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    Your online name origin.

    Hi all,

    Being relatively new to the ATAG and playing online, and loving both entirely, I am fascinated by everyone's online name.

    I'm probably not alone on this, so if you keen, I'd really like to know the story behind yours.

    For mine, Pat Pattle was the RAF's leading ace in World War 2. A boyhood hero, and my name is in honour of Sqd Ldr Pattle.

    Hope to hear from you all.

    Pattle
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    Re: Your online name origin.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pattle View Post
    Hi all,

    Being relatively new to the ATAG and playing online, and loving both entirely, I am fascinated by everyone's online name.

    I'm probably not alone on this, so if you keen, I'd really like to know the story behind yours.

    For mine, Pat Pattle was the RAF's leading ace in World War 2. A boyhood hero, and my name is in honour of Sqd Ldr Pattle.

    Hope to hear from you all.

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    There is an entire thread devoted to this topic. http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...light=nickname
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    Re: Call origin

    Thanks Baffin, but I couldn't find it. Must have had a man look as the better half would say.

    But for those who are new, (and it's awesome how many new players are joining) and keen to contribute, fire away.

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    Re: Call origin

    Well, before cliffs I was playing a football manager game through steam, but didn't set a username, so my name would always come up as my email address by default, so decided to try and come up with a username. I work as a sheet metal worker / fabricator and a few years ago now the company that I work for invested in a CNC laser cutting machine, a pretty state of the art piece of kit, and I was one of three that was chosen to go on a course to operate it, so I just came up with laserlight as an online name

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    BOO (PL-B)

    The BOO is a shortened version of "Boosterdog" which is the first thing that came into my head when i had to create a nickname. Booster (my black Lab ) is called Booster because we bought him from a gundog breeder based on the perimeter of Goxhill Airfield in North Lincs that was a wartime base for P38s whos twin booms used to prominently display the superchargers or "boosters".

    Booster is also named in memory of a Fox Terrier who was the mascot on a B24 named "Batchelor's Baby" which crashed in the Welsh Mountains in January 1944. The Dog, along with 5 of the 11 servicemen on board, died in the crash and locals took it upon themselves to bury the poor animal at the crash site. He is commemorated on a stone a site and this always touched me.

    The PL - was the code for 144 Sqn during its time with Bomber Command (later it was transferred to Coastal Command) and is there in honour of my partner's Great Uncle, Sgt Norman Edwards RAFVR. He flew out of Hemswell but was lost on ops on his 6th mission en route to or from Brest. His body or that of his crewmates was never found. I would have used the full code but there are no records showing the letter allocated to his aircraft)

    The B is just for BOO - it used to be D which, if you take the Roundel as a "O" perhaps alluded to my occupation

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    Re: Call origin

    I had to come up with a new username when I signed up for XBox Live, and I wanted a Doctor Who related one. This was the first one I came up with that wasn't taken already
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    Hi Pattle.

    Think this thread might have what you want. http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...light=nickname

    My ATAG name of farley, is just what friends called me when i was young. My best friend they called marley. Just take offs from our surnames. Nothing exciting or nothing i used imagination for I'm afraid.
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    Re: Call origin

    Hi Pattle,

    Der da in German just means 'this one'.

    My surname is one of the most common in German language and my first name ... well at the time of my birth, there was this football player, a nation wide hero. (The equivalent in Ireland would be Mick Murphy, or Jean Dupont in France) So I ended up in school with at least two or three other boys with the same name. When the teacher called the name the answer was always:
    'Welcher? (Which one?)' and then inevitably: 'Der da! (This one!)'.
    Somehow it stuck.

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    Re: Call origin

    My choice of call sign is not related to the mythical blood sucking creature made famous in the book by Bram Stoker.

    The call sign is from the De Haviland Vampire jet.

    http://cdn.silodrome.com/wp-content/...2-1600x942.jpg

    My father was an armourer in the RAF during WW2 and was in the RAuxAF in the late 1940s early 1950s prior to the disbandment of the RAuxAF. It was during this time he worked on the Vampire and I remember him telling me in later years about it. One of the things he pointed out was how small the aircraft actually was especially to modern day fighter aircraft.

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    Re: Call origin

    Quote Originally Posted by DerDa View Post
    Hi Pattle,

    Der da in German just means 'this one'.

    My surname is one of the most common in German language and my first name ... well at the time of my birth, there was this football player, a nation wide hero. (The equivalent in Ireland would be Mick Murphy, or Jean Dupont in France) So I ended up in school with at least two or three other boys with the same name. When the teacher called the name the answer was always:
    'Welcher? (Which one?)' and then inevitably: 'Der da! (This one!)'.
    Somehow it stuck.

    I like that story... DerDa !


    Highseas was a name I dreamed up years and years ago.

    Was talking to my then girlfriend about company names... and she said she was going to be BlackStar...

    I came up with Highseas as my fantasy equivalent.. and I've been using it ever since as a reference to myself.

    She was soooooooo annoyed when someone else took her name... (and symbol) and registered it....

    I had to marry her to cheer her up again.

    I'm so selfless....

    !


    so Highseas was the obvious choice when I started cliffs, (despite sounding more pirate than pilot).


    My markings SO(o)S... well I wanted SE(o)S... but that squadron isn't in game... so I went with the closest... which people think refers to S.O.S... but that was never the intent.

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    Re: Call origin

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Highseas View Post
    I like that story... DerDa !


    Highseas was a name I dreamed up years and years ago.

    Was talking to my then girlfriend about company names... and she said she was going to be BlackStar...

    I came up with Highseas as my fantasy equivalent.. and I've been using it ever since as a reference to myself.

    She was soooooooo annoyed when someone else took her name... (and symbol) and registered it....

    I had to marry her to cheer her up again.

    I'm so selfless....


    !


    so Highseas was the obvious choice when I started cliffs, (despite sounding more pirate than pilot).


    My markings SO(o)S... well I wanted SE(o)S... but that squadron isn't in game... so I went with the closest... which people think refers to S.O.S... but that was never the intent.
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    Re: Your online name origin.

    My name derives from the movie called "Machete" The level of outrageous stupidity and gore that I've witnessed caught my attention and it kinda matched my playstyle.

    I've been using it since 2010, mainly in Battlefiled games (yes, I'm a BF die-hard fan!).
    I remember several pour souls screaming and cursing at me for what I used to do to them (I was a knife expert + I was a master in using explosive FRAG ammo when parachuting from the skies). I'm not bragging here, over 1600 h in BF4 gives you plenty of experience

    Now I'm waiting for the implementation of cannons to RAF planes in Clod, so I can do something like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0JCB24Ld8


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    Re: Call origin

    My brother decided I had a little head. So he chanted lil head! lil head! lil head!. He has called me lil head ever since.
    I don't actually have a little head, but his is quite large. I used it for my steam name as I couldnt think of or care for much else however now that I'm much older I think I've out grown it. Also people sometimes take my name to mean something else.

    To top it off my brother bought me a shirt that had a big picture on it. A guy with a small head sits at a bar with a beer that has no head. He's asking the barmaid for a little head for the beer. 'How about a little head' is in the speech bubble. My brother couldn't believe his luck when he came across that shirt in a shop.

    At a family reunion recently he set-up a competition to see who could buy me the best hat to suit my lil head. I had to sit in a chair whilst everyone took turns to present their hats and put it on my head. There was things like Lego man hats, thimbles and the like. Was pretty funny.

    I've been thinking about changing my ingame name though. I use to play Red Orchestra 2 with the same name.
    Mostly people just call me 'head'

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    Quote Originally Posted by lil_head View Post
    I've been thinking about changing my ingame name though. I use to play Red Orchestra 2 with the same name.
    Mostly people just call me 'head'
    hahaha... change it?

    no way man !

    That's a nice story !

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    I've posted this before in an older thread but why not here too.

    I was pretty young, and a friend and I were playing a little game on one of those internet sites with all the flash player games that young kids love, and he was using the name flare. So I stole it when I made my YouTube account! Of course plain old Flare was taken so I used flare2000x which in games was always just shortened to Flare. I dropped it entirely when I joined ATAG. I've thought of changing it many times but never found a good replacement and I think it's probably best to keep it how it is anyways.

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    When I was in the process of applying for the 78th Virtual Fighter Group in '99 I had to come up with a callsign. The 78th Chaps I had met and was flying with suggested "Axe" since I was a guitar player. Have used it ever since.

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    Mine was Le0ne , named after Sergio Leone. Most people believed I was Italian. My change it to the current is relative new. It means



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    Wow... so much thought put into the names... makes me feel pretty weak... I just used my name. OH well... it's easy for me to remember.

