Joe Zullo said:
I think real names are a must among friends! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
yea, like Hollywood, Rooster, Fr. Fred, Boomer, Benevolent Dictator…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
What’s in a name? A Boomer is a Boomer is a Boomer. Would it not smell of sawdust, sweat and gear oil by any other name?
My grandmother who originally gave me the nickname “Boomer” was there after the only person who ever called me Curtis. BobCo (Bob Cope) and Hollywood (Dave Marconi) do it now just to irritate me. My grandmother passed 37 years ago. If any of you wish to take her place you can start by making up for 37 years of back birthday presents. The usual $5 and a Hallmark card X 37 will do nicely. You can keep the cards just send the $.
Twenty one years in the military over multiple assignments; the 1st Shirt called me Boomer as did the fire chief and the base commander. My step brats call me Boomer while the grandson calls me Papa Boomer. Mrs Boomer calls me Boomer except when she is really mad and then she calls me X&?!&%. The cats call me “Meow” which means Boomer in kitten talk…or it might mean “human servant, give us food and clean up our poop box”. Hard to tell with cats.
Even my address has had nick names. When I lived in the old coal mining town of Madrid NM my first address was County Road 2314 or as the locals called it #5 Ghost Town Plaza. So named because it was the fifth building cleaned up and occupied by the original hippy squatters in the early 1970s. My second address in Madrid was #12 Back Road or as named by the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company #1 Dynamite Lane as it was the road up to the explosives storage area. The unofficial names were what was listed on my drivers license because that is how everyone in the county knew them.
I call my blue jeep the HDAV (Home Depot Assault Vehicle). The work shop is the “Dynamite or Boom Shack”. Carlene is “Mrs Boomer” or sometimes SWMBO (but not where she can hear). Topaz is the spare parts kitty or the “Topazian Devil”.
No matter what you call me if you find yourself on Interstate -40 just East of Albuquerque make a left turn and stop in for some trains and BBQ. Because it is all in good fun. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
Member formerly known as Boomer K. said:
And here I thought your real name was Boomer. Nice to meet you Curtis. BTW I like slow cooked BBQ brisket.
I just realized something. Rooster must be sitting at 9,999 with a big smile on his face. He has caused hate, discontent, turmoil, and general chaos, and disorderly conduct all without having to type a word and waste his 10,000 post.
Good job, Rooster!!!
Granny…is that you?
You owe me $185 plus interest you old bat!
when i started to use the internet, i decided to separate work and play.
so i set up two emails. one for business and official stuff, the other for gaming and other hobbies.
stayed with the same alias for more than 20 years. using it in forums and the like in three languages.
if i would change it now, i would loose my identity.
if i want to participate in a “real-name” forum, i give my real name to the admin, but insist to be listed under my alias.
if they do not accept that, well, its their problem, if they got one sh$thead less.
So why, 20 years ago, did you feel compelled to use an alias instead of your real name?
Greg Elmassian
I think Korm and I had the same ideas.
We didn’t know any better in the old days.
Oh, forgot… Go Rooster. lol. PaP.
I really don’t want to be using any of my nicknames. None of them are what I want to be called. So I will stick with the name on the little plastic card the state makes me buy every few years.
The issue of Identity Theft is real, and I have been uncomfortable in the past using my real name. Google had a plan a few years ago to force everyone to use real names, and I refused - I am still Fred2179 (though they insisted I use 2 names, so I am also Fred2179 T on Youtube.) Sometimes my emails arrive with Fred2179 instead of the email ( not sure who’s changing the ‘from’ in my emails but they certainly shouldn’t be without asking me.)
Maybe now that there are so many people online the odds have changed. Maybe the fact that AOL, Google and Yahoo have all been hacked and their (our) address books stolen means it is futile anyway to try and retain some privacy.
And, despite what you guys think, I have no idea who Rooster is, or Hollywood for that matter. We haven’t all been sniping at one another for the past 10 years. I was late to the party.
Pete, I am not an old timer here neither, and I know who those characters are. I even hung out with them at the ECLSTS.
When I was dragged kicking and screaming to the internet, I started off with my real name. I had this delusion that someone in particular might try and find me. Oh well, that person can just…remain a distant memory at this point.
Greg Elmassian said:
So why, 20 years ago, did you feel compelled to use an alias instead of your real name?
Greg Elmassian
because in those times my interests made me visit places on the net, that were a little bit more shady, than model-railroad forums are.
because then i did not know yet, that sucsessfully hiding an identity needs more resources, than it is worth.
because then i had no idea, that we don’t get hacked by kitchentable-hackers, but by goverment agencies, google and microsoft.
i could list more "because"s, but i think you get the gist.
(btw, the fact, that i can read your posts, and you mine, shows, that the "ignore"function in this forum ignores, that it should function)
I can appreciate your reasons, and I really hear you on government agencies.
Yes the ignore function here ignores private messages I believe, not hiding posts like it does on MLS…
Greg
Devon et all, I have had the supine pleasure of feasting on some of Boomers slow smoked BBQ brisket. Lets just say if for some insane reason he wanted to open a roadside BBQ shack, he would be very successful it it. Some of the very best i’ve ever had. Yeh, it’s that good…
Now your speaking my language. I am not sure there is any finer pleasure in life than a well cooked BBQ brisket. What is normally a dull, almost worthless piece of meat becomes a culinary delinquency
Kinda sez it all!
Amen
Don’t be doing religion on this forum now. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)You know it’s frowned on (unless you are using an alias!). (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)
Joe Zullo said:
Don’t be doing religion on this forum now. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)You know it’s frowned on (unless you are using an alias!). (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)
But Joe, melt on yer gums meat is out of this world! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I feel a Walter Brennan moment acoming!
Well good BBQ is a religion
