Funny thing is, since I joined in 2000, I've moved on from Java. Now into web development. Go figure.
Long before I knew of Free Republic, I signed up for an account on the Delphi forums network. When it came time to input my chosen username, the program informed that it was already taken. Disappointed, I thought up another one and input that. Nope. Already taken. Ok, lets try another one....sorry. Already taken. I did that six or seven times, each time being rejected.
At this point, I figured there was a glitch in the program, so out of pure cussedness, I typed in 'Windflier', and dang if it didn't take.
Being a complete noob with such things, I figured that was that, and there was no changing it. I'm sort of glad I did, as that handle has come to suit me, and after so many years feels like my own name.
A phonetic transliteration of my name into Chinese that literally means “Fat Cat.” I used to run a blog called Fai Mao’s Sandbox but seldom post to it anymore.
45th Infantry Division, the “Thunderbird” Division - the Oklahoma National Guard Division called into service in WW2 and the first called for Korea. My step-father was part of the Korea call-up, having joined after WW2 service to continue service for retirement credit. He ended up not being sent to Korea, instead staying at Ft. Polk in the training cadre. That also ended his desire to get the retirement credit.
I served in the 45th Infantry Brigade of the OKARNG after leaving active duty in the early 80s.
The first forum I joined online was an ancient history club that no longer exists. Berosus was a Babylonian historian who lived around 300 B.C. Unfortunately only bits and pieces of his work have survived to our time.
I wear a lot of pink and green Lilly Pulitzer clothes and I’m a mom, so....
Hardspun, my favorite thorobred.
When I was in college, a friend brought a stray cat to my house and left him for me to keep. I didn’t want a cat, so I tried to give him away for weeks, to no avail.
By that time I had grown find of the little guy. I decided to keep him. I named him Skooz. He became a friend; a comfort on tough days. No matter how my day had gone, he was always there to cuddle at the end of it.
A few years later he developed feline leukemia and I had to put him down. Broke my heart.
So, I named my handle after a dead cat.
During the Obama Administration, I flew only Historic Patriot flags, never the USA flag. I had 14 flags I flew. People would ask me about them and I’d learned the history of each one. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, I put up the best USA flag I could buy. Along the hem by the flag pole I put the date and time it first flew. That moment was when Obama was history and we had a Patriot (rather than Islamic) President once again. My new flag even has a soft spotlight lighting it at night. That’s why I’m “ThePatriotsFlag.”
Started using it as a call sign and authenticator in the early ‘70s.
My band’s soundman had just returned from his honeymoon. I called his number and got the answering machine. I just started riffing, in a Paki accent:
“Oh no! This is Doctor Bogus Pachysandra, from the Cleveland Free Sex Clinic. Don’t touch that thing! Don’t let anybody touch that thing! I’m a doctor and I won’t toch that thing!”
His new bride got the message machine answer before Bob got home! I guess they had quite a conversation before they figured out it was me! They called an hour later, laughing their butts off!
Back when I was in the aerospace industry in the 1980s some punk estimator was trying to convince me of something that was utter bs by calling in a “true fact”. I mocked him saying such a phrase was redundant. When I was lurking on FR the phrase kept coming to mind as maybe not redundant. When I couldn’t take the 2000 election anymore and finally signed up, that was my choice. Now it seems almost prescient.
Mine is my auto assigned log on ID for the business computer system used in my working days from back in the mid ninety’s.
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.”
My handle has fit well into many situations, especially the Cubs winning the world series.
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...
Combination of my name.
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.
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.
Funny thing is, since I joined in 2000, I've moved on from Java. Now into web development. Go figure.
“Zathras does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you”
From Babylon 5