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elubsme
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I've often wondered how you came up with your names. So' I'll start first. My wife is the computer guru. When she set me up on G.B. she used her license plate letters ELUBSME. which means He loves me. And I still do, by the way. I reckon she lubs me back as she has had the plate renewed since 1988 when I bought her Dodge Raider.
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Mine is My first name and year of birth
When I started on the internet ,ebay was the first I joined many years ago in the 1990's
I had to come up with a user name so all I picked out were used or close to hillbilly , and similar were taken so many I tried for were taken
As a young fellow I was very agresive driver to put it midly. My wife thinks I still do .
I put my share of cars in ditches and crashed a few, ( ok more than a few) even had a box full of tickets to verify it
So. "Ditch-Runner "was settled on by me as my user name it
close to ridge runner being me being from the south and also adding in my care free driving habits
It may have or is wrong ? But every internet site (As in auction sites, ) I used it sadly use to be a lot of them, but I still use Ditch-Runner as my user name on all of them
Now, its just down to two sites, left Gun broker and Ebay
My first computer log in name was made up on the fly for yahoo chat room in the early days . I took the name from my wrist watch plus my state
Where I'm from plus a spoof on a movie title.
The first forum I joined was a farming forum. John Deere was already taken.
Locust Fork is the tiny town I live in here in Alabama….they named it after a fork in the river that had a Locust tree
N E O is for North East Oregon, where I spent most of my life and lived when I joined GB, and Blackdog is for my ol' lab Jake, God rest his soul.
High school sports teams nickname
When I started posting here I rode a Triumph T100 and flogged it through the curves. I have since had a stroke and don't have the balance to ride. The name remains.
in 'Nam when checking in on the radio you had to identify yourself with your initials, mine are "MW"= "mike whiskey" in the phonic alphabet. I dropped the 'h' just to be different.
The guys who I was flying with and building airplanes for thought I could do magic with metal so my call sign became MERLIN (the magician). The v12 is after the Allison engine we put in the Spitfire. .
Two of my favorite authors: Ambrose Bierce & Stephen Ambrose.
Often wondered….
Mark is my first name. G is my middle initial.
Two of my favorite authors: Ambrose Bierce & Stephen Ambrose.
Ambrose Bierce. He wrote An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. An incident along the lines of the song The Green Green Grass of Home. It was a really spooky showing one time on The Twilight Zone.
Ambrose was 70 years old, he traveled down to Mexico during The Revolution in 1915 and he just disappeared. Nobody knows what happened. He lived spooky and he died spooky.
Nickname and last name initial.
My nickname that family has always called me.
When I was fairly young, maybe 13ish, my mom wasn't too sure about hunting but I really wanted to. We were farmers and regularly slaughtered animals so I never understood her objections. Anyway, one day some of my friends were over and we all had our bows and we were going to go deer hunting. She asked "where's my little Bambi hunter going". I think she thought it would guilt me into not going. Well, friends not letting a good nickname go, started calling me that. Knowing that if it bothered me it would only make it worse, I owned it. I use some variation of it on most sites I visit sometimes with a 71 or 1971 after it (birth year).
The irony is that all these years later, I've ran into people that can't recall my real name, but remember bambihunter. I went from K-11.5 at one school. Our family literally lost the farm and we moved so I didn't graduate from there and I was a bit ashamed (like I had any part in it at my age) so I didn't really tell people that we were leaving. Just disappeared after football season ended. I recently went to my 35th high school reunion to that school having never went to one since leaving in 1988. I'd say my name, and more than once I'd get a blank stare. I'd mention my nickname, and they'd crack up and be like where the heck have you been, what happened to you, where did you go?
That's cool. My wife had 2spoiled on her plate for many years after we got married in 90 because of the way she felt about how I treated her. After she graduated with her Masters' and started her professional career, she changed it to something more professional which I completely understand.
The day came when I snatched the pebble from Abbot, the senior monk , he said it was time to leave the monastery Grasshopper.
All our late "best friends"(many) were named Butch or Butchie.
Was Edspdog long ago, got computer issues, we had a dog named Pee-willie, he would roll over on his back and you better watch out
Again, I have to say, I use to drink a lot more when I was younger.
This is a blacksmith hammer, it's a Heller Brothers with a 2 lb. head. I got and it was badly rusted, the old smith passed and the family left the tools to decay and I put a new handle on it, so I like collecting old hammers and other old tools. I thought the handle was appropriate since I collect old tools, Stanley planes, axes, rules and hammers which I end up selling most of them at the tool show's.
I was flying A-4 Skyhawks (Scooters) when I joined the forums.
Funny note: Mark C pm’d me one day and asked if the A-4 was why I chose that username. We corresponded often and I helped provide context for some of his stories. Love him or hate him, the world is a lesser place without him.
My favorite rifle………..Remington Mohawk 600…………in .308
William is my first name. I got married and finished my undergrad and started graduate school in 1981..
I have a cannon which I shoot occasionally. Cannoneer was taken.
utbrowningman
ut = Utah - resident since 1992
browning - Utah's own and my choice of firearms
man - self explanatory
First of my given name is Rachel... My nickname as always been Rae, on another forum my screen name is just Rae Harrison. Along the way I earned the name Lady Rae😍
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I thought about that….
Was sitting here looking at my wife's book shelves full of books. Asopp's fables just should out & there I am!
dcon1 thru dcon11 was taken. Don
When I was younger, I rode a CBX. Took it to Sturgis about 24 times. It was the only CBX there except one I saw at the bike show. I have a picture scrapbook of those trips, but I can't post them. Joe would hit me with a big timeout. 😉
I was thinking "The Hangover".
Not the rat poison?
Mines part of my first name since most folk have difficulty saying it so to make it easy I shortened it to four letters. Also my parents kept it real and didn't sell out and name me Jose. And myster is to celebrate my Eastern (way Eastern) German heritage. Phonetically spelt while drunk that is how there is a "y" instead of "ei".
Easy "Hoosier". Indiana.
I'm an Indiana Boy. Born and raised in the big city of Indianapolis. Eight years out for the Army. and "Back Home again in Indiana". There for another 18 years.
Till the wife says she is moving to Kentucky to be closer to her folks. As a Good Husband I went. My Dad had died and Mom moved on.
I'm now a Hoosier trapped in Kentucky (not really).
Now I get to watch the the one Beer horse race, in stead of the 6-pack Auto Race.
I still keep my business name I've had it for 36 years. hoosiergunworks.com
I was Associate Curator at the New York State Military Museum, now in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The first Curator was a Lt. Col. Lockwood Doty, who started the Museum in the New York State Capitol Building in 1863. He started with the State's Regimental Battle Flags, and the Collections has grown ever since. We have artifacts from the 17th Century to the current conflicts that the N.Y. National Guard is involved with.
To honor Ltc. Doty, I have used his name for the twenty-five years I worked at the Museum. If you are ever near Saratoga, stop by at the Museum. It is in the old National Guard Armory. You should see the arms vault…😃
Back in 1981, I bought and restored an old '58 Chevy Brookwood station wagon. Had it for many years and toured a lot of country in it with the family. That same year, I also did the same with a '51 Plymouth Cranbrook 4 door sedan.
I flipped a coin about between the two and the Brookwood won.
This may very well be the same car. My personal pictures are locked away in an old computer. Found this on the net and it sure looks close!
Riden in style brotha !
Kool! I had a '58 Impala.
@Brookwood, that is a nice ride, I’ll bet you wish you still had it. In 1968 my girl friend had a 1958 Chevy. They were built like a tank. If you had one today it would more than likely be classified as a SUV Heavy. lol
Thanks for bringing back memories of the past.