What does your username mean?
Lead Driver
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,093
Likes: 652
From: Brentwood, TN
I have been reading posts on this thread for years now. It has become somewhat of a historical documentation of forum members old and new. Some of these stories are really interesting and I have laughed at more than a few of them but one thing I noticed was that I had yet to post. While my first name IS Charles, my user name is not based on my given name nor is the LED part related to the work I do with body and paint. In the early 70's I worked with a guy who gave nicknames to EVERYBODY. He was black and all the white guys were "Chuck" to him so if you were white he called you "Charlie". To keep all these Charlies unique he added the first syllable of your last name, in my case Led. For some reason the nickname stuck and now even my wife sometimes calls me CharlieLed.
tractorman
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 709
Likes: 4
From: San Antonio, Texas
..LoL!.. The wife and I were on a road-trip a couple of years back, we stopped in a mid-sized Kentucky town..after walking into the Holiday Inn lobby and signing the paperwork I looked around and asked where a fella might find the lounge for a couple of cold beers after a long drive..The gentleman behind the counter responded with..Sir,..this is a DRY county.
I spent the next 4 hours driving south to Tenn. LoL!.We found an old gas station converted into a bar just over the line,cold beer,homemade wine..and some clear "private-stock", stuff along with alot of good humor explaining what a couple of Yankees were doing in they're neck of the woods this time of night...We have the absolute BEST times on our Road-trips, sampling slices of average American life..Try it!
Nothing against Kentucky or it's people..just a case of cottonmouth.
..cmoritz, first intial (Chris)..last name..,sometimes called Mertz (Fred and Ethel Mertz, from the I Love Lucy Show),..cos some folk's had a hard time pronouncing Mor-itz..go fiqure..
I spent the next 4 hours driving south to Tenn. LoL!.We found an old gas station converted into a bar just over the line,cold beer,homemade wine..and some clear "private-stock", stuff along with alot of good humor explaining what a couple of Yankees were doing in they're neck of the woods this time of night...We have the absolute BEST times on our Road-trips, sampling slices of average American life..Try it!
Nothing against Kentucky or it's people..just a case of cottonmouth.
..cmoritz, first intial (Chris)..last name..,sometimes called Mertz (Fred and Ethel Mertz, from the I Love Lucy Show),..cos some folk's had a hard time pronouncing Mor-itz..go fiqure..
TractormanBill
Posting Guru
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,433
Likes: 7
From: Los Banos, California
my name mrcman58, well my wife actually started calling me mercury man after i bought my first mercury pickup in 1996, i mentioned to her hay dont start calling me that, well it stuck and after awhile i got to liking it, now a lot of people around where i live refer to me as the mercury man, and i was born in 1958 so i call myself mrcman58.
Posting Guru
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,433
Likes: 7
From: Los Banos, California
with all those mercs that you have.
Junior User
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 93
Likes: 0
From: Gilbert, AZ
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Cargo Master
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,580
Likes: 29
From: in a barn
Same user ID I have on multiple forums since 1998, for my 1970 chevelle SS396 convertible. Used to have two of them, sold one and kept one, which has been sitting with a cover over it since 2008 or so. I think it will come out of hibernation next year, wife has been complaining since she hasn't been able to drive it.
Cargo Master
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 2,924
Likes: 134
From: Houston
I think the best looking vehicle Ford ever built is a 1938 coupe. I am lucky enough to have one, a 1938 standard coupe, it just needs restoring. I try to use the same name in the various forums I join. Note that at the moment my avatar is not the 38 coupe, it is the 37 sedan my Dad and I own 50/50.
Here is a picture of the coupe.
Here is a picture of the coupe.
New User
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 12
Likes: 0
First post here! My username is the same on most other forums I frequent. My name is David. I used to work with the forest service and I was on a fire one time where I had a tree limb poke me in the eye and my eye was scratched. I had to wear a patch for a few days. About this same time I had just bought an old jonboat. With the new boat and an eye patch one of the guys called me Captain Davie which was pronounced Cap N Davie. It stuck with while I worked there and I use it as my username and in my email address. And that is the rest of the story.
