Explain Your Call Sign / Handle

swooshdave said:
KSUWildcatFan said:
I'm a big Kansas State University fan. Always have been. I try to go to as many basketball and football games as I can, but if I can't go and it's televised, I always tune in. If it's not on TV, I ALWAYS tune in via radio.
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Do they even charge people to attend KSU games. :twisted:
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Hey, screw you pal! It's not 1983 anymore! :p
 
Hi. My name is Guy D'Amico.
The name Guy in Italian is Guido, in french it's pronounced Gee.
My mom, being French would call me Gee and my Dad, being Italian would call me Guido
Friends would call me Geedo because they'ed hear what my parents would call me.
Then Saturday Night Live came out and they would call me Father Guido Sarducci or the movie Risky Business and they would call me Guido the killer pimp.
Guido Salmaggio comes to mind too.
So it's always been an identifier for me. People just like to call me that. Girls liked it as it seemed kinda unique.
I'm 55 yo and my brother still calls me Guids.
Look it up in Wikipedia, it ain't pretty
 
First online forum I belonged to is a Bruce Springsteen site. I went through a couple songs of his and one of his common themes are cars. In one line he references 'Hemi-powered Drones'.

On that site I am Drones75. 75 being the year that song came out (Born to Run).

When I got my first bike, last year a Honda CB360(1976) I changed the moniker by a digit and 'Drones' certainly fits the description of riding a twin.

I did not change it when I got on this site, because I am getting too old to remember them all.



PS. If Bruce or the band tour, let me know. I have a method for helping people get good tickets for face value.

....because tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
 
What a great post. It evokes the sense of brotherhood and Zen that riders are chasing...served with a shot of nostalgia.

Excellent post.

-simpson

xbacksideslider said:
In 1971, I was 18 and bought a new Commando. It was crazy; I really did know how to ride and I learned to ride and then to road race, in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, CA., on that brand new motorcycle. I wore that bike out in Griffith Park.

In that city park, there is an several mile long road, lots and lots of turns, now closed to the public; it is named Mount Hollywood Drive. What we called the "frontside" of that road begins on the Hollywood side, at the Observatory; from there it climbs a bit to a ridge, runs for a mile or two along the ridge, and then, just as you get near the Hollywood Sign, it drops very steeply, flattens, and drops again, and so on, way down, to the bottom of the hill, near what Johnny Carson called "beautiful downtown Burbank."

Most of the road, of Mount Hollywood Drive, was on the Burbank side, or what we called the "backside" of the hill. The road was built as a WPA, Works Progress Administration, project during the Great Depression - mainly by hand, without heavy earth moving equipment. That meant that if there was a big rock or a big tree, well then the road had to go around it. Needless to say, the road twists and turns and is very tight. A very fast rider, on a very fast bike, would have a low average speed, almost like an enduro average, even though he might touch 100 in a couple of spots; there were many turns where getting through them at 15 or 20 MPH would be flying. Most of the road surface was not really asphalt but a polished slurry coat and there were many hard to see bumps. Sand was common, there were seasonal and year round wetspots/seeps, and ever present were the leaky City of Los Angeles trash trucks hauling to a landfill.

For maybe 20 years, there was a regular group of guys who raced up that hill, before the traffic, Sundays at 8:00 am sharp.

You had to learn the road. We had a name for every corner; that way we could de-brief and swap stories about who did what where. In the late spring and summer when the days were longer, we also frequently met on weekdays at the Observatory after work/school. Fast rides, good times.

Sometimes we fell down and slid down the road. Since the road is closed, I am one of many xbacksidesliders.

My avatar is a copy of a lapel pin button that a dearly departed friend, Greg DuVall, designed and made up and which we all wore. It is a map of the "Backside."
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Started using cjandme after getting married 11 years ago. I'm Christopher J. and my wive is Megumi E. it's just easier keeping things the same so when i got on this site i used it here too. Cj
 
I just found this, don't get around much.

My parents decided I was going to one of the military academies, so they sent me to Columbia Prep in DC ('63), a live-in prep school specifically for the academies of course, they are gone now. Anyhow, the headmaster, Mr. Dubuque, had a penchant of calling everyone by their first phonetic initial and last name. So I was Dog Thomas. The guy was amazing, he remembered everyone's name the first day and could be spouting off and write on the blackboard a completely different sentence. I never did go to any academy, but always remembered the name, so I just thought it was better than Dave something on the forums and likely was not used much. Someone must be using it on Photobucket because I couldn't use it there. In the army language school I roomed with 3 other guys, 2 which were Dave but for some reason in the army everyone went by their last name, I guess because it was plastered on your chest.

DogT
 
Grew up in Australia and kept Bearded Dragons as a kid - Pogona barbatus is the coastal bearded dragon - Pogona viticcepts is the one you see at reptile shows and shops..love lizards....weird - I know.
 
Yes rather weird an image.
Explain Your Call Sign / Handle
 
I grew up in the 60's / 70's and fell in love with them the first time my older brother arrived home on a fastback in 1970. Money was tight at that time so i couldn't afford one. I joined the Royal Marines in 74 and served as a commando for 25 years before retiring in 99. I was never in a position to own one due to the frequent moves. After retirement I started looking for the right machine at the right price. 6years later I found her in 2 boxes!! Hence Marinecommando.
 
A dirtymartini is one of my favorite drinks...shaken not stirred of course! I used to use the handle twstm, which has several different meanings!
 
Hi
Built this bike about the time I got my first computer.
When I needed a handle this was it.
Explain Your Call Sign / Handle
Antig built frame Triumph Daytona engine Axtell cams 5 speed Quaife Newby belt drive Robinson 4 leading front. Was my pride & joy as I am a Triumph man. Finally sorted my Commando road bike & racers so perhaps I ought to change it.

all the best Chris
 
Mine is a little too close to master builder Jean, I apologize for that, but too late to go back now!

my grandfather was born in western Ireland in 1875, emigrated to chicago in 1900, sent himself through law school, married a woman half his age in '25. 3 children after that! (physicist, attorney, and an educator) O'Reilly is the family name, and by no means any relation to that asshole on fox news!!!

oh and btw, beautiful triumph Chris!

Cheers,
Don
 
DonOR said:
Mine is a little too close to master builder Jean,
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:oops: Making me blush...

Right now I am busy helping my daughter with the renovating of her first restaurant so no bikes for this year although I have a good idea of what it would look like. Not having a bike to build will give me time to get the ones I built licensed and ready to ride for next year hoping I can ride them more than I ride my bicycles :wink:

Jean
 
Boring but it was actually the initial password given to me by my first dial-up internet provider; since I'm a doctor, I just kept it.
 
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