What's in a username?

cool!

Tee in Cajun is small or an affectionate term, my Cajun Grandmaw who I stayed with could not say Brad it would come out T Broad, little did she know how accurate she was as I got older. My Grandfather was a Trapper, rice Farmer, cattleman , anything to make ends meet. Lots of knowledge needed to be a good trapper, and lots of get up and go. Good Story Miss Margeret.

I visited the family historian, and saw a picture of an old cowboy on a horse circa 1870's... "Who the heck is that, I asked aunt Ruby" 
"That" She said, "is your great grandfather Amos, he was the trailboss for wagon trains...a couple of times he should have died when he was young, almost lost his scalp,  it was a good thing he didn't or we wouldn't be having this conversation."


Fast forward.... During the El Niño winter of 1997-98, rain fell in a record-setting 119 days of rain, and it was my job to haul groceries overnight from the southbay to north of San Francisco up to the wine country. One night when the tide came in, the rain had nowhere to go since many of the roads are near sea level it was a mess, many of the highways were flooded and closed.  Having driven for years all over the bay area, I had an intricate knowledge of the city streets, and what roads to take...there were a lot of stranded truckers from out of the area, so I got on the CB raidio and we had a hell of a convoy going up through many of the east bay towns...it was funny watching the people out on the streets wondering what in the hell was going on wth the solid stream of trucks...at on big intersetion a cop saw what was going on and stopped opposing traffic so we could proceed. As I peeled of to take the Richmond San Rafael bridge to Santa Rosa, most all the other truckers continued on to catch I-80 to head eastbound, glad to leave that mess behind. On guy told me "Thanks Trailboss for getting us through hostile territory" (West Oakland), my fellow company driver chided me about it, but after that night my CB handle went from the cat-swinger (Used to drive a truck with a big cat engine, hauled swinging beef) to Traiboss.


And for the double entendre part....

Quite oten, I post a thought and trail off with three periods, I do it more than anyone I see online...

trailboss , you'll see the ellipsis (...) a little more often now: I favour it myself. I take it as a sign of respect from the writer to the reader; "let's pause and think our thoughts now..."

Thanks, I sucked at composition, but when I take my time I can usually hammer out a few understandable sentences.....
I had learned about the use of ellipsis a long time ago, and you wriggled that nugget loose from my hard drive.

As to my earlier posts...forgive the couple mis-spellings, right as I hit "enter" and went to proofread and edit, the phone rang....times up! Happens a lot in my household.

I have a few Commodore 64's, I collect only pipe and computer stuff. 

*sigh*

My username is borrowed from the original M*A*S*H movie when Trapper and Hawkeye were sent to operate on a kid in Japan. They took the opportunity to play some golf and when entering the hospital in Japan they introduced themselves as the Pros from Dover! Profrmdover has been my username for many years.

I'm 6'9" tall. And It is an obvious play on tall drink of water.

Mine comes from time I spent in the Army while stationed in West Germany. My battle buddy looked just like Tom Cruise. I mean they could have been twins. Top Gun was still a new movie so as we were always hanging out together I became Goose. They even painted it on my jeep!! 

Mine? Password generator.