Can we get this thread back on topic?

Why Your Username?

For example were you between 11 and 13?
Reference to #12.

Ron

Are you new here? Post #38, this Thread.

 

Are you new here? Post #38, this Thread.

Yebut...

How did you get #12 from #32? It seems to me '#32' would be even 'quicker' (more convenient) based upon the observation that the octothorpe is assigned to Shift+3 on most keyboards? -- But then I expect I'm missing something

?????

Best regards
HP

 

The avatar is me, back in my youthful days.

That's you as a youth?
The last time I got, "carded" at a bar, I was 42 years old.
That pic on the left was me at 25, when the boss was hiding me from the customers.
You shooda seen me at 19, fixing TV's. I actually had one customer refuse to let me in the house because she said I was, "too young to fix TV's". and the other techs at Sears called me, "babyface" behind my back.
I didn't learn that one until I was about 50.

The best part is that I didn't know I was a cutie. Just think of all the social diseases I didn't catch because of that!

 

Yebut...

It was a bad day. I was in a hurry. I didn't want to pretend I was #1 at anything and I didn't want to use my real Inspector number, so I just thought of something with a vague relationship to one of my habitual passwords for non-financial sites.

#33 would be even easier to type. So what? Do I have to admit I made a mistake in order to satisfy you?
It just isn't all that important.

 

I actually had one customer refuse to let me in the house because she said I was, "too young to fix TV's". and the other techs at Sears called me, "babyface" behind my back.

First the minute I seen your Avatar made me think of Kurt Russell back when he did "The Brain who wore Tennis Shoes" I think had he not been acting you definitely had the look.

BTW, I'm a fan of Kurts work and think his wife is hot for Blonde.

kv

Edit: I had to grow a beard in order to work for sears, I trained and certified on everything but TV's back then.

 

I'm a fan of Kurts work and think his wife is hot for Blonde.

That's Goldie Hawn. Half of America has been hot for her since Rowan & Martin's Laugh In back in the 1960's or 1970's.
I can't remember exactly when because I didn't own a TV until 1977.

First the minute I seen your Avatar made me think of Kurt Russell

I can see it. My nose is a little farther forward and I don't have a dimple in my chin, but we both seem to be from the Scandinavian area. (I'm 50% Danish.)

I had to grow a beard in order to work for sears

I couldn't grow a beard if I tried.
I'm part American Indian. It takes me 3 days to grow a, "5 o'clock shadow".
In fact, that photo of me IS a 3 day beard!
My hair is all messy because I had just woke up in the back seat of a car a few minutes previously.

I trained and certified on everything but TV's back then.

I started in the Parts Department because they thought I was lying about knowing electronics. Then I was diagnosing TV's as they came in over the Parts counter for repair and I got promoted. After that it was easy pickin's to do a summer installing TV antennas. I got into refrigeration because Sears had such bad (one bearing) fan motors on their window shakers that I spent a whole summer just driving to customers houses (with a helper) and replacing fan motors. Add a thermometer, my Simpson 260 from the TV truck, and an Amprobe and I'm fixing every part except the Freon system. Then a Westinghouse laundry equipment course, about 90 minutes learning Microwave ovens, and the only thing I didn't do was Freon. So I taught myself Freon and Duct design, got my Florida State license in air conditioning, and the rest is history.

 

#33 would be even easier to type. So what? Do I have to admit I made a mistake in order to satisfy you?

No...? In order to make sense of your own post

Most people already know I was Quality Control stamp number 32 at three different corporations, purely by coincidence, so I changed that number to the shortest, easiest to type version I could think of in 30 seconds.

---Emphasis added---

TTFN
HP

 

No...? In order to make sense of your own post
---Emphasis added---
TTFN
HP

Fine. I made a mistake. #12 is NOT the easiest way to type 3 characters. It's just what popped into my head that day. So what? How many times do you have to ask?
Three, so far. Can you think of anything less important to ask about several times?
For Dog's sake, let it go!

Where's that old comic that says, "I can't come to bed yet, honey. Somebody is wrong on AAC."? Number Twelve is concealing the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The answer isn't 42. It's Number Twelve!!!

 

Where's that old comic that says, "I can't come to bed yet, honey. Somebody is wrong on AAC."?

I'm right here. My signature references Ward Cunningham's Law...

Cunningham's Law
Ward is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."[19] This refers to the observation that people are quicker to correct a wrong answer than to answer a question.

According to Steven McGeady, Cunningham advised him in the early 1980s, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." McGeady dubbed this Cunningham's law.[20] Although Cunningham was referring to interactions on Usenet, the law has been used to describe how Wikipedia works.[21]

 

My signature references Ward Cunningham's Law...

I think strantor taught me about that.

 

Fine. I made a mistake.

A mistake? You?

Oh man, I'm so unfollowing you on Facebook and every social network ...

Except here on AAC, of course...

 

A mistake? You?

Oh man, I'm so unfollowing you on Facebook and every social network ...

Except here on AAC, of course...

Who has Facebook and other social media accounts besides AAC?

 

Who has Facebook and other social media accounts besides AAC?

Face book ?
Ummm! Me.

 

Who has Facebook and other social media accounts besides AAC?

"well my username is cos I haven't figured out how to change it from my fb account name."
Phillip Lucas, post #105, this Thread.

 

A mistake? You?

I've made so many mistakes on this site that I created my signature line as a preemptive apology.

 

I've made so many mistakes on this site that I created my signature line as a preemptive apology.

Actually, someone already came up with that idea:

Chris Pratt Preemptively Apologizes For Offending You in the Future​

 

Actually, someone already came up with that idea:

Chris Pratt Preemptively Apologizes For Offending You in the Future​

12 had his on here as long as I can remember - way before Prettyboy Pratt's 2015 press release.

 

12 had his on here as long as I can remember

That isn't my first attempt at a signature line but I can't remember whether it took me a few months or a couple of years to arrive there. Still, it was easily before 2015 by a matter of years.

 

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thanks man... you just made my day...