What's in a username?

The last two aircraft I’ve been checked out on have been “fly-by-wire”, meaning no mechanical linkage between flight deck and the wing and tail.  I just like the way it rolls off the tongue.  I usually use Bodacious, the name of a sailboat I used to own.  Probably should have stayed with it.

Irminsul is the Column of Heaven and a place for worship by Druid priestesses.  That's what she said.

I use AJ as my username because AJ is my name. Original right?

AJ

What do you get when you cross a cobra tamer and a playwright? William Snakespeare!

It's my initials!

An interesting dilemma considering the company is as German as Mercedes Benz. You could have asked for "One of those Weissberg pens" LOL!. The mountain's peak is located in France although the Italians have claimed it over the years. Americans and English often "anglicize" foreign names so you had every right to call it what you did. Then there is the notion that "The customer is always right."

very cool!

That's the craziest looking Lime I ever did see it has to be psycho.

Oh,absolutely! My luck has carried me through some pretty serious crap over the years😉

I had usernames on various forums when I first got on the internet.

But by the time I joined up here on The Briar Patch, most of y'all already knew me from the pipe community, anyway, so I just used my real name.

On my bucket list.



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My first ever forum was before a GUI screen, we used DOS and traveled across on a 90Kb circuit to a site called The Banjo-L a Listserver out of UCAL Berkeley. I had a few expensive banjoes id picked up and really didn’t know their true value and a couple of the folks on the site told me that it’s not the easiest thing to do but I could be located and it would be horrible were I to have my banjoes stolen and that I should consider a moniker.

I stopped posting for 2 weeks and came on fresh with my new moniker fishnbanjo, it stood for the 2 things I really enjoyed in life since I was a child, fishing and the sound of thebanjo. I got called Fishn on the Banjo-L and later when the GUI structure of Windows 3.0 and modems for your PC came around I found a place called Clark’s Classic Fly Rod Forum.

I became member 90 and in 2005 after running it since 1998 it grew to 1203 users and Clark had enough so he was going to pull the plug. Always one to keep history on things that excited me I showed Clark that the bamboo fly rod community and the classic tackle community would lose a valuable resource since from 1998-2005 5,000,000 visits had taken place, the site was mentioned in magazines and we got more non members than members reading the site daily.

I asked if he’d give me the chance to run it for 3 months and if it didn’t meet the tone and passion that he began it for I’d pull the plug, he told me that would be fine but it can’t be called Clark’s Classic Fly Rod Forum, I agreed and took over the day I retired in 2005.

After kidney failure, then finding the cause was Mantle Cell Lymphoma I spent a bit over 50 days in the hospital and when released started Chemotherapy, I ran the behind the scenes stuff on The Classic Fly Rod Forum from my hospital bed with my laptop. I kept running it until one day a bit over 6 years from taking the reigns I read, as I always do with something I’m going to post, and saw that if I posted that I’d break the number 1 rule of the forum and that was to be civil.

Anger had come around due to frustration so I began in earnest to find a new caretaker to what I consider to be Clark’s legacy. We’d grown to 6000 members worldwide and had 65,000,000 visits since I took over. Today the site see’s in the neighborhood of 350k people per day, it’s been written about in nearly a dozen books, including mine,and is used by more people across the globe than any other site on Classic Tackle, we even have a good translation program. Oh and in case you were wondering my moniker was fishnbanjo but on the CFRF they called me banjo.