What's The Story Behind Your FR Handle?

Free Republic ^ | 23 July 2017 | Windy

[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?

[BwanaNdege]

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.”

[MomwithHope]

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.

[bigbob]

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...

[corlorde]

Combination of my name.

[Dustoff45]

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.

[Windflier]

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.

[KC_Lion]

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.

[Windflier]

Interesting!

[Covenantor]

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.

[Blennos]

Mine is quite obvious.

[thulldud]

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.)

[knarf]

WHAT does ?

/8^)

[COBOL2Java]

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.

[Windflier]

Neat story. Thanks!

[Zathras]

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

[real saxophonist]

Hilarious!

[Jonah Hex]

"Cut m'self shaving."

[Windflier]

It’s been my stage name since the late 1980’s

Cool background story. Thanks for sharing it.

[RepRivFarm]

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

[Hazwaste]

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