Explain your handle / De construct your avatar

John Beere · Sep 5, 2006

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

Flyin' Lion · Sep 5, 2006

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.

the_bird · Sep 5, 2006

olllllo said:
C'mon bird, you got some 'splainin' to do https://www.homebrewtalk.com/image.php?u=4050&dateline=1154354483

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.

Ize · Sep 5, 2006

olllllo said:
C'mon bird, you got some 'splainin' to do https://www.homebrewtalk.com/image.php?u=4050&dateline=1154354483

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"?

"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

Monk · Sep 5, 2006

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

Orpheus · Sep 5, 2006

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 ******.

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

squatch · Sep 5, 2006

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 · Sep 6, 2006

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 · Sep 6, 2006

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!".

Focus · Sep 6, 2006

"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)

Exo · Sep 6, 2006

LMFAO Focus. Very vidid explanation in my mind.

Brewsmith · Sep 6, 2006

The name is pretty self explanitory. My last name is Smith and I brew. It wasn't taken as a username so I nabbed it. Plus Smith is kinda the suffix of a craftsman (blacksmith, gunsmith, locksmith etc.) so it fit perfectly with homebrewing.

I am also a musician so my avitars usually have something to do with music, with the handle referring to the picture. My first avitar was of myself holding my tuba and a homebrew with the handle "Tubas and Beer". After the forementioned name changing fiasco I was temporarily Maestro Brewsmith. My handle avitar was then a picture of Beethoven with the handle "Sax-a-ma-phone", a quote from The Simpsons of Homer trying to play the theme from Beethoven's 5th Symphony on Lisa's saxaphone. My avitar changed to a photo of Gustav Mahler, with the handle changing to the title of each movement of his 1st symphony in German. The current avitar is of a helicon, an antiquated version of the tuba used for marching, the precursor of thhe modern sousaphone. "Beer powered Helicon" is pretty self explantory.

Yooper · Sep 6, 2006

homebrewer_99 said:
FWIW, a female brewer is called a "Brewster".

Oh, great- now I'll have to get a new avatar!

Lorena

andre the giant · Sep 6, 2006

My name's not Andre, its Andrew. I'm not really a giant, I'm only 6'2". I don't like wrestling. BUT... I thought Andre the Giant's performance in 'The Princess Bride' was hilarious, and hell, he's dead.... He ain't using the name anymore.

The avatar was something I found when looking around for picts of Andre the Giant for my avatar... Some nutso group uses his image with messages like "Obey" and "Conform" I actually saw one of the Mythbuster guys wearing a OBEYGIANT shirt in an episode. I thought it was different, and sorta cool. So I stuck with it.

Oh, and I'm an infidel of extraordinary character.....

todd_k · Sep 6, 2006

My dog's name is Floyd (see gallery) and he is a bit of a spaz. When he was a puppy he was worse and at about 9pm every night (the witching hour as we came to call it) he would just freak out and do laps around our apartment for about 10 minutes. During a trip to NJ to visit my parents, he did his little freak out and my dad called him Hurricane Floyd after well......Hurricane Floyd.

As for the avatar, it's Surly from Duffland on The Simpsons! Duff Beer for me! Duff Beer for you! I'll have a Duff, you'll have one too! It was there take on the 7 Dwarfs but instead of Dwarfs they were all guys in beer suits. Surly is very sarcastic, just like me!

user 574 · Sep 6, 2006

Desert is where I live and Brew is what I do. Not much more than that. My avatar changes often enough but speed brewing is what I'm into currently since it's too stinkin hot out to take it slow. Fall is coming though!!!

loopmd · Sep 6, 2006

loopmd is my last name, middle name initial and first name initial backwards. D.M. Pool.....loopmd. The name of my bar is the "loophole" I've been flirting around for years for a logo to go with the loophole so I could have a neon sign made for it. After googling around for a "loop" I came across my avatar. It is a yo-yo doing a loop. Not near as creative as the rest of you, but it will suffice.

This place rocks :rockin:

loop

BootYtRappeR · Sep 6, 2006

HurricaneFloyd said:
My dog's name is Floyd (see gallery) and he is a bit of a spaz. ............. he was just freak out and do laps around our apartment for about 10 minutes.

that's freakin hilarious!

_____________

Stef: Data where are you going?
Data: I'm setting booty traps.
Stef: You mean ****y traps?
Data: THATS WHAT I SAID! ****Y TRAPS! God. These Guys!

