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Roundy from my days of hanging out the local circle track. 77 - the year my S/O was born.
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"Wade" because I have a fat Tabby cat named Kishka and I like expresso , and today a man gave me a Fiskars arborist's pruning saw . 
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Mine's another duh, kind of. SSG is my rank and Rex is part of my last name - the part that everyone uses cause most people won't attempt to pronounce the whole thing. Quote:
In computer lingo it's my 5-2. The five is for the last name "Lyles" and first two of Donald "do" ergo "lylesdo". Incidentally, Lyles is an old scotish surname, Donald is Scotish Gaelic meaning "ruler of the world". Kind of fitting for a Triumph wouldn't you say.
I'd have to agree, since I'm a "King" in Latin 
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'foglefar' was a character in a magical children's story that I wrote. He was a satyr and fairly ancient. So there are similarities I am beginning to relate to. But really I just use it because it's completely unique on the internet. It is pronounced "Fo-gul-far".
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First name initial, middle name initial, last name. Also what I use most everywhere. Keeps it simple and easy to remember. Also promotes accountability when posting.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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What do you mean it promotes accountability when posting?
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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5' 9" and 175lb. I was at 205lb and went to P90X. It works. I was pretty fit, just heavier.
I was just comparing my 5'9 frame at 195lbs to Bill at 6'4 and 195lbs in my head. Tall lanky guy since I don't consider myself at all big and at 195 I wasn't fat at 215 I have a belly.I did hit 225 at one point but quickly lost some of that now I fluctuate between 210 and 215.
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Hmmmmm......mailman, what could that possibly mean? Haha, 26years and still going in the post office.
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Loco means crazy in Spanish not as in mental but as in one who takes risks. Pony is a horse that stands less than 14 hands high at the withers. That's under 6 foot at the shoulder. They are known for strength, stubbornness, and quickness.
This isn't about how I got the name but is still a good description for me.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I need to know how crazy ponys violate the AUP?
Did you kill one with your bare hands or something?
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I got divorced in 2008. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do...and it was a total triumph of the spirit. A personal triumph.
Not coincidentally, 2008 was also the year I got my motorcycle license and my first bike, a 2008 Triumph America.
So PersonalTriumph has two very powerful meanings for me.
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I need to know how crazy ponys violate the AUP?
Did you kill one with your bare hands or something?
Its not the meaning of the name, but how I got it that is not so nice. The name is fitting though. I should of left it alone but ok the g rated version. I was 13 years old and doing some really bad stuff acting a rebellious fool. My uncle the only adult I respected then,(and one of the best horse trainers I ever met) confronted me. Probably saved my life. I still respect him for that day. He wised me up a lot in a few minutes.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I need to know how crazy ponys violate the AUP?
Did you kill one with your bare hands or something?
Its not the meaning of the name, but how I got it that is not so nice. The name is fitting though.
Please, no bestiality stories. That's a definite violation of the AUP...
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Mango was a given nick name some time ago. I guess Manganelli was just too long. Definitely better than the nick names from grade school.
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Hahaha John, you should take up comedy.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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As a kid, walking out the back door and into the woods with my canteen and BB gun was my idea of a great day. I preferred being by myself (or with my dog).
On one of my travels, I found a really cool area on the river and kept going back every chance I got. One day I stumbled upon a house and garden. As I was backing away, I heard somebody say Hello (scared the crap out of me). The old guy told me he lived there. I was a bit shaken up and left. I stayed away from that area, but every once in a while I'd see him watching me from a distance. I'd just wave and go on (this was back in the days before that would have been creepy). Anyway, after a few weeks, we finally met on a trail and talked. He told me that it was his land but it was OK for me to keep coming out there. I thought him living like a hermit was cool (no electric, hand dug well, etc.) and looked forward to when we'd see each other out in the woods - though all we did was wave. Several years later he died. Turns put he really did own that land, but refused to sell it to developers because he wanted it to remain the woods he'd grown up in. He donated it (500 acres) to the Nature Conservancy and it became the Timucuan/Theodore Roosevelt Preserve. Always admired that!
I love my family and friends, but nothing beats a day alone in the woods - except maybe a day alone on the Triumph.
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I got my handle back in the late 70's while through hiking the AT (Appalachian Trail) as "Wicasa Ska Tatonka"....my pack weighed about 70 lbs...and hence the the name Buffalo (big heavy lumbering beasties ya know)......I later learned that in the Navahoe language that handle meant "White Man Buffalo"......over the years it has been condensed to just "Buffalo".....I also learned that the Navahoe and Plains tribes held the Buffalo as a symbol for success.
