User Handles - Who are you and where did your handle come from

[1978 NYB]

My friend R. Lee Emery stars in a new show this Thursday. I'm going to start another thread to get the word out. Here's a sneak peak....

 

[detmatt]

Guns of Navarone
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[GooBak]

Top 5 War Movies... Ok here goes

1. The Lost Battalion
2. We Were Soldiers
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Saving Private Ryan

As for other movies...

1. Fight Club
2. Gone in 60 Seconds, the original
3. Gladiator
4. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
5. Raid The Redemption

I could go on...

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Did anybody 'sidez me and Lee Ermey come out of boot camp with an almost uncontrollable urge to harpoon ah commie or anybody else with your M1 and mounted bayonet with your best high port thrust if they even looked at you cross wayz?

 

[thrashingcows]

Thanks Alan for posting a link to this thread over in the "Real Names" thread.....I scrolled through it and found that I had not given my story on how I came to use my handle.

I have to all the way back to High School. I got into heavy metal, under ground alternative type metal and punk etc around grade 8. I of course had several friends who were into the same kind of music. Anyway around Gr. 10 I was in drafting class and one of my metal music friends was in there with me. One day we were bored and decided to come up with some crazy names for bands. Anyway I came up with "Thrashing Pink Cows" as my favorite band name.

Now fast forward a few years and the internet is really starting to call to me. I start frequenting message boards, and finally decide I need to join. Now I have to come up with a user name. Well the mythical band ,Thrashing Pink Cows, had never really left my mind, so I dropped the pink...since it's not manly ;), and came up with Thrashingcows. Been using it ever since.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Mine was pretty obvious. It's my car.

My first board was the old Scat Pack board so I used that handle.
Then I joined Moparts and others like the Charger registry board and F(A,B,C,E,F)BO.
I'm amazed that the same name has been available on all the boards.
It's been nice for consistency.

 

[luigi164]

Mine, Luigi164, comes from my first name: Louis and the car I have been driven for years: Alfa Romeo 164.

Luigi sounds better and is for some people my nickname. And 164 seems obvious...
The 164 is gone unfortuanally and for daily use I drive an Alfa 145.

Greetz, Luigi

 

[65Fury440]

Born in 65, big fan of Sgt Nick Fury,lived in 440 area code.

 

[65Fury440]

Top 5 War Movies... Ok here goes

1. The Lost Battalion
2. We Were Soldiers
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Saving Private Ryan

As for other movies...

1. Fight Club
2. Gone in 60 Seconds, the original
3. Gladiator
4. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
5. Raid The Redemption

I could go on...

Those are all great flicks.

 

[twostick]

I've been in the trucking biz for going on 40 yrs (GASP!!) and the first trucks I drove had main and auxiliary transmissions. 2 transmissions, 2 sticks.

Kevin

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

A Spicer 16?

 

[twostick]

That pic I poached off Google is a B Model Mack, likely a B61. It is likely a Triplex trans. 5 and 3. They could also be had with a Duplex 5x2 or a Quadraplex 5x4.

I drove a 62 KW cabover, 67 KW needle nose and a White Western Star of similar vintage with 4x4 Spicers. The auxiliary shifter on the cabover detached and doubled as the cab jack handle.

Kevin

 

[commando1]

I drove a 62 KW cabover, 67 KW needle nose and a White Western Star of similar vintage with 4x4 Spicer

Wow. Just how far back do you go?

 

[twostick]

I started around 1976 in a swing fendered C800 Dodge 5 ton. Drove most of that tired iron working for low rent companies while 'paying my dues" as they used to say and I have been mostly an owner/operator since '81.

I like to think I have been more places than I haven't. :toothy9:

Kevin

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

My 1st new one waz ah '76 K-100 with a Bostrom that worked and a 13spd. 3-way splitter on the knob. Best transmission I ever had the pleasure of putting another 500K behind me with. Only 1 Bulldog I ever had the misfortune to sit in had a 2x3 two stick in it. What ah POS

 

[72Fury]

My 1st new one waz ah '76 K-100 with a Bostrom that worked and a 13spd. 3-way splitter on the knob. Best transmission I ever had the pleasure of putting another 500K behind me with. Only 1 Bulldog I ever had the misfortune to sit in had a 2x3 two stick in it. What ah POS

I remember dragging my Dad into the local Kenworth dealer in 1976. They had a red, white & blue K100 Aerodyne Bicentennial semi. I still have the brochures on the K100 & W900. Cool stuff. And the twostick that is really neat. I stalked all of the trucks as a kid. There was a beautiful B61 single axle, red, that pulled a bulldozer in the subdivision sometimes, a GMC cracker box for a moving company, etc.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Oh Jer we are going to have fun in Carlisle. I'm one upping you I drove 2 POS bulldogs one a whopping 300 with a 9 SPD. and the other a 300 with a 5spd. I guess that would be a simplex trans because only a simple f&%k would think its a good idea on a tandem axel tractor well maybe for you flatlanders lol.

 

[commando1]

The type of truck I learned on. Age 18, 1967
318 Detroit/5+5 Roadranger

The type of of truck I learned what "4x4 quadraplex" meant. 1968
250 Cummins/4x4

The type of truck I drove in my first full time job 1969
6 cyl gas/5 spd

The truck I actually drove when I permanently started my career in 1972.
195 Cummins/5+5 RR

The truck I actually drove when I retired in 2005.
400 Cat/5x2 RR

 

[bulldogchesty]

Stan, any good trucking stories?

 

[commando1]

None.