Well I attribute mine to one of my favorite past times, Golf!! When I first started playing I spent a good amount of each round yelling FORE, in order to warn the poor folks on the adjacent fairways that they were in mortal danger... That was a looooong time ago and I rarely have to yell on the course these days. Maybe it's time to look for another nick...

So, if ever you're on a golf course and you hear someone yelling incomprehensibly just duck!!

Golf has to be the most stressfully relaxing game I've ever picks a club up to beat a little ball with in my life!

My imagination. I'm soft & cuddly.

Gotta agree with you on that one IP.. I've broken more than one club in fits of rage! I never knew that graphite drivers could shatter into so many pieces..

I used to be "JavaBrain" for my love of coffee, but everyone assumed that I was a Java programmer....

So, one day, as I was sitting wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt and birks (yes, I *was* wearing pants) and watching the lava lamp on my desk, "KarmaGirl" just seemed like a good nickname.

Jafo knows the true Oz meaning behind 'Wombat' but in my case it is the reuslt a long and mostly insane career.

I've had it from my days as a 'Troon' OCC .... mostly as a result of a relentless pursuit of 'Toorak Tarts'!

Later .... the 7th RAR version of a 'Tunnel Rat' was a 'Wombat' .... natural selection!

Even later ... the infamous 'Wombat Incident' occured during a training exercise when an FNG from a regional 'friendly' force proceeded to 'land' a Caribou loaded with my platoon and a Land Rover armed with a 105mm Carl Gustaf, known 'Officialy' as a Wombat .... a foot below the edge of the strip at Oakey!!
Needless too say, the 'Boo lost both main oleos, the rate of deceleration increased sufficiently to break the hold-downs and accelerate the Landie rapidly toward the forward bulkhead, at which point the entire platoon ascended the fuselage sides and proceeded to give very passable impression of a group of Three Toed Sloths hanging upside down complete with a very twitchy junior platoon commander who was a trifle worried that the ready round loaded in the 105 (not a practice looked upon with any favour by senior staff) might really screw up his day.... while above the grinding and thumping noises given off by a Caribou demolishing itself and a pair of unfortunate (but empty) Medical Landies the CWO Instructor (who it seems, was a tad unhappy with the fixtures and fittings on 'his' side of the bulhead being belted around by the errant Landie smacking it a glancing blow!) the could be heard mildly berating the FNG in colourful but politically incorrect terms ....

Much later ... due to a metabolic quirk I work through the night and sleep during daylight hours .... as does a 'Wombat', which is nocturnal, grumpy, chunky and hairy .... I'm going to die with the tag.

And if you've read all of this you must have too much time on your hands!



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hell of a thing is, having that memory would be worth more to me than being Knighted

oh btw, Jafo was also taken and Son Of Jafo would be insulting to Terry

/me wonders how much of #57 anyone actually understood....my guess is they all fell off the plot round about 'Troon'....but never mind, I liked it....

My initials S-N-K

teach em to keep the wheels out of the dirt I bet

my old air force nick "buzz" is always taken.

bangkok is the only city where i've found myself totally incapable of wearing out my welcome. ( and i've made a number of good runs at it over the years). stuck with the english version since chay_kroong_thep_maha_nakawn doesn't work well.

Jafo wonders how much of #57 anyone actually understood....my guess is they all fell off the plot round about 'Troon'

Thats exactly the part where I fell off. ---Helppppp!! I've fallen..... and I cant get up---

'Troon' is just short for Duntroon....an Aussie Military 'boot-camp academy'...and we are lazy so anything/everything gets abbreviated.

A Wombat is a small [ish] burrowing marsupial which is quite 'solid' and has been known to be the cause of 'road-kill'....namely it walks away, but the car driver is the one who is killed.

The dictionary description has led to the 'joke' as a misplaced, extraneous comma can totally change the meaning....

Wombat. n. Small burrowing mammal, eats roots and leaves...

NatGEO. Discovery and Nova are things I grew up with, well that and reading the Encyclopedia, the cause of my desire to take my family for a visit to Australia in the future though it will have to wait because we're going to Ireland, Scotland and Briton for vacation next year. Going to go look at head stones and birth/marriage records I guess

Wife's more interested in my heritage than I am it seems, though I am interested in visiting those places also, but more for the history and the people (living)

Hy_Rolr=High Roller=Craps=Dice=My Dogs Name(Dalmatian)recently deceased 10/6/03 he was 12yrs old. Also I'm building a Chopper with a Dice Theme and the vanity tag(License Plate) will read HYROLR.

Clarence95 is the name I used here first but now I can't or it doesn't recognize I'm a stardock customer. (Any way I can get that changed by the way?) Clarence is Christian Slater's character from the movie "True Romance"... my wife usually goes by Alabama. The 95 is just the first year I used the screen name. It kind of stuck and I've been using it ever since.

Buck3000 is because Buck is my nickname.

Anyway I can get rid of the Buck3000 nickname and assign my Stardock email address to the Clarence95 nickname?



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