How'd Ya Git Yer Username

[DouginUtah]

Well, my real first name is Harold, and I am from Nebraska, but, like so many people who are too paranoid to identify themselves on the internet by their real name, I thought DouginUtah sounded good, so there you have it!

-Doug

[Tom]

 :D :D

[Jodi]

Haha thats really clever! ;D

[red]

for some strange reason


people just call me   RED

[Jeff]

I met red at the Sawlex. He said he was our greenest member, I still thought Red fit.

[Minnesota_boy]

I'm from Minnesota and I don't plan to EVER grow up.  8) 8) :

[biglake]

I've got a camp on the largest fresh water lake in the world (Lake Superior), so thought biglake would fit.
;D

[woodman]

    When I go to someonens yard to cut logs thay say hay WOODMAN can you cut this log that way, and I say ok.

[treeboy]

I went to school to be a forestry tech, my two younger sisters thought it would be funny, so it stuck.

It was worth reading through all these posts to find out SwampDonkeys story, the name is so odd (I mean good). But the Klondike is on the other side of the Country isn't it?

[Max sawdust]

My name Max was taken by someone else on the forum; did not want to be like the boss and just use my last name initial so sawdust seemed appropriate ;D Since I am coated in the stuff most of the time :D

OK I will fess up my first name is Paul and middle name is Maximillian, family has called me Max since I was one month old.  Kinda handy If the phone rings and some one asks for Paul I know they do not know me

[TexasTimbers]

I always thought Maximillian was one of the cooelst names I ever heard. I thought about giving it to my son but I figured we needed a large estate with tons of dough in the bank to name him that :D
I also thought of the possibility that if I named him that he might turn out to be an evil villian who would attempt to sieze control of the world  like Maximillian Largo in Never say Never Again :D

On my scuba board (which is now defunct) my name was Gator, shortened from GatorBait which was given to me when I joined the forum after having told how I enjoyed diving with and seeking out alligators in East Texas lakes.  : I've never claimed to be a genius.  ;D

[RoadKill]

A few years ago, I decided to get back into motorcycle riding after 25 years raising a family.  The first time I proudly gave my smart aleck teenage daughter a ride on my new HD Road King, we had to swerve to miss a big ole coon dead on the road, so she thought it was funny to call my bike the Road Kill, and it kinda stuck.

[Deadwood]

I've got quite a few user names and each has their own funny story.

On one forum I am know as Seasick, because even though I go lobstering quite often, I always manage to get seasick.

On a snowmobiling website I am known as Snowflap, because I love the snow and I make long posts so I am always "flapping" my gums.

On this website I am known as Deadwood. I stole that nickname from a guy at a fabrication shop. He was quite lazy and his real name was Delmont. We called him Deadwood as that was how lazy he was. He hated it, but the name works well here.

[Frank_Pender]

My fathers name.  I reckon it was just easier the name me after him than trying to come up with something different. :D

[Modat22]

I like to modify stuff.

So its modat22 for mod that 22 times.

[getoverit]

My wife says it so many times, I figure it's my new name anyway..."GET OVER IT!

[Deadwood]

Boy its a good thing my wife did not give me my user name. If she did I would be using the username of Doodlebrain.

As for my father, well I love him to death, but we can't work together cause we tend to get irratated at each other. Heck for the first ten years of my life I thought my name was Useless. As in "you're a useless piece of dirt"...only he did not use the word dirt. 

[Gecko]

Newbie here. That was some good reading. Mine, well I like geckos. When in Hawaii visiting mom I am always trying to catch the darn things. Guess I never outgrew catching lizards. I even have a black band of them tatooed on my right bicep. So when I needed a nick for the woodworking type forums, I chose Gecko as it just seemed right.

[SwampDonkey]

Boy its a good thing my wife did not give me my user name. If she did I would be using the username of Doodlebrain.

As for my father, well I love him to death, but we can't work together cause we tend to get irratated at each other. Heck for the first ten years of my life I thought my name was Useless. As in "you're a useless piece of dirt"...only he did not use the word dirt. 

I started pick'n spuds at aged 7. I've worked with my father and was  told on accassion I was gonna get my ash kicked, but never been called useless even when I was just in the way of progress. ;D I did get the occassional back-hander from mother when getting a little bit too cocky. Father was always asking mother 'where are those spoiled rotten kids'. Father always wanted us around in case he needed us and mother said 'get out of the house'. ;D It has nothing to do with my username, but maybe it's good for a chuckle. :D :D :D ;D

[Skytramp]

I have been facinated by airplanes as long as I can remember, I have built and flown several model planes disigned one that has flown pretty well, am in the process of gathering materials to build a full size experimental  class airplane.  I have the wood, engine, most of the instruments and the plans for three different planes, but am considering another one.
     My user name came about because I would-will bum a ride going anywhere, with anyone, in anything that will fly,ie -- SkyTramp;

[Medina]

Its my last name, just stuck when I was working landscaping, mining, machining and working my way through grad school :P. Now even my students just call me Medina.

[woodbowl]

I have the wood, engine, most of the instruments and the plans for three different planes, but am considering another one.
     

Skytramp, I thought your user name had some meaning behind it. What A/C plans do you have? I've got several myself including the Zeneth CH701 STOL, Volksplane, Minimax, Himax, Double Eagle, Herbert Beaujon's ultralights, Fly Baby, Nieuport 11, Roger Manns Heath Replica, Parasol, RW-19 & RW-20 Stork, RW2 Special, PT2S, RW11 Ragabond, Geobat. I just recieved in the mail the other day the drafting plans to build the Flitplane. There are several pilots with different A/C on the forum including an ultralight helicopter.

[lawyer_sawyer]

I just found this thread and it is really cool to see where everybody got their names.

mine. lawyer-sawyer
I am studying to become a lawyer (and if you can imagine a country boy in a suit that would be me) and after the first couple of months of law school I missed the country life and outside work and started looking online for information on things I could do that would be connected to wood.  I came across portable sawmills and and started reading as much as I could and took opportunities to visit some mills to learn waht I can about this.  Now I have a passion to learn all I can, hope to cut the wood for my dream home some day.

and so

Lawyer_sawyer

and it is kinda catchy if I do say so myself

[fstedy]

Woodbowl and Skytramp
I've been helping a buddy of mine restore a Long EZE it should be a show winner when its finished he owns a auto body shop and spares no amount of time, money and talent on this project. We also have a highly modified KR-2 about 85% completed but its on the back burner with this EZE restoration going on. I'm just an old DHC-6-300 pilot tagging along waiting for the flying fun to start. Skytramp just be careful who you hitch rides with a close friend of mine was killed when he jumped a ride with some IDIOT who ran out of fuel. He was flyng over to another airport to fuel up because their gas was a few cents cheaper.

[woodbowl]

fstedy, that Long EZY is a dream. I would love to be in on that project. Is he planning to take it to Oshkosh? I feel that this thread could be hijacked so here's a thread to pick it back up. https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=15800.0