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    Funny that I never answered the question in that thread.

    I can’t really remember when but I think it was when I was playing Jane’s WW 2 Fighters or maybe before that with Jane’s Fighters Anthology. I needed an internet name and picked my father’s initial letters he also used for his computer stuff. Been using it for over 20 years...

    Some years ago a couple of people started pronouncing it wrong so I added the minus to make the J stand out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LuseKofte View Post
    Mine was Le0ne , named after Sergio Leone. Most people believed I was Italian. My change it to the current is relative new. It means



    witch is used by my profile picture´s keeper
    LuseKofte is a Norwegian knitted sweater if I'm not mistaken (?) and a national symbol of sorts.

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    My name is my own personal tribute to Allied bomber crews who, with their own unique sense of humour named their aircraft with defiant names which included such famous aircraft as 'Flak Eater' ; 'Flak Dodger' and the very appropriate 'Flak Magnet'.

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    I think I've explained it before...
    A colander is how my plane normally ends up looking (as in full of holes) after every flight.

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    Someday, when all the correction, additions and new spin-off's to Cliffs of Dover have been completed probably in Version 29.910 we need an information window that;

    A. Tells us how to pronounce the name of the people flying on the server.
    B. Gives us the background on how the name came to be.

    When I signed on after buying Cliffs I of course had to come up with user name, I had not been on line in 17 years and considered using my old name from Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, but for some reason I used the one you see now which was my boyhood name used to tell me apart from my father. Only family used that name. He was big Bill and I was Little Bill. Only 2 cousins call me by that name now.

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    After my kids - Samantha and Jordan Donald: SamJoDo

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    Jack is sitting on his rug looking at me as I type. Maxx is in Heaven chasing rabbits in a sunny summer meadow

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    Back in the days when I could still jump, I used to watch NBA religiously.
    Players had some cool nicknames.
    I stole my nick from this guy:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnie_Johnson
    Never liked the Pistons, but the nick was too good to pass up.

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    Fred Karno's Army.

    I had a boss who often used the phrase "It's fucking Fred Karno's" referring to anything that didn't function well.

    Still makes me smile.

    From the Wiki;

    Karno's army, Fred a type of chaotic organization, named for the comedian Fred Karno (1866–1941); his ‘Army’ was the company which gave a solid start or valuable experience to many comedians. ‘We are Fred Karno's army, the ragtime infantry’, perhaps referring to ‘Kitchener's Army’, was one of the trench songs of the First World War.

    Fred.

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    I chose my nickname for the deadly Common Snapping Turtle. I admire its beauty, speed, grace, and agility.



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    S!~

    El asso- wipo. American MadTv sketch comedy show- late 80's- 'early 90's. Argentinian WWE farm-league fake-wrestler-performer skit. Modestly funny- just watched it 5 min ago for first time in 30 years- YouTube. I think- ya -why not. Used it as 'Elassowipo#$%!" for Quake and Quake2- huge online fps games-early Counterstrike. Interestingly I started to receive Hispanic or just random racist shout outs. Lots. Hmm. White German/Swede/ Norman French / Scot. right. So -got into flight sims with MicroSoft Flight Sim I. Changed to "Elplanoblasto" - lol Some guy called me 'angioplasty' - seemed like he needed glasses. El plano blasto . My God. I had so much fun with that crazy call. Not Maverick 62 - not Eagle_Eyes - not The Prussian - no not even The Norman . El plano blasto. So- fast forward 2 years- joined AKA in 2000- changed to Blasto. 'Twas too long a call- and too many beaner jokes- of which I often responded to- not fun.
    Being part of a flight sim community for 23-24 years sees many call signs come and go. If I could give any new- or newer flight sim pilot some unsolicited advise - its to choose your call sign wisely. It stays with you- and you are responsible for what you do with it. Especially when a simulation draws type A people- who generally- or mostly- like to fight. Choose whether you want others to like you - or fear you- having both leads to a compromised persona- which has no place in the cockpit-lol. Be well all and have some fun. Great stories I read from this post- and Snapper- I have an almost identical picture of a snapping turtle in the road- right on the two double lines - great shot man.

    S!~ AKA_Blasto aka Elassowipo aka Elplanoblasto aka a-hole
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