My last name. It's just what everybody called me while growing up and playing sports. The only people that seemed to call me by my first name were my parents, and teachers. To everybody else, it's always been Curran.
Where I use to live there was a creek that ran across the corner of my property. It was called Buck Run. I raised Jack Russell Terriers at that time and named my kennel Buck Run Kennel.
When I first got on the other place I was doing a tone of fly fishing down at the river for Steel Head Trout, thus "Riverdude" was the name I came up with.
The last ten years at General Electric in Circleville I ran the stockroom and had five budgets totalling $7 million. Every Monday morning we would have a "meeting" and all the engineers would try to cop some of my budgets. i would fight them tooth and nail. We had this newer engineer and one morning he said "Young you're a COB". I asked what was that and he said a Crusty Ole Bastard! It seemed to stick over the years. :smiley_blackeye: