How'd Ya Git Yer Username

IMERC · August 27, 2006, 05:17:27 AM

Quote from: 3584ELK on December 07, 2005, 10:31:11 PM
I am a big elk hunter, and like most of you folks, post on more than one forum. SO...my favorite elk rifle is chambered to .358 Norma Magnum, hence 358, then 4 to substitute as "for" and the ELK is self explanatory. So, 358 for elk. I even had a Colorado license plate made with that moniker!

why such large artillery.

DWM II · December 24, 2006, 11:21:44 PM

Been reading thru, heres me. Born Donald Wayne Myers II. named after my dads best friend who by coeincidence had the same last name as his. He didnt make it back from Veitnam. I got named in his honor. I chose LA. Sawyer because thats what I what to be and with the help and advice I am slowly learning to be that. Thanks to folks like everyone here that anserwers these posts. I wasnt trying to rip-off Arky or Va. ;D

DanG · December 24, 2006, 11:40:21 PM

LA. SAWYER makes a good user name, but I keep thinkin' you're from Lower Alabama until I look at your location. ;) :D :D

Furby · December 24, 2006, 11:48:18 PM

I keep thinking he's milling in Lost Angels, but it don't take long to relize that wouldn't be practical. :D

Jeff · December 24, 2006, 11:50:26 PM

Thats what I think everytime I see it, then I think Cheech and Chong, then it gets weird. :D

sgtmaconga · December 25, 2006, 02:28:10 AM

I got mine because of my place on the police department. i'm a sergeant, in macon, ga.

blaze83 · December 25, 2006, 02:52:52 AM

Well, I just use my nickname blaze short for blasenhauer and the year I graduated from hish school 1983 hence Blaze83 .......wish I had a better story :D

DWM II · December 25, 2006, 07:31:29 AM

Cheech and Chong! Thats funny. Nope Im a long way from that LA, thank God. I might have to consider a new handle. Do they even have trees left in Los Angles? What can you build with those palms in Beverly Hills?

Donnie

Tom · December 25, 2006, 03:04:08 PM

QuoteWhat can you build with those palms in Beverly Hills?

They're working on Jesus Christ, but I don't think they have realized yet that there will be only one. :D

scgargoyle · December 25, 2006, 05:11:29 PM

On a lot of forums, I'm flgargoyle (Florida + gargoyle). But since all I care about anymore is getting up to my woodlot in South Carolina, I figured scgargoyle is more where my head (and heart) is at. Why gargoyle? As I get older, I'm startin' to look like one!

DWM II · December 25, 2006, 07:28:57 PM

Couldnt stand it no longer, had to get some seperation from Los Angles and Cheech and Chong. ;)

WDH · December 25, 2006, 11:47:51 PM

My initials. In the company I started with, all inter-office correspondence was with your initials, so it kinda stuck.

Also easy to remember! I enjoyed reading and learning a little about the members here; this should be required reading for all new members.

DanG · December 26, 2006, 12:13:36 AM

DWM II, I'm sorta glad you changed your user name, in a way. It's not that LA. SAWYER wasn't a good name, 'cause it was a really good one. But, your real name has a lot of meaning. Your Dad named you after someone he really respected. By honoring him, he has honored you even more. Wear that name with pride! Whenever I see the name "DWM II", I'll think "Donald Wayne Myers", and I'll know where it came from. ;)

saddletramp · December 26, 2006, 12:39:20 AM

Lots of good stories here. Back in younger wilder days ranches in the sandhills would hire day hands in the spring. Work at a ranch for 2 or 3 days maybe a week, collect your pay and they would send ya down the road to another ranch. Do the same there. Rode the sandhills quite a bit South Dakota some and even lease ground on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Worked mostly cattle but a few buffallo too. Ranchers called us saddle tramps. Many fond memories but too old to do it now. Thats my story.

Raider Bill · December 26, 2006, 09:23:48 AM

My Passion, the Oakland Raiders. I was named Raider Bill by a long time friend many years ago while we served together in SEA Although, most years lately it's been a hard name to have. MAybe next year....................

LedlieLogs · December 26, 2006, 09:52:34 PM

My great grandfather, his wife and another couple came to America together. The New World. They both had son's in the first year, born within a week of each other. Our side the "Conger" side and there side the "Ledlie" side. The son on our side was named Ledlie Conger and the son on the Ledlie side was named Conger Ledlie. I'm the III and my son is the IV. The "logs" came from my board of directors at the camp. I did not want to look at kit cabins for the camp, wanted to mill and build myself. So in there love for my hard headed ways the saying "Ledlie Logs, No Kit, No S#@%" came to be. I still wear it with pride. One little cabin built and more on the way for less money than just one kit.
LedlieLogs

blueduck · December 27, 2006, 09:56:40 PM

blueduck was my chosen cb handle way back when two ways were fashionable [like they ever werent or still arent?] and as the internet came about being available to me i just naturally progressed to using it, found out i could get by with the haxoring kids if i changed my blueduck to Blu3duk and all of a sudden i had split personalities, and i got more knowledge of computers to the point my sawmill set for a whole year without me doing more than starting it up a couple times to make sure it was still runnable and to keep the wasps out of it....

so i am present on the net with a couple of handles but they are still me or I them. and once in awhile at a rendezvous you can ketch ole blueduck a shooting fer hair.

William

Blue Duck · December 28, 2006, 07:57:17 AM

Well a half dozen years ago I started taking on other peoples coon dogs to train and needed to declare it as a business in order to take my allotted deductions from my income taxes for the IRS. I decided to call it Ghost River Kennels. I'm also a waterfowler and a huge Lonesome Dove fan so my, like the other gentleman, my CB handle has been Blue Duck since about 1992 and that's the username that I go by an another dozen or so message boards. This morning I noticed a post by blue duck and thought "I didn't type that" and realized I wasn't he only duck here. Sure enough he was here first so I changed my handle to my logging business name Ghost River Timber Company. But if your ever in western NC and you see a good looking old International straight truck go by with a shiny blue paint job, Im still answering to Blue Duck on 19.

sparks · December 28, 2006, 08:19:03 AM

Back when I worked in the automotive repair industry, I was working under the hood when my watch band touched a hot wire and the engine block at the same time. Sparks went flying off my wrist and my sympathetic coworkers gave me the name. Haven't worn a watch when I'm working on equipment since. :-\

Hi-Country Orange · December 28, 2006, 11:53:01 AM

my wm 70 runs @ 9500' to 10,000' most of the time so i figure that qualifies as Hi- Country Orange 8)

jbeat · December 28, 2006, 12:43:01 PM

Short for John Beathard. Helen and Harold layed the name on me 55 years ago. Been called many other things since-jbeat is one of the better.

thecfarm · May 23, 2007, 08:44:44 PM

Would like to see how the new members got thier user names.This makes for some nice reading.

metalspinner · May 23, 2007, 09:38:58 PM

That's what I do for a living. It's kind of a mouthful, or should I say a fingerful to type, but "Spinner" was taken when I signed up. It's a cool thing to see, but the large production runs are boring, so I check in here every now and then to see what's new.