How did your handle come about?

[Mudd]

I got the idea to post this here from another web site.(my bad) but I'm gonna start the ball rolling here just for grins and I hope it's not something that's been beat to death already.

My dear ole daddy(long since passed) used to say "Boy iffen you do(whatever) your name is gonna be mudd" and "Boy iffen you don't do(whatever) your name is gonna be mudd" But the most fearful was "Iffen I have to I'll stomp a muddhole in your arse and then I'm gonna walk it dry!"

I got to the point that when folks would ask me my name my reply would be "About half the time it's Mudd!"
That's my Story and I'm sticking to it...lol
What's yours?
God bless, Mudd

[ckanous]

Well Mudd I always wondered about your name and you just explained it. Often I see these names and wonder where they came from, mine is pretty simple first initial with last name. The handle I usually use was taken when I registered so I just went simple!

[HATCHCHASER]

I love to flyfish and chase those hatches.  It sure is nice when you fool those wiley critters.

[centaur]

I spent a year with an all expenses paid vacation to Southeast Asia courtesy of Uncle Sam in 1967 and 1968. My unit callsign was 'centaur'.

[adkmountainken]

no place in the whole world i would rather be then God's country, The Great Adirondacks hence the name Adkmountainken.

[blind one]

I was the flagman at our local dirt track. I tossed a friend out for rough driving one night. The next time he saw me , he said "here comes the blind one". The name has stuck for about 15 years now   :D   ......Roy

[Cyclic-Rivers]

In the river of life what comes around goes around! Karma!  All is one!  "If you poison the river, you poison yourself". Sometimes what is old is new again.  I think you get the point!  I have come full circle with my archery usage according to Ron Leclair.  Plus I like the Oxy moron of a circle river.  It's virtually impossible although the Hudson River flows both ways!  I wanted to name my boat in a similar fashion but it was a bit long and didn't sound as good as I planned.

I have seen a lot of good Karma here even before I joined so hence my name!

Cyclic-Rivers

[Cyclic-Rivers]

PS.  Mudd,

you could have given your father a new pair of waterproof boots for his b-day.  That way walking that puddle dry wouldn't be so bad.  

[Osagetree]

My bow hunting buddies thought I was nuts for trying to use osage trees for homemade bows to hunt with. Each time we'd hunt together, I'd ask them to keep an eye out for osage tree's for me. Once I did build a bow and harvested a deer with it, they started calling me osagetree everytime we'd go hunting.
They still hunt with compounds (nothing wrong with that) but, I am gaining ground as one has a osage bow I built and he did use it during early season this year. No luck with it this year. But when he does finally get one with it he'll be hooked in I am sure!

[adeeden]

I have been asked this several times!

When I first moved to IL and started with a new internet provider my wife and I were trying to set up an e-mail account. My name is Dennis her name is Dee. We tried Dennisdee@, deedennis@, dendee@, deeden@ and every combination we could think off but everything was taken.

Finaly after several a frustating 15 minutes Dee said try your middle initial in front of it, adennisdee@ was taken, adeedennis@ was taken, but low and behold adeeden@ was available!

So I have just used the same thing for signing up on most of the boards I visit!

[Owlgrowler]

Too long of a story to bore you guys with here.

[GingivitisKahn]

There was a similar thread last year to which I gave this similar reply:

I'm not a dentist if that's what you're thinking.

When I was trying to decide on a screen name for this site, I was watching the news. They were showing a clip I had seen before of a particularly despicable and traitorous politician lying about our servicemen. He is a bit of a moron but I guess he thought it sounded bright to pronounce Genghis Khan (to whom he was comparing our troops) 'jen jis'.

I remember thinking the guy needed a smack in the mouth so I suppose that's how a pompously pronounced Genghis morphed into Gingivitis. Every time I see the name, it reminds me of the complete and utter contempt with which I view all politicians of his particular (yellow) stripe.

   :D

[freefeet]

I'll let ya all guess!  

[The Whittler]

As the name implies, I like to whittle things. Ball in cage, chain link,  knife, pliers, and anything else from one piece of wood and make it move.

[Covey]

Mine is purdy simple, it is my last name. The tricky part is, it's pronounced with a long O but everybody always call's me covey like "quail" and I got tried of saying CO..vey every time I tryed to tell people my last name so I just go with covey it's easier HA HA!! Jason COvey

[misfire]

My BP ventures started when a friend of mine suggested it would be cool to get involved in the "Woodwalks" in our area (kinda like 3D shoots but with BP). Not having a lot of cash laying around I bought the cheapest gun I could find, a Hawkens rifle by Traditions.

Well this gun had a bad tendency to misfire a lot. He got a chuckle outta this and started saying things like "Hey Misfire it's your turn, etc., etc.

Sometime later I got a nice Penn. Long Rifle that shot patch and ball. The misfires stopped but the name stuck even though I started kicking his arse during the shoots.

[Froggy]

Well, we were at a get together at a friend's one night. Sitting around the pool. He had just drained it to fix a leak. Some frogs had taken up residence in it. A buddy of mine gets in the pool and starts throwing them out over the fence. We didn't know at the time, but when he sat back down he put one on the table where we were sitting, hoping it would croak and get us good. Well, the frog never did, and Matt said he forgot about it till I took a drink from my cup and the frog had climbed up on the rim and was eyeball to eyeball with me. I threw drink all over them, scared the crap outta me, thought it was a midget alien for a second. Hence, the name Froggy when the wives came out and the laughs died down... End of story !!    

[mrpenguin]

My wife and I... when we met, we used to walk around like penguins when it was cold out... the penguin thing stuck and it became an email address... no its an animal we identify with.

[barredfeather]

I have always liked barred feathers.......can't see 'em very well when shooting, but kind of old school I guess.  I make a few quivers and always put a small barred feather on each one.

[myshootinstinks]

The handle is, well, self descriptive...