Non-motoring > Why did you choose your forum name?	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Pat	Replies: 70

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:05   Why did you choose your forum name? - Pat

Why, what does it mean and where does it come from? Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:15   Why did you choose your forum name? - sooty123

The one I wanted was taken so used this one. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:17   Why did you choose your forum name? - Skip

Skip - nickname I gained at work many years ago which has stuck - can't remember how or why now though. Real name Andy Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:28   Why did you choose your forum name? - Bromptonaut

Mines pretty obvious - I ride Andrew Ritchie's wonderful creation the Brompton folding bike. Outside of internet forums I'm Simon. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:37   Why did you choose your forum name? - Ted

I'm not sure where I got that username from. I'm really Edward. Only called the full thing when I'm naughty though. Edward. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:46   Why did you choose your forum name? - Ambo

-Because it is short and easily remembered -No idea initially. I thought I had invented it but then found is from ancient Greece -A raised platform or dais Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 12:47   Why did you choose your forum name? - Old Navy

Mine is just an American clothing brand. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:29   Why did you choose your forum name? - Westpig

Choose one from the following options: 1, Because I'm from the Westcountry and have appalling table manners 2, Because I'm from the Westcountry and joined the Police 3, Because my surname has 'West' in it and I joined the Police 4, Because my surname has 'West' in it and after drinking fizzy drinks I can belch very loudly. Let's have a little quiz and see who is right. I'll 'fess up on New Years Eve. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:30   Why did you choose your forum name? - devonite

Contrary to popular beliefs, mine tis not from whence I hail, tis from the pub me frequents - The Devonshire! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:26   Why did you choose your forum name? - Dog

Bit-of-a-story behind my for rum name ... are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin, Lorna, the first woman I exchanged body fluids with when I was 15, gave me the nickname of Dogend because I used to pick up dog ends in the psychedelic pubs 'n clubs over the West End of London in the late 60's, which I would then roll into a spliff after the addition of some herbs. (*_*) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:30   Why did you choose your forum name? - Westpig

>> Bit-of-a-story behind my for rum name ... are you sitting comfortably? >> >> Then I'll begin, Lorna, the first woman I exchanged body fluids with when I was >> 15, gave me the nickname of Dogend because I used to pick up dog ends >> in the psychedelic pubs 'n clubs over the West End of London in the late >> 60's, which I would then roll into a spliff after the addition of some herbs. Little bit too much information..but good answer Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:34   Why did you choose your forum name? - devonite

Think this one is the winner! - so far! - cant wait for BBD'S story!!!!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:38   Why did you choose your forum name? - Westpig

>>cant wait for BBD'S story!!!!! >> He's been trying, but so far can't get it past the filters. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 13:47   Why did you choose your forum name? - RattleandSmoke

My username comes from my first car 'Rattle'. I couldn't drive at the time, and my dad a serious accident involving fainting on a step ladder. The result he was in hospital for ten days needing quite a serious operation on his shoulder and arm. When he was out from hospital he couldn't drive for a few months and I needed access to a car for my business, my dad had a 1.6 litre Escort LX which was a high insurance group and was at this point SORNed. I just happened to be going past a used car dealer and I saw this Fiesta for £350, a little bit of rust in one of the panels but other than it looked in good knick. Engine was tappety but most importantly there was no smoke. I bought the car and got them to drop it off for me as I could not drive. After a few days I realised the car burnt oil and all they have done is put some STP stop smoke in it to mash it. It also had a rattly chain but I got 9 months use out of the car and a lot of driving experience until the engine decided it had no to give. It had started breaking down a few weeks before but I always managed to get it going by removing the air filter and starting it on a full throttle. I had a bit of a rest from driving at this point but took it up a year later this time having professional lessons and passing my test first time. To celebrate I bought another £350 Fiesta! This time with a great engine but a very rusty body, kept it for about 8 weeks before selling it for £250 as a result of it failing an MOT quite badly (I got it MOT'ed early to see how bad the structure of the car was). Never seemed to learn my lesson!. Ironically the next car my Corsa would lately become a rattle and smoke too when the head gasket blew. I am Ian btw. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 14:08   Why did you choose your forum name? - VxFan

Because I like Fords. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 14:30   Why did you choose your forum name? - Manatee

