how did you get your handle?????

[opiethetileman]

ok here is a topic that was brought up at schulterville bs time. How did you make your handle or get it??? and what does it mean??


so i will start with mine


OPIETHETILEMAN


opie came way back from my medical days I use to always watch opietaylor every morning and drink coffee.


the tile man was just something i threw togther
at the end to make a name for myself.


I have had this emial and name now for years



so lets see what other people chime in to explain thier name

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[jondon]

Opie,

Yes figured your name had something to do with OpieTaylor! So how was Schluterville, lots of good stories and good knowledge in a couple days. How did the Orange thong go over!

So if there is anything you learned there, not necessarily about Schluter but from stories what valuable trick if any did you learn that you will now use? Course the food and hospitality is great you can't beat it, the hotel the food the restaurants, they know how to put on a good show and treat people. Course they are gaining by you going out and using they're products so its a win - win.

Okay....

JonDon My first name is Jon and my last name is DonMoyer so when I was in the AF, someone coined the phrase JonDon and it kinda stuck, even my sis calls me that.

Next.........

BTW... Opie, what is your real name for those of us who were not in Schluterville, enjoying your Orange outfits and cigars? More importantly do you know how to "Kerdi Your World" now?

[opiethetileman]

no my real name is dan it is in my signature. Yeah the ornage thong did not go over well. so i didnt try on fear I would be floating. but I did bring lots and lots of oorgane attire. even had orange shoes and a orange watch

[Tilehelperdan]

Well, my name is Dan and Im a tile helper. No brainer here.

[Saldibs]

Dan, when you graduate to being a full blown tile installer, you will need to change your handle to something other than tile helper, because you will then be "tilemandan".
My handle was also a no brainier, and one I have been using for years Saldibs. Just my first name and an abbreviated last name.

[davem]

The first unix geek admin that had to assign me a name said "your new delta tau chi name is ... davem". Better than Flounder. :D

[Tilehelperdan]

Yeah Sal, I got that all planned out. When I get an apprenticeship it will be "Tileapprenticedan" and when Im a full blown installer it will be "Tilemandan."

[gueuzeman]

You could be "the Dan formerly known as helper"....

Kinda like this-
http://ewpopwatch.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/22475.gif

For this guy-
http://dummidumbwit.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/045_8259prince-symbol-posters.jpg


signed, the hobbyist formerly known as amateur gueuze.

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[Tilehelperdan]

LOL Gueze. I gotta remember that. My unpronouncable symbol will of course involve a trowel of some sort.

[The Kid]

Well, in my youth, I used to run around with a bunch of older kids then myself. So as you can guess, the wise ass of the bunch started calling me the kid, and its stuck ever since.

[Trask]

Jeremy all the while I thought you might of killed someone to get that name..ya know like "Billy":D

[Davestone]

All the Dave and tile combinations were taken so i threw stone in there....riveting huh?:D

[silvercitytile]

yeah trask, the "i'll make you famous" comes from being in the next day news paper obituaries. so dont wish to become famous:D (POOKEY)

[The Kid]

Sorry to dissapoint, i wish my story were alittle more interesting as well. Ive always kinda just been the "kid" in the bunch, and especially around here yall make me feel really young.:D

[tileguy_n_ky]

Mine is simple, signed up and tried tileguy. Already taken so, tileguy_n_ky popped in to my mind and the rest is history.

[Davestone]

Greg you're worse than me, you thought Tileguy would be open huh?:D I used to be a super for a tile company and everybody already called me Superdave from the comedian Super Dave Osborne,but i wasn't about to be presumptous enough to come here with a name like Super Dave.:D

[johntrent]

mine definitely has no hidden meaning...

Dan - you mean there is no "cheese" Or "Happy Cows" involved in your future title?:D

Or how about this "BrandySourLongIslandIceTeaTileman" :D

[kate42]

Mine is just a childhood knickname.

[cx]

Or how about this "BrandySourLongIslandIceTeaTileman" You bowdarkskull! There wasn't no steenkin' brandy in there. Wasn't you payin' no nevermind at all? :lol1:

I'll expect your screen names to progress rather quickly, Dan, judging by your attitude. We'll look for TileManDan in just a few years. :)

You gotta axe DaveM to change the name for you, though. But he'll be happy to do that.

