Where did your screen names come from?

I worked my way through college as a janitor's helper, full time every summer. My first semester's tuition and fees at the state university were a little over $80, and I could easily pay for that and books and carfare by mopping floors and burning garbage. Yes, we burned garbage back then. Pressure cans used to explode and shoot out of the incinerator like rockets. That's what I remember when I hear people sing "the rockets' red glare."

My first job was a huge condo building on Lake Shore Drive, very nice inside as well as outside. The head janitor was an educated man who kept stacks of New Yorker and Esquire in the break room. Before Labor Day, he offered me the night man's job and I turned it down. He said I was a chump to go back to school, and I'd never find another job that would pay me for sleeping. He was right.

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Mine is chosen just because i am really into the ender game series, and the first book is where i first heard the phrase, i looked into the origin and stuff and it just sounds kind of cool and dramatic, (i am in no way shape or form someone you would associate the phrase with in person) and visually when i think of the phrase it just kind of speaks to me in an artistic way, i just think of stoic lines and waves i guess, its just a mind set i use when making abstract art.
While i don't use the name to sound all deep, i just appriciate that kind of style, like when i wear my headphones (vmoda crossfade nero edition) i don't walk around thinking that they make me look all that, i like them because of what it is in itself, i just like how veni vidi vici sounds.
 
frankjuka said:
Clang! Is a great name

Brisket is good too. A radio special the other day said that Franklin's BBQ in Austin is best in Texas. Whatchu think? (I expect you to say that YOURS is the best :)
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Not sure what Brisket would say, but being a native Texan, and therefore a Brisket connoisseur, that could be argued. While Franklin's is good, there are some just as good or better in Lockhart, and in my own back yard if I may bragg a bit.:D

By the way, no mystery in my screen name.

Blessings,

Omar
 
My childhood nickname from my parents was Aarbedubins (air-bee-doobins) name is Aaron.... Rad I know. So now my forum names are the shortened version, Dubins
 
frankjuka said:
Insipid: makes sense. What did you try first?

Gollnick: yeah I'm not sure when the whole fake name thing really took off. I chose not to use my real name, but there's nothing really preventing it.
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I honestly don't remember what I tried first, as it was way before my BF membership. I was an obnoxious teenager at the time, so I can't imagine my original choices were particularly inspired. I tried Stupid Name out of frustration and even it was taken, eo I got a bit more creative after that. Now I've been Insipid Moniker around the net for better than a decade so I have a hard time changing it.
 
I knew there were some good stories out there!

Brisket: have you seen the Brisket knife made by DJ at American Kami? Looks pretty sweet!
 
Nickname from a couple of my friends. Apparently I get lucky a lot. (Not in that way, I'm a married man now ;))
 
Mine is based on an incident tracking a Russian fast attack sub off Bermuda in the 80's when I was USN, straight out of a Tom Clancy novel. Many know about the Cuban missile crises in 62' and how close we came,and maybe some of my Army compatriots stationed in Germany in Aug of 1984 could attest, but due to some very strong paranoia on the Soviet side a shooting war came close to hand. I will just say that I believe the opening salvos would have been in the North Atlantic.
 
Unlike Gollnick, I don't give my real name due to privacy concerns. Make a wrong comment to the wrong person and you make it too easy for them to track you down and harass you. Google Street View and other search websites can make a determined lunatic want to come to your house and make life miserable.

People can call me paranoid if they like, I really don't care.

Anyway back to your question. I "dig deep" into my wallet to facilitate my knife addiction. :)
 
I used "muttlypuppy" for too many years to be a puppy anymore so now I'm just plain Mutt
 
I'm so unoriginal it hurts...

(My last name is Lucy though, not first... but I go by it to almost everyone I know. Its usually good for a laugh in a crowd of people when someone hollers 'Lucy' and a 6' 220# dude says 'what?' First is Eric btw...)
 
Brisket is good too. A radio special the other day said that Franklin's BBQ in Austin is best in Texas. Whatchu think? (I expect you to say that YOURS is the best
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I've never been to Franklin's, but it's now on list of places to try out. There is lots of good Q in Texas but the best I've had wasn't in restaurants but was from competition events or backyard smokers. Over the years I've been to a good number of some of the noted bbq joints in the state, mostly in the legendary Texas BBQ Triangle. Often I find the overall experience of the sights, smells, sound and good company outshines the meat on the plate but it's still well worth the trip and effort to check them out. Probably my favorite bbq restaurant to eat at for just the food is Cooper's in Llano, but most always I get the 1lb smoked pork chop and not brisket.


Brisket: have you seen the Brisket knife made by DJ at American Kami? Looks pretty sweet!
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No and I did some searching and couldn't find it.
 
Brisket said:
I've never been to Franklin's, but it's now on list of places to try out. There is lots of good Q in Texas but the best I've had wasn't in restaurants but was from competition events or backyard smokers. Over the years I've been to a good number of some of the noted bbq joints in the state, mostly in the legendary Texas BBQ Triangle. Often I find the overall experience of the sights, smells, sound and good company outshines the meat on the plate but it's still well worth the trip and effort to check them out. Probably my favorite bbq restaurant to eat at for just the food is Cooper's in Llano, but most always I get the 1lb smoked pork chop and not brisket.




No and I did some searching and couldn't find it.
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Here it is:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1077814-Anyone-have-an-AK-MIGS-Tanto

apparently brisket was the project name but he changed it after it was designed. Still...

The post is about a different knife, but the photos within are of the Brisket
 
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