What does your user name mean?

[GTCB-chris]

just curious, because it shows a lot about you some times. mine is this: GTCB stands for georgetown county boys and of course chris is my first name


GTCB is a group i use to be in with a bunch of guys from around georgetown county where i live in SC, who all drive 4wd trucks, suvs, and a couple hondas

[electric V]

Self Explanitory.

My V is not electric yet but my plan is to convert a Metro or the Original VW bug to electric and after testing I would move the electric Drivetrain into the V

[Serj22]

WHen I was in Seascouts, which is like the Junior Navy for people who don't want to be in boyscouts where we drove large decommisioned military vessels and old coast guard boats to events and such, learned how to climb ropes, do boatswains chairs, set up a breeches booey, construct a tripod called a "scuttlebutt" to haul heavy barrels upward, climb over steel boats tied together, sometimes 10 abreast - takes forever, marching competitions. ANd the very last comp. I went to was on the deck of a aircraft carrier, but that made it hard to run the obstacle course. Anyway, there were different ships for each city -

I started as the Boatswain (leader) of the "Endeavour" in Benicia, and was for a few years till the ship's funds folded and all we really had for fun was a little cabin cruiser - not so big, and a huge boat we called the milk carton because it looked like one of those milk cartons you got in grade school, and a surf boat - 20ft boat to cruise around and have fun at about 50mph (not bad for a boat).

When that folded, I went to Martinez to join a sister ship "The Seawitch" in Martinez, and drove around on a retired 36ft army corps of engineers brigade boat (still had the AA gun mounted to the roof and everything) then after a year of being a boatswain's mate, I moved to the "Sea Hawk" in Benicia and became the Boatswain again to start up a new ship...etc...etc...

Anyway, that's just a setup to my story:

So any time we had an event, all the ships in the Bay area or California (for AMR, the big one) would show up. The game of the time was called "capture the flag" now, the object is that every boat has a 2 man watch for one hour intervals at all times of the night (very sleep-deprivating) and the idea is to sneak past a ship's watch and steal their flag off their mast (everyone was required to have one) Then you would put it in water, shove it in the freezer, and "Freeze the Flag" that gave you the points for the capture, then you would return all the flags you got when the event was over in a frozen, unusable state (Our Captains and such did not appreciate this, but whatever.)

Continuing the story:

There was a ship from Richmond called "The Northland" and their uniforms were dark green shirts and black pants. On the back of the shirts it said "Northland" and on the front on the upper side it said their nickname, the Boatswains name was "Sarge" and the Second's was "Smudge" and "Slinky" and they all had different ones. Now, the Northland was a large ship, and it's flag was always unreachable. Being the leader, I came up with a plan to trick the Northland into letting us on board. I had a dark green shirt, and a black hat, and we used a sharpie to etch the word "Southland" in the Back and "Serj" on the front to dub me "Serj of the Southland" 2s's - Serj22.

At about 1am, I sneaked over to the opposite side of the harbor where said ship was docked to a piling about 10 feet away from shore - no way to reach. I used a monkey's fist (metal ball with a rope) and threw it over the deck to get it into the swing dock, which I pulled to get it facing land again (they were very protective of their flag, but someone slipped up and told me how to work the swing dock... woops.) I crossed the dock and walked to the deck and was immediately confronted by the two men on watch who ordered me to get back into my bunk because we had a long day tomorrow. I said "I was just going for a pee, I'll go back" and walked back towards the bunk area, but instead turned, climbed onto the pilot house, and grabbed onto the flag... it was not tied to the bottom of the mast, they tied it to the top... damn... so I had to scale the mast on the backside, so the watch wouldn't see. I had to sit still for a while since the captain's were out on the front deck, and I didn't want them to look up the mast... like a ninja almost - and sorry for the meme, but a ninja-pirate would be the correct explanation for what I was doing.

