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First Naval Book I read.. CS Forester's "Ship of the Line."

I've had this nickname since my senior year in high school (which was more years ago than I care to admit). While my parents were visiting my brother at the Air Force Academy, I burned our house donw (well almost burned it down, the kitchen had to be shovelled out onto the driveway). Some of my so-called friends started calling me 'Toast' shortly after that and the name stuck.

I like very much bad weather: dark cloud, cold wind, rain.
It gives me energy and makes me happy

I have a Ph.D. in statistics, so "dr_stat"!

mlees: "I'll give you guys a half of a guess on mine."
You have two daughters named Emily?

Interesting thread. Well, maybe I'm just a cynical SOB - I admit being fascinated by the grim sense of humor (gallows humor, black humor, or whatever it is called) sometimes found in life-or-death situations, esp. in war. One of the first examples I encountered was the nickname given to the big, slow, feebly armed LSTs - Large, Slow Targets. The term also reflects my playing style - sending invasion-TFs into enemy AZOCs with no or insufficient LRCAP...

Mmh, "ColFrost" reminds me of another prime example - the two British soldiers at Arnhem bridge taking cover during heavy shelling in the basement of a house, one complaining to the other: 'They are throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink!'. Seconds later a shell hits the house, the ceiling in the far corner caves in and crashing down with the debris comes a kitchen sink - triggering the dry comment: 'I know those b@st@rds are close, but I didn't think they are so close they can hear us talking!' [:D]

My parents gave me all the parts. The army (FTA) taught me how to assemble them.

For years my favorite drink. Maker's Mark(a fine Kentucky bourbon wiskey) mixed with a little 7-Up. Also drink it with only ice. Would go into bars and ask for a Mark 7, less than half would know what I was talking about but I would educate them if they did not know. There could be others but Maker's Mark is the smoothest wiskey I have ever tried.

When I started hanging on the forum and seeing the names there, thought I could use it with a "VII" instead of the 7 to represent a version of some weapon system and thus a war game like name.

I have had my name since 1997. I got it becuse my last name is McQuaide and there is a movie called lonewolf Mcquaide staring Chuck Norris. I got it becuse when I played football I was always left out on an island to protect the weak side. So my team mates siad I was the lonewolf protecting the flank.

its my name (plus the y of course)

also a nickname [:'(]

I was a softball umpire for many years, and got used to people asking da ump questions.

Played alot of NTN trivia back in the early 90's and daump was my nik, and have been using ever since.

In 1985 or so, I started playing a C-64. Some tanksim required a name, so I opened the dictionary and tried to look up words with my initials - BV.

Raverdave comes from my Biker days, when we all had nick names. I was "named" because I was always "raving" on about something and so was known as "The Raver", however when I first tried to get on this board it got stuffed up so I had to tack on "dave" on my second attempt.
Most ppl simply think that I push drugs at rave parties when they hear my nick. My really close friends simply call me "Goldy", but thats another story.