Where did you get your steer planet nickname????

[garybob]

My SteerPlanet handle started out as an insult, about 11 years ago, at Tyson Foods, Inc., Berryville AR plant. Just like the young man from Virginia, I didn't have a job (or a Cattle Operation, like so many of my peers)  waiting on me when I graduated from the University. So, to pass the time, I went back to my old stand-by: The Chicken Plant. Northwest Arkansas was in the midst of a transition from Mayberry to Metropolitan, and, "lucky Me", I had a snooty California-girl ( Valley-girl lingo, etc.) for a Supervisor.
The job I had, was the "Grinder Operator", for Lines 5 and 6. This was a new experience, as I hadn't worked in "Preparation" of Fully Cooked Product before. If I remember correctly, I was responsible for ginding Breast Filets, in order to transform them into the "BK Broiler" sandwich patty. In fact, those two lines together produced about 2/3 of all the Chicken Sandwich patties sold in the Continental USA at any/all Burger King Franchises.Worked 6 and 7-day weeks. The job involved a lot of heavy lifting, as each "tub" of raw Breast Meat weighed 70lbs, and a "Batch" was 1700 pounds, counting Marination & all. Me& Gayle Schupenheymer had to ''wash down'' at each Break-period, too.  And, being fresh outta school, pressed Wranglers or Cinch Jeans was about all I had. So, I hopped it on down to Race Bros. and bought 6pairs of Big Smith Overalls.

Back to Valley Girl and my nickname.

My Supervisor was passing out paychecks one week, but kept passing me by. In disgust, She said, "I don't see a'Billy Bob's' check in here", when I asked for mine. My 'Lead', Jeff Siverly, said, "Oh, that's Gary!  He worked here as a teenager. Now, He's just a sorry, ol' taxpayer like Us!'', and kinda diffused the situation a little bit.

Somehow, or another, "GaryBob"  kind of evolved from that conversation. In fact, many people to this day (the ones I didn't go to High School with), in Berryville and Green Forest don't even know my middle name is "Allen".

I still wear Overalls when I'm working a "work" kind of job. Just like my Daddy,and both Grandfathers.

Long story, but, that's  how "GaryBob" came into existence.

GB

That was so interesting, great story

It ain't a ''story'' Ma'am, it's the truth. That supervisor was so uppity ( the Latinos there called her "la Vanidosa" behind her back), no joke, she would check her make-up in the reflection off the side-panels (made of stainless steel) on the "Formax" machine. She got a Communications Job, eventually, at Corporate.

GB

 

[renegade]

My favorite horse ever was named renegade and i like renegade jeeps.

 

[doubled]

to GB I didnt really mean story like a made up story, its just a way of saying that the way you got your nickname was really interesting, and it was - in fact yours if probably one of the best-
I have so enjoyed knowing from everyone how they got their nickname, this is awesome (clapping)

 

[BCCC]

BCCC, Bear Creek Cattle Company, we live right beside the Bear Creek :'(

 

[justintime]

On my first trip to the North American in Louisville in 1983, I went to Churchill Downs to see the home of thoroughbred racing. There was a horse there that day named " Justintime" and for some reason that name stuck in my head. The next year, when I was naming our calves, I selected Justintime as the name of our best bull calf of that year. After a good show career as a yearling, he topped our production sale at $7000 and eventually came back here to work as a herd sire when he was 9 years old until he was 12 years old. The last daughter of Justintime finally left here last fall. They were some pretty good females.

Fast forward several years..... last summer, I received an email from a friend who said that one of my current herd sires was being discussed on this site. I had not found this site previous to this time, so I logged in ... and was asked for my nickname. For some reason, I thought of justintime, and I decided that it was probably as good as any other name as I could think of, so I used it.

 

[ELBEE]

Back before WWII, my father split off from his father and brother (Bigham and Son's) to start his own herd of Shorthorns. At the time he was engaged to be married to my mother. She played with the initials to come up with something new, hence, Leonard Bigham-ELBEE. She used to joke my name (Lee) was pre-destined. Believe-you-me, I've been called ELBEE more than Lee!

 

[Ruchian]

I live in a small town called Ruch.  Everyone has always joked around and called each other Ruchians and it has just stuck.  Even kids from surrounding towns call us Ruchians.

 

[xxcc]

xxcc - formally, dos equis cattle co.

in montana we must hot iron brand our cattle.  two of my brands contain two x's.

 

[Jack]

it seemed like a good idea at the time ;-)

I was originally Ozraptor (a 65 million year old Australian dinosaur aka The Lizard of Oz), but then my computer died - lost all my logins and forgot I guess ;-)

 

[DL]

Jack (formerly known as Ozraptor) - did they name a terrier after you or the other way around?  (lol)