I managed to reach where the flag was tied, and took it off. Put it in the back of my pants and started to climb down the mast. I then jumped down to the deck, and since there were people on the front, and people on the back... they would not want a "crew member" randomly walking around with the flag, my plan would have been blown, so I had to shimy over the gunwale, and hang down off the side of the boat, and drop into the water with as little noise as possible. Unfortunately I did make a noise, and the watch came over to see, but I stayed close to the boat so they couldn't see me:D Then they passed it off as an animal or something and kept talking to eachother, so I moved around the side of the boat,swam to the back, and got back on shore near the swing dock, then walked normally back to my ship to proclaim my deed!!! Everyone was impressed as this was the second time in history someoen managed to steal the Northland's flag. The first time one of the crew members gave it to someone so that doesn't count. As the ultimate showing of our greatness, we froze the flag and hung it stiff from our own mast instead of our Seawitch flag which we hid downside for the day.

I wore the shirt the next day which was still a bit wet to the dance (we had a huge dance party at every event with a DJ and sometimes live bands, etc...) The people on the Northland thought the shirt was a funny joke, including "sarge" who the shirt was modeled after, and none of them got the correlation as to why their flag was missing, and who did it.

Thus they called me "Serj of the Southland" (pronounced Surge, like a surge of electricity)
Serj22.

The end.

[qwrty]

when i was making a second email add, for public use..
i couldnt think of any, thats why i just decided to use the first
5 letters of the keyboard, then for funny reasons i skipped the letter E,
making it all vowel.. i kinda stick to this username evesince!
almost all the community/forums i registered, this is my login name..

thats it..

[Black Pearl]

The car, the color, a piece of jewelry, and a movie.

It became apparent that keeping our Plymouth minivan was going to become expensive. So I decided to start looking for a car. I had been interested in an Ody, but we were now empty nesters, financially cleaned out from our son's college tuition with the promise of more to pay, and the price of gas was starting to get out of hand. The Ody didn't make sense for us. So I thought what about the CR-V. At that time, I didn't even realize that they had come out with the Gen 3s.

Half on a lark, I was still debating fixing our Plymouth, I stopped in a Honda dealer, Dame Voyager (Dame Black Pearl in the previous automotive incarnation) would have nothing to do with even looking. She loved her Vincent Van Go and it was to be fixed up forever regardless of the cost. In the showroom there was a black EX-L looking magnificent. I opened the driver's door and suddenly a choir of angels began singing, a light from heaven beamed throught the moon roof and put blue halos around the speedometer and tach. A giant voice that only I could hear spoke, "This is the one. You will buy it in Nighthawk Black Pearl. You will buy it with cloth seats." The car was sold in my mind in the first 15 seconds.

Now to sell the car to Dame Voyager. Every mention of the V was rebuffed with just fix Vincent. I could hardly mention that fixing Vincent may constitute a violation of divine law with the punishment of having to drive and repair--what for me had become Jean Claude Damn Van--into eternity.

We were at one of the Pirates of The Carribean movies (my wife loves swords, pirates, and Johnny Depp) and Captain Jack Sparrow kept talking about the Black Pearl this and the Black Pearl that. After about the 50th mention of the Black Pearl an inspiration pops into my thick head. The V is Nighhawk Black Pearl. Lady Voyager always names the cars something. Start calling it the Black Pearl. On the way out of the theater, I casually mention that the color I was thinking about for the V was Nighhawk Black Pearl. We could call the V the Black Pearl. There was a spark of interest for a moment, then "Just fix Vincent".

With the constant onslaught of my devious hints, threats, moans, and groans she finally realized that I was indeed buying a new car and that she had better at least try sitting in them. We both liked the Element, so I took her to look at the Element. The back door closing under the front clashed with her claustrophobia. Well while we are here let's look at the V. Not as comfortable as Vincent...just fix Vincent. Well we looked at some other contenders (even though the V had already been sold in my mind) and if we had to buy a car the CR-V was the best one, but just fix Vincent.

Well I wasn't going to fix Vincent so I had soften the blow somehow. Bling, of course! I bought a black pearl pendant and kept it hidden for the big day. She wouldn't participate in the willful trading in of her beloved Vincent. So I brought the Black Pearl home, and placed the pendant in the upper glove compartment. We took a ride and I told her to open the glove compartment. Well I was still a SOB but the bling helped.

She didn't warm up to the V until one winter day when we were stuck in traffic on a hill. The truck in front of us tried to move and fishtailed and slid sideways down the hill (fortunately I had left a lot of room between us). The Black Pearl pulled out with no trouble and took us home without slipping once. Vincent was terrible in the snow--the Black Pearl wasn't so bad after all.

