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"What's the Origin of Your User Name?"

I was involved in a business negotiation with some out of state folks. My owners were set at their price and position (as in take it or leave it), but I agreed to meet the out of state folks at DFW for a face to face meeting. They started in with all the reasons why we should meet them half way and I restated our position.

Finally one of them pointed at his watch and said "that we don't have much time here, we need to get this settled." I responded that I was on Texas time and I didn't expect we were going to have an agreement. I guess I used the term Texas time because they had made jokes about Texas in some their phone conversations.

The next week they sent us a contract for our asking amount and started referring to me as OnTexasTime instead of by my name.

When I needed a user name for the first forum I got on, the name came to mind and I have used it on a couple others. When I did a search one time I found several using the name as well. Someone on the University of Texas alumni forum and someone on a California general discussion forum use the same user name and there is also a dot.com business that is not me.