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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #100 on: August 23, 2016, 09:42:10 pm »
I know your brother's name.

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #101 on: October 02, 2016, 09:08:19 pm »
back in the 90s it was my radio call sign given to me while i was in the USMC

it could have been worse. i worked with a guy who was given the call sign Poop Deck

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #102 on: October 02, 2016, 09:26:05 pm »
Welcome.... Glad to see you. Jump right in and have some fun. Water's fine.  ;D
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #103 on: October 03, 2016, 06:52:29 pm »
"yes" is Young Entrepreneurs Society in Orange MA,  where I was serving thru the Americorps program when I signed up for a free email account.  2 is a number, which is homonymous to "to"   and Matt is my name. I've had that email account about 15 years, and am "yes2matt" all over the web.

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #104 on: October 08, 2016, 12:57:34 am »
i think this is one of my favorite threads to read........i like to read/learn about all who join up on the forum and how you chose your screen name......there is usually a story!

"back in the 90s it was my radio call sign given to me while i was in the USMC

it could have been worse. i worked with a guy who was given the call sign Poop Deck"


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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #105 on: February 17, 2017, 01:06:24 pm »
I am a high school physics and biology teacher, and an observing administrator commented that my classroom was a 'frenzy' of activity.
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #106 on: February 17, 2017, 02:58:41 pm »
One of our life goals was to own a small acreage with house out in the country that was completely mortgage free.   We always would say "Some Day" we will own this.  We purchased own home with 12 acres in Nov. 2009.  In November 2013 we were mortgage free.  We have a sign out front made from an Osage log that says "Some Day".

So, our apiary is named "Some Day", which I guess means bee killer based on the last couple of winters.

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #107 on: April 26, 2017, 05:22:41 pm »
Because I tend to be a grumpy old German

'nuff said...............

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #108 on: April 26, 2017, 05:25:41 pm »
Because I tend to be a grumpy old German

'nuff said...............

Me too. :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #109 on: April 26, 2017, 06:19:51 pm »
 :laugh: Easy to understand....  :P
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #110 on: April 26, 2017, 08:28:19 pm »
Your in good company. :D

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #111 on: April 26, 2017, 09:17:49 pm »
I was reading Stephen King's The Talisman at the same time I needed a name for another forum in the distant past. Travelin Jack's journey across the continent resonated with me as my family lived in a lot of different places while I was growing up. So, I became Wandering Man.
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #112 on: October 14, 2017, 01:53:51 am »

errrrr... G'day, howsyabumfergrubs, like :-)

"eltalia" is a"play on word" maybe loosely derived from The Italian being the style of EHB I am fond of, but they aren't Italian any more than I am. The bees that chose me to live with are Red Kelpies, and like all Red Dogs they know more than I do, so it is a bit like herding cats to have me do what they want me to do.
Yet we survive, which I look to WWB.com in transporting how well those Eltalia work little ol' me.

A huge "Hi Ya All" to those who know my work elsewhere... enjoy that
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For others....?... a retired commercial operator my prime interest is in Trigona
for which I will get no help with here but maybe some others in Australia playing with our natives might just link up with myself who builds an extensive work library with
those lil' buggers. Ask and ye shalt receive ;-)

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #113 on: October 14, 2017, 02:31:10 am »
Welcome to the forum.

Not many aussies here,

I read your post not long after getting up. Still a little bog eyed.

I had to look up Trigona (stingless bee species). I am sure I've read posts about stingless bees. Not sure if it was WWB. From the aged fog of my mind I think it was something from Mosti.
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #114 on: October 14, 2017, 08:00:44 am »
I wonder if there is a trade off for being able to keep bees that don’t sting.

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #115 on: October 14, 2017, 08:36:01 am »
I wonder if there is a trade off for being able to keep bees that don’t sting.
Trigona pollinate flora which often rely on ants and flies or wasps for propagation, flora EHBs either cannot or won't get to. I guess there is one tradeoff of sorts.
They may not attack with a sting but they are not defenceless against Man. In fact whilst I rarely wear a veil working the Italians I always wear one when doing deep inspections of a Trigona colony.
Their class act is to send a few scouts down your ear canal whilst the main
force attach themselves enmasse to your eyelashes.
Using a combined effort the idea is to pull your eyelid shut. Keeps you busy if no veil is worn.

G'day....


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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #116 on: October 14, 2017, 10:58:52 pm »
When i first bought a computer my son set it up for me, he ask what i wanted for a screen name? i ask what is that? He said well you live on a farm and had bees ever since i can remember! How about brooksbeefarm, I said sounds alright to me. :yes: I still don't know how to do much on the computer?but i don't work at it like i should. :no: Jack

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #117 on: October 15, 2017, 06:52:33 am »
When i first bought a computer my son set it up for me, he ask what i wanted for a screen name? i ask what is that? He said well you live on a farm and had bees ever since i can remember! How about brooksbeefarm, I said sounds alright to me. :yes: I still don't know how to do much on the computer?but i don't work at it like i should. :no: Jack

You just didn't want to have to type all the letters in "crankypantsplasticlovingbeekeeper". ;D
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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #118 on: October 23, 2017, 06:35:20 pm »
When i first bought a computer my son set it up for me, he ask what i wanted for a screen name? i ask what is that? He said well you live on a farm and had bees ever since i can remember! How about brooksbeefarm, I said sounds alright to me. :yes: I still don't know how to do much on the computer?but i don't work at it like i should. :no: Jack

You just didn't want to have to type all the letters in "crankypantsplasticlovingbeekeeper". ;D

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Re: How did you choose your screen name?
« Reply #119 on: June 27, 2018, 02:19:31 pm »
I love it when I hear an original name for something like pets etc and have used words from the Zulu and Swahili languages to name my dogs, always sounded better than Fred or Burt etc

And so Hachi (according to the internet) is Japanese for Bee.  So there you have it.  Seemed a good idea at the time and I like it.
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