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What's The Story Behind Your FR Handle?
Free Republic ^ | 23 July 2017 | Windy

Posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:36 AM PDT by Windflier

I've always wondered about the origins and meanings (if any) behind others Freeper handles. Its a quiet Sunday morning, so I thought it would be an interesting topic to start the day.

What's the story behind your handle?


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To: Windflier

Back in 1979-82, I flew a helicopter in East Africa supporting missionary work - evangelism, remote medical clinics, famine relief, etc.

Swahili is the trade language of East Africa. ‘Ndege’ is the Swahili word for ‘bird’. ‘Bwana’ roughly means ‘Mister’. Thus, ‘BwanaNdege’ is “Mister Bird” .

One time while flying in a remote area of NW Kenya, I spotted a group of men carrying a woman on a makeshift stretcher. Upon landing I learned that they believed that she had broken her back in a fall. After getting her safely in the back of the helicopter, I told the men to continue on the the mission station. I would fly there, collect the nurse and take the injured woman to the closest hospital.

When the men arrived at the mission station, they reported that “Bwana was flying over in his ‘motor-car’, saw us, landed and has taken the woman to the hospital.”


41 posted on 07/23/2017 5:38:55 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Windflier
from my homepage - Been a lurker since 1998, got registered in Feb. 1999. This place helped me get through the Clinton shame and the cliffhanger election. There are some great Americans here, and some funny ones too!

My handle has fit well into many situations, especially the Cubs winning the world series.

42 posted on 07/23/2017 5:39:01 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: Windflier

I signed up from work and the IT guy had just installed a second larger hard drive in my work PC, and to make it easy to identify he have it this volume name. Since it was right there on my screen...


43 posted on 07/23/2017 5:39:24 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Windflier

Combination of my name.


44 posted on 07/23/2017 5:39:34 AM PDT by corlorde
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To: x1stcav
My Handle is obvious to 'Nam Vets -

One year flying army medivac choppers, 819 flight hours, 1541 sorties, 2099 patients, 1 DFC, Best year of my life, 1968

I remember understanding later, while we faced hell in Viet Nam, our nation in 1968 was facing a hell of their own.

45 posted on 07/23/2017 5:41:32 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: knarf

Well, howdy Frank! Funny how it never occured to me to read your name backwards. It stands right out, now that you’ve said it.


46 posted on 07/23/2017 5:41:44 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier; beaversmom; Army Air Corps
In Kansas City it is basically municipal law to prefix everything with "KC".

Since there was a KC Wolf at the time on the forums (and is the mascot of The Chiefs)

I chose "Lion" instead.

I think because it was the first animal I thought off that wasn't a wolf.

47 posted on 07/23/2017 5:42:44 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: barmag25

Interesting!


48 posted on 07/23/2017 5:42:57 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Remember all those AOL mailers of diskettes and CD’S. Had stacks of them, all with AOL passwords. Took the passwords from two of those at random and ran an anagram program... AOL had some really odd and funny passwords.


49 posted on 07/23/2017 5:43:22 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: RandallFlagg

Mine is quite obvious.


50 posted on 07/23/2017 5:43:55 AM PDT by Blennos ( As)
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To: lowbridge
No story. It just happened to pop into my head.

You should duck when you come up to those things.

(Mine is from a novel by Keith Laumer -- explained on my profile page.)

51 posted on 07/23/2017 5:44:10 AM PDT by thulldud
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To: Windflier
WHAT does ?


/8^)

52 posted on 07/23/2017 5:44:56 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Windflier
I'm one of those old-fart software engineers. Got started on mainframes with assembler and COBOL in the 80s, then moved on to UNIX and Java in the late 90s and early 2000s. Don't know how Scott Adams got my image for his comic...

Funny thing is, since I joined in 2000, I've moved on from Java. Now into web development. Go figure.

53 posted on 07/23/2017 5:45:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: mason-dixon

Neat story. Thanks!


54 posted on 07/23/2017 5:45:32 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

“Zathras does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you”
From Babylon 5


55 posted on 07/23/2017 5:45:46 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Hilarious!


56 posted on 07/23/2017 5:46:39 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Windflier

"Cut m'self shaving."

57 posted on 07/23/2017 5:48:37 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: TheStickman
It’s been my stage name since the late 1980’s

Cool background story. Thanks for sharing it.

58 posted on 07/23/2017 5:48:44 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

I have a hobby farm on the banks of the Republican River in SW Nebraska,


59 posted on 07/23/2017 5:49:30 AM PDT by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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To: Windflier

Back during the BBS days I was an engineer working in a chemical plant. Originally used Hazardous Waste as a handle but shortened it.


60 posted on 07/23/2017 5:49:50 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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