Explain Your Handle

February 26, 2017, 07:17 AM

sigmoid

Explain Your Handle

Some really interesting handles on this forum.
Am I the only one who looks and says, whats that mean?
So, here goes mine:
In 2009, after some serious pain issues I was having for about 1 year, I was diagnosed with severe diverticulitis.
Doc I trusted when I asked him "what would you do"? told me, surgery.

Shortly thereafter, I went under the knife and low and behold had a tumor and 10" of my colon removed.

This is known as a SIGMOID colectomy.

So, in honor of what saved my life, I chose this as my handle.
Go ahead, call me an asshole, I just chuckle cuz I'm closer to the end than the beginning.

What's yours?

February 26, 2017, 07:19 AM

Tonyny

Tonyny first name and I was from New York at that time. Nothing complicated or mysterious and that's how I live my life.

February 26, 2017, 07:20 AM

PHPaul

I'm Paul, and I live in Prospect Harbor.

Somewhat more interestingly, on the tractor forums I'm "Fawteen". That started as F14 for the 1938 Farmall F-14 tractor I piss money away on, that morphed to Fourteen, and then to take a little dig at some Southern Brethren it became Fawteen.

Elsewhere, I'm "Downeaster" because Prospect Harbor is in Downeast Maine.

February 26, 2017, 07:22 AM

Rick_Perry

Very Simple. It's my name.

February 26, 2017, 07:25 AM

Ronin1069

How I see myself (Samurai without a master) and my bootcamp platoon number.

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All it takes...is all you got.
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For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

February 26, 2017, 07:28 AM

WildSig

Mines corny and I have no imagination.

Wild - I'm a huge MN Wild fan
Sig - Well, this is SIGforum and I was signing up to ask question about Sig's so....

WildSig was born.

February 26, 2017, 07:37 AM

kz1000

File photo. Bike is long gone.

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"Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris

February 26, 2017, 07:38 AM

mikeyspizza

In my hurry to become a member, I should have thought about it longer, not realizing it'd be permanent. Basically, I like pizza. No, I don't own a pizza place, but if I did then I suppose that's what I would name it.

February 26, 2017, 07:39 AM

Otto Pilot

I'm an airline pilot, I smile a lot, and need to be inflated every now and then.

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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon

February 26, 2017, 07:42 AM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by Otto Pilot:
I'm an airline pilot, I smile a lot, and need to be inflated every now and then.

February 26, 2017, 07:42 AM

Cliff

Cliff cause I'm just...Cliff.

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

--Sir Winston Churchill

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."

--James Earl Jones

February 26, 2017, 07:45 AM

ugeesta

A nickname given to my by my brother when we were kids.

We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye

Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH.

February 26, 2017, 07:50 AM

45 Cal

I like firearms,when I joined the forum ten years back 45 caliber guns was the flavor I was on at the time.
Last year it had went to 5 7 X 28

February 26, 2017, 07:51 AM

JD DRIVER

I farm and drive John Deere equipment.

February 26, 2017, 07:55 AM

walkinghorse

Ride a Tennessee Walkinghorse as does my wife.
Hate trotting so went to a gaited horse many years ago.

February 26, 2017, 08:02 AM

sigmoid

Keep 'em coming fellas, I'm getting a good chuckle as usual from this group!

February 26, 2017, 08:05 AM

Black92LX

My 1st car nearly 19 years ago

How she currently sits at the moment undergoing a full suspension and brake swap as well as a turbo motor swap. This week starts a new schedule of 3 day weekends so I hope to have her running again for summer then complete the body work and paint over the winter.

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The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad.
If we got each other, and that's all we have.
I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand.
You should know I'll be there for you!

February 26, 2017, 08:09 AM

recoatlift

Recoatlift: paint problem. Undecoats or topcoats begin to swell,crac& & lift due to waiting too long between coats & heavy coats, Usually seen in automotive / Fleet refinishing. Major PITA!

Solution: proper flash times & the use of isocynates (see Bhopal, India disaster) in under coats, color & clear. No more recoatlifts!

Painters that do not wear a proper respirator or fresh are systems usually have a 3 fingers or limp wrist handshake!