What is the story (if any) behind your "handle"

[leonidas]

My CC name comes from the "official" name of one of our Newfoundland dogs named after a Belgian brand of chocolate. Guess what color he is :-)

 

Kind regards,

Gina

[startwin]

Make me the #3 vote.........I have always remembered it as Start Win.

 

Come on, it's just a little paradigm shift.... say it together.... Star twin, Star twin:D:D

[LindaM]

It's my name. Duh. I have no imagination. :rolleyes:

But when I was first reading CC, before I registered, there was a poster I respected, who also used his name as boardname. That I followed suit is sort of a tribute to him.

 

I also have no imagination. I am quite sorry I didn't come up with something unusual. My sister googled me and found something I had posted here about having to cancel a cruise because she didn't offer to---to take care of mom. Oh was she mad---but it was true!! It is smarter to use a handle!

[YXU AC*SE]

YXU = IATA code for my home airport - London, ON Canada

AC*SE = the encoding on your boarding pass that the airline uses to indicate you have Super Elite status with Air Canada's frequent flyer programme.

 

Scott.

[catl331]

Come on, it's just a little paradigm shift.... say it together.... Star twin, Star twin:D:D

Maybe you should ask the mods to change it to Star_Twin or "Star Twin" or even StarTwin. :D

[jimdalva]

We are Jimmy and Lindalva!

[startwin]

Maybe you should ask the mods to change it to Star_Twin or "Star Twin" or even StarTwin. :D

 

Nah, I don't think it's that important:D

[CowPrincess]

Mine is the type of motorbike we rode when DH and I were "courting" as we used to say a hundred years ago. A BSA Star twin.

 

 

I thought it was because your astrological sign was Gemini :D I have always thought of you as Star Twin (never start-win)

[AZNative2000]

Nah, I don't think it's that important:D

 

While I, too, had it wrong, I will have no trouble now that I know how it is correctly pronounced.:)

[SeaWatch]

I have a condo over looking the sea - so, Seawatch seemed appropriate.

[catl331]

We are Jimmy and Lindalva!

CC recommends that you not use your real name, and IMHO it's a particularly bad idea when you show your location, have a listed phone number, and post on Roll Calls as you do. It's an invitation for burglars in the vicinity of Great Neck! :cool:

[TheEmerson]

Back in the day when BBS systems were king and modems cost real cash. One day I had the urge to call and join a BBS I knew about. I needed a screen name on that first BBS I called up. Looking around I locked eyes on a device on my desk. It was a glorious Emerson AM/FM Clock Radio. All decked out in faux wood trim. Time that would flip every minute. A work of wonder.

Emerson, my new screen name. Some people have asked if it was based on Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. It was not, tho I do have their albums. The...."The" prefix was a matter of not clashing with other screen names on this board.

[Irish Eyes Are Sailing]

Come on, it's just a little paradigm shift.... say it together.... Star twin, Star twin:D:D

 

Okey Dokey! I will try to train my oldy moldy brain to re-boot and say it correctly from now on........!!;) :D

[trikeman]

I am part of a trike motorcycle group and use to do a lot of seminars and activities with them. When people would see me at a rally they would yell "Hey, Trikeman" and it just stuck.

[COLLEYBERRY]

Colleyberry...childhood nickname...some near and dear will still use it on occasion...made me feel loved as a child ,and always makes me smile even now.

Colleen.

[ookpik]

Mine is the name of one of the cute mascots for Expo 67 in Montreal.Looks like a fluffy snowbird with an orange beak.

[Lovely other]

a few months after i met my now husband i bought him a fun little book that described us as a couple perfectly. 'a lovely love story' by edward monkton.

we've been' lovely other' and 'fierce' dinosaur ever since and even had the book read out at our wedding ...

[arkieinwisconsin]

I am a transplant from Arkansas to Wisconsin. So I am an arkie in Wisconsin and will be for the fore seeable future.

[EatonDoolittle]

Tongue in cheek Cruise Rule #1 > Eat, and Do Little

 

Some have gotten it, others have not

[arewethereyet]

I am a transplant from Arkansas to Wisconsin. So I am an arkie in Wisconsin and will be for the fore seeable future.

You could have chosen "HamAndCheese" ;)

[specialdiet]

Awesome topic! Kudos!

 

Choosing 'specialdiet' was easy, as I get sick from gluten and dairy, and am mostly vegan; my wife gets sick from gluten, dairy, soy and nuts. The reason we cruise is because it's the best way we've found to see a lot of places and not go crazy trying to find food that won't kill us.

[4friends]

Pretty simple. We have taken all our cruises and several land holidays with our best friends of many years.

[abroad at sea]

I think mine explains it self, have been on about 79 cruises, almost everywhere, in 30 some years.

Used to have a hyphen between a and broad, but now either way is good.

[brazilgirl]

I live in Brazil and I am a girl ( an old girl). :)

[RetiredMustang]

Like Sapper1, I have shared this before, and like she, I have a military connection. I served for 28+ years in the U.S. Navy. In U.S. Navy slang, a person who served at least 4 years as an enlisted person, and later became an officer was known as a Mustang. This is probably by folk etymology from horses, from the aspect of "breaking away from the herd."

 

In any case, I served 13 years as an active duty enlisted person, achieving the rank of Chief Petty Officer. I then was selected to become a temporary officer, with the rank of Ensign (sub-Lieutenant for the Royal Navy equivalent) while retaining my permanent enlisted rank.

 

I served for more years, and attained the permanent rank of Master Chief Petty Officer (Regimental Sergeant Major/Master Gunnery Sergeant - hi John -equivalent) before being selected for Lieutenant rank (Army Captain equivalent). I then had a choice to become a permanent officer, or revert to my permanent enlisted rank. I chose to become a permanent officer, and closed out my enlisted record. I served several more years, and finally, after 28+ total years, retired from active duty. At that time, I became a retired Mustang, at the rank of Lieutenant Commander, U.S Navy (Retired).

 

I still work for the U.S. Navy as a civilian (currently furloughed:rolleyes:), and in a couple of years will retire from that and become a truly, really, retired RetiredMustang. (Then we will really start to cruise :D!)

 

When I joined CC, after lurking for a while, DW suggested the name. It was not taken, so I was able to register as RetiredMustang.

 

Dave

Edited October 2, 2013 by RetiredMustang