How did you get your handle or user name?

When my wife and I were still newlyweds, we used to babysit for some friends with this cute as a button little girl named Chloe. She was a pistol at about 3yo. She would introduce herself "I kowee."

Of course she wanted to know our first names and mine is Matthew which she forevermore pronounced as Datchew and to our friends circle, it's been my moniker for about 23 years.
 
I was off in the salt marsh hunting clapper rails and my wife’s cousin called to see if we wanted to come to a cookout. When my wife told him what I was doing. First he asked what a rail was and then exclaimed that boy will “hunt anything”.
 
My moniker is a take off of my sir name. It is the nickname my friends called me in my youth. Now I only hear "Wheels" at high school reunions or at DSC when AH members can't remember my name. ;)
 
Should have given it more thought. Name means absolutely nuthin. Was my Spotify password. :cool:
 
Should have given it more thought. Name means absolutely nuthin. Was my Spotify password. :cool:

As with most of us guys that are irritated by TV commercials, thought your wife or friends might have given you that nickname. Because you were constantly flipping through channels with the TV remote.:ROFLMAO:
 
Started working up in the Bering Sea onboard the Arctic Fjord in 1997. It has allowed me the time and resources to get myself to Africa - hence the nod in my handle here on AH. Have enjoyed reading through this thread btw.

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Here's to a fellow rotorhead.
Sh-60b's for me
Didn’t fly them but flew in the Huey’s and chinnks all over Europe. Never imagined my son would be riding in a chinook 40 years later in Afghanistan. They don’t build them like they used to.
 
So when I started driving in Africa most of the overland drivers had nick names.
Think it was my second trip and one of the passengers said to my crew member at the time.
"That dude looks just like Sideshow Bob with his skin legs and wild hair"! The name stuck.
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Funny thing was most Africans could not pronounce it. Sort o came out like Sud-sha.
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Thought I would link Pheroze’s old thread in here too:


My answer is somewhere in there.
 
So when I started driving in Africa most of the overland drivers had nick names.
Think it was my second trip and one of the passengers said to my crew member at the time.
"That dude looks just like Sideshow Bob with his skin legs and wild hair"! The name stuck.
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Funny thing was most Africans could not pronounce it. Sort o came out like Sud-sha.
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You should have been a soldier. No need for camo. Turn sideways and you disappeared. :D. Thanks for the photos and memories.

I'll bet it was an interesting career. So, your truck carried passengers not cargo ... or both? I once held a commercial truck drivers license and briefly drove cargo in Montana. Somehow managed to scrape by with 20/40 corrected for battered left eye when I took the test but could not make it for renewal. Commercial pilots with one eye could be licensed but not truck drivers. Go figure. I did train in a cab-over tractor but by then that style had all but disappeared on the road. Very weird especially when turning in intersections.
 
When I was born, the doctor looked down at me and said “look at the barrel on that boy!” At the time, 458 was about the largest caliber going in the USA, so that was indeed the inspiration for my birth name. Of course, my actual birth name is Tobias Four V Eight the second. But I shortened it to numerical form for my screen name.
 
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