FReeper names explained

My curiousity | Now | Yours truly

[Come get it]

Some FReepers have nicks that are obvious in their origin, others don't. I've seen several that probably have interesting stories behind them.

I thought it would be cool to see where FReepers get their handles from. If you don't like this topic, DON'T POST HERE! No one forces you to read this. I'm sure other people may be interested. If I'm the only one, let me know so I can crawl away in shame.

[willyboyishere]

" .... my dad named all my family after tools.
----I'm sure I met your brother "2-horsepower router" and your sister "Stanley".

[Jen]

I'm not telling.

[Jen]

Ping and a bump! Y'all wanna chime in on this thread?

[Calpernia]

Well, I'm still on the new side here. But I'm Calpernia at FreeRepublic. Calpernia is my character when I play in the Empire of Ironthorn or NJ Kingdom (type of SCA) Calpernia is also my favorite character in mythology. I love language arts. She was the wife of Julius Caesar.

[way-right-of-center]

My brother (who is moderate on a good day- but i'm working on him) tells me that my views are...

[XEHRpa]

And I thought you were just fond of the SecDef. Honest.

[way-right-of-center]

LOL Me too

[RummyChick]

it is a dual purpose name :-) lololol

[MP5SD]

MP5SD = H&K Machine Pistol, 5" Barrel, Sound Dampening. (900 RPM). One of my favorite tools.

[fatima]

I don't have time tonight to read this whole thing and don't like to post if I haven't read.Trust me ,it doesn't make a difference in my posts,I am a lazy writer and need a clean up person,"she meant to say".I choose fatima because I have a devotion to Our Lady of Fatima,mostly the rosary which helped me alot and I love my name.Did you post AntiJen,which # is it?I miss the Chief-he always started these threads.It was always when we were bored or being bad,he always knew.Eternal rest Chief.

[Victoria Delsoul]

For the explanation regarding my screen name, please check my profile page, hehe.

[XEHRpa]

Our Russian-adopted daughter's name was originally Evgenia, the nickname for which is Zhenya. The Cyrillic spelling for Zhenya is an "X" with a vertical bar through the middle (the zh sound), an "E", an "H" (an n sound), and a backwards "R" (a ya sound). The closest I can get to that with a latin keyboard is XEHR. Being her papa, that makes me XEHRpa.

[blam]

You're FReeper #99,820.

[Alberta's Child]

"Alberta's Child" is a song by Canadian country music legend Ian Tyson about an Alberta cowboy's attachment to the land, the cold winters, and his cattle.

You have to know Albertans to understand what it means, but they are a lot like Texans and identify themselves as "Albertans" first and "Canadians" second.

"And he may go to hell, or even Vancouver -- he'll always be Alberta's child."

[Alberta's Child]

Check out #975, in case you were ever wondering. LOL.

[U S Army EOD]

Mine is U S Army EOD. I was in the U S Army and was in EOD which stands for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and not Every One Drinks, which we did. We were the Army bomb squad. We disarmed unexploded munitions, deconed poison gas, and eleminated bio-hazards. This wasn't training, we did it for real and did it a lot.

Our motto was, "If you screw up, you will always be the first to know".

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yeah, you told me about it. I remember.

[groanup]

I have no idea why I picked this name and I sure wish I hadn't. Something along the lines of "The FreeRepublic Stud" would have been so much more applicable.

[XEHRpa]

You're FReeper #99,820.

Yeah, a long-long time lurker, I figgered it was my duty to get in under the 100K wire.