All About Pocket Knives

::shrug::It started in high school with several girls calling me sugar bear , then got shortened to shugy

It started in high school with several girls calling me sugar bear

Ohhh...now I get the pigtail thing. .... ..

What about you Johnnie were you the Johnnie all those jokes came from?

Shhh Shugy. He's a famous rock star and he likes his privacy.

AHH, I understand now, gotta watch out fer dem papparatzi!

Sorry Guys....I haven't been receiving my email alerts...so I had no idea that anyone had replied.

You got me good on that one,shugy.

Thank you Jerry....I do enjoy my privacy. ......

Ahh, some mystery unraveled. I read all 16 pages...

My user name belonged to Dad who passed away on January 1 of this year. It was his knifing name on the net to bolster our collection and check email. Seemed a fitting tribute to use his username in the continued knife quest. A great man. He sure would have liked you all.

Orgin of the name is ZP4 = the Navy LTA (Lighter than air) Blimp squadron he was assigned to at Weeksville N.A.F base in North Carolina. He was in from 48' to 52' when he was Honarably Discharged. They used the blimps to look for enemy submarines off the East Coast and the moonshine operations in the hills around those parts. Pretty interesting stuff in my opinion. He was an aircraft mechanic.

JA = Shared first and last name initials. We both were named the same.

Therefore, ZP4JA. Probably not taken on other sites as it is not a common username, but this username is reserved for knifing only for me...

Regards, Jerry

Very interesting.

Yes Sir Johhny, it is. Hope life is well for you.

Your username was obvious to me, Being a punk since 78' at 14 years old in Orange County, CA. Seen alot of bands in those days that are now famous and lots of fights with jocks in high school. I have some stories to tell on that. Still like some of the music but had to grow out of it aliitle to be a family man now. Still have the memories though...

Jerry

Yeah...I use to be pretty crazy. ....tame as a kitten now.

Your username does not only have historic value..but also sentimental....I like that very much.

I picked up the Wazoo handle when I was 10 years old, 50 years ago. My last name is a long Polish diddy that everyone couldn't pronounce so they started calling me Watuski. Then it was shortened to Wazoo. Later on I changed the spelling to Wazu so I could get bumper stickers and t-shirts from WAZU radio in Ohio. I actually had the Wazoo handle before Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention made the Grand Wazoo album
wazu013

zp4ja wrote:Ahh, some mystery unraveled. I read all 16 pages...

My user name belonged to Dad who passed away on January 1 of this year. It was his knifing name on the net to bolster our collection and check email. Seemed a fitting tribute to use his username in the continued knife quest. A great man. He sure would have liked you all.

Orgin of the name is ZP4 = the Navy LTA (Lighter than air) Blimp squadron he was assigned to at Weeksville N.A.F base in North Carolina. He was in from 48' to 52' when he was Honarably Discharged. They used the blimps to look for enemy submarines off the East Coast and the moonshine operations in the hills around those parts. Pretty interesting stuff in my opinion. He was an aircraft mechanic.

JA = Shared first and last name initials. We both were named the same.

Therefore, ZP4JA. Probably not taken on other sites as it is not a common username, but this username is reserved for knifing only for me...

Regards, Jerry

Interesting history Jerry (I feel like I'm talking to myself) Thanks for sharing it.
Have you seen this site. Some interesting stuff. There were a lot of ships sunk off the Carolina coast in 1942.

http://www.elizcity.com/weeksnas/ and this http://www.elizcity.com/weeksnas/timeline.htm

Aug 10 1945 Name changed from Weeksville N.A.S. to Weeksville Naval Air Facility

May 8 1951 ZP-4 established at Weeksville N.A.F.

May 31 1957 Headline in Daily Advance: Blimp Squadrons Are Ordered Decommissioned

Jun 12 1957 Last local flights by Weeksville based airships at International
Naval Review in Chesapeake Bay

Jun 30 1957 Weeksville N.A.S. decommissioned

Thanks for sharing fellas.
Mark

Good stuff Fellas!!

Mine is real easy, it's my name!

Mine comes from my grandfather and father. They both where sheep shearing contractors in Australia.

Easy Goer was a well known thoroughbred race horse who had some big time battles with another thoroughbred named Sunday Silence. This was back in the late 80's. I liked the name so much, I kind of adopted it. It also is a term a thoroughbred trainer uses to describe a horse that has a smooth, easy gait.

Your username does not only have historic value..but also sentimental....I like that very much. [/quote]

Thanks Johnny, yes it does my friend!!!

Interesting history Jerry (I feel like I'm talking to myself) Thanks for sharing it.
Have you seen this site. Some interesting stuff. There were a lot of ships sunk off the Carolina coast in 1942.

http://www.elizcity.com/weeksnas/ and this http://www.elizcity.com/weeksnas/timeline.htm

Aug 10 1945 Name changed from Weeksville N.A.S. to Weeksville Naval Air Facility

May 8 1951 ZP-4 established at Weeksville N.A.F.

May 31 1957 Headline in Daily Advance: Blimp Squadrons Are Ordered Decommissioned

Jun 12 1957 Last local flights by Weeksville based airships at International
Naval Review in Chesapeake Bay

Jun 30 1957 Weeksville N.A.S. decommissioned[/quote]


Yes Sir JerryD, I did see those links. Very interesting indeed. Who would have thought we would still be using LTA ships in our military in the 50s'. If my Dad had not been part of the squadron, I probably would have never known. They were obviously effective at the time. Regards, Jerry

Just sounded proper for this forum.Great forum AAPK,Thanks.

Perfect!

Mark

I used to own a kennel...

While working overseas at a company subsidiary I was asked how I would like to be addressed. I said Rick, and from then on I was "Mr. Rick". It stuck.

While I am not a practitioner of any martial art I do like to watch MMA and submission fighting. The jujigatame is one of my favorite holds and when I was signing up for a forum some years ago it was the first thing that popped into my head when I had to choose a username. Figured chances were good it was not already in use.

http://judoinfo.com/jujigatame.htm