"phester" or "fester" is a generic name that a few close friends, and myself, are the only ones strange enough to call one another. When joining the site I was sorta stumbling for a screen name so "phester" seemed appropriate.....kinda boring, I know.....

It is said (usually by the wife) that I have a strong personality trait of not thinking for jumping into my next project.

I have/had (sold the boat) a V20 with a 1994 johnson 150 and the boat sank in 1999.and all we did was clean it up some and its Stillrunning.

I was an ***-kicker on the Microsoft Zone Combat Flight Simulator 3 servers, and took on the yodaddy handle as a retort to extensive 'yo mamma' comments directed at me. Decided to use it when I signed up here.

It was my wife
 

This is an old thread now, but I had to add to it. It's a GREAT thread. When we first looked at our V, before we bought it, my wife found this site, and signed up. She's a pediatrician, so, that's that, and by the time I woulda thoughta changing it, too many people had already given my terrific advice, and I didn't want to "disappear" by changing the handle. We love our 1974 V, Pepe, and we use this site ALL the time. Best jokes are here, in OFFTOPIC.
:clap: My real name is Dave, and I'm sort of a jack of all trades: carpenter, poet, sailor, and now, V-20 owner.

Ferm always reminds me of a cat we had, when I lived in Florida, that ate the little lizards all the time. We called her The Furminater.

I have not reviewed the thread lately, but do we have any story from Ferm as to his handle?

Post number 34.

Reviving this old thread because we have had lots of new users join since December 2009 when the thread was started. Ok all you new members and old members who have not responded, let's hear the story behind your username or "handle." And for those of you who have not read the whole thread, it is worth a few minutes to do so, especially the explanation behind the handle of our friend the Stinkyhooker.

There was another post where I said how my name came about, but I'll repeat it here for those that didn't see it.

When I got into CB's in the 70's I took my father's favorite beer as my handle, and I became Black Label (Carling's Black Label Beer) (People that knew me back then still call me that).

I love the ocean. She is my mistress. Been that way all my life, even as a kid. So it was only natural that when I became of age I'd join the Navy. My first two ships were Destroyers. They are the greyhounds of the sea... fast, powerful, dangerous. I fell in love with those ships. There is nothing else in the world like standing on the fantail (stern) of a destroyer going at flank speed, feeling thousands of horsepower vibrating through the metal deck up into your feet and through your whole body. You hear this overwhelming, all consuming rumble as the ships screws turn at an insane speed. Then you look back... and you see this beautiful, flat, white water wake, like a white arrow piercing the deep blue of the ocean, spread out behind you for what looks like forever as the water boils just behind the ship.

When BBS's and then the internet came along I changed from my CB name to my first love and became Destroyerman. Unfortunately there are too many letters in that name and a lot of the online games I played at the time would not let me use it. (Sorry, ten letters or less) So I shortened it to Destroyer... It stuck and here I am. :hi:

I think i just had orgasm!! :nice: