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Back in the "60 s" I was heavily into bushwalking and rockclimbing , At times you might take stock of a particular climb or maybe a difficult canyon or such , at such times I had been know to utter " god help us" which eventually became "gawdelpus" aussie slang or strine . :)
 
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The name of my first Dungeons & Dragons character when I was introduced to the game. The Dungeon Master collected swords, so he dropped the N from Solingen steel.

Oddly named for steel - the character was a wizard.
 
My Mother called me Moke since I was a little kid...I am sure she called me a lot of other things too. My real name is Mike and if you have ever noticed Mike is the most used name in recent history, so when you are walking down the street and peole yell," Hey Mike" ....I never even look, but if some one yells "hey Moke" who else could that be?
Moke
 
I use to be a Deputy Sheriff and we had alot of rural area to cover. Seemed everytime I was working we would always get calls for someones cattle being out. It got to the point that I would be able to tell dispatch who they belonged to just by the area or the brand. Other guys started calling me that because dispatch would always give me the call since I usually knew where they belonged. Also called me rusty cuffs since I had the highest arrest rate since I was a very active deputy and didn't sit around drinking coffee.
 
ridding atvs back in the mid 80's most of my friends would , like jumping . .. higher and higher . i liked staying on the ground, playing in the mud ,I have had it stuck a few times ...... funny to look back at it now , just seeing the handle grips above water stuck in the mud
David
 
:rolleyes: Mine is Cherokee for "He who cant make a pen but talks alot about it":biggrin:

Mike Redburn
 
I like to ride my motorcycle through the rolling hills of western Wisconsin. Sometimes when you "top a hill" you can see for 20 miles or more, most of it rolling farmland with the contoured fields wrapping around the hills, and partially hidden farmsteads, revealed only by their silos rising above the trees, nestled in the valleys.

I had to pick a user id for something or the other when I met my current wife (11 years ago) and I was 46 at the time, so I became 'hilltopper46'.
 
cajun skeeter; I'm not a Cajun, actually I'm a red neck Texan who is married to a real Cajun.
My other passion is salt water fishing and my bay boat is a 24' Skeeter.
What makes this an inside joke, I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
 
When I was a kid I wanted to take shop but my mother wouldn't let me because she said I was All_Thumbs.
Still have all my fingers.
Carlton :smile:
 
First and last name. I have other usernames that I will use on forums where I wish to be more anonymous, but I figured that I wouldn'd mind if a bunch of fellow woodturners knew my name or not, so...
 
Cinder is just something a patient I took care called me and my ex used ladylocket cause I was a breasty lady who wore my heart on my sleeve.........hmmmmmmmmmmm

ps...thanks for starting this.........was enjoyable reading everyones comment!!!
 
My last name is Maxfield, and every one calls me Max. Since I am the man of the house I used man for the other part and got maxman, and since I was over 400 lbs at one time I chose maxman400 for my user name and a reminder to never be there again.
 
I was christened Karl Keith Gallagher, since i was born though I was called Keith instead. Why, who knows? I began lurking on the site late 2007 and didn't join until around April 2008.
 
Interesting thread here!

My first initial and middle name. It's just a personal reasoning because I was told my first and middle name meant "Pure Lily" and was to honor my Cherokee great grandma. Calling me just "Cathy" just didn't seem right. So where letters are limited or spelled out is taken, I always use CSue so the "Lily" stands out.
 
Many years ago there was a fishing show on TV called "Virgil Ward's Championship Fishing."

My first year of teaching at the school where I spent 32 of my 35 years I filmed the football games each friday night for 30 of those years. One of the coaches started calling me Virgil...I too was fishing a lot back then.

The first time we had computers in school with internet access I was attempting to obtain a yahoo account using virgil and all sorts of virgil followed by various numbers and all were already taken. The student who was helping me said try its_virgil...I did...it was accepted and I never changed it....that was at least 15 years ago..
Do a good turn daily!
Don
 
My first name Gary is where the G comes from, the Capt is because I am a licensed charter boat Captain with a U.S. Coast Guard 100 ton masters license with towing endorsement.
 
Back in college I was known as witz (last name = Horowitz) so I signed my e-mails with -witz. When I tried to get my yahoo account witz was taken so I used the year of my birth. and witz1976 was born. I use that nick on everything so if you see it, it is probably me:biggrin:
 
The Grand Poobah of Pens was already taken. :).

Seriously, around here nobody knows me by name, but if you say "the pen man", everybody knows the pen man (it ain't no big town). Worse, my wife who does shows with me has also lost her individuality and is now known as "The Pen Lady".

A friend called to console me about not being nominated as "Best Artist" in a local magazine. When I told him that I WAS nominated, he just sadly said "Nope, I looked! There ain't no Penman!"

It's better than known as "stinky" or something like that, I guess.
 
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Mine started at work one day... One of my managers saw 2 of us walking down the hall... and harassed us saying "there goes alpha and beta geek". My (younger and greener) coworker immediately asks "which one is alpha and which is beta? I immediately replied "I AM the alpha geek!" ... And it stuck from there.... And now its well known around the company who is the alphageek... and its even on my car:
 
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Cap'n Crunch was a guy that discovered that the whistle given away inside boxes of cereal, emitted a tone that could be used for free phone system access, and which would allow you to jump on open trunk lines and make free calls.

I had my first computer about 25 years ago (IBM PC Jr. haha) and my dad pushed me to learn how to program. While learning, I started reading about John Draper (aka Captain Crunch).. I became obsessed with what he did and how it all worked.

25 years later, I never learned to program any further than that stupid DOS crap and I forgot anything I did learn.
 
Big nose made it easy for kids in school when I was younger all the way through high school to call me Snorton Norton. They thought it really bothered me. LOL. Norton is my last name. I did not mind that they gave me a nick name so I kept it. I know who I am and I like myself. No not an ego here, just a person who likes where they are in life.

Oops. I forgot the 20....
My wife and I were huge Tony Stewart fans when he drove for Home Depot in Nascar. We still like Tony. We just don't follow the sport as much now.
 
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Awesome thread Rob!

I just got asked this today. How ironic....

I live in Portsmouth, VA. Known around here as PTown.
My day job is I am a United States Naval Officer that serves on Submarines. Subbie

Put the two together and you get PTownSubbie. :biggrin:
 
I changed my handle recently... TellicoTurning (was supposed to be TellicoTurnings, but Jeff dropped the "S" when he set it up....TellicoTurnings is the name of my business when I do shows.......
I signed on as Ozmandus... which was an artificial intelligence character in a SciFi book I had read just before signing up, but I inadvertently dropped a "y" and misspelled the character name and just stuck with it....
 
Seer is short for Taihbsear which is a Celtic word for future seer or looker at the time it was appropriate for me.
Jerry
 
well when i join IAP there were a few Louie, Louis so I just went with " Louie56 my age when i join.
 
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