Explain your handle / De construct your avatar

[JuanKenobi]

No joke. The crime of it all is that, short of driving to Michigan, I only get my hands on my namesake every several years when my friend has a reason to drive home to visit family.

 

[llazy_llama]

Even without the beer, Oberon is a pretty slick name, as long as people don't realize he was the king of the faries. But how many people know their Shakespeare that well?

 

[wbgv]

wbgv+ West'by God'Virginia....

 

[JuanKenobi]

Even without the beer, Oberon is a pretty slick name, as long as people don't realize he was the king of the faries. But how many people know their Shakespeare that well?

In my experience, almost everyone. Of course, they don't know it well enough to know anything about the character, just the title. Interestingly enough, I just learned the other day that my father protested for that very reason when my mother named me leading to a 3 week gap between my birth and issuance of my birth certificate.

 

[Troubs]

My girl calls me troubs which is short for trouble and since she brews along side me I went with Troubs Brew Co.

 

[DocBrown]

Anyone remember Doc Brown from Back to the Future? No? Seems like no one does these days! In any case, I finished up my PhD (in optics/laser physics) back in December, and my name is Jeremiah Brown, so Doc Brown it is!

 

[AnOldUR]

My old avatar used a graphic jacked from the web. My wife sketched up a new stinky for me . . .

 

[JeepDiver]

I have owned various jeeps for about 12 years and been Scuba diving for 15 years

 

[mmb]

Nice new logo Herm!

Down to just one "White Dog" now but I think the name is going to stick.

 

[AnOldUR]

Down to just one "White Dog" now but I think the name is going to stick.

Sounds good to me. After all it is "White Dog Aleworks", not "White Dogs Aleworks."




Mine's got a little brown on her, but you can have my mostly white beast if you want her.
As you can see, she'd be great with a newborn.

 

[jgln]

A couple letters of my name smushed together.

 

[Sigafoos]

Sigafoos is a last name, but it's not mine.

I used to work in a hospital kitchen. I got an Xbox shortly before Halo 2 came out (so that I could play it, of course) and needed a name for Xbox Live. Until then I had been going with SweatyD (my name's Dan and in boy scouts I wore a lot of sweat pants), but when a patient came through with the last name Sigafoos I said 'that's such a weird name! I'll use that instead!'

So now I've committed identity fraud against an old person.

Odd note: my grandfather is now in an assisted living facility... the woman across the hall is a Sigafoos. I think they flirt with each other. It's weird.

 

[springer]

I ride a Harley Springer softail. And I brew huge ass beers nough said

 

[chris1979]

my first name and the year i was born. im known for my creativity.

 

[Whiskey]

Part of my old call sign when I was US Army Infantry. I was a Weapons Squadleader for a couple of years and my radio callsign was Renegade Whiskey (2nd Platoon "Renegades" "Whiskey" as in W in the phonetic alphabet). It meshed well at the time with my over fondness for all things Whiskey, Scotch, Bourbon, etc. I used it for various forums, but typically RenegadeWhiskey® was too long. So I used Whiskey®. Once I went Premium I had to drop the ® as it played havoc with my acct.

No avatar, as it is one of those "I'll get to it" things.

 

[celestialparsnip]

The name of a constellation from Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic.

 

[BaldAssCat]

My neighbor’s cat had mange. When I get a chance to upgrade my membership my avatar will be self explanatory.

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

Me and my buddies growing up had our "crew" and we had a dirtbiking compound that some other rider who we didn't like kept coming into. So we made a sign saying stay the F-ck out and signed it "Thank you Management". So from there on out our crew was MGMT which is why I have it tattooed on my right butt cheek (I had a habit of mooning everyone so it seemed appropriate). So I am MGMT and a home brewer.

My avatar is my dog staring out of the window as he always does with a beer in front of his face...

 

[flaminpi3]

I've used this ID since my first hotmail account in 1995. When John Lennon was asked how the Beatles got their name, he said, "A man in a flaming pie came and said, 'You shall be Beatles with an 'A'". flamingpie was already taken by another hotmailer, so I eventually settled with flaminpi3. My avatar is a painting of Paganini by Eugene Delacroix.

 

[staffVAJoe]

My name is Joe and I live in Stafford, VA
Not enough beer when I signed up to be creative and not cool enough to have a nickname.


see, I am sober now so even though that was supposed to be funny no one is laughing.

 

[HenryHill]

Henry was my dad's first name, Hill was my FIL's last name.

People either thank I'm the propane guy or the Mafia guy.

I want my name to be l><l Chevy bowtie, or just an unpronounceable symbol.

Can I do that?

Avatar's are various pics that change when I get sick of looking at it.

Currently:Walther P5

 

[Munsoned]

"Munsoned" is a reference to the movie Kingpin, where the main character, Roy Munson, has his last name usurped by society as a term to mean "up the creek without a paddle," (i.e., screwed). This describes my homebrewing pretty well--I have a tendency to "Munson" things up from time to time.

The avatar is also from the move, but is Munson's nemesis, Ernie McCracken (the "Big Ern"). It speaks to my own hair loss issues...

