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Captchee

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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2007, 05:08:44 PM »
;)

Captchee  comes from back when I was in the military . See I liked cheetos ., in fact I like them a lot . So much so my men would bring them for me  to keep me in good humor.
 Well one day I was filling out some reports and OER’s to get sent up to  brigade .
 Well  I had been eating cheetos  and one thing lead to another and there were  yellow finger prints on one of the  papers I guess . I would know how they got there BUT .
So a few days later the brigade commander ,, a 1 Star mind you  front and centered   my lowly captains hind end  out in front of the brigade formation  stating from now on I should be called captain cheeto  .
 Well  that got shortened to Captchee.

So there you have it , no mysterious  Indian name LOL  just a plain old cheeto lover  :shake
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Offline Matt B

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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2007, 05:41:58 PM »
Now so far that is my favorite story!  Being a lowley retired E-6 in the Army reserve.

Mike and I are no relation, we just have good taste in avatars.

Reminds me of when my crew cheif buddy and I put on colored zinc oxide sunscreen during the star of Desert storm.  Then we got a medevac call. I do my medic thing and get them to the hospital. I wondered why all the docs were giving me strange looks. Then I wiped the sweet of my brow. Off came several color on my flight gloves............

We had several laughs over that one.
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« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2007, 07:02:41 AM »
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Off came several color on my flight gloves............

Hmmm...coulda been the start of a camp name there... ;)
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Offline Groundhog

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« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2007, 08:14:49 AM »
A dear friend and fellow Buckskinner gave me my name many years ago... After making many long shots at groundhogs and gettin em'
       or so I was told             Since a few people have stated I even look like a groundhog.     Bothers me a bit (scratch)
    I kan live with that... Guess I have ta' :|
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« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2007, 08:29:13 AM »
had a friend  we named ground hog .
 funniest thing i ever seen .
We had been drinking some . Now where we lived you couldn’t by alcohol not even bear  or wine . So we would drive  to this little store down the road where  it was legal for them to  sell it .
 We then had a favorite spot that we would drive out to .

 Well  this one day after knocking back  a few  Tall Bears “ Hamms for those who don’t know a tall bear “

 We had been signing alittle bit and  when Chip  proceeded to go into how he could whip  anything around . Now mind you chip was a pretty big Pierce.
 Anyway  on of the guys I forget who  said he bet chip couldn’t whip a ground hog .
 So chip proceeded to prove him wrong . He found this hole  and stuck his hand down in there  to prove  he could do it .
 All of a sudden that  ground hog grabbed onto his  hand and wouldn’t let go .LMAO chip was screaming , flopping around on the ground , crying for his moma  LMAO I tell ya it was classic.

 So we named him ground hog .
LMAO we even got the  dance announcer at an intertribal  to  announce the ground hog dance  one time just for chip LMAO .  He didn’t think it to funny though when we all fell down and started rolling around the ground screaming LMAO . You know sometimes I wonder how we ever lived long enough to grow up    
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Offline RichW

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« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2007, 09:02:13 AM »
:rotf  :rotf  :rotf  :rotf

Did I mention, Pomme de Terre = potato, as in, enough dirt to grow a...

Well you know, I guess I carried that "they didn't have Maytag" concept too far when I was a teen :)  :)
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Offline Fletcher

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« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2007, 09:27:08 AM »
:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Thought I would give it a shot

Love ya buddy!!
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Offline Wyoming Mike

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« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2007, 11:22:25 AM »
Names seem to change over the years.  One I had years back was Lodge Burner due to a motorhome fire I had.

A friend back when was called six fingers because he lost most of a forearm in a farm accident.  Man,  could that guy load and fire fast with just the one hand.

Another is called Rabbit to this day because he used to be death on the local bunny population.

Misfire got his name at a shoot where he was having a heck of a time getting his gun to go off.

Rooster got his name in his younger days  from his habit of getting drunk and doing the chicken dance around the fire.

Leadbutt got his name from selling lead at shoots and rendezvous and his general laid back attitude.

Names come in all flavors and can come from most anything, usually something embarassing but not always.
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Offline Pichou

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« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2007, 01:45:06 PM »
Quote from: "Captchee"
Captchee  comes from back when I was in the military . See I liked cheetos ., ...

http://www.mediazine.net/view/family_gu ... os_cheetah

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« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2007, 01:57:14 PM »
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:rotf  :rotf  :rotf  :rotf  :)  :)



:rotf  :rotf  :rotf  :rotf
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Captchee

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« Reply #25 on: August 21, 2007, 02:34:18 PM »
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Quote from: "Captchee"
Captchee  comes from back when I was in the military . See I liked cheetos ., ...

http://www.mediazine.net/view/family_gu ... os_cheetah


 yep no one cooler then chester .
 i even  been known to lay around the house dressed like that listening to RUSH  :lol:
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Offline RichW

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« Reply #26 on: August 21, 2007, 02:39:49 PM »
:P

Oh well, I still don't wash my hunting shirt.
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Offline Groundhog

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« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2007, 04:58:56 PM »
Scratch
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Offline Pichou

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« Reply #28 on: August 21, 2007, 06:32:41 PM »
Quote from: "RichW"
:Doh! Somebody's having fun with animation, eh? :P

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Offline Groundhog

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« Reply #29 on: August 21, 2007, 06:54:03 PM »
...and no   I did not bite no hand coming down after me...  but I do like cheetos.
I thought Captchee was an indian name  now I be all let down n all ...
Got me a friend named "Hawkeye" and back in the day he sure could shoot... one fella named
"One-Hand" ... back in the 70's he filled a cheap wall hanger shotgun up with powder and capped it... gun blew up in his hand and caused alot of damage to one of his paws...
So sometimes a real bad incident can give ya a name...        scratch. LOL
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