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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Swampwalker?
That's an easy one.

Everyone knows Swampwalker down here in the bayou. He's famous round these parts for taking his boat to the favorite local dive bar here called the "Pink Alligator" which is built on stilts with a pier since it's only accessible by boat. He always orders the same thing: a bucket of crawfish and a bottle of Wild Turkey. He always comes in wearing the same thing, too: nothing but a speedo and his rollerblades. Once he gets his order, he skates around the bar, with the whiskey bottle in one hand and the bucket in the other, telling all who'll listen how bad the jukebox sounds, periodically yelling "I can't take any more of this,I'm an #@%& Audiophile damnit!!". And the evening always ends the same way after polishing off his bottle of Wild Turkey and bucket of crawfish: he drunkenly skates around the pier looking for his boat (for giggles we always drive his boat back to his house when he's about halfway through his bottle,he just lives about a mile away in a former hunting blind up in a big old tree). After he gives up looking for his boat and emphatically refuses offers of rides home, he petulantly slings his rollerblades over his shoulder and stumbles home through the swamp. The above is repeated atleast 3 or 4 times a month year round but he wears tights under his speedo during colder times like now. In fact, he was in the bar last night in his winter attire. But he drank more than his usual bottle and lost control of his bladder. People were calling him Swamppants and Swampwetter. Poor guy, I hope he's OK.

Okay, Swampwalker, what do I win for 'guessing' the truth behind your screen name and giving the readers a little insight into your life down here in What's That Smell, Louisianna? Funny thing, the patrons of the Pink Alligator didn't name him, the locals gave him that name because that's usually the only tine they see him, trudging through the swamp with his roller blades and wearing only a speedo. They also don't mind the loud music filling the swamp at night because it sounds so good, although they do wonder how he managed to get all that fine gear and electricity to that blind. He is becoming legendary down here since he often has to unavoidably fight alligators and monster sized catfish on his way home. If we patrons had named him, he'd probably be called the Swampstumbler or Swampthing.
I hope I've been helpful in illuminating ya'll bout the true origins of this local legend's screen name.
I was going to use Noble1 because I had to think of a screen namequickly and I live in Noblesville, Indiana. As I recall, it wasn't enough characters so I added 2 zeros. Wow, was that exciting or what?
Albert,

Thank you for providing that persuasive visual evidence in support of being a tennis fan. I played some tennis back in college but didn't realize it has become such a stimulating spectator sport. Thanks again.
Swampwalker,

Wow, you must've really hit the Wild Turkey hard last night at the Gator. You're even slurring when you type. Heard all about your evening since it's now the talk of the town, What's That Smell, Louisiana. Everyone's saying you were sitting on 90-year old Mr. Flanders' lap singing "It's Raining Men" and the "Pina Colada" song when you lost control of your bladder and wet your speedo, again.
I'm looking forward to the new speakers and karaoke machine I won for winning the contest on your screen name origin. I just completed construction on my new 'stadium sized' addition to accomodate the speakers. I'm thinking of driving them with a flea watt SET, 8 watts should be plenty.
Also, you can keep the speedo I won since you'll probably just send me the one you wore last night. Have fun and leave old man Flanders alone, you crazy nut.
Swampwalker,

You really did it now by sending that speedo via Fedex. An inspector from TSA noticed a foul smell coming from your package and alerted Homeland Security and, since it was considered 'mail', the FBI was called in too. After their crime lab analyzed your speedo, they classified it as a potential Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD)which has now gotten Fema and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) involved. To further complicate natters, all this activity has piqued the interest of foriegn spy agencies.
They called your speedos a serious 'game changer' and told the President that the fate of the world's balance of power was in jeopardy. They decided to let your package be delivered in the hopes of snaring all these spies who were also after this new diabolical weapon. I was captured and held at gunpoint by some of these spies who were waiting for the package to be delivered so they could make off with it. I was unaware that I was being used as bait in this high stakes sting operation. As we were waiting, I overheard some of the spies' comments, here are a few I recall:

Boris (Russian spy): "This Swampwalker speedo makes Chernobyl look like spilt goat milk."

Pokeman (Japanese spy): "I'd rather fight Godzilla bare handed than catch a smell of that speedo."

Jacque (French Fashion Police spy): "As I recall, the French mandatory penalty for wearing just a speedo with rollerblades, is several hours of mocking and demeaning comments followed by death. This fashion-challenged idiot is very lucky he's an American idiot."

Abdul (Arab spy): "One whiff of the Devil's speedo will cause mass evacuation from Israel, god willing."

Just in time, the FBI swooped in and captured all the spies. President Obama, after meeting with the Joint Cheifs of Staff, announced that NASA will be shooting the highly toxic speedo into outer space. However, this caused comments and dire warnings from our interstellar neighbors:

Venus: "Please shoot it in Mars' direction, that thing is gross."
Mars: "We little green guys will attack you stupid earthlings with our ray guns blazing if that thing comes even CLOSE to us."

Uranus: "Let's just say that thing smells worse than my name, nuff said?"

Pluto: "We're your furthest neighbor, hundreds of thousands of miles from earth, and we can still smell it from here. Atleast send us a couple million gas masks in size XXXXXXXSmall. Our heads are the same size as your earth cat. And no jokes, brainiacs! We may have small heads/brains and inferiority complexes but we also have the power to destroy your puny little planet with one touch of our fingers, which are actually quite large,especially compared to our small monkey sized bodies."

The Sun: "You shoot that thing at me and, I swear, I'll go supernova."

Way to go, Swampwalker, another fine mess you got us into. I think the world, and galaxy, would appreciate it if you'd lay off the Wild Turkey and buy some normal pants. The Russians would have thrown you in the gulag and turned you and your speedos into a WMD factory. And, do you know what they do to guys in speedos in a Russian prison?