Your User ID

[Aquamoose]

Aquamoose - in college I tried water polo/volley ball, whatever. Fortunately, I got the living crap beat out of me, right off. So I wasn't in the pool long enough for them to drown me. And I though I was a big, tough dude. A lesson rapidly learned in that case.

You’re not alone. I’ve had “jocks” who would try to sink one of us. Any of us. Couldn’t get our head underwater.

Now, I can tread water but just not as long as I used to anymore. I just regulate myself as a land lubbering variant that favors diesel machines with hydraulics.

 

[rgr33]

My first name without the vowels, combined with my lucky number.

Wish I was a bit more clever, but as someone here says, I yam what I yam.

 

[CobyRupert]

I hatch and raise all kinds of game birds;mostly pheasant;around a thousand a year;live in the wonderful state of New York :so my handle became NYbirdman.

Do you sell them to NY State? DEC always releases ring neck pheasants near a barge canal near me. They end up hanging out next to the state highway (looking for feed-time?) until they fly up into cars and smash out the grill. (Don't ask me how I know. )

 

[murph1]

I use Murph 1 cause my last name is Jones...

 

[the old grind]

My J-card says 'Toolmaker', gave up general machine work to do precision tool/cutter grinding for production plants on site. Really miss my long-gone job at GM. (retired in '06) btw, only do mill & lathe work in my home shop, and mostly pro bono. I long to 'make sparks' like the old days vs just chips & trying to learn to weld on rusty tractor parts with cataracts apparently looming.

I use other IDs on PM, HGS, and Ammoguide. They're mostly from past nicknames, and some are boringly common terms.

 

[Wakey]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin?

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.

My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe.

At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my... Wait, the rest is beyond PG13 :laughing:


OK, seriously.. Wakey is how the oldest son of a close friend of mine pronounced my name when he was a toddler. Wakey is what they call me in that sphere to this day.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Interesting life you have lead. I'm surprised you parents didn't squeeze harp lessons in there somewhere...you must not have insisted...

 

[tractorshopper]

Certainly not very clever here. I was shopping for my first tractor when I discovered this site. Had never been on a forum before and didn't quite understand the concept, so literally put in the first thing I could think of....

But after figuring this out, I joined another forum concerning bass guitars where I did a little better: Treble-free

 

[redhead]

Back in 2013, I had just bought my first tractor, a Mahindra Max 25, and was pretty stoked about it. Still happy with the purchase, BTW

It also seems to work as sometimes a non-green, non-orange owner might feel like the red-headed stepchild of the tractor community

 

[bunyip]

Unique Australian animal related to the drop bear and also the name of a small town nearby in country Victoria, I used to use my first name on other sites, Iain, but it often got translated to Lain so stopped using it.