[frenchwrench]

Wow!! Good stories folks! Mine's a bit more mundane. I'm the Lead Mechanic on an EMS AS365N2 Dauphin since 1989. Made in France. I've worked on different French made helicopters since 1979. When I worked the "Trail of the Dinosaur" ( oil exploration ) my wife and I lived and worked out of a 1977 Winnebago. She painted "French Wrench" on the spare tire cover. Hence the moniker.

[tkcr]

My first and last name intials and my girlfriends first and last name intials. We use it for our e-mail and so I just used it here on the CRV owners club.

[Alpine]

Alpine - after the car stereo brand

http://www.alpine.com.au/images/alpine_logo.gif

http://www.alpine.com.au/index.asp

[illegal]

my old cars "name" (google illegal civic)
had it on my plates also because cops used to always pull me over and say "get out of the car, and let me show you whats illegal on it" :)

[Serj22]

had it on my plates also because cops used to always pull me over and say "get out of the car, and let me show you whats illegal on it" :)

So you'd just point to the license plates and speed the process up that way?:D

[illegal]

yep, the joke turned into the name of the car. My old plates before that when the cops would say that were "suspect"

[fillsteak]

I am known as "Phil" and have a health appetite.
One friend started calling me, "Philly Cheesesteak."
Others revised it to, "PhillSteak," and now it is simply, "fillsteak."
Strangely, none of these ever happened around a cheesesteak.

[fujisawa]

takeo fujisawa was soichiro honda's chief business partner. honda was a brilliant engineer, but clueless about finances. fujisawa was excellent at running the business, but with no engineering background. it has been said that neither could have been successful without the other. it makes a bit of sense for me since my career is in finance.

and of course i can't very well call my username "honda" now can i?

[GTCB-chris]

takeo fujisawa was soichiro honda's chief business partner. honda was a brilliant engineer, but clueless about finances. fujisawa was excellent at running the business, but with no engineering background. it has been said that neither could have been successful without the other. it makes a bit of sense for me since my career is in finance.

and of course i can't very well call my username "honda" now can i?
clever, i like that one

[Serj22]

I just recently found out who all those people were when I was Wikki-ing "Mugen" because I wanted to know why stuff that just said "Mugen" was way expensive, turns out Mugen was started in 1973 By Hirotoshi Honda and he's the son of the founder of Honda, which makes sense now and the mugen company mainly builds race cars.

[illegal]

you just learned that :)

[Peacemaker1911]

Peacemaker is from the Bible, Matthew 5:9 where it says, "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for the shall be called the Children of God" and 1911, is the best pistol ever!

Hahaha, but my name refers to a pistol I built a few years ago Peacemaker 1911. Kimber .45 with an 8 1/2inch ported barrel, Lasermax guiderod , aluminum grips, Cmore scope, and Surefire tac light. I also built a Lawdog1911 (another username of mine) with simular specs but shorter, for my carry gun.

My next carry (concealed handgun permit) gun is a STI "Perfect 10" 10mm 2011 double stack.

[Serj22]

How do you liek the Cmore? I've never had one on a gun, I think they make it look a little like it's from the future or something. as for another inquiry, did you ever get any more work done on your carbon fiber sub box? I was following it on Cardomain.

[Orwell]

My username Orwell is short for George. :D

[Serj22]

Well, Mr Orwell, refrain from Double speaking while you're here, that would be double plus ungood.;)

[Radar24]

I just recently found out who all those people were when I was Wikki-ing "Mugen" because I wanted to know why stuff that just said "Mugen" was way expensive, turns out Mugen was started in 1973 By Hirotoshi Honda and he's the son of the founder of Honda, which makes sense now and the mugen company mainly builds race cars.
I Googled that a while back myself!
What the heck is a Mugen I used to think?

BTW Serj22 (I thought that was your age) I do believe you have me beat by a word or two for the longest post ever! Or close to it.
Seems like any title or achievement not easily attained you sneak up on it and capture the old glory. :eek:

Illegal, I had you pegged from the beginning.

With ElectricV I was close but no cigar.

