got mine ona ceebee radio a little while ago. the story of that is on anudder thread around here somewhere.
bethlehemstarr.... eye guess i shood thank yinz fer bringing dis thread back on n.y.day. i started on it n@ 'n wuz reading back when i ran into dis old post witch finally reminded me that da udder thread got dumped when there wuz a great site crash. watt wuz dat, '04? sew, eye gess itz thyme two retale da storee. knot dat ennybuddy gives a flying........
ennyfreekingweigh, my name is an old citizen band radio handle. itz one dat i got while ona road. me 'n da ex wuz dune i-40 acrost new mex (maybee ok, it wuz many miles ago) 'n wuz ona radio wit a trucker, cause der weren't much else to do, at leest knot much that woodent git ya inta trubble or go flying offa rode (butt dat's anudder thread dat ain't bin started yit), 'n pritty soon he wants ta no why were going to so cal from da burgh. after going thru alla obivious answers, like "it's freeking january, yinze bin in da burgh in january recently?" eye toll him what i did fer a living. he comes back with dat same old rejoiner, "ya glow ina dark?". well, da ex grabsa mike outa my hand 'n tallz hymn dat da onliest part of me dat glows is watt she's lookin fer. sew he laffs a bit 'n sez dat i "muss be slow to glow, huh" witch crakz us all up. 'n he calls me slowtoglow fer da resta da time weir motoring downa rode togather. fer da resta dat trip, i used dat handle, but wit "mister" in front of it. den after eye had to fire songs as a plant of employment 'n hed nort, i started using it agin, but quickly dropped da "mister" 'n da "to" elements 'n slowglow wuz borned. after a good long while, i dunno maybee afew yeerz, i wuz gitting harassed on rte 401 ona westbound side frum montreal area to toronto by a cupla
"vary freendly menz, s'il vous plait" 'n when dey axed me how i spelt my handle. eye toll dem "ess, ell, oh, gee, ell, oh". whale, de wuz vary contemporary ina ainglish language, 'n wuz axing me why eye didn't haffa dubble yews in my name. i tole dem dat der were know dubble yews cause a dubble yew wuz like a "we" (ina sound, bare wit me, it wuz radio, remember) 'n der weren't no "oui, oui" in sloglo...... we, miss yer! (fer dat lass part, ya hadda be der, it wuz radio!) ennyweigh, i tink dey yelled an incomprehensible epithet or too at me 'n eye never herd frum dem again. whew!
'n dat's da storee of sloglo, aincha sorree yinz wasted alla dis time reeding dis, n@?