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05-27-2018, 08:52 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: ID
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Wish my name was Glen.
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05-27-2018, 02:37 PM
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#122
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 86Scotty
G ets
Lucky
Every
Night
There you go. Fixed it for you. Now it's exciting.
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That is too funny...…….. I think I'll keep it now
Wait. Why is my wife laughing so hard?
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05-27-2018, 02:42 PM
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#123
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ghetto fireman
Mine is pretty straight forward, but I’ll need to modify it after June 8th to
Retired Ghetto Fireman. Pulling the plug after 33 years.
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Congrats.... I retired last year after 31.5 years of public service myself and haven't looked back since. I just thought I'd have more free time being retired
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05-27-2018, 04:28 PM
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#124
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 632
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Glen
I'll start by explaining one of the most boring handles on this forum.
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I was actually thinking quite the opposite. If I was to be introduced to a group and heard names like, Detroit, Torch, Overkill, and Glen. Glen is the one I'd think was the most bad ass of them all. "Ya, keep an eye on Glen, there's a reason he got to keep his name".
- Eric
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2005 SMB RB 4x4 6.0 PSD
A rocket on the pad is safe,
but it's not what rockets are built for.
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05-28-2018, 09:27 AM
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#125
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ShuttlePilot
I was actually thinking quite the opposite. If I was to be introduced to a group and heard names like, Detroit, Torch, Overkill, and Glen. Glen is the one I'd think was the most bad ass of them all. "Ya, keep an eye on Glen, there's a reason he got to keep his name".
- Eric
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05-30-2018, 02:43 PM
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#126
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Cali desert
Posts: 302
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Oh, geez - nerd alert.
Diotima of Mantinea was a female priestess and philospher who appears in Plato's Symposium. When Plato speaks of love, he is repeating Diotima's teachings. The idea is that all love, from the most banal (say, love of ice cream) to the sublime (so, brotherly love, a mother's love, passionate love, love of humanity, God-like love, etc.) is an example of humans striving toward or reaching for the Divine.
We start by loving something as simple as ice cream, and as we grow and mature, our idea of what love is, what it means, etc. expands and grows. Through this growth, we learn to perceive and understand the Divine presence in the Universe (God, The One, however you wish to conceive of it) in bigger and bigger bites until we have a fully developed awareness of it. Her teachings say that we all emanated from The One, and that eventually, we will all return to The One.
In short, I admire her. Her name's a mouthful, though, so I go by Dia.
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The Petroleum Falcon, aka LOLA. 2011 RB E350 5.4L w/PH. Now I just need solar, an interior and... Hey, why is the money always gone?
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05-30-2018, 04:35 PM
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#127
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 385
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I've wrenched on cars my entire life. At 13 my dad had me swap transaxles in his '63 Renault R8 while he was off at work. Checking my progress in the evenings. From there I moved on to swap engines, build engines, transmissions, suspension work, etc, etc. Always had at least one project car for the past 40 years. I take a lot of joy from building my own stuff.
After the internet was invented, I discovered there were forums devoted to the project vehicles I loved. I became an avid follower of sites for whatever vehicle I currently had. From hot rods to VW's, to now Ford Vans.
On a few of the forums, some of the professional mechanics wrote with disdain for the average shadetree mechanic, which prompted me to claim the name. My usual handle ShadetreeTim was already taken on this site.
For 36 years I've been an Electrician, for the past 29 years working primarily with electronics integration. I find wrenching on cars a nice diversion from reality.
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2012 Chevrolet Express 3500 6.0
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05-30-2018, 07:08 PM
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#128
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: TN
Posts: 10,222
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Most excellent, especially the last two!
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05-31-2018, 06:44 AM
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#129
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Posts: 3,765
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My username here and about a million sites is nothing more than initials of my given name which is NEVER mentioned in polite or civilized company.
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05-31-2018, 12:51 PM
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#130
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Illinois
Posts: 817
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ctb
Should be the "creator"...lol!!!
Sportsmobeebs....everything "beebs" originated from my daughters birth (now 30)...she was the original "Beebs" and all things we love have a "beebs" attached to it...My wife and I call each other Beebs, our other cars...Luxobeebs for the tank '01 Lexus LS430, BulldogBlueBeebs for my wife's new blue Pilot we bought, and the old MDX was BigBlackBeebs after Big Black on 'Rob n Big' (RIP) cause we loved him and that show...as we took on "DO WORK SON!!"mantra!
Thanks for the thread start...especially not the "Im starting a new build and want to know where I should put....." oh they know where to put it ...anyway THX!
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Now reading the thread back (can anyone else just stop on one page or did you have to read all 13 pages again?) I SEE that we were talking about forum name NOT van name...which may be a needed thread eh?!
Soooooo...
CTB is Chris the boy, and my wife's handle is KTG, yes Kris the girl...our friend's 4 year old son called us that to keep us straight, and it has stuck through the years and used by most of our friends to keep/tell us apart in conversation or getting our attention...now for those van names.......
ps the 'quote' was for the daveB man...
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'13 MDX 'BigBlackmobeebs'
'01 Lexus 430 LS 'Luxobeebs
'20 Tacoma TRD OR 'Tacobeebs'
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