I think was it a sort of pun on 'man of tea' because I drink lots of it, but I'm also an admirer of the animal. They are probably quite intelligent, curious but very placid - I swam with manatees in the Crystal River and it's hard not sympathise with them. Like almost all large undomesticated animals, their numbers are trivial compared with humans, and the population of the West Indian manatees that we snorkelled around would hardly add up to a human village. Charming creatures who are always getting cut up by boat propellers. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 14:34   Why did you choose your forum name? - Cliff Pope

Because I am. I don't like aliases, they make me shiver for some reason. I did try one once and I felt such a complete fraud I never used it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 14:56   Why did you choose your forum name? - Robin O'Reliant

>> I think was it a sort of pun on 'man of tea' because I drink >> lots of it, >> A man after my own heart, I'm just off for a cup now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 16:05   Why did you choose your forum name? - BiggerBadderDave

A mature biology teacher called me BBD on a stag night in Blackpool in the 90s. What a biology lesson, I regret not taking her number. Someone called me a Feckless Mancunian so maybe I should change it on here. Most of my London mates call me Wavey or Waves. No idea where it came from. Rhyming slang maybe. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 16:50   Why did you choose your forum name? - FocalPoint

Formerly I was ChrisPeugeot. Now I'm FocalPoint. Not much more to say, really. It's rather boring. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 17:26   Why did you choose your forum name? - smokie

When the first network was installed in our support centre (80s?) the new admin guy gave us all nicknames for our logon id - mine was smokie. I used it in a number of place sas the internet grew i, including the Le Mans forum, from where I have since met many people in real life. To them I am smokie, only one or two use my real name, Geoff. Mrs was quite surprised some years back, before she was internet-savvy, when someone called out Hey Smokie when we visited the Festival of Speed and I responded... Anyway, it's a habit I'd like to try to stop next year... :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 17:29   Why did you choose your forum name? - bathtub tom

It's an anagram of my name with a mispronunciation thrown in, common to folk like me from Lu'on. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 17:41   Why did you choose your forum name? - crocks

It is my real name. I wanted to use just " Pat " but someone had already taken that. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 18:13   Why did you choose your forum name? - Pat001

>> It is my real name. >> I wanted to use just " Pat " but someone had already taken that. My real name is Pat, but then someone stole it so I had to change it to Pat001. Bitter? Yes! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 18:24   Why did you choose your forum name? - Slidingpillar

Cos I'm a fan of old technology, and the vintage car in my garage has that type of front suspension. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 18:35   Why did you choose your forum name? - Fullchat

If you have never heard the sound of a BDG Mk 2 Escort or similar being driven through the Yorkshire forests at Fullchat then you've never lived :))) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 18:48   Why did you choose your forum name? - WillDeBeest

Long ago, in a multinational IT company far, far...who am I kidding? It was in Basingstoke. Anyway, a colleague and I played a game that the Cabin Pressure pilots might approve of, whose object was to improve on the old 'London Zoo' phone message joke - you know, 'Please call 071... and ask for Mr G Raff'. We came up with quite a long list: Anne Teeter, Tim Burr-Wolff, Paula Bayer, amongst others and, yes, him. He bears a passing resemblance to my real name, so when such a thing became necessary, he became my online alias. Several of our efforts were good enough to fool a tiresome loudmouth called Howard. He sort of got wise to us eventually - so we got him to dial the Royal Opera House and ask for Peter Grimes. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 18:43   Why did you choose your forum name? - borasport

It's what I drove ... at the time, and that was 5 cars ago Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 19:07   Why did you choose your forum name? - Runfer D'Hills

Whim mainly, and I don't like to use my formal title, it tends to intimidate people. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 19:23   Why did you choose your forum name? - NortonES2

The Laird of Schiehallion? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 19:35   Why did you choose your forum name? - swiss tony

swiss tony because...... ..... writing on an internet forum, is like making love to a beautiful woman..... Last edited by: swiss tony on Sun 22 Dec 13 at 19:35 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 19:53   Why did you choose your forum name? - Fursty Ferret

I was drinking it at the time. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 20:16   Why did you choose your forum name? - PhilW

"It's rather boring." Not as boring as mine!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 20:45   Why did you choose your forum name? - MD

Martin from Devon. Now that is boring. Although.............I did once own an Anglia van with the No. 8015 MD. Should have kept it. Should have kept it. Sho............. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 21:22   Why did you choose your forum name? - MJW1994

