As a follow up to the thread below, guys, how did you choose your name/handle.  I play a lot of golf.  I wanted parfour but it was taken

because they'd reveal more about themselves than they want.

Everyone always asks for the last four, so I thought I'd buck the trend.

zipcode in Montana?

Pretty exciting story, I know.

So I figured since I live near Chicago...and earned a CPA many moons ago...

Plus if you search my handle.
I would hope you run into druidic fairy tales instead of this forum

was Commander of the 8th Air Force as well as overall commander of the United States Army Air Force European Theatre of Operations during WWII. My father flew 40 missions as tail gunner on a B-17 in the 8th. 18 fucking years old and shooting a 50 caliber machine gun at fighter planes 5 miles up, 40 degress below zero and the windows open. Meanwhile I mispelled my handle. It should be cspaatz not cspatz but I said fuck it no one knows or cares what it means. Now you know. I am proud of my father and he is still kicking at 88!  

So yep, that's the name on my driver's license!

My Dad went over on DDay +4 and got hit on Aug 23 near St Lo.  Wouldn't really discuss it til I joined in late 70's.  Those guys still amaze me

I was thinking of my morning wood when the sunrises and I love Michael Jordan.  It made sense that my handle should be sunrise2323.

At a Wendy's drive through in Columbus!

did an incredible amount of reading on the 8th Air Force and it was only with great effort that I was able to get him to reveal anything and even then it wasn't much. I do remember him saying the reason he joined the Air Force was because if he did manage to live through the mission he didn't have to worry about being killed until the next time he flew. Granted that could be the next day but it usually wasn't and an infantry guy like your Dad could bite the bullet at any time day or night.  
18 years old and risking getting blown out of the fucking sky. It is mind boggling.

some stories never die

Perfectstorm,

Actually, my first choice (which I used years ago) was already taken. My current handle is a slight variation. Just conveys my personal preference with a lady, nothing more.

I know you really wanted Hirogen...or MSHSEX

I should add "sunrise" was taken so I just added 2323 twice for MJ.  

all lepidoptera.  my favorite specimen is, in fact, a moth.  but "butterflydust" sounded prettier than "moth dust."  my bedroom is like a lepidoptera graveyard.  i have even given lepidoptera as gifts.  (i know, how charming... "i am glad you are in my life!  here's a dead thing as a gift!")

Best stalking vantage point west of the Hudson  

Posted By: perfectstorm

At a Wendy's drive through in Columbus!

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Besides, as a revelation, this does not exactly reveal anything at all.  Except that I had a childhood.  Stop the presses!

My hero is the same age and was the bombardier/navagator on a B-26, also in the 8th.  Survived more than 50 missions.

I am only 57 in tall!!!!

Did he ever watch "Memphis Belle?" One of the best war movies ever.

I just thought you were ambidextrous!

No but he and I went to a number of air fields that had B-17s. You could get into the plane but the passage way to the tail was off limits. I said "Fuck It",  no one is here to stop me so crawled all the way into the tail and and sat on this tiny piece of plywood with two 50 caliber machine guns below me. It was a tiny, tiny space. It gave me a very small taste of what it must have been like. I was there for a couple of minutes before I was discovered. Add about 12 hours on that stool,  lower the temperature to minus 40, add flak and a pack of fighters throwing their 50 calibers and that is what it really was like. Ignoring the rules and crawling back there is one of the best things I ever did

sports drink they served at a marathon I ran once.

Actually he is Elvis......works at Wendy's......disguises himself as a CPA!

No, he was fired from that job for beating up a retard.

If you break it down...

Awww, I see you in a whole new light now lol. I once had you pegged as that Hawaiian dude from "Shallow Hal" but you told me otherwise.

Well, maybe next year you will change it to "Monster Energy."

I would have promoted him to manager for that!

t I didn't know it was self Flagellation..

and my friends call me "Devil".

Neither the letters nor the numbers mean or signify a damn thing.