Uh, oops

[BridgeWalker]

So, here I am, contemplating whether or not I should try to join the military upon graduating law school (that's a whole other topic) and thinking about background checks and things, and I so Google myself, something I haven't done in a while.

I not only Googled my name, but also my handle on various boards--here, THR, shotgunworld, TFL.  You know, the usual. 

And upon Googling Delta9 I got this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol

Apparently Delta9 is a marijuana reference?!?!?   

For the record, I picked delta9 because I like to fly kites and my first kite I got as a teenager than got me into kites was a delta with a nine-foot span.

Now I'm thinking I really, really oughta change names.  Grrr.  Don't know where to start, not to mention that I'll be all anonymous again.  How weird and frustrating.

[AJ Dual]

Delta9?

Your screen-name always reads as THCisKEWL to me...

[Bogie]

April 20, 1984...

The day before I reported for basic...
 
Dudez, I'm from Kentucky, and we basically sampled the better portions of that cash crop... I showed up at the MEPS likely still buzzed...

Haven't done a hit since.

[charby]

Delta9?

Your screen-name always reads as THCisKEWL to me...

I see SmokeyDePot

[BridgeWalker]

The day before I reported for basic...

Reassuring...but I'd be applying direct to JAG, and so direct to officer training.  They are *really* selective.  And even if I don't do military, the Bar Association would just love it, not to mention any firm I apply too. 

Gotta start changing it, across the board.  Er, boards.

[BridgeWalker]

So, whaddy'all think of "BridgeWalker"?  In reference, of course, to the annual Mackinac Bridge walk, but also just generally a not too terrible name.

[gaston_45]

I had sort of the same thing happen.  I've never smoked the reefer, been in jobs that random tested since I was 15 but when I joined the Marine Corps my entry date was April 20. 

That's right, I joined the Corps on 420, the drill instructors had a field day with that one, as did every SNCO I worked for.

[Perd Hapley]

My pastor didn't know what "420" meant.  (Neither do I, I just know it's a pot reference.)  And the DMV gave him 420 as the first three in his vehicle tag.  I shouldn't have told him, because it just made him unnecessarily worried about what people would think.  I told him not to worry about it. 

[BridgeWalker]

Well, I'd be going in right after the July bar, so no worries on that account.

[gaston_45]

I didn't know what it meant either, which made it even more fun for them I guess.

[Matthew Carberry]

I wouldn't bother.  There's nothing stoner's won't make into a reference.

Don't let them control you.

The interview will disabuse them of any qualms.

[Ex-MA Hole]

I changed it.

If you want this thread to go bye-bye, too, just light, er, speak up...


 

[seeker_two]

I changed it.

If you want this thread to go bye-bye, too, just light, er, speak up...


 

Is that why his screen name now shows Puff 'Em If You Got 'Em?......

[Fly320s]

420 is a reference to the California penal code, or maybe the code cops use to report marijuana use.

All the rock stations around here have a 4:20 break where a bunch of potheads call in and say, "Like, whoa, dude."  One station's DJs are named Baker and Stoney.  Really.

[Mabs2]

I should go sign up on 4/1 and when it's all done jump up and scream "APRIL FOOL'S"!
Would be hilarous.

[Moondoggie]

(Right over the top of my head)

I guess I need to get out more....

On a similar note, I stopped at a red light last night in my copmobile and noticed the digits on a plate in front of me were 1047...which is 10-Code for a drunk driver in our state.  I wonder if he knows???

[BridgeWalker]

I changed it.

If you want this thread to go bye-bye, too, just light, er, speak up...


 

Nah, no need to erase all evidence...

[Ben]

Nah, no need to erase all evidence...

Ha, you obviously don't work for the Federal Government. I spent a half an hour in front of the shredder yesterday doing my, "end of the year cleaning". 

I actually thought Delta9 referred to something military or firearms related.

[BridgeWalker]

Nah, no need to erase all evidence...

Ha, you obviously don't work for the Federal Government. I spent a half an hour in front of the shredder yesterday doing my, "end of the year cleaning". 

I actually thought Delta9 referred to something military or firearms related.

Well, I can't erase all references intarweb-wide, and so may as well leave an evidentiary trail somewhere.  See, I'm in law school...

Sadly, nope, not military, just a kite thing.  Wish it was military.  It it weird for a 29-year old woman do still be contemplating on joining the Marines?  Yeh, I'd settle for Navy, seeing as how they hire most of the lawyers...

[Ben]

Sadly, nope, not military, just a kite thing.

Nothing to be sad about there. I just never in a million years would have related it to drugs. If an interviewer brought it up, I would just get a really quizzical look on my face of the, "what the hell are you smokin' " variety.   

[SteveS]

The day before I reported for basic...

Reassuring...but I'd be applying direct to JAG, and so direct to officer training.  They are *really* selective.  And even if I don't do military, the Bar Association would just love it, not to mention any firm I apply too. 

Gotta start changing it, across the board.  Er, boards.

I don't believe the Michigan Bar Association looks all that heavily into your internet activity.  Absent any drug-related arrests, I doubt that using a term that is associated with drugs would hurt you.

[Matthew Carberry]

Nah, no need to erase all evidence...

Ha, you obviously don't work for the Federal Government. I spent a half an hour in front of the shredder yesterday doing my, "end of the year cleaning". 

I actually thought Delta9 referred to something military or firearms related.

Well, I can't erase all references intarweb-wide, and so may as well leave an evidentiary trail somewhere.  See, I'm in law school...

Sadly, nope, not military, just a kite thing.  Wish it was military.  It it weird for a 29-year old woman do still be contemplating on joining the Marines?  Yeh, I'd settle for Navy, seeing as how they hire most of the lawyers...

You could be a female JAG officer in the Marines.  If you're going to join the military, you might as well get a decent uniform. 

[BridgeWalker]

You could be a female JAG officer in the Marines.  If you're going to join the military, you might as well get a decent uniform. 

That is what I would like to do.  The question is if I have the heart to leave my daughter for training, my state for several years, a really close friend who is a widower and doesn't really have anyone but us here.  Then the question is if they'd take me.

Strongly leaning towards it. 

[Fly320s]

Reserves?

[RoadKingLarry]

but I'd be applying direct to JAG, and so direct to officer training.

You do know that JAG is not really like the stupid TV show, its actually a bunch of pencil necked geeks running around stabbing each other in the back trying to make themselves look better than their peers.