I seem to already have one (see user name), but an alternative would be Surly Moose. Both fit but neither has anything to do with a vision or popular acclaim.
My favorite continues to be a Dakota warrior/sub-chief who was at the Little Big Horn fight. The short form is Afraid of His Horses. The full name is His Enemies Are Even Afraid of His Horses. A tough dude, apparently.
He breezed in an out like much of the same. And the boy came out fighting.
The Pratchett version goes something like this:
“Why do they call you One-Man-Bucket?”
“It’s short for ‘One-Man-Throwing-A-Bucket-Of-Water-On-Two-Dogs’. In my tribe, you’re named for the first thing your father sees when he leaves the teepee to announce your birth. I don’t have it NEARLY as bad as my older twin brother, though.”
“What was his name? Two Dogs Fighting?”
“…He’d have given his right arm to be named Two Dogs FIGHTING.”
Runs With Scissors
I’m probably Can’t Find Glasses or Forgot Something.
Big Ears Biking
Forearms Like Popeye
What?
Silently Stalks Deer
For that time I got close enough to a deer to (almost) reach out and touch it. I am good at sneaking round.
Ten Beers comes from The Outlaw Josey Wales, a Clint Eastwood movie. The chief’s name was Ten Bears. One of my favorites. And so is Pale (Ale) Rider.
Good call.
Speaking of pale ale, I should mention my brother; IPA Stream.
When Harry Flashman was living with the Apaches, they admired his ability at horse riding and renamed him He Rides His Horse So Fast The Wind Breaks Before Him. Of course that was a little long, so they usually called him Breaking Wind.
In the book “Flashman and the Redskins” our Flashy is a reluctant guest of the Apaches who admire his horsemanship and feel he deserves a new name. It is “Rides His Horse So Fast He Shatters The Wind”. When he comments that the name is impressive, but really too long, he is told that in common usage it would just be “Wind Breaker.”
Or something like that.
Okay, now I actually looked it up. Flashman’s Apache name was “White Rider Goes So Fast He Destroys the Wind with His Speed”. And he was commonly known as “He Who Breaks the Wind” or “Wind Breaker”.
Man Who Smokes In Shower.
Giver of Directions
(For some reason I can’t seem to go anywhere without someone asking me how to get to some location or another.)
To the strains of O Fortuna, by chance?
When I used to live in the city and walked everywhere I would get frustrated with the tourists who always walked super slow and 5 aside and as I bobbed and weaved my way past them I would always think my indian name should be, “Walks with Purpose”.
My friends and I made names for ourselves many years ago. Whenever a good one comes up, we add it to the list.
My name is Dances With Spiders from my fear of the nasty beasts and a post I put on here many moons ago about one in my shower.
My best friend is 6’5." His name is Head Touches Sky. His wife is Sleeps in Cars.
We have a friend that is named Stands to Wipe and another named Mumbles to Songs.
My wife has no name yet…