Nobody believe me.....

I told this long ago. Beginning my Senior year in HS I started getting 'nicknames'... they changed somewhat frequently until eventually settling on "Gorn", (or more formally Gornick )

As you know the creature Kirk fights in "Arena" is a "Gorn".

I'm still called "Gorn".. or "Gornick"... by some very old friends. It happened yesterday, actually, at a golf tournament my grandson's and I were playing in. A friend yelled over to me "Hey Gornick"... to which my grandson's asked, "Who the hell is he talking too?"... so I told them this story.

When people today hear me called Gorn many of them immediately think I was nicknamed that because of "Arena". This is false. I had that nickname long before Star Trek's "Arena" was broadcast. BUT.... no one believes me when I tell them I was actually the first "Gorn"

Another interesting Gorn bit of trivia - When I first found this board I used the handle "Gorn"... and that because a "JamesJM" was already on the board. I never met him, not even on the board.... and one day I noticed he was gone so I was allowed to make the change from Gorn to JamesJM.

So there you go... a whole lot of info you have no interest in and just wasted 5 minutes of your life reading about.