What's the story behind your forum name?

[BirdDog]

Mine goes back to a job I had in the defense industry... as you know, you don't pick your call sign, it's given to you... Well, there was fantastically attractive girl at work who liked me (the feeling was mutual) and she would often come over to where I worked and chat with me. Whenever my boss came by and saw this he would yell "BIRRRRDDDDD DOGGGGG !!!" which initially drove me bat-sheet crazy. I finally decided to embrace it (to steal his thunder) and it's stuck ever since...

[911monty]

I went to a small AG high school where 56 Chevys and muscle cars were the pinnacle. Friends thought it hilarious I wanted a 911. Roughly 6 months after graduation I was merging onto the 101 from Mulholland dr. wondering where the accident was, looked down to see I was doing 90. Girlfriend chasing in TR 6 was not amused. I was hooked. Only type I've owned (6) until the water pumping 986.

[BYprodriver]

I worked as a test driver for a automotive press fleet management company, these are the vehicles car manufacturers deliver to Automotive magazines etc. (This is when I fell in love with Porsche) A management change led me to quit this job & I decieded I wanted to be a Precision/Stunt Driver, so i took several driver training courses & printed some business cards with my new email address of my initials+prodriver. I soon realized all the precision drivers lived & worked north of Los Angeles & I didn't want a 4 hr commute. So I bought my own Porsche Boxsters & work for a different press fleet company. (The original company went bankrupt)

[Van914]

Van914
As I have owned 5 since 1984. Started with Tim's 914 Fan Page and I've kept it,

[thstone]

I wish I had a more interesting story...

Tom H. Stone = thstone

[boxfix]

Joined the forum to learn how to fix this 03 Boxster I bought.....

Been on Pelican parts site for years with the maintenance of my 911.

[rusty69911]

I had a rusty 69 911 (wish I hadnt sold it but I keep going on about that one haha) and Im Rusty born in 69 and love 911's

[Froggo]

Some years ago we had a small farm property , 20 acres pigs and some cattle . There were no street numbers places had names , ours was Frogghollow , on account of the large pond and the many frogs in residence. So when I needed a nom de plume I became Froggo

[flouese]

Boring...
First name initial + last name = flouese

[mikesz]

first name and first 2 letters of last name. Easy to remember

[Deserion]

Callsign of a character in a story I was writing many years ago (I never finished it, by the way).

[Xpit77]

Xpit is a Formula Four m/c powered open wheel race car manufactured in Wiarton ON. in the 70`s.

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by Deserion

Callsign of a character in a story I was writing many years ago (I never finished it, by the way).

I wondered about yours, I have you saved in my phone as "Chris Deserion".

Maybe you could serialize your story on a blog, it could be the next "The Martian", and if a lot of people start reading, then you would have to finish Just remember your 986 brothers and sisters when you hit into the big time.

[Frodo]

My path was accidental and admittedly kind of an impulsive and dumb choice. I had been lurking on the forum starting over 10 years ago (well before I got my Box in 2006), but hadn't ever bothered to register, content for a while just to absorb what others wrote. A few years later, one of my sons saw me reading some post or other and asked why I didn't join. Told him I just hadn't bothered, had never been a member of any forum before, hadn't really even figured out how to do it. (As the bad guy in Live Free or Die Hard said about Bruce Willis’s John McClane, I’m kind of a Timex watch in a digital age!)

So he elbows me aside at the computer and starts to do it for me. When he got to the point where he needed to enter a username, he asked who I wanted to be, a question I wasn't exactly prepared for. Not having really thought about it, I just sort of blurted out "Frodo", the first thing that popped into my head. (I think possibly we had recently seen one of the Lord of the Rings movies maybe?) Thought I could give it more thought later and change it down the road to something I would be happier with---didn't realize that such changes can't be done. Soooo, 1,508 posts later, I still be Frodo. It remains a goofy choice, but it's sort of grown on me over time.

[jsceash]

It's my name
jsc=Jesse eash=Eash.

[OneBoxFan]

I've loved 986's for years. I'm in dad mode at the moment so a 2 seater isn't really in the cards. I complain to my wife from time to time about trading in my "dad" car to a "fun" car (a 986), so for my birthday she got me Porsche sunglasses and a box fan.

Ha! So I'm OneBoxFan because that's what I have (and BoxFan was taken)

[dsallean]

It’s my first initial and last name. Can’t be less creative than that.

[Racer Boy]

I raced cars for years, and when we were first dating, my now wife called me Racer Boy in a flirty email to me. That really stuck with me, so that's my handle on several forums that I'm a member of.

The Boy part is relevant, because of my very boyish, youthful appearance. I'm 56, but I look like I'm only 55.

[Twin headlight Ernie]

I'm a motorcycle guy and years ago was at a enduro in northern Wisconsin. The bike I brought for the weekend has a homemade twin headlight setup. The guy hosting the enduro was going out of his way to remember the names of the 50 plus guys there to ride. He started to call me Twin headlight Ernie as a way to remember my name. By the end of the weekend everyone else remembered me by that name too. 2HE

[Nevergrowup]

The first time I used it, I think I was registering on bmxboard. I was then in my thirties, and liked all kinds of 'alternative sports' that has an element of danger and speed. Hanging with kids half my age my philosophy was that one should not grow up to not be playful.

I try to live up to that still, even if my sport endeavours are not much these days, closing in on 47.