[Saldibs]

Dan You can always use the handle "No longer work for those miserly bastards Dan" :D:stirpot:

[johntrent]

:D

whats up with the cheesy smiley? can't get it to work -

nevermind

[Tilehelperdan]

LOL, you guys are too much. I may have to post a poll when the time comes to change my name, and let you guys pick.


And there werent no brandy in that drink. :D

[kate42]

The last time the meteors came, we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally, we blamed the Irish. We hanged more ‘n a few.- Grandpa Simpson

What a stupid quote. As an American of Irish ancestery I resent it. And who is granpa simpson? Are you proud of hanging a bunch of Irishman?
Shame on you.

[Splinter]

I'm not a full on trowel monkey like all of you.... I started in the trades solely as a wood guy, hence the name Splinter.

My real life nickname is Who.


You all can still call me Yo Alex if you'd like... :D

[Splinter]

Kate- Channel 5 8pm Sundays...

Simpsons- a cartoon show geared towards adults with many outrageous characters. I'm sure the kid doesnt mean to offend... The show is hilarious...

[Mountain Tile]

yo who :D

[Kilauea]

Alright,hopefully by now everyone knows what MT. Kilauea is.One of the youngest but most active volcano's on the planet.The flow of the lava is very unpredictable and has been known to destroy million dollar "tourists" homes then split to go around Hawaiian temples.

@ age 19 I was the youngest and one of the last dubbed "helpers" in the HI Masons Union(before apprentiship started).Im also the youngest out of a father,6 of his brothers,and 6 of my cousins,all of who are tile guys as well as union.My dad was the top of the food chain and I was on the bottom.After losing my father (very well respected tile contractor and union foreman) our family "machine" became headless,so I swore to continue learning,being active,and accelerating my knowledge of the ever evolving tile industry.Hence the name......Kilauea/Screen name/handle

L.T? Thats my real my name.Lelana T$%I;)

[kate42]

Alex
I watched that show once and did not find any humor in it. As a matter of fact, after a few minutes of watching the show, I turned it off.

To let you all know, I have apologized to Im Dan, now here, and earlier in a pm. I should have pm'd him first before I posted what I did. Next time if I feel offended, I'll know better how to handle the situation before I run off with my mouth.

It's over and resolved. :)

[tileguy_n_ky]

Davestone-sometimes nobody chooses something because we all think it is already choosen.

Tilehelperdan-get off the brandy and get some bourbon in ya. Sour mash thingie???? You said your liquor is soaked in a bourbon barrel. Why not get the good stuff that comes out of the barrel before the barrel gets recycled. Hahahhaha!!!!
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[lati_cz]

I used to be a cook. I cooked in Italy for a while, all my friends in czech begun to call me ital (I am blond, blue eyes...). Backwards lati, _cz means where I came from.

[dufus]

Mine is what my wife called me once - when I lost a one piece fiberglass shower unit on the highway on my way back from Home Depot - and I haven't been able to get rid of the name since.

[Marge]

I stole mine.

[kate42]

I stole mine.

Thief! :D :rofl:

[cx]

Tilehelperdan-get off the brandy and get some bourbon in ya.

Tile hepper Dan is big enuff to drink whatever he wanna. :)

tileguy n ky, would you please pewt your name back in your signature line? Then stop foolin' with stuff before you screw up somethin' important. :D

And Michal, it would be real polite if you'd add your name to a signature line for the folks, too. :)

[opiethetileman]

well after me telling the wife about my vanishing avatar i got a new handle but i can not post it on here. and I now get a week to sleep at the office or the couch because she is not a happy camper. wowssers. i even sent her 3 dozen roses to her office on monday while at the school her answer was what did you do????? and how much money did you waste this time.... so mr joe i love ya man and marge u too. i get to sleep on the couch now thanks. dont feel bad i have a 42 inch plasma tv to watch while on it and i can smoke cigars in that room. so can ya tell i like getting in trouble

[opiethetileman]

and this face did not make her happy either at dinner. but ya know its me and always me i will never ever grow up i guess.

