Rationale for your username

[Tabe]

Mine is a childhood nickname based on my last name. Hardly anybody other than my parents, my wife, and a couple co-workers calls me by real name. To everybody else, it's "Tabe".

As for the avatar, well, a few years back there was a web site where you could submit a photo and it would create a "Simpsons" character of you based on your photo. A co-worker friend of mine did that for our entire group, with hilarious results. Mine actually is a fairly good representation of what I actually look like and so I've adopted it as an avatar.

[gypsyking13]

Mine comes from a contest I won with Topps. I got a card in the 2013 Gypsy Queen set where the title of the card was Gypsy King. My sports number in high school was 13.

[birdman42]

My username and avatar come from my first passion, birds. The 42 is because it's the answer to everything, so it should be a part of everything.

The pic is of an osprey diving for dinner. Spent last weekend working with the Cape May Raptor Banding Project; more ospreys, hawks, falcons and eagles than you could count.

Bill

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by birdman42

My username and avatar come from my first passion, birds. The 42 is because it's the answer to everything, so it should be a part of everything.

The pic is of an osprey diving for dinner. Spent last weekend working with the Cape May Raptor Banding Project; more ospreys, hawks, falcons and eagles than you could count.

Bill

I have seen quite a few raptors while fossil hunting in Nanjemoy at Purse State Park on the Potomac across the river from Aquia Creek.