From Volty:The Origin of My Bisexual.com handle

[12voltman59]

Here are the lyrics from the song "Twelvevolt Man" by Jimmy Buffett--the basis for my handle on here:

Lyrics to Twelve Volt Man :
I never got a grip in penmanship
Could never make those small l's flow
Seldom found the trick to arithmetic
Three plus two be faux pas
But ask for some palm trees
Or tales from the South Seas

I never had the clout to knock one out
But hitting was the name of my game
Standing on third as the coaches conferred
So close to my first claim to fame

Just give me the steal sign
And I'll make home plate mine
And I just might turn some heads

Sometimes I may get a little drastic
Sometimes I just let my feelings show
Sometimes I may be a bit sarcastic
Most times that's the way the story goes

Now I know this Joe down in Mexico
He went there to work on his tan
For years he's been plugged into blenders and songs
They call him the Twelve Volt Man

He don't need no charge card
Just give him a die-hard
And he'll make sparks fly round your head
Or just ask for some palm trees
Or tales fromthe South Seas
And I'll make sparks fly round your head
Round your head
In your head
In your head
[ Twelve Volt Man Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]


You do need to hear the song---to me--it is one of the songs from Buffett's early days I call his "pretty songs" as oppossed to the more partying ones he is tended to be known for---supposedly----the roots of this song were inspired by someone Buffett met during his wide ranging travels to the more interesting points on the globe!

[littlerayofsunshine]

That's cool :cool: Thanks for sharing Volty.. That's really awesome..

[**Peg**]

oh volty :tong: ..... my mind was totally elsewhere re: your name.

:bigrin:

[12voltman59]

There is something about some of Jimmy's "pretty songs"--no matter what--and for whatever reason--they tend to bring a tear to my eye--this is one of those songs that tends to to that----

Others that do that include---Changing Channels, The Banana Republics, Cowboy in the Jungle, Island, Treat He Like A Lady, African Friend, Tin Cup Chalice, Last Mango In Paris, and a few others.

[TaylorMade]

I think we actually had a full on thread about how people came up with their handles.

Posting and you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9q2jNjOPdk)

Search button, man. . .use it.

*Taylor*

[12voltman59]

It seems in recent days----things in life---like the deaths of some I know personally and surely the deaths of the iconic celebs we have been talking about have put me in reflective mood and doing one of those "strolls down memory lane" that we might not always do--but it is good to do at least once in awhile.

Thinking about why I like Jimmy Buffett so much--it was actually his older music that I liked "back in the day" and still do---some of his later stuff I haven't been all that crazy about---I think that in many ways my life sort of parallelled his---I had heard some of his music before I had left Ohio as a teenager in the mid-1970s--but it didn't resonate---but once I moved to Savannah and came in tune with life there and got introduced to my new found friends---I knew his music was the music for and of life in places like Savannah and points south.

Very early on in Savannah--having already lived much of my young life on boats and the water here in the north---I was in heaven living on the Georgia coast with the open expanses of marsh, beaches, the sounds and the first tier of the barrier islands that line the Georgia coast---most of which are accessible either only by boat or air--namely a helicopter or seaplane.

Living in Savannah--it was a good starting point to travel to coastal points north or south and at varying times--I either went north to places like the Outer Banks of North Carolina--and at others south to Florida--then west along the Gulf Coast almost all the way to Port Aransas/Padre Island, Texas.

The places of the southeastern coast came to be places I called home---and part of my inspiration to explore those places came in part to my own young wanderlust and to the music of Jimmy Buffett.

I had been doing some crewing on several offshore sailing boats for people I had met in Savannah--sometimes to race-others to simply cruise and had the chance to crew on a boat for an extended cruise into the Bahamas and on down to the Caribbean over the course of about four or five months right after graduating high school---it was one of those great fun trips. A trip of a lifetime.

While I never did get a chance to meet Jimmy himself--we pulled into many port a call where he and his "posse" were well known---at times we had just missed his departure by a few days.

I certainly was living "the Jimmy Buffett life" to be sure.

His songs---at least of that era---certainly capture the elements of life in those places he writes and sings of---just to listen to those songs--it brings me back to those days and to later days--when after I had joined the US Coast Guard, stationed on a boat based in Key West and later Miami Beach--once again--I hit those places in the Caribbean--and making new ports of call I had not been to in my previous travels down that way when my Key West based Cutter was sent to Grenada during and after the US invasion of that island.

One of the Buffett songs that most hit me when it came out--and particularly one night when I found myself in a bar in some place down in the Caribbean-- my memory clouded as it was by a boozy haze I must confess---it was just like what he sang about in the song "Banana Republics"--if anything--that song made me a confirmed fan of Jimmy Buffett for life---I was living a Jimmy Buffett song for sure.

