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Whats your handle?
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ausf
Master at Arms
Here's mine:
When I first got back into modeling, the first 1/35 kit was a Tamiya Tiger I. Looking online (remember the old dialup days?) for info on building it, I came across the old FSM forum. Never signing up for something like that before, when asked for a user name, I assumed I'd have to enter it every time I went to the site, so I wanted something short and I had the Tamiya box next to me...I skipped over "Tamiya", "Tiger" and the next word on the box was "Ausf".
After years of going by that, I naturally picked 'Ausf' with 'Werks' as the business name. I always got a kick out of selling the tools at shows and most people assumed I was just repping for a German company.
The reality being Ausfwerks is just a dope from New York (no, I don't sound like Bugs Bunny) and the fantastic German engineering of the tools was by a self described good 'ol boy from Virginia (yes, he does sound like Foghorn Leghorn).
When I first got back into modeling, the first 1/35 kit was a Tamiya Tiger I. Looking online (remember the old dialup days?) for info on building it, I came across the old FSM forum. Never signing up for something like that before, when asked for a user name, I assumed I'd have to enter it every time I went to the site, so I wanted something short and I had the Tamiya box next to me...I skipped over "Tamiya", "Tiger" and the next word on the box was "Ausf".
After years of going by that, I naturally picked 'Ausf' with 'Werks' as the business name. I always got a kick out of selling the tools at shows and most people assumed I was just repping for a German company.
The reality being Ausfwerks is just a dope from New York (no, I don't sound like Bugs Bunny) and the fantastic German engineering of the tools was by a self described good 'ol boy from Virginia (yes, he does sound like Foghorn Leghorn).
Everyone should have figured out mine by now.
I used to go by another handle But there was so many damn Daves on all the forums That I just became that damn Dave from SA
Oh and more than a few guys just call me that bloody Savage from Efrica
:drinks
Man y'all resurrected an old thread.
Moon Puppy was a drinking game back in the college days. Invented by a dear friend who died from diabetes at about the same time the internet was coming around. I needed a handle and I thought of him and his Moon Puppy game and one thing lead to another...
(no I didn't go to college, they were in college...career college folks I think cause some are still there )
Moon Puppy was a drinking game back in the college days. Invented by a dear friend who died from diabetes at about the same time the internet was coming around. I needed a handle and I thought of him and his Moon Puppy game and one thing lead to another...
(no I didn't go to college, they were in college...career college folks I think cause some are still there
)
ausf
Master at Arms
And the rules are? :idonno
The only drinking game I remember that wasn't just tied to hearing a key word or for an extra point or something was 'Colonel Puff'. IIRC, it was an absurdly long, complex toast that had to be recited correctly. Any omissions or misses, well you know...
The only drinking game I remember that wasn't just tied to hearing a key word or for an extra point or something was 'Colonel Puff'. IIRC, it was an absurdly long, complex toast that had to be recited correctly. Any omissions or misses, well you know...
Rules, rules... :hmmm :idonno I remember custom made playing cards. You'd turn one over and Roger (the inventor) would tell you what it meant and it generally ended up with Drink. :drinks just between me and you, think he made it up everytime we played it. :drink
Paulw
Well-known member
Well it sound a lot like Ship, Captain, Crew. Wait, no it doesn't,
that was a real drinking mans game...
Iron Mike
Master At Arms And Resident Curmudgeon
Man y'all resurrected an old thread.
Moon Puppy was a drinking game back in the college days. Invented by a dear friend who died from diabetes at about the same time the internet was coming around. I needed a handle and I thought of him and his Moon Puppy game and one thing lead to another...
(no I didn't go to college, they were in college...career college folks I think cause some are still there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIH1jdx2_A
:drinks
wds
Active member
Just my initials. Boring sorry.
Side note: I was in in the habit (still am) of writing, stamping, and/or carving my initials into/onto everything I own. The guys (one in particular) on the jobsite started calling me "woods" or "woodsy". I should probably go with that or an Owl theme/logo. :laugh:
Cheers,
Bill
Side note: I was in in the habit (still am) of writing, stamping, and/or carving my initials into/onto everything I own. The guys (one in particular) on the jobsite started calling me "woods" or "woodsy". I should probably go with that or an Owl theme/logo. :laugh:
Cheers,
Bill
Old Dog
Well-known member
Back around 2007 I got back into model building after a 30 year hiatus. I decided it might be cool to start a webpage to document my work. When I went looking for a domain name I found that most of the ones I came up with were already taken. After much consternation I found that olddogsplanes was available so I grabbed it. It only seemed natural that Old Dog should be the web master, so Old Dog it has been ever since. It works since I'm old and some of the kits I build are real dogs !
