Barbara Walters: What's the story behind your nickname, Pat?

Pat "Chops" Chin: It all started something like this...

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To:     Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS
cc:
From:   Joe Palen/NRaD/ACMS
Date:   06/03/96 01:22:58 PM
Subject:        Nickname
 
Pat...
 
How's about "Picks" for your nickname in our virtual band?  Our nicknames
all have double-meaning (at the least... sometimes triple or quadruple).
This would imply, of course, that you're picky... or you've been picked
(to be a member of the virtual band), or ???.   Hmm...
 
Frets, Sticks, Amps, Watts, and Picks
 
Whaddya think, Picks?
 
        Amps
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To:	Joe Palen/NRaD/ACMS
cc:	Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS
From:	Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS
Date:	06/03/96 02:10:03 PM
Subject: 	Re: Nickname

Hmmm...Picks, eh?  I was thinking maybe "Chops" would be more appropriate 
(and more racist!...heh, heh, heh....like in Chopsticks or Chop 
Suey.....heh, heh, heh...or Karate....ho, ho, ho...).  Anyway, I'm not 
sure on Chops.  I'll have to spend the afternoon pondering a nickname....

To be continued....

PC (Picks Chops...Pork Chops?......)
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To:	Joe Palen/NRaD/ACMS
cc:	Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS 
From:	Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS
Date:	06/03/96 04:17:47 PM
Subject:	Nickname revisited

Okay, I've been stewing on this all afternoon.  I can't come up with 
anything better than Chops (riffs? licks? chords? bridge? nut? capo? 
strum? pluck? on/off switch?  pickups? polepiece? inlay? tuner? straplock? 
hmmmmmmmm....), so Chops it is!
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To:	reth@nosc.mil, Linda Haley McClure/NRaD/ACMS, ryder@nosc.mil
From:	Joe Palen/NRaD/ACMS
Date:	06/03/96 04:26:55 PM
Subject:	Nickname revisited

Sticks, Frets, Watts...

We've got a new member in our virtual band.  Pat Chin is now "Chops".

Welcome, Chops!

              Amps
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To:	Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS
cc:	reth @ nosc.mil @ SMTP, Linda Haley McClure/NRaD/ACMS, Joe 
Palen/NRaD/ACMS
From:	Bob Ryder/NRaD/ACMS
Date:	06/03/96 04:42:16 PM
Subject: 	Re: Nickname revisited

Alright Chops!

WHOOOOOOOEEEEEE! Cool handle dood.  Let's get together and make some 
virtual guitar music together now.

Frets
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To:	Joe Palen/NRaD/ACMS
cc:	reth @ nosc.mil @ smtp, Patrick Chin/NRaD/ACMS, ryder @ nosc.mil @ smtp
From:	Linda McClure/NRaD/ACMS
Date:	06/03/96 04:58:41 PM
Subject: 	Re: Nickname revisited

Welcome Chops! and..... I like the name..

-Watts