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I'm starting this thread because I have gotten PMs from people asking about my handle and avatar. I'm sure this comes up alot.

Ok, I'll start.

I chose olllllo because I have a '03 Rubicon Wrangler and have had other Jeeps. The 'o's represent the headlights and the 'l's represent the grill. olllllo is never available on the jeep boards, so I nabbed it. I think that there is a certain diy aspect to Jeeping (and classic cars in general) that has a commonality with Home brewing.

When I upgraded my membership I was able to customize my title, so I added tires to my Jeep []-o-[].

As for my avatar, I started with a mounting plate schematic, because that's all I had at work that met the size requirement and I didn't have time to edit/find a suitable one.

My current avatar is a tiki that I carved out of a palm tree.
EDIT: AVATAR GRAVEYARD IS HERE: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=24478
Learned how to do it by lurking on other forums. It guards the deep end of the pool above our waterfall. I have three other palm logs to work on, but I'm waiting for the heat to break.

I was considering naming my brewery Tiki Head, because while I was in the carving stages, I placed my brew pot on the Tiki's head so that I could siphon into the primary. I'm really more into the desert (where I live) than I am a tikiphile. I associate tikis with tropical drinks and not beer. In short, I'm not loving the name, but I may name a beer after it.

Anyway, the idea here is to Explain your handle / De construct your avatar.

Also to keep things rolling you can call out someone to explain themselves.

So David_42:

What does this mean?https://www.homebrewtalk.com/image.php?u=2113&dateline=1152948054
Who is Sluggo?
Do you own a dogwash?
 
Fat Abbot is an old bit-character from South Park. Don't know how it fits me, I'm not fat and I'm white. Just been using the name for years.
 
olllllo - now I get it! Very creative! And the wheel thing completes the pic!!

Mine isn't nearly as clever - rdwj are my initials. I'm a Jr., so that's why there are 4. I've also found that it's been available on every board I've registered for since I started using it - which is nice.

I picked my avatar because I think that girks making out on beer kegs in kinda hot. Again - not all that clever.
 
my last name is walker. (shock!) The "-san" is because I wish I was a Ninja.... which was my previous avatar.

My current avatar is Mr. Gumby, a Monty Python character who is supposed to be a brain specialist and is constantly running around saying (in a very stupid voice) "My Brain Hurts!".

It's the Avatar du jour because of my little brain popping a couple weeks ago.
 
We were spending some time around the firepit drinking homebrew when someone said that I was becoming quite a brewmeister. I am a woman (which I indignantly pointed out) and was thus dubbed "brewmistress". The conversation quickly deteriorated due to the level of beer consumed, but the name stuck.

The name of my label, Broken Leg Brewery, came about purely by accident (pun intended). I broke my leg on March 16 while playing in a Geezer Woman's Hockey league. I needed a new hobby so I started making wine. Winemaking takes too long, so I started making beer. The leg never did heal, so I'm looking at bone grafts, surgery, etc. Brewing is difficult with a broken leg, but not impossible. I plan to keep doing it- it's addicting.

Lorena
 
rdwj said:
I picked my avatar because I think that girks making out on beer kegs in kinda hot. Again - not all that clever.

Clever? Maybe. Hot? O yeah!

Exo is short for Exodus which I used in the MUD days of text-only on-line gaming. Yup! Exodus caught on and it got hard for me to use the name on some servers so I shortened it. I don't "MUD" anymore but the name sticks.

The avatar? She's hot and she's holding AND drinking a beer. Yup.
 
My name's not Billy, but my friends and I call every one Billy, just like some people would call everyone dude. Here in Oklahoma, you have a decent chance of being right, anyway. The God Emporer came when we were all giving ourselves promotions. I'm a big Dune fan, so I picked that. The avatar is, of course, Frank Herbert.
 
well mine is pretty simplistic.. im a girl who loves beer.. thus..beerluvngrl was born..also referred to as BLG..

i have no av as of yet.. thinking that i should though.. lmao!
 
