How did you choose your bushcraft name

[Damascus]

A question, my name I have used for many years, yet as you meet up, new names evolve, something you have done or maybe something you have said!

Mine would be if I changed it, "Smoke magnet", as no matter where I sit around the fire the smoke will follow me, what would yours be and why?:Thinkingo

 

[GGTBod]

My internet pseudonym has been the same regardless of what website i am on, it comes from back when i ran a rave review website that was called the Geordie Gabba Traveller and it's sub branch of GGT Tv (I am a Geordie and I travelled for my Gabba it seemed appropriate) add my surname shortened GGT + Bod hey presto, nowt to do with bushcrafting google GGTBod or GGT Tv and you'll probably see some crazy old stuff as although i removed all my stuff from most areas online it has a life of it's own, no point changing it as i'd have to remember new stuff and it is bad enough having to regularly change passwords never mind my username too

 

[Harvestman]

I get called spiderman all the time, but I discovered a new species of harvestman (Opiliones) to the UK, so became Harvestman by default. It stops me being confused with some American in a lycra bodysuit.

 

[cranmere]

Cranmere Pool is a very wet an inaccessible place in the middle of Dartmoor. I did my degree dissertation on upland peat bogs so I used Cranmere when I first got an email address back in - oh heck, 1989 - and I've used it online ever since.

 

[swotty]

I've been called Swotty for thirty years after there was a character once in Viz called Swotty with my surname

 

[Silverback 1]

Mine goes back to my rugby playing days in the front row.

The 3 regulars in the 1st team were of the same 'build' i was the loosehead prop (No.1) hooker and tighthead were Silverback(s) 2 and 3 respectively, it has never gone away.

 

[JonathanD]

Mine is just a randomly picked jumble of letters.

 

[The Cumbrian]

Mine's the name of a climb that I was too untalented / lardy to ever do, and I'm Cumbrian.

Cheers, Michael.

 

[demographic]

Same name on any forum I'm on.

 

[stonehippo]

I used to climb when I was younger. A good climber is called a stone monkey. After watching me clamber onto a ledge with no style whatsoever I was christened a stone hippo.

 

[Niels]

Mine's my first name I lacked creativity

 

[Ahjno]

Mine's my first name I lacked creativity

Same here, though I put the letters in alphabetical order.

 

[Dave Budd]

my parent's gave me mine. I've had it all my life and never felt the need to change it When I first started joining forums on t'interweb, I was doing academic research and only real names were allowed (you don't get fa in academia if everybody knows you as monkeyspunk57!).

As for other names for use in the woods, mostly I get called a variety of expletives having just had a sip of forge water

 

[Man of Tanith]

I'm a nerd.
in part its from a planet in a sci fi series from games workshop's Warhammer 40K called Gaunts Ghosts.
in part its because Tanith is a Goddess. which ties into other parts of my life outlook

 

[Toddy]

My usual names were all taken here already, so I simply used the earliest nickname I had. Normally my bother uses it, and if folks phone the house and ask for Toddy, they'll be told, "He's no' here."

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[CallsignSam]

Mine is a nickname used by some of my cadet friends, and was the only thing i could think of when joining the forum.

 

[Tomcoles]

I thought what my name is and used that lol

 

[Swallow]

I joined the forum to find out about, and get to, the BushMoot. I noticed that a lot of names were animal names which I liked. Having found all the butch animal names I could think of were taken I went in the other direction.

The one downside of it is that I am under threat of death if anyone uses the forum standard of addressing SWMBLT as

Mrs. MyForumName.

Hence her standard title in my posts is Ms. Swift.

 

[Macaroon]

I joined the forum to find out about, and get to, the BushMoot. I noticed that a lot of names were animal names which I liked. Having found all the butch animal names I could think of were taken I went in the other direction.

The one downside of it is that I am under threat of death if anyone uses the forum standard of addressing SWMBLT as

Mrs. MyForumName.

Hence her standard title in my posts is Ms. Swift.

Ms. Swift sounds like a lady who knows how to make her point

 

[bopdude]

Mine is mostly the same on many a forum, it comes form my time living / working in South Africa, I worked a lot in Bophuthatswana and in conversation people asked where the guy form Bop was, hence Bopdude.