Re: How'd you get your screen name?
The first bullitin board I ever joined was a site where nobody but old Marines hung out. On it already were 2 guys named Ed. There, everbody used a old nickname from the Corps, or their real name.<br /><br />None of the 'Ed.s' had a nickname. They just used 'Ed.' and their last initial.<br /><br />One of the Eds. is a crotchity old so and so, that (to be brief) more or less has 'hero' status. He hasn't changed his 'monicker'.<br /><br />The other was a nasty looking old Grunt from the 50's-- On sight, he & I were easy to tell apart. **** Him, with that one big, long, bushy eyebrow at the bottom of his large protruding forehead. And it barely covered his dull, deepset eyes. (I often stated on our board that he-and several others belonged to a rare species known in Latin as 'Gruntasarus Maximus'.)<br /><br />When I arrived about late '96 or so:<br />A young, good looking guy-- and often confused with the 'Marlboro Man'-- whose tour was in Marine Avaition.<br /><br /><br />****<br />This is a small board I'm talking about, with only a few dozen members.. Many of us have entertained each other in our homes as various ones of us have traveled around the country, or had 'get-togethers' with 6-20 members & their familys in attendence, at various places around the country over the years. <br />**** <br /><br /><br />Even with most of us knowing, and having visited with each other.... It got a bit confusing for some of the old geezers, when all of a sudden there were 3 'Ed.'s on the bullitin board.<br /><br /><br />Often times, one of the Gruntasarus Maximus members would pound out a note on their keyboards (I suspect with their forehead) to the effect of 'which one of you Ed.s is this'?<br /><br />And, I got tired of always having to reply to such a post, and point out that, 'I was Ed. H.,,,, the young, good looking one'. <br /><br /><br />So,,,<br />On the board, one Ed. didn't change.<br />The other became Ed. (Gruntasarus Rex).<br />And I changed mine to 'Air Winger Ed.'<br /><br />Which I shortened to Winger Ed. after my old computer crashed, and I got back up a few days later. <br /><br />In my travels around the 'net, I've used it ever since.
