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Old Scratcher · 01-25-2008

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Originally Posted by HumpedZebra

On my frist trip to the UK I saw the sign and figured out it was a speed bump. Seemed unique.

Thank goodness for that
I could never work out wether you'd humped a zebra, or been humped while dressed as one!
& I'm glad to discover that I was completely wrong, on both counts.

Cess · 01-25-2008

In the UK some remote areas here have little or no sewerage. They have a thing called a "CESS PIT" that is always full of SH#T.

With the surname Pitt the other guys in the RAF decided I should be called cess.
Can't for the life of me imagine why............

barneys · 01-25-2008

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Originally Posted by HumpedZebra

On my frist trip to the UK I saw the sign and figured out it was a speed bump. Seemed unique.

Pretty close. A humped Zebra is a Zebra Pedestrian crossing (Black & White stripes painted in the road). Some are rasied in a 'hump' accross the road kerb to kerb. This is supposed to make it easier for motorists to see pedestrians crossing the road.

TenaciousB · 01-25-2008

I love TenaciousD, and Jack Black...and my first name is Brian. So there you go.

Zansongs · 01-25-2008

If you havn't figured it out on your own....I'm a songwriter

e404pnf · 01-25-2008

Because back in the day when I got my first 28.8k dial up modem practically every page timed out and came up with Error 404: page not found.
Gav

Pauljo · 01-25-2008

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Originally Posted by Cess

In the UK some remote areas here have little or no sewerage. They have a thing called a "CESS PIT" that is always full of SH#T.

We had cess pits over here in New England also. One was "discovered" on the property I lived on as a lad. It was church property. My father was a minister and we lived in a parsonage.

One of the church deacons was mowing the grass one day. He used a tractor for that purpose. Not one of those little toy lawn tractors we have these days. This was a full sized iron beast. Back in the fifties, the older gentlemen never went out without a top hat, even when riding a tractor on a hot July afternoon.

So I was out in the yard playing. I heard this loud yell, followed by a stream of profanity (rarely, if ever, heard on church property). I wouldn't think Mr Bartlett knew words like that - he was a very religious man. I looked out across the property where he had been mowing. The tractor was gone - and so was Mr Bartlett. I could just see the top of Mr Bartlett's hat sticking up above the grass.... Yes, Mr Bartlett had discovered an old, long forgotten, cess pit.

t600jcc · 01-25-2008

I Like to have a private plate on my vehicles, makes them easy to remember if needed,
I ride a TT600 & my initals are JCC so my plate & name hear & on RAT In the UK Is T600JCC.

Bottle_Fed · 01-25-2008

Ewww! I bet he said something along the lines of "Holy Sh!t"....

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

So did you go scuba diving and save him

Greg

Hedge · 01-25-2008

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Originally Posted by rmak

I rented a bottom of an old house with a couple of my buddies at college. As with Lucid, in a substance induced moment of inspiration, one of them started to call me rmak or armak combining the parts of my first and last name. It stuck and was usually followed by whatever "M" word they would pick up in their studies. So one week I'd be Rmak the Magnanimous, the next I would be Rmak the Maladroit, etc.

Anyhow, it just came back to me when I needed a name for the forum.

Ahso - so then who is smak? Your Magnanimous brother?

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Originally Posted by LoVel

Dad was here first as HiVel which is high velocity. I decided to keep the same last name since he is my dad and go with LoVel, low velocity.

Now I got it! I didn't know you two were related and I had no idea what it stood for until now - Thx!

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Originally Posted by sweatmachine

and here it is!

When I was in college I had a group of 20 or so friends that I pretty much spent all of my time with outside of work and school. I usually skipped school, mostly due to the massive hangovers earned by spending time with said friends.

My name is Jeff, and there was another guy in our crew named Geoff (phonetically the same). One day someone said "Jeff/Geoff is coming over" and someone else asked "the sweaty Jeff or the Goth Geoff?" From then on I was known as "Sweaty Jeff" and later "sweat" and later "sweatmachine", and my friend Geoff later became "Goth". After a while, and some new people joined our crew, some people didn't even know our real names. I still go to punk rock shows here in Austin (and have for 10 years) and I know a lot of people in the music scene here, and even now I'll walk into a bar and hear "Hey Sweat, over here!" Some friends of mine don't know me as Jeff. Funny.

I was "sweat" because I was always playing raquetball or lifting weights, when I wasn't drinking. That was pretty much my college years, exercising and drinking. Quite ironic. My friend "Goth" wasn't really a goth kid, but he had pale skin and jet black hair and was always wearing a black leather jacket.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I'm fooled again, I thought it was your nickname because you poured so much sweat and time into your Bonneville!

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Originally Posted by uzidzit

Have you ever heard of : Uziel Gal, Designer of the Uzi submachine gun 1948, adopted by the IDF in 1951, famous the world over.

Uzi...Does...It

I was a class II mfg. in a past life and got the nick name from my love of the machine.

reliable
competent
and eveready

I was all over that right from the Get-Go!

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Originally Posted by Loxpump

Loxpump, was the name of my second Thoroughbred. Short for Liquid Oxygen Pump.

You had me on this until now! I thought I got the first part with the Jewish Smoked Salmon (Lox) but couldn't figure out what the pump was for!

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Originally Posted by e404pnf

Because back in the day when I got my first 28.8k dial up modem practically every page timed out and came up with Error 404: page not found.
Gav

This is F'ing Funny and I remember my first 14k modem on my IBM Blue Lightning 386. I was the SHizz!