[gueuzeman]

Mine? I came up with it when I signed up for my first internet forum a long time ago. My favorite style of beer, an amazing product that flies in the face of most of the conventional rules of brewing, kind of fitting.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/gueuzeman/Gueuzemanpower.jpg

There was a run of a handful of years that I attended the open brewing day at the "Miusee De Le Gueuze", I have gone to Brussels for my birthday to eat at my favorite restaurant and gueuze brewery, and even went there for my honeymoon, or as gueuzewife puts it, "a brewery tour."

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[kate42]

gueuze

Based on your expertise, does your style of beer come close to any of the conventional beers sold in the good ole USA? :)

[gueuzeman]

In a word, no. Impossible to recreate as the wort(base beer product) is innoculated from wild yeast in the air of the Senne valley in the Brussels region as it cools in large open cooling vats. Most beers are guarded from infection, gueuze is all about it.

A few reviews from- http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/14

Darkness swept the earth as the angels began to cry, their golden tears flowing through the dark sky like so many golden necklaces sliding down a silken backdrop... The sky acquired a burnt sienna hue, the clouds all disappearing in moments, leaving a thick orange haze...
I can smell the end of the world, the clash of steel on bronze, angst and sour oak, citrus peel on tarnished copper, a bottomless sea of layer upon layer of cold, metallic darkness... and warm, earthy coze, now only a memory, a tantalizing reality that will never return...
The taste of blood, the metallic, then a richness of meaning behind the songs running through the head, and bitter, I'm so bitter, beyond the barnyards of my childhood, beyond the grapefruits they made me eat'itwillmakeyoustrong' beyond the distant sour of black bread and the cheese that was always-so-old, the granny smith apple cores, the muscadine vines by the barn, the snake that tried to eat me... it goes farther still, this vision as I can taste the metallic of my blood, looking to the orange sky, seeing only a haze...
Dry and intensely sour, bitter, harsh and caressing, thin and full, lightly fluffy, lingering in my head, in my dreams, as a fierce screech rends the sky, the black wings are seen wheeling high above the haze, they swoop down again, they can smell the blood, I shudder as I hear the winds tearing through their thin flaps of flesh, swooping ever closer...


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and this one is classic-

Ultra Dry, Petroly tasting Geuze sampled at the Delerium Café on 8-18-08. 375 ml bottle dated Jan 2006. Plenty of funky horse hair aromas, gasoline, grapefruit, dust, etc... Flatish body is forgiven as the wildness of it all more than makes up for it. Citric flavor with touches of barnyard piss and soap. Mmmmm.... A treat. One of the best beers and biggest surprises of my stay in Belgium. Drinkable by the liter.

Sante'! :cheers:

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[Crestone Tile]

There are breweries doing open fermentation here in the US (Anchor, Sierra Nevada, Jolly Pumpkin, and more), but as the Gueuze-Man implied, there's a bit of flavour characteristics that can only be replicated in specific breweries in specific regions.

I think most of the US open ferment guys are doing their thing in extremely sterile environments (including sterilized air within the ferment rooms).

What's cool about open ferment is that the yeast is reclaimed as it floats at the top of the tank ... many of the residues fall to the bottom of the tank. This allows for the yeast to be used for hundreds if not thousands of generations. In closed cylinder ferment tanks, the yeast falls to the bottom with the residue, so both have to be harvested.

I'm just a wannabe beer amateur, but I think that the yeast can only be re-used maybe a half dozen times in closed cylinder ferment. There are other differences in open ferment like different ester profiles and less sulfur characteristics ... but I digress.

To open fermentation ... :cheers:

Another successful thread jacking.

[dbol]

dbol.
d from first name Doug.
bol was a nickname from high school and college.
Man I hated that name first year of college but everyone new me as Bol. I was almost famous on that campus. Good old Kent State University. 5 years I will never forget or really remember.:cheers:

[gueuzeman]

Another successful thread jacking.

Aah, but a beerjacking, not a bad thing.

US open ferment guys are doing their thing in extremely sterile environments

In the gueuze brewery, not so much.
http://www.vanosta.be/images/gisting.jpg

More gueuze info than you could ever possibly need here-
http://www.vanosta.be/pcrbier1.htm



Good photos of the museum/Cantillion Brewery here-

http://www.greydragon.org/trips/Brussels%20Dec04/index3.html

[LadyGodiva]

Mine came about (Lady Godiva) because of the legend about said lady who it is said rode naked on a horse in public to get her husband to lower taxes.