The name is very simplistic. It's the street I live on. I really don't have alot of imagination when it comes to names online. I figured my old AOL id wouldn't fly(davers666) due to the number. I used to get alot of mileage out of it when the Omen first came out. My birthday is June 6th and I was born in the morning;) My avatar is simple , the McKenzie brothers rock:ban: Strange Brew is still oe of my favorite movies, and the song Great White North by Rush is cool too. Coo ook ook ook ook ook ook coo(I think I got that right)
 
lorenae said:
Brewing is difficult with a broken leg, but not impossible. I plan to keep doing it- it's addicting.
Most of the guys moan about breaking hydrometers on this site not limbs!;)
Keep going, it's worth it.
I'm just Caplan. It's me. My Avatars are just how i feel at the time.
My brew buddy Geoff always stays in my Gallery though.....:D
 
'Cause I'm David and 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Beer is a close second. Sluggo's nanobrewery is a little more complicated. My former brewing partner had a three legged gerbil named Sluggo (why I don't know. He also had gerbils named Fuggles & EKG). Anyway, I was kidding him one day about his microbrew belly and he said it wasn't that big, it was more like a nanobrew belly; hence the name. The current avatar is from a fund raiser put on by the local Greyhound Pets of America. The previous one of a happy IPA fermenting is in my gallery.
 
My avitar: well I'm kinda cheap. I will get one soon since I got so much from this site.
Handle: I used to play in a punk band (guitar) back around 89-93..it was called Drunk "n Anger.....I can't remember who gave me the name for a recording back then, but I use it once and a while for usernames.

Cheers.
 
May last name is Abler, and there is a fairly popular local brewery named Adlerbrau (with a D not a B as in my name), so just confuse the locals I call my homebrew AblerBrau. When I first joined the computer age and got an email address, I was only allowed 8 letters in my address, so I removed the E and have been ablrbrau ever since.

Oh and as for my avatar, I used to have Marvin the Martian, but too many others had that so I switched to something else I thought would be kinda cool. I'm thinkin' it may be time for something new, tho.
 
Evets is Steve spelled backwards. Tho I guess, technically it would be evetS. Hmmm
Anyway, my friends call me Ev, but the forum boss won't let me use only two letters.
The av? I like trains. Especially big honkin' steam locomotives!
 
Well...... at first I was Michael_Schaap. Then we had this name change "crisis" here. First Dude changed his name for good reasons I'm not going to bring up here. Then about 6 to 8 of us started changing out names. It was kinda funny actually. Your talking to someone right and you'll like... OH... YOUR... so-in-so.... Was not bad if the aviator stayed the same. If that changed too, then it was real bad. Ok..... so some of us started making names that seemed more loftlier then the past name you know. So I started thinking how I could outdo people and changed my name to 'GOD'. Well slowly a few of us changed our name back to the less then loftlier ones and someone started a thread on reasons why you should not have your real name as your user name, which got me thinking. I wanted to pick one that worked with me that I would not want to change later. Well it was my birthday and I went out to dinner at this rib place (some of you might remember how sick I was after that one....) and I wanted to get a beer. I asked the waitress if she had any good beer... she started running off a list... Bud... Bud Light.... Coors.... Labatts... ect... ect.... (I was just knodding my head at this point)..... so your answer is No right? Umm... I'll have an iced tea. I looked at my wife and said.... when did I become such a beer snob? She said, you have always been one. TADA!!!! The birth of "Beer_Snob"..... GOD has left the building.
 
Beer Snob said:
she started running off a list... Bud... Bud Light.... Coors.... Labatts... ect... ect....
Great story.

There oughta be some sort of universal shorthand for waitstaff to cut to the chase with the list.

Like what kind of NBMC's do you have?
 
Mine is really simple. I was just f.ing drunk the night I found this wonderful site. I'd always called my son "Monkeyboy" for some reason. There's suds in beer, etc.etc..... Whatever.
I'm one of those rare homebrewers too poor to get the full membership. I feel guilty, but I can make a batch of beer for what a gold membership would cost me ! I feel dirty and guilty just writing that. I have had some of the best drunken times in recent history here. At one point, I was here every night with the likes of Sudster and El Pistollero. HB 99 has been a constant fixture, and one you could always count on to have been there and tried the beer in question. Caplan and Orfy( where the heck is Orfy?) would often chime in from their side of the Pond. This, much like Disney World, is the greatest place on Earth!:rockin:
 
I am a bass player and I have always been in awe of Alembic Basses - Jack Cassidy of the Jefferson Airplane played the very first prototype and Phil Lesh of the Dead was a big user of them as well. So during college I was able to save up enough money and bought one for myself (one of their bottom of the line ones but an Alembic nonetheless). That was years ago but I still have the bass and we have been through a lot together.