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As a kid, walking out the back door and into the woods with my canteen and BB gun was my idea of a great day. I preferred being by myself (or with my dog).
On one of my travels, I found a really cool area on the river and kept going back every chance I got. One day I stumbled upon a house and garden. As I was backing away, I heard somebody say Hello (scared the crap out of me). The old guy told me he lived there. I was a bit shaken up and left. I stayed away from that area, but every once in a while I'd see him watching me from a distance. I'd just wave and go on (this was back in the days before that would have been creepy). Anyway, after a few weeks, we finally met on a trail and talked. He told me that it was his land but it was OK for me to keep coming out there. I thought him living like a hermit was cool (no electric, hand dug well, etc.) and looked forward to when we'd see each other out in the woods - though all we did was wave. Several years later he died. Turns put he really did own that land, but refused to sell it to developers because he wanted it to remain the woods he'd grown up in. He donated it (500 acres) to the Nature Conservancy and it became the Timucuan/Theodore Roosevelt Preserve. Always admired that!
I love my family and friends, but nothing beats a day alone in the woods - except maybe a day alone on the Triumph.
What great tale, a lesson learned and a legacy you honor here....My hat's off to you 
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So, ya wanna know why I use the screen name I do, eh?!
Well, what else needs to be said here?!
 
MacArthur said about Ike, "He was the finest clerk that ever served under me."
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I love that tale Hermit. I too enjoy my alone time its few and far between, and some times I don't know what to do with myself when the wife and kids are gone.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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So, ya wanna know why I use the screen name I do, eh?!
Well, what else needs to be said here?!
MacArthur said about Ike, "He was the finest clerk that ever served under me."
Yet just another reason for me to like Ike, Brian. He was basically "The Reluctant Warrior", and not some puffed-up egomaniac like MacArthur, Patton and Montgomery were. I always liked and respected that about Ike, and I think so did my father who was named Dwight, and who was also a WWII veteran.
(...and after whom I'm actually named, btw...yep, I'm a "Jr.")
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I agree with the guys here, Steve. Great story, well told! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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me and the 04 speedy live in Colonial Beach, Va. thus the incredibly imaginative screen name: cbeacher 
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A while ago, I started writing an intro to something and this is how I explained my "handle": Several years ago, in a moment of apparent madness I undertook to go on an expedition (on a motorcycle) spanning from Greece to Southern Spain, across the waters and from Morocco all the way down the west coast of Africa, ending up at the southernmost tip - Cape Town. It was on this occasion that I was offered the hospitality of two different Bedouin families. One was on the outskirts of the Sahara Desert after leaving Casablanca, that (the first) family took me in for the night and shared their meagre table. Whilst the second, somewhere between Marakesh and the Atlas Mountains(I was on my way to Mount Toubkal - probably the highest mountain in Africa - to check out the national park and the Amazigh Berbers), again took me in for the night and probably sacrificed the contents of their cooking pot for the sake of the travelling "foreigner", at least from what I later suspected.  Traditional Bedouins are a nomadic people who live in or near the desert. I have great admiration for their traditions, resilience to harsh conditions, survival strategies (while "on the road", if anyone could ever call it a road) and humbleness. A people, one like myself, had and still has a lot to learn from. It is as a tribute and admiration to the generosity and exceptional traditions of these people, that I chose to "abuse" their name (as a "handle"), even preceding the internet by a few years. You'll also find modern Bedouins spread from Morroco to Lebanon, succesful in business and other activities. P.S Two days following my visits to the Bedouins, I got held up and the sh!t beaten out of me by a group of Touaregs ... but that's a story for another time.
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P.S Two days following my visits to the Bedouins, I got held up and the sh!t beaten out of me by a group of Touaregs ... but that's a story for another time.
Thanassis, please explain to me how one gets beaten up by a pair of Volkswagens! This I have to hear!!!!  And yes, I do know what Touregs are! Lucky for you it wasn't a pair of Boras, I've heard sometimes they roam the streets with Fiat Puntos and are quite nasty! 
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Wow. These are great stories. Who knew there was such depth behind a simple handle on a motorcycle forum. I especially loved Hermit, Buffal0, and Bedouin's stories - great life experiences, thanks for sharing your wisdom.
