Iām betting itās the year he was born.
@markr31 I was wondering if maybe heās a fan of the Rolling Stones!?
Hi Victoria @WeeTors !
I think itās somewhere in this threadā¦
but Iāll give out anywayā¦ my last name is Calico, as in Calico Cat, I got the nickname Catman years ago.
ā62 was the year I was born - good guess Mark @markr31 !
So, why WeeTors instead of VeeTors? 
Tod
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I suspect VeeTors would make me sound a bit too much like a character out of 'Allo 'Allo 
ā¦I donāt dislike it!
Itās just because Iām small. No exciting reason. Small hands are a definite added challenge for playing guitar! Struggling a bit with the Stuck 3/4 G chord (the others are weirdly okay).
Although when Iām cramming my fingers together for the normal A chord, I do marvel at how people with big hands can manage that! 
Swings and roundabouts!
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Iām known as Cuzo or Dingo.
In Australia everyoneās name is abbreviated to something ending in i or o
Morri, Davo, Stevo, Cuzo
My surname is Cousins, so Cuzo
Iām a doctor so drcuzo
More interestingly Iām known as Dingo
My wife was 21 (but looked 12) when we met, I was 36
In Australia there was a famous case where a baby was taken by a Dingo at Uluru in 1980
So I am Dingo
Wylie Coyote holding a help sign is my Avatar. Close to a Dingo and resonates deeply with me. Inventive and always trying but unfortunately not always successful. If anyone finds a picture of Wylie with a guitar, please let me know
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Wow, this thread is really crusty. Iām sure if I posted a comment 3-4 years ago it was pithy, sarcastic and yet highly informative. LOL
Hello Steve-O!!!
(See, I got your down under lingo!)
Interesting username, I really like it! When I first saw you post in the Community, I wondered if you actually were a dr or just using the term. What kind of dr are you? Medical or PHDā¦ or maybe something else? I think Iāll just call you Dingo - my favorite motorcycle boots are a ādingoā style!!!
My youngest daughter is a Pharm-D. Sheās got her doctorate after only 4 years of undergrad & 4 years of pharmacy school. No residency required! She works for a hospital in Arizona here in the U.S.
Have fun with guitar & good luck!!!
Tod
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Oh, I just Googled Wiley coyote with guitar & found several imagesā¦
This one was my favorite!!
Tod
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Thanks Cato
I love that
Dingo
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Medical Doctor
Family doctor
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Calling our resident cartoonist @GrumpyMac
and hopefully eschewing AI imagery too ā¦ 
yeah, but that headstock is about to be doomed with him!
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I was in Peace Corps in the early eighties, teaching how to build fish ponds and raise fish in those ponds.
When Iād first get to a (pretty remote) village, the kids would run out and yell,
Tala MundelƩ!
I learned to speak the local dialect of Kikongo by ear, so transcribed it as āMundeliā.
The kids were the town criers, āHey everyone, thereās a white person here!ā
The very little kids would run away screamingāas white people were āthe boogie manā, sometimes used by parents to encourage good behavior.
ā Be good or Iāll give you to the mundeli!
I fear this threat has some pretty awful colonial genesis.
As I returned to the villages to work with the farmers, the childrenās cry became
Tala MundelƩ ya biziba!
Look at the Pond White Guy
I stuck out in lots of ways
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I found this thread a couple years back, decided I would read every post before responding and then lost track of it . It popped up in my feed today, a slow day at work and I just read every post. Got so much insight into peopleās back stories!
Well hereās mine:
I started off as Giskard, because Iāve always loved the story of the robot who invented the zeroth law in Asimov. Later on when I tried to post my first AVOYP, I couldnāt create a Giskard on YT, turns out itās a real name in some countries! And variations on Giskard with numbers I could remember easily werenāt available either. I didnāt want different names on YT and this community.
So I switched to the name I use in a couple other places - it references a line from the Foreigner song āJuke Box Heroā, one of the first songs that made me think āI want to learn to play the guitarā. And as an āold dogā, I joke with my kids about feeling like a beat up old six string 
.
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Iād have to ask my parents.
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This is a pretty unique bit of username information!!! Iām curious about where you served in the Peace Corps - what it Central Africa? The Congo maybe? The reason I ask is because my wife & I are old movie fans & although we canāt remember which movie it was, we remember a scene where the white people were on safari in the Congo & when they came to a village, the people were all pointing & yelling something like āmundeleā!!!
It would be almost ironic if they were even close to accurate in a Hollywood movie from the 1930s!!!
Great picture by the wayā¦ MundelĆ©!!!
Tod
Hi Ashu!
As another āold dogā, I donāt really feel like itās a jokeā¦ too many years of abuse to my hands & back!
Also, how is it that our knees get older faster than the rest of the body??? Iām 63 but my knees have to be at least 75!!!
Thanks for finally getting around to responding!!! Itās always really interesting to hear how us Justinites decide on our Community names!!!
Tod
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Yep, was Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC).
MudelĆ© is in both the Lingala and Kikongo languages (maybe others too). There are more than 200 languages spoken in the DRC. Most everyone is a polyglot, even young kids. They speak their āregionalā language, about 1/2 speak the ānationalā language French, and probably 2-5 additional local languages as well. If theyāre talking to you in one language, and thereās a more appropriate word in another language they know, it would not be unusual for them to just swap in a word or phrase, Jāai beaucoup faim, impila ikele ve!, that would be a French/Kikongo phrase. for āIām sooo hungryā.
Joseph Conradās āHeart of Darkenssā and Barbara Kingsolverās āPoisonwood Bibleā Were placed in the Belgian Congo/Zaire/DRC. āPoisonwood Bibleā could have been written about the village I lived in. The Bogart/Hepburn movie āAfrican Queenā was partially filmed there.
I was just looking up about āAfrican Queenā to make sure I was correct (I am), and saw this tidbit: the little kids fear of me as a white guy, that fear was there in 1950 with the āAfrican Queenā entourage as well.
Probably it originated with the Belgians ādisappearingā folks in King Leopoldās zeal to extract as much wealth out of the country as possible. Belgians were a brutal colonial power. One old timer I worked with, his back was criss-crossed with masses of scar tissue from when he was whipped during colonial rule.
The Congolese were finally able to shake off the shackles (literally!) of colonialism in 1960. Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister. He was assassinated shortly thereafter. Both Belgium and the United States were involved in his death. Lumumba wanted to keep the Congoās immense wealth in the Congo (nationalize it)āmultinational corporations didnāt like that, the Cold War was hot. Lumumba reached out to the Soviet Union for assistance. History is reserved for those who write the books.
The DRC is huge. Roughly the size of the United States east of the Mississippi.
Since 1996, when war broke out after the Rwandan genocide, over 6 million folks from the DRC have been killed. Sorry this is such a buzz kill, but those of us living in security rarely know about these uncomfortable truths. As such, they are bound to continue happening.
While there I was treated with such kindness and respect and generosity. Music and dance are fundamental to the culture I lived with (the Bapende). Rhythms Iād not experienced before, seemed everyone shared the love of music. Hardworking, tough as nails, enduring. They deserve better.
So, out of respect for these folks, I trail along my nickname these 45+ years later
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