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

Pogo said:
Very many years ago I used to be a member of a wannabe patch club where my nickname was Pretzel.

I lost a leg in a crash (car T-boned me) and spent a year in a rehab centre learning to limp.

While I was there, some mates from the club came to visit. One, clearly shocked when he saw me, started stammering in his greeting and called me Pogo. :shocked:

I liked it so much I kept it.;)

Cheers;

Pogo.
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I like your attitude Pogo. You "Enabled Spyder Lovers" out there are a real credit to our community.

And so is Bumblebee for starting this thread! I have and am really enjoying myself reading all these posts. I hope it reaches over 1000 posts! We need to keep this one on top of the page people so it don't get buried and forgotten. To end the year on an non-critical way would be cool with me.:2thumbs:
 
I actually find it an interesting tidbit that there are many Spyder riders with lower extremetie(?) injuries. Being in the bike business since 1969, I didn't see too many riders over the years with that type injury. The only guy I recall was right after leaving the AF in 1973, one of my new made friends rode an electric start Harley trike( probably about '68 or so) and had lost his legs in 'nam. I always admired his ability to hop on that trike and fold up his chair and toss it on the back. My only son, now almost 40, became paraplegic after being tossed from a rolling vehicle he crashed while driving drunk( he still doesn't wear seatbelts). I wish he had the same drive as that guy.
 
. . . . voices from the past

Desert Spyder said:
I have and am really enjoying myself reading all these posts. I hope it reaches over 1000 posts! We need to keep this one on top of the page people so it don't get buried and forgotten.
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:agree:

What is also great, is hearing from some of the people who have not posted for quite a while. Glad to see you all are still around! ( and I am glad to be here too )

Tom
 
In 1968 I purchased a 1964 650cc Triumph TR1 Trophy Sport, the bike I learned to ride on. Anyway, it got away from me when learning to ride it. My hand slipped off the clutch and I unexpectedly wheelied. One of my riding buddies said, "Hey, he's a wheeler" and they nicknamed me Wheeler and the name caught on even with school mates.
 
old cb handle. Doing my best to follow. He said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the father but by me." one way:2thumbs:
 
Nothing original - my name is Karen Lee Woodson (klw) no problem remembering. My nickname is cookie (I'm a pastry chef)
couldn't use on this forum.

Great thread! I haven't been on in a few weeks and I enjoyed reading this
during our first snow storm.
 
Sekhet was my call sign in the Air Force.

While going through Air Combat training, one of our training officers (of Egyptian descent) was constantly saying that I attacked my targets and adversaries like the Egyptian Gods of war, Anubus & Sekhet. Another pilot had already been given the call sign Anubus so I was dubbed Sekhet and it stuck.
 
I'm a vetren of the navy 69 79 so my plate is VT228 so i'm vt228 name your self what you love and that is your name for know on my friend welcome to the family..Merry x mass to all out there
 
Don't mind me. Just trying to keep this thread on the top of the list so it don't get buried. Cmon peeps. There's over 3000 Spyder Lovers out there. Write in!
 
Origin of handle

After 50 plus years of working and some health problems I am what my handle infers "RETIRED1" Not too original or imaginative, just a statement of fact! Its fun reading about the origins of "Handles".
 
aubie rules =

aubie is the mascot of my favorite college football team, the Auburn Tigers.....see pic at left....and they rule...so AUBIERULES:ohyea:

Bald Mountain said:
My initials are MTN and I am follically challenged, Hence......
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:roflblack:

porboy said:
I'm a boy, and I'm por, so poor I only use one "o".:roflblack::roflblack:
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i thought it was because ur mug looks like erik estrada on some serious crack!:roflblack:
 
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Same here, :2thumbs:

Come on spyderlovers. We have over 3500 members here, there has to be more stories!!
Keep them coming, they are all very interesting.
 
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aubierules said:
aubie is the mascot of my favorite college football team, the Auburn Tigers.....see pic at left....and they rule...so AUBIERULES:ohyea:
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My sister and brother-in-law live in Alabama,Opelika. I'm not a sports enthusiast,I like to participate but not watch, so please forgive my ignorance. He's a big "Chrimson Tide" fan, is that the same team?
 
woodz428 said:
My sister and brother-in-law live in Alabama,Opelika. I'm not a sports enthusiast,I like to participate but not watch, so please forgive my ignorance. He's a big "Chrimson Tide" fan, is that the same team?
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um NO :yikes::D
Auburn is just next door to Opelika...he lives in Auburn country..War Eagle
 
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