Swordsman
Active member
Well my story is a bit different ...... I usta be Chainsaw .... figuring that since the Net had just been invented by Bush ..... ..... back in 1992 ...... ldguy and I had heard there was evil people out there ..... They wouldn't mess with a Man from Texas called Chainsaw ..... as for how Swordsman came about My Sister-Laws Mother a devout Christian had downloaded a program called Jesus.exe (1997) ..... thinking it must be a great program about Jesus ..... well it turned out to be a Trojan that let the other party take control of Her Desktop ...... Now Freda was being tormented by some place over in Sweden so .... I found out it was coming through a company that managed music acts ..... since I didn't want them to know who I was I setup a email called Swordsman ....... because I was on a Quest & being a Christian Myself ..... the Bible is the sword so I took that name and e-mailed the guy told Him I didn't think His Clients would be very happy if they knew what His company's computer was doing to this poor old lady ..... He e-mail back said the problem was taken care of ..... and since my Brother and law was nicknamed Chainsaw from a fight He'd had in New Jersey ..... I just kept the name Swordsman ..... :fencing .... and since My Family is descended from the Viking's ..... Swordsman just fit's ..... ldguy
..... back in 1992 ...... ldguy and I had heard there was evil people out there ..... They wouldn't mess with a Man from Texas called Chainsaw ..... as for how Swordsman came about My Sister-Laws Mother a devout Christian had downloaded a program called Jesus.exe (1997) ..... thinking it must be a great program about Jesus ..... well it turned out to be a Trojan that let the other party take control of Her Desktop ...... Now Freda was being tormented by some place over in Sweden so .... I found out it was coming through a company that managed music acts ..... since I didn't want them to know who I was I setup a email called Swordsman ....... because I was on a Quest & being a Christian Myself ..... the Bible is the sword so I took that name and e-mailed the guy told Him I didn't think His Clients would be very happy if they knew what His company's computer was doing to this poor old lady ..... He e-mail back said the problem was taken care of ..... and since my Brother and law was nicknamed Chainsaw from a fight He'd had in New Jersey ..... I just kept the name Swordsman ..... :fencing .... and since My Family is descended from the Viking's ..... Swordsman just fit's ..... ldguyI wonder where Saul got his handle fromSimply, I'm a shark biologist and a bunch of students I work with started calling me the "sharkman" a number of years ago.
ausf
Master at Arms
Simply, I'm a shark biologist and a bunch of students I work with started calling me the "sharkman" a number of years ago.
You are a lucky man.
I've worked as a divemaster for a few years, so I've had some encounters (always harmless and exciting) along the way, my favorite being a distant lone hammerhead off of the Caymans, but mostly nurse and reef.
Although the only one my wife will remember wasn't even an encounter. I took her shore snorkeling at place called Five Graves off of Maui for turtles at dusk. A little while in I started thinking this wasn't the best idea and suggested we head in and watch the sunset. A few days later on a diveboat, I overheard her explaining that trip to the crew. Watching their eyes get wide and knowing what they are about to say, I frantically tried to wave them off before they spilled the beans about Tigers (rightfully so) and I believe the phrase 'lucky to be alive' was used (in joking way).
Jeeves
Well-known member
Simply, I'm a shark biologist and a bunch of students I work with started calling me the "sharkman" a number of years ago.
Would be cool to catch you doing what you do during one of my bio classes...think they would rather enjoy that!
I wonder where Saul got his handle fromSimply, I'm a shark biologist and a bunch of students I work with started calling me the "sharkman" a number of years ago.
I stated it back in April of 2010:
Regards,
Guess we have threads older than 5 years here, still hard to believe.
Skinny_Mike
Well-known member
One of my friends in collage had several friends all named Mike, so each one got a nickname. There was Angry Mike, Greek Mike... Etc. since I am 5'10 and 130lbs soaking wet, yep you guessed it - Skinny Mike! And now nearly 20 years later, everyone calls me skinny Mike. Most people don't even know my last name or if I even have one! :laugh:
Man y'all resurrected an old thread.
Moon Puppy was a drinking game back in the college days. Invented by a dear friend who died from diabetes at about the same time the internet was coming around. I needed a handle and I thought of him and his Moon Puppy game and one thing lead to another...
(no I didn't go to college, they were in college...career college folks I think cause some are still there
I CORNfess! It wuz My doing & Mine alone!! :evil:
hyeah 
