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blueto
14-03-08, 10:36 AM
Just wondered where these names come from?

Blueto = My bikes too blue . Thats it really. bit broing


YOURS?

Scoobs
14-03-08, 10:45 AM
It was one of my nicknames at school....along with **** head, tosser, etc.

gettin2dizzy
14-03-08, 10:46 AM
Mine was generated by hotmail about 10 years ago and I'm stuck with the ridiculous thing :P

Smudge
14-03-08, 10:47 AM
mine was my nickname in the forces and my bike model number

plowsie
14-03-08, 10:48 AM
Nickname that has stuck :)

FG1
14-03-08, 10:53 AM
When I left the RAF I didn't shave in a morning if I didn't want to and folk started calling me the furry ginger one.
I was going to have Wacker as that was my nickname when I was younger.

gettin2dizzy
14-03-08, 10:58 AM
Do you HAVE to have a nickname in the forces?!

Mogs
14-03-08, 11:00 AM
Given it in primary school. In South Wales most males are known under their nicknames. I was lucky it wasnt used when I signed up here. Derived from my surname - Morgan.

DanDare
14-03-08, 11:02 AM
My name is Rupert!

Davies
14-03-08, 11:04 AM
Started with 'svstreetfighter' (cuz that's what I had), changed it to 'Strayer', then tempted fate by buying a Ducati and changing it to what it is now. I think I'll be going back to 'Strayer' before the Thunderace starts giving me grief :D

G
14-03-08, 11:10 AM
errmmm.....its my name :(

Wish I could change it to just 'Graeme' now to be honest but someone who has never posted or been online since registering it has it :(

Dicky Ticker
14-03-08, 11:10 AM
Having seen the bright white light at the end of the tunnel twice and had the pump re-plumbed= DickyTicker---------used to be Justmac or Billymac but that was before virus and computer changes

Dave The Rave
14-03-08, 11:15 AM
Just a nick since my ice hockey days. Stuck with it for life even so my fuse is not that short anymore now :-)

Jester666
14-03-08, 11:21 AM
Nickname from college. From my love of Marillion. And I'm a devil worshiper! :lol: I changed from Jester to Jester666 to avoid mixups with Jelster.

flibble
14-03-08, 11:31 AM
from quarantine episode of red dwarf......

Do you have a magic carpet?? (http://www.flibble.net/)

missyburd
14-03-08, 11:41 AM
Nicked the other half's :rolleyes: who funnily enough is called Chris and lives in Yorkshire :D

Jester666
14-03-08, 11:41 AM
from quarantine episode of red dwarf......

Do you have a magic carpet?? (http://www.flibble.net/)

"time for w.o.o.!!" :lol:

neio79
14-03-08, 12:01 PM
Its made up from my name, Neil so went for neio and 79 is my birth year.

StreetHawk
14-03-08, 12:06 PM
Nick cos it's my name and 1871 cos it's the year Reading FC were founded :-)

kitkat
14-03-08, 12:07 PM
a joke from my time in the wrens

Paws
14-03-08, 12:16 PM
Nickname due to a set of tattoos i have ;)

neio79
14-03-08, 12:18 PM
Nickname due to a set of tattoos i have ;)


your Puppies have paws!!! :p

Paws
14-03-08, 12:19 PM
your Puppies have paws!!! :p


pmsl, aye ;) *blushes*

the white rabbit
14-03-08, 12:33 PM
Mine,s my Numberwang name when given when I was a contestant.

Scoobs
14-03-08, 12:37 PM
Nickname due to a set of tattoos i have ;)

Just out of interest Paws, did you get the tattoos before or after the nickname?

Ping
14-03-08, 12:37 PM
I've been Ping since... erm... about 1995...

I liked the noise.

Scoobs
14-03-08, 12:38 PM
I've been Ping since... erm... about 1995...

I liked the noise.

What other noises can you make?

Ping
14-03-08, 12:40 PM
What other noises can you make?
The list is long and distinguished.

Paws
14-03-08, 12:40 PM
Just out of interest Paws, did you get the tattoos before or after the nickname?

The nickname came with the tattoos

Tim in Belgium
14-03-08, 12:41 PM
My name's Tim and I briefly lived in Belgium...

Caddy2000
14-03-08, 12:42 PM
My nickname from my cricket club - as in Andrew Caddick. Apparantly coz I'm tall with brown hair and a bowler.....
.... About as inspirational my my mate who was in 1 para whos surname is Bell and micknamed Dinger
2000? Coz someone else had Caddy as their username (although I have never seen them - Can I have it now?)

