Someone who inspects the quality of meat.
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Sure it doesnāt come from vleesch-houwer (butcher) @LievenDV ? I suspect there wasnāt a lot of quality inspection done at the time surnames were introduced 
As for my username, I honestly have no idea where it came from - it just popped up in my mind.
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To be precise, it is a ākindā of butcher, grading the meat.
It is some kind of duality thing with a butcher and not a butcher.
When I was in the leader team of our local movement and our theme was Braveheart, I had a double bladed lightsaber, a white robe with blood all over and I was calledā¦The Butcher 
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I gotta say that so far, this is the only one that made me laugh out loudā¦
sorry Tony if it wasnāt meant to be humorous!!! 
Tod
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Uh, well, Iām left-handed and my favorite number is 6 
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OK I make no apologies but this will be a long read but could also be educational.
Took a bit of digging as this was all initially written on the old forum.
I thought it was in my old Roadcase or learning log as its now called. But it was copied over as a separate post Diary of a Madman. So glad I now have my POD GO !!!
That spawned the new handle and was carried forward on my YouTube Channel warts n all. Madmanās Music Studios
Hopefully that will satisfy your curiosity Tod ? Oh btw I am also barking mad to boot.
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Was that you 
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Just swap the lightsaber for any kind of medical instrument or stable attribute and you wouldnāt have drawn any attention at all in that attire during my student days - bloodied white robes were our āuniformā.
Never understood how anyone could ever have thought white was a fantastic color to wear when wrestling with cows and horses - I was a vet student .
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@CATMAN62 Glad it made you laugh. Thereās a story I tell about my name that always brings a good responseā¦
Iām of German heritage, and people have asked if Tony is a german name. I asked my mum and she said itās not an uncommon name in Germany. I explain it this way. I consider myself to be the luckiest of all the boys in my family. My brothers names are Horst, Seigfried, Klaus and Hans. Dadās name is Gerhard and Mumās name is Hildegarde. Iām lucky I didnāt get named Mud guard!
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based on me, has to be. Historically, the dates check outā¦at least it feels that way
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Well, it was this one or BuzzSolo which Iāve had about the same amount of time (though my sisters nicknamed me Buzz back in 1969). The Solo came when I got married.
But I am somewhat of a rocket scientist, not a physicist but a mechanical engineer who worked in aerospace back in the 80s and 90s. I was in the USAF and worked on Reaganās Star Wars program, actually called the Space Defense Initiative, then when I became a civilian again, I worked on the Space Exploration Initiative, as well as a bit with the space shuttle.
Now most people who actually know me probably figure I named myself after my dogs Rocket and Luna, but no, my dogs are named after spacey things. My next dog though I called Ziggy Stardust because, Apollo just didnāt fit him and as for my behemoth Kaylee, sheās named after Kaywinnet Lee Fry from the TV show Firefly. All space related even if it was only in a fictional sense.
And now yāall probably know way more about me than you need. 
BUT, if you need an Operations Plan for a lunar base any time soon, Iām your gal!
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So, your answer brings to mind another questionā¦ is Tony your actual given name or is it short for something else?
I did know a kid when I was in school (eons ago) who we used to tease about his nameā¦ as I remember it was Sigfried Wilson Oberstein & we always called him Siggy Frankenstein! Then a bunch of people thought his name was Ziggy & it kinda stuck. So, years later, I run into him and he is using Ziggy as his name, funny āol world isnāt it? 
Tod
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I like your story, Rebecca!
When my wife was little, her favorite aunt called her Buzz & nobody knew why. They presumed that it was because she Buzzed around like a bee 
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No plans for a Lunar Base anytime soon, but Iāll put you on speed dial just in case!!! 
Tod
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Iām Tony. Not Anthony. Not Antonio. Just Tony. The real thing. Not an imposter like all the Anthonys out there.
My brother Seigfried hated his name. And he got the nickname of Zeke which apparently he hated even more. Once he was 50 he changed his name. Yippee!
Iām fortunate in that I like my name. If you donāt like your name, change it, after all, itās just a name.
I like to joke that Tony verses Anthony is like Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola. Oneās the real thing and one wants to be. Sorta like Canadians verses Americans or Kiwis verses Aussies.
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OOOOhhhh my favourite Firefly character <3
Seriously; 80ās and 90ās space programs ā¦ that was the stuff of my dreams
I was born in 1982 and I thought by 2000 we would all drive electric cars and by 2020 there would be a lunar base etc. I geeked on the Space Shuttle and the mystique around Buran, its Russian copycat sister. Wild!
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I started out as close2u in the old JustinGuitar Forum when I joined, many years ago. I still worked in schools so wanted to maintain some online anonymity. My surname, used as my formal teaching name of course, is Coles. My imagination gave me a scenario in which some cheeky teenager was calling me by a disrespectful nickname, to which my strict teacherās reply was, āItās Mr Coles to youā, i made an anagram of Coles and it morphed to become ācliose to youā which took me (still in my imagination) out of the classroom and to a much nicer place. I altered the words āto youā into the shortened 2u as a little homage to Sinead OāConnor. My username of close2u was born. When we moved from the old Forum to the new Community, i was much more relaxed about using my real name so I extended my username to Richard_close2u.
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Thatās a great story! Did you ever see pics of the Russian Buran on top of an Antonov super jet? Itās similar to the US Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747ā¦ I remember the lunar landings being shown on tv in our classrooms in the 60sā¦ we all dreamed of being Neil Armstrong back then!!!
Tod
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Ha! I guess our son Anthony is one of those imposters!!! He uses Tony or just his last name.
Both my wife and I dislike our given namesā¦ weāve thought about changing them before but it seems like it would just cause a lot of confusion for all of the people who know us! If we ever move away thoughā¦ā¦ 
Just call me Mitch!!! Not Mitchell, just Mitch!!!
Tod
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If your son Anthony reads this, tell him I rarely take myself seriously.
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Donāt worryā¦ he wonāt!!!
Tod
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