What’s In A Name?

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duluthralphie said:
Ok!!!!


Sourlands name story..

When he was young times were different. The Declaration of Independence was being written. People were oppressed and did not have much food, garden plots were important.

He originally went by the name “Dan”. Dan was a shy kid. Extremely poor and frugal as we all were back then. Dan’s parents could not afford to buy food, which was the norm back then. “Make do” were the words us old timers grew up with.

Asparagus was the only plant that grew naturally and in copious amounts on his parents plot of land.

They would try other crops but they failed.
The family ate asparagus two times a day, the hogs lived on asparagus. The cows and the chickens. It was either asparagus or starve. The little meat they ate was saturated with asparagus. The milk and cheese had the asparagus odor to it.

In an attempt to help the family Little Dan was rented out to neighbors to weed gardens, clean barns, chop wood and other chores to earn a half pence.

Dan was a great guy friendly, hard worker, and huge bladder could work nonstop for 6 hours but he drank lots of water, gallons and gallons. Luckily for Dan he had an oversized bladder. But the downside was when he went pee, he really went pee, almost five gallons at a time. For a while his nickname was “racehorse”. I am fairly sure this name will cause the under 40 crowd do say “what does peeing have to do with a racehorse”.

Back to “Racehorse Dan”. He would always run into the corn fields and relieve himself at noon. For you younguns in Racehorse Dan’s youth, workdays were 12 hours long with 15 minutes at noon to eat.

Once safely out of sight in the corn fields RaceHorse Dan would let it all go. Obviously, we all know what asparagus does to ones urine. Because of all the asparagus in Racehorse Dan’s life his urine. It would actually make the soil so sour seeds could not germinate the next year.

After all the farmers and their kids discovered the places Racehorse Dan peed was barren for years they started saying “Here comes good old Sourland” whenever they saw Racehorse Dan.

Over the decades the nickname Racehorse was forgotten as was the Name Dan. Now he is simply known as Sourland.

So there really was no other handle he could use on BYC.

Now we have the true story of SourLand.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am laughing so hard! Your imagination has no bounds, does it?
 
Mimi13 said:
Ah, yes indeed! I’ve worked with a few like you. :lau No anger meant, thus my emoji, but it does take all kinds.

And as far as being a “terrible human being,” don’t your feathered friends help to soften that? Or are you too far gone?:gig You should still be young enough to let them do their magic.:wee:D
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I don't mean in the sense that I'm a curmudgeon or anything like that. I'm super easygoing and happy to help. However, I have a quick, cynical wit, and a low tolerance for people who waste my time or refuse to take the time to objectively analyze the consequences of their actions. So, they tend to get both barrels of logic directly to the face. :) My birds (and all of our pets) are like therapy.
 
Mimi13 said:
I’m almost old enough to remember not having to turn the dang thing on!
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Typewriters... sigh...
When we kids were little and wanted to play with the typewriter, we used the manual. My mom got an electric and we weren't allowed to play with it until we were 9 or 10.

I'm still on AOL... :oops:
 
azurbanclucker said:
I don't mean in the sense that I'm a curmudgeon or anything like that. I'm super easygoing and happy to help. However, I have a quick, cynical wit, and a low tolerance for people who waste my time or refuse to take the time to objectively analyze the consequences of their actions. So, they tend to get both barrels of logic directly to the face. :) My birds (and all of our pets) are like therapy.
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I completely understand what you’re saying. Some people just deserve it.
 
Mom had a manual typewriter. I took summer typing and chemistry classes between junior and senior year, in case I wanted to graduate early. They started us on manual and halfway through they let those of us left try the electric typewriter... Half of us left before they died of the heat. Did have windows that opened but it still was hot on the second floor... this was long before the school got air conditioning
 
Mimi13 said:
Okay, you’ve got me a bit scared. I probably don’t want to know. They did away with the original meaning when there was no such thing as a Carbon Copy anymore, to an updated “courtesy copy” I believe. I think there was another one as well.
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There is still used carbon copying forms in use to this day in industries....
 
Mimi13 said:
Sooooo many people have gotten themselves in some hot water by quickly hitting ‘reply’ and not realizing there were more than one recipient to begin with, especially in the heated messages.

And IMO, the BCC is nothing but a sabotage effort, even though I have used it before. But as I said, I didn’t have the purest of intentions.:oops:
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I almost always use bcc for my Craigslist questions.... So I can use either phone or pc to go back to the ad for refreshing my brain.
 

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