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What do you mean it promotes accountability when posting?
Most of the trolls on websites are anonymous and use names that cannot be easily traced back to them. I use my own name and make no secret of who I am. I think it should be required, especially on the political websites. If I'm going to preach it I should live it. Those of us who have been on BA.com for awhile (since late 2004 for me) remember a few anonymous jerks, though they are, mercifully, very rare here.
Since very few of us here hide their identity it's not much of an issue. Elsewhere that is not the case.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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My name does not have nearly the cool factor of some here. It is short for my company name "American Glory", it is my email name and all other online ID.
Ride like you mean it.
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P.S Two days following my visits to the Bedouins, I got held up and the sh!t beaten out of me by a group of Touaregs ... but that's a story for another time.
It would be interesting if you had marked on the map where you caught your beat down.
Do, or do not...There is no try.'- Master Yoda
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Got mine from "the Usual Suspects", one of my favorite movies.
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I'm old for my profession: I'm a band roadie. Most kids these days call themselves techs...at 60 I call it what it is. I tour the country and set up band gear for concerts, ergo I am a roadie. The average age of the company I work with is 35 or so, I'm 60 this year, ergo I am old.
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btw mikemm03's last name begins with M and I suspect his middle does too and that's an 03 America he's riding fast and well :-)
Well Ed, thats close but my initials are JMM but the 03 is for the 2003 America. Really there's not a hidden meaning with the name. When I signed up back in the stone age I just wanted to get on the forum. I tried Mike, and was rejected, I tried Mikem, M for the fist letter of my last name, rejected. Hmmm, at the time there was only two members, well maybe a few more Anyway I tried the mikemm03 and bingo it worked. Like someone else said I wish I had given more thought to the name, maybe Thor, Johnny (Brando) or Steve McGueen
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mine is pretty simple. Since I was just a lad, I have been quite an avid hunter. Or my 14th birthday my dad gave me a brand new Ithaca model 37 shotgun. Being from western NY there is no other gun option to consider.
(and while the gun was nice and all) In the box was a brochure from Ithaca on another gun, which was new and of limited production. I immediately began lusting for this ultimate shotgun. It was a 10 gauge, chambered for 3 1/2 inch shells with a 36 inch long barrel, the Ithaca MAG10. Unobtainable as a kid due to cost (I probably could not have actually used the thing at the time) the gun was only made for 10 years and then the patents sold to another company who 'watered down' the gun.
I now own (and hunt with) several of these weapons in various OEM configurations.
I started with this username on a shotgun forum some years back an have continued with it on other forums as well.
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Too Fast ----> Vroooom 
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My ID is my online identity and nothing hidden. I use this same ID where ever I sign up to anything and always have since my first computer. It was also my nick name at home among my biker friends. (just The Dog or Dog depending if they were talking about me or to me) No one calls me that anymore as those friends are all dead, in prison, or moved away. I use my real name too as most if not all on here know and make no secret of who I am or what I think.I have to bite my tongue sometimes politically though.
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The big taboo on here is politics. I wonder why? We should have a politics thread. That would be funny.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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The big taboo on here is politics. I wonder why? We should have a politics thread. That would be funny.
Because people like you can't handle it. And there's nothing funny about it. By all accounts we shouldn't have a Lounge, if this site is really about motorcycles.
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The big taboo on here is politics. I wonder why? We should have a politics thread. That would be funny.
Because people like you can't handle it. And there's nothing funny about it. By all accounts we shouldn't have a Lounge, if this site is really about motorcycles.
There have even been those who complained that talk in the lounge didn't stick to motorcycles. They didn't like the general banter and joking, or even the personal news happening in members lives. Personally, I don't think this site would be as good or fun as it is now without that. With that chat in the lounge we have a community of online friends who share a common interest, without that we have tech talk and little friendship since you would know little about a members personality and other interests. I think that information is what makes this site and also makes the personal meetings all the better and gives a basis for conversation when we meet face to face.
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Well, I never. Oh I know man people get too worked up over it. We can't even manage to discuss loud pipes or oil on here. I'm sorry I was just being a little crass. Of coarse you and Ian here are 100 percent correct. As always 
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No, the Lounge gives the site it's personality, absolutely. But when politics comes up, some people go on the offensive, can't be civil and people end up all butthurt over it. It's just not worth it. And if you want to cry censorship, that only applies to the government. This is a privately owned benevolent dictatorship.  
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