How did you come up with your name?

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It's what everyone calls me. Not unexpected given a real surname of Hawxhurst.

Tough to get on most boards though; pretty much have to be in the first hundred users signing up - real popular nickname for some reason.
 
Kyrie Devonai, third in command of the CIA's Omega Team, a Boston-based branch office specializing in quick response and covert investigations in the New England area. He's a main character in my first two novels and a supporting character in my first published novel, Reckless Faith.
 
In another setting I was nicknamed "Greg the Ripper".....and I won a bet from someone at a gym involving a plate loaded grip machine.
 
Up until a few months ago I worked on a special security team at a maximum prison. We wore black colored uniforms, everyone else wore tan. The inmate would always say " here come the blacksuits! "
 
When I was growing up in New England, I raced Motocross NESC and NEMX. My race number was 123 at first, and when I made Youth Expert, I took 723 because 123 was taken.

Four-Stroke motocross bikes were called "Thumpers" due to their sound, (at the time, early 90's two-strokes were king, and sounded like weedwackers on steriods).

The first web forums I was on were Motocross forums, so I used a MX related username. I just kept on using it on other forums, so I did not have to remember 100 different user names.

About the only exceptions, are the forum for my fraternity, where I use my fraterny nickname, "Cooter" (I can fix ANYTHING).

The other is a Naval Aviation related forum where I used "MASTER" which is my callsign.
 
Finance the firearm hobby by doing classic car restorations and custom painting. Being of Dutch decent several clients nicknamed me "Rembrandt the Artist".....that was over 25 years ago.

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When I was going to college in Huntsville, Texas, I worked full-time as a Correctional Officer in the Administrative Segregation Unit of a Maximum Security Prison. One night at work a convicted felon screamed out "Leon Carr" at the top of his lungs for about eight hours. I went up on the run and asked him who Leon Carr was, and he tried to hock a lugie on me :). I thought it was hilarious, and since I never did find out who Leon Carr was, I have used his name as my screen name ever since. Call it an eternal tribute :).

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
I'm man enough to admit that I don't know as much as I think... therefore I'm clueless!:)
 
I was given the nickname scooter by some kids at my karate studio. Had to do with my sparring style and how at 5' 2" I put down a 6' 2" opponent with a scooting kick to the head. (we were both surprised) "the great" was added as scooter is so very often taken and is mostly in sarcasm - like Joxer the Mighty.
 
My late father called me "bum" ever since I was a baby back in 1950. I was looking for a name to use on ebay back in '98, and bum was already taken so I used "bumm." It works fairly well, since actually the entire name he often used was "bummer." Most every place I go online, if I'm not going by Marty, my real name, I'm "bumm."
 
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