Thread: So whats your log on name all about...

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I have been on many forums as Metal Twister which was given to me by some close friends over a silver bullet one night. They were looking to give me a nick name as I tend to be extra hard on vehicles. Just so happens I was twisting up a stick of Molly on the bender when the name took on another meaning as well. It stuck and was the norm for sometime. It changed to metaltwister as I could type it faster with out caps and by loosing the space in the middle. I then started getting even lazier and shortened it to M.T.1 only to figure I could take off another key stroke by dropping the 1. So that is how I ended up with M.T.

Ive seen a few others here that I would like to ask about, a few others I had better not! So if you feel like sharing I for one would love to here how or why your name is what it is?

My g.g.grandfather, George Levi Palmer, was a private in the 7th Illinois Infantry, the first Illinois unit called up in the Civil War. Several companies of the 7th Ills. armed themselves with Henry lever action rifles. The Henry had a 16-round magazine, and could pump out 28 rounds per minute. It was called "The rifle you can load on Sunday and shoot all week." The first on-line forum I joined was on Civil War history, and Henry Rifle was the first screen name I ever used.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

My g.g.grandfather, George Levi Palmer, was a private in the 7th Illinois Infantry, the first Illinois unit called up in the Civil War. Several companies of the 7th Ills. armed themselves with Henry lever action rifles. The Henry had a 16-round magazine, and could pump out 28 rounds per minute. It was called "The rifle you can load on Sunday and shoot all week." The first on-line forum I joined was on Civil War history, and Henry Rifle was the first screen name I ever used.

Jack,
Early on I noticed lots of people responding to you as "Henry", and I thought "Seriously??" As the proud owner of a Henry 22 Mag lever action

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I knew that moniker right off, but didn't know the historical significance or how far back the Henry name went in the USA. Cool, very cool.

Originally Posted by rspears

Jack,
Early on I noticed lots of people responding to you as "Henry", and I thought "Seriously??" As the proud owner of a Henry 22 Mag lever action I knew that moniker right off, but didn't know the historical significance or how far back the Henry name went in the USA. Cool, very cool.

My g.g.grandfather was wounded at Allatoona Pass, GA, captured and imprisoned at Andersonville. He was one of the few prisoners who survived. Family lore says he escaped. I found documentation of some correspondence between the Confederate and Union generals before that battle.

Headquarters Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps
Allatoona, Georgia, October 6, 1864

Maj. Gen. S. G. French, Confederate states, etc.:
Your communication, demanding surrender of my
Command, I acknowledge receipt of; and respectfully
Reply, that we are prepared for the “needless effusion
of blood” whenever it is agreeable to you.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN M. CORSE,
Brigadier General Commanding
United States Forces

The Union forces held the day, thanks in great part to the Henry.

Senior technical inspector at Firebird Internatonal Raceway in Phoenix for over 20 years, worked National and Division races for NHRA, held NHRA Chassis Certification card, NHRA National Fuel Check license, SFI Silver Certification Technical Inspector card. The 1 at the end of my screen name indicates that I am the best at what I do, or did....retired now.

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I took mine from something my Dad said one night when I got home from my evening socializing during the summer after I got out of high school.

I had a '51 Ford that I had bought after I got my first full time job right out of school, and I think I spent more money on it than I did my girlfriend. At any rate, I had rebuilt and warmed up the flathead, and built a set of tube headers for it, and put on a new exhaust system. I used two and a half inch pipe for my exhaust, with a pair of 24" glass pack mufflers, and dumped them through a pair of "double barreled shotgun" "drag pipes" just under the rear axle. The car was loud and rumbly, and one night, my dad told me that he could hear "that rumbler of yours" coming all the way from town; that was two miles away with a hill between town and our place on the next hill across a small basin. I took great delight in those pipes, and all of my cars and bikes since, at least my "hot rods", have had pretty loud pipes on them.

Back in the late sixties and early seventies, the CB fad was in full swing and I needed a "handle", and I thought of what my Dad had said; so I adopted the "handle" Rumbler. When I started using the internet, it just followed that my screen name should go along with the line, but I modified it with the extra R, just to be different.

Mine is for the 70z28 that has become a dust collecting project.

I had a yeller Fiddy Fi Chebbie that I called Mello Yello and when I started joining Car Forums, it just seemed the thing to do. I'll bet Y'all thought it was because of the *@*%#$@#@ Donovan Song didn'tcha?

i did not become HOSS429 till i built this ..i had no previous nickname nor had named any of my other cars ..as a matter of fact i joined my first car website just after i got the stang in 03 ..i guess the picture will show up eventually .

Originally Posted by HOSS429

i did not become HOSS429 till i built this ..i had no previous nickname nor had named any of my other cars ..as a matter of fact i joined my first car website just after i got the stang in 03 ..i guess the picture will show up eventually .

lets try that again ..

Mine is simple and boring.. the Ford 3 window coupe of 1934 was the Model 40.

So, 34_40

Thanks so much for starting this thread Mr Metaltwister. And thanks guys , so far as I hope more will do, for explaining the reason behind their computer names. I believe I may of been one who referred to Henry Rifle as Henry and not Jack, apologies. 34-40 is another I hadn't clicked onto either, and yes, Mello, that song had sort of been floating around in my head. Pro, I have missed your updates on your fantastic build but realize life can get away on us at times. Rrumbler is a cool story also and one way to keep a good memory alive.
Whiplash23T, well the 23T part is due to the car patiently waiting for my attention again and when I registed Whiplash wasn't long enough so I added the 23T on the end. The Whiplash is a nickname a lovely lady who I fell in love with after my wife and I had divorced gave me as she couldn't believe just how quick I operated once I had told her how much I felt for her to melt her heart although she tried not too allow me into her heart. She started calling me Whiplash as she believed I must of rattled my brain with the speed. Well it sort of stuck and now my close friends know me by that also.

I chose the name I did because I wanted to honor a great hero of the Vietnam war........................I later learned I was mistaken.

desert dog is what I use because I bred and raised Czech German shepherds. I trained personal protection, property protection dogs. And I live in the desert.

Mine is really pretty simple as I'm a huge Buddy Holly fan and my all time favorite tune is NoT FaD AwaY. Not Fade Away was released as the "B" side of Oh, Boy and in my freshman year in high school the record was replaced more than once on the jukebox at the hang out across the street. It's also the personalized plates on my truck, I'm still trying to come up with something for the Vette.