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OH former CIA Director George Tenet told 60 minutes off in Sunday interview going be broadcasted like advantage of some interogation tatcis Leshley Stahl is idiot asking do you do tortute SHUT UP Lesley GOD when they get rid of Lesley
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Gee, it's been years since I told the tale, so I'll take a crack at it...
Even though I had been online for years ( 1981, 300 baud modems... ) I was new to the Web, and belonged to a few other forums, mostly Right To Keep and Bear Arms boards, under the JohnR nic.
Started going through the registration process here, and ( insert stream of cusswords ) every screenname I could come up with was taken.
I had been welding brackets on my backhoe ( yep, I had one at the time ) all day, and in frustration, typed in "backhoe..."
Son of a Sea Cook, it went through!
In retrospect, I wish I had just used my proper name here, and elsewhere, but I seem to be stuck with being The Heavy Equipment Guy...
( And user of too many ellipsis... )
I got my nickname from my high school freshman girlfriend.