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[quote="sunburst
Great online name, I'm a big fan of the Robot novels and have read them several times... ::tu::

Sunburst[/quote]

Probably what led to my fascination with both Science Fiction and Mystery. Asimov was a master of both.

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RDaneel wrote:[quote="sunburst
Great online name, I'm a big fan of the Robot novels and have read them several times... ::tu::

Sunburst
Probably what led to my fascination with both Science Fiction and Mystery. Asimov was a master of both.

Dean[/quote]

Even better were his presentations of various sciences for folks who would have otherwise been too intimidated to consider the ideas involved. The man was a master at presenting material in chunks that an interested layman could understand while at the same time making them want to learn more about the subject. I'm currently a grad student in education (special ed, actually), and while I study my textbooks to pass the classes, I study Asimov to learn how to teach.
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coffeecup wrote:[Even better were his presentations of various sciences for folks who would have otherwise been too intimidated to consider the ideas involved. The man was a master at presenting material in chunks that an interested layman could understand while at the same time making them want to learn more about the subject. I'm currently a grad student in education (special ed, actually), and while I study my textbooks to pass the classes, I study Asimov to learn how to teach.
Hmmm, may have also been the basis for my having been a teacher. Good thought.

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Wow!
I think I read I, Robot in the 5th grade!
It wasn't my favorite Asimov book so I really never got into his Robot series.
Then I discovered Robert Heinlein and was hooked on Sci Fi for life!

These stories about how members arrived at their AAPK names is quite interesting.
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I got the nickname johnny twoshoes on a trip to Montana, I was pretty dark at the time from workin' out in the sun, so everybody said I looked like an indian (Native AMERICAN), the guy we were staying with couldn't remember my real name :roll: so he just called me johnny twoshoes.
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Many years ago I heard of or talked to (I don't remember now) a fellow with the last name of Chance. For a while after that I kept thinking of first names that you could put with that last name, like Random or Second or Last, etc... I guess Random seemed like the least 'obviously not a real name' of those and that's the one I remembered. I always thought it would be interesting to introduce yourself to someone with a name like that - "Hi, my name's Random, Random Chance. And this is my partner Dubious Intention"

No real history or deep meaning or anything here, just a kind of interesting, oddball sounding name.
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maybe Nada Chance.hehe. I have alot of case classics,so I just turned it around.I also have a classic case of knifaholism. ::shrug::
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Jerry is the nickname for my real first name and "d" the first letter of my last name. It wouldn't be appropriate to explain the meaning of the numbers on a public forum but you may be able to figure it out for yourself. It's not really very difficult.
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I like to carve ::tu:: (My wife actually came up with the name when showing me how to register with this site, I'm puter illiterate ::cr:: )

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I have a 1993 Mustang Cobra. I met someone at a cruise-in and we were talking cars, he was a member of a Mustang club.
He asked for my phone# to get a hold of me for future events. When he put my number in his cell phone, he listed me as CobraBill. My name is Bill, drive a Cobra, it kinda stuck.
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Anyone? Mark
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the instrument i try to playand year i was born.
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Just what I could think of that was knife related plus my birth year. ::shrug:: edgy46
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dobro59 wrote:the instrument i try to playand year i was born.
You need to move to Kentucky. Our music is heading in the Seldom Scene direction and we could use a good Dobro player.
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I shot a Roosevelt bull elk a few years back that measured 268 points in Boone & Crocket. He got me into the Oregon records book. I thought it would be a good username that no one else already had. So 268bull it is!
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Hey TJ,wish i could move to Kentuck,but i got too good a job to do that.Oh,i'm an electrician
in a power plant,and i love it.
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Gunstock Jack is my Single Action Shooting Society alias. In SASS everyone has to pick an alias. I took GJ 'cause I collect the knife pattern and it sounds sorta cowboy. Then people started askin' if I made gun stocks. I guess cowboys don't know knife patterns. Anyway, I just had to make a couple pair of stocks to complete the circle. I used the same handle here 'cuz it just made sense. Use it on the bay and email too.
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Nice work "Jack" ::tu::

I have a buddy who had called me Philco for years now. He has done it so much that others have started doing so as well.

I never really had a nickname (other than that) or much imagination either, so.......philco it is.


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Gunstock,
Nice looking grips on that Vaquero? 45LC? My dad is into cowboy shootin too. Mark
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Those two are Beretta/Uberti's in .357 mag. I Also shoot a pair of old model Vaqueros in .44 magnum. The .357's are lighter and easier to handle with one hand, as I shoot with both guns out of their holsters when the stage is set up with pistols 'back to back'. That's a great lookin' range, Ramrod. I see yer dad shoots black powder. Cowboy Action Shooting is a hoot! Women and kids get involved too.
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Looks like iron wood grips.
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JR; The stock material is actually some redwood burl that I had stabilized. Pretty wild, huh? In the sunlight it is incredible. I think it goes nicely with the case hardened frames. I had a large piece of it, so I cut it up and traded a bunch to Hukk. Whaddya think, Hukk? Have you used any of it for any handle material?

I got the escutheon screw holes too deep, but I'll fix that later. Click the pict for a close-up.
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Beautiful. ::tu::
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They look great with the leather and the case hardening!!
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My user name comes from my daughters name, Fawn, and my sons name, River, and my own name, Joe
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