A late Australian friend of mine and I were discussing weekend plans one day. I said the GF and I were going to have a nice dinner, and practice procreating. "Ah", he said, "you're going to do a wombat". What's a wombat do? Eats roots and leaves. "Rooting" is an Australianism for, well, you guessed it. So a guy that "does a wombat" eats, roots, and leaves.

I thought it was hysterical at the time, and adopted the wombat as my totem. "Cyber" - well, I'm a geek by trade, that was pretty easy. I think I've used that handle for ten or fifteen years now.

Well, up until a couple of days ago, my callsign was USNavy2534, but since I'm joining the Army, it makes no sense to have that name, so it got switched. 2534 is a carryover from a really old and no longer used AOL screenname.

Jeff

Seuss95b is from Dr. Seuss because one of his fmaous books is green eggs and ham. My name is Sam. So Sam I am!!! And 95B is from the US Army's job code for Military Police before they changed it to 31B a couple of years ago.

jba is for my name Jean-Bernard André, lengthy and cumbersome name as well as seventies sounding, so i am used to nicknames.
and then neither significance, nor mistery as I saved those elements for my dioramas

JPTRR = Jackson Purchase & Texas Rail Road, my modeling masterpiece.


It began 30+ years ago as my freelance model RR. It has grown from a no-nothing flight of fancy into a highly detailed archived model empire.

JPTRR Herald and maps

Well ok, my name's Mark, and I was boorn in May 1972, really that simple for me....

...references an old Skinny Puppy song from '85 that got me out of the typical 'hair metal' and etcetera crap-music that plagued us kids growing up in mid-Ohio in the eighties (and thus caused me to become one of the social outcasts in my rather small high school): "Smashed Glass Houses".

Mine was an unfortunate nickname from when I worked in a sawmill.
I used to make sure everything was correct etc, but to them I was never really fast enough !!

I'm quite proud of it now!

Well, needed a login name fast for an unrelated site, couldn't think of anything, so chose Boogaloo (odd things pop in my head after several s). It was taken, so added Jones to the end to make it unique.
I shortened it to BoogalooJ and used it ever since. Have to admit, I am tired of it now, so may have to see if I can change it to something else.

Jamie

One of my uncles was the landing signals officer on the Randolph (CV-17) in 1945 during Operation Iceberg.

My name is Austin and 0311 was my MOS in the Marines...Infantryman.

Why, because I wore a Red Shirt.

Not sure how my nickname came about. I got it back when I used to be a bodybuilder. I was 6'6" 292lbs at the time and I could drink unheard of amounts of beer and rye at one sitting. The name is a derivative of "Tapping a keg" I think.

We all know what a Sprue is. One is the first one out of the tooling to check for defects and mistakes, which there usually is.

Named for a fast horse... Being a truck driver, I thought it appropriate.

I use to have a car by the name of Shadowfax. I was 17... and the car was pretty fast and white in color. :-)

Cheers,
Jim

Shadowfax. I take it you were a fan of Lord of the Rings. Mainly Gandolf's horse. Can't tell I'm a nerd lol

well I model tanks, in plastic . 2 stands for 2nd internet mail box service I have had (aohell was #1)

Mine comes from my first name which is Darren and my surname which is Greenwood.
That's all folks!

..German for Falcon One, call sign used by loads of Luftwaffe pilots ,esp Walther Dahl, Kommodore of JG 300 ..check my profile to see my connection to JG 300 !!

My first name is Jerry, so I've been nicknamed Jez, Jezza, Jezmondo, JP - just had to pick the one that was 6 letters or more.......

Mine came from a nickname I picked up in college. Waaay back when, I had a pretty good mullet and I chose to not shave very often, so my first room mate said that I looked like a cross between a werewolf and Wolfman Jack. He then shortened it to Wolf. It stuck and is my nickname to this day. My kids call me Wolf occasionally.
When I signed on here wolf was taken so I just added an 'e' to the end.

I get tired of remembering all the differetn screen names for everythign I do. Ebay, Military.com, here, other message boards.

So, I use the same one for just about everyone. Goldenpony somes from my wives horse. He is a buckskin colored quarter horse and in the summer gets a bright golden coat. so, goldenpony.

i am a big Queen fan so my name comes from a queen song called Tenement Funster from the Shear Heart Attack album

I'm 6'2", 260 lbs, hairy and according to SWMBO, should be living in a jungle sometimes

Jim