dave, Lawrence = Larry, etc. And, they wanted a one syllable name. Thus, my first name is Dane, which means basically “man from Denmark.” I think they found it in a baby naming book, as it wasn’t some dusty old tradition in the family.
I can relate totally to Jamie and his name. I got ragged a lot years back for having a “girl’s” name. And, no one seems to get it right. 9 times out of 10, it is misspelled or completely changed to something else.
Regarding Grunt’s explanation on the origin of the term Grunt, I served as a grunt, which in Army parlance is an 11 Bravo. The USMC has another designator for that MOS. Everyone not an infantryman is (or was in my day) known as a REMF, but I think the term pougue is now what the guys on AD use. In line units, REMFs are really not well thought of.
No one is sure what the origin of the term is, it probably originated during Vietnam, but we understood it to mean we humped a LOT. Humping is carrying a very heavy load, usually on your back in your handy ruck. Since I was RTO, I also had the PRC77, which alone will make you grunt after a few days in the field. Add the rest, the rats and the M16 or M203 or mortar tube, ammo, two to four canteens, extra socks, all the rest, and you really start to grunt, and eventually, any other form of verbal communication is pretty much impossible, nor desired.
One story says that grunt is an acronym for “government reject, unfit for normal training.” :) And considering that there were tons of stupid jokes about things being “infantry proof,” a lot of our non-infantry fellow soldiers maybe did really think infantrymen were stupid or low-speed. More colorful terms really do apply more appropriately to grunts, though. :) Some not so flattering, of course.
Which leads me to my little anecdote when I had to go into the local police station to be interviewed as part of the process to get a license to carry in my state. I asked if I was still required to do the firearms class they make you take in MA, and if my time in service could be used to waive that requirement. The LT laughed and said yeah, you do, even though you probably shoot better than all of my guys. I laughed and said probably, but I was trained to waste everything and then hold the position, so the class is probably a good idea.
Dane
I knew there we other men on this site who have earned the title"Grunt"
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My Favorite part about hunting and shooting is sausage day. Our group has been together for 22yrs. One of my main jobs is to run the smokehouse I be the stoker. The first couple of bows I built were maple and chokecherry didn't turn out but the chicken was good.
Thanks Leroy
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My screen name is my actual first name. The story behind that is lame, but true. My parents hated nicknames such as James = Jim, David = Dave, Lawrence = Larry, etc. And, they wanted a one syllable name. Thus, my first name is Dane, which means basically “man from Denmark.” I think they found it in a baby naming book, as it wasn’t some dusty old tradition in the family.
I can relate totally to Jamie and his name. I got ragged a lot years back for having a “girl’s” name. And, no one seems to get it right. 9 times out of 10, it is misspelled or completely changed to something else.
Regarding Grunt’s explanation on the origin of the term Grunt, I served as a grunt, which in Army parlance is an 11 Bravo. The USMC has another designator for that MOS. Everyone not an infantryman is (or was in my day) known as a REMF, but I think the term pougue is now what the guys on AD use. In line units, REMFs are really not well thought of.
No one is sure what the origin of the term is, it probably originated during Vietnam, but we understood it to mean we humped a LOT. Humping is carrying a very heavy load, usually on your back in your handy ruck. Since I was RTO, I also had the PRC77, which alone will make you grunt after a few days in the field. Add the rest, the rats and the M16 or M203 or mortar tube, ammo, two to four canteens, extra socks, all the rest, and you really start to grunt, and eventually, any other form of verbal communication is pretty much impossible, nor desired.
One story says that grunt is an acronym for “government reject, unfit for normal training.” :) And considering that there were tons of stupid jokes about things being “infantry proof,” a lot of our non-infantry fellow soldiers maybe did really think infantrymen were stupid or low-speed. More colorful terms really do apply more appropriately to grunts, though. :) Some not so flattering, of course.
Which leads me to my little anecdote when I had to go into the local police station to be interviewed as part of the process to get a license to carry in my state. I asked if I was still required to do the firearms class they make you take in MA, and if my time in service could be used to waive that requirement. The LT laughed and said yeah, you do, even though you probably shoot better than all of my guys. I laughed and said probably, but I was trained to waste everything and then hold the position, so the class is probably a good idea.
