Thread: Where and how did you get your screen name?

Really very interesting.

Originally Posted by SeaRay

Well now, this is interesting. I have the story in hardback book and the dog's name in the book is Shad, short for Shadow. Guess I will do some digging, but the story is the same.

I like that! lol I will have to find the book and read it now. Thanks!

Originally Posted by IkenI

this feller! Shooting Starr's Commander (call name Ike) He was an almost constant companion for near 15 years. Ike and I hunted Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas, Kansas, Kansas!! My best buddy. Here is is shown as a pup with the late Kristen Reiser (She called him Big Mac) before I picked him up.
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Here as an old, deaf dog that still hunted great!
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After he died, I quit bird hunting for a couple of years. But recently decided i couldn't live like that so, at 73 yrs old, I have a distant cousin of his about to be born. She will never replace him but will add to more memories.

IkenI, I have a similiar story. I had a chocolate lab "Queenie" that was the best duck hunting dog I ever had, hunted her till she was 10. Years down the road I was able to get a great grand daughter off of Queenie, "Grace". I made a couple of hunts with Grace but she was nothing like Queenie, part of that was due to her being 5 months old with Rita came through our area with all of it's loud noices so Grace never cared much for loud noises after that. My mom and dad still have Grace, she is spoiled rotten and just recently had double ACL surgery on her back 2 legs. She is doing well now. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I was a fan of Corey Ford from way back and would look forward each month to his article or story published in Field and Stream magazine. I remember it be the first story in the magazine so I read it first, then I went directly to the back of the magazine and read "Exit Laughing" by Ed Zern. I loved Ford's members of the "Lower Forty" and thought of them as friends. As I read the stories I was sitting with them around the old pot belly stove taking a swig of "ol' Stump Blower" to warm me up. Back then I was but a teen and grew into a young man as I read and totally absorbed the stories. Somewhere in the corner of my house is a stack of old Field and Stream magazines from the 60's. It's time for me to revisit those old friends as I do on occasion. Thanks for bringing it all back. I read "The Road to Tinkhamtown" and it's the happiest sad story I've ever read. Had me in tears.
"gene"

Not sure if it happened here or another place first, but every place I went Skip was taken and Skipper was take and so many others I tried with Skip as the start. So I started trying different spelling on my Skiptomylu and this one worked so it's not much of a good story, but is what it is, LOL!

Skip

I kept my nickname from my track members. They would say after i would finish running the 3rd leg of the 4 by 100 relay and the 2nd leg of the mile relay "Look at Scoot turning the bend" that the coach and the rest of my classmates called me Scoot. That year in 1964 we won the state championship in class C. I am still called scoot today but i can't run 10 feet. A trip back in time.

Being in the military we like to call each other by nicknames, or "call signs" , my screen name is a play on my call sign and last name.

Like PawPaw "gene" my screen name is what a grandson calls me. He was actually my wife's 4th grandchild but by our marriage, my 1st. Sue practically raised him while his mother worked so he & I got pretty close. I never knew what prompted him to call me Pepop but at 23yoa he still does. His brother's & sister call me Vernon and my grand children call me PawPaw or GramPa so Pepop is a "Standout"!