Sometimes-I get a romantic notion and maybe not so romantic a notion-that I would like to find a good stout, sea worthy sailer---about 40 or so feet long----with sound underpinnings and mechanicals, a full set of state of the art nav, electronic and communications gear aboard her or I install-like a sat unit to make an internet connection if nothing else----sell everthing on land and take off (hopefully with a compatible partner-female or male) and head to those points again--- meet the interesting people you tend to meet in those places themselves and from lands all over the globe--- write my own stories about those places--take plenty of photos.

I have to say--I do at times greatly miss the feeling of both getting underway and making landfall after a long run at sea.

When getting underway--the excitement and activity of making your way from safe harbor and getting the boat ready for sea---out to the open water--get your sealegs as well as the boat finding hers--and loving that sensation of the boat finding its grove in the water, making way either with a few big powerful diesels pumping away down deep in the engine room--or when you shut off the auxilary engine on a private sailboat and the wind fills the sails with the boat now making her way strictly on the power of the wind--just like "our ancestors have done" as Buffett says in one song.

Making landfall is its own excitement---off in the distance---you see the shore--in the Carbbean---you see the islands a long way off since most tend to be remnants of volcanoes, with each passing hour---the island goes from a dark shape off in the distance to getting ever bigger----you begin to smell the land itself--and with places like Grenada where they are one of the world's main commercial sources of nutmeg---you smell the scent of those plants growing off in the jungle.

Soon---you make contact with the local authorities via the radio---get your clearances and any inspections prior to entering their harbors and then you are tied to a pier or moored in the harbor.

You look forward to getting off the boat and feeling dry land again---you also actually want the energy of being around people other than your shipmates-and maybe have a nice big meal in a sit down restaurtant that you didn't have to help prepare or clean up for!!

So----I hope ya didn't mind my taking you down with me on a stroll down my memory lane and also to a way of living-- the life of being a sailor---

I do think--before my ticket gets punched and I head for the great port in the sky or whatever there is for us after we pass from "this mortal coil" I do want to get back out to sea--and living at least for a time once again--the life of a sailor---savoring the times on board a boat--like seeing gorgeous sunsets and sunrises in some of the most spectacular of places on this little rock--and meeting the interesting and varied people you can't help but meet living such a life and traveling to places both well known and obscure alike.

From A Tin Cup Chalice: "I decided I want to be there --I want to die beside the sea there----with a tin cup for a chalice--fill it up with good red wine, just a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine!!"

[12voltman59]

I think we actually had a full on thread about how people came up with their handles.

Posting and you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9q2jNjOPdk)

Search button, man. . .use it.

*Taylor*

Taylor--I am well enough aware that there is the thread on that-but for the ten bajillonth time--someone asked me about my name in chat this morning----I decided to open my own thread on it so in the future--I will go back--find this thread and provide the person with link to this thread---most people think my name has some sort of sexual connotation and that is fine--but it actually doesn't--and ya know--I have sent the management of this site many emails over time about suggesting they convert the software for the boards to what other sites our there use that make a thread a more permanent thing in its placement on a main screen-----there are sites I go to that people have been posting to the same thread for four or five years now with thousands of posts on a topic---instead of a thousand threads on the same topic there is just one or two at those sites--but they don't see fit to do that here--so I am not going to go back and search old topics on here--I am going to post up new ones pretty much everytime!!

It is like my posting pics on this site--if we had one of those sites where each thread was prominently displayed--I would only post my pics in that thread and not make new ones each time---on this one site I visit---with the title POST YOUR PICS HERE--there is a regular group who posts up photos daily with many thousands of photos posted up in that one recurring, prominent thread alone--I wished we had that here too---so people could post to a "permanent thread" like: "Post Your Erotic Writings Here" or "Do You Like to Suck Cock?"--things of that nature----

The way this site is--it is simpy easier and "doesn't cost ya anything" to simply make up new threads each time you want to post something up--because once it is no longer attracting any attention--it fades back anyhow into the woodwork so to speak!!

[TaylorMade]

It was less than a month old. . .I found it w/o alot of effort. (http://main.bisexual.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7216) It hadn't even started to smell funny yet.

Just saying. . .the internet is the only place where necromancy is the best way to play.

*Taylor*

[hudson9]

...Sometimes-I get a romantic notion and maybe not so romantic a notion-that I would like to find a good stout, sea worthy sailer---about 40 or so feet long----with sound underpinnings and mechanicals, a full set of state of the art nav, electronic and communications gear aboard her or I install-like a sat unit to make an internet connection if nothing else----sell everthing on land and take off (hopefully with a compatible partner-female or male) and head to those points again---

Raising my hand to volunteer for the compatible crew!!

Brings to mind a couple of other Buffet tunes too, Volty -- "Son of a Son of a Sailor" and (of course) "Let's Get Drunk and Screw" (!)
:)