Scoobs
14-03-08, 12:42 PM
The nickname came with the tattoos

Lucky they weren't anchors then really. :wink: :lol:

the white rabbit
14-03-08, 12:59 PM
I think usernames should be freed if unused in a year say. Then the people who 'deserve' them can have them.
Wasnt such a ting done for Hovis, thereby setting a precedent under forum law?

Mogs
14-03-08, 01:13 PM
It was pester power in action from Hovi5. I thought Sythree was a good one too, it changed when I wasn't looking and it took me a while to catch on Ed. So if we're going to have a bout of renaming, can you put the old one in your footer.

Dan
14-03-08, 01:17 PM
I think usernames should be freed if unused in a year say. Then the people who 'deserve' them can have them.
Wasnt such a ting done for Hovis, thereby setting a precedent under forum law?

Stuff

And as for my username, I quote from my post in a similar thread:



I used to own no. 63 of 100 special editions of the Skoda Octavia vRS known as the vRS Rally (built to commemorate 100 years of Skoda's involvement in various motorsports) built in 2002.

There's only 23 of them in the UK, and only 38 RHD in the world. They were stickered up to resemble replicas of the Skoda WRC cars. Hence, WRCSixtyThree.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j26/Phil_Turbo/oct4.jpg

Gordon B
14-03-08, 01:19 PM
My two sons are called

Jake and Max

carty
14-03-08, 01:33 PM
Mine is a combo of my name, matt cartwright, it was given to me as a username at uni and I carried on using it as it's easy to remember!

Skip
14-03-08, 01:33 PM
Its been my nickname for as long as I can remember...

...stuff...
Nice car Dan - my mate has a vRS with 227hp - goes very well :)

Grinch
14-03-08, 01:41 PM
I hang a load of bikers in Portsmouth, after knowing me a short while they all voted on calling me Grinch....

missrubberduckofdeath
14-03-08, 01:41 PM
I have no idea what mine means and i'm too scared to ask my man the meaning behind it. I do like rubber ducks though but i'm not a big fan of death! I should have been Hello Kitty :cat:

Warthog
14-03-08, 02:02 PM
My first thoughts on test riding my sv were that it was like riding a warthog; just kind of wild and grunty and flung you anywhere you wanted to go! Not sure if that makes sense, I haven't even ridden a real warthog anyway before you ask so I can't compare them!

G
14-03-08, 02:04 PM
I think usernames should be freed if unused in a year say.


YESH this would be good :cool: unlikely though I bet ?

maff
14-03-08, 02:08 PM
been called stoppy since i was about 12ish, all due to my surname

ASM-Forever
14-03-08, 02:10 PM
The list is long and distinguished.

<Tries to resist using homosexual Top Gun quote......will power fading...resistance falling>

Yeh, well so is my johnson.

My username is because i support the football team/am from Monaco.

skint
14-03-08, 02:11 PM
Bought two bikes I couldn't afford.

Previously Triumphumphumph cos I had a triumph and didn't stopstopstop

Gra
14-03-08, 02:12 PM
Mine is the name of a Swedish thrash metal band.:smt035

Makes me a bit sad really.

blueto
14-03-08, 02:14 PM
a joke from my time in the wrens

i am using my imagination as i speak!:smt037

on yer bike
14-03-08, 02:17 PM
I think mine is self explanitory, I have no idea why I came up with it... but I did.

squirrel_hunter
14-03-08, 02:20 PM
My hobby.

skint
14-03-08, 02:32 PM
i am using my imagination as i speak!:smt037

Don't let it melt in your hand, you'll get chocolate everywhere...

mmmstrongbow
14-03-08, 02:45 PM
i really really like strongbow, although im almost t-total now ive got the bike

dizzyblonde
14-03-08, 02:46 PM
erm, well it says it alll doesn't it. But don't be fooled the name, because its only there to fool you. This ones not that dizzy at all.................................well most of the time

kitkat
14-03-08, 02:47 PM
i am using my imagination as i speak!:smt037

:-s:smt037

Dan
14-03-08, 02:48 PM
Its been my nickname for as long as I can remember...


Nice car Dan - my mate has a vRS with 227hp - goes very well :)


I miss my Skoda... Now I have a lovely diesel Volvo.

Skip
14-03-08, 02:49 PM
I hang a load of bikers in Portsmouth
Sounds scary - hang them on what? :eek:

Warthog
14-03-08, 03:12 PM
Mine is the name of a Swedish thrash metal band.:smt035

Makes me a bit sad really.

