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Old topic, but a lot of new ones since this last came up years ago.
"Bushie" = In Australia a "Bushie" is a man who lives off the land. Turns his hand to anything that will put a crust on his bread. Hard living, independant, on the move. Make him a friend and he's a friend for life.
Here also the "Bush" seems to imply anything 100 miles west of the Coast!
Not sure exactly where I got the nic but I think it was at my first Letterhead meet!
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Frank Magoo named me "Cat" on chat because it had fewer letters to type!
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When I first got online, I needed a username for somewhere and everything I came up with was already taken.
Then I remembered what my 1 uncle used to torment me when I was 3 or 4. See, my whole family always called me Christina, never, ever Chris and he changed it to Kissymatina.
Hey, there's a username that surely no one else will have. Evenutally, someone here shortened it to Kissy and it stuck. Don't remember the first time it was Kissy but as long as it ain't Chrissy, I'm ok with it. And if ya call me Christina, I will hang up on you, completely convinced you are a telemarketer.
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Its what I have done for a living for many years
"FireFixer" But most dont know the meaning of it which makes it more interesting when they try to guess. At least its entertaining to me, and it can also be used to my advantage hehehe.
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Many moons ago, when I still had black hair, my husband's best friend started calling me Raven. It stuck and has been Clay's nickname for me ever since even though the color has long since been silver.
Clay and I are way, way into food. He's an Executive Chef and we used to have a catering company - still do some on the side. Thus the Chef part...I have used ChefRaven as a pseudonym for the last 5 years that I have done my online Culinary Tip column.
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At high-school there were three Ians in my class, & three Davids & three Johns & three Angus', so we went by nicknames from the start of our surnames.
Locally I answer to both as heaps of neighbours & others around just always called me Stewart or Stewey- maybe it's because on introducing yourself, Ian is such a short word to say that they don't hear it?
(Jon, I thought your 'bushy' referred to the beard???)
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Nah ... not the beard .. had that since I left school and it's never been big.
BIG? .... ever seen Darren (smuggly) pull his navel length beard over his head at a letterhead meet and stick a cigarette in his mouth?. Awsome "hair head" ... looks like something outa star wars
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or from the Muppetts! especially when he puts his sunglasses back on.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Went down to a local garage one night to paint some numbers on a race car. While I was doing the painting, the garage owner and a couple of other guys were working under the hood. I finished the job in 20 minutes (with a 4" paint brush and a can of automotive enamel) and left.
When the garage owner got done with the engine, he emerged and asked "When did the numbers get painted?" Once he was told, he said "We ought to call him Rapid Ray. That's the fastest I've ever seen."
By noon the next day, no less than 5 people greeted me with the name "Rapid Ray".
Over the years it's been shaved down to "Rapid". One "P", no "b"......
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When I used to letter a lotta race cars there'd always be a lotta people standin' around or tinkerin' with the car...eventually, someone would always be lookin' at my paint-box or ask me what kind'a paint I was usin', so a few people started callin' me 'Oneshot'... . . .it also had a sort'a 'double' meaning because I was fond of explaining my 'NO-2nd-chances' policy with men this way:
"I don't HAVE any second chances left...and you JUST used up one of my last FIRST chances!"
I also have one bruth'a, a cab driver who always calls me 'Signs'....he'll even holler it out across a busy restaurant ...or anywhere...'HEEEEEY Signs!'
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My nick comes from a notoriously lewd black comedy record from the 70's. Since the line isn't dirty here goes. And I quote Jody The Grinder the Great Spot Finder.
All eyes turn right as Old Soft Toe Ike came in sporting a golddust crown. He had a professional killer named Stingy Sam Miller covering him well from behind.
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Santo, does that come fron the line of the old Jimmy Castor Bunch?
aka: "The Bertha Butt Boogie" a classic that will live forever in my mind
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