S C R E A N ---N A M E S ! And how did you form it ?

[mattywashboy]

Mattywashboy is a mix of my two nicknames.

Matty is my day to day nickname.

WashBoy is my nickname at work. I care for 5 people with disabilities living in a residential house. I work with one other co worker and we take care of their day to day needs. Quickly into starting this job my co workers became aware of my 'enthusiasm' for laundry. I do tend to bemoan the laundry habits of my co workers. Those that will only wash in cold water, no matter what the staining level (and believe me in this house there are some serious stains to deal with). I even resorted to making labels to stick on the washing machine, covering up the Cold selection and one up the top saying PLEASE DO NOT WASH IN COLD WATER FOR THE HYGIENE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
I'm always the one who empties the lint filters, cleans and maintains the washer and dishwasher. Noone else seperates colours and whites and towels and sheets, it all goes in together. I take the time to do this.

Thus my nickname is WashBoy or Laundry Nazi or Laundry Queen depending on whos on with me.

Funny incident happened recently when I was booking accommodation for a holiday for our residents and went and checked it out, checked out the laundry facilities, reported back that they had a great laundry that was free. One of my co-workers instantly came back with "Well you'll be in 7th Heaven then won't you laundry lover!", Its all in good fun

 

[ronhic]

RONHIC

 

 

Ready

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Come......

 

[hydralique]

RONHIC: Too funny, and I am not going to ask the context!

 

[toggleswitch]

Mine is from the first washer I had bought in my own, in college, circa 1981; a GE Filter-flo with, TA-DA, toggle switches.

I was familiar only with Maytags, Sears, and Whirlpool washing machines at that time. The GE was "exotic".


Made sense, too, as a name to use in the vacuum goup, and with my general love of electricity.

It worked for me all-around. LOL

 

[arbilab]

Firedome, are those 5Y3 rectifiers?

 

[qualin]

My nickname came from a D&D Character I used to play with a lot back in the early 90's when I was in my early 20's.

The D&D sessions I used to get into would last upwards of 16 hours at a time. (Maybe sometimes longer, but at that point in time, who is keeping track?) Anyway, these sessions would usually involve drinking insane amounts of coffee or other caffeinated beverages, resulting in abnormal levels of caffeine in the blood stream.

All of these factors will inevitably result in hallucinations. (At least for me anyway.) After one particularly grinding campaign, I briefly thought one of the monsters in the game was attacking me.

One of the other players said, "Calm down Qualin, we'll get 'em." ... and it kind of stuck.

Needless to say, I haven't done a D&D campaign in many many years.

 

[djmjlcst]

Cool Thread!

I used to DJ at a club called Chester St. in Champaign, Illinois. So the "DJ" was the first part, "MJL" are my initials, and the "CST" stood for Chester St. Put it all together and you've got what I used to do, my initials, and where I used to work!

Mike L.

 

[twintubdexter]

another one of my dumb my St. Olaf stories...

Were back in the Service Department at Western Appliance in San Jose...it's 1963 and I'm 13 and cleaning trade-in's for the resale floor. My dad had hired this wacky "technican" Tom G. He was, I guess you could say, "unprofessional." He'd go to replace a washing machine timer, one of those complex timers that did everything like select speeds and temperatures and activated dispensers etc. Those timers had a zillion wires. Instead of following the instructions and replace one wire at a time since the new timer would often be connected differently, he would do or say something to attract attention, laugh and then just rip the wires off the old timer. The result was often a machine that didn't work or blew a fuse when he plugged it in.

Tom used to talk about the appliances he serviced back in Rhode Island after the war and he told me his favorite was Dexter, something I had never heard of. He said "sure, Dexter, they had two big tubs" and he held out his arms like he was hugging a tree. I still don't remember ever seeing a Dexter come in as a trade-in, but there were plenty of Easy spin dryers. One day I'll tell you the story about Easy washers...we called them "Easy Money."

Rose Nylund

ps...Tom G eventually got fired

 

[electradeluxe]

i chose my late Grandmother's old machine,which was my favorite, the Electra 11500 Deluxe model which was made by Creda in 1983 for the UK Electricity Board shops, i'd love to find one in working order

 

[mistereric]

Mom's quote:

"MISTER ERIC! What are you doing in the basement? Leave the washer alone!"

 

[macboy91si]

macboy91si

...Was a more appropriate name when I was 15 back in 1997 when the screen-name was born. At the time the boy monicker fit a bit better, and I was an avid Mac-head. The SN was named after my favorite Mac, the IIsi. So MACBOY91SI, Mac IIsi from 1991 --boy. The reason I post that today the 23rd, is "macboy91si" is 15 years old today.

 

-Tim

 

[cuffs054]

Hydralique,
Like your ride! I've got a 2CV-6 Club that I use in parades and for fun. It uses the green fluid for the disk brakes, which may be the only modern thing in the car! Since I live in a very small town in the South the car gets lots of notice. When filling up one day I got the "So what kinda car is thaaaat?" "It's a Citroen" "Citron? Aint that some kinda fruit?"
BTW "Cuffs054" really relates to another part of my life, better discussed on Dirty laundry!

 

[lorenatx]

LOOKING FOR A WASHER FROM THE 60S?? ANY ONE HAVE ONE FOR SALE LETS MAKE A DEAL....

 

[kqkenmore]

kqkenmore

kqkenmore = my friends call me kitchen queen because I love the kitchen kenmore because I use to love kenmore washers and dryers I still do but only the old ones not this new. I would love to get one but I am waiting till I have more room.Carl   

 

[interceptor1985]

I got mine when I got a 1985 Crown Victoria coupe, I did a chassis swap with a 1999 Ford Police Interceptor hence the name "interceptor1985"
1985 Crown Victoria body
1999 Crown Victoria "Police Interceptor" chassis
1997 Ford Explorer 5.0l V8 with the explorer's EEC-V fuel injection system
1990 Crown Victoria face lift front/rear
World class T5 swap
4 wheel disk brakes
Aluminum metal matrix drive shaft
3.55 gears and trac lock
1998 Mustang GT-S bucket seats with lumbar
.....
even though I have most of the parts to finish my project its the little things and weather that's holding me back, I'm hoping for this summer, i could also start teaching my little boy his way around the tool box.
Here is a picture of what it looks like right now, I haven't done the body work yet.