Welcome to the forum! How "northeast" are you?texasnative wrote:Mine pretty obvious as well. 5th Generation in Northeast Texas.
Search found 15 matches
Return to “What's the Origin of Your User Name?”
- Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
Re: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
Re: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
Maybe Billy Connolly beat you to it.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.
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.
- Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:48 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:39 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Sun May 06, 2007 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
In an earlier thread, she said she was delayed until her medical records could be reviewed.txinvestigator wrote:Welcome Amber. Being Bipolar, how difficult was it to get your CHL? Did DPS give you any headache?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.
- Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
Michelle Manhart?DSARGE wrote:I am a Drill Instructor
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:44 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
In a manner of speaking.Trope wrote:I'm very literal.
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:15 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:13 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
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.)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'
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
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:17 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What's the Origin of Your User Name?
- Replies: 1516
- Views: 270169
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
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