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#1913423 - 05/16/06 06:21 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Registered: 02/14/01
Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Well, this question has been asked a few times before and it always turns out to be an interesting read..... So, I went back into the archives to find my original response.... Well, mine dates back a few years so it has some history behind it. Back in the earily-eighties, I was then a weekend glider pilot. In my third year, as a solo-pilot, I found myself in a single-seater SGS1-26, one July weekend. Now, this particular ship was used on a previous weekend cross-country flight and so a temporarily installed RT was still in it. Not knowing much about it, I left it alone, however the pilot before me, did not and had switched it on to 'send only'. So, up I flew, for that entire flight, with an opened transmitter. Well, the flight lasted for about an hour (it was a great day) and as is my habit (when alone) I broke into song (shower variety) and everybody in the 'control van' heard me. When I got back down, I was greeted with a number of jokes, at my expense, and in the next newsletter there was a mention of my, slightly less then perfect, virtuoso performance.  Not too long after that, I acquired the handle 'Skylark' around the club airfield and it stuck. :rolleyes: So, it became my pseudonym here. Now, I just looked up 'Skylark' in the dictionary and it reads: "a lark that sings while soaring at a great height". It also says: "old fashioned" for play, frolic or fooling around". Well, that sort of sum's it up nicely....  Thanks for the trip down memory lane..... Cheers mate 
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#1913424 - 05/16/06 06:50 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Registered: 08/14/01
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Hi, "Knegel" get used in north germany to describe someone, who is somewhat strange or special(not good or bad, simply not common), but its a almost forgotten word(in more early times it was a surname, in Dutch it still is a surname). When i was getting online, i did need a Nickname in the MSN gaming zone, but all 'normal' names i could imagine was in usage. Since i was gready to play, i did choose "Vonhintentöter", cause i was sure noone use it.  Since its a 'bit' long and not nice at all, i was looking for a new name when i did join the LLv34. At this time my cousin called me 'Knegel', when i did "improve" my bike a bit. Thats it, i thought and so it still is. Greetings,
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#1913426 - 05/16/06 06:55 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Registered: 04/30/02
Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
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..and "Skylark" is a lovely song composed by the jazz pianist, popular cong composer, and great character Hoagy Carmichael who recorded with Bix Beiderbecke in the early 20s. ..which takes me to mine, which comes from another legendary jazz pianist and composer of the 1920s, Ferdinand LaMenthe- aka "Jelly Roll Morton" who referred to himself as "Mr Jelly". Jel
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#1913428 - 05/16/06 08:06 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Sandbagger Royal Air Force (26 years service) - someone who tells a good story - hence 'pull up a sandbag and I'll tell you a story'. Civilian - Someone who spins a yarn or tall story - not quite telling the truth. I'll leave it up to you 
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#1913429 - 05/16/06 08:07 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Registered: 12/01/02
Loc: Belgium
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Hello, Simple....Demoulin..came Dumoulin.. I meet him in one occasion. Charles J.V.G. Demoulin DFC
15 March 1943 - 12 April 1944 - 14 November 1944 - 5 December 1944
Charles Demoulin was trained in the RAF and joined the squadron in spring 1943. On September 26, 1943 he ditched his Typhoon JP543 "PR-A" but was soon rescued. One week later he scored his first victory, a Bf 110 near Florennes. On January 30, 1944 he bagged two FW 190’s and on February 29 he shot down a Ju 88 near Cambrai. He ended his first tour in April ’44 and was sent to 184 Squadron. On August 8 he became CO of 164 Sq., but on November 14, 1944 he was the third Belgian who led 609. be it for a short while, as he was shot down by Flak near Ede (Holland) on December 5, flying Typhoon PD470 "PR-D". He became a POW.
Demoulin wrote his autobiography “Firebirds” and died in Monaco in 1998.
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#1913430 - 05/16/06 09:11 PM
Re: OT: Where do your nicknames come from?
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Registered: 06/13/01
Loc: Cambridge,Ohio
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In here very simple Russ Watson=rwatson online at the launchpad JG51_Ruski is a carry over from a nickname in the Marine Corps ,,Ruski who the hell knows why I got that one??
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