What's in a name???

[MelvinsArmy]

Anything has to be a better story than this:
I went away to college in the fall of '94 and got my first email account. The standard assigned username was first initial + first 7 of the last name. Being a rather uncreative person, I've used the same user name for the last 13+ years. Time flys.

That's not so bad. I do that for my email account. Heck, I should do that on here. With my last name, nobody will know how to say my screen name.

[Tadracket]

Duh! Need I say anymore? If I have to explain, you need to be shot.

That still doesn't explain your unhealthy obbsession with lexan

I don't get it ... What's lexan?

Lexan is the far more superior choice for RC car bodies. Not like that crap white stuff Tamiya uses.

[MONSTER]

Mine is from my old Paintball Team. I used to use AutomagToo (still my eBay name), because that was my first "Tourney Grade" Marker. When I broke down and upgraded to an Electronic Marker (WDP Angel), I decided to change to the name of MY fields Team. I chose MONSTER, not Monsters, as the name of the Team, with the idea of us playing as ONE entity. It took a whole season to get people NOT to call us MONSTERs. Anyway, the Team started breaking up long about the time cheating became so RAMPANT in Competitive Paintball, and I wanted NO part of that, but by then I had a MONSTER GT, so I decided to just keep the name.
And, another Paintball Field Operator and I were reffered to as the "Two Headed Monster" (meant as an insult ) when we were making the rules for the first league in our area.

Another long, conveluted story, huh? I TRY to keep them short, but I just cant help it.

[templeofspeed]

Well, I have always had a love for the weaklings of the automotive/motorcycle world and have also had a "shop" of sorts catering to said vehicles. So years back a (now departed, unfortunately ) rally driver friend used to tell his wife he was going to visit "the temple of speed" to pray for horsepower, which actually meant going to stare at a bunch of underpowered crap I was toying with and drink beer. The name just stuck after that, and now through several different venues I'm currently in TOS III...

It's kind of a left-handed complement, since the "speed" part was always tuning some underpowered Vespa, Velosolex, Citroen 2CV, two-stroke SAAB, or 36hp VW. A quart of performance from a pint pot kind of thing. I still have an affection for 50cc European motorcycles/mopeds/scooters, and really any underdog small displacement cars, although most of my collection is for sale. I'm trying to thin things down in my "old age"...

I also have a nice 1977 Datsun 620 "De-Luxe" cab (King Cab was '78) truck that I un-lowered...

[acerpower1]

i had an acer computer and it said acerpower on the keyboard....thus the name. i've been using it for years now.
my real name is chris.

[RC Chick]

mine was pretty uncreative but I wanted to make sure you all knoew I was female. So the RC obviously is for remote control and the chick being slang for female. Kinda stupid but it works. I also chose it becasue I was tired of using my normal screen names of a nickname I got 15 years ago little one.

[Badillac]

I used to have a 92 chevy pickup that I mounted a Cadillac Escalade front clip on. That's the name I used on the truck forums.

[skunk.werkz]

I always have a different 'handle' for online forums I visit. I use skunk.werkz for most car related boards, and it is derived from Skunk Works which is the program at Lockheed Martin which is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, SR-71, F-117, and the F-22.

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Skunk Works is used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects. This term was popularized by a division of the same name within the Lockheed Martin corporation. Several of their successes at managing time-sensitive, complex projects have popularized the term. The term is also used analogously in other fields, especially business, to describe any self-contained, semi-autonomous work-group or committee that directly manages its own projects.

[Erich Reichert]

I always have a different 'handle' for online forums I visit. I use skunk.werkz for most car related boards, and it is derived from Skunk Works which is the program at Lockheed Martin which is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, SR-71, F-117, and the F-22.

For the true Hondafile it was one hell of a performance company in the late 90's too

[skunk.werkz]

Well I know Skunk2 products are still very big in demand for Honda enthusiats, I am into them myself with a modified 1992 Civic hatchback and a 1990 Turbo Nissan 240sx.

[Erich Reichert]

Ya Skunk2 was known as Skunkworks until they got sued and changed the name... this was like 98 or so b4 as all that import stuff blew up

[badhoopty]

Duh! Need I say anymore? If I have to explain, you need to be shot.

That still doesn't explain your unhealthy obbsession with lexan

at least it aint mrlatex.



my nick comes from an old 71 lemans 4door i used to have.

[Mr. ED]

Duh! Need I say anymore? If I have to explain, you need to be shot.

That still doesn't explain your unhealthy obbsession with lexan

at least it aint mrlatex.



my nick comes from an old 71 lemans 4door i used to have.

I was waiting for your explanation, but now I don't get it

[Halgar]

my nick comes from an old 71 lemans 4door i used to have.

I was waiting for your explanation, but now I don't get it

What's not to get? Makes perfect sense.










Ok, you're right, I don't get it either ...

[Tadracket]

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That still doesn't explain your unhealthy obbsession with lexan

at least it aint mrlatex.



my nick comes from an old 71 lemans 4door i used to have.

I was waiting for your explanation, but now I don't get it

Is it the latex thing or the hoopty thing you guys don't get?