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[flightmedic]

what i do for a living

[42WLA]

Mine is the model of motorcycle I own. I found a 1942 Harley Davidson WLA Military Police bike in Belgium while stationed in Europe and restored it from the ground up. I've had it five years now.

I found the avatar in one of my Daughter's Richard Scary books and liked it.

[Whip]

It's a long story......
Mine is a holdover from my high school days (many many years ago    ) Rocky and Bullwinkle were popular cartoon heros. My last name of Lasch fit well with the villian of the series - Snidely Whiplash, the archnemesis of Dudley Do-Right.

[Blkbird]

Last names Crow.Was sorta the black sheep.. ugh.. bird of the family in my younger years so...

[FubarFred]

FubarFred....Names Fred and I am the rest....
Fubar = F***ed up beyond any repair

[snag]

I do some raft trips with some friends on the Rogue River from time to time. We got into the fish one year and I couldn't keep them off my flyrod. The other guys weren't doing so well. So, they said I must be snaggin' them. Every since then I am Snag!

[Hawken1911]

I'm a medieval reenactor and handgun enthusiast.  Geoffrey " Hawken " of Huntingdon is my medieval forester persona, and Colt  1911 's are my favorite semi-auto pistols.

[Deer Slayer]

When I was about 20 years old and used to hunt with a rifle, me and my hunting partner and best friend came to within 100 yards of two REALLY nice SoCal Blacktails that anyone who has hunted Blacktails would be envious to see let alone harvest such a nice buck. I had buck fever so bad that I missed three slam dunk shots in a row as they just stood there and looked at me and finally walked off!! My buddy named me the Deer Slayer in honor of my shooting prowess!! I still hear about it to this day LOL! Memories!!        :rolleyes:

[snag]

Oh man, you have ruined my image of you Deer Slayer! lol   I thought you had a wall of racks to drool over !

[hill boy]

I moved from God's country in the foothills of north central arkansas between white and norfork river and a short drive to buffalo river.To the delta flat farm land of north east arkansas.so  I have been called a  hill boy a time or two.There ya have it!  

[vermontrad]

I live in Vermont, I shoot trad and Vermont is rad...

[kctreeman]

KCTreeman  I'm a utility forester in Kansas City.

[Fletcher]

I strive to make good wood arrows.  Fletcher is the old English term for the guy who makes arrows.  The arrowsmith made the points.    

[21st century 1]

my favorite longbow,shoots where im thinking not where im looking!!!

[Artur]

Originally posted by Fletcher:
I strive to make good wood arrows.  Fletcher is the old English term for the guy who makes arrows.  The arrowsmith made the points.        

Yes and no: "fletcher" and "arrowsmith" are sometimes the same thing. "Pointer" and "Poynter" (and all the other variations), on the other hand, are sometimes names for those who made/installed the points.

Source of information on which I base my opinion: "Toxophilus", by Roger Ascham, and various sources of information dealing with the etymology of family names.
http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/a/arrowsmith.php
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?cj=1&sid=originsabtext&o_xid=0000703401&o_lid=0000703401&fid=10&fn=&ln=Fletcher
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&ln=Pointer&fn=&yr=&cj=1&sid=originsabtext&o_xid=0000703401&o_lid=0000703401

Those three webpages are from a 20 minute 'net search. By the way, Old English, Anglo-Saxon "English", is mostly derived from Germanic languages -- Middle English has French mixed in.
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html
http://www.soon.org.uk/page18.htm

Anyone who has seen "Beowulf" written in Old English (see  http://www.heorot.dk/  for a good Beowulf website) knows what the written form of the language looks like -- as opposed to the form Geoffrey Chaucer and Roger Ascham used (a website with The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English:  http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm  ).

My apologies for the digression from the topic. I just feel that a person should do the research before claiming to know the subject inside-and-out -- not that you did any such thing as claim to be an Expert on the subject, Fletcher.

[TonyW]

Yes, and remember that "Beowulf" means "bee wolf" which is Old English slang for bear. All of us Fred "Beowulf" fans should be grateful that the language evolved so our archery equipment wouldn't remind us of our senior high school English teacher.

[Gene Roberts]

i am just me

[mrkbsm]

mrkbsm?  Mark Bosma without vwls.

[John D]

Dank, short for last name Dankovich

[nockhunter]

I got mine when shooting compounds, a bunch of us were shooting and one of them said no nockhunting, I was up to shoot and you know what happened, POW right in his nock.

Mike(aka nockhunter)