Anyway its a great instrument and I thought it would be a great user name.
 
Im a huge tennis fan. I started out as Ivan Lendl, then after everyone promoted themselves I became Bjorn Borg, then after Agassi announced he was retiring after the US open I became him as a tribute. I remember his Canon commercials back in the day when his motto (or thiers i guess) was 'Image is everything' and I think its funny that a guy with a multicolored mullet has the cojones to say Image is everything!
 
A couple of years ago, my son wanted me to sign up for fantasy football. It was late, and I was tired. I had to come up with a screen name and I was to tired to think, hence the name. As far as the avatar goes, I haven't figured out how to get one. I really haven't put much effort into figuring it out, but hope to some day.

:mug:
 
I tell y'all a secret if you promise to keep it quiet - my name isn't John Beere. Hell, my first name isn't even John... O well, cat's out of the bag now. My avatar is pretty self explanitory - take John Deere's famous logo, replace deer with drunk running man holding beer, and you have my avatar.

Deep Six Brewing Co. came from a drunken round-table. We were trying to come up with a name that didn't sound too stupid in case I ever made it big... heh
 
I can't take credit for my username, I'm a Detriot Lions fan and at the games they bring out a blimp that they call the Flying Lion. I used to be a Flight Instructor and figured that the name fit my two passions, and the avatar just looks cool.
 
olllllo said:

That's just Tom Waits, an old pic from back in the day when every song he wrote was in some way about drinking.

As to the moniker, I've been "Bird" or "Jaybird" for probably fifteen years now, starting from working with "john-dawwwwwwg" back years and years ago. Plus, it implies both Charlie Parker and Larry Legend, which makes it cooler. Couldn't find a pic of Charlie Parker with a beer in front of him (more likely to find one with a needle in his arm), so I use the Tom Waits pick instead. Larry Legend, I may find a good pic when hoops season starts up in another month or so.

My mother-in-law will, on occassion, refer to me as "JEDI" because the "JED" is my initials and I'm the First ("I"). So, in the ninja/pirate debate, I have my own alternative.
 
olllllo said:


I was wondering that same thing Bird, especially since I used one of the Knights of NI as my AV when I first signed up, and Billy asked me "what the hell that evil cervid was"? :D

"Ize" is the shortening of an old Yahell Id "Izefather". "Father" was an old nickname amongst drunken friends in St. Louis (Catholic Schools, Father Mulcahey from M*A*S*H*, they thought it was funny. Even some parents STILL call me "Father") "Ize" is a nod to my oldest son, Ian. My youngest is Adam, so I guess I could change it to IzeADad... :drunk: (For the record, my primaries are named "Ian" and "Adam")

But then the slug lines would be a pain... Ize works better... Which ties into the AV... Bill The Cat has always been a fave, but I like to switch em' up...

My brewery name has yet to be announced tho, but I do have one. I just won't use it til there's actually something BREWING.


Ize
 
My moniker wasn't a very creative choice - I was in a Catholic religious order for three years. I lived in a monastic house. I didn't take vows and eventually realized that God had other adventures waiting for me. But while I was there, and was suffering as a novice (the new guys who have to mop floors all the time and cook and clean), I was assigned the job of "bottle filler" when it was time to bottle the next community batch of brew. It was my first exposure to homebrewing. A couple of the Brothers brewed all-grain batches in a huge pot over an industrial sized range. They made a lot of beer because they had to provide for about 25 men. It was good beer, too! I wish I would've learned more from them, cuz they had a dynasty of brewing going. Cheers!

monk
 
I love music and Greek mythology, so this made perfect sense:

Orpheus was the son of Calliope and either Oeagrus or Apollo. He was the greatest musician and poet of Greek myth, whose songs could charm wild beasts and coax even rocks and trees into movement. He was one of the Argonauts, and when the Argo had to pass the island of the Sirens, it was Orpheus' music which prevented the crew from being lured to destruction.

