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?
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.
According to my Sister, when I got out of the military and started to grow out my hair again, I looked like Flagg from the ‘90s TV miniseries, “The Stand.”
No story. It just happened to pop into my head.
Took mine from the dragon in the 80s movie Dragonslayer. I’ve always loved that movie and dragons and I can get firey.
I grew up on superhero comic books, and had a taste for Golden Age Fawcett Captain Marvel instilled in me. I figured it would be too much to be Captain Marvel himself ... too much to live up to. Plus, the name has been used by MANY other characters due to a complex copyright history. His nemesis is Dr. Sivana, “the world’s wickedest scientist”, who predates Lex Luthor and is a possible partial inspiration (bald mad scientist trope).
Anyway, I figured it would be fun to take the name of someone who isn’t too well known, is very much a character, and allows me to poke fun at myself a little.
The main problem is that the character is lesser known, so that I am sometimes mistaken for being a real medical doctor.
Well, I was a new freeper so.....
Love the movie... and they call me T. Thus...
Nicholas Sharpe is the main character in an old video game called Sea Dogs.
At one point I got sick and tired of the news media claiming that the people want this, or the people think that, when clearly it was only them (and the rabid 20%) that wanted that or thought that way. So I decided to become “The People” to prove them wrong.
Didn’t work too well, did it?
Militia call sign.
My name backwards and my birthday because I am always afraid Altzeimer’s will overtake me and I’ll forget how to get on FR ....
My first manufacturing job I ran a yarn making machine called a barmag 25. Barmag was a German company that no longer exists. It was called a 25 because each yarn position on the machine was 25 inches wide.
Something goofy but easy to remember.
Bill ‘Bad Tone Out Of Tune When In Doubt Trill I Got A Medal In High School’ Clinton.
I live in Maryland. Mason & Dixon were hired by the Penn and Calvert families to survey and mark the lines between their land-grants. (now the border between MD & PA and between MD & DE) You can see one of their markers between MD eastern shore and southern DE.
Also see my tag-line... which is a quote from my father.
My cat. Sometimes when my posts don’t make any sense, it’s him.
It’s been my stage name since the late 1980’s and no, I am not a drummer.
People started calling me “The Stickman” after Billy Ray Cyrus (long before he was signed or famous outside of the Tri-State) started calling me that. I used to jam with him and his band on Sunday night’s at the infamous Ragtime Lounge and I gave them a copy of the 1st album I ever was a part of. The song I wrote music for on that album was called “The Stickman”.
I still remember being at the Huntington Mall a few weeks after BRC started calling me by that name and hearing “Hey, it’s the Stickman” and thinking I was suddenly hot stuff...which I never was lol.
Not Alt right.....Thought about justright but settled on Halfright
Milton Friedman’s license plate.
Thanks for that bit of comic book trivia. Though I’m in my mid sixties, I wasn’t aware of that character.
Redneck Palin fan.
;)
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