HOW DID EACH OF YOU COME UP WITH YOUR C.COM FORUM NAME

[shipahoy41]

Gotta say that of all the interesting threads I've read here, this one really stands out for me. Very cool to hear how others have come to their monikers. As for my own handle, please bear with me as I've been told that my Welsh heritage can occasionally lead me to be "loquacious to a fault".
A few years ago when I was in my early to mid 40's, I started smoking a pipe. Had researched it and based on what I found and my own observations (seemed like every old guy with a pipe that I spoke to, had been puffing for 20years or more), I came to the conclusion that there is a big difference between cigarettes and pipe smoking, and while no one is claiming tobacco is healthy for you, neither are big macs, soda pop, and diesel exhaust. So, one day I'm sitting in my back yard with my very first Missouri Meerschaum and a pouch of Prince Albert and my wife comes out and sits down beside me. She doesn't say much for a while (neither one of us had ever been smokers before), then after a bit she says "honey, I think you need to keep doing this". Somewhat surprised I asked her why, and she responded that she had been worried about my stress levels for some time, and she could see me visibly relaxing with every puff. I told her that I didn't think I'd been that stressed out, and she said "honey, you've been wound up so tight that when you fart, only the dog can hear it". So I wound up joining a pipe smoking site on line and discovered a great bunch of folks there with a drama free environment, and the handle I chose for myself there was Fumus, which as I understand it is Latin for "smoke". Incidentally, a couple years later the good Lord allowed some things to happen and I got to experience my very first bout of genuine depression. That was an eye opener. Let me tell you folks, it ain't just "feeling sad". Never had anything knock me on my back side like that before. Spent about a year just staring at a wall. Not happy not sad, "no I don't want to talk or do anything else really. Just leave me be" Worst part was it scared the heck out of my wife as she had never known me to not work. Eventually the good Lord brought me out the other side of it and I started working again and fishing for crappie (my dads favorite fish). Can't tell you how good it felt getting back to work, and crappie fishing is now my therapy.

My dad smoked Borkum Riff mixed with Black Cavendish, in a Sherlock Holmes type of pipe. He passed away about 20 years ago. Somehow, to this day I can fondly still smell his pipe. This story brought back some fond memories. Thank you.

Mike

[shipahoy41]

I started off here with IBNFSHN. For some reason one day my old CB handle, Barnacle Bill, popped in my mind. This goes back to the early 60s when CB was just becoming popular. My first radio was a Knight kit which I had to put together. Does that jar any memories?

I went to Tennessee State back in the early sixties. My dad had a CB hooked up in his car just for something to do as we traveled from Toledo Ohio to Nashville. Usually near the Kentucky, Tennessee line we would begin to hear a lot of chatter. I cannot tell you how many times I heard "Breaker...Breaker.. Moonshine at hill 34B..over" "Breaker, Breaker cmon back Popeye is over there..over"


Mike

[patrapper]

Mine is self explanatory. I live in Pennsylvania and I love to trap. I love catching coyotes.

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[tenncrappie]

I'm from Tenn and fish for crappie. Tenncrappie

[hdhntr]

My career was as a headhunter for professionals in mfg and medical.

[Sky Pilot]

Since I am a minister of the Gospel, I thought that would be a good name for me to use.

[Foxy Jig]

it's the name of a local jig we use here

[Don Fischer]

Often wondered about this myself. But I didn't get to pick my name, my mother did! She could have named me "Bull" and I'd probably be happier! :-)

[BroKenneth]

As a kid I remember an old corny poem
M R Dux
No M R geese....,

When I logged onto my first Internet forum, and had to register, I came up with “mrdux”. It stuck, so that’s what my KY License plate on my truck is
M R Dux. I was a waterfowl outfitter and guide for over 20 years.

D later changed it to M R Dux right before I was named 2018 Man of the Year. I think he might have been tipped off.

Many folks think it is Mr. Dux. Not.


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[Slabprowler]

I’m Always on the prowl for a slab so I just put together the two and it wasn’t being used so I went with it!