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texasnative wrote:Mine pretty obvious as well. 5th Generation in Northeast Texas.

Welcome to the forum! How "northeast" are you?

biggyin wrote:Being 6'4" from Glasgow, spent alot of time back home being called big yin, basically translated to big one. when I first went online the screen name bigyin was already taken so i just added another g and stuck with it ever since.

Maybe Billy Connolly beat you to it.

My clan left Scotland before 1729, and landed in America before 1750. Doesn't stop me from having a taste of The Macallan now and then, though.

TxLngHrn81 wrote:KBCraig,
You must be feeling rather pleased with yourself in that you got the math right. But you've made a faulty assumption based on the little info I provided in the first post.

Maybe you missed the " " in my post, but I was just poking fun. Welcome to the forum!

TxLngHrn81 wrote:For those who still need help, I graduated from the University of Texas in 1981. But were it not for a change in fate, I would have been "TxAg78."

Nothing wrong with a 7 year degree... that's why we send all our slow learners to UT.

FrEaK_aCcIdEnT wrote:I was the unplanned one

That would be a good name for our youngest: he was born exactly 9 months and 1 day after the wedding.

txinvestigator wrote:

moodyamber wrote:My screen name is simple. My first name is Amber and unfortunately, I've been diagnosed Bipolar Type II.Thus I can be pretty 'moody'.I've had the nickname 'Moody" since high school.So I just put them together and there ya go.

Welcome Amber. Being Bipolar, how difficult was it to get your CHL? Did DPS give you any headache?

In an earlier thread, she said she was delayed until her medical records could be reviewed.

DSARGE wrote:I am a Drill Instructor

Michelle Manhart?

RPBrown wrote:Used something I can remember. First 2 initials and last name.

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Trope wrote:I'm very literal.

In a manner of speaking.

Flatland2D wrote:No, I don't ride BMX.

Thanks. Now I don't feel so old, because I actually got that.

Kevin

anygunanywhere wrote: My screen name was used as a post signature quote by someone on PDO and I liked the sound of it so I snagged it as my own.

I like it expressed like this:

Any one
Any gun
Anywhere
Any time
...anything less is gun control!

jimlongley wrote:I was a member of the Morse Telegraph Club for many years, a close friend was the international secretary, and was (emphasis on WAS) learning American Morse, but got lost at 'C'

They are a bit different. (For those who don't get it, Jim ran into the "space" within "C", which isn't part of International Morse.)





RR Morse is supposedly a lot faster, but RR ops also used a lot of shorthand and jargon that was very specific to them. Some of it would violate the 10 year old daughter rule, but that's true of railroaders in general.

When I was a kid, a friend of Dad's owned and operated a miniature railroad and Old West town. He had Dad record an endless loop of telegraph messages, which could be heard playing through the depot window. Being something of a joker, Dad included a few "railroadisms". His friend said it was easy to spot the true RR operators, because they'd cock their heads and listen for a minute, then fall out laughing.

We have a lot of old telegraph equipment that was salvaged from the KCS. Keys, bugs, sounders, switches, relays, etc.

Kevin

jimlongley wrote: --... ...-- -.. . -.- ..... -. .-. .- .--- .. --

73 back atcha.

I'm not a ham, but I do some SWL now and then. Dad was a railroad telegraph operator and taught me a little bit of RR Morse, which is an entirely different animal!

Kevin

nitrogen wrote:I too remember when everything was run off 5.25 floppies and the like.

Rookie! How about 8" floppies, and cassette drives?

Or punch cards...

Mine is pretty obvious.

My middle name is Ben, after my maternal grandfather. Kevin is a variant of John, which was my father's name. John is a very common name in my line of ancestors:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Mead ... /team8.htm

I'm in the 9th generation of that tree.

My youngest son is John David, after both grandfathers.

Kevin