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James Howell

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I read long ago in a book written by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale that one of the most important things to a person is their name.

There are a lot of unique, interesting, and practical 'handles' used on these forums.

Please share with us how you chose your 'handle' and what your 'handle' represents.
 
"Goose" was my nickname for 10 years in the Marine Corps. I still use it for a CB handle. My wife goes by "Mother Goose" on the CB.
 
On this forum my handle is Gold-Leaf-Deere because I own the Gold-Leaf-Deere tractor. ON the CB, I go by Junk Jockey. During my thirty years working teletype for A T& T, I went my C Q, this being my first two intials.
 
My brother gave it because I was a smart-alec gofor. I think he got it off a 60's TV show....
Dad called me East Biscuit - must've got off on the wrong foot with him early.
 
Well mine comes from a few places. #1 at one time we had a pony that was named old coal, she was 30 plus years old when she died so I took the old from her name. #2 most of what I have learn came from people that where older then I am and most are now dead so I use that name because of where I learned things from
Hobby farm
 
My I.D. on here is Big G a name given by my dad to a 1950 G John Deere some 33 years. At that time my brothers and I were kids and looking up at that G it was big. I chose that because I now own that same tractor and knew posting on here only a few family and friend would reconize who I am. The G still runs and is used every now and then and my kids now drive Big G.
 
someone was looking at one of my rowcrop Fords that had just been redone and I was telling him about why it was called a rowcrop. He said well thats interesting but this ones not a rowcrop it's a showcrop. and soon after that was when I discovered Yesterday's Tractors.
 
I use my real god-given name. At work I have to fill out mountains of paperwork on contractors. However, many times I have no access to the pertinent information. If it is not crucial, I credit it to D.B. Cooper. Most are too unaware to get the joke. They think DB Cooper is an equipment operator.

He is probably in Costa Rica living the good life, or hanging in a fir tree somewhere in Oregon....

Aaron
 
Nearly all of my 24 years military service was in the Tennessee Army National Guard; the last 15 as a section leader in Headquarters Detachment of a MP Battalion. It was a small, close-knit unit with about 25 EM and 5-7 officers. The (SFC) supply sergeant was full-time (AGR) and a nice guy, but he took everything much more seriously than the rest of us......his livelihood depended on it. The last 2 hours of each monthly drill were devoted to care and cleaning of individual equipment. The whole unit was never there to clean weapons and they all had to be cleaned, so weapons cards weren’t used; just serial number on ‘roster’ and signature. One day when the supply sergeant had been particularly ‘horsey’, everyone gathered for final assembly/dismissal. The armorer came out and said, “Sergeant Moss, we’re missing a weapon”. “Well, look and see who’s got it”.........in a voice filled with sarcasm. “Thurlow Beaver”. Well, of course, there was nobody by that name. He jerked the roster out of the guys hand and looked for my name, since I had a reputation for practical jokes. My name was on there where I had checked out/cleaned another weapon or two. Well, the weapon was found over in a corner of the room where everybody had gathered to clean them and it was in as many pieces as it was possible to disassemble it.........far more than was supposed to happen at unit level. The supply sergeant has an impressive command of the English language and we were treated to a fully array.........until he finally ran out of breath. We all enjoyed it immensely!. I happened to meet the como chief’s eyes and realized that he was responsible. The supply sergeant carefully monitored what was going on for the next 2 or 3 months, before he forgot. For the rest of my time in the unit, the como chief, another guy and myself would occasionally sign “Thurlow Beaver at any ‘appropriate’ time..........never with any prior planning or consulting each other. We never signed a pay roster, but pretty much everything else at one time or another. No one except the three of us ever knew. When I left the unit in ‘89, I carried the handle thurlow with me and have used it on a lot of forums.
 

Until I got grown I always went by my first 2 names. In the CB days the wife said my handle should be Oatmeal cause i was always done in 3 minutes. Not funny.
 
