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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #30 on: July 23, 2019, 05:45:53 PM »
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2019, 03:44:52 PM »
My dad was a cowboy most of his life.  A "brushpopper" is usually the lowest paid cowboy in the outfit who is sent into the heavy south Texas brush after a contrary old cow who doesn't want to cooperate.  They wear thick heavy leather leggings and a heavy Carhardt brush jacket to help with the mesquite and prickly pear thorns.  Daddy was the owner of the cattle company and also the lowest paid.  He took care of the hands better than himself financially and didn't want anyone to get hurt in the brush.  It was hot, dangerous and hard work.  We could hear the brush popping in the distance as he was roping the cow and dragging her out.  He could hardly rope anything if he was out in the open, but he was great at roping something in heavy brush.  I ended up in a career doing pretty much the same thing but I was on foot instead of horseback and I wasn't chasing cattle.  I think about him every time I see it on the screen.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2019, 05:10:42 PM »
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #33 on: July 26, 2019, 09:17:19 AM »

 I have been blown away by the responses.  They make this site more family like not that it wasn't, just escalates the camaraderie..A big thank you to all.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2019, 09:34:25 AM »
Many years ago in school, a teacher had trouble pronouncing my last name "Grengs".  Instead of learning to pronounce it, he just started calling my Gringo.  All my classmates thought it was funny, and it stuck.  Been called Gringo ever since.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #35 on: July 26, 2019, 03:52:42 PM »
Not sure why the last story reminded me of my Pop Warner coaching days, but it did.  I had 4 kids playing one year, two named Ruiz & Nguyen, one pronounced it ru-ez, the other Reese, one pronounced it New-yen the other Win...Was a tough year on me for names...
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #36 on: July 26, 2019, 07:53:05 PM »
Great thread CJ.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #37 on: July 27, 2019, 07:13:55 AM »
Awww come on ZCZ,
 I wanna hear it!
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #38 on: July 27, 2019, 04:25:18 PM »
Any one who has ever traded commodities...


Quote from: Trooper on July 27, 2019, 07:13:55 AM
Awww come on ZCZ,
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #39 on: July 27, 2019, 05:07:18 PM »
Management of The Tony Kornheiser radio show out of DC at the time I chose the name made them release the Podcast of the show 24 hours after the actual radio broadcast. They were trying to drive traffic to the actual show where there was more money to be made from ad dollars.

This was during the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I honestly don't remember the connection with the screen name, but it had something to do with it.

People started a #FreeMrTony on Twitter trying to convince the "sales weasels" at the radio station to allow the release of the podcast on the same day as the broadcast.

Needless to say, the Tony Kornheiser Show is a big part of my life...
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2019, 08:11:08 PM »
Quote from: Free Mr. Tony on July 27, 2019, 05:07:18 PM
Management of The Tony Kornheiser radio show out of DC at the time I chose the name made them release the Podcast of the show 24 hours after the actual radio broadcast. They were trying to drive traffic to the actual show where there was more money to be made from ad dollars.

This was during the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I honestly don't remember the connection with the screen name, but it had something to do with it.

People started a #FreeMrTony on Twitter trying to convince the "sales weasels" at the radio station to allow the release of the podcast on the same day as the broadcast.

Needless to say, the Tony Kornheiser Show is a big part of my life...

Wow!  Didn't know you were a big sports news guy.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2019, 04:56:36 PM »
Small time corn spec trader.  ZCZ is the trading symbol for the electronically traded December contract for corn futures.

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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #42 on: July 30, 2019, 08:55:41 AM »
Joe is ... well there's a 'regular Joe'... but then there's also Frank Zappa's 3 part rock-opera called "Joe's Garage", where the main character in the story goes from being a guy playing guitar on a Fender Champ in his garage band(good wholesome fun), to the point where he is imprisoned for things that might be best left out of the discussion here.   The premise of the story is that Music, and virtually anything fun is made illegal , and follows Joe's life and various crazy things that happen along the way.  Not a story for the feint of heart , or offended by vulgarity, but I've always thought it was a very cleaver  ( perhaps one of Zappa's best ) piece of humorous and somewhat political satire.   

So, LowSlowJoe, is just a regular Joe, trying to have fun doing BBQ Low and Slow...  hopefully they won't make , making BBQ and other pellet grilling types of activity illegal any time soon.
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #43 on: July 30, 2019, 11:24:46 AM »
There was an SNL bit with Mike Myers called Lothar King of the hill people. My brothers friend for some reason called me Lothar while we were watching it, there may have been a few beers involved back then   :P   ,   and it stuck , been called that ever since.  You can probably guess the second half of my handle  ;)
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Re: How Did You Choose Your Handle?
« Reply #44 on: August 01, 2019, 10:41:58 PM »
Quote from: Bar-B-Lew on July 27, 2019, 08:11:08 PM
Quote from: Free Mr. Tony on July 27, 2019, 05:07:18 PM
Management of The Tony Kornheiser radio show out of DC at the time I chose the name made them release the Podcast of the show 24 hours after the actual radio broadcast. They were trying to drive traffic to the actual show where there was more money to be made from ad dollars.

This was during the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I honestly don't remember the connection with the screen name, but it had something to do with it.

People started a #FreeMrTony on Twitter trying to convince the "sales weasels" at the radio station to allow the release of the podcast on the same day as the broadcast.

Needless to say, the Tony Kornheiser Show is a big part of my life...

Wow!  Didn't know you were a big sports news guy.

Actually I am not. Sports radio bores me to death, and I can't stand shows that take callers.  This show does not take callers, and is mainly just an old man complaining which appeals to me. Although he is known as the espn host of PTI, his podcast has very little to do with sports. It's kind of a mash up of sports and news, but mainly just personal stories told in a funny manner. He even reluctantly talks about sports saying he has to because it's nominally a sports show.

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