What’s In A Name?

[azurbanclucker]

Do they really use carbon ...used to be a sheet of carbon(?) in between the papers

A lot of times it's multilayer with carbon impregnated into the paper layers now. "The blue for is for me. The yellow form is for accounting, and the pink form is for you" Or like ticket books that police officers use. I can't think of the last time I actually saw a carbon transfer sheet.

 

[electrycmonk]

We still use the manual type writer for the 1099 IRS forms for our therapists.....

 

[sourland]

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.

How did you know that ?

I am laughing so hard! Your imagination has no bounds, does it?

Beware the zombie chickadee.

 

[duluthralphie]

How did you know that ?



Beware the zombie chickadee.

Zombi chickadees are a real thing. They are spooky and dangerous.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Agree, but back in the day it was very much "Bow before me, for I am root." Even back then though, if you gave me physical access to a machine, it was MY machine. No matter how you harden it to keep remote attackers out, the guy standing at the console is always the biggest threat.

That is what i am (desperately) trying to explain my customers: They always want me to put in encryption and long, cryptic passwords everywhere, which sometimes leads to the situation that i have two computers, communicating over a heavily encrypted connection while are sitting less than a foot next to each other in the same server-rack. If you need to encrypt this, you don't have a technical problem, you have an HR problem.
Yes you can throw security at everything, but security always comes at a price. I get desperate calls from customers one year after i have been there, that everything has stopped working, only to find out that a certificate for an internal back-end communication channel has expired. Those things are evil! They always expire on Friday afternoon 5:30pm…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I would have been no threat at all.

You have no idea! Another of my catch phrases is: »Intelligence usually sits only on one side of the keyboard« - meaning those computers are dumb, stupid and do nothing by themselves.
Stopped counting how many times i had to re-install the printer on wifie's computer because she has accidentally dragged it into the trash-can and much later emptied it. She has no clue about the workings of computers and always claims "I have done nothing, and that stupid idiot is no longer doing [something]."

 

[azurbanclucker]

You have no idea! Another of my catch phrases is: »Intelligence usually sits only on one side of the keyboard«

We call that a PICNIC issue.

Problem
In
Chair
Not
In
Computer

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

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.

Well, courtesy copy was one of the answers that i had to bow my head to.
The other answers ranged from "chef copy" (chef = boss/manager in German) over "copy copy" to "closed captioning" … Sometimes i would love to have close captioning on some of the e-mails coming from high up in the hierarchy…
I also asked what "bcc" means, some people did not even know that something like this is available! And the top answers from those who knew about it was: "bullsh!it copy".

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

As it has turns out, the number 13 (my fav #) in my username I can now say is for my favorite boy, Rusty the Roo! He is the first cockerel that I’ve either purchased or hatched that has been the perfect gentleman, to both human and chicken alike, and he was Number 13. No joke, that’s how many I went through to get him.

And to beat it all, (now I’m one of those weird ‘numbers’ people - I don’t think it’s weird, but I know others do) I broody hatched 18 chicks this year and would you like to guess how many of those were cockerels?

Yep, thirteen, 13. And I found another good cockerel in #13, Dooley!

I had 13 ducklings this fall who now are 13 young, untamable, cheeky ducks that are driving my drakes to pure exhaustion…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

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.

You have a very rich phantasy!!!