What does your HF Screen-name mean?

[Silverpalm2x]

As I was thinking about a name for the forum, I thought about camping experiences with the Boy Scouts of America and the many positive experiences... I am an Eagle Scout with two Silver Palms. Each Silver palm represents 15 merit badges over those required for Eagle.

[FiveOh]

All of the Law Enforcement Officers and thugs will know this...

It is a slang name for police officers. Mostly as a warning to other thugs.

When I first got on the SWAT team, back in the 80s, when we went to serve a search warrant (usually high risk) the thugs would yell "Five O" which is a reference to the television show "Hawaii Five-0"... not the new one, the old one from back in the 70s. Of course, hearing "Five O" caused a lot of thugs running in different directions. I've never seen the new show and didn't often watch the old one.

Later, when working on a double homicide, I was in some of the seedier parts of Birmingham trying to locate the suspects and heard it often. These were areas where plain clothes 40 year old white guys really stand out.

I just retired this month, so won't likely be hearing it again. Therefore, I've thought of changing my screen name to "Gramps", which is my grandfather name.

[ImSoConfused]

I haven't a clue.

[Frost]

My screen name is also my trail name, and it's sort of two part. The first is my love of Robert Frost's poetry. I've read all his work and have been known to quote him from time to time.

The second, and most important, is to honor a good friend I served with, SSgt. Christopher Frost, who was killed in 2008 in Iraq. His callsign was Frosty, which was my first thought for a trail name. It felt wrong to use something that was so perfectly and completely his though. We both enjoyed hiking and camping, and though he wasn't the Soldier-Poet Robert Frost wrote about (the boy couldn't rhyme worth a darn), he enjoyed me rambling on about whatever poet or author had my fancy at the time. He and I both always liked 'The Lone Striker', which I have quoted in my signature, in particular. It just felt right to go with Frost as a tribute to both.

[body942]

FiveOh: Stick with the name. Nobody more than a seasoned copper can know how much, originally, the man has to fit the mold, but the job forms him in ways that can't be undone.

[Popeye 62]

All of the Law Enforcement Officers and thugs will know this...

It is a slang name for police officers. Mostly as a warning to other thugs.

When I first got on the SWAT team, back in the 80s, when we went to serve a search warrant (usually high risk) the thugs would yell "Five O" which is a reference to the television show "Hawaii Five-0"... not the new one, the old one from back in the 70s. Of course, hearing "Five O" caused a lot of thugs running in different directions. I've never seen the new show and didn't often watch the old one.

Later, when working on a double homicide, I was in some of the seedier parts of Birmingham trying to locate the suspects and heard it often. These were areas where plain clothes 40 year old white guys really stand out.

I just retired this month, so won't likely be hearing it again. Therefore, I've thought of changing my screen name to "Gramps", which is my grandfather name.

Congrats on the retirement. I'm almost in the same boat. I'll be burning down my accrued time starting February 1st and will retire August 31st.

[Broomstickize]

So I used to be pretty thin...

[FatDaddy]

Oh Boy. It is sarcasm like calling a big guy Tiny...YEAH...seriously

So I have been in boy scouts a long time. While serving my second tour as Scoutmaster I was correcting a young man and mentioned he would have to act appropriately as long as I stayed "fat, bald and white"...honestly there very little chance of any of those three adjectives changing.

I lost my hair with child three of four. I lost my feet in '98 when I got out of the Army...they are under there...I just can't see them.

So I am "Fat Daddy"...

Remember campers it is going to rain on us, if you can't find a way to have fun in the rain, you should probably stay inside.

[dammfast]

Mine comes from the fact that my last name is Damm which everyone I know loves to incorporate into conversation. The fast comes from my days as a college cross country and track runner. My running buddies and I all had nick names in college that we put on our summer road race jerseys. These names were picked by committee mine always and I mean always had Damm in it. Since then Dammfast just always stuck.

[jayf124]

From reading all these posts I'm figuring out that I am more boring and unoriginal that I originally thought I was.

Jay, short for Jason. F, first letter of my last name. 124, I'm the 124th Air Force graduate of Army Ranger school since the first two Airmen graduated (class 10-55) in 1955.

Came up with JayF124 for an email address in 2000.....right after graduating...and it kind of stuck over the years.