Origins of your screen name

[Fallguy]

My screen name came from one of the characters in our group's weekly BT game that I GM. The game started with only two players, my friend John and McKenna and the first NPC they met was a guy named Joe Faller... callsign "Fallguy". He joined their newly forming Merc Lance, The Silver Eagles, as their first employee.
 
After a while of playing the game, (several years, in fact) and as the unit got larger and larger, the players commented once that I roleplayed Fallguy with so much more enthusiasm than the other NPCs that they started saying he was "my character". Admittedly, I have more connection to his character because he's a die-hard FWL fanatic (just like myself  ) so I can get "into character" with Joe more easily than with other NPCs... so in a way he's sort of my alter ego.
 
When I found the old BT boards, I decided to use his callsign as my screen name for lack of anything better to put in. (I'm really bad at coming up with names... so much so that I built a random name generator to fill in NPC names long before there were websites that did it  )

[gooseman]

"Goose" already to my name. Gooseman is a used variant thereof.

I had a really close buddy when I was stationed in the Army. He had a souped-up (after factor upgrades) 5.0 Mustang and we were inseperable. He was short(er) and had dark hair, I was tall(er) and have blond hair. Someone stuck "Mav(erick) & Goose" on us (his "flying" and my being the "RIO") and it's been there ever since. To this day, we're still in contact,and people still call us
"Mav & Goose".

[maddyfish]

Maddyfish

Went fishing once with the kids, and all I caught was Madtoms, which the kids call Maddyfishes.

[Charlie 6]

I commanded Battery C, 1st Battalion 10th Marines during OIF 1 and my callsign was 'Charlie 6'; so the name is rather unimaginative.

S/F

Matt

[StCptMara]

Named after my first Blood Spirit character back in the day...
I chose the name "Mara" because, a) the dice decided my character gender, and b) Mara is
the Buddhist term for the Hindu concept of Maya(that everything is an illusion, a lie to keep us
from progressing). This is a concept I have always found kind of interesting, and, well, for a number
of reasons, it just made sense to use in this instance.

And, I have used the name as my handle on the BT Forums so long, even though I was tempted to change,
honestly, I was too active and well known..so, it was just easier to keep the same name..

[wackrabbit]

I chose wackrabbit because I figured no one else would. 

[Kargush]

Started out as the name of a World Eaters Lord for my 40k army. Later learned that there's one more out there who uses the same name, and even threw some crap at me on my youtube channel. *shrugs*

[TigerShark]

On the old Forums I was "NPettinato," which should be obvious to anyone who knows my full name. :-p

But I chose TigerShark as my internet handle for a few reasons. The Tigers are my favorite baseball team. No, I'm not from Detroit -- Southern California, born and bred. But then being from a place is certainly not a qualifier for becoming a fan, is it? (Or playing on the team, for that matter!)

The second is my love for all things Rim Worlds Republic. I had cared little for the factions and focused more on the gaming aspect of Battletech for the last 18 years. That is, until I read the elusive Star League book and original printing of Periphery. I found a love for that faction and hence the "Shark" part of my handle.