what does your user name mean?

[Ratman91101]

Ratman was my callsign when I was in Marine Recon 78-82.I was originally Ratman911.Ratman$#@#$ call 911.My psn account was hacked,so I had to make a new.It was a couple months after the attack on New York so it was a simple.Ratman91101. Lest we never forget!

[hoghead]

Nice topic for a newbie. My username is: ‘hoghead’. A few of you might know what a 'hoghead' is/was but I doubt most will know. A hoghead is a railroad Locomotive Engineer - the guy that runs or 'drives' freight trains (drive is used in the UK but never in US or Canada - we run or operate trains). Some think it's a derisive term for an unskilled Engineer but that is most probably not correct - it is just slang for an Engineer. End of train, Hoghead aka Richard

[Luftwaffe_Rommel]

First of all interesting thread. I had always wondered myself what was the story behind usernames; were they meant to be or just pure ramble.

Well Luftwaffe_Rommel got it from two things. First after playing secret weapons over Normandy, a great game by the way. I kind of like the word Luftwaffe instead of air force. second, Rommel well since I like tanks and planes and I had already chosen something to do with planes, the next thing that came to mind were Patton and Rommel. Since Patton was the grouchy one I chose Rommel plus it sounded better in my head, Luftwaffe_Patton nah, Luftwaffe_Rommel and there you go.

[Colonel Zick]

Colonel Zick is the twisted mind of another profiled pilot in BoP. He crawled out form his asylum when there was a need for a pilot representing the Dark Legions to down and anihilate cowards with reargunners and lack of fighterskills in dogfights and teambattles. The colonel despises that kind of cheesy shit.
Colonel because he is a vet. Zick because he is mentaly unstable and flies under the influence of various substances.

[Davedog74]

Originally Posted by Colonel Zick

Colonel Zick is the twisted mind of another profiled pilot in BoP. He crawled out form his asylum when there was a need for a pilot representing the Dark Legions to down and anihilate cowards with reargunners and lack of fighterskills in dogfights and teambattles. The colonel despises that kind of cheesy shit.
Colonel because he is a vet. Zick because he is mentaly unstable and flies under the influence of various substances.

long live the zick

[StiC]

About 20 years ago while being prompted to enter a handle for my character in Wing Commander, I stared blankly across the room, finally focusing on my book collection for inspiration I read the title Mystic Places.

For ten years Mystic was the hero of many adventures, until one day during a Crimson Skies pre-game chat someone just typed "stic", and I thought "How appropriate"

shiki con is a high school nick name and is representative of the thought process of the stoner who gave me the nick name.

[Hicks-81]

My name is for the Corporal Dwayne Hicks, from Aliens; the only Marine who survive the mission in Acheron....

I like this movie and the characters, and since then I've used it as nickname


Semper fi

[grislawskijg52]

With the influx of new players this seem like a great first page thread...

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

we have such an eclectic group here and your user names intrigue me. what made you pick that specific name? part of your real name, something in history, something silly, what?? tell us the story behind your names...i think they will all be interesting ( even if you dont think yours is...it is)!

I'll start. there were singers in the 30s and 40s that all the young girls in the states used to swoon over. part of these teenage girls "attire" were a type of socks know as bobbysocks. the singers whom these girls adamantly followed were thus dubbed as bobbysocks singers or bobbysocksers. frank sinatra, when he started out was one of these. when my father was 18 and joined the usaaf he was a skinny little fart and somewhat resembled sinatra ( although he never could see the resemblance). so someone bestowed the name Bobbysocks on him and it stuck. so when i started flying ww2 ac online i felt it appropriate to use that as a game tag.

who's next??

[WildBoar44]

The name WildBoar44 ? Well this is realy corny but its true...

44 because I used to race moto-x from a kid to before injury sidelined that around 30. 44 was a number I always raced with or 144 / 441 / anything with 44 in it.

WildBoar.?...well like all kids when i grew up , i would build Airfix model aircraft and hang them from my bedroom ceiling. the collection grew over my young years..Spitfire..Hurricane..Typhoon..Bolton Paul Defiant.. LANCASTER...oh lovely big beast...P51D...Halifax...ME109....

Then one day my Aunt bought me a plane never realy noticed before..as i built it, the shape, the lines, the grace suddenly came together to form one of the best looking aircraft i had ever seen, I could not stop getting out the bed in the night to look at it...when it was finished and painted..one last detail was two little transfers to put on the engine cowling.. They were the cartoon dipiction of a WildBoar's head... The Aircraft....The FW190...

When I played the Campaign for the first time i suddenly remebered those memories....So when it was time to Sign up on-line it had to be Wildboar.............Oh I just wish the FW190 in BoP could turn with the best