Who's behind your user name

[WheelEstate USA]

One of my online IDs is "Wheel Estate".
I don't think I need to explain that one
I came up with the term some years ago and always liked the reference.
In fact, it was before the interweb when I traveled on a motorcycle. I saw a sign for a realtor and I laughed and said to my self, "Don't want any...I have wheel estate"

 

[mockturtle]

Lewis Carroll. That and the fact that I do carry my house with me wherever I go.

 

[mconlonx]

m for mike. Conlon is my last name.

When I try to register a username for most online services with mconlon, mikeconlon, and any reasonable number after that -- birth day, month, year -- they are usually taken. So I just drop in an algebraic "x" at the end and all is well.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

I got Optimistic Paranoid from a David Weber sci-fi novel.

There was a character who was a Captain in ( Space ) Navy Intelligence, who had been an Olympic class weight lifter and greco-roman wrestler. He was described as an optimistic paranoid. That is, he suspected that many of the people around him were probably up to something, but didn't worry overmuch because he was confident he could deal with them if they tried something.

At the time I adopted this, I was working as an armored car guard. And, yeah, that job will make you VERY suspicious of everybody around you. But I was confident I could handle it if things went south.

I gave that job up after about seven years - just burned out.

I'm thinking about giving that name up and adopting Lost Vagabond when I retire in about a year and hit the road

Regards
John

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Posted by Optimistic Paranoid - Today 03:58 PM
I got Optimistic Paranoid from a David Weber sci-fi novel.

There was a character who was a Captain in ( Space ) Navy Intelligence, who had been an Olympic class weight lifter and greco-roman wrestler. He was described as an optimistic paranoid.

Anton Zilwicki?

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Anton Zilwicki?

Yup. You've got it.

Regards
John

 

[akrvbob]

I'm not as creative as a lot of you! akrvbob=

ak--lived in Alaska for 45 years
RV-I'm into recreational vehicles in the broadest sense
Bob--my name

Not very creative. I've since come up with a creative name I wish I had used but it's too late to change now!
Bob

 

[highdesertranger]

I have ranged(roamed) the high deserts of ca, nv, az, or, id, ut. since the mid 60's. so highdesertranger

 

[akrvbob]

That's a good one HDR!
Bob

 

[Drifted_Cowboy]

I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by all the people say
Just another soul on the lost highway

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a womans lies makes a life like mine
Oh the day we met, I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway

I was just a lad, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord I take a cost, oh the lost highway

Now boys don't start to ramblin' round
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
You started rollin' down that lost highway

I like Hank Sr. I'm a touch shifted and a quite a bit drifted.

 

[Drifted_Cowboy]

The Drifting Cowboys sang backup for Hank for those who may not know.

 

[Tippy Tipi]

I call my old Winnebago my "tippy tipi" so that's what I used as my ID name. I'm of Native American descent on both sides and I love to do beaded buckskin items. Purses, jewelry, belts, and whatever. I also have spiritual beliefs that are more Native American than anything else, although I have a Higher Power I depend on one day at a time. HP has stood me in good stead for a little over 29 years now, so I'll stick with Him since it's been working so far.

 

[stude53]

stude53, because I own one that looks ,like this:

 

[Sameer]

My name is Sameer Ali.
Sameer means in Arabic...Pleasant Companion and in Hindi...Early Morning Fragrance, Gentle Breeze. Ali is a very common name meaning exalted, elevated. Ali was a cousin and son in law of the Prophet. I grew up in East Los Angeles. My Mother married Mr. Ali in 1960 after my Father died. Mr. Ali's was A Sufi-Muslim and my Mother, Sister and I became Sufi's too. We all acquired new names...
The East Los Angeles was my home, and I worked as a kid at Grand Central Market as a kid. My life was filled with adventure. Even tried a little goat farm in Carlsbad, New Mexico. My Mother was from Mexico City and my Father from England. I am second generation American. I don't know how I went from a 'city-boy' to a van dweller for the past year and half. I am retired and am all that the name 'Sameer' entails. I cannot imagine any other life. I have given too much information...Hahahahaha!

 

[psytechguy]

I was part of the technical support staff for the psychology dept. at a large university for 17 years. Hence, psytechguy.

Currently retired and roaming the countryside.

 

[TejasThreads]

Gypsy Silver - a song by a good Texas songwriter, Shake Russell

not the greatest video but here it is:

Sweet! (As I'm listening to Songs on the Radio / Shake Russell & Dana Cooper.)

 

[highdesertranger]

this is a great thread, who started this, good job whoever you are. ok I looked, thank you decodancer. highdesertranger

 

[decodancer]

You are very welcome highdesert, I'm enjoying reading the responses too.

 

[GypsySilver]

Sweet! (As I'm listening to Songs on the Radio / Shake Russell & Dana Cooper.)

I love the 2 together - just good music

 

[LeeRevell]

I use either of two other user-names on most forums, but on the RV and van forums, I use some variant of my name. "Revell" is a very common family name down here in north Florida, and also in England and Australia (funny story about that...).
Lee is actually a nickname bestowed upon me by my old Navy Seniorchief as he could never remember my real first name. He knew it began with an 'L'. So he picked the shortest easily remembered name he could think of. I still use it thirty years later.

On other forums I often use "Bigdog57" - I am BIG, I love dogs, and I was born in 1957.
Others I use "Seawolf1090" - I crewed on a US Navy Antisubmarine Warfare Frigate, the USS Ainsworth, FF1090. She served til '94, when she and several others of her class were sold to Turkey. She was retired there and is now a display ship at the Incirlik maritime museum in Turkey. I am glad she still lives on, as so many of her class were scrapped or sunk in tests.
The van tie-in is, back then in 'the day' we didn't have much personal room - so in setting up my old E150 for "vannin'", I'll be getting back to my seafaring roots.