When Orpheus' wife, Eurydice, was killed by the bite of a serpent, he went down to the underworld to bring her back. His songs were so beautiful that Hades finally agreed to allow Eurydice to return to the world of the living. However, Orpheus had to meet one condition: he must not look back as he was conducting her to the surface. Just before the pair reached the upper world, Orpheus looked back, and Eurydice slipped back into the netherworld once again.

Orpheus was inconsolable at this second loss of his wife. He spurned the company of women and kept apart from ordinary human activities. A group of Ciconian Maenads, female devotees of Dionysus, came upon him one day as he sat singing beneath a tree. They attacked him, throwing rocks, branches, and anything else that came to hand. However, Orpheus' music was so beautiful that it charmed even inanimate objects, and the missiles refused to strike him. Finally, the Maenads' attacked him with their own hands, and tore him to pieces. Orpheus' head floated down the river, still singing, and came to rest on the isle of Lesbos.

Orpheus was also reputed to be the founder of the Orphic religious cult.
 
squatch...

In college I had 6 friends and we were pretty close our first year. As one would walk down the hall we would jump out of our rooms and tackle one another. I know, stupid. Once 3 of them jumped me and I just keep walking down the hall with them hanging on me. One of guys yelled, "Damn Sasquatch!" Squatch kinda stuck since then.

Disco Pants and Haircuts is a line from the Blues Brothers (the greatest movie of all time). As they are crashing through the mall, Jake says, "Discopants and Haircuts!" and points to a store. It is so obscure that most people never really notice him saying it when they watch it. I love that ad libbed line and the imagery of a store in a mall with a huge "Discopants and Haircuts" sign over it.

The avatar is fairly obvious. A friend made it by hand, one pixel at a time for me when I complained that I was having a hard time shrinking down a picture of the Blues Brothers for a desktop icon. She did that for me about 12 years ago and I have kept it ever since.
 
Sause is a family nick name orginated by one of my brothers friends. It comes from the middle part of my last name, (those letters would be sows). From my brother being called sause I in turn became little sause be the little brother. But after seeing my brothers friends more than him I became sause.

The avitar is a portrate of Joseph Shiltz, hence the saying above it. Plus Shiltz is still the beer of choice in the house, when not my own of course.

Edit: Just looked at my number of posts, I think I might ave the least amount of posts per amount of time of active membership.
 
chillHayze is absolutely generic and I just thought it soulded cool one fine day. "No Worries" is pretty much my motto. Then the avatar, well, in the immortal words of Ricky Bobby - "I wanna go fast!".
 
"The Focus Story" as it's called (in brief)

I'm in the Air Force, as I've posted elsewhere, and in many of the AF subcultures, we assign nicknames - or "callsigns" as we refer to them after the callsigns aircraft use when they're transmitting on the radio (Death 11, Stryker 34, Widow 69, etc.). These are usually assigned during a ceremony of drunken debauchery called a "naming ceremony" during which someone will recount a story of some dubious act you have recently performed, either at work, outside work, while deployed, while flying (if you're a pilot, which I'm not), or while drunk (probably the most common). You may also get a callsign derived directly from your first or last name - ex: anybody with the last name "Lester" is invariably named "Mo" (think about it).

So, early on in my career, I distinguished myself as a lover of the barley soda during an outing with my unit. During this event - a football game - I was returning from one of many trips to the bathroom and having some trouble finding our assigned section. As I made my way very deliberately up the stairs, hand-over-hand on the railing so I wouldn't stumble and look like a drunk fool, my commander began to chant "focus...focus...focus...." This was picked up by several of the other members of my unit. When I got to the top of the steps and could clearly see that a lot of fun was being had at my expense, I took my hand off the handrail to "show my appreciation" at their help and promptly tripped over another spectator (luckily, she was an aquaintaince of mine) to fall on my ass and rip my jeans. Since then "Focus" has survived many naming ceremonies, and for good reason. It's what pretty much everybody except my family calls me, and I prefer it to my name for the most part. In fact, I'll usually respond to "Hey, Focus" a lot sooner than if someone shouts my actual name.

It's too bad my wife can't be there to tell you in person - she thoroughly enjoys telling my story of drunken buffoonery.

I don't have an avatar yet, but am carefully considering what it will be.

Focus

"I'm Focus, so that's what you call me. Or maybe His Focusness, or Focer, or El Focerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing." (sorry, Dude)
 

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