OT: So, what's the meaning of your handle on The Boneyard? | Page 5 | The Boneyard

OT: So, what's the meaning of your handle on The Boneyard?

Status
Not open for further replies.
As in, it's JUST a sport, not life and death. And the boneyard is place for appreciation of a beautiful sport and some friendly ribbing.
 
Alex, thanks for starting this thread. It's been fun over the years trying to figure out folks' handles.

Between college and graduate school, I was a taxi driver in Brookline/Boston - 191 was the number of my cab. Sort of like Dickens' Tale of Two Cities - both the best and worst of times - but overall, a really great experience.

The avatar is a photograph of a Maya Moore bobblehead the Lynx were giving out to fans her rookie season.
 
wire chief said:
In memory of my maternal grandfather, whose title signified the passing of a historical era.
Decades and decades ago there was a New York Central Railroad. Its River division ran from Albany
to Weehawken. Grandpa sat upstairs in the Weehawken terminal tapping out the dots and dashes that
kept the trains humming. He was the wire chief.
Expand ...
One of my Great-Grandfathers worked on the railroad, in one of the control towers (Aldene was the name, there is still an automated marked box on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line labeled Aldene, near but not exactly at where the old tower stood). He died walking home from work one night from a heart attack
 
RSHERMVIKES is a combo of my nickname RSHERM and VIKES for the EAST LYME HS VIKINGS where I coached the Wrestling team for 30 years! Originally from the Bronx, NY (the Grand Concourse near Tremont Ave.) Went to a Southern Baptist school, Will iam Jewell College in Liberty, MO 1965-1969 (home of bank robbery by Jesse & Frank James & gang, who lived in Kearney, MO next town over, by the way the bank has to this date a mural painted on its 4 walls of the bank robbery) I was one of 3 Jews on campus the only POOR Jew, to this day anyone at Jewell that was there back then knows me only as Rabbi! All my Jewell clothes had the Will ell blocked out leaving the above words in red!
I taught in Polo, MO 1 year then Plattsburg, MO 2 years, then to CT in 1973, where I taught Elementary Physical Education!
I retired from teaching in 2000 and coaching 2002.
I became a UCONN WBB season tix holder in 1998 and my passions are the UCONN Ladies and my NY Yankees!
Way too much info...........but you get a hint why I'm sort of psycho!
 
Thanks for this simply marvelous thread! It's great learning about all the BoneYarders!
 
.-.
alexrgct said:
What inspired you to call yourself what you do on a message board, and what does it all mean?
Expand ...

The dog...many years ago when we got him from the breeder we learned that all of his family tree were named for characters and places in the Tolkien books, but for some reason there was no Frodo. I also adopted it for my email address (frodo@)...given how popular the books were at the time I'm guessing that 'frodo' without any qualifying numbers, etc. would probably have been a pretty desirable email. I lost it when we moved from DSL and unfortunately comcast already had a frodo. In the interest of full disclosure that's not actually Frodo in my avatar. We didn't really have a good picture and he died several years ago so I dug one up online. The guy in the picture is absolutely indistinguishable from Frodo.
 
Frodo said:
The dog...many years ago when we got him from the breeder we learned that all of his family tree were named for characters and places in the Tolkien books, but for some reason there was no Frodo. I also adopted it for my email address (frodo@)...given how popular the books were at the time I'm guessing that 'frodo' without any qualifying numbers, etc. would probably have been a pretty desirable email. I lost it when we moved from DSL and unfortunately comcast already had a frodo. In the interest of full disclosure that's not actually Frodo in my avatar. We didn't really have a good picture and he died several years ago so I dug one up online. The guy in the picture is absolutely indistinguishable from Frodo.
Expand ...

Nice story... I have had dogs all of my life. My two dogs these days are Lefty and Tug. Both are male yellow labs, and that's where the similarities end. Lefty is an Einstein of the canine world. He learns at lightening speed. Tug, on the other hand, doesn't see the point in learning.

Lefty rushes to be compliant to requests and commands, he anticipates and behaves inline with the theme of what I am doing at the moment. Once in a while he will assert himself and refuse a command. He'll grab on of my shoes, sit just out of my reach, and refuse to "give' it to me. Instead, without a word from myself, all on his own, he'll walk himself over to his crate cage, drop the shoe, and walk into his cage to pay for his crime. That's when the stare-down begins. He won't leave his cage (it's door is wide-open) until I say, "ok, I forgive you."

Tug steadfastly refuses to come to his name. He'll come, if somewhat reluctantly, to the name Luke, the name LittleGuy, and the name ChickenDog, but he refuses to come to his actual name. Very, very, lovable, but as dumb as a box of rocks.

Boo
 
.-.
OneTrickPony said:
You do have the best avatar...
Expand ...
Ha! You finally admitted I was right about something! Yup, it is one of the finest products of BiffWorks, along with "You're the Best" and the late lamented " Boneyard Magazine".
 
Winlots - bec I had the good fortune to be surrounded by great teammates, especially in basketball. Results was we almost never lost (over the years, competed in football, wrestling, basketball, track, swimming, crew, and except for track we had championship teams).

Am sure I've mentioned that we defeated Wilt Chamberlain's team in Philly summer league five out of five en route to league title. In some ways, looking back, that was probably as unique an accomplishment as state championship etc.

On some of the teams, I was the least talented player, thus my good fortune. Am thinking now that I should have picked "Bon Fortune" for my handle. ALEX: thanks again for putting up such interesting threads for our "off" time.
 
.-.
BooRadley said:
Tug steadfastly refuses to come to his name. He'll come, if somewhat reluctantly, to the name Luke, the name LittleGuy, and the name ChickenDog, but he refuses to come to his actual name. Very, very, lovable, but as dumb as a box of rocks.
Expand ...
Maybe he's smart - - thinks "Tug!" is a command and is waiting for you to extend something to him. Thinks you're dumb as a box of rocks.

Or maybe he's posting here as "Anonymous" and refuses to acknowledge your lucky guess.
 
elzorrogris said:
Ha! You finally admitted I was right about something! Yup, it is one of the finest products of BiffWorks, along with "You're the Best" and the late lamented " Boneyard Magazine".
Expand ...
Hey Biff - a while back I was looking for a picture of DT, no doubt some BY related reason, and was scanning through one of those places google takes you with hundreds of images. And right there in the middle of all these DT images was your BY Mag cover where DT has Pat in a headlock, administering a noogie or something. Haven't been able to get back there to find it again, but you were famous for a momoent
 
Have I missed a contribution from "ocoandasoc" in this thread? Per my OP, I GOTTA know what that means!!!
 
elzorrogris said:
Ha! You finally admitted I was right about something! Yup, it is one of the finest products of BiffWorks, along with "You're the Best" and the late lamented " Boneyard Magazine".
Expand ...
I count myself as lucky to have a bit of BiffWorks art too. He made this for me many years ago and I don't leave home without it!!!

The-Boneyard.jpg


Boo aka T9
 
.-.
2ndCity said:
I recommend a photo of you, astride a BMW motorcycle.
Expand ...
Nope I don't own a Beemer of any kind. My handle is a play on my initials which I use for a handle on a hockey board I frequent.
 
BooRadley said:
I completely disagree!

I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Boo
Expand ...

For the few non Monty Python fans on the board - LINK
 
.-.
Status
Not open for further replies.

Forum statistics

Threads
167,982
Messages
4,548,238
Members
10,431
Latest member
TeganK


Top Bottom