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[ovrszd]

Just some girlfriends. Not all.

Good one Terry. That's probly the same thing the girls say about you and I.

 

[Big Barn]

Good one Terry. That's probly the same thing the girls say about you and I.

Yup

 

[robbyr]

Here’s a few more.

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/front-porch/374882-whats-your-user-id-mean.html

 

[graywarrant]

Gray haired Army Warrant Officer - hence graywarrant.

Buddy started calling me that back in 96 when I graduate WOCS, it's stuck with me ever since and I use it for most everything online (though from a security standpoint, that is probably not the brightest thing to do). He, by the way, became a great mentor and just retired with 36 years on Nov 30th.

It is a bit more white than gray anymore, 34 years in and have a few more under my belt, then I'll be a full-time piddler.

Ray

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I used to post on BBS's and Yahoo Groups with my real name. Then in 2003 during the time I was researching tractors before I bought one, I had a bad experience.

I unexpectedly got buried by 10,000 emails, bounce messages from ISP's all over the world, saying 'recipient unknown here'. The bogus emails that landed on them had my real name as 'Reply To' and random names in the other fields - 'To', 'From', Sent By', whatever all those technical fields are. The content of the emails was Viagra spam, randomized so no two messages were identical. Obviously crafted to evade any spam filter.

Somebody had taken an old program designed to flood Usenet groups with crap and used it to spam their Viagra via email, using real names that I assume they harvested off Usenet posts.

I also got a couple dozen real emails in reply, from calm 'take me off your list' to several burst-a-blood-vessel shrieking outrage ones and a couple of 'did my wife tell you to send this' or 'who told you my secret problem?' The funniest one was from the lady in Office Of Tourism in a Bible Belt state who was outraged when her secretary or somebody gossiped to everyone about what it seemed she had requested.

Ok, it was obvious that the age of innocence on the internet was past. I decided I needed a screen name. One that couldn't be traced through other venues back to me - in the sense that Facebook etc, portrays all the information a stalker would need to go dox someone. So - why not hide in plain sight. A screen name that is unique here but impossible to trace to an individual. I had noticed in the early days here with less than 10k members subscribed and far fewer posting, that nearly everyone at that time was in the Eastern or Southern states. So ... California! Unique here, so my name could be remembered, and at the same time impossible to trace to me alone. I signed up as 'California' after buying my first tractor (Yanmar YM240). And found a community that I enjoy being a part of.

Back in the "Saturday at the movies" days, when I was in grade school, Hopalong Cassidy had a sidekick who they called "California". The role of California Carson was played by an actor by the name of Andy Clyde. He was a hapless old gentleman, whose role was apparently some sort of comic relief, and alternatively to make Hoppy appear to be a genius. I still recall the old fellow as a standout in the old movies. I assume there is no relation.

Andy Clyde - Wikipedia

 

[Doofy]

Back in the "Saturday at the movies" days, when I was in grade school, Hopalong Cassidy had a sidekick who they called "California". The role of California Carson was played by an actor by the name of Andy Clyde. He was a hapless old gentleman, whose role was apparently some sort of comic relief, and alternatively to make Hoppy appear to be a genius. I still recall the old fellow as a standout in the old movies. I assume there is no relation.

Andy Clyde - Wikipedia

I remember having a Hopalong Cassidy Savings Account at the local bank and getting in to the Saturday Morning Movie with a "Gandy's" milk carton top.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

From a former president.....

 

[California]

Back in the "Saturday at the movies" days, when I was in grade school, Hopalong Cassidy had a sidekick who they called "California". The role of California Carson was played by an actor by the name of Andy Clyde. He was a hapless old gentleman, whose role was apparently some sort of comic relief...

Never heard of the guy but some of my longwinded posts might reflect that model.
We too bicycled down to the Saturday Noon nickel movies! Lots of cowboys vs Indians, but I don't remember one with California and Hopalong Cassidy.

On another board I've been accused of reflecting 'The Californians' of SNL. But those idiots are in LA/Hollywood 400 miles south of here down I-5. Never 'the I-5'!!!.
Northern Californians aren't like that TV stereotype! No way! Never! The younger generation of modern Northern Californians see themselves as hella chill! While a small portion of us remain true to our flower children (not hippies) roots, optimistic that America can be better.

 

[RobertN]

First computer username, back in 1984 on a Vax 11/780 before the WWW etc. There was no rec.tractor back then...
First name and last initial.

 

[3Ts]

Vax 11/780

And there was the PDP-8 and 110 baud teletype with paper tape.