Dane
I knew there we other men on this site who have earned the title"Grunt"
I had thought about using grunt as a screen name, actually. Of all the accomplishments I’ve done in life, serving as a grunt is one of my proudest achievements. I know you Corps guys have different uniform standards and regs, but in the Army, only the infantryman earns the right to wear the blue cord and blue branch disk backings for the Class A uniform coat lapels. I recall when I injured my leg and was finally re-classed out of combat arms and into an admin position how painful it was to take that stuff of my blouse. I had planned to re-up and ask for Korea and DMZ duty for my next tour, but 11-series were closed to me at that point, and that was the reason I had gone in. Kind of bitter too that I had orders for the 101st Airborne Division when I was finished with my tour in Germany. Instead, I ended up at a med hold unit until surgery and recovery were complete.
There is at least one other brother Grunt around. One poster I haven’t seen in a long time is Pepe Lepe. He did the same job as I did in Germany, a nuclear warhead custodial agent. German Pershings, US warheads. Our German comrades fielded the really old IAs, his were Pershing IIs.
Dane
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I did four years Airforce (stop laughting). I completed basic and went to military police training with marines. At that time the army was no longer going to provide support around the base so the airforce came up with a combat unit formed from the ranks of the SP and 1% of the cops had to go to combat (at an army camp) training. I thought that was funny till they called my name. Out of the room onto a bus and off I went.
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Chair Force, aka Zoomies. If they caught us with our hands in our pockets in uniform, you'd get yelled at ...."Air Force Gloves". :)
Truth be told, most Army folks are jealous of you AF folks. I was too. We figured you guys really were smarter than us, particularly at chow time. Army chow is about the worst thing you can imagine, but even worse than that.
So, what happened next? Did you train at Benning? How did it work out? And did you like eating dirt?
Dane
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I chose this screen name years ago back when AIM and AOL were a big hit when I was in 7th grade. Used it ever since for emails and anything online pretty much.
I'm 100% Vietnamese...got an older brother named Viet...I was born 18 months later and named Nam. Usually on forums I just go by Azn.
As for the numbers...just a random number I chose. The only meaning the 4's have is that 4 is my favorite number.
nothing exciting here lol.
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Well I finished the combat training at a camp in Texas that was used in WWII as a prison camp. I think the name was Camp Bolus. After like 13 weeks of that I received orders to my duty base. When I arrived they told me that the combat training that I received need to be upgraded so I shipping out to Little Rock for an addition 2 weeks of combat training. When I returned to the base the combat unit was sent out for another 2 weeks in the field for combat tactics. I thought I would never see normal military life (by air force standards). We returned to the Base and the Base Commander wanted our unit to compete in a combat tactics competition so they selected 9 men to train and TDY to other bases for the events. I think I did combat training till I just dreamed it. My team competed with other branches and other nations. I won 2 place once in the M60 competition. When you are a grunt you get cold, wet, tired, hungry, treated like dirt, and when you finish digging a fox hole and you make it home they will pull out and set up in another place. Playing war games was fun but getting called in and watching a plane put up to take you into combat is not. I was lucky and the orders changed at the last minute. I did enjoy it because I only remember the good times. I fell a sleep once in a plowed cornfield that had been rained on for 3 days, it was just mud and I was grateful for the opportunity.
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For a good long while the forums i frequented my handle was ApocalypticHamster mostly because it made me giggle at the idea of a hamster causing the end of the world.
When gmail came out I decided to switch to that from my ISPs email service. Alas, ApocalypticHamster was already taken. So I had to think of another word that would incite a chuckle when combined with hamsters and since I had a quasi job as a film guy for a renn faire staged fighting crew i picked medieval and have stuck with it since.
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i shoot a recurve. :D
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My first name is Greg...my last name starts with a "B"...thus the screen name "GregB"! ;)
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Not very interesting. Barrage as in a barrage of arrows. I had it before for online things and just used it when I came here.
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I forgot ....when I first got on the Board....I wanted My Moniker to be ...Da Yooper.....but some dipstick from Manistique Michigan already cobbed on to that Moniker.....so I took what all the Mexicans at work call me.....Yankee Tejas.....then I got tired of explaining it.....so I changed it to what you see now....
