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FReeper Canteen ~ What Is The Origin Of Your FReeper Name? ~ Thursday, August 25, 2016
Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! ~ The Canteen Crew ~ | ~August 24, 2016 | Aug. 24, 2016 | PROCON

Posted on 08/24/2016 5:59:35 PM PDT by PROCON

~ Freeper Canteen ~

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Today We Want To Know

What Is The Origin Of Your FReeper Name?


Did You Get It In The Military?


A Famous Actor Or Actress?

Or Is It Just Silly?


So, Tell Us How You Chose Your FReeper Name

Have fun!

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.




TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: canteen; freepernames; patriotism; troopsupport
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To: PROCON; Buckhead

LOL! That would be a nightmare name! :)

I did come on board during the Dan Rather debacle and when I heard so much about how FreeRepubic, and Buckhead, outed him. I just had to read about it and then...as you know me....I had to put my 2 cents in so I had to grab a name real quick. It’s the first thing that popped into my head and then to my fingers. :)


241 posted on 08/24/2016 7:51:14 PM PDT by luvie (I love the troops. That is all...)
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To: PROCON

A fictional character in our office back in the 1970s.

My favorite salesman would leave it with inquiring secretaries, when they couldn’t spell his real name.


242 posted on 08/24/2016 7:51:28 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: LUV W

You forgot the spelin an punkchewashun!


243 posted on 08/24/2016 7:51:54 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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To: PROCON

In the late 40s early 50s I was a fan of Gene Autry at the Saturday movies. His side kick was played by Pat Butrum who went on the be Mr. Haney on Green Acres. He called Gene Mister Artery.


244 posted on 08/24/2016 7:52:02 PM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: PROCON

Boom Operator KC-135A retired.


245 posted on 08/24/2016 7:52:21 PM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: PROCON

Lucky 33


246 posted on 08/24/2016 7:52:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: PROCON

Thank you. :-)


247 posted on 08/24/2016 7:53:17 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: GingisK
My name is self explanatory
248 posted on 08/24/2016 7:53:29 PM PDT by rapture-me
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To: eyeamok
I am OK

I don't get it :-)

249 posted on 08/24/2016 7:57:05 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON
About the beginning of the Internet, when there were only Bulletin Board Systems, I was seeking a handle that somewhat described me. At the time I was a publisher, editor, and a writer. My last name is one of the most common in the USA, so I decided to use a pun based on my work and my last name and input "Wordsmith." Alas, it was already taken by a guy who never posted or visited the BBS, but I was NOT going to be some numbered version of that.

So I noodled on the problem for a while. I thought that a words can be sharper than swords. . . and since I had actually made swords when I had been in college working as a prop master for the drama department (I had to produce 40 swords that suitably clanged when struck together, looked good, but would not harm the bunch of yahoos who would try to have unpracticed duels with them, for a play they were producing), and it still included "word" in the word "Sword," I input "Swordsmith" going for a triple pun. Alas, once again, it was taken . . . also by someone who was not posting or even visiting! (I later learned when I substituted for the Sysop that it was the SAME GUY! He'd also grabbed any combination that included anything ending in "smith"). Further thinking lead me to the idea that a Smith is a maker of things, so I input "Swordmaker" and low-and-behold, it was available.

For the next 30 years or so, I have been known as Swordmaker online. The vanity license plate on my car even reads SWRDMKR.

A funny. . .

My ex-wife's mother's maiden name was Brown.

She married a man named Johnson.

Her daughter, my now ex-wife married a man (me) named Smith.

Noticing the progression of more and more common names, we told our elder daughter that unless she was planning to continue the progression by marrying someone named Wang or Wong, It was up to her to break this family pattern of the women in our family marrying a more and more common named man and she'd have to marry someone with a long name to do it.

She took our advice to heart. . .

Our older daughter is now Mrs. Long!

250 posted on 08/24/2016 7:58:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I know!


251 posted on 08/24/2016 7:58:41 PM PDT by luvie (I love the troops. That is all...)
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To: Rufii

USC, a great school, (and this from a University of Washington Alum) :-)


252 posted on 08/24/2016 7:59:09 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: P.O.E.

Dr. Strangelove, one of the BEST movies, EVER!


253 posted on 08/24/2016 8:00:48 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: SMGFan

She is a doll! Yeah, even the pretty ones go loco sometimes :-(


254 posted on 08/24/2016 8:02:02 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

Initials and favorite sport.


255 posted on 08/24/2016 8:02:49 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: flaglady47; Liz; onyx; nopardons; MS.BEHAVIN; M Kehoe; NIKK; NautiNurse; Maine Mariner; ...
The Minutemen were civilian militia warriors in the American Revolutionary War. They were the guerilla heroes of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. They were known for being prepared and ready to fight the enemy in battle on a minute's notice.

In honor of these brave men, I chose "MinuteGal" as my handle because freepers are always ready on a minute's notice for battle against today's enemies of our Republic...and you can bet there was a MinuteGal figuratively at the side of every Minuteman during the battles and skirmishes of the war for our freedom !

Leni

256 posted on 08/24/2016 8:04:18 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO, TRUMP !!!)
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To: PROCON

Gentlemen! no Fighting in the War Room!


257 posted on 08/24/2016 8:04:49 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: PROCON

As a kid I really enjoyed adventure movies and loved watching old Errol Flynn pictures. My favorite being his first big hit, “Captain Blood”.


258 posted on 08/24/2016 8:06:55 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: WMarshal
Well then, thanks for the background and enlightenment of this great man.

He also went on Crusade and killed a lot of Muslim fanatics.

We may soon need his fierce spirit in America!

259 posted on 08/24/2016 8:07:42 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: janipa
Hi Jan!

No longer in PA, tho.

You can petition the "Man" to change your name without losing your signed-on date if you wish.

260 posted on 08/24/2016 8:09:50 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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