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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #630 on: January 02, 2018, 07:33:11 PM »
Giovanni di Fidanza of Bagnoregio, Italy c. 1217

...or a number of British warships. 

Take your pick.

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #631 on: January 03, 2018, 08:44:45 AM »
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #632 on: January 03, 2018, 09:52:18 AM »



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It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.
:1: Devildog is my moniker on many a site due to this little old lady. 



She was given the nickname by my dad when just a pup, and a varient became my email address because my parents weren't likely forget it.

My name here is an easy one to figure out.  I'm a gal with a Guzzi.
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #633 on: January 04, 2018, 01:23:58 PM »
My user name was bestowed upon me one evening, many decades ago, by my Wing Commander who just happened to be at the Air Base gate when I came through in my Porshe 944 loaded to the max with flight nursers.  My predilection for German sports cars, the Air Force and being single….   well..  At any rate he said I was getting greedy, what with all those women and called me a Wolf.  I replied: “ you know what they say Colonel, “Diamonds are a girls best friend”,  the Diamond being the insignia designating the position.  From the back of the car came a melodious voice, ringing out, “ that’s right he’s an Wolf … an AirWolf.”  The monicker stuck and then I managed to acquire the license tag LuftWolf, which is the German translation.  Still have the tag and some fond memories to go with it. 
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #634 on: January 04, 2018, 02:11:15 PM »
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #635 on: March 08, 2018, 11:17:59 AM »
Thats the origin of my user name:







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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #636 on: April 29, 2018, 07:55:15 PM »
I was a diplomat (Foreign Service Officer) with the US Department of State for 30 years, most of that time abroad.
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #637 on: April 29, 2018, 09:16:33 PM »
Pre-internet, back in the electronic bulletin board days, I helped run a local BBS (Co-Sysop).  I was a financial counselor, CFP (Certified Financial Planner) and CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter) and was using the handle "Craigclu" and found that it was never taken in various venues such as email, web domains, user names, etc.  I just kept using it as it never had conflicts.
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #638 on: May 26, 2018, 06:57:49 AM »
LOL
For my sins my job searches and monitors my Social Media Posts. ((sigh)
It’s just easier to use a variation of my actual name.
I am seriously considering changing it to “Flamin Stelvio” as a result of an exploding whisky flask on a recent group ride


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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #639 on: May 26, 2018, 06:36:02 PM »
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exploding whisky flask

 :shocked: Uhh, there *has* to be a story..
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #640 on: May 26, 2018, 06:54:32 PM »
:shocked: Uhh, there *has* to be a story..
LOL
Posted before
Group ride through central Australia
Second day and just getting into a comfortable speed
I'd made a last minute decision to bring a nice single malt for the campfire
Small hip flask went into my tank bag.
Large hip flask was stuffed into my nylon seat bag on exhaust side but well away from exhaust.
Metal flask had settled and became heated, reach flash point and boom, huge blue flame
First I knew of it was when my companion raced passed me and frantically waved me to stop.
He was following 50 metres behind and had been showered with burning nylon as my toiletries bag shot out as a burning missile
He had just attached his GoPro to his helmet but had yet to switch it on, else I would have won the Internet that day.




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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #641 on: May 27, 2018, 04:05:19 PM »
I did post earlier but Muzz (or Muzza) is just the ncik-name for my usual name, Murray Turley.

Nothing too deep.
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #642 on: May 27, 2018, 05:02:50 PM »
I did post earlier but Muzz (or Muzza) is just the ncik-name for my usual name, Murray Turley.

Nothing too deep.

 A friend's granpa went by Muzzy , for the same reason .

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #643 on: May 27, 2018, 05:14:31 PM »
Mine is an abbreviation of my job title and division I worked in before retiring.

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #644 on: May 28, 2018, 06:54:07 AM »
Mine was bestowed upon me in the early eighty's @ an East coast tech school held for Jeep-Renault factory techs. I had figured out repair solutions for new product that the factory said didn't exist

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #645 on: May 28, 2018, 07:34:29 AM »
 :shocked: Yes, that *would* have won the internet..  :grin:

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #646 on: May 28, 2018, 08:42:59 AM »
A few years after I had sold off my first Guzzi, a '70 Ambo, I acquired another Guzzi, a LeMans, and joined this group and I couldn't think of anything more appropriate the Goosed Again. Unfortunately, due to inactivity, that account was deleted so I'm starting as a newbie one more time  now that I've been goosed again with a '74 Eldo.

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #647 on: May 30, 2018, 03:43:20 PM »
:shocked: Yes, that *would* have won the internet..  :grin:



This got a laugh from my wife.  I had to shorten the straps on my soft luggage due to the Breva's upswept pipes. Started scorching the underneath originally but fortunately I caught it in time. Note to self, when I go on holiday make sure whisky is packed on the top!!!!!! :grin:
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #648 on: June 23, 2018, 12:10:38 PM »
The old "Rockford " tv show, every time he disguised himself, he printed a business card in his front seat of his camaro. quite  often his name was jimijoe meeker, at least that's how I remember it, "correct  me if I'm  wrong jimi but I don't think I am"       my real name is John

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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #649 on: June 23, 2018, 11:17:51 PM »
Back in the early eighties I was getting into British bikes and I was reading an article about the Matchless G12CSR. It was a reprint from the 60s and the author was decrying the horrible cast badges that had replaced the old ones as " the worst kind of JukeboxGothic". It stuck in my head. 
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #650 on: August 03, 2018, 07:21:54 PM »
My screen name goes back to my first military call sign.
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Re: What is the origin of your user name?
« Reply #651 on: August 28, 2018, 04:14:50 PM »
   I was serving as Chief Engineer on a Factory Trawler with a Multi national crew .A lot of them were amazed that I actually worked on and around the process equiptmment and got my hands dirty. Soon go to be known as a "Rebochi" which is the Russian word for worker.
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