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So how did you come up with your WOF callsign?


Does Softball really like to play softball?
Is Madrus really from India?
Did Gator go to the University of Florida?

:lol:


As for me, I got my nickname from a famous German tank ace and Waffen SS officer from WWII. His name was Kurt Meyer but was better known as Panzer Meyer.

Well, you pegged me perfectly. But it's a little more than "went to the U of F." I am a little bit fanatical about it.

Gator wrote:Well, you pegged me perfectly. But it's a little more than "went to the U of F." I am a little bit fanatical about it.

LOL! Unfortunately, both our college football teams are sucking this year.

I wouldn't say UM is sucking this year ...

Well, mine obviously originated from the name of a native Canadian beer . . . . .errrm . . .I mean bear, honest! :roll:

KODIAK wrote:Well, mine obviously originated from the name of a native Canadian beer . . . . .errrm . . .I mean bear, honest! :roll:

Isn't it also an island?

Yes, I chose the nickname "Softball" because I live, eat, and sleep the sport of softball. I have been playing softball since 1994. I was at a point where I was playing 4 - 5 games a week, now I only play 1 day a week. I have been playing with the same team and friends for the last 4 years, they are a great bunch of guys.

Two seasons ago our team won the League Championship (1st place), I hit a game winning walk off 3-run homerun in the final game. It was kind of like winning the World Series in baseball. We had lost 1 game all season, it was one of the best teams I have ever played on.

I could always pick a new callsign to match one of the games we play, but I think a callsign should be something personal that describes you or something you excel at.

No idea if it is an island Panz, but it would be interesting to find out I guess.

well of course it is - in Alaska.

a quick google reveals as a start:

http://kodiakisland.net/

Well i took my callsign from the Novela that came with the Commodore 64 version of the game called "Elite" in which the main characters father is killed by a bounty hunter and the son then names his Space ship "Nemesis" (Nemesis being the God of Vengence) and swears revenge on the guy that killed his father.

You can read the Novela here if you are interested, it was quite a novel idea to put a full story book in with a game, but you did get more for your money (ie as in what you got in the box) games wise back in the early eighties

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm

I liked the name so much i used it as my call sign in all my games thereafter, but since i did not get a PC till 1998 and did not really go OL gaming till 2001, i found that when i did there were a few Nemesis's out there so i made the slight change to Nemisis with 2 I's just to make it more unique, so it has never been a spelling mistake and i did not take it from the Star Trek movie either, although i am a bit of a trekkie to say the least and was amused when they named one of the movies by the same name.

When the "Internet" came online in the early nineties I joined my first online virtual flight squadron with the callsign Raptor, obviously because the F-22 was just released. I found that a lot of folks were naming themselves raptor and so I was looking for a new name. We were the 421st Black Widows, named after the real squadron and later took on the 336th Rocketeers as our squad name when Janes F-15 came out. We flew fighters anthology in the old days against other squads.

Whilst in a furball, I saw my lead was in a world of hurt just at my eleven o'clock and about two miles out. We had split up to set up a pincer, but miscalculated and did close up quickly enough. It did split the bandits up anyway. We commed he was in trouble and I was having problems of my own. Nevertheless, I was his wingman, and I chose to put my back to the enemy and go full burn. I headed for the weeds to pick up steam and extend away. I came up underneath my leads furball full guns and heat at near vertical I punched my way through the first bandit and cut my engines and through my bird around hard. Make a long story short, My lead and I had to limp home with all sorts of mechanical problems but we did manage to get home in one piece and beat the other squad. Later that week, Moose, another member called me Grifter because I snuck up on those guys and took them down. I liked the name, so I kept it.

Madrus is short for Mad Russian. I speak Russian, and whenever I played sports with my buds, I would swear in Russian. Since I played fairly aggressively, my buds called me "the Mad Russian." When I needed a call sign for WOF, I shortened it to Madrus.

No relation to India's Madras. BTW, I am not Russian, either. Just took Russian in high school to be different from most of the other ppl.

I'm a Star Wars nut.

When I went online on Prodigy, waaaaaaaay back in 1991, I didn't want to use my real name since that was also my dad's, and he used it. So, I called myself "The Jedi Knight."
That lasted a year and a half or so, until Hurricane Andrew. After living through that ordeal and its aftermath, I proved myself to be a Jedi Master. ;) Sure puzzled the people on Prodigy when I first got back on after a 3 week abscence.
"Why is it 'master' now???"



The Jedi Master

Madrus wrote: I speak Russian, and whenever I played sports with my buds, I would swear in Russian. .

I had no idea you spoke Russian. That's great that you still remember how to speak a language you first learned in high school. I know the vast majority of people that take a foreign language in high school and/or college hardly remember it after a few years since they end up never using the language. I have a couple of foreign films in Russian. I dont speak a word of it but its a very "cool" sounding language.

My callsign comes from the VERY first flight sim I ever played - F/A-18 Korea. In the intro movie, the callsign of the 2 Hornets was 'Hammer'. I thought it sounded good, so adopted it.

I want to learn Russian; my dad used to work there, so I feel I have a bit of a connection with it. I also want to learn Japanese - I think this comes from watching too many cartoons. :oops:
The only foreign language I learn at the moment is Spanish - I dropped French for GCSEs.

DA=Death Angel. Growing up I wanted to be a pilot in the Navy(thats why I joined), I would say Death from above the Death Angel. I felt that way for as long as I can remember.

DA