 

[BrewBrain]

brewbrain because I brew and I'm extremely smart. More than some people even.

trash heap because trash heap was extremely smart. more smarter than some other trash heaps.

 

[Dynachrome]

Dynachrome - Ode to an old Keith Laumer novel. Not beer related, just kewl.

 

[Octang]

Octang - When I was in high school I liked cars and I needed an internet handle... so I thought "Octane" would be a great handle... however I sucked at spelling and "Octang" was born....

Later when I realized my mistake I still kept using it because it was unique and I didn't have to worry about others using it whenever I signed up for new memberships at various sites.

 

[scrambledegg81]

scrambled egg=favorite food of all time, but only if it's a little on the runny side. A dash of salt/pepper never hurts.

81=the year the planet Earth inherited it's most twisted un-godly soul (mois).

Title should be self-explanatory.

 

[Scut_Monkey]

I started brewing about a year ago while in Physician Assistant school. School drove me to homebrewing because I needed something to vent my frustrastions with and homebrewing seemed relaxing and something that gets you drunk.

A scut monkey is a term used for physician assistant students or medical students because we do the scut work that others don't want to do. I thought it was fitting since school drove me to the hobby. My avatar is a modified version of the scut monkey found on the Clinicians Pocket Reference which is a very common medical handbook. That's my story.

 

[Zen_Brew]

Well the avatar is the joy that brewing and embibing can bring.

The name zen brew. Brewing of course is brewing. Zen refers to beginning mind. Trying to live in the experience of the moment without any pre-conceived notions. So sort of like brewing with as few pre-conceived notions as possible. Experiencing the process, and the product with as little prejudice as possible. Keeping an open mind to learn and grow as a brewer.

 

[Token]

When I first started brewing, I was always nervous about whether I would see actual air lock activity (perc, like an old fashioned coffee pot). So I always Hoped my beer would Perc. I have good air lock activity now, so it's not an issue.

My new handle should be "searchingfortheelusivehousebeerrecipe"

 

[hal2814]

BBSes were still popular when I was about 11 or 12. Back then I used haljordan as my nickname for online chats and BB posts. Hal Jordan was the Green Lantern and was my favorite super hero back then. He's not incredibly popular like Superman or Batman so I could usually get the handle. When the internet started getting popular, I quickly realized haljordan just wasn't going to be universally available. Since Green Lanterns are basically space cops who each patrol a different section of space, I took Hal Jordan's sector (2814) and put it on the end of his first name. It's very rare for someone to actually take that same handle so even today I can usually get it.

 

[rico567]

OK, this thread shamed me into posting an avatar; here it is. The handle is the same one I use on all Internet sites requiring a login; K.I.S.S. means I ain't changing it.

 

[Airborneguy]

No avatar, but usually my wings. In 1998 when I graduated Airborne School, I was able to snatch Airborneguy on Hotmail and I have used it for everything ever since.

 

[head7l]

head was a nickname I got in the Navy (worked on the flight deck and the "crainials" weren't big enough) and 7L was the shop designation. I got the email addy way back when and have just kept on using it to keep things simple.

 

[Julohan]

Mine just came from when a buddy and I were playing a boxing game back in middle school maybe. We just created a player who was fat, old, and ugly and named him julohan randomly.

 

[CodeRage]

Where I work we use our own software to program our PLCs. It's relatively new and has quite a few quirks to be worked out. Out of the whole company I am the primary user. I once lost an entire project (days worth of work) because the HMI failed to notify me that it lost connectivity to the network drive. It acted like everything saved. Close the program, open it up the next day to program a PLC and everything had evaporated.
It's constantly making headaches for me and I am usually on the phone with a dev engineer chewing his ass. One of the guys at work said I was prone to code rage. So it stuck.

As for the avatar, It's a very angry little duck but not very imposing. Kind of sums up the whole situation.

 

[Hound_Dog]

Well I own a few hounds. I currently have an 8 year old beagle and a 2 year old Red-Tick coonhound. My avatar is what I see whenever I sit down. Wendy our coonhound always jumps into my lap, and so I decided to get a picture of the view one day.

 

[ColonelForbin]

im colonel forbin. i drug my weary **** ass up the mountain to seek out the great and knowledgeable icculus so that he could call on the famous mockingbird to retrieve the helping friendly book from the evil king wilsons castle so that order would be restored in gamehendge and the lizards could live happily ever after.

 

[CodeRage]

im colonel forbin. i drug my weary **** ass up the mountain to seek out the great and knowledgeable icculus so that he could call on the famous mockingbird to retrieve the helping friendly book from the evil king wilsons castle so that order would be restored in gamehendge and the lizards could live happily ever after.

Brewing with worm wood again, Colonel?

 

[Catch-22]

Catch-22 is a favorite book of mine. My catch-22 is that I will die of ebola a week before a cure is found.

 

[Rick500]

I just append "500" to my name because just plain "Rick" is usually already taken, and I'd rather have the same number after it on whatever forums I visit, so I can remember it.

Having said that, there are some others using the same handle, so I accept no responsibility when one of them says or does something weird.