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Location: Hicksville, NY | My college roommate - who is now my brother-in-law - is a geologist, and introduced me to all kinds of rocks back in the day. The one that got my attention was a volcanic pyroclastic rock known as "ignimbrite."
"byte" was the very first term that I learned as a computer newbie ... back in the day when DOS was the way to navigate around the computer, and windows was still in its infancy stages.
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
I just picked a couple of random words. Coincidentally in the Indian dialect of Urdu "Paul Templeman" translates as "Annoying asshole" What's the chances of that? Are you sure, in my English-Urdu-English translation book, they say the closest English equivalent is "cliff."
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Location: SoCal | I just picked a couple of random words. Coincidentally in the Indian dialect of Urdu "Paul Templeman" translates as "Annoying asshole" What's the chances of that?
Karma..... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I've heard that some are just destined for greatness, Paul.
Then there's others... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Back by popular demand.... :) |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | 2stix (sticks) refers to the two lines on the pregnancy test my wife used when we found out we were pregnant with my son. We didn't know if it was going to be a boy or girl, so we referred to him as "two-sticks". I've been using it since that day and it always brings a smile to my face. I modified it to 2stix though, so people wouldn't get the wrong idea that I was one of those drummer types!
Mike... |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Marenostrum is the Mediterraneum sea. "Medi-terraneum" means "sea among-lands". I've chosen this nick 'cause I like latin language and 'cause I live in a small town on the sea shore. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | When I was 49 years old, I was told by an older co-worker that I was at a Magic Age...
Y'see, When you are in your later 40's, you are an Old young-man because you are often older than your peers but not really ancient. [hence, Old Man Arthur]
BUT! Once you turn 50, you cross a threshold and become a Young old-man.
I have since crossed that threshold, but I ain't changing my name. |
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Location: South Windsor Connecticut | I work at the University of Connecticut, where Jonathan (a husky dog) is our mascot. My buddy (who also works there) and I formed a duo and named ourselves the Topdogs. My first name is Jim....
Now if you mistakenly leave your cap lock on when you register, it looks like this TOPDOGJIM. After that I just always used the same name on every forum, bluegrass, suzuki motorcycles, ect.. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ovation Gallery
Takamine Gallery
Martin Gallery
Collings Gallery
Sensing a trend here ???
Oh, just noticed the Collings Gallery is missing a certain sunburst CJ Deluxe. I need to fix that. Either add the photos or get rid of the guitar. Hmmmm...
Also, yes I do own Ukulele Gallery and that one is under construction. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Over the past 15 years, I've been spending some of my free time as an adjunct professor at the local university. Although it isn't my real job, it keeps me in gear. |
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| I've explained it in an earlier thread, but I tend to choose my screen names (I've had many) from some phrase I heard on TV or radio that day.
In this case it was a football penalty, loss of down.
I'm not Russian. Or even impatient. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Moody posted "Mine's from a fantasy I always had about wanting to be a private investigator. In reality, I work the drive up window at the local Dairy Queen"
Long live the Queen! |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Paulcc1:
Moody posted "Mine's from a fantasy I always had about wanting to be a private investigator. In reality, I work the drive up window at the local Dairy Queen"
Long live the Queen! You know, I thought I was telling you that in private. So much for clergy confidentiality.
"Fries with that burger?" |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Its my last name... Simple as that. (and makes it easy for remember... for me at least.) |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I live on Bauer Hill Rd. Many years ago when I used to go to bluegrass festivals, I recall seeing the letters on a bus..."Johnson Mountain Boys". Sort of borrowed from that memory.
John <>{ |
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Location: NW Washington State | I have weak fingers. Not to mention a weak mind. Maybe I should change my name to Numbskull.
-Steve W. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around. :confused:
I think it fits.
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| Undergrad and graduate degrees from, and faculty member of, the University of Florida, whose mascot is the Gator. Screen name is the phonetic 1ee7 spelling of same. |
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Location: Vernon CT | I wasn't feeling very creative the Day I signed up and this was the first forum I've ever joined.
Initials and birthday. Now you all know, I want a 1680 for it! :D ;) |
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Location: New York | I am a large man who puts some older folks in the mind of a certain cowboy in a 10 gallon hat. I used to work in sales and my boss started to call me Hoss and it was always easier for customers to remember Hoss than Percival Sweetwater. To muddy things further, I started riding a motorcycle called a Boss Hoss in 2002. So it was like karma dude. |
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Location: New York | Ooops, almost forgot, I am a man and I was born on the 21st. Thus Hossman21 |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Good thing you added that, Hoss. I was picturing a woman who looked like Hoss and it wasn't pleasant.
Mine's to distinguish me from a bunch of other Marks on another board in a galaxy far, far away. I don't visit there any more, but if I used a different name for every different board, I'd forget. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I grew up in Canterbury, Ct. When I moved to Hot Springs and opened the shop, I wanted to honor my parents. The money they left me enabled me to start this venture. But with a last name like Swan, what was I to call it? "Swansong?!!" I think not! So I named the shop after my hometown instead. When I joined the board, I used the name of the store for my screen name. It's what most people around here call me anyway. "Canterbury String Lady". |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Say Hoss, still got the Boss? There's a few of us who've been riding for many years. I sure looked long and hard at those big Boss Hogs at a Harley rally in Texas a few years back. They're amazing . . . a built-up Chevy 350 with no transmission, just one gear. No need for anything more because there's still sufficient torque to spin the wheel off the line. The only thing that concerned me (besides the price) was those fat tires and their obvious implication on steering. Nonetheless, they're impressive machines. A real demonstrative expression of the "a big engine is good, so a giant engine is even better" theory of motorcycle power dynamics. We need some stories here. Oh yeah, sorry, wrong forum. |
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