The Legacy of the BP I had read the abridged version before.

On GTCB I was way off. I thought you were into the late 60's MGB GTs.
Nice looking for the era but rust prone with disappearing rocker panels just like the rag top roadster MGB. I helped a friend rebuilt a ‘66 roadster in the late 80’s. Actually I mostly watched as he taught me about MIG welding. Then I showed him how to spray a dust free paint job on the B.

fujisawa, I had read about that too but had forgotten. Imagined it had a ninja connection...

tkcr, You had told me the first part but the second was and still is a mystery???

Finally Radar24:
27 kilo was my Army MOS - Ground Surveillance Radar Operator. As a draftee I was first in my class in advanced training on the PPS-5. One of these days I will digitize a picture of yours truly next to one at the DMZ in Korea and post it. Holding an M-16a with no rounds in it. Par for the course! No one else gave a hoot especially most volunteers. Basically they were not the best days for the Army in the early 70's. Huge morale and pot/drug problem. Not like it is today. Nor did anyone but the instructors know how to operate the radar good enough to pick up targets. It is all in the ear you see... as well as interpreting the dot on the screen. And we wonder why we lost Vietnam. Not enough dedicated professionals to fight a war we had no business fighting as history has proven. I learned a lot about life though. The worst year and 263 days I never should have missed. And didn't.

Then the clincher. I often know what people are trying to say before they are halfway thru. Sometimes I am way off but quite often I am not. Sort of like ABC’s The Mentalist but not anywhere near as good as portrayed on TV. As good looking maybe many moons ago :D but not as keen making observations. I’m still working on it.

The 24 part is easy.

-Rg

[Serj22]

The 24 part is easy.

-Rg

WEll, yeah, we always knew you are 24 years old. And you have 24 cats, and 24 contacts in your phone book:D

MY dad was in Vietnam, he had a huge drug problem, but he was a medic. He's 60 and has no idea how to use a computer, and still types with one finger while trying to look at the letters, and is the only person I know who hates when the computer "thinks" and is the only person I know to physically destoy a computer with a bat so he could buy a new one... for 3 grand, that is now broken as well. HE can draw awesomely with AutoCAD and TurboCAD like it was nothing... but can't operate the computer otherwise...

[whoa]

Nothing really, purely arbitrary.

[electric V]

In cub scouts I went on the U.S. Hornet aircraft carrier and they had a ton of pics of the P-51 and other stuff and the space capsule.

I think RPB is the apropriate title of the plane:D

[Serj22]

I commented that Whoa was related to horses. Whoa responded so it is.

This tread is now all segmented or broken up. :mad:

Where was I? I was lost before. Now... :)

-Rg

You can start a new Rg! The slate has been wiped clean. All the other stuff was moved to another thread.

There are a few members i want to chime into this, because I am curious what their name is for, such as "some mook" and "lizzurd" and other people.

[lizzurd]

You can start a new Rg! The slate has been wiped clean. All the other stuff was moved to another thread.

There are a few members i want to chime into this, because I am curious what their name is for, such as "some mook" and "lizzurd" and other people.

Thanks Chris for bringing this thread back on track.

About 25 years ago a buddy of mine i used to hang out at the donut shop started calling my a lizard.

Year later when i finally went to set up my first email address every variation lizard i tried was already taken so i changed a letters and here i am.

Over the last 8 years i have used this name in countless chat rooms and forums.

I occasionally used dazednconfuzed or a variation.

[Serj22]

About 25 years ago a buddy of mine i used to hang out at the donut shop started calling my a lizard.


As in "lounge lizzard"? clever.

[whoa]

At Tim's no less :D

[kbz1960]

Well mine is boring, when signing up for email and different sights everything I wanted was taken so I finally tried my initials and born on year and low and behold it was available so that's what I use for everything and only have found it all ready taken on one site.

[Carbuff2]

I'm The Carbuff because I've always been interested in automobiles (at the age of 3, I could name every car on the road, say my parents).

Plus, my 'Rents couldn't think of a nickname for ATWELL so they called me BUFF.

Put 'em together, and.....you often find that someone else has the name already. :( So, I'm #2 'cause I try harder.



And that's the truth, pftttt.