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| Woodie | Sep 5 2014, 06:17 AM Post #31 |
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Huh, maybe I'm using the wrong one. Woodie is my nickname in real life that about half the people I know call me. A lot don't even know my real name is Don. I was captain of a dart team called "Major Woodie and his Private Parts" back in the day when Bevis and Butthead were popular and Howard Stern's autobiography was just out. The bartender in my home bar started calling me Woodie, I followed her around to about five different bars as she moved, and it kinda just stuck. My avatar is the Magnum Metro, my last one. I'm still pissed that I sold it and am haunted by vague plans to build another one. |
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| Johnny Mullet | Sep 5 2014, 06:37 AM Post #32 |
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Fear the Mullet
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When I first got online around 2002, I went by "Johnny Blaze" on a gaming forum. I posted a pic in the members pictures section and everyone started calling me "Johnny Mullet" and it stuck. Also my name is John, my middle initial is E and I have a Mullet, so it works too. Avatar pic is obviously the real me. The one and only Johnny Mullet. Even my friends and workmates call me "Mullet". |
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| Freeman | Sep 5 2014, 06:58 AM Post #33 |
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The Family Man
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Cobrajet! Being from a Ford family? That has always got me pondering. Is that something people actually grow up with? I've never thought back and said, "My parents had one of these so I want one." Am I missing something? Just curious. |
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| metroschultz | Sep 5 2014, 07:30 AM Post #34 |
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Please just call me; "Schultz"
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Schultz is a nick I picked up from having a handle bar mustache and mostly trying to avoid long winded conversations by claiming not to know the answers to peoples questions. Metro refers to the cars, of which I have owned and sold dozens. (literally, my wife sat down and counted them all one day) currently I only have 3. The avatar came from JoJo, it's a pic of the oem Sgt. Schultz |
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| ONEHARDHEAD | Sep 5 2014, 08:18 AM Post #35 |
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Not trying to speak for Cobrajet, but I can identify with him being from a "Ford" family. Growing up around hot rods, muscle cars and race cars, I ended up with a 62 Impala like my dad's 409 SS, as well as an IROC-Z to his Corvette. He jokingly says there are 2 kinds of cars- 2-door Chevrolets, and 4-door Chevrolets. No offense CJ- we have done Fords as well. We worked on a Ford late model stock in the 90s that killed the competition in NC, SC, and VA, and my first car was a 66 Fairlane XL. |
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| High MX | Sep 5 2014, 08:29 AM Post #36 |
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I got my handle from my wife. She says I am the high maintenance one! I needed to make a new email name and my wife chuckled and said your email needs to be high maintenance husband, hence High MX. My avatar picture is of a C-130J. I crewed and flew on Combat Shadow C-130s while I was in the Air Force and now I work on a C-130J program. |
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| Cobrajet25 | Sep 5 2014, 08:32 AM Post #37 |
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My family owned both Ford and GM until 1982's "Oldsmobile Diesel Incident". I certainly don't dislike the vintage GM (dad still wants a mid '50s Buick), but Ford is where my family was at from the time I was about eight years old to now. |
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| Boogie Rat | Sep 5 2014, 08:48 AM Post #38 |
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Well I usually used "Gamerat" as a handle. Whenever I played video games with my buddies, and when I set a record, I would enter "Rat" as my name. So Gamerat stuck, because I was "The rat of the game". But since I'm already Gamerat on a flying forum, I went with Boogie Rat here. I'm the "Rat with a Boogie" Because of my Metro being called the "Magnum Boogie". My pic is just my front license plate. |
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| geogonfa | Sep 5 2014, 09:25 AM Post #39 |
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Interesting topic so far, and good reading...I was named after my mothers dad, so when the family was all together, and to avoid confusion, I was always called by my middle name "Geo", and then my great grandmother added to it the "gonfa" which translates to" The little one" . My family and good friends either call me Geo or Geogonfa...as for my avatar, that's is my first total restore project from the bottom up, a 91 vert...still have it, even though I am restoring it again due to the fires that completely destroyed everything else a couple of years ago...It was the only thing in a 10 acre area that wasn't gone...stood out like a beacon to the neighborhood...hence the name "Torchy" like Hot Stuff from Harvey Comics...
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| Freeman | Sep 5 2014, 09:45 AM Post #40 |
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The Family Man
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Guess that is why I don't 'get it'. My pops was never a car guy. My grandfather, on his side, pretty much didn't exist. Maybe my daughter will be a Honda girl
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| Akagi | Sep 5 2014, 07:13 PM Post #41 |
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The Genius Who Descended Into the Metro
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It revolves around Japanese "Reach" mahjong, which is a pretty esoteric game outside of Japan. The Mahjong most people are familiar with is a solitaire game, which is nothing like this. It's kind of like a combination of poker & rummy. Theres a lot of strategy when you know how the game works. When I first watched it, I knew nothing about Mahjong & still liked it. Then when I learned how to play it and went back and re-watched it, it made it that much better. The character animation style of this anime is rather unconventional since in the manga it derives from, the author has an odd art style and they went with it. The series ends on a cliffhanger as well, since the manga source material the story is based off of was/is still ongoing when the Anime was made. It's not licensed for distribution in North America and likely never will be, so as with most anime series, it's Japanese with English subtitles. That having been said, it's still a great series. I was into it for the story & characters more than anything else. Check out the first 4 episodes to get a feel for it. I made a Mahjong primer post several years back on the MAL forums you can check out here. You can watch the series for free on Crunchyroll Use Firefox with Adblock if you want to skip the ads. I also highly recommend checking out another work by the same author, Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, from the original manga "Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji". There's no mahjong involved in the anime, but it still uses the same plot device- high stake gambles creating extremely tense situations and psychological suspense. There's a second season for it, but it's not on CR. The story really sucks me in on this author's work. ![]() Edited by Akagi, Sep 6 2014, 11:10 AM.
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| pdqrunner | Sep 5 2014, 07:42 PM Post #42 |
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PDQRUNNER, My Sons ebay handle. Pretty damn quick runner. After I posted my my mailing address on E-bay 10 yrs ago, I freaked out and change my handle to his. At 55 years old I am still a competitive 5 and 10 k runner so it fits I guess. |
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| t3ragtop | Sep 6 2014, 04:15 PM Post #43 |
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Turbo3 and Twincam Tweaker
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why would you want to hang that tribulation on your newborn's existence?
i worked for the world's largest contract research and development laboratory that had an industrial contract with gm to test those engines. my part of the deal was to build the engine control devices for things like adjusting the throttle and to put together the data acquisition i/o peripherals and to come up with automation for accelerated wear testing and reliability. we never got a single engine to survive to the end of testing. the idea was ill conceived from the start of design on that gm project. as if a normally aspirated gasoline v8 block would be able to take the compression of diesel operation. mostly the engines failed due to one of the heads blasting across the testing lab.
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| 3cyltom | Sep 7 2014, 08:02 AM Post #44 |
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Mine is simple. My license plate is 3cyl and I'm tom. My old sign on was sfiend1 which came from my very first attempt years ago at a yahoo email account. It was supposed to be speed fiend but it didn't fit. Back when I was first driving I had a need for speed. I had to change it because it no longer fits. And the pic is because I can't figure out how to post a pic of my car (dam high fangle computers) and my buddy had a saying just a squirrel looking for a nut. Lol |
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| j63812f | Sep 7 2014, 10:20 AM Post #45 |
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J R
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Initials and birth date combination, something I can remember. |
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