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Though I rarely post on this forum, anymore.  And don't play much anymore. I decided to share this one. People think my name comes from my true passion, bicycling. But, it doesn't. When I was working a four to midnight tour at a job I hated (did a 33 year sentence). I would get home and to unwind, I would get in my '63 Volvo and do what I called "bashing gears". The guys at work knew about this and would ask if I did any "gearbashing" the night before.

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While in Bethlehem, PA where we had travelled for a wedding, my wife and I were hanging out downtown with some friends. One of them pointed out a storefront to me that we both got a kick out of. The name of the place was Guth’s — I think it was something like a clothing store, shoe store, etc.. The reason it struck us a funny is because my last name is Guthrie and to us Guth’s sounded like just the right name for me and my tavern were I ever to own one. “Hey Guth, set me up with another...”

While Guth’s Corner Tap never came to be, I hung on to the handle and have been using it online, here and elsewhere, for longer than I can remember.

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spent the week up north with the family on vacation.  no internet so lots of things got talked about, and they got to talking about name options for me...  maybe a bit of a tangent, but kind of a fun story so thought I'd share.

I am billroy through and through - bill roy, guy w/ 2 first names, always referred to as billroy from grade school on.  Anyways, and maybe a little TMI but my real name is Wilfred Fredrick Thomas Roy IV.   My first kid thinks I should be called 'beet juice billy', because I drank a beet juice smoothy once, my second kid says 'bilfred' because I'm billroy, but have quite a few freds in my name, and my wife thinks it should be 'fred fred' because it is also my name.  My oldest just calls me #4.  Uncle fester seems to be appropriate as well due to resemblances )...  but mostly I like to be called mr roy, or superman, either is good. 

but really I am billroy.

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