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USER NAMES/HANDLES - What does yours mean? Where did it come from?

I worked as a construction electrician, and had this name tagged on me about 40 yrs ago, while setting large switch gear into place, during construction of our local powerhouse. I was pushing on one side, while others were suppose to be pushing on the other, but were really watching me move the the gear by myself. (don't think I weighed 130 lbs soaking wet at the time.) Not much more than that now. :roflblack:
 
BajaRon said:
Great thread...

I used to live in San Diego and did as much fishing as I could in Baja. I was always trying to get people to go with me.

People started calling me BajaRon and running it all together ribbing me about being some kind of guru on the subject.

You have to know what you're doing when you fish Baja or you can get yourself in a lot of trouble....Just ask Lamont about it! :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:
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I LOVE FISHING is the Baja fishing great?
I've been to Costa Rica, Florida Keys, and Canada.
 
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Well the Jim A - self explainatory - 1153 was my pin# for initiation into Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Purdue in 1982.
 
The Nauti part comes from my love of sailing, the Brit is my birthplace, Britain. A slightly different spelling, given to me by my wife, suits my alter-ego when I play football (soccer) and get overly aggressive, NaughtyBrit.
 
I came up with my handle several years ago while living in Idaho. At the time, my wife and I owned a motorhome and we towed a trailer with two snowmobiles. I lettered the trailer with the name and later added TOYS 42 vanity plates on the motorhome.. No kids, just toys.
 
Got my nickname years ago...as I was a counselor at the hospital and a sponsor within my 12 step group (wearing 2 hats), one of my patients started calling me Obiwan as I was his mentor/instructor for him to get into sobriety. I, in turn called him LUKE.

Whereas I also had a grey beard, the name stuck
 
sethO, because i agree that people should have their real names up online but I am in the minority, before I got hurt I used my trailerrailer name on all forums but it works better i have found to have your name or part of your name in your tag, makes conversations more personal.​
 
vtrider said:
When I purchased my Spyder, I was one of the first few that had one in Vermont. My dealer is the only dealer that sells spyders in Vermont as far as I know. I don't usually get a chance to take many rides too far from home, so I guess I consider myself a Vermont Spyder Rider ''vtrider"
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vtrider, After reading your post, I gotta ask you this question, since my 82 year old neighbor who lives in Illinois but, winters here at the beach asked me the same question, when I got my Spyder home.

How many people asked? Where did you have it converted at?

I said converted? He said yeah! I've had enough snowmobiles to know one when I see one. How did you come up with this idea? Well!!!:roflblack:
 
While serving in the Army, the majority of the people I encountered and worked with had a problem pronouncing "Gerspach" (go figger). My name was often shortened to "Sergeant G", or just "G-Man". The G-man stuck with me. The handle applies even more now that I am a government employee.
 
jgwoods said:
Thats' funny- I'da thought you would be Woody, not Woodsy.
Oh and I had a 428 Ford long ago- a 66 emerald green convertible - great car!
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Both were used when I was younger, but during the 70s the "woodsy"(s) outnumbered the "woody"(s). I was living in a geodesic dome on a river at the time, and apparently some of the people that came out to check it out thought I was called Woodsy because I lived in the woods. ;) I found that out when someone asked me what my real name was. When I said "Dave Wood, why do you think they call me Woodsy", he replied "because you live in the woods", aaaahhh such a simpler time, LOL. Or is that simpler mind??

I used to really like hi rpm 4-speed small block Fords (has to be a Ford). Because of availabilty in the used market in 1972, I bought a 428 CJ Mustang with an automatic. My tastes changed instantly. I raced the car for many years and later drove it on the street until 1990, when I sold it to a Mustang restorer/show car guy. He bought it specificly because it was the Ford magazine test car that was circualted to many of the magazines. It's most prominent appearance was in the 1969 Car Life road test (I still have the copy). I didn't know when I purchased it, but found out sometime in the late 70s, when I opened it up and realized it had been balanced and blueprinted. I understood then why it was so damned quick out of the box.

I still build and maintain several 428 cars of the era, including a couple Shelby GT500s and a couple of 428 Mustangs ('70 Mach I and a '69 GT). Oddly, I own 3 Mustangs currently, a '68 ragtop and 2x '70 Boss 302s... not a single big block, except in the Cobra Roadster.
 
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I retired a Master Sergeant from the Air Force and was a Navy Corpsman when I was in the Navy. The Marines used to call me DOC. A good friend always calls me MSGTDOC. Hence the handle.:dontknow:
 
Cool Thread

Great idea for a thread. I have always had fun seeing if I can figure out why some peoples screen names are what they are. I find I am right about 90% of the time.:clap:

Mine's pretty simple. I was, am, and always will be a texan at heart. I didn't truly realize that until I joined the Air Force and lived other places. When I returned to TX, I could always tell when I crossed the border, even when flying. Thus, tx.

I enjoy medieval fiction and have always tried to live my life by the "Knights Code". Since My Lady and some close friends tell me I do a pretty good job of it, I settled on that.

And 67 is my birth year.

I am like some of the others, I use this screen name everywhere to avoid confusion.
 
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My father was a huge Duke Snider fan and when my mother was giving birth to me, back in those days the men went to the bar not in the delivery room. He was listening to the Brooklyn Dodgers game and my Dad said if he hits a homerun at his next at bat and my wife gives birth to a boy, his name will be Duke. I guess you know the rest of the story. I got Dukester from work, because everyone calls me that. Oh yea, John Wayne (The Duke) is the true American.
 
Very cool thread bumblebee.

I got my nickname 10 years or so from friends of mine. They said I reminded them of dday from animal house. Among my friends I was the only one riding at the time. The name dday has stuck ever since. I live in British Columbia, Canada, thus ddaybc.

So far I don't own a Spyder but am working towards getting an RTS in 2010. :D
 
Great question, and my handle, like so much else in my life is a combination of events. I go by Verb, which you'd think was unique enough to use, but it seemed like it was always already in use, apparently by someone named Verbosky, so I reversed it (Brev) to see how I liked it. That then reminded me of the old military brevet ranks and, as a cyclist, long distance rides,so I chose Brevet, which was also too common, so I appended the 05 to use the same handle on most sites. Wordy, but true.
 
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