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  • backpacker85
    Established Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 148
    • Dickson, TN
    • BT3100-1

    #46
    Not really a mystery where the "Backpacker" part comes from. The "85" had to be added due to the usual "username not available" message on numerous other sites, & has just stayed there (it's also the Scout Troop I was SM of for years).

    BTW Sam......I'm most envious of that avatar you use
    Ken W.
    _____________________
    "If you can't fix it right, fix it so no one else can fix it right."

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    • HarmsWay
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2003
      • 878
      • Victoria, BC
      • BT3000

      #47
      I got into woodworking after losing a one-on-one against a van whilst riding my bike which left me with a prosthetic titanium vertebra known as a Harms cage. Plus I'm now just trying to keep myself out of harms way.

      Bob

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      • Whaler
        Veteran Member
        • Dec 2002
        • 3281
        • Sequim, WA, USA.
        • DW746

        #48
        My name "Whaler" came from my love of Bosrtn Whaler boats.
        Dick

        http://www.picasaweb.google.com/rgpete2/

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        • DUD
          Veteran Member
          • Dec 2002
          • 3309
          • Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.
          • Ryobi BT3000

          #49
          Bob I thought You were a fan of John Wayne. Bill
          5 OUT OF 4 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND FRACTIONS.

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          • hitekrednek
            Established Member
            • Jan 2004
            • 260
            • Ft Worth, TX, USA.
            • BT3100

            #50
            I find myself reading this and wondering if I even need to explain

            Computer Geek + Texan = hitekrednek

            And FWIW, I actually picked up the nick while I was in the Army before George Jones released the song.
            I can only please one person a day ........

            Hugh C.

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            • onedash
              Veteran Member
              • Mar 2005
              • 1013
              • Maryland
              • Craftsman 22124

              #51
              My buddy started calling me this because I went to class 1-97 Sergeants Course in Okinawa. He was going to 2-97 and just started calling me onedash from then on. He was about the only person to call me that and everyone else knew but since almost all of them were junior to me they still called me by my rank. But if you search it on the internet you'll get my real name since I have used it so much online.
              YOU DONT HAVE TO TRAIN TO BE MISERABLE. YOU HAVE TO TRAIN TO ENDURE MISERY.

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              • 91FE
                Established Member
                • Dec 2005
                • 303
                • Philadelphia (actually Souderton), PA.

                #52
                I too just kept my user name from another board.
                91FE = 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Final Edition
                I like Wagoneers too. Hey...they've got wood

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                • Turaj
                  Veteran Member
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 1019
                  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
                  • BT3000 (1998)

                  #53
                  No imagination here (none whatsoever!)
                  Turaj (in Toronto)
                  "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading!" Henny Youngman

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                  • smc331
                    Veteran Member
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 1016
                    • Charlotte, NC, USA.
                    • BT3100

                    #54
                    ScreenName derivation...

                    Scott McCray 3/31 (noooooo - not tellin' the year this time!)
                    Scott

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                    You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa

                    http://macbournes.com

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                    • Otter
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 865
                      • Cumming, GA, USA.
                      • Delta Left Tilt UniSaw

                      #55
                      Otter has been a nick name for the oldest male of each of the last 3 generations of my family. It comes from our last name.
                      All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible

                      T.E. Lawrence

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                      • SARGE..g-47

                        #56
                        SARGE = "P" Co. 75th Ranger Regiment.. VN 68-69 ( I still Alpha-Bravo-Charlie everything and that is also my phone name at work where I field about 100 calls a day.. no one there would know who John Thompson was.. ha.. ha...)

                        g = short for grinder which is a forum name on a forum not related to wood-working (SARGE is my forum name on Fine WoodWroking Knots forum)

                        47 = year of birth

                        Rome--Echo--Golf--Alpha--Romeo--Delta... JT

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                        • Shipwreck
                          Forum Newbie
                          • Mar 2005
                          • 85

                          #57
                          knickname

                          Im retired navy, ....hence the name

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