Clueless (from 2006 or so, when I got my computer) seemed to fit; when I realized it"d been used earlier by someone else, I used noncompos, altho I kept clueless or nc mentis on other forums...it seems the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know, and the crazier I get...
 
I own a Massey Ferguson 150 that I started to clean up and repaint a few years ago. One thing led to another as my obsessive/compulsive side kicked in. MF/AGCO, EBAY, Craigslist, and every boneyard with-in a days drive got a tremendous boost in their business and my bank account got a reamin'. So, MF Poor am I.
 
the H sat for 20 years and was ugly(family owned)running now and getting some paint. never heard of YT till, 2 or 3 months ago!
 
Mine is a combination of a nickname and my own arrogance.

Teebo came from a much younger cousin attempting to call me Timbo like our grandmother did.

Now for the arrogance......read gr81 as GREAT ONE!!!!

There you have it.....the rest of the story.....
 
OFFANDGONE came from a password I picked out the sky when I didn't want anything associated with my birth day of name. It ended up being a part of a email address.
 
Long story--short version MSB shortened from mudsockbob.Mudsock is the old nickname of Fishers, Indiana where I lived for 42 years. Moved to near Lapel, In. Its old nickname is Lappydoodle. Thought about changing to Lappydoodlebob, but that takes too long to type, so I will continue using msb.
 
Since OT threads now outnumber tractor threads 13 to 7, i might as well chime in here anyway.

My real name is an old family name, Lansing. Everyone calls me Lanse.
 
My brother and i bought 20 acres of our grandparents 200 acre farm here in Illinois. We grew up on a 1000 acre farm in the 70s. Always loved farming but no money back then. Wandered around for 30 years and now i'm going to farm for no money if its the last thing i do . I love doing stuff the old ways
Sooo the basics of farming 101 step by step. I've been breaking even so I believe in farming that's making money.!!! LOL

Farmer
 
Well, my first (and so far only) antique tractor is a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-14, so I started using "F14" as my handle.

With the sort of foolishness that usually goes on over on Tales (my "home" board) it sorta morphed into "Fawteen"
 
Back in the 60's I worked for Coors and when we worked OT, Coors would by us dinner. Everyone would order hamburgers but I sure didn't!!!

Who wooda thunk a stupid joke would stick with them the rest of there life. LMAO

T_Bone
 
I worked for the FBI agent that investigated the case. Neither DB or any other human could have survived the jump from the airplane. Years later they did find partial remains of the leather pouch and with remnants of the money.
 
51Pony is really self-explanatory. It was Dad's MH and I have it now. That's really common on here too. My hands are too soft from office work to hang around with you guys much, but you let me anyway.
 
I live outside of Orangeville, Pa, and we had a railroad shortline (in whose history I'm interested) that ran up through the valley below me. It went belly-up in the '20s, and was bought by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, or the P&R, which survived into the '70s.
YT wouldn't accept the '&', so it became 'P and R'.
I would have used the initials of the original RR, which was the Bloomsburg and Sullivan, but those initials would have been too close to the stuff I'm usually shoveling!

My wife's nickname is "runamuck".
She's a redhead.
=:)
 
Nickname got hung on me when I was eighteen by some of my Italian friends.Birth name given to me by parents is Vitalis,just like the hair tonic.
Vito
 
Never used anything here except name/state. On most other forums I use "CW Spook", because long ago in a galaxy far away, I was one.
 
D for David, carp for Carpenter
I had one other choice, GDDavid, since my Dad always started anything he was going to say to me
as "G##D#mn David, did you see...
 
i use ericlb because its my first name and middle and last initial, its also the only thing thats mine some knivin female aint took from me in a devorce, lol, maybe..
 
You must live in a community property state like Texas where the husband leaves the community and the wife gets all the property.
 
I am from the Clover Creek area in Pennsylvania,
Google it! Lived here nearly all my life. From hardy, industrious, German stock, with good reputation. In times past, just being a Clover Creek-er would get you hired!
 
