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steamhead

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Hey! Just curious to know the whys and wherefores of peoples user names on the forum ("Pitchwife" got me thinking about this...). My name? I get high on steamers the way acidheads did on acid...How about you guys??

Gus (LC&P).:wave:
 
ngauger - N Gauger- G Gauger - FnG Gauger - N GaugerLGB - N GaugerBLH

Started off with a CB Radio and a train set (HO)... My friends and I decided to start an HO layout... found out that we couldn't do what we wanted in HO (DM&IR)

Switched to N.. had an N gauge layout for about 5 years.. The CB handle I was using got "old" switched it to trains :) N Gauger...

CB's went out of style :( Trains didn't :D :D

Got engauged and moved out - when we finally settled down in a house, my wife bought me an LGB Starter set for our anniversary,.... NgaugerLGB

I'm also interested in Baldwin Lima Hamilton history (N gaugerBLH) I'v always lived within 5 miles of the Eddystone plant.

The NARA has recognized 1:20.3 narrow gauge as "F" now, (FnG Gauger ) because a lot of people still don't know about F gauge :) :)

So - there ya have it - - all my main AKA's :) :) :)
 
Some time ago we decided to get a personalized license plate, we came up with ezdays. This was not only our last name, but our new lifestyle. :wave: The plate was part of a feature that the Arizona Republic newspaper prints occasionally. I posted a copy of that right here, about a year ago....:D:D That's why I chose that as a screen name...:thumb:
 
Mine dates back to the earlier internet days about 15 yrs ago when I was trying to come up with a username and each one I came up with was used. so, I figured I'd try zedob because the chances were/are that no-one would have it. Sure enough, I've used it since and have yet to add any trailing numbers.

As for what a zedob is, it's an expression that I heard one of my classmates use in HS down in Loiusiana when she was talking about some guy she met. "He's like "zedob!", eeuwww..." Not a real compliment. Cajun French thing, I guess, but I have never heard it again. It jsut happened to stick in my mind ever since and it's been rather permanent and unmodified ever after.
 
Mine's pretty self-explanitory too.

I'm a fan of steam and early diesel. My favorite loco on my grandfather's layout as a kid was a B&O 2-8-2 Mikado. I like all trains, but steam has a bit of romance to it that the new stuff will never have.
 
shaygetz is Hebrew for a gentile male. Though normally used in a derogatory sense because it literally means "worm", growing up Southern Baptist in a Jewish neighborhood with many Jewish friends and a love for Isreal has made it a term of endearment. Thus ends your first lesson in Introductory Hebrew 101.:thumb:

Hey zedob, my beloved Cajun bride says tht's probably Valley Girl Speak as she ne'er do hear dat on de bayou:D
 
Got mine in 'Nam back in the early 60's for my knack of slippin' through the jungle unheard and unseen till it was too late :D .Came back stateside and my friends heard it and used it.

Sometimes I get called "JohnathaN" :D :D :D

(PS) the capital N is for N scale,my fav modeling scale.But not my only one.
 
My user name is also my nick name Scoobie. Has nothing to do with the cartoon. My first name is Scott, so as a kid everyone called me Scooter. The first three letters in my last name are B-i-e. A friend of mine put 2 and 2 togehter, ego" Scoobie" and the spelling.
 
For years my nickname was "Boris" because of a fondness for a certain Russian beverage. After I joined the 4449 crew in 12/75, Doyle McCormack insisted on refering to me as isboris, and the revised nickname stuck. Since he gave one of the other firemen the nickname "Pixie Boots", I consider myself to have gotten off lucky.......

Tom
 
I always thought I'd be a great fighter if it wasn't for my stomach trouble - no guts-. I would like to be some kind of hero, but I also have back trouble, - a yellow streak all the way up and down-. That's why I picked Yellow Lynn. Truly, I've had 3 back surgeries so I really do have back trouble. About 7 years ago I had the choice of surgery, or be totally paralyzed from the waist down in 3 months or less. Still hurts, but I'm still walking.

Lynn
 
I needed a name for the gauge in a hurryin order to make a post. I didn't want to use the loco number I used for a password, so I took the only other one I could remember at the time. (60103 was the number of Flying Scotsman when British Railways owned it.)I also use BR60103 and on a couple of British forums I'm David in Canada.
 
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