Mickey Papillon

I guess I should have seen this one coming, but I guess I need to describe for everyone why I use the internet name GT2697.  Granted, this isn’t going to be a great story, but some of you have asked for it so here goes.

The crux of the name goes back to about 10 years ago.  Its actually 2 parts, the GT and the 2697.  When I started spending time on internet bulletin boards, I found that a lot of the screen names that I wanted to use were already taken, so I wanted to think of something alphanumeric that wouldn’t be chosen by many folks.  I also wanted something that I would be able to remember (for example, I am also AZcellphonejunkie and AZcellphonejunk depending on the site which can be confusing because of character limitations on the server).

So, at the time, I was driving a Pontiac Grand Am GT, which is where the GT comes from.  Nothing more of an explanation that that.

Now the 2697 is a longer story.  When I was younger, I was part of the Exploring program through the Boy Scouts, with my specialty being Police.  I grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis called New Brighton and the NBPD was the department that i spent my time with.  The city at the time was split into 3 different sections and had 3 different call numbers of their vehicles 2690, 2696, and 2697 depending on where they were patrolling.  Being the dubious teen that I was, I listened to a police scanner constantly and was always listening for a call in my part of town, the one covered by 2697.

So there you have it, nothing more than that to explain where the name comes from.