Time to reintroduce yourselves - How did you get your forum name?

When we join the forum we are either out for a quick answer or shy. Now it is time to open up and tell us the inspiration for your forum name. (I did a search on this topic and could not find a thread.) If it is there I will put on the dunce cap and go to the corner and research the topic again like we lecture to all newcomers (notice the category this is posted in).

To start I will list my reasons:

Have been a Patriots fan since 1976.
Love history and read about the impact scrapping had on the victory in WWII, the survival of an entire group of people and the Patriot gardens during this time of history.

Yes these are true statements even though some might challenge them. So what is your story? If you do not respond, I might have to start taking guesses.

I have no cool story to go with my name, or anything fun. :(

As you all know I listen to all kinds of music, an the night I joined, I had just happened to listen to some Sirmixalot's Baby Got back earlier in the week. So while I was sitting here making a name, an prepping my intro..it came to me! I like to scrap-a-lot. An hey..I'm a guy. ;)

So it all came together to give you the amazing..Sirscrapalot.

Edited to add: Fun thread Patriot, I look for to others replies.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler, an quote master to the stars of the scrapping world. (That's ya'll)

my real name is wade,,,,,i aways hung out with older people so i was around 14 and my buddies were all 25 to 30...they nicknamed me wadar kinda like radar on mash....due to my young age and me being a little nieve....the br549 is simply part of that guys made up address from hee haw

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Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

I have no cool story to go with my name, or anything fun. :(

As you all know I listen to all kinds of music, an the night I joined, I had just happened to listen to some Sirmixalot's Baby Got back earlier in the week. So while I was sitting here making a name, an prepping my intro..it came to me! I like to scrap-a-lot. An hey..I'm a guy. ;)

So it all game together to give you the amazing..Sirscrapalot.

Edited to add: Fun thread Patriot, I look for to others replies.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler, an quote master to the stars of the scrapping world. (That's ya'll)

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Thanks, I am glad you responded, your name provides to much ammunition for interpretation.

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Originally Posted by wadarbr549

my real name is wade,,,,,i aways hung out with older people so i was around 14 and my buddies were all 25 to 30...they nicknamed me wadar kinda like radar on mash....due to my young age and me being a little nieve....the br549 is simply part of that guys made up address from hee haw

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Great creation of your name. Loved both Mash and Hee Haw.

When I first joined I couldn't think of a catchy screen name. Soooo, I put together my CB radio "handle" (or radio name) that I've had for 30+ years and a call sign for when I talked on the sideband side of the radio. I used the 688 on sideband when I talked "skip" or outside of the 100 mile limit. (slightly illegal)
So I just combined the two for lack of anything better. Has nothing to do with being an auto mechanic even tho I've done a lot of the repairs on my own vehicles over the years. My radio customers thought the "Mechanic" handle was fitting because I was their radio mechanic for over 10 years.

That's all I got.

Well my real name is Jim and the guys at work have called me Jimmycrack for about 20 years now. I decided to use that for my gmail account but it was already used by someone else so I shortened it to jimicrk. When I found this forum I figured I'd use it here. I realize now that being a scrapper and having crack as part of your name is probably not good but what's done is done.

Scrapper yes. Crackhead no.

Oh and BTW in 1977 Han shot first!!!

Well, mine's not so creative. You see, I'm a peanut farmer (don't think Jimmy Carter, he about killed us). So when I'm not tearing apart computers or metal buildings, I'm actually driving a tractor (or repairing equipment). You can bet when something wears out or breaks that I'm all over it to scrap it. The only problem is those green parts sure lose their resale value when the paint's worn off.

Oh, Jimicrk, I was thinking Star Trek the whole time on yours...lol.

I got my nickname in College. Went through a "first love breakup" and became a little "Err.. umm.. off?" Lots of hate, lots of destruction.. I solidified my name one evening by swinging completely through a 27" TV and breaking off the end of the picnic table the TV was sitting on. It was my tool of choice.. now I utilize my tool for good and not evil.. but I'm still pretty dang handy with a 10 lb sledge!

Ok I'm in. My name is Jon (no h). A lot of people call me Jonnie , I always spelled it without the y since I was young. When I first started scrapping out my basement of my collection of clean outs of parent and grandparents houses I discovered brass. At that time I thought copper was king and pushed the brass to the side. I happened to bring some brass in and was surprised by the price. So I continued cleaning up and ended up with about 200 pounds of brass. Seems wife's grandfather had a penchant for saving brass. So there you go my name and my favorite metal.

i really like this little thread,,,thank you very much patriot for starting it...and thank you to all who have shared a little story.....

Likewise, I knew it'd be a fun thread soon as I read Patriots first post.

An I agree with Patriot..Mash was a great show. Hee Haw was not a favorite of mine...but i can dig some Laugh in! ;)

Sirscrapalot - Enjoying the tales.

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Oh, Jimicrk, I was thinking Star Trek the whole time on yours...lol.

Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/intro...#ixzz3BeGCLxr5

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Star Trek?

like JAMES T. KIRK oh im sorry thats CAPTIAN JAMES T KIRK

dammit jim im a doctor not a scrapper

You Trekkies...

Star wars baby!

Sirscrapalot - Ever want to see a StarWars fan's head explode? Tell them Han shot first.

joined back in 2010. about 3-4 months prior to joining SMF I started a small e-scrap business , jerseyscrapper.com. local free pickups of scrap metal and e- scrap . spent about 5 months on this site (before it blew up to were it is now !!! ) very happy to see how its exploded to all this. let me tell you when I placed an ad in the local scrap pick up thread they have I think people still to this day find me via SMF!!!!! its been 4 years since I placed that ad lol now that's some good SEO!! (search engine optimization) well I was inactive for about 2 years now since logging back in today!!! and first thing I did was get my scrap room member account back active! our main business managing REO foreclosures with my brother took up all our life finally getting a slow break , going on 5 years now, that just blew up that we are to the point that now have 3 full time employees not including my brother and myself... anyways back to my username!.. I live in NJ (central to be exact) and jersey scrapper was born . I currently have the website name for sale.. debating if i should dust off the old passwords log back in and bring it back to life! have my first ever t-shirts I printed lol they don't fit now but look good folded away in the closet. joined SMF to look, learn and listen, found great contacts and business partners and I'm ready to get back in the saddle and make up 2 years of missed threads!!!! haha. hope everyone is doing well!!!!

Han did shoot first!

Not in the original. It was changed when they added to the movie, when it was re-released again the theaters. Lucas didn't like Han being thought of as a cold blooded killer.

It pisses the Star wars fanboys off. Go try it. :) I do it to my friends all the time. It's like saying Kirk was a horrible Capt, or Spock was a twit.

It gets the fan boys riled up. Same with Apple ones.."WINDOWS IS THE BEST!" *Insert Mac fanboys heads exploding from anger*

:)

In case you want to read more on it, I was kind enough to include a link. Han shot first - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From George Lucas: "The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."

An this thread is still AUsome. I blame the rest for starting the hijacking. Silly trekkies.

Sirscrapalot - I like messing with nerds. Bonus quote: We all got a little nerd in us.

mine is my name, no cool stories

Have loved the look and sound of Kawasaki KZ 650's and 1000's since I was a teenager. Have drug quite a few home that were left for dead and put life back into them...usually just takes a few hours to tear apart the carbs and clean them then clean up the plugs and points. Unfortunately I haven't touched one since I started scrapping but I do have a '73 Honda 350F four cylinder that needs some CPR.

Well my name is Grant, and before I found this forum I was doing 3D Geomodeling for Google. On the forum there, I couldn't think of a name so I combined my name with avatar. Grant + Avatar = Gravitar. Short and sweet. Now I use it for pretty much every type of username I need.

Well ironically enough i play tuba. And it seemed to be on here that everyone was ready to help and thats like my tuba section so i stuck with it.

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Well ironically enough i play tuba. And it seemed to be on here that everyone was ready to help and thats like my tuba section so i stuck with it.

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That's pretty cool. I play trombone and got to play with Gene Pokorny last year. Cool dude and AMAZING at tuba!

We are trashing a good thread.

Nothing very imaginative about mine, I live in Ohio and I scrap. Love reading about how everyone came up with theirs though!

I have been an accountant for a long time. My name on here (Numbers) is what I look at and analyze all day long. Every day, all year long. At the first of the year, one of my clients hired me to work exclusively for them. What do I do now? I look at numbers, all day long. However, working at a bank has lowered my stress level considerably!

I started the ewaste business to give young son a method to earn extra money to pay off his school loans. Fortunately, or unfortunately, (depending on whether my wife can see the pile from the kitchen window) this thing we call scrap has really taken off for us. When the local yard starts taking you into the office to talk price with the door closed, you start to realize that they have determined that you are important to them. We have had a lot of fun and learned a lot. And where did we learn most of it? Right here on Scrap Metal Forum.

Metalbestos is a stainless steel pipe company in md. It always made me think of some evil transformer when I heard it . I figured it was fitting for the forum. I have never worked for them but I do seem to scrap a lot of there products . Thanks to everyone who has shared .

I do E-Waste. I started my computer sales/service shop first, though. I bought computers from an electronics recycler about 2-3 hours from me. They always tried to pull funny business on me, so I started becoming smarter and smarter. I ended up getting to the point where I started wondering why I was buying common, run of the mill desktops.

So, I came up with a company name and started advertising. I had others do my radio ads, and even went as far as having someone from the radio station do my voicemail message.

I didn't want the man to know I was competing against him until I could completely sever ties.

That was two years ago. Ironically, I don't think he knows about me yet.

