Capt. Larry "Sez" origin.

After we moved to Pine Mountain Lake Airport, I taught several of our pilot's wives to fly. I had to deal with the fact that there are a number of ways to do the same thing in an airplane. No one method is absolutely right or wrong. So I used to tell my students that I didn't care how they did something in the plane as long as they could tell me why they were doing it the way they did it. Likewise I had a reason for doing everything the way I did it. This was of course to help head off the problem of a pilot husband telling his wife she was doing something wrong and confusing her. Now, like most students, the wives were going to believe me before they would believe their husbands and invariably would quote me when the discussions would ensue. Usually the sentence started something like this "Well Larry says" and the wife would continue to espouse my method or viewpoint to her husband.
We have a coffee shop on Pine Mountain Lake airport called the Corsair. Every morning we (the general airport community) gathered there for coffee, conversation and comradeship. One morning I walked into the coffee shop and sitting around the table was a group of the husbands wearing "T" shirts that said "Who the hell Is "Larry Sez". They continued to wear these shirts at various airport functions over the ensuing months. About this time I was finally able to up-grade to Captain with United Airlines, (purely a matter of seniority). My wife had a party and celebration for me after I completed my up-grade and at that party the husbands presented me with my own "T" shirt that said " I'm Capt. Larry Sez", thus the nick name which has stuck,(much to my delight). Our airport community is very supportive of one another and a real pleasure in which to exercise the privileges of an instructor certificate.