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Thanks for the info. It brings back memories. I was a pig gunner more than once, RTO, M203 gunner, rifleman, and my platoon's mess hall rep. :) I cant tell you how many muddy roads and fields I ended up crashing in, the many ways to make a M113 more home-like, the best pogie bait to take to the field, surviving in the barracks on a Friday night, and how weird it was to see regular headlights the first night back from a long FTX.
We do tend to remember the good times and block the bad ones out, so maybe there is some nostalgia when I look back on the day, but I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything. Those folks who never served missed out on something fundamental and important. Except for squids, maybe :)
Dane
Well I finished the combat training at a camp in Texas that was used in WWII as a prison camp. I think the name was Camp Bolus. After like 13 weeks of that I received orders to my duty base. When I arrived they told me that the combat training that I received need to be upgraded so I shipping out to Little Rock for an addition 2 weeks of combat training. When I returned to the base the combat unit was sent out for another 2 weeks in the field for combat tactics. I thought I would never see normal military life (by air force standards). We returned to the Base and the Base Commander wanted our unit to compete in a combat tactics competition so they selected 9 men to train and TDY to other bases for the events. I think I did combat training till I just dreamed it. My team competed with other branches and other nations. I won 2 place once in the M60 competition. When you are a grunt you get cold, wet, tired, hungry, treated like dirt, and when you finish digging a fox hole and you make it home they will pull out and set up in another place. Playing war games was fun but getting called in and watching a plane put up to take you into combat is not. I was lucky and the orders changed at the last minute. I did enjoy it because I only remember the good times. I fell a sleep once in a plowed cornfield that had been rained on for 3 days, it was just mud and I was grateful for the opportunity.
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you can really tell a difference in people who did serve and did not when you are working as a group.
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you can really tell a difference in people who did serve and did not when you are working as a group.
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That I think can be true. The discipline you learn from military service is one aspect. Knowing how to push yourself to extreme limits is another. And learning to work in the kind of team enviroment the military operates under from top to bottom is another. Not just infantry or armor or other line units, ships, etc, your life can literally depend upon those in your fire team or squad or section, and you have others counting on you to do your job no matter what.
I found college to be much easier to deal with and excel in after I got out, and other aspects of life as well, like marriage and jobs...you know, sacrifice, lol.
Guys, this thread is about screen names. Sorry if I helped divert the topic.
Dane
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It might be fun to see how many vets we have so I will start a thread in around the campfire
Also sorry about running the thread another direction. (just proud to serve)
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Mine is pretty straight forward. Not only am I covered in tattoos, but I am also a tattoo artist. If I'm not flinging sticks, I'm flinging ink around. ;D
Tattoo Dave
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Back in the day I got stuck with 3 other engineers,2from Ft. Wayne,and one from Toledo and their 1st names were also Mike. So went by my midname Augustus,hince Auggie. Boring eh?
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Dern Auggie. I always thought you were part of the cartoon team, Auggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy! ;D But Augustus! Sheesh...
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Hell; I thought you misspelled it and you were an Aggie, from Texas. I was being polite and didn't want to embarrass you. ;D
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At one time in my life I had long red hair in a pony tail when I got out of the navy. Didn't get a hair cut or really shave my beard. I think it was 2 years before I went to the barber. Gave my long red pony tail to some one who was recovering from cancer. She sent me a note of thanks and said I was her hero red pony. That's my story and I wish I had my pony tail now, if you know what I mean!!!!!!
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aww dang, sux followin a good lil story like that Red Pony :) My screen name is a little more self explanitory :D
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I'm in the Witless Protection Program so I can't discuss my screen name.
-John
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I've been in construction for 20 years-Hammertime
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I've been in construction for 20 years-Hammertime
I still picture you in the "eraser-head" hairstyle and parachute pants scraping on bows....every once in a while you string the bow, try pulling it and then sing, "Can't pull this!"
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Guess I never thought of that Hammertime-Good thing ;D just pounded in a lot of nails in the day-Hammertime
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I've been in construction for 20 years-Hammertime
I still picture you in the "eraser-head" hairstyle and parachute pants scraping on bows....every once in a while you string the bow, try pulling it and then sing, "Can't pull this!"
