What's the Origin of Your User Name?

[OldMack]

I'm a truck.

[Happily Ever After]

Once upon a time, a Prince asked a Princess, "Will you marry me?" and the Princess said, "No."

And the Prince lived happily ever after. He rode motorcycles and hunted and dated women half his age. He drank whiskey in bars, rum on the beach, and beer during football games. He had tons of money in the bank and vacationed places most people only read about. The police often questioned him...just because they found him interesting.

[srothstein]

I'm a truck.

I have always liked that song.

[sodchemist]

you might guess that my username suggests that I am in the lawn fertilizer or weed control business (i.e., SOD chemist). but my username comes from a protein molecule that I have been studying for ~13 years. it's called "superoxide dismutase", aka SOD1. sadly, there are several mutations to its gene that cause rare inheritable forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

[Krampus]

Saint Nick's enforcer

[Redneck_Buddha]

"And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- candidate Barack Obama, remarks at fundraiser, April, 2008

[Double Aught 7]

I'm a fan of shotguns and James Bond movies.

[oilfield_trash]

(This is also my introduction)

I work in the Texas oil field as a welder. We proudly call ourselves "oilfield trash." I live in deep East Texas but I also travel regularly to Austin as I have family and back up work when the oilfield slows down ( which it is at the moment). I had a CHL for four years when it first came to be but I let it expire because I couldn't carry on me or in the parking lot at work (before motorist protection act) but me and the wifey submitted ours Nov 30, and now we're just waiting...

[Bitterclinger]

My user name comes snide remarks Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. made in reference to Pennsylvanians while addressing an elite crowd at a San Francisco fundraiser during his successful 2008 presidential bid.

Obama told the fawning crowd: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Following a long standing Scots/Christian tradition of taking a slur and wearing it as a badge of honor, I'm proud to refer to myself as a "Bitterclinger."

I accept the charges. I'm bitter about losing my career in the Barackolypse. I don't cling to my religion, but I do cling to its God and Savior; Jesus Christ. I hold the utmost antipathy for people who are not like me in their ability to comprehend the simple intent of the United States Constitution. I'm anti-immigrant because of government programs that give big corporations tax-breaks for hiring foreigners under the ruse that there are no Americans who are smart enough to fill the positions. I wouldn't be anti-trade if he didn't mean globalist policies that funnel billions of dollars into countries we are already financing through foreign aid raised by confiscatory taxes levied on troubled U.S. taxpayers.

Bitterclinger is not just my favorite username. It's a collective noun that describes everyone who clings to the principles enshrined in the Constitution. Are you a Bitterclinger too?

[nightmare]

Cute shoes.

[daveboyd]

It originally appeared on my birth certificate. I guess it just stuck and has been with me ever since.

[68blackbird]

Cute shoes.

Dang, your right. I musta looked at that pic a 100 times, never saw those shoes.

[Txfire409]

Im a firefighter living in the 409 area code of Texas.

[LittleRiverGlock]

Area and preferred make of firearm. :)

[rotor]

Pilot as a hobby (wish it was my source of income), helicopter when I can afford it (not in many years- but I can dream).