Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

In sailboat racing the boat on starboard tack (wind coming from the right side) has right of way. Shaving is a little diversion -- sailing is life!

Growing up in a suburb of Milwaukee; Cudahy, and that town being known for it's easier women, my co-workers were always asking me to set them up with "cuda-hos". It kind of sounds like we're a bunch of gansters, but we definately are not. Anyway, it became my nickname. Then a friend told me about a woman he'd seen on a Harley-Davidson in Cudahy and that's how the 'g' was added to the end.

I love The Simpsons so my name is a kind of weird hybrid of Max Power (which Homer changes his name to) and Guy Incognito (Homers exact double). I use it as my ebay name so I just stuck with it here. My real surname is Woodcock which is far too unforunately funny/horrible to use in a username.

When I started posting here a couple years ago (well, not here exactly, but on the Yahoo group), I had been hacking away for a month or so with no guidance or resource. When I ran across the straightrazorplace, and did the sign-in drill, I, not so creatively, picked a username that fit where I was at the time. My first razor was a new (yep, you guessed it) Dovo.
I suppose it's still one of my newer razors, as far as date of manufacture is concerned. And to maintain consistency, I've kept the same username, as "not-quite-as-new-as-it-used-to-be-dovo" doesn't seem to roll off the tongue as easily.
So there you have me... newdovo.

Parry

Mine comes from my bicycle. I'm 56 now, but I celebrated by 40th birthday flat on my back in the hospital with all kinds of tubes running out of all of my orifices. After several months of in and out of hospital stays, I got better. As part of my recooperation process, I bought a bicycle and just began tooling around to get my strength and wind back. Later, as a sports reporter for a small newspaper, I cycled to all of my assignments (as long as they were within ten to twenty miles). In fact I was spending so much time on my bicycle that people began asking me when my Drunk Driving charge was going to expire. They didn't believe that I was cycling volountarily. As the winter approached, I noticed that I had covered about 1500 miles cycling to and from events. That gave me the idea to cycle across the country.

So at 41, I packed up my Trek 830 with my sleeping bag, tent and some extra clothes and took to the road. I cycled from Connecticut to New Orleans to visit a friend. Spent a week with him and his family then decided to cycle out to California to visit my kids.

All in all, I spent about 5 months on the road before I finally got the urge to head on home. Two years later, I cycled from Connecticut to Key West. Hence the nick-name Trekker 2017.

Naturally, I shaved with my straight razors, which just added to the image of a half crazy person cycling across the country and shaving with a straight. No one bothered me and a lot of people left me alone or gave me a wide berth.

Wow, that's a great story, trekker! I love bikes, too... My longest run in one sitting was ~180km...

Nenad

Thanks, Superfly. Haven't had the chance for a long ride in years. Lately, I've just been doing 10 and 20 mile loops from my home. It would be nice to throw the tent and sleeping bag across the back panniers and take off again for a while.

My name and what is printed on the strip of cloth sewn over my bdu's [battle dress uniform] pocket (AND the last thing a lot of Taliban saw just prior to meeting their 72 virgins!). BTW, I have found out that sharpening a straight razor and a Gerber Command II is not, repeat, NOT the same!

Let me tell you the definition of courage: taking your favorite Dovo, and touching it to a hone for the very first time in sharpening a straight razor. Now THATS courage!

Well my name by birth is Kelly, however I never go by that name. I have ran out of user name ideas for log in's and forums so I thought since no one even knows me as "kelly" it's as good a net-name as any...

Originally Posted by trekker2017

Mine comes from my bicycle. I'm 56 now, but I celebrated by 40th birthday flat on my back in the hospital with all kinds of tubes running out of all of my orifices. After several months of in and out of hospital stays, I got better. As part of my recooperation process, I bought a bicycle and just began tooling around to get my strength and wind back. Later, as a sports reporter for a small newspaper, I cycled to all of my assignments (as long as they were within ten to twenty miles). In fact I was spending so much time on my bicycle that people began asking me when my Drunk Driving charge was going to expire. They didn't believe that I was cycling volountarily. As the winter approached, I noticed that I had covered about 1500 miles cycling to and from events. That gave me the idea to cycle across the country.

So at 41, I packed up my Trek 830 with my sleeping bag, tent and some extra clothes and took to the road. I cycled from Connecticut to New Orleans to visit a friend. Spent a week with him and his family then decided to cycle out to California to visit my kids.

All in all, I spent about 5 months on the road before I finally got the urge to head on home. Two years later, I cycled from Connecticut to Key West. Hence the nick-name Trekker 2017.

Naturally, I shaved with my straight razors, which just added to the image of a half crazy person cycling across the country and shaving with a straight. No one bothered me and a lot of people left me alone or gave me a wide berth.

That has got to be one of the coolest stories I have ever heard. Congratulations on your recovery and achievement.