Initials + year that my parents' house suddenly became much noisier, and they've never let me forget four years of disturbed sleep. Due to giving me a name that is common (three of us in same class at school and four of us in my social group now), it makes social gatherings complicated. To overcome this I have been giving nicknames, two in particular: Emjay (easy that one) Wizzy (WYSIWYG), sort of a compliment since people say I'm uncomplicated and no pretences, just straight no hidden agenda. That's what they say anyway... Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 21:29   Why did you choose your forum name? - T junction

Because I live on a ……… And it has a motoring connection. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 21:50   Why did you choose your forum name? - Ted

Thought I was due a name change. This thread seems the ideal opportunity. You won't guess, in a million years, who I used to be !! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 22:54   Why did you choose your forum name? - Armel Coussine

Lud was a school nickname, bequeathed on me by the genial though thuggish son of the manufacturer of a now-defunct British sporting car marque (Please! NOT brand!), so I adopted if for HJ. When I followed the flock here I thought a new one was in order. The reasons for AC are complicated, boring and personal, essentially a question of suggesting a sort of North African element in my genes, through my Maltese mother. One publisher objected strongly to it as a pseudonym and wouldn't let me use it, but another (bless her) didn't mind a bit. Political correctness takes people in different ways. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 22 Dec 13 23:27   Why did you choose your forum name? - R.P.

RP ? My initials. Also doffing my hat at local Orthodontist and writer for my favourite motorcycling magazine Motorcycle Sport Richard Parkhouse who signed his pieces in the magazine as RP. I was quite surprised to end up working very closely with his daughter recently....a true petrol head. When I mentioned that I had acquired the R80GS she said "oh yes the one with the orangey seat ?" Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 00:25   Why did you choose your forum name? - No FM2R

I used to be "Mark (Wherever I'm living right now)". That got a bit boring, and then I realised (doh) that it changed my username for old stuff I'd written which then made no sense. So I changed it to "No FM2R" for no better reason than it appeals to me. Last edited by: No FM2R on Mon 23 Dec 13 at 00:26 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 01:26   Why did you choose your forum name? - Dave_

I started out on t'other place a decade or more ago as dave_taxi_driver, for my name is Dave and I drove a taxi at the time. Following a career realignment I became dave_truck_driver, but I soon shortened the suffix to _TD as that's what it said on the back of the car I had. Following that theme I've since been _TDCi and now _TiD. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 10:19   Why did you choose your forum name? - zookeeper

mine was thought up whilst watching the mighty boosh Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 10:36   Why did you choose your forum name? - Arctophile

arctophile /ˈɑːktəfʌɪl/ noun noun: arctophile; plural noun: arctophiles 1. a person who collects or is very fond of teddy bears. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:00   Why did you choose your forum name? - Alanovich

>> One >> publisher objected strongly to it as a pseudonym and wouldn't let me use it Why? What is the actual meaning of Armel Coussine? I've googled it and can't work it out. As for me, my user name is the patronymic I'd have if I were Russian. In case you're unaware of the convention, Russians have three names - a first name, a surname, and a patronymic between the two, which will always mean son/daughter of your father's name. For males, it always ends "-ich". For example, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (son of Ilya), Osip Visarionovic Dzugasvili (son of Visarion). You get the picture. I studied Russian in University, spent many happy studenty days in the Soviet Union, hence the affection for this stuff. So my Dad's name was, obviously, Alan. He was a keen motorbiker and driver, and as he died in a road accident riding his Kawasaki when I was still a nipper I like to memorialise him in my user name. I used to love driving with him, and he used to let me sit on his lap and steer his Reliant Regal when I was small enough to do so. So a motoring connection, ever if it's (very) bittersweet. I tweaked the user name when this board started from Alanovich (which is how one would usually transliterate from the Russian, and the format I used on HJ) to Alanović, which is how it would be spelt in Serbian, due to having a Serbian wife now. SWMBO. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:14   Why did you choose your forum name? - Robin O'Reliant

Mine is because my first vehicle with a roof was a Reliant Regal and the Robin bit comes from the tabloid habit of referring to it's later variant the Robin as a Robin Reliant. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:30   Why did you choose your forum name? - Mike Hannon

I yam what I yam (as quoted from the little guy with the pipe and the big biceps). Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:43   Why did you choose your forum name? - Manatee

Just read a post on another forum by one Anthony Supplebottom, I wonder what's 'behind' that? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:44   Why did you choose your forum name? - BobbyG

Cos its the name of my brother's brother Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 11:46   Why did you choose your forum name? - commerdriver