Mike Henry is my name.Mike because my gr.grandpa wanted a gr.son when mom was born.He called her Mike from day 1. His name was Henry. When mom had me she thought this was the time to get rid of the nickname,thinking if they had to call me Mike they surely wouldnt keep calling her Mike. Didnt work. She is now Aunt Mike to many nieces and nephews and Mike to many cousins still.When asked why Mike, gr.grandpa said the best man he ever met was named that.Someday I hope to live up to that.
 
Well when the neighbors saw that old, well weathered red paint turned pink haybaler clanking it's way into the front yard, they all gasped that another piece was added to the useless farm toy collection. I proudly exclaimed that I was going into the hay bizniss! Do you know what your doing? No. Well 3 years after delivery of that baler, and many, many dry, expressionless conversations with other homo sapiens about my "future" endeavours that clanging, gee bang gizz mo gave birth to a little package of hope tied up with twine. About that time a neighbor with a friend visiting from Louisiana came to investigate what made such a clamour! All I could hear was the cajun explaining to his friend, "Hey, e b haymakin!" No offense to cajuns, I respect all y'all.
 
I was just filling out the form and since I was driving a truck put in trucker,since thats what I did for a living.Somebody got to posting using Trucker when I was sick,so I just changed it to trucker40,since 40 was in my email address.
 
Funny,I just joined and the first thread is what's your handle. Full head of bushy hair and long full bushy beard= Woolie.
 
Was a little hard to choose a handle, as a matter of fact I am afraid I may have taken one already in use but not registered. But thought my first name and the state I live in now self explanatory. Used to live in Nebraska, but I'm not creative enough to figure a short enough handle to reflect both states. I do see postings from a Doug in IL from time to time, just to let everyone know we are not the same person. DOUG
 
We do a corn maze (as well as vegetables, herbs, flowers, pumpkins, etc etc.). I'm the one that does the field work and "cut" it out. So I'm the meister of the maze. And I figured there wouldn't be another one on here!
 
I chose this handle because I spent more time restoring our 52 JD B widefront than doing anything else, but the ending project was worth it. I cant wait to do it again!
 
I use Roberto because I feel that using Doctor Roberto would be too formal in this casual atmosphere and I am trying to fit in.
 
I worked third shift many years & drank a LOT of coffee. This is a lifestyle I do not recommend.
Since thinking up this handle, I've found several businesses with the name "Coffee Helps", so I wonder if I should change the handle, to like, Mark SW Wis.?
If anyone's curious, try "Googling" Coffee Helps and see what a wonder drug coffee is claimed to be.
Oh, yes, hope I didn't accidently steal this handle from somebody else!
 
Higgins,

That show was Magnum, PI, and it ran in the early eighties, not the sixties.

Higgins, a Brit, was played by John Hillerman, a Texan! I always thought that was pretty amazing acting; I never figured a Texan could play anyone but another Texan, and poorly at that.
 
Species of falcon I once nursed back to health. A juvenile, it loved to sit on my shoulder and eat hamburger. Still miss that little guy.
 
Comes from the Little 2/3 scale D I built a few years ago.


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Kip, where at in New Mexico? I lived in Eastern NM (stationed there twice) and my wife lives there. The way things are going...most likely will be living there when I retire from the service.
 
Love my two cyl Deeres (10 of them) and over 60. Adds up to old popper. This thread has made for interesting reading though.
 
I bought a basket-case 1949 JD B tractor and suddenly found out I was in over my head on my first tractor project. Been kickin' around here for three years now, since I bought that tractor in August '05.
 
Can we call you Doc? I've never met a doctor who liked to be called Doc. Used to be a young veterinarian here named Ludberry (this was when Jerry Clower was at his best); most of the folks called him Dr. Ledbetter......after Jerry's 'folks'; you could see his (Ludberry's)ears turning red each time he heard it.
 
