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I'm WAY out of the loop on this one! Got some catching up to do! 
When I was a boy, Britain was still a poor country recovering from World War 2, and nothing was wasted. Bones went in the soup pot or fed the dog, and the gnarliest old bones went to the rag and bone man. The stretched-out cry of raganbohhne was a familiar cry in every British town and city, called out at regular intervals by old men in flat caps and dirty coats, pushing hand-carts or riding on the seat of a horse-drawn trap. Kids would hear the cry of the rag n bone man, and come running out of their houses carrying old clothes and broken pans, jam-jars, or a sack of old bones, anything they could trade the old man for a couple of balloons, which were the ragmans standard currency. At the end of his round (for there were many competing rag n bone men), the old man would drag his barrow back to the rag-yard, where everything was sorted out. Rags would be sorted out into piles, scrap metal also, and the bones went into a pile, in an old tea-chest perhaps, to be sold to the glue-man when there was sufficient quantity. As a kid, I went in a rag-yard a few times, and it felt like going back a hundred years. The rag n bone man was a common feature in English jokes, and even in one long-running and much-loved comedy series Steptoe & Son (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son). The series revolved around an ageing son and his curmudgeonly father, residing on fictional Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush, London.
So how about Raganbone?! Or Ragyard Bone? Or Scrapyard Bone? Or Oil Drum Bone?! 
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Alternatively, how about Trom-bone? Then the #14 can be the Trom-bone Shorty! :thumbup:
Edit - This Wikipedia piece on rag 'n' bone men mentions knife handles (also made me think of Penury Bone! ) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
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Salvage Bone?
Edit - Or bearing in mind, Charlie's post, Yorebone!! :thumbup:
When I was a boy, Britain was still a poor country recovering from World War 2, and nothing was wasted. Bones went in the soup pot or fed the dog, and the gnarliest old bones went to the rag and bone man. The stretched-out cry of raganbohhne was a familiar cry in every British town and city, called out at regular intervals by old men in flat caps and dirty coats, pushing hand-carts or riding on the seat of a horse-drawn trap. Kids would hear the cry of the rag n bone man, and come running out of their houses carrying old clothes and broken pans, jam-jars, or a sack of old bones, anything they could trade the old man for a couple of balloons, which were the ragmans standard currency. At the end of his round (for there were many competing rag n bone men), the old man would drag his barrow back to the rag-yard, where everything was sorted out. Rags would be sorted out into piles, scrap metal also, and the bones went into a pile, in an old tea-chest perhaps, to be sold to the glue-man when there was sufficient quantity. As a kid, I went in a rag-yard a few times, and it felt like going back a hundred years. The rag n bone man was a common feature in English jokes, and even in one long-running and much-loved comedy series Steptoe & Son (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son). The series revolved around an ageing son and his curmudgeonly father, residing on fictional Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush, London.
So how about Raganbone?! Or Ragyard Bone? Or Scrapyard Bone? Or Oil Drum Bone?!
:thumbup:Alternatively, how about Trom-bone? Then the #14 can be the Trom-bone Shorty!
:thumbup:Edit - This Wikipedia piece on rag 'n' bone men mentions knife handles (also made me think of Penury Bone!
) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
Salvage Bone?
Edit - Or bearing in mind, Charlie's post, Yorebone!!
:thumbup:
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