Meaning behind your handle

I had just purchased a S&W .40 and thought it would be a funny pun on 40 ounce bottles of malt liquor.

 

I always liked showing love to my Boston roots. If you know anyone from MA, you know we love the word wicked… well, WickedBeer was born lol. Simple as that. Go Sox

 

and here I am thinking you just misspelled dot com!

 

Handle? The vandals took it (that's why the pump don't work, as was explained many years ago).

 

I REALLY miss Phill Hartman.

Not so much that cat. He cut me off for no good reason on the GSP and the Belt Parkway one day back in 91 when we were traveling from the Stone Pony to LBI. If he didn’t have the drums in the back, I mighta, well that was a long time ago. A damn menace I tell ya!

If you see him, tell him he still ones me five bucks.

 

There is more to this story. Actually most likely more good stories.

 

Not really. For many years I pursued a few areas of interest (comics and illustration) so when I signed up I remembered two locals who used a common short version of my middle name, and chose it partly since nobody else had, and partly as a way to recall those years.

Looking back I should have chosen a more interesting handle (and being the resident beer dork at the Polish Liquor Barn there were certain to be interesting anecdotes). But I’m too lazy too be change, now.

 

Let's just say mine is incredibly poignant and nuanced.

 

A coworker at an electric utility where I wasted 19.5 years, which no longer exists under that name, gave it to me because of my inability to suffer fools graciously. It wasn’t a bum rap.

 

I'm a (retired) Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy, aka a "SWO."
I used to run (slowly) so I could enjoy food and beer.
SWORunner is a play on my military profession and my speed on the road.

 

GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!

 

Way back in 2005 I joined BA the day after I purchased the woodchipper in the avatar picture. The new purchase was floating around my brain and I guess you could say I wasn't very creative. Don't want change though because its what I'm known as here. Chipper is still going after a few component rebuilds.
BTW, I'm not in the arbor business or anything. Just love to collect tools I can use to make my own property maintenence easier. Friends/relatives love to borrow it but I only loan it to people I think know what thier doing if you know what I mean.

 

First name is Tim. The Mainland is a nickname for the Bronx, where I live, which is a peninsula attached to the continental U.S., whereas the other four New York City boroughs are on islands.

 

Once upon a time I was "a singer in a rock and roll band." Operation: Mindcrime was (and still is) my favorite prog-metal album, and I still wish I could have Geoff Tate's voice. And apparently I'm not alone, because I couldn't have "Mindcrime" all to myself.

 

With that screen name I certainly hope you've seen Fargo and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, two excellent movies featuring woodchippers. I loved both of those movies and I have rewatched them.

 

How is your son doing?

 

Greatest football player ever that started my obsession with the game at 5 years old. Walter did it right in every way. I am still a head football coach at nearly 50. Friday night grass is magic!

 

Because Piggy rulz.

(Oregon trip in June!)

 

Mine refers to Michael Henchard, the eventual Mayor of Casterbridge in the Thomas Hardy novel, who, 21 or so years before he became the mayor of Casterbridge, sold his wife during a night of heavy drinking at an agricultural fair. That indiscretion inspired him to go on the wagon for the aforementioned 21 or so years. Here's the Cliffs Notes version: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literat...terbridge/character-analysis/michael-henchard