Whats the story behind your username?

I'm a scot. I have 17 kilts. I forge in a costant gray fog the color of cooked iron in unbifrocated garments. Gaelic for grey is Glas, thus Glasgow and English for grey is Lloyd, mine and my Grandfathers middle name. All tartans are grey in the dark where I spend most of my time. I let the coal light the way.
 
When I joined this site I was a HUGE fan of Kershaw knives. Kershaw is also a variety of squash. But I didn't want to call myself just "Kershawfan" so I came up with a stupid, puny name.
 
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I'm a sailer, semi-professionally, I own an International 14 class dinghy, called RIOT!. The I14 is a very fast boat, being one of th few with a positive sq.ft./lb. ratio, meaning over 1 square foot of sail area per 1 pound of sailing weight including the crew. Ie. Fast14riot.


-Xander <also a nickname...
 
"Mutinous dogs" Was the answer Charles Laughton gave to the mutineers when they took over his ship on "Mutiny on the Bounty"

I heard it as "mutinous Dougs" so I took it.
 
I've spent more than a little time standing in front of a group of contractors telling them what stupid thing we were going to do for the day and what it would take to do it.

Always started out with "heres the deal" and usually went down hill from there.

That's it, never thought about it much at the time, it just seemed like a good way to start a mission statement. It also sounds like we had a choice in the matter, even though we usually didn't.
 
Everyone is terrified of death. When the bubonic plague ravaged Europe in the 14th century and millions perished in the most gruesome manner known, some people desperate for a cure from the dreadful malady turned to medical specialists called "plague doctors". These physicians are the earliest ancestor of the biohazard medical responder. They wore long black cloaks made of oilskin, arm-length leather gloves and carried a wooden staff to keep infected patients from getting too close to them. They also wore a mask with thick glass eyepieces and a raven-like beak which is filled with strong aromatic substances such as pine tar and pitch. At that time, before the germ theory of disease was born, people believed that noxious fumes that originate from rotting flesh, called "miasma" is the origin of pestilence. Thus the aromatic chemicals were believed to "filter" out the smell of putrefaction, thus protecting the doctors from infection. The presence of the plague doctor, whose original intention was to ward off death and bring a cure, became the very symbol of death itself. For wherever the plague appeared, the plague doctors followed.
 
Pretty self-explanatory. I'm a mechanic who loves blades of many types. One or both are almost always in my hand or on me.
 
My username is from a music type from Finland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa

I´m not finish, nor are any ancestors. I´m german, specially bavarian. I liked to listen humppa music in former days. So I thought this would make a good username for me. Nothing special in anyway. I´m not even talented in playing any musich instruments :D Though I have no dea which one I would choose today - if I´d have the choice ;)

Interessting thread - BTW.
 
Mine is my name plus I play the ancient Irish sport of hurling

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