Cos I drive one, when the weather's nicer Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 13:52   Why did you choose your forum name? - Armel Coussine

>> What is the actual meaning of Armel Coussine? I've googled it and can't work it out. It doesn't have a 'meaning'. It's just a made-up name. Armel is a Breton name that sounds a bit like Ahmed. One of my mother's family names was Cousine, so I just stuck another s in it to give it a Moroccan look. One magazine editor took exception to my purpose of trying to sound vaguely North African, apparently thinking it a bit fraudulent and disrespectful (of whom, I'm not sure). Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 14:53   Why did you choose your forum name? - helicopter

Mine is pretty obvious....... I must say , I would be interested to know why Lygonos chose as his forum name that of a Costa Rican porn star...... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 16:15   Why did you choose your forum name? - neiltoo

There already was a Neil, so I decided to be neiltoo Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 16:41   Why did you choose your forum name? - Manatee

>> I must say , I would be interested to know why Lygonos chose as his >> forum name that of a Costa Rican porn star...... Not everybody uses a pseudonym. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 16:49   Why did you choose your forum name? - Dulwich Estate

Live here and own an estate. www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/tollgate/ and some moan about the M6 toll - we have our own. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 20:00   Why did you choose your forum name? - bathtub tom

>> I must say , I would be interested to know why Lygonos chose as his >> forum name that of a Costa Rican porn star...... I wonder how helicopter knew that......................? Last edited by: bathtub tom on Mon 23 Dec 13 at 20:01 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 08:25   Why did you choose your forum name? - helicopter

I Googled it Tom......but I did not put in the link... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 20:54   Why did you choose your forum name? - R.P.

Armel...? Interesting link to Wales in that name according to Wiki.....I have a friend, English but Welsh, French and Breton speaking who lives in Brittany - I shall ask her for more information. In fact I puzzled her on FB by innocently saying to her "You are Armel Coussine and I demand my fiver".....unwittingly ignorant of the connection. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 21:07   Why did you choose your forum name? - Alastairw

Because I have no imagination - once an accountant, always an accountant.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 21:10   Why did you choose your forum name? - CGNorwich

Same here - initials are CG and I live in Norwich. Time for a change I guess - I'll throw it open to suggestions. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 21:26   Why did you choose your forum name? - Robin O'Reliant

>> Same here - initials are CG and I live in Norwich. Time for a change >> I guess - I'll throw it open to suggestions. >> >> >> Swedebasher? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 22:13   Why did you choose your forum name? - R.P.

At AC - The Welsh version of Armel...is "Arthfael" The Bear Prince......fasicnating thing language. Lud is also from a Brythoneg (British...Breton ?) name (early form of Welsh in simplistic form)...you old Celt. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 22:22   Why did you choose your forum name? - Dog

>>you old Celt. You got the old bit right. :-D Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 23:31   Why did you choose your forum name? - ....

>> >>you old Celt. >> >> You got the old bit right. >> >> :-D >> Some might say the middle vowel and consonant combination is right just wrong result. I'd never suggest that though, naturally ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 23:20   Why did you choose your forum name? - bathtub tom

>> initials are CG and I live in Norwich. Time for a change >> I guess - I'll throw it open to suggestions. Norwich, that's Norfolk innit? How many fingers and toes have you? ;>) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 23:51   Why did you choose your forum name? - CGNorwich

"How many fingers and toes have you?" Not sure - never learned to count that far. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 09:37   Why did you choose your forum name? - Harleyman

>> "How many fingers and toes have you?" >> >> Not sure - never learned to count that far. >> No need if they're all linked by webbing. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 23 Dec 13 23:23   Why did you choose your forum name? - Ted

>> Swedebasher? >> Banjo Boy ? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 00:07   Why did you choose your forum name? - CGNorwich

Not sure "Deliverance' would have been quite the same set on a trip through the Norfolk Broads on a hired motor cruiser. Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 24 Dec 13 at 00:07 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 10:06   Why did you choose your forum name? - Ambo

>>Not sure "Deliverance' would have been quite the same set on a trip through the Norfolk Broads on a hired motor cruiser It's possible, some of the locals are very odd. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 10:32   Why did you choose your forum name? - Zero

you don't need to travel far west, just beyond Downham Market in fact, to be in real banjo country. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 24 Dec 13 11:21   Why did you choose your forum name? - CGNorwich

Straying dangerously close to the county border there. Wouldn't want be travelling to foreign parts. Reply to this message | Report message