Where does your user name come from?


Hi everyone,
I'm curious to know what's the story behind your user name (or Alias)... There are a bunch of people that use their name (of parts of it) like myself, Albert Porter, GerryM5, Esoler...

But where does user name like Cornfedboy, Garfish, Calloway, Tireguy, SwampWalker (and many many others) come from? Any story behind?

Just curious
lgregoir

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My name Gunbei, pronounced [Goom-Bay] is based on a ficticious samurai character from the early '70's Sword of Vengeance series. Some of you may know these films as Wolf and Cub or Baby cart or even by it's Japanese name Kozure Ohkami [Lone Wolf with Cub]. I grew up watching these films thirty years ago in the many Japanese theaters Los Angeles had back then. My namesake made his appearance in the fourth film known as Baby Cart in Peril. For those of you familiar with Kurosawa's films, well this isn't like them. Neither are these films like any of the cheaper, formula "Chanbara" TV series which were like a Japanese Gunsmoke. I understand that Road to Perdition borrows much from this thirty year old series. The photography and framing of each shot in this series let's you know artists and people that care were at work here. Here's a link to the episode Gunbei makes his appearance. He's the one on the right in the second photo with sword held high.

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