Where does your user name come from?

Cockney slang. ie God bless you.

It was back in '97 and an AG staffer sent me an email after viewing my classified ad on rec.audio.classifieds to notify me of a new website called Audiogon...who else remember the days of buying/selling on usenet, the old audioreview website that really rocked for used gear, and audioweb? Anyways, it was a free sign up so I said why not, not knowing years later the site would actually turn into the success story it has. Filling out the signup form I was listening to Coltrane's Blue Train for the umpteenth time and the thought occurred to me that each time is as good as the last, therefore I must be a Coltrane one (person), and 13 years later Coltrane1 is still chuggin' along buying gear! Wow, that's like over 20% of my lifetime of which many hours have been spent here trollin' for new gear! Do I need to get a life or what? :)

(H)eating, (E)lectrical, (V)entilation & (A)ir (C)onditioning.
The 1 was added so I could use the same name on other web sites where hevac could have already been used, trade sites mainly.

One of my friends used to spurt out "a buck-two-eighty-five and some change" when talking about the cost of anything. It wouldn't all fit so I abbreviated it a tad. It was either this or "chowderhead", after our first cat, now long deceased. Chowderhead is more fitting at times.

Glory, how dare you say something religious in this haven of secular humanism (also a religion). You're lucky all you got was raised eyebrows.

My username sounds suspiciously like what my mother used to call me, although I think there was another syllable in the middle somewhere...