Maybe this has been asked before, how did you come up with your alias's

[Free Hand]

Howdy Folks,
my alias came from the following:

1) My last name is Stone,

2) Iv'e worked at a cemetery fo 23 years,
                    and
3) for better or for worse, the Earp brothers were my great granny's cousions.

I wanted to name my son that but my wife couldn't see the humor in it.

Tom B Stone

[Dr. Bob]

When I started in CAS a couple of year ago, I knew that I wasn't a cowpoke or lawman.  I have done living history for 20+ years, a lot of it as a Doctor.  I have dear friends that called me Dr. Bob and so it seemed like the logical choice.  Besides that, I had been building a persona since the early 1980's who went to medical school and decided that more money could be made in the Santa Fe trade than in a mid-Missouri doctors office.  The rest can be found in my CAS City Profile!

[Goatlips]

"Wyatt Earp"  was taken.

Goatlips

[DArchangel]

Stold mine from a used car dealer in Ft. Wayne Indiana

[Sgt. Manse Jolly]

My handle is taken from a local hero. Sgt. Manse Jolly was a Confederate Cavalryman for the entire war. He lost his three brothers and the only one to return home. He was a totally unreconstructed Southerner and gave the Union occupations troops pure HECK for a couple of years after the war. Things did get a little hot for him, so he decided it was time to leave Anderson, South Carolina and head for Texas.

The occupation troops said he was a renegade, but smart enough to avoid any prosecuation! The locak folks hailed him as a hero as he helped feed the folks when the occupation troops and carpetbaggers made them into paupers!

[RRio]

When I was Honorably Discharged from active duty in the Navy in 1974, I left the Naval Station at Long Beach, CA and came to Phoenix. The first job I got was at Rawhide ( AZ's 1880s Town) as a gunfighter, doing the street gunfights where one of my favorite characters I played was named "Rio".
I did that for a total of 11 years, until I "retired" in 1987. After I quit "gunfighting", it was over 10 years until I would vist Rawhide again. I took my family to have dinner at Rawhide and to show my 2 sons where I worked and met their Mother.

My wife was talking to one of the shopkeepers that remembered me as Rio, when I heard her say "Yeah, he's Rawhide Rio." I told her when she came out of the shop, that would make a good SASS alias ( my alias at the time was Arizona Six-Guns, which I really did not care for).
So the following Monday, I called SASS HQ and had my alias changed from "Arizona Six-Guns" to "Rawhide Rio".

[Smokey Three Toes]

  My Brother-In-Law died way before his time, his nickname was Smokey, I asked his wife if I could use his name, she said he would be proud if I would, the second and third part of my name is in Honor of my Father who lost 2 of his toes in a accident. That is how I came up with it. 

    STT

[GunClick Rick]

Beat what they called me in grade school which was Rubber Buttons Rick..I guess cuase i was so wirery and i could hang from the monkey bars with my arms and do a complete flip around,but i had to use a heavy thick coat so it wouldn't hurt my arms too much.A couple of twin brothers started calling me Rubber Buttons,i never knew why or where of it..