Oooh a fellow metalhead :smt035

New Leaf
14-03-08, 03:14 PM
Well i used to be a nasty socially inadequate knob faced knobster, and then i turned over a new leaf, so i thought it only right to change my name too. :oops:

Alpinestarhero
14-03-08, 03:39 PM
Alpinestarhero generally breaks down into two components:

1. Alpinestar as in Alpinestars motorcycle apparel. I own a fair bit of the stuff (boots, 2 jackets, leather bottoms, rucksack). Mostly out of choice, because I like thier designs, and some of it out of nessesity - i havnt found anything else as comfortable.

2. Hero, as in...er...hero. Because I need to make up that I'm cool, when really I'm quite geeky :D:king:

Matt

Alpinestarhero
14-03-08, 03:40 PM
Oooh a fellow metalhead :smt035

+1 :smt035

How comes there is no drumming and bassing emoticon? we could get a band going

Matt

Gra
14-03-08, 03:41 PM
Oooh a fellow metalhead :smt035

Oooh yeah. :smt091

ASM-Forever
14-03-08, 03:41 PM
Alpinestarhero generally breaks down into two components:

1. Alpinestar as in Alpinestars motorcycle apparel. I own a fair bit of the stuff (boots, 2 jackets, leather bottoms, rucksack). Mostly out of choice, because I like thier designs, and some of it out of nessesity - i havnt found anything else as comfortable.

2. Hero, as in...er...hero. Because I need to make up that I'm cool, when really I'm quite geeky :D:king:

Matt

I always assumed it was a play on guitar hero. I now rate you as less of a man. :p

pencil shavings
14-03-08, 03:43 PM
i just liked the way pencil shavings sounded......
i mostly use trademark84 on forums now, with 84 being when i was born!

Viney
14-03-08, 03:51 PM
How many times has this thread been done?? :lol:

Mines just my surname with a y on the end. I used to be Vineil Which was my name and initals that was also a reference to my part time occupation as a DJ.

TOY40
14-03-08, 04:12 PM
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/1782692623_85a4def006.jpg?v=0

I drive TOYotas and 40 in the reg.Caravan is next door's btw.

ArtyLady
14-03-08, 04:36 PM
mine's self explanatory :cool: :)

Riko360
14-03-08, 04:43 PM
my names rick- and i have a xbox 360, Riko360! (my gamer tag too) :D

Sosha
14-03-08, 05:05 PM
I used to be Vineil Which was my name and initals that was also a reference to my part time occupation as a DJ.

:smt027Dreadful!

Mine's just a nickname (started by a Polish midwife)

Lissa
14-03-08, 05:40 PM
Mine's my real name...............minus one letter:-D

kwak zzr
14-03-08, 05:42 PM
two of my old bikes were kwak zzr's :)

rigor
14-03-08, 05:43 PM
Mine's my real name...............minus one letter:-D


So your real name's Lisssa then ;)

Got mine 'cause I used to sleep so much that people thought I was dead. rigor Mortis .....

Lissa
14-03-08, 05:49 PM
So your real name's Lisssa then ;)

:D

Nope, but maybe it should be;)

Lozzo
14-03-08, 05:55 PM
a joke from my time in the wrens

Haha....the old Joan Collins joke.

Lozzo
14-03-08, 06:02 PM
Mine was given to me by my ickle sis when she was a wee toddler. She couldn't say my real name, which is Laurence, so she settled on Lozzo and so did everyone else.

Lozzo
14-03-08, 06:02 PM
Do you HAVE to have a nickname in the forces?!

Yes

metalmonkey
14-03-08, 06:11 PM
For me I have blue bike so blue, I think it really does sounds like thunder.

So Bluethunder! I'm also know by lilchris

Wideboy
14-03-08, 06:20 PM
school, was widey rather than wideboy

Airfix
14-03-08, 06:34 PM
I am scaled down (Short ****), and use to like doing the kit's as a kid. :)

sv-robo
14-03-08, 07:25 PM
Because i ride an sv & my nickname at school was robo

DoubleD
14-03-08, 07:52 PM
Dangerous Dave was my nick name at school and felt a bit daft using that as a user name so used DoubleD.

