What does your screen name mean?

Boris Badenov said:
The kicker, though, was playing a flight sim way back in the Dark Ages Of The Internet, flying a Yak-3, and kicking the poop (down on the deck, anyway) out of the mouthbreathers who of course always flew the P-51, cause, you know, Murica and stuff! .
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... Air warrior...??
 
staledog said:
I often wonder what some of the screen names people have on this site mean. Some are pretty obvious, but I'm wondering about the not-so-obvious ones. If I had to guess, I'd say there is already a thread floating around here somewhere on the same topic, but I couldn't find it.

If this topic has already been talked about here, mods please delete this or whatever.

So, who wants to go first?
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Well, mine is obvious!

-Fox
 
Boris Badenov said:
Close. Its red-headed stepchild, Warbirds, circa 1997-2002 or so. Not sure, but I don't think Air Warrior had Yaks. Plus I'm not THAT old. ;)
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Ouch. ;>

I thought we.. I mean, I thought they did.

Played WB too... had a much longer run, but I always preferred AW better, for some reason.

Oh well. Nothing nearly that good around today. Amazes me how whole genres of games can vanish into the annals of human endeavor. (along with decades of intellectual pursuits that showed great promise for humanity but little for making money...)

Alas poor flight sim -- I knew it, Internet. A genre of infinite potential and depth, of most excellent utility. It has borne me on its collective wings a thousand times. Where be your Air Warrior now? Your Flight Unlimited? Your WarBirds? Your rising stars of flight and space sim that were wont to set the youngsters' hearts afire with the passion of flight?

~Fox
 
Now, now, Fox. Dry your eyes and lets argue about the ridiculous energy retention of the P-51 Runstang and the UFO-like turn radius of the P-38/Zero/F6F. The games may be dead, and no one else may care, but the Grognards are Forever. Or at least a couple more decades.
 
Mines a motorcycle I used to own and the screen name I used on various mc forums. I'm not real bright so simplicity is key.
 
Derivative of my actual name. And because I'm sure there's at least a legion who think I should be killed....
 
Mine is a tribute to my great great grandfather who was the king of Mitortilus and was named Jafra98.............
 
Boris Badenov said:
I always liked the Russkies, partly because, as a "race", they make the Irish look sane and serious, and partly as a response to the sub-moronic rah-rah-'Murica culture I had the sad misfortune of growing up in and around. I also thought Rocky and Bullwinkle were way funnier than Bugs Bunny, which opinion pretty much makes me Communist all on its own. The kicker, though, was playing a flight sim way back in the Dark Ages Of The Internet, flying a Yak-3, and kicking the poop (down on the deck, anyway) out of the mouthbreathers who of course always flew the P-51, cause, you know, Murica and stuff! I like the Bad Guy, the Antihero. Because, of course, the notion that any human being is "just Evil" is a retarded, perverse fantasy. Except in my case, obviously...

What about YOU, "staledog"? I believe it's customary to begin these threads with your own story. Don't make me sic Qutch on you.
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We need to shake it up CFS sometime man..
 
Boris Badenov said:
Well, just between you, me, and the Internet, friend, my real name Inigo Montoya. Say, how many fingers do you have...?
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That's a mighty fine coincidence good sir, because that is my name as well.
Here's a picture of me in real life:

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Inconceivable!
 
The first part of mine is obvious, the numbers that follow are the tail number of my C170 minus the letter at the end.
 
MQAAord

MQ
AA
ORD

MQ is the two-letter designator for Simmons Airlines, (the Simmons certificate was later used for Eagle in 1998 when the Single Eagle combination happened, hence why you'll still see the MQ code, but not the 8N, NA or EX of the other carriers. Actually you may still see the EX code on flights operating to/from SJU, if Exec is still doing their own thing down there on the rock.). I was hired by Simmons in 1995.

AA is the two-letter code for American (duh), I went to AA in 2001.

If you don't know what ORD is you aren't really in aviation at all... (Chicago's O'Hare airport, where I was based for all but my very last 6 months with the airlines.)
 
When I was 16 and a sophomore in highschool, there were a group of seniors that would f with me and my friends every day at lunch. They threw pop at us, shot at us with paint guns and generally just talked a lot of smack. After about 3 months of this, four of them surrounded me in the hallway one day after lunch. One of them got in my face and started poking me and was generally being a tool. I finally had enough and clocked him good. He fell to ground and I finished the job. Apparently well enough that non of the other 3 jumped in. A couple bystanders saw it, said I stomped the crap out of him. They never messed with us again and the nickname "Stomp" stuck. I then created a hotmail account shortly after the event transpired, stomp16@hotmail.com. When I first registered on JC, I couldn't really think of anything original and never thought I'd stick around for long so just thought I'd use the first part of the then, old email.

None us got messed with anymore and I didn't even get suspended. The principal knew of them messing with us before the fight and said he was pleasantly surprised they got what was coming to them.

That being said, I don't condone violence and am not a violent man. But I was 16 at the time and had enough of being messed with. I figured my only way out of being jumped by four was to make the first move.
 
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