Why did you name yourself "that" nickname for forum?

Candle Power Flashlight Forum

Help Support CPF:

I liked the pun and had lurked long enough to recognize its probable truth. (I was searching for LED lights when I found CPF.) Sadly, I didn't realize just how far astray I'd be led nor how inappropriate the limits of the LED pun would turn out.

An HID, many high powered LEDs, several lanterns, and boxes of incan parts that will become a hot-wire one of these days later... I still use my little LED light 90+% of the time. (Arc-P when I first joined, currently an E01.)
 
It kinda evolved into what it is now... It started out as a combination of all types of cars that I used parts of for my classic mini cooper

Mini Mayfair Cooper 30 red hot 600 GT

As it was a Mini 30 (30y anniv. edition), which had the interior replaced with that of a Mini Mayfair, then it was given the white roof & bonnet stripes Cooper look and later the engine was replaced with that of a Austin Metro GT and the interior replaced again with rear seat and sidepanels from a Mini Red Hot and the front seats with half leather recaro seats from a Rover 600 series...

At first I only used the name on a dutch Mini enthusiast group, where it was shortened to MayCooper. But people are lazy, so they addressed me with MC or Coop. MC reminds me too much of a certain chain of fastfood restaurants and a lot of forums dont allow 2 letter nicks, so I stuck with Coop...

p.s. I no longer own the car...
 
ypsifly said:
Is she of Greek descent?
Click to expand...
I have no idea, I just thought it's pretty funny that there's a city with the same name because when she first became important and often was in the media a year or so ago a lot of people made fun of her unusual name.
 
Mine is part of my first name and my initials. It started on a Lego forum, which was appropriate since Lego pieces are properly referred to as bricks. LED because that's what brought me here, plus LED BriCK just sounds like something really heavy to whack somebody with.
 
I find myself there often 🙂
Also it is the name that we came up with for our homestead.
Psalm 107 said:
26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Click to expand...
No drunkenness here but sometimes it seems like it.
It isn't from [SIZE=-1]Adventures in Odyssey (AIO) is a spectacular series of radio programs that has been on the air for twenty years and over 600 episodes.[/SIZE][SIZE=-1] Alot of the action takes place at Whit's End, however, my family does enjoy the program 🙂

And now we own [/SIZE]Wits' End Corner Country Store and Bakery We added to the Wits' End (added Corner) thanks to this poem. Just looked on Google maps and found they now have a picture of Highway 61, and my shop we're the left third of the lower floor

So much more than you may have wanted to know 🙂

ONE MORE THING!
It is Wits' End NOT Wit's End, because I'm at the end of more than one wit. Thus wits, so the end of wits is Wits' End. If you are only at the end of 1 wit then wit's end is correct. I'm not sure what to do if a half-wit 🙂

 
Last edited:
I was watching Dancing with Wolves when the name hit me. I would have had at least one light piercing the night sky of the prairie. Something with enough throw to light up the very edge of the wilderness. And of course the scene looking for the buried rifles in the rain called for a light with tons of flood and plenty of runtime. Who wouldn't dance with a flashlight like that?
 
Not sure, really; just popped into my head. I like Trek, but am not a fanatic; I stopped watching the spinoffs many years ago.

The scene in my avatar is the Enterprise getting an up close and personal pasting from the Reliant in "Wrath of Khan". Another one of the battle scenes shows a crewman bursting into flames in a corridor, IIRC, hence, "Phaserburn". Forgive me if I didn't get this exactly right; I haven't seen the movie in a long time.
 
MSaxatilus is short for:

Monrone Saxatilus which is Latin for "Striped Bass"

MSax is even shorter! :nana:

I'm a huge fisherman and the striper is my #1 target species in the spring and fall!!!

Just about that time of year now!:devil:

MSax
 
Mine is a combination of my 1st and last names. My rock climbing and drinking buddies call me kelmo.
 
OK I give. The reason I chose Hitthespot was because before I joined CPF my favorite or unfavorite part of the flashlight was the spot. It made or broke the deal for me. I couldn't stand a light with a donut or washed out spot. This was the days before the leds. Now like most of you I consider the whole beam profile when judging my lights. I could change my name to Hitthespill.....Naaaaaa


Bill
 
Ctechlite

Ct = My initials 😎
Ctech = I'm a (modest) mechanic:broke:
lite = I try to not be serious:thumbsup: and word play on "light" lovecpf

If you ever need car advice, don't ask me :thinking:, I don't know anything.
 
Mine is part of my work id and I thought i wasn't going to spend much time here when i started but sure enough i can't leavelovecpf
If i knew iwas going to stay i would have gone with something else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top