Callsign Etymology

The origin or history of your callsigns. Post em here!

TooTsY
- was the name of my crush (IRL)
- modified it to become 2-TSY, my 2-meter(VHF) callsign... short for DY-2-TSY
- the [2] in 2-TSY was a regional prefix, indicating origins in the NorLu area
- been using that ever since.. (lame, huh?)


So how'd you come up with your callsign?

Mine came from my passion with words. I am fond of manipulating letters.

I would also credit my name to my love for fantasy books. There are characters associated to the said color and who are always on the good and honorable side. There's this character who is an excellent warrior and a priestess who goes by the name Storm Silverhand. Not to forget, we also have silver dragons who are again on the good side.

Instead of the full and common spelling of the word, I decided to spell it without vowels since it is quite possible to do so. (Grabe, parang masters essay to ah! )

Hence, silver became SYLVR

Zephyr was the Greek god of the west wind, which was considered the gentlest wind, especially if compared to the colder north wind, Boreas. The warm west wind brought the spring season. Even today the name of the god means a warm and light breeze.

Zephyr has been my chosen title of anonymity since high school, used in my amateur journalistic and poetic endeavors.

Interestingly, as I am a true Gemini, which is an air sign, zephyr is an apt name for me.

Furthermore, I am also slightly agoraphobic, a symptom often accompanying anxiety attacks . Attacks are often triggered by increased carbon dioxide. Thus, I love windy places, with lots of oxygen.

Also, I adore the beach where constant warm, gentle winds blow..in other words ZEPHYRs! hehehe..

And obviously, Zephyr starts with the letter Z..like my name..ZOE

tito boy, yobski, yobs, y-o-b, yankee oscar bravo, acid,onse

-boy gonzales
-i have my many pamangkins... they call me tito boy
-during my citizen band (cb) radio days in the 80' (11 meters) and vhf radio (2 meter) in the 90's, fellow radio enthusiast would call me tito boy in the group. i was always in the company of younger people(mostly underclassmen of slu boys high) and i was their older and more mature member then, and those who were within my age bracket would call me y o b or yobs,or yankee oscar bravo(phonetics) and onse(numerics)
-the name tito boy stuck in the office, even as older officemates would call me tito boy
-the call signs which i have been using as a radio hobbyist include :yankee oscar bravo, y-o-b, sneaky devil, paper acid, kb 11, onse, ex pres(used to be the president of the radio group)
-acid, because i have hyperacidity, and i used to do paper acid-four ways- when i was younger...paper ace.

11 meters pala cb, 2 meters vhf, stand corrected

delta united two-yankee oscar bravo, for the group

navyseal33

my uncle is a United States Navy officer, i wear his woodland uniform in our games.
33 - thats the number of my favorite basketball player Scottie Pippen.

plain and simple Ü

* Dati LHEOR (ROEHL) tawag sa kin nung college pa ko sa ULPB- RODEO pa sports ko nun.

* LHEOR pa rin nung Practical Shooting sports ko (dami ako trophies dati ha sa PRODUCTION DIVISION)

* PERO, nung nag negosyo ko ng computer shop sa amin sa Laguna, napahilig ako sa CS. wala lang, bigla ko naisip na dapat matindi pangalan ko... kaya naging The Slayer.... pero lagi ako napapatay... dapat nga, The Slayed. Nakaka Bad Trip nga dahil ako dapat ang pumapatay pero ako lagi NG UNANG NAPAPATAY.

* Nung napadpad ako sa baguio, may nakita akong shop ng mga airsoft sa maharlika... Nabentahan ako ng baril... D ako nakatulog dahil gusto ko ipaghiganti yung mga buhay kong namatay nung nag- C- CS pa ko kaya bumalik ako sa The Slayer.... Pero pati ba naman d2 sa Airsoft, Lagi din ako SLAYED/ KIA.


HEHEHE....

KADAFI- ahm...dati kami tumutugtug ngaun di na masyado...kabarkada kasi nmin ung basista ng tumbleweeds kung inyo man silang nakikilala...local rock band ng baguio...ang apelydo nya is kadafi, pag college kasi usually aplyedo ang twgan dhil dun nkklala pag roll call na ng attendance...kaya twag saknya kadafi...naicp ko mgnda gmtn na name tas ang outfit ko sna is guerilla and balak ko blhin sana na gun noon is ak-47 pero sobra excited carbine nabli ko...ayun kaya kadafi ang ngng callsign ko...ayun poofff...and it became coco crunch!!!! rus!!!!!!!

