As a Member of this Forum, Where Does Your Handle Originate From?

[Rocket-68]

Apologies if this was posted / started elsewhere but I couldn't find it in my searches. It always interests me reading someone's online handle / persona / etc and wondered the origins of same. For example, I used to play First Person Shooter games way back in the day when the internet was still in its infancy. The game I played a lot was Unreal Tournament. My gaming name was "LUCIFERS HAMMER" well because I would hammer pretty much everyone I played against globally, for the most part. There was always some snot nosed 12 year old that handed me my lunch laughing all the way because he played UT 19 hours a day and was well versed in the game's intricacies while I had a real life . For those players I would pull out the Aimbots now and then if they were really obnoxious on how "good they were and I sucked" (oh dear me, am I ever dating myself) and obliterate them - on the servers I could hack my way past. If any of you were the player named "The Hand of God" or "Black Knight", I was the one that blew you up every once in a while using aimbots - no judgement, they were used against me all the time. What a delicious experience those gaming days were, but I digress.

 

Rocket-68 ... born in 1968 and my favorite Canucks player was Pavel "the Rocket" Bure. I have had many Canucks players that I really liked over the years and if I had a gun put to my head to list my top 5, here they would be:

 

1) Pavel Bure

2) Todd Bertuzzi

3) Sedins (can't separate them)

4) Ryan Kesler

5) Stan Smyl

 

with Honourable Mentions going to Tony Tanti and Thomas Gradin.

 

What is your story?

 

EDIT: Mod can move this to the appropriate forum if not placed correctly.

Edited May 19 by Rocket-68

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[Johnny]

Ive had a few handles

 

Started out as ‘How the west was won’. This was back in the Sedin days and was a tip of the hat to Led Zeppelin and to the canucks being a top team in the west

 

Then it was ‘Wanless’ which is just my last name

 

when this forum started up I went with ‘Johnny’ a tip of the hat to Johnny Canuck but spicing it up with Jack Nicholson in the shinning with the famous picture right when he says “heres Johnny” as my avatar. Which also works out well with the Jack Nicholson GIF that is used so often

[snowman955]

I have used mine for location reasons for 3 decades. On our site l personally have met one in person.

He earned the respect to know my  Name.

[Gurn]

 

[stawns]

It's the name of my farm business

[EoH]

My username was Pp4Skin and Vag4Skin back in a game called runescape, but moderators ended up forcing me to change my username. 
 

Ended up abbreviated another name and now I’m EoH.

[Reg]

Formally was YEGCanuck as I am a fan living in Edmonton. Originally from Vancouver and got into supporting the team as a kid when they entered the league.

 

When the Canucks Fan Forum started I changed my handle to Reg. There is a somewhat unusual backstory here however it may be inappropriate in today's world.

 

Grateful we have this platform to share our thoughts about our team and I am glad to be a member.

[Ghostsof1915]

Started out on CDC as 1915is2Luongo, as a joke on how long the city has not had a Stanley Cup, and the hopes that Luongo would bring us a cup.

When he was given that insane contract. I changed my user name to Ghostsof1915 as an homage to the 1915 team. Not because I didn't like Lu. (I still do.)

But because I thought that was the first boneheaded move by Gillis, and really it didn't save much off his cap hit. And in the end it probably screwed us as much as some of the Benning moves. Yeah it was legal at the time. But you knew damn well the league wouldn't stomach cap circumvention. Yeah, yeah I know Vegas and teams using injury relief on the cap with regular season cap dodging. The league should just have rejected the contract outright and had a governor's meeting that month stopping long term contracts to dodge the cap and instituting term limits to contracts. Vancouver will always seem to be take the brunt of trying to exploit loopholes.

[smithers joe]

i picked my user name out of a hat. actually it was my second pick, but i thought professor phineas kiniiceter was too long.

[gwarrior]

I'm a big fan of the band GWAR, easily the most fun I've had at their shows, for thos that don't know, their stage show is fuckin insane and the music becomes almost second. And so, the gwarrior was born.

[Bert4Byng]

In support of Bertuzzi and the Lady Byng award for gentlemanly conduct.

[MeanSeanBean]

One does not simply choose a name

[Hammertime]

Big Hamhuis fan!

[Ducklover]

I'm an avid birder with a special fondness for ducks. Ducks and Canucks are where it's at.

[Drive-By Body Pierce]

Song lyrics.

[LaBamba]

8 minutes ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said:

Song lyrics.

Beck 

[Fantomex]

I was originally A Random STD.... Fantomex is a marvel character.

[NHLer]

The NHL..! I used to be M. Grabner way back when 

[swimmer]

Because it has been what I have done for the last 69+ plus years, and what I will be doing until I draw my last breath!

[LaBamba]

I had 2 pretty long accounts on CDC

Noheart (care bare villain) was the other one. 
 

LaBamba was originally Bob LaBamba from the movie. (Ritchie’s alcoholic brother) then I dropped the Bob and added the pencil. 
 

I should switch back to Noheart now that the oilers ruined my name 

[Sweatty Lee]

In honour of the greatest Canuck ever. Paved the way for undersized D like our current captain

[BTueyCanucksFan]

My username is actually my first initial and my last name. Been a huge fan going back to 1985 (I was 7 at the time) and excited to see what our team can do in the next round

[nuckin_futz]

[The Brock Star]

Mine is fully a pun.