_____________

I love that movie and go around quoting it all the time.

A friend called me bootytrapper once and the nic stuck!

Cheesefood · Sep 6, 2006

I chose my name for the obvious political reasons.

I chose my avatar because I was pushing Tx's limits previously and had to go with something safe.

God Emporer BillyBrew · Sep 6, 2006

Cheesefood said:
I chose my name for the obvious political reasons.

I still don't guess I get it...

Click to expand...

Treekiller · Sep 6, 2006

As for the handle....well it is a rather long story. It starts with a hunting trip to upper Michigan, one morning while sitting in a tree, I had two deer sneak up beside me. I was using my shotgun with a new scope attached, I slowly turned and aimed the gun through the new scope, not taking into account the proximity of the branches around me, I squeeeezed her off and just knew I had one deer in the bag, took aim on the second that by this time had mad a mad dash away from the tree I was in. I sat in the tree for a long time. When i finally got down to go have a look, I walked to the spot the I had aimed and...... No deer, no hair, blood or any other sign of a hit. I looked for a long while with still no sign, so I turned to look at the tree where I was sitting to make sure I was in the correct spot and what do I see...... One very large tree branch hanging by a thread. As I said it was a new scope and I had to figure out the hard way to use the iron sights at times like that. Well the next morning we get up to go home and wouldn't you know it my smart @$$ buddies had strapped that dang HUGE branch to the top of the truck. I have yet to live that one down and hence the handle

On occasion, my smart @$$ buddies drop by the house and strap a large branch to my vehicle or some thing silly like that. I have a feeling I will never live this one down, LOL

My avatar is one of my dogs, all the dogs I have had in the past would pee all over the trees, first thing upon letting them out. Just figured the avatar and name went together.

__________________

SBN · Sep 6, 2006

Mine - initials plain and simple.

Loopmd your avatar looks like a boy-swimmer trying to escape........

Skol!

TxBrew · Sep 6, 2006

I took my name after the famous Civil War hero Texas Brewoski. He was a rootin, tootin, fighting machine who single handled killed an entire Yankee regiment with only 1 leg and 1 arm.

Exo · Sep 6, 2006

An entire regiment of one-legged, one-armed troops?

Chairman Cheyco · Sep 6, 2006

My real name is spelled similarly to Cheyco, and one time long ago someone sent me a fax and got my name wrong as being 'Cheyco.' The guys I was working with thought it sounded like a '70s cop show name and it stuck. We wrote a pilot for 'Cheyco C.E.T.' but none of the networks were interested in a mechanical engineering drama. Go figure...
Chairman is from the 'Promotion Wars' a few months back and also refers to 'Iron Brewer.'

Avatar= usually random nonsense.

olllllo · Sep 6, 2006

Exo said:
An entire regiment of one-legged, one-armed troops?

They all shared the arm and leg.

david_42 · Sep 6, 2006

Originally Posted by HurricaneFloyd
My dog's name is Floyd (see gallery) and he is a bit of a spaz. ............. he was just freak out and do laps around our apartment for about 10 minute

If you are in a group of Greyhound owners and say, "Tornado Dance", they all know what you are taking about. Imagine a 60-90 lb superball doing 45 mph in a tight loop.

Chairman Cheyco · Sep 6, 2006

olllllo said:
They all shared the arm and leg.

That's how I understood it...

Exo · Sep 6, 2006

david_42 said:
If you are in a group of Greyhound owners and say, "Tornado Dance", they all know what you are taking about. Imagine a 60-90 lb superball doing 45 mph in a tight loop.

And I thought my chocolate labs butt-tuck "ass-haul" mode was bad... That's when he rears up and his hind feet are nearly in front of his front feet as he hauls serious arse around the house with a big sheit-eating grin on his face. SWMBO'd's face is a look of sheer terror. "He's going to break something!"

EvilTOJ · Sep 6, 2006

olllllo, even though you explained how your username works, I'm sorry but I'll always see []-O-[] as what I originally thought it was: a TIE fighter. I can't un-see it!

As for my username, my wife's name is Jhonette, but she has a family nickname of Joni. We are a lot alike, so we're like twins. Even though she is pure evil, (hi honey if you're reading this, love you!) I didn't want to be the GOOD twin, I still wanted to be the evil one.

lorenae, get an avatar that's punky! *runs away*

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