MrMessy
14-03-08, 08:01 PM
Because I am a messy person. Tools all over, papers all over my desk. Drives my really tidy colleague mad:D and my wife:!:

Blue_SV650S
14-03-08, 08:05 PM
a joke from my time in the wrens

:shock: There is a joke about Joan Collins and 4-finger kitKats ... I do hope it is not revolving around that!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

"Hello kitkat" {echo echo echo} :D

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As for my user name, it goes without saying it was a total lack of imagination at the time!! :oops:

Can you change your user name?? ... I'd like mine changed to 'Duke' ... or 'Big Man' .. summin like that*!! :D

*yes yes, but to be fair, even 'bonehead' is better than Blue_SV650S :D

ASM-Forever
14-03-08, 08:23 PM
:shock: There is a joke about Joan Collins and 4-finger kitKats ... I do hope it is not revolving around that!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

"Hello kitkat" {echo echo echo} :D

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As for my user name, it goes without saying it was a total lack of imagination at the time!! :oops:

Can you change your user name?? ... I'd like mine changed to 'Duke' ... or 'Big Man' .. summin like that*!! :D

*yes yes, but to be fair, even 'bonehead' is better than Blue_SV650S :D

That's how i construed it. :smt048

Balky001
14-03-08, 08:31 PM
Well Balky means refusing or likely to refuse to proceed, act, or function as directed or expected <a balky mule> <a balky engine> .

So it could be I chose it to covertly suggest I am unpredictable or stubborn. But I didn't. It's a shortening of my surname with a 'y' at then end for when I played football :D My wife is 002 and daughter 003!

skidmarx
14-03-08, 08:36 PM
:shock: There is a joke about Joan Collins and 4-finger kitKats ... I do hope it is not revolving around that!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

"Hello kitkat" {echo echo echo} :D

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As for my user name, it goes without saying it was a total lack of imagination at the time!! :oops:

Can you change your user name?? ... I'd like mine changed to 'Duke' ... or 'Big Man' .. summin like that*!! :D

*yes yes, but to be fair, even 'bonehead' is better than Blue_SV650S :D
You think you've got problems.......:rolleyes:

Stingo
14-03-08, 08:39 PM
Yes

+1. It's the law.

Stingo is a character in 'Sophie's Choice'.

Girth
14-03-08, 09:13 PM
My sisters fella called it me and also because i lack it:compress:

I use to use xcjetboy on my moutainbike forum but went for a change.

joe mangle
14-03-08, 09:23 PM
i think i looked like joe mangle at school!

dizzyblonde
14-03-08, 09:33 PM
G'day Joe Mangle, what an entrance to the org!!!

joe mangle
14-03-08, 09:41 PM
stealthy heh!

dizzyblonde
14-03-08, 09:44 PM
Joe, its the tradition ont org, that new folk like yourself start a thread in here 'Idle banter', to introduce yourself like. Everyone likes to say hello in here, we're very friendly

joe mangle
14-03-08, 09:45 PM
ooh ok ill get on it!! soz

dizzyblonde
14-03-08, 09:46 PM
always a helping hand in here, even from dizzyblondes!

Treacle
14-03-08, 10:00 PM
Mines just a nickname that iv been stuck with.

Ruffy
14-03-08, 10:02 PM
Mine's merely a surname with added Y. It's a long standing nickname from rugby playing days, possibly related to my no compromise approach to playing the game.

kitkat
14-03-08, 10:23 PM
Haha....the old Joan Collins joke.

:shock: There is a joke about Joan Collins and 4-finger kitKats ... I do hope it is not revolving around that!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

"Hello kitkat" {echo echo echo} :D

:oops:

That's how i construed it. :smt048

You think you've got problems.......:rolleyes:

:nomore: :-s:rolleyes: yeah but only because I was in the wrens nothing todo with any physical attributes i may or may not have ;)

skidmarx
14-03-08, 10:26 PM
:nomore: :-s:rolleyes: yeah but only because I was in the wrens nothing todo with any physical attributes i may or may not have ;)
Sorry nuffin' to do with your story, I meant my stupid name and once you got it your stuck!

kitkat
14-03-08, 10:28 PM
oh right. dont even want to think how you got your name lol

flymo
14-03-08, 11:29 PM
I was given my nickname (same as username) by my first race mechanic. I was racing a 1960's MZ 2 stroke and I spent more time on the grass than the tarmac for a little while :-)

Shellywoozle
14-03-08, 11:39 PM
My name is Shell .... don't ask what a Woozle is cause i dunno LOL but an ex used to call it me (should have made the effort to find out really he may have been an ex sooner ;) )

Luckypants
15-03-08, 12:28 AM
From my boating days..............

I had a pair bright red of Tesco pants (from a ?2 multipack - incredibly sexy) that I wore for boating all the time. One day I forgot them so paddled commando and one of my paddling buddies said 'Oh no we can't go boating without mike's lucky pants'. Sure enough we had a bit of a mare on the river that day and the name stuck..........

I paddled in those pants for 20 odd years until I took a big swim in Canada and was airlifted to the hossie where they cut all my kit off including the pants...... They were 'buried at sea' at Tamihi rapids on the Chilliwack with full kayak honours.

sorry to disappoint, nothing to do with the ladies.