Never had the courage to try that myself; the riding nekkid on a horse that is:D

I also don't mind me some Godiva chocolates.

[Bugman]

Mine is pretty simple. My longest and most recent profession was an entomologist. Bugman was just so easy when I signed up.

[hotsauce]

My favorite uncle used to call me Jake (birth name's Jason) and it kinda stuck........although I've been called much worse. And the hotsauce is 'cause I love the stuff - I could live off Texas Pete!

[LadyGodiva]

You love hot sauce? What's the hottest peppers you have tried? Can you eat Habaneros without crying? :D

[tileguy_n_ky]

Cx- Dan is big enough to drink whatever he likes. If he wants to drink those sissy drinks, by noeans am I going to tell him he can't. lol

the reason I have no signature on some post is because. I am posting on my iPhone using the mobile version of the TYW website. Perhaps those 'puter guys can figure out a way to get our sig's to carry over when we post from out mobile devices.

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Greg Hiens
Hiens Tile & Stone
859-983-6087
via iPhone
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[opiethetileman]

greg dont be making the cxter mad he will show up in daisy dukes with his owl mobb and get ya.


yeah ya think the comp geeks would be up on the new stuff to keep us ancient folks up to date.:drevil:

[kate42]

tileguy n ky

I like your signature.:tup2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

[cx]

Yep, yep, Hepper Dan can drink ever what he likes, far as I'm concerned, Greg. :)

I've not been aware of that signature thingee before. I know DaveM and Joe Gleason and some others use that tailored version of the site, but I've never noticed their signatures bein' missin'.

Thanks for pewtin' yours back on there. I, of course, have no trouble rememberin' everbody's name, but I like you to have it on there for the old peoples, eh? :)

[kate42]

but I like you to have it on there for the old peoples, eh?

What old peoples?

[opiethetileman]

dont worry kate they are working on brail for the really really young folks.

[dgunnels]

Neesie is of course, short for Denise. Sorry, nothing interesting there.

Bobby and I did several breweries in Asheville. The best was Pisgah but ya gotta be dedicated to find that one. (I am VERY dedicated when it comes to the potable arts. :D) Actually, he was off riding his bike on Mt Pisgah and I was drinking at Pisgah Brewery. Wonderful place with a great pubilcan named Brent.

[Shooter]

Easy. I like guns. ;)

[opiethetileman]

yo shoot i was talking about last week in south carolina. good to see ya still around my freind i guess someone tokk your link down. i liked it:tup2:

[Shooter]

Hey Opie,

I was contemplating retirement, but with the economy and all, like many others, my nest egg took a big hit. Plus our President didn't actually hurt my line of work, quite opposite actually. So I decided to keep on working for awhile while the gettin is good so to speak and try to make up some of the money I lost. That means I will be around for a month or so at a time, then gone for 3 or so.

Which link in particular are you talking about? I have had more than my share nixed. :drevil:

[e3]

e3 --I have 3 brothers whos names all starts with E . Im number 3 son..When mom used to get P.Oed. ,I mean real mad and could come up with the names as fast as the order ..it just came out # 1-2-3-or 4. Plus it was easier to write on all my old LP so my other brothers did'nt steal em. I'v been E3 since the Beatles first LP..

[opiethetileman]

your photo bucket picture i saw with a fuzzy face. all i can say is anytime u are in the neck of the wood send out a smoke signal and i will honor a fellow brother who gives me what i have today if ya know what i mean. good seeing ya again my freind

[opiethetileman]

so e3 ya need to come out with a special noble seal product and call it e3

[Shooter]

Opie, I will have to admit the editing was done by myself and I removed the pic after posting it. Like Gueze, who posted a pic to help illustrate his screen name, I thought a picture might do the same for me. But after thinking about it for a brief moment, sometimes being dressed in body armor and guns, in a place far away and not in military attire, doesn't sit well for some. I was trying to be sensitive to others. No really. :)

[opiethetileman]

i understand trust me i fugred u out my freind and like i said i honored of who you and what you do

[Marge]

Great to see you around again (for awhile anyway) Shooter. :)

Eric, I have wondered for a long while about your User Name. :)

[kate42]

Great to see you around again (for awhile anyway) Shooter

Ditto

[sgrandjean]

I had been known as 'Mr. Greenjeans' for years, and sed it for awhile in college before 'Mother, Jugs & Speed' took over whilst spending days and nights on the ambulance in a past life.

