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.

[SunnyUsa]

"I appropriated the name of our beagle-dawg, MississippiDeltaDawg, Missy for short"

And here I thought the water in Mississippi had "gotten to you" and you were referring to yourself with that name! LoL

Beautiful little doggie! Lucky and she make a great pair!

[Vermont Lt]

Went to a little school in the middle of Vermont that spits out LT's with BS's.

[VetoBill]

VetoBill

Created to express my opinion on Bill Clinton.

What better way to sum up Clinton than as a reference to an actual vetoed legislative bill.

A vetoed bill...something people once poured over, generated passionate responses, and ultimately ended up as a worthless piece of crap with no authority

[LonePalm]

I'm a Parrotthead, i.e., a Jimmy Buffett fan. OneParticularHarbour was already taken by a lawyer in Kentucky so I took LonePalm. Actually I was LoanPalm for a long time but I finally had JimRob fix it. LoanPalm was a typo that I thought was funny.

I am the original Broken Glass Republican since I coined the term.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Prof Engineer]

Bump again?

I am a licensed professional engineer.

[Richard Kimball]

Classic movie.

Did you hear about the man with the five penises?
His pants fit like a glove

He grabbed it weeth hees d*ck!"

Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, he's an English guy, who came to fight the turkish

You squirrels better have some nuts in your cheeks or you're going downtown!

Hey, Red Riding Hood! Wanna get eaten by the big bad wolf?

[Richard Kimball]

Mine came from an old Freak Brothers comic, the name of a redneck who tried to beat up Freewheelin' Franklin once. I just liked the name and decided to use it

I remember that strip. "Lord, God, Billy Bob. That was the meanest hippie you ever picked!"

[Experiment 6-2-6]

I wanna be a kennel worker....

Ya gots to be careful 'bout them kennels. Not all are full of warm puppies... 'course, you have to worry 'bout them sailors that want to be with warm puppies..

[thefoyboy]

Mine is a family nickname that goes back to my dad and his two brothers. As trouble making teenagers people would always say, "here come those Foyboys!" Well, I'm the only male offspring of the three brothers and I got tagged with the nick because I had some of the same tendencies.

[freepersup]

Heads Up ! Eagles Up ! Freepers Up ! freepersup

[Mugwumps]

Great one. Edifying.

[timestax]

timestax---play on "needle in a haystack"---time in a timestack. Dig?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Mine is a clever play on my real name.

[Media Insurgent]

I work for a well-known leftist media company. Because of my conservative views, I feel like an underground insugent operating inside the walls of a bastion of liberalism. How melodramatic is that?

[RightField]

Baseball fan + far right politics = RightField

[steelie]

steelhead, get it!!!!!!!!

[Hank Rearden]

Cap'n Sam Bonney reportin' aboard, 'n thanks for the URL. Arrrgh!

[Hank Rearden]

A new century, A new Grange.

Oh! I thot youse guys was talkin' about the Mange. I hate the Mange. Causes hairball tumbleweeds all over the hut.

[Quix]

A fair number of people would label me too often genuinely quixotic . . . if they knew the word.

I wanted a non-Chinese name for a change and one which wasn't that conventional.

[Hoverbug]

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Until the guy with the sword gets really pi$$ed!
;-)