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DirtySteve

DirtySteve

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Have we done this yet? I did a search and didn't find anything.

Mine is self explanatory if you know your 80s movies. I was given that nickname when I first went in the military in 1988, just after basic training when I got to my 1st base and had failed my 1st dorm inspection (everybody fails the first one) the same day my new buds and I went to see Young Guns at the base theater. When it we walked out, since my name is Steve, they started calling me Dirty Steve just to rib me about failing my inspection. I also use to spit tobacco back then before I switched to smoking so that also played a part. It didn't last very long and I hadn't thought about it for years until I found these forums and started signing up as DirtySteve because I couldn't think of anything else at the time.

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Well..... Back in the beginning of time, one of the first albums I ever purchased was this one. Take note of the title. I'm so old that there was a time in history where there was no such thing as email. Upon the advent of email, the name I used was IbLive@whatever dot com. And I've been using it since for various things.

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Now. On another forum, for awhile I had in my signature line Psalms 100:1. Look it up if you don't know it. Felt it was safe and non-preachy. Anyway, Had a troll sort of attack me for preaching. Including insinuating my forum name was some subliminal Christian message of being alive. I won't shy away from making aware my beliefs.... like mentioning being on worship team at my church for a time. I also don't preach here and certainly wasn't in the other forum. I did go ahead and change the signature line to the first one you see here (the one in red). And I explained what the IbLive stood for.... nothing more, nothing less.

PS: I believe when the troll came after me, I was actually using this album cover as my avatar, so there was a little bit of SMH reaction.
 
I always use my real name going back to Usenet. It makes me think before posting. It did cause me some problems back on Usenet when some deranged freak on Usenet thought I was some kind of terrorist because I ran my own server and had 500 GB of storage. He was in the UK. He called the RCMP to check on me. They did then told him they'd report him to the UK police if he continued harassing me.
 
I will give everyone precisely ONE, and ONLY ONE, guess as to the name signified by the nickname, "smitty".

You can do it! I believe in you!
 
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