meaning of OUR forum names.

ones like cold one and pitdog are easy.another one i've never been able to figure out is DUMPSTER DAN <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I have no idea what my forum name means. Private Klink gave it to me. I use it on all forums.

Didn't we have one of these threads before? Maybe it was at the Swamp...anyway, my name is my first and middle names. On eBay and BF though, my name is AndyNaylor, which is my first and last names.

I always knew I'd get a chance to tell this story some day.

In 2000 I went to Tom Brown's Tracker school. I was really into Native American philosophy and The Tracker School really seamed to reinforce a lot of what I had read and learned up to that point. It may seam crazy to some but Tom's books and teachings had a very deep and lasting affect on me. Not too long after coming back from Tom's school my father became very ill and had to be hospitalized and required very serious surgery, things did not look too good. He was in intensive care and I tried to spend as much time as I could at the hospital, but I still had to work. The hospital was only about a mile away from my work so sometimes I would walk to the hospital on an extended lunch break. On one particularly nice early fall day I decided to make the walk to the hospital. I was about 1/3 to 1/2 way there when I was caught in a very unexpected and pretty intence rain shower. I was not prepaired having only warn a light wind breaker. But instead of finding cover, I was stuck with the most profound feeling of what I can only explain as an almost spiritual feeling. That may seam goofy but we've all had experiences like this at one time or another. So instead of getting wet I felt the rain on a much deeper level and began to laugh uncontrolably it must have looked quite strange to the people and cars that I passed. I made it to the hospital completely drenched but with the most profound feeling of comfort. At that point I knew my dad would be OK and that no matter what happened everthing would always find a way of working out. That walk had the most profound effect on me that has lasted to this very day i will never be the same. It's funny too because my father had always had a say that I grew up hearing, "some people just don't have since enough to get in out of the rain". From that day forward I had a new saying, "some people feel the rain, others just get wet". Now I find myself from time to time drawn to a good rain shower. There's just nothing like getting out and playing in the rain.

So anyway, shortly after that experience I needed a screen name for something and the answer was clear as a bell to me. You might even say the name picked me instead of me picking the name.

You might even say that "Rainwalker" has become my given name. It's not what my wife and kids call me but it's become a very close second to my birth name.

Sorry if this story seams too goofy or too sappy, I've alway wanted the opportunity to tell it though and I hope it has given some food for thought. Sometimes the most profound things can happen in the most mundane circumstances, sometimes they're obvious sometime their not.

So that's the story of my name hope you enjoyed it... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Well...what can you say...I am interested in knives of different types of steel...on BF I am PeterPHWS...my name....my initials PHW and S stands for what I do...

S = Sailor??
S = Shipwright??
S = Stevedore??
S = Shepherd??
S = Service Specialist??

I'm running out of occupations that start with S!! LOL!

Nice story Rainwalker. You should take a trip here to Utah, lots and lots of Indian ruins to checkout. You'd feel at home.

Spy dubble naught <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Well...what can you say...I am interested in knives of different types of steel...on BF I am PeterPHWS...my name....my initials PHW and S stands for what I do...

I'm sure I'd love it out there. I've been to New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado each once and loved that part of the country. I really like the southwest and I really hope to spend some more time out there some day. I need to visit Utah so I can make my Four Corners experience complete too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Not sure if you knew, but there is a spot where all four states meet, it's called Four Corners, so actually you could make one trip and visit all four states in a flash, LOL <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

So your AndyNaylor, lol

Yes... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

For real ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Yes... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I almost went there once, I was close... The whole Four Corners thing kinda scares me though... I can't help but wonder if when you get there, all you see is 4 Walmarts and 4 Starbucks facing each other. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



Actually though, I have got to make it Monument Valley some day, I've been to Anasazi Ruins, at Mesa Verde and a few others. I'd love to see some of the Natural Bridges out there too.

I searched for the original What Does Your Forum Name Mean? thread. Why type out the same thing twice, thought I? No luck, I couldn't find it.

Can anybody find that thread and post a link?

Thanks.

yup,i unabashedly stole this idea from the busse forum but hey,this is the scrapyard forum so....what the hell do some of those crazy and impossible to pronounce forums handles mean.

of coarse i will start.

my name is NORTHERN1 and i am way more than an alcoholic,busse-holic,scrapyard-holic,swamprat-holic,edged weapon/tool-holic.............i could go on.

many people from the southern united states refer to themselves as "southerners" and since i am from one of the more northern regions of the country,up-state new york i thought i'd call my self "northerner" but someone already took that one.

so after about 3-4 attempts at other names and some monkeying around i ended up NORTHERN1,as in "the one from the north",kind of like "chosen one" except northern1.

now i wasnt thinking at the time that i was really more like a MIDDLE-1 with people like COLD ONE and UNSUB being far more north than me.but like many people have stated,"if i knew i was going to get so involved in these forums i would've thought of something else"

while i didnt give hardly any thought to my name and it has absolutely no personal meaning to me i am kind of fond of it.

so dogs,what the hell do names like UNSUB mean...{lol,i'm not picking on you}

ones like cold one and pitdog are easy.another one i've never been able to figure out is DUMPSTER DAN <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I'm Ted Wilson in California (although, it's mistaken for Canada on occasion)

How did you come up with your Screen name ?

I'm a blues fan and there is a guy named Jonny Lang who did 'Rackemup' on his first album. Great swingin' blues song. I also throw a stick (McDermott cue) around a little bit...