Funny, I pictured the same thing. I think you and I were maybe separated at birth or something JW.
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When I was doing my learning to make drums I spent the weekend on my teachers property out on Bear Creek in Washington. He has a really cool lay out with a wood shop were he makes drum hoops and flutes, a sweat-lodge and teepees. I spent my nights in one of the teepees next to a creek. On my last night there I had a dream about a bear and a bears life through out a year. In the winter he is sleeping, in the spring he is waking up, in the summer he is feasting on salmon and berries and in the autumn he gets a chance to relax and to enjoy himself. Just stay fat and content, kind of like me ;D--Josh
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Mine is not original AT all. C- is for Cipriano. rivera is my last name and I live in the "ville" Stephenville... Ugggg--- so original I know... Maybe I should change it to Kindergarten Cop 8)
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"Lobo" for a wolf/malmute mixed breed who was my running partner for about 12 years... 69ss for my first car, a Chevelle SS ragtop that would pull the front tires off the pavement & got lots of attention on cruise nites, some from the friendly Ladies, but also a little from those guys who toted bagdes. I met my 1st wife after doing wheel stands on Main Street, not long after I met 1 of those guys who invite you over to the curb for a chat about responsible driving habits... he also gave me my 1st ticket for unnessasary display of horsepower, still got that thing framed to remind me not to do that anymore, it`s an expensive lesson to learn.
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I've been in construction for 20 years-Hammertime
My, my, my, my
You cant touch this
Break it down
STOP " Hammer time" :D
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David Wilton=david w.
but i might change it to something a bit more original
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Mine is pretty straight forward. Not only am I covered in tattoos, but I am also a tattoo artist. If I'm not flinging sticks, I'm flinging ink around. ;D
Tattoo Dave
i do tats also , you should start a thread posting some of your work would be cool to see.
its a knickname sa .. shawn acker, i had some hispanic friends that would call me that way back , just kinda stuck
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I spent 22 years as a soldier and thought about using the name "Top" but went with _Jon_ because as most folks know a Paratrooper can't spell real well. It's neat to see so many Infantrymen talking about way back in the day. I have to admit I enjoyed my years as a Pathfinder and all 16 harsh tough years in an Infantry line Company. My first name is John, I just couldn't spell it right when I registered. ;)
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Out where I live there is a long ridge (about ten miles) that runs East and West. It parralles the Tennessee River, and forms the break point between the rolling hills to the south and the river valley to the north. It forms the highest points in the area untill you get to Bankhead Forrest some 15 or so miles south. This ridge is broken up with many hollowes, valleys, creeks and swamps. There are still thousands of acres of undeveloped land on the ridge. I can walk a straight mile north out my back door before I come to a road that runs the crest of the ridge.
Years ago people who hunted and trapped along this ridge were called RidgeRunners.
David
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its a knickname sa .. shawn acker, i had some hispanic friends that would call me that way back , just kinda stuck
I always wondered where that originated from... ;D
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Mine comes from the fact that many of us call ourselves 'primitive' bowyers, but most of us use modern hand-tools.
Because I do, I didn't think I could call myself fully primitive, and it soon became 1/2primitive.
Sean
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mines a rough translation of my names changed around a little, Cylur= archer(that worked out well), Galen=tranquil and, Weller=hollow.
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This was a nickname given to me at my first job and my birth year.
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buddies gave it to me at work.it is a character from the movie dumb and dumber.i also like to fish for striped bass down at norris lake.
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sa--- I'm curious if they weren't also saying, ese or to spell it in English, s e. The e sound as in bed. Ese in Spanish means "dude." anyway, could havd been a double meaning. Shawn Acker the dude :o
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sa--- I'm curious if they weren't also saying, ese or to spell it in English, s e. The e sound as in bed. Ese in Spanish means "dude." anyway, could havd been a double meaning. Shawn Acker the dude :o
ya i think it had double meaning , some of them would pass me off as there cousin when we went places :D i guess i have enough cherokee to look a little mexican
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My wife's response when she found out how many Bow staves I had stashed in the garage,,,,,,,"your a bowjunkie"
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Harrisburg Fire Department and my badge number.....Rich