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Where did you get your "Handle"?

Handel

Mine is kind of "toung in cheek" I am a construction superintendent and have a unearned reputation for being a hard ass, and one of my fellow supers gave me the handel of "Easy Super"
 
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Almost self explanatory (if you know me and what I do) ....

I ride a Spyder and I raise cows .... so, Spyder_Cowgirl

My other half is Spydercowboy on this forum and hogcowboy on several others. I believe he has also now started used injuncowboy after his Christmas gift (a 2016 Indian Roadmaster in Blue Diamond with artwork and pin striping).

I like the stories too ....Ann
 
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When I saw my GS, It reminded me of Darth Vader..And I am also a fan..

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Mrs. Vader and me And getting my neighbors daughter on the bus this past Halloween
 

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handle origin?

My first college room mate, who always considered me the deep well of information regarding anything with 2 wheels, sarcastically named me "Motoswami"

That was years ago, but the name stuck.

My real name is Pete, which is what I normally go by.
 
Complex

Mine came from a fellow I used to work with. He put it all together.

Steve came from a caller into a radio talk show. His name of course was Steven & he sounded just like me.

There is a missing letter in there too. J was put in for my real first name.

La is for an incident I almost had with a truck from Canada. He almost hit my car.

And Oyster came from a time I was sick with a cold & hocking luggies outside the building where we worked.

Steven J. LaOyster was shorten to SteveLaoyster for on here.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:
 
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In the 50s strong prescription eyeglasses were
Really thick, the bikers that came into
The gas station I worked at said my glasses
Were so thick they looked like sealedbeam
Headlights. From then on it was "sealbeam"
Sometimes shortened to"beam"
 
It's a nickname that I picked up in racing over 30 years ago, first in flagging and communications (F&C) and later as a starter. It was also the name of a cartoon I did for three racing magazines in the '90s.

It's the only online name I've ever used.
 
Easy pick

I tried to think of something unique to where i live in the Central Valley of California. In Tulare County, we have more cows than people. There are two things this time of year that are really impressive; the smell of the manure lagoons and the thick tule fog in the morning.
Tulefog sounds a little better than manure pit.
 
My 'handle' is my 'call sign'

Got mine from being in the Air Force...almost everyone that does a career will get a 'callsign'/'handle' if you're in long enough and do enough stupid things (which I was guilty of multiple times). :joke:

In Officer Training School (OTS) I was in-processing and 'asked' by a 'friendly' southern gentlemen if I was a, "Merry Asian." I was quite offended...:yikes:...and it took a lot of self-control to not say or do what I wanted to say and do (one of those times that I didn't do the 'stupid thing') and, politely, I said I was "American-Asian" with emphasis on the "American :mad:" He looked at me like I was an idiot...which, with a shaved head and a serious lack of sleep, I'm sure fit my current description, and said, "That's what I said, 'Are you A-Meri-ASIAN?'!!!"

This story led to many conversations about the incident (at my expense, of course) and I (stupidly) said at one of these 'retellings' that I should use 'Texas-Asian' I could 'communicate' better with my new fellow Texans. Well, that somehow got converted into "Tasian"...which is now my current, and last, call-sign.
 
Handle

Very simple my name "Darren" and "111" was a random number added, just in case there was someone else using "Darren" as a handle.
 
When I signed in back in 2008, I figured there weren't too many with the name Dudley in this world, so I went with my first name, "Dudley". Not too original.
 
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