12th of july.. it was a gloomy afternoon that day.. around 4:47 pm if my memory serves me right.. i was traversing a narrow alley.. a scorched brick laden path.. hands in my pocket, headphones on my ears.. i was slowly plodding the path heading home.. it was one of those days where the tranquility was so surreal.. the creeping cold.. the rain drops resonating from afar.. the rustling wind.. the shudder that I felt across my body.. all of which seeming to presage the perplexing scenario that was about to unfold.. as i was about to take the corner.. an eerie voice suddenly trounced the music that I was listening to.. it came from a few steps behind me.. startled by the mysterious sound.. i was pacified from where I stood.. unable to move I stood there.. 5.. 10 seconds passed.. fear engulfed me.. 15.. 20 seconds elapsed.. curiosity took over me.. i took a deep breath.. mustered all the bravery that was left in me.. and.. just when i was about to look back.. the voice.. in a cheerful and inviting tone.. went "dimespine! intako man chow ed sir joey's carinderia ken malpas man ket airsoft id sidi ya! aw adi!"

from that time onwards.. dimespine.. my callsign was. wi-er..

seriously.. my callsign comes from the words dime and spine.. the etymology behind.. well.. that I will leave for your minds to crack and for those closest to me to know.

SyLvR wrote:

Mine came from my passion with words. I am fond of manipulating letters.

I would also credit my name to my love for fantasy books. There are characters associated to the said color and who are always on the good and honorable side. There's this character who is an excellent warrior and a priestess who goes by the name Storm Silverhand. Not to forget, we also have silver dragons who are again on the good side.

Instead of the full and common spelling of the word, I decided to spell it without vowels since it is quite possible to do so. (Grabe, parang masters essay to ah! )

Hence, silver became SYLVR

ma'am sylver, were/are you a D&D/AD&D player? If i am not mistaken, Storm Silverhand was a NPC in the game. well, i may be wrong...

been a Dungeons and Dragons player way back and love fantasy books based on this too.. (Tolkien's works).. and some other authors...

Actually it should have been Tupang-Itim. Ito and ibininyag sa akin ng isang office mate ko nuong nagta-trabaho pa ako sa Texas Instruments. Mukha daw kasi akong mabait nuong interview ko pero nang ma-confirmed TI-er na ako naging matigas na raw ulo ko.

TooTsY wrote:

ma'am sylver, were/are you a D&D/AD&D player? If i am not mistaken, Storm Silverhand was a NPC in the game. well, i may be wrong...

been a Dungeons and Dragons player way back and love fantasy books based on this too.. (Tolkien's works).. and some other authors...

Talaga pong mahilig sa fantasy yan...pisces na pisces.mahilig sa fantasy, imagination, escape from reality.kaya masarap kalaro nung bata pa ako..magaling gumawa ng "scenarios". Di po ba ang D&D ang nabase sa LOTR? May LOTR na book kasi po ang uncle ko sa isteytz nung bata pa po siya.. 1955 po unang napublish ang LOTR, e ang D&D po 1973 pa nagawa..???

if i aint mistaken 1965 ata ung LOTR, i checked the book, i have the 58th reprint of the LOTR trilogy printed 77... hahaha antique.. not so sure about the exact date when D&D was made tho. i'm pretty sure i read about storm silverhand in a series of books by E. Gary Gygax (The World of Greyhawk ata), i'm not sure... i just borrowed them before..

TooTsY wrote:

if i aint mistaken 1965 ata ung LOTR, i checked the book, i have the 58th reprint of the LOTR trilogy printed 77... hahaha antique.. not so sure about the exact date when D&D was made tho. i'm pretty sure i read about storm silverhand in a series of books by E. Gary Gygax (The World of Greyhawk ata), i'm not sure... i just borrowed them before..

I'm sorry, but I am absolutely certain that The Lord of the Rings first edition was published in 1955. In America and in England. The publishing companies were Houghton-Mifflin and Allen & Unwin, respectively. As a matter of fact, "The Hobbit" was first published in 1937 in England and 1938 in America by the same publishers mentioned above. The 1965 edition you are referring to is the first PAPERBACK edition, by ACE books and Ballantine books. Either that or it may be the second edition of Houghton-Mifflin in slipcase cover..? Who is the Publisher of your antique book? (By the way, wow naman po.kkinggit. Where'd you get your book?) As for Storm Silverhand, I admit that I am completely clueless. I only read high fantasy on the side, and never dare to touch Pseudo-fantastic mainstream (a.k.a Romantic fantasy).

Please correct me if you find evidence to the contrary. Science Fiction is more of my expertise.

I'm a frustrated bibliophile in a nurse's uniform. My dream is to be a rare, antiquarian books dealer...when I'm filthy rich..which is probably never

NB: Sana a part of the Silmarillion will be made into a movie. The directors can fill in the convo and stuff, as long as they stay true to the plot. The book would explain a lot of things for those LOTR enthusiasts who are not fond of reading. Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was partly responsible for the popularization of the genre "fantasy"? Also, he was a close friend of C.S. Lewis.my favorite childhood author..This is so way off-topic!