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I needed a name. I wanted something unique that he'd never suspect. Something that could be anyone- something that could be interpreted differently. I talked with a friend who runs a computer store on the other side of the country. Somehow, we started talking about cars. She likes to drive the classics.

She drives one of these frequently:
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It's an American Motors Matador Coupe. I like AMC stuff for their quirkiness (Have never owned one), and figured "Why not".

Not too exciting, but hey, it's a name. Plus, my competitors don't even know that I've been competing! ;)

my name is Mahomed Saleem Moorad
so my username is just msmoorad

i also use it as my username on any forum that i join on the net
many think im a girl cos it looks like ms moorad

anyways, thats about it.

All of your stories are great and like the sharing of the info.

Mine is also no biggie, I just took my first name initial and the "ski" off of the back of my last name, yes it's polish, and yes I can spell toboggan, and added my birth year to the end. That was probably about 15 years or so ago, and it pretty much stuck. I've been a member of feebay pretty much from their beginning. I think they are 3 or 4 months older than my account.

OK here is my bore-fest story. Mine is a combination of my first and last name (so no, my name isn't Fred) and then my old hockey jersey number. We all chose our jersey numbers to attempt to confuse the other team (it worked sometimes). Our lineup card in numbers read 59 99 95 5 55 9. Our second line decided to join in that fun and theirs read 68 88 86 6 66 (goalie was still 9, not much confusion coming from the guy with the pads and mask anyway) In full speed game action, you could see where that added to our advantage. My hockey jacket even said "Phred" on the front instead of "Phil". I still talk to most of the guys from that team. And it's funny that we all refer to each other the same way we did back then. Too bad my buddy Pete isn't on here. His jacket said "Junkyard" (he tapped in a lot of garbage goals and rebounds). How perfect that would have been.

So even tho it's not scrap related, this combination has meant something to me personally for a long time now.

Well Tincankeith was giving to me by my now stepson who at the time was 9 and battling ALL (Acute Lymphoma Leukemia) I had started scraping to help offset some of the medical bills. Within the first 2 or 3 times of driving around on trash night I had come home he asked what I got and I would list everything I found (mostly boring my now wife and stepdaughter). Everyone started calling me names in fun and he said Tin Can Keith and it was perfect. He is now 12 and after the 3years of treatment he is doing well. The medical bills are gone for the most part. So now I just do it for vacation money.

When I was in school [when video games consisted of Packman and Pong] we played a board game called Fight in the Skies, a WW1 airplane game. When I was signing up for a Yahoo email everything I tried was taken. In desperation I typed in the last name of a German ace. I spelled it wrong but it worked and every time I use it it is never taken.

I buy and sell refrigerants, along with remediation and recycling refrigeration equipment. So the Freon part was a given, I just added my first name to it. I started scrapping (farm cleanouts) 40 years ago while I was still in high school.

In computer science, foo, bar, and baz are very common names used to show an example.

In algebra, you have a teacher give a problem like: suppose a class has a certain number of students, x. Of these students, there is a 2:1 ratio of boys to girls. Suppose the number of girls is represented by y. what is the relationship between x and y? (I do appologize if this causes bad flashbacks for anyone)

well in computer science, all of my professors would show examples like: suppose you have a function foo, which accepts two parameters - bar and baz.

So anyway, foobar has been a common name for me for a while. foobarbaz has also been used so my name doesn't get mistaken as a kispelling of fubar-which is another interesting story, but different.

Well like some of the others mine is a bit obvious, my first name is Mike and my last name starts with the letter D. I used this as my name on other forums in the past because I apparently have a very limited memory but have yet to have forgotten my own name. I did forget a my first wife's name while introducing her one time so I have a history of forgetting.

I have enjoyed reading the posts from the others on this thread very much. Also let me take the time to thank all who contribute to a great forum that continues to help me make money and bring me joy. 73 Mike

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Well like some of the others mine is a bit obvious, my first name is Mike and my last name starts with the letter D. I used this as my name on other forums in the past because I apparently have a very limited memory but have yet to have forgotten my own name. I did forget a my first wife's name while introducing her one time so I have a history of forgetting.

I have enjoyed reading the posts from the others on this thread very much. Also let me take the time to thank all who contribute to a great forum that continues to help me make money and bring me joy. 73 Mike

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Oh see and here all this time I thought you were a Beastie Boy... whoops... haha j/k

The origin of my name has to do with my full time job. I analyze crime stats and help put together evidence from crimes where a firearm has been discharged. In shooting incidents where shell casings and bullet fragments are left behind, they are processed for fingerprints,hammer strikes and other markings to see if the same weapon was used in other cases. If there is a link amoung crimes from the evidence we call it a brasscatcher case. The capital lettering was a force of habit when typing up reports. It is easier to read and it's the way the department wants it done. Its an interesting and rewarding job, especially knowing that a hard core criminal is arrested because of the work I helped with.
It also beats getting shot at or having a brick (airmail) thrown off a 10 story apartment roof at you!!!