One of the things I love about this interweb thing is the sometimes clever nicknames people give themselves in forums like these. I thought maybe it'd be fun to find out where some of these names come from.

Mine's not terribly exciting. I'm an animator / designer and have lived my life on the Mac platform only to be ridiculed by my PC pals with the name "Macboy". It stuck and I've used it ever since.

How about you?

I make kites and kitemaker, kitemaker1, kitemaker2, and kitemaker3 were already taken on hotmail.com so that is why I am kitemaker4.

Susan (npw goddess)

hmmm... not to exciting for mine either....

I am an architect and I love to kite- mush the two together and you get me - archkiter!

I'm Ryan BARNES...most people just call me Barnes anyways... I know, lack of creativity.

Man, I'm trying to think of how I came up with my name....... Let's see, my first name is Bob and uh um, well Gotthewind was rejected for some reason. I only had 1 kite at the time, and it sorta rhymed so I went with it. I didn't know 1 kite wasn't enough. I will always like my Beamer in any case.

I'm easy, Rye is short for Ryerson, my first name. And yes, I use Macs too

In the shipyard Other welders are always wanting me to fix their machine or come check it out , so I would go make some adjustments to their settings and it would weld fine,one bossman started calling me the weldngod and it stuck.

When I first moved to Sunset Beach and was introduced to kiting, most everybody would forget my name and was calling me "that guy that lives at Sunset Beach".

NPW=my first kite, and I really loved it. :D Oh and Mac all the way!!!

NO PEE CEE'S!!!!!

Art Lessing is the name of my music project

my real name is Dan

I started out as Turkey, cause I just couldn't fly and was mad at myself !:smug:

Turns out I COULD fly I just couldn't surf. I discovered this at the Montana snowkite rodeo and took on Snowbird thinking snowkiting was the Bomb !!

Not much snow around here and my biggest stoke comes on Blades. I also fly a Blade and have a Blade ATB. Combine it with Kite Runner and you have Bladerunner.

I only wish I had thought to sell them name Snowbird

Emm I think I was called a feral child once by someone (meant to be an insult) but I liked the sound of the word and then when I looked up what it meant it suited me down to the ground.
Feral- Reverted to wild state / untameable / undomesticated

:D

Whenever I draw with pen I use lots and lots of crosshatching.....
A creative outlet, I suppose, for nervous energy built up from not being able to kite as much as I'd like

See sig below :D

I like the sun/sky/planets/stars etc. Wanted something no one else had and I could use about every place I went so.... solar IX (9) the ninth planet in an independent orbit as I have been routinely accused of being, since pluto was a real cute cartoon that wouldn't work.... solarix.

I know I have too much thought process I have my own orbit?

Jerry

mine is a downhill longboarding crew that i started in 2000 we were strictly into carving and not arial tricks hence the name. and that was the nickname i was given so its sticked with me ever since.

oh and macs are the best.

Short for Scudley Doright. My brother, a great fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle, gave it to me. Could be because he thinks I look like a cop.

S

Macs are great, if you do not mind the limitations.

Uh Oh. His name was Dudley. Are you putting a scud twist to it?

Dax is my nickname, and I couldn't tell you how it started because I don't remember, but it was some time about 9 years ago. My real name is Matt.

The name stuck and I use it as all my forum handles. It's short and easy to remember, and is rarely already chosen on forums. I used to be a local DJ and performed under that name for a few years. I do have my nickname tattoo'd on me, hahaha.

Tori Amos and her rocking song Spacedog I've been an avid fan of hers since 92. I just use it for all screennames That way I only have to remember 1

Seems that screen names tend to be two things jammed together that people like...hmmm... I think I may change my screen name to chcl8tNPbter. Flexifoil+Blade=unoriginal.

I bet if we asked Becky, she would say it stands for So Cudley :tumble:

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Originally posted by Scudley Short for Scudley Doright. My brother, a great fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle, gave it to me. Could be because he thinks I look like a cop. S Macs are great, if you do not mind the limitations.

I'll probably get the nod for the least creative but it helps me to remember who I am...

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Originally posted by Bladerunner I bet if we asked Becky, she would say it stands for So Cudley :tumble:

Good one K2
She would be the only one. Most say I am about as cuddly as a cactus.

Alex are you that old?
S

So Scudley, what are we going to do about you really being named after someone named "Dudley"

Trust me Scudley gets to play Traffic Cop often enough at our local field to Qualify as a Dudley Do Right !! He's put in his time scudding to . So the name fits. Definately better that So Cudley does

My last name is Gross and I have always liked it, and I am a truck driver and the number of my first truck I ever drove was 213 and since every time I put just Gross in for anything it was already in use so I just started putting 213 behind it .:flaming:

I don't have a good answer. I've just used Lobo for a long time on many forums.

But, I find it interesting that now that I'm getting into power kiting I view the wind differently. Always have wanted low to no wind for powered paragliding and RC ariplanes. Now, I want more wind.

And even more interesting.....go to this webpage of Lobo (not mine) and move your mouse over the trees in the lower right of the frame and see if the wind blows. Let them die down and do it again. I didn't find this till my interest in kiting. Hmmmmm! I still like the name Lobo....the gray wolf......an "old" gray wolf....ha!

http://www.lobo.cx/

Lobo :singing:

I get all "puffy" when I see a flag flyin straight out