OT:wala bang adik d2 ng nicholas linear novels at tom clancy books?ahihihihi

Zephyr wrote:

TooTsY wrote:

if i aint mistaken 1965 ata ung LOTR, i checked the book, i have the 58th reprint of the LOTR trilogy printed 77... hahaha antique.. not so sure about the exact date when D&D was made tho. i'm pretty sure i read about storm silverhand in a series of books by E. Gary Gygax (The World of Greyhawk ata), i'm not sure... i just borrowed them before..

I'm sorry, but I am absolutely certain that The Lord of the Rings first edition was published in 1955. In America and in England. The publishing companies were Houghton-Mifflin and Allen & Unwin, respectively. As a matter of fact, "The Hobbit" was first published in 1937 in England and 1938 in America by the same publishers mentioned above. The 1965 edition you are referring to is the first PAPERBACK edition, by ACE books and Ballantine books. Either that or it may be the second edition of Houghton-Mifflin in slipcase cover..? Who is the Publisher of your antique book? (By the way, wow naman po.kkinggit. Where'd you get your book?) As for Storm Silverhand, I admit that I am completely clueless. I only read high fantasy on the side, and never dare to touch Pseudo-fantastic mainstream (a.k.a Romantic fantasy).

Please correct me if you find evidence to the contrary. Science Fiction is more of my expertise.

I'm a frustrated bibliophile in a nurse's uniform. My dream is to be a rare, antiquarian books dealer...when I'm filthy rich..which is probably never

NB: Sana a part of the Sylmarilion will be made into a movie. The directors can fill in the convo and stuff, as long as they stay true to the plot. The book would explain a lot of things for those LOTR enthusiasts who are not fond of reading. Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was partly responsible for the popularization of the genre "fantasy"? Also, he was a close friend of C.S. Lewis.my favorite childhood author..This is so way off-topic!

You are right ma'am, the book i have is the paperback edition. did some googling and it turns out the Hobbit was published in '37, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring '54, The Two Towers '54, and The Return of the king in '55.

The Silmarillon was a very difficult read for me, probably owing to the fact that book i read prior to this was The Hobbit. I haven't touched the LOTR series before this time. Besides, it was a bunch of different stories, mostly historical accounts of the different races in Middle Earth. Anyway, the only part I liked in this book was the story of Beren and Luthien. Ginawa ko syang book report or something dati... hahaha.. although it was only part of the entire book, I guess my teacher didn't notice.

The other short stories I have of JRR Tolkien are Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wotton Major. Two really short stories, bound in a very thin paperback.

sorry, we've deviated so much from the actual thread topic. Sir Admin, would you mind moving the OT posts in this thread to a different thread? Thanks a lot.

My callsign bodyguard started when I join a group of Cockfighters in our hometown in Asingan, Pangasinan where me and my cousins breed quality fighting cocks that resulted to a very high score in 2 days time 11 wins and 1 draw, considering that we are just a neophyte in the field of cockfighting. As time goes on and as the winning roles over, people from different places begun to befriend me like a politician only to serve their interest. So lahat na ng laban ko lagi silang nakasunod sa akin that even shows that they are my bodyguards salamat namn sa diyos at palagi kaming nananalo at marami akong natutulongang tao, and on one big time derby the good mayor of San Carlos even joke me "ang dami mo namang bodyguard mas marami pa sa akin" hehehe. One thing more nataon din na sumikat ang film na "The Bodyguard" kaya parang na timing yong time and event ne yon. So from then on i use the name bodyguard as my entry name in cockfighting, a past word an alias and now my call sign in the Air Soft Group.

I'm a graffiti artist. I belong to a graffitti group back in the States called "Illegal Styles Krew/Crew" or "ISK/ISC". My "tagname"(as we graffiti artitist like to call it) was "VISON"(pronouced "vision"). at dat time it was spelled "VISON". after sometime, I changed the spelling to "VSHN".

vshn wrote:

I'm a graffiti artist. I belong to a graffitti group back in the States called "Illegal Styles Krew/Crew" or "ISK/ISC". My "tagname"(as we graffiti artitist like to call it) was "VISON"(pronouced "vision"). at dat time it was spelled "VISON". after sometime, I changed the spelling to "VSHN".

OT: wow your a graffity artist? i admire a lot about graffiti and its makers, so your into hip hop thang? ... i bet you see a lot of those tags here in baguio... thats not graffiti right?heheheehehe i use to admire graffiti but not vandalism

cheers

sir, pwede ba magpa graffiti ng bengbeng? like yung ginawa ni swagger sa sniper riffle nya Ü dba abis?

My Real name is DARWIN.
Friends call me PAPA DARWIN or PAPA ''D'' i dont know why..(?)
but i got the hang of it and made a callsign out of it. Cant think
of a best callsign than my name in it! and what im known with
my friends.