I got mine in highschool back in the early 60's. The guys in my class and the next class down started to call each other by their dad's name. My Dad was Elmer and it morphed into Elmer Fudd, then just Fudd.
 
The official (USPO) abbreviation for Wisconsin is WI. Long before that was decided, I learned in school that the correct abbreviation is Wis. Many insisted on using Wisc. My wife hates the use of Wisc. I almost adopted Wisc just to annoy her but I annoy her way too much already so I used the long accepted Wis to distinguish myself from the other Bills who would probably want to use the politically correct version. I, as you may already know , am very politically incorrect. This was just a very minor way of stating that. I know, this might be way more than you wanted to know, BUT, you asked. :)>))
 
I knew a guy in college in the late 60's whose real name was Mike Henry. But almost everyone addressed him by his nickname: TANK. He was a huge guy who had been a pretty good lineman in High School football. I don't think he even tried to play college ball--he thought he was too slow.

I hadn't thought about Mike Henry/TANK in many years. Wonder what ever happened to him?
 
Hal is my nickname and I live in Eastern Washington. I needed a handle and used Hal/WA for years, but then apparently someone else registered that handle. I didn't have the password, so I had to change.

So now I am Hal(WA). Not much different, but a little bit of hassle when it happened.
 
My friends call me bill and if you want to find me you will have to come to the farm. Tomorrow you might try looking in the wheat field where the straw needs baling or up the road a piece where we will try to cut some oats. When the day is done there will be our regular saturday night cookout, here on the farm.
bill
 
A good friend of mine flew for the Navy in WWII(The BIG one) and carried with him, as a practical joke, a full set of navy records on a fictional guy named "Kraznicki". Every aircraft carrier he served on also had "Kraznicki" serving with him. Drew a lot of laughs at tailhook parties for many years.
 
that"s about the size of it, my belly that is, about an acre.
Or maybe I gripe a lot. Naaa that couldn"t be it,-- could it????
 
Borned and raised on a Wheat Farm at Big Spring, NE. Farmed it myself from 2000-2007 after dad got sick. Then it just got to much driving from Black Hawk,CO So I sold it in Jan 2007. Sure do miss playing in the dirt. Still got all the tractors and more.
 
original was kyroastnear for this site used it a few months then guess it got reserved by another then added THE.ky. is where i live roastnear was my CB handle from 70s. got that name from a girl in high school my last name is cobb as a grade school kid got stuck with corn cob alot she liked roastnear better so did i
 
This is a long story but I will try to make it short. My real first name is Jim but when I first started reading and writing on YT, I tried to use my real name and had my own password but I kept getting rejected because the name was apparently already used. My grandson Pat was here for Thanksgiving and he heard me softly calling the computer all kinds of exotic names and he said I should use his first name and see what happened. Sure enough, Pat H. went through and so did my password which is his middle name. Then a little later, I used the handle Hoosierfan6 because I have been a life long Hoosier and IU Hoosier fan from birth. Two of my kids are also Hoosiers and in fact we say we have two mixed marriages because my daughter, a rabid IU fan who has her RN from there and is a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Methodist Hospital in Indy, is married to a Purdue engineer and my oldest son is a IU man now a banker and cattle farmer and is married to a Purdue pharmacist. Another son in Indy is a Boiler fan (where did I fail?) and several times we have gone to the Old Oaken Bucket football game and he wears his PU cap and I wear my IU cap and the crowd usually just grins at us. At one game at Bloomington he was all jacked up as PU was beating the slop out of us and I thought we might have to fight our way out of the stadium. He's a big burly fellow though (as all three of my boys are)and is an Indy police officer so I didn't worry too much. After all he didn't get the nickname from the kids of "Tackleberry" for nothing as he is always packing. My third son is a professional musician (drummer) who has played in southern rock bands all over the world, has appeared on CMT and TNN and is now living the life of a mountain man living in a log cabin he and I built in our woods. My CB handle is "Cannonball" in honor of my dad, grandpa, uncle and brother-in-law as dad was an engineer on the C&EI railroad running between Chicago and Evansville, IN. My grandpa was a machinist helper in the roundhouse at Oaklawn in Danville, IL, my brother-in-law was a boilermaker on the C&EI, and my uncle was a trainmaster on the Rock Island. I also worked during college on the C&EI and Norfolk and Western. I live in western Indiana near Lafayette where I'm constantly doing battle with my Boilermaker neighbors. The short story turned into a long one, but I enjoy YT and am now restoring a 1951 M and have a Super M both of which I intend to paint before winter.
 
