Where'd ya get it?

[Tater]

Well, there's a lot of new folks on this board so I figured I'd start the "Where'd you get your handle?" thread. Partly because I'm a nosy SOB, but mostly because it's fun.

"Tater" started about 11 years ago when I got to my first duty station in Anchorage, Alaska. My last name is Couch and a couple of the guys I worked with took to callin me Couch Potatoe. After a while, it got shortened to Couch Tater and then, just Tater. After that, it stuck. It's even on my license plate.

So, come on. spill. How did you come up with your handle? We have ways of finding out, so you better just come clean now and save your dignity.

Here goes:D :D :D

[BILLY D.]

HEY TATER

BILLY D. WAS MY RADIO NAME AS A DISK JOCKEY BACK IN '59. I WAS A MOSQUITO WING AT THE TIME, AF A3C, AND MY WIFE AND I NEEDED SOME EXTRA CASH SO I TOOK THE JOB.

USUALLY I TRY TO GET THE HANDLE STINGER FOR THE GUN SHIP I FLEW ON BUT IT WAS ALREADY TAKEN ON THIS FORUM. THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS RELOADERS NEST, THERE MY HANDLE IS WILLIAM DOERSAM, MY REAL NAME. OOOOOOH!

BY THE WAY IF THERE IS A GUN FORUM OUT THERE IM PROBABLY A MEMBER, I'M NOSY TOO.:eek:

[Dan Morris]

Screen name??????????????? Man, I just try to be me, real name and location, it's worked for years.
Dan
:D

[Steverino]

Mines a nick-name, naturally from my name that my friends sometimes call me. (Among other things!:rolleyes: :D )

[M.T. Pockets]

Because thanks to funding my hunting addiction my pockets are always empty.

[DaMadman]

Picked up the nickname Madman a long time ago in my bar hopping days and it was taken in a few places I tried to register as "madman" so I statred registering as DaMadman and just kept it that way

[chapster1]

Hi mine`s from my last name Chapman = chapster bit boring but it works for me

[gregarat]

Normaly people call me by my last name, but I didnt think it would be apropreate as a handle.... So when I was trying to think of a handle I used my famly knick name.

It was given to me by my cousin when we were very young. Having a famly full of "B*ll-Busters", the name stuck:rolleyes:

[DogYeller]

I picked up DogYeller while I was training my Airedale to retrieve. It was about the same time "The Horse Whisperer" came out. and My Sister-in-law started calling me the Dog Yeller. Airedales are smart dogs but they do have their own way to do things. I had to retire him last year because of arthritis but he's still a great watch dog.

[gspsonny03]

Weel, I love GSP'S and my dog is registered through AKC as Tad's Dakota Sonny and I registered here in 2003. Therefore Gspsonny03. I was going to go with GSP, but it was already taken, so that's what I came up with.

[Lilred]

When I was a youngun..my Pop had an unusually large (well..to me anyways..I reckon in reality, I wont no bigger than a minute) redtick coonhound by the name of Big Red. Coon huntinest dog in these parts he was, and just so happened to be my best freind. Went everywheres w/ me..and always looked out after me while we were coonhuntin.

Hence..my Pop called me Lilred. Its always nice to know you was nick-named after a a big ole dog...lol:rolleyes:
The locals still call me Lilred..and most of the folks at werk now tha they know my "name".

[scooterman27006]

well i dont own motorcycles anymore so thats not how i came about scooterman - my name is scott and at work a few of my buddies call me scoot scooterman or worse and so on and when i found this site i was so excited to be reading about all this stuff that i was in a hurry to put in a name and as far as the 27006 lol its my zip code - yea pretty simple but like i said - i was just in a hurry to post and read - maybe one day i can change it to something normal - i will post a little funny since i am on names - i work with a good ole boy - name is tony and you know how some people may call you tom doo little or something doo little john - kinda popular around here with the older generation anyhow i called tony one day by the name of tony "doo little" and he said NO NO its tony DO A LOT - yea i guess you had to be there

[DogYeller]

Lilred
was nick-named after a a big ole dog

You and John Wayne. The guys at a fire house called him "Little Duke" because his constant companion was an Airedale named Duke.