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My call sign is a reference to my lack of ability to deal with Panthers (late war German MBT in WW2) in just about any wargame I play.  Doesn't matter if they are mine or the other guys.  Mine die immediately, and I can't kill the other guy's Panthers to save my (or my digital soldier's) life.  It was sort of a challenge to try and do better.  Hasn't worked too well, but the name stuck.
 
Maybe I like WitP so much because there are no Panthers in it.  Hmm

The first part is just my nickname which I have had since I was a wee small toddler.

The second part is because somehow my login ID got messed up and I got no f***ing help from Matrix support to try and fix it so I had to start another login ID.

Don't know if i should post anything here [&:],
Its my first name but the v got attached to it when i started my trucking career to the UK end of the '70's,
Every time i mentioned my name i've got this strange reaction [:(], even got the phone hung up on me by switchboard ladies.
 

[:D]Maybe it has to do with what it sounds like in english?[:D]

I used to play in an "old-timer" hockey league (translation, anyone over 18). Our team was called the Icedawgs. We used canine-related names/terms that fit something about us and put those names on the backs of our jerseys (where last names normally go). I was by far the smallest guy in the league (140 lbs or so), so I was aptly named "Runt".

The most terrifying sound warfare has ever known.

ORIGINAL: Rebel Yell

The most terrifying sound warfare has ever known.

I don't know... farts that smell like mustard gas rate pretty highly...

Well, mine is because that became my nickname at work I suppose. I'm only a 5'7" 160lbr. But I'm on the ...muscleular side(?) and I ride a Pan-Head Harley to work, so the guys at work just started calling me "Big-B". Really,... I never registered on a forum before, so I was at a loss to come up with a name...everyone seemed not to use their real name, so I just used what the guys called me.
If I could do it all over i'd just go with BrianW or 'B'...you know...my name.

Laddie is the name of one of our dogs. He was our first and is a retired Customs sniffer dog.

Keep up that sarcasm and I'll have to take a bite out of one of your ankles! Grrrrrrrrr!

Hi all,

My nickname is self given and it dates around 15 years ago when I first started on-line communication and gaming - especially on-line flying (I couldn't find anything more suiting so I choose something I always related to).

BTW, the name itself is _VERY_ significant to me because I really was born on that day when they walked on the moon... [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: goodboyladdie

Laddie is the name of one of our dogs. He was our first and is a retired Customs sniffer dog.

I actually thought you were a Pratchett fan...

2 letters each from my 1st, middle and last names.

Ok, I'll bite.

Cathartes is a genus of vulture and "kathartes" is Greek for "Purifyer" or similar.  I'm a casual bird geek.

Seems a bit pedestrian, its my name...... I've never quite sussed out why almost nobody uses their own name, guess there's a powerful reason for it involving anonymity and I just haven't realised the need to hide who I am.....

Like another poster my name evolved after the total inability of this forum to sort out my previous name - as it says in my sig!

Roger

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: TheElf

My Callsign minus the "The"

[8|]OK. So how did you get the call sign? Most of the call signs I've run into were 1)a play on one's name 2) something really dumb that you did (most common) 3) something that describes you or something you did/do (dumb or other wise).[:D]

Numero uno. I'd say name's are the most common too.

Hey Elf, if you want people to respond to your PM's, you need to clean out your inbox...[8D]

Terminus,

With the number of posts that you have, I thought that you were actually a computer and not a real person.[:D][:D]

ORIGINAL: 1275psi

1275psi - is of course the pressure of the Foster wheeler boilers I used to steam in the RAN, on the DDGs Perth, Hobart and Brisbane.
One boiler in particular (1A) on the Perth was a bitch -she taught me patience, and persistance, and that swearing doesnt help - things very useful for WITP.

2A just decided to blow up [8|]

Still nothing like the power of opening the throttles when you have 4 on line.
And 1275 psi is easy to remember!

Try being on the fantail when y'all crank those babies up... it'd vibrate a clam out of its shell. So you steamed on an Adams class too... the 1200 psi, at least that's what our snipes called them, were a fairly exotic plant at the time of their introduction. When they ran, they ran good. But there were times when they weren't good. I happened to be down in the forward boiler room looking for the Chief Engineer when they ran a full crash back. Now, that was interesting..They don't pay those guys enough!

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

Terminus,

With the number of posts that you have, I thought that you were actually a computer and not a real person.[:D][:D]

Well you got part of it right. danes aren't realy people[:'(]