Guys, Just my first name and middle initial.Raised up here in Central Texas, Still Love the High Planes, Old Red Iron, and most all others fueled by LP. 51 yrs old this year.
"Senior Life Specialist" Life Ins agent is My primary vocation now.
Later,
"John A." Smith
 
It was during he depression in a little river town called Reedsville, Ohio, A single father, Ira Boring and his young son, Grant, were getting ready to leave Mr Barnett's general store. As usual there were a group of guys "loafing" on the front porch of the store. Ira told his son, "Common Skybow, let's head for the house." It was a nonsense name that just came to Ira at that moment. The assembled group got a laugh and Grant got a nickname that stayed with him till his death in 2002. I use Skybow to honor the greatest man I ever met, My father Grant Boring of Reedsville, Ohio.
(Thanks for letting me share this)
 
Well 6FT 4IN and 303 Pounds , Levis , Chippewas,Tshirt and a Flanel ( when cool enough) , is my daily attire . I dont usually wear anything else .
 
Lived 15 years in Montana (now in Georgia) and every year in hunting camp we always brought some snack for everyone to share. One year I brought about a ten pound bag of gummibears from the warehouse store. My hunting camp nickname from then on was Gummibear, hence, MT(Montana)gummibear.

Larry
 
Back in 1999 when I started to come to YT MAG I was in the middle of rebuilding a Custom tractor for pulling. I gave that pulling tractor the nickname Chances R. I started using it for my handle here and it seemed to work. I have met people from the YT Mag boards that tell me when they here the phrase Chances R they always think of me :).
My CB handle and ebay handle is Hand - Cranker
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With a given name of Tom Dooley, I had to come up with one that didnt sound ficticious. Hence W4.Always wanted a W4 and finally got one!W4
 
When oldest grandson was born 5 years ago, I was ONLY 60 so I told family I was too young to be called "grandpa" or something like that. When the child learned to talk he started calling me "Tractorman" I loved it! NC comes from where I live.
 
Twomen - Shortened name of my moving company - "Two Men And A Truck" located in Dallas - whole lotta guys named "John" b/4 me on the forum.
 
Mine is simple"Alex" which not surprisingly is the shortened version of Alexander(I usually don't use my middle name, Bies) and "C" is stands for Cole.
Alex.C
 

steamnjn23---pronounced steam engine 23
it came as i was transitioning into computers. everything was new to me with new terminology. for me it was a slow process, but once i got rolling i was teaching others just how "simple" it was. when my oldest daughter came down for a visit, she wanted to get on the internet, and we came up with my name and it has been steamnjn23 every since.
 
I'm not the most creative guy ever and there was a dollar bill laying on the desk when I got started posting here, 1 Dollar became the name
 
My handle, Andy Motteberg is my real name, my name is Andrew David Motteberg, but everyone calls me Andy. I like using my name better. I'm 15 and have been on YT since 2006. YT has been very helpful in my tractor restorations. I restored my 1943 Farmall H that used to be my Grandpa's, my 2nd project which I'm still working on is a 1949 John Deere A, my 3rd, (have not picked up yet), is a 1938 Farmall F-20. I like Farmalls & John Deere tractors.

Andy.
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My wife sent an email to my son in college and ask him what he thought we should name a place we bought. He sent an email back and said call it Pital place. Spelled like that so it stuck. I always tell people I am playing in my shop so that is where he got it.
 
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