|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 12,321
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 12,321 |
Well, let's see. It was the mid-90's. I had been running an online magazine via BBS for about 5 years. One of the features I'd started was this . . . well today you'd call it a weblog. I was making posts as a 600 lb Siberian Tiger named Shaman. It was a complicated story. It was all about the aftermath of divorce and post-divorce dating and the whole schtick was known to my readers and it borrowed heavily from other fiction projects that were going on at the time on my BBS. Shaman was kind of a "spinoff" from a virtual after-hours scene called "The Spanish Moon." You could find me usually laying at the feet of a gorgeous woman named Red who sat in the shadows in the back of the bar. The Spanish Moon was, in turn, a spinoff from a virtual coffee house called "The Little Further Inn."
Somewhere about mid-95, I decided that I needed to expand my real-life dating horizons and I asked some friends about using other BBS's and the new thing, the Internet, to find dates. Somebody pointed me to a place called The Jungle Vine. Being a Cincinnati-centric kind of guy, I thought it was a Bengals bulletin board. I used the handle Shaman. Suddenly, I had all kinds of women wanting to date the new tiger. It did not occur to me until waaay to late that . . . what do you do on a Jungle Vine? Yep, it was a swingers board. Ooops.
The actual name, Shaman, comes from the fact that I became a practicing shaman at some point after college. It a long, long story, but it has to do with my dalliance in the neo-pagan community. It's not a proper name, like Fred or Jake. It's more like calling someone "plumber" or "mechanic."
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 151,168
Campfire Savant
|
Campfire Savant
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 151,168 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,008
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,008 |
At the time I joined the Campfire I was knocking most of my critters down with a 7mm-08 and a 7mm RSAUM.
"An open message for all Democrats; "Look you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable." Isaiah 41:24 (HCSB)
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,818
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,818 |
My left eye doesnt turn left so appears to make my right eye hook ( when looking left ).
A bit of self depricating humor, a spin off of " hawkeye ". Since my vision used to be very good.
Hunting/ shooting thing.
Last edited by hookeye; 09/28/20.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 45,017
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 45,017 |
Killed alot of bucks with a Thompson Center .50 cal Renegade from 1992 to 2011. Hunted with it daily on FTCKY and its 3.5 month long seasons. Let alot walk with it also. Renegade50 has been banned from many websites. The record time for a ban is about 35 to 45 mins on snipershide.
LOL!!!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 19,107
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 19,107 |
It was given to me a birth. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817 |
Well, let's see. It was the mid-90's. I had been running an online magazine via BBS for about 5 years.
FidoNet.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817 |
Beoceorl = Old English for beekeeper Finally! I've been trying to decipher your user name since I've been lurking. Morebees would have easier to figure out.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,623
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,623 |
My first deer rifle was a 1952 mod 70 FWT in .308
Old70
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,817 |
My first email address was chosen shortly after my first successful bear season. My hope (along with a bunch of bear meat and a rug) was a cool bear skull for a trophy. Unfortunately, I shot my bear in the head, ruining the skull,...so ruined bruin was the first thing that came to mind for an email address. When I joined the 'fire a couple of years later, it was a natural move to use the same name. Hands down the best name/story combo so far.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 11,951
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 11,951 |
My father was a private pilot SC owner.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 18,033
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 18,033 |
Gopher refers to me being from Minnesota, home of the University of Minnesota who's mascot is Goldie the Golden Gopher. Gunner is pretty obvious.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 138
Campfire Member
|
Campfire Member
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 138 |
I love Browning firearms and I was born in 1988.
Guys at work used to roll their eyes and tell people “don’t listen to him for advice, he’s a Browning guy!”
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 10,916
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 10,916 |
A combination of my wife’s and my initials! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 3,758
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 3,758 |
It’s what I called my dad.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 6,428
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 6,428 |
Many of the names I was trying were taken and a question popped up and started asking about likes, hobbies ect., and at the time it so happened I was in the market for some new wading boots for fly fishing...and it turns out a lot of internet folks now call me Boots which was my father's nickname from childhood. I'll take it.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other the person to die ......
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,180
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,180 |
My Indian name is “Bends Iron”.
I used the English language translation here so it would be clear.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 1,926
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 1,926 |
My middle son had a college buddy that tagged me as Papa T many years ago. It stuck. Been known as Papa T ever since.
Society of Intolerant Old Men. Rifle Slut Division
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 440
Campfire Member
|
Campfire Member
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 440 |
Had a job where I was the manager of a crew of Negro's, heard em jabbering behind my back referring to me as Who dat, Who dat.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 23,024
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 23,024 |
Wabigoon: Well... because "I" am the VarmintGuy. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
|
|
|
|
551 members (16penny, 007FJ, 02bfishn, 160user, 10gaugeman, 16gage, 61 invisible),
2,470
guests, and
1,306
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,191,435
Posts18,470,821
Members73,931
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|