Cheers.

[gueuzeman]

:lol2::lol2: @ shooter

[Bill Vincent]

Ma daddy dun give me mine!! (Only I dropped the Jr. for the forum!)

[scott anthony]

Growing up (very young) with the Brooklyn Italians on moms side, my mother was a strict as you could imagine. When she got upset she would scream Scott Anthony, Anthony being my middle name, my brothers still shout it to me ever now and then. The last name was serious German and didn't fit to good as a handle. Hilgenfeldt
I never did think I would get asked this though, so it's a bit silly.

[MNTileGuy]

Umm, let's see, I used to live in Minnesota and am a tile guy. Even after moving to Texas, I've been too lazy to change it.

Pretty creative and exciting story, huh?!?

[muskymike]

Before I moved up where I'm at, we useta stay at this resort. The guy that owns it moved up here from where I was living and I found out his Dad worked at my high school. The guy had three little kids, not so little anymore. I started musky fishing with him 15 years ago. When we would be coming back for a visit his kids would ask him, "When is Musky Mike coming up again?" Then when we moved up here he would go around introducing me as Musky Mike. Now everyone knows me as Musky. :D

[swampratxxx]

I got mine from the 30th dragster built and raced by Don Garlits which now resides in the Smithsonian Institute. He named them all Swamprat in numerical order.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/image_649.html

[Wayne67vert]

I took mine from this, my 1967 Mustang con'vert'ible.

[bbcamp]

Where was that shot taken, Wayne? It looks like US 129 (Dragon's Tail) on the Tennessee/North Carolina line.

[opiethetileman]

i want to go run the dragons tail so bad with the challeneger. and open that puppy up . alot of $$$$ in cars goes thru their.

nice mustang wayne I like the pearl white paint

[mossypath]

Mossypath is just about traveling to a place that is refreshing to the spirit . There is no place to me that is more calming and exhilarating at the same time then a quiet walk in the woods.

[cx]

You should come out to New Mexico and count owls with us next season, Tammy. You'd be the calmest, most exhilarated girl on your block after a couple months. :D

[Marge]

I don't recall ANY paths looking like that during owl counting.... :suspect:

[Wayne67vert]

Bob,
You guessed correctly. It is the Dragon. I'm visiting a friend here near Jefferson City this week. I towed my car and drove it on the Dragon last Sunday. What a Blast:yipee: I'm going home to Fla. on Friday.

[GraniteGirl]

mmm... let's see: I work with granite and I'm a girl. Guess that's about it :D

[bbcamp]

Wayne, we've driven the Dragon several times in our '68 Camaro convertible. That's when I wished it had a small block. Even with power steering, my arms get a workout with all those twists and turns.

Did you cross over on the Cherohala Skyway?:D

[cx]

I don't recall ANY paths looking like that during owl counting....Well, no, not 'zackly like that, but maybe you should post a picher of the paths we walked, Marge. Then Tammy could see how calm and exhilarated she might git, eh?

If I still had my photos I could post some of the even more exhilarating paths we sometimes walk.

'Course, I can't be sure just how much exhilaratin' she can tolerate all at once, eh? :)

[mossypath]

CX , Marge ... Can you tell me about this owl counting? I have yet to visit your fare state. It's not like our cow tipping is it? If I could find a good excuse to be away for three months I would be game. Trained to do the solo thing with 7 days 7 matches . backpacking in upper state New York for the high peaks in mid Jan.(crazy cold , -32 in town) white water rafting and climbed glaciers . Camped on barrier islands with a research group to study sea turtles Lived in a cabin for a year without electricity in Idaho. Never have done any desert survival but would love to some time .

[mossypath]

This is my son on his first day repelling.and the little man and his bottle of whiskey we bring with us to celebrate the summit.

[SevrinJ]

Mine is my sons first name and middle initial.. Sevrin J :tup2:

[Marge]

Tammy, first off...owling is pretty cool. cx's description of the "paths" is another story. :)

You've done some rappelling?? We did in Costa Rica...scary..but through a few waterfalls too. So those outweighed the scary. Want to go back and do some more. :nod: