All of you with contrived / made up usernames, how did you get them ?
There must be a story behind every weird username, said the man with 'zilspeed' on his birth certificate
Mango - you're first...
Right - 'fess up time.
All of you with contrived / made up usernames, how did you get them ?
There must be a story behind every weird username, said the man with 'zilspeed' on his birth certificate
Mango - you're first...
Smart51 is the name I go by on the smart owners club website. It was a matter of choosing a name that I could remember that wasn't used already.
NS Dev is just short for Nathaniel Seviour (my name!) Developments, the name that used to get stuck on anything that I made for other people
Any guesses?......
mango groove my favorite South African band
http://www.new.co.za/~currin/mango_groove_index.html
http://mangogroove.lyrics-online.net/
Interestingly I have top search on GHOolgle more than the original band.......lol
Mine was just what someone at work called me and it was all I could think of when I signed up
Mark
Mine was because the first kit car i ever built was a Robinhood Subk in the year 2002 
Drew
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Originally posted by Alan B
Any guesses?......
mines just a play on my name - Jesse
Building an MK with an auto inside...! 
My real name is Bishop Horatio T. Mouseplaster, and I use 'david jenkins' solely to confuse.
[Edited on 12/7/05 by David Jenkins]
Mine is one word made up of my first and second names.
Quite clever I thought!
i once foolishly said 'toodle pip' as i left the office one day and it sorta stuck
that was at a previous office and no one where i work now actually know's about it, but i like it so it stayed as an internet alias...
Ned.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
My real name is Bishop Horatio T. Mouseplaster, and I use 'david jenkins' solely to confuse.
[Edited on 12/7/05 by David Jenkins]
my name's Nick and I have a real soft spot for the Pug 205GTi....Nick205. It was also my name on the Peugeot Sport Club forum, although I lost
interest in that as it got more and more diluted.
Incidentally I seem to remember Ned being on there as Ned as well
My boss when I was on work experience at school bought me a key ring back from mombasa but sadly "Geoff" got lost in translation and it was
carved with "Jambo" on one side and "Jeef" on the other - I think jambo means hello?! Anyone?
Geoff
oo yes, had forgotten about that one, me login still seems to work, thanks nick
I have had the nickname of Fozzie since primary school! I think most people with the surname of Foster get called Fozzie. My brother neice and nephew
all got called Fozzie.
In my case it has stuck, but, I like it,... which is nice
Fozzie
[Edited on 12/7/05 by Fozzie]
used to snowboard quite a lot, and was on a snowboard forum years ago..
was asking a couple of the guys how to do big jumps, how to land jumps, how to grab in jumps, and met them on the slopes (milton Keynes) a few weeks
later
Forever more, i was the "Jumpy Guy"
£250 HA HA HA 
my mates were looking for a name for some club nights they were going to put on a few years ago. they were talking about names in a bar in manchester
and someone they knew overheard them and thought they said "wheels instead of hooves". it sort of stuck ever since and is used for most
things done by myself and my mates. i thought the "wheels" idea, and the development over other forms of transport, was rather appropiate
too.
the nights are still going - mainly at the electroworks in angel but all over london town (and once in new york/japan/barcelona to name but a few).
come along.
I used to be one of two airmen at Boscombe down, we both got stuck with sweeping the hanger floor on Friday mornings,
Our boss was a big Red Dwarf fan so we were both Scutters, mine just stuck.
Atb Dan.
Zen Archer is a track from my favorite album "A Wizard a true Star" by Todd Rundgren.
Rundgren says that Zen Archer was the nemisis of a, always naked, Comic strip heroine Phoebe Zeitgeist, who appeared in an American magazine "The
Evergreen Review"
[Edited on 12/7/05 by zenarcher]
I was trying to think of an email address years ago and I like Imprezas and Scooby Doo, so Scoobyiscool seemed quite appropriate. Someone already had
that though so I added the '2' in the middle and I haven't bothered to change it since
Pete
Mines a boring reason. When i signed up for hotmail thats the only name it let me have. And a bloke at work keeps saying "book him
Danno" to me. After all my name is Dan and i am a man ( so ive been told). Just with a rastafarian touch. "Danozeman".
Im called V8dan on the forums iv signed on to recently. Should have changed it on here after id been away from here for a couple of years so nobody
noticed.
Added 'zine' to my name and it's Dutch for 'Petrol'
Really dull - JAG is my initials.
My Dad thought it would be one less thing for the kids at school to take the pi55 over.
They found plenty of others though
I spelt my name backwards
What... Trebor?
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Originally posted by bob
I spelt my name backwards
Firearms are a hobby, and my birthday is May 26th, same as "The Duke".
We used to regularly meet up on a Sunday morning on the bikes for the breakfast run. People that knew how I ride didn't say much when we finally
got to Greasy Vera's for the full english, it was the other guys that said "you are mad Dave". The name stuck!
I decided early last year to ride less after a 90mph accident when I sprained my ankle (yes thats right I was very lucky!). This was my 9th crash and
I started to look for a safer alternative, enter the Indy ZX9R.
I still ride the bike but tend to ride alone and on one wheel!
errm..... two of us where called Mike, it got confusing so we both took the first initial of our surnames to differentiate and tadaaaa
MikeR was born (14 years ago!)
I,ve played in bands for years and one night i was over playing (as usual!), somenone in the audiance shouted " He's da skippa" the
rest of band started to call me Skip or Skippa D (Dave)
It's from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, he yells out, "EEETS TUHHRBO TIEEEM"... and I seem to only own turboed cars (including my
locost)...
[Edited on 12/7/05 by turbo time]
Mines Pretty boring. My road cars an Omega 24 valve V6
estate in Velvet Green
Mines donut because i run a web design company (sort of) called donut design.
Plus i'm a fat git and Homer Simpson is my hero, he loves donuts too!
My name is dave and guess where I live.......
Bob: I wish I'd been Surrey Evad now!!!
Blackpool??????
No idea?
Surname is 'Semens' so I've been Spunky all my life 
John
i was called mine cos i kept breaking con rods,sometimes on other peoples cars (nitro and petrol dont mix too well)
My old man had a couple of Ladas in the early 80s - which my brother and I in our infinite wisdom decided to call Zils after the Russian limos. My old
man eventually was called zil as well by me and brother. Father was not amused.
This was about the same time that zakspeed were farting about at the back end of the grid in F1, so it was a short leap from zakspeed to zilspeed.
Father was even less amused at this.
I felt I had to explain all of this after James Seabass' parter in crime called me zil at Forrestburn a couple of weeks ago.
My brother nearly choked with laughter at the very thought - you had to be there.
reading this thread, i realise ive got most peoples names wrong anyway!
My name is Jon Bradbury and I'm the Real Deal. Accept no substute! I know I wouldn't.
School nickname from many moons ago. Most of my friends still use it and I named my company after it after my niece called me Uncle Noodle:
www.UncleNoodle.com
Neil.
err, well erm , as it says on the tin
You choose the real answer : -
1, I'm Vegetarian that ALWAYS leave the girls smilling because of the size of my man-hood.
2, I'm 6' 4" tall and worked for the AA wearing LARGE green overalls and always cracked jokes.
3, I'm a 3' 4" midget with manic drepressive tendancies and a double personality.
Many years ago I got online and decided to play Quake2.
After a couple of games of being 'Player' I decided I needed an alias. So, for no reason at all I decided on 'Roadkill', I only
add the UK for the forums as Roadkill is usually taken.
Exciting eh?
I was to daft to come up with anything better than my dog's name.
I'll leave it to your imagination!
i will give you one guess for my name
random letter generator
nick name from school... apparently there was a DJ in the 80's used it too. Oh and it rhymes with my first name...
[Edited on 12/7/05 by shades]
Bimble - "To amble without real aim, in a friendly and harmless manner"
Well that best desscribes me and my last name is Timbrell so I was called that at school and it stuck.
Its my name
i've built an indy, i'm 19, so only a kid in comparison to some of you
not to be mistaken for indie kid. i can't stand that incipid shite.
thought it would be an interesting play on words typey thing though.
tom
[Edited on 12/7/05 by indykid]
I bought a part built, plans built plane when I was learning to fly (never completed it)....called a Colibri
although I hate to admit it.....It's French for 'humming bird'
hmmmmmm........ humming bird man?
I'm a shopkeeper.
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Originally posted by colibriman
I bought a part built, plans built plane when I was learning to fly (never completed it)....called a Colibri
although I hate to admit it.....It's French for 'humming bird'
hmmmmmm........ humming bird man?
I think thats illegal !
Mine is my nickname from Uni... Andy is my real name, and well, I'm big!
R.E. = Royal Enfield. A great British engineering company and Marque which made Motorbikes including one of my own which I have been fond of for the
last 20+ years.
Also Re. as in *Reman*ufacture, I thought suited the Locost-ish donor car ethos of our hobby, so........ReMan
quote:
what about humping bird man ?
2 years in psycotherapy didn't work so I decide to build a car, oh and me names Geoff
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Originally posted by colibriman
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what about humping bird man ?
Given half a chance mate....
single and looking just now though....
im originally from ipswich and support the football club,whos nickname is "the tractorboys" (and i couldn't think of anything cleaver
when i signed up!)
scott
Mine was through a lack of imagination (and this was this very first forum that I joined so didn't appreciate the finer points of such
establishments!)
ATB
Simon
Fully coded welder fabricator. Hense name.
I didn't know this forum existed untill my farther had all ready posted twice using my name. Hence relativerly dull formal name.
[Edited on 12/7/05 by clbarclay]
The guys I used to work with 20 years ago gave me my nickname. They said I should have been a Gynecologist. Instead of a programmer.
Mine 'cos thats what I do in 'net forums, browse around picking up little bits here 'n there.
COme to think of it it's pretty crap really, isn't it
"Rorty [Rawrti] adj (sl) in good spirits, cheerful"
I've traded under the name since the mid eighties so it made sense to use it here too.
My nickname is Stallion of the God of Love which is a bit long for a user name, but as Rorty describes me equally well and is somewhat more sucinct, I
chose to use that instead.
well I used to have this little Honda cb100 and as the adds in the seventies said "You meet the Nicest people on a Honda " so I am a
Niceperson and the 709 is a startrek reference as well as the name of the streetfighter bike I have ........
best wishes
Iain
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...the streetfighter bike I have ........
Got mine when I first came over to the uk and started taking flying lessons. One of the instructors came over and said "eh, a flying kiwi
then?" (no idea why) and the name stuck. Pretty much everything I do now has "The flying kiwi" attached to it.
The Kiwi
Eats, roots shoots and leaves
mines too boring to explain, work it out for yourself
My names Mark.
The tigere1 bit is a Tiger Cat E1. Always wanted to build one and I almost did until I found this forum.
To open a can of worms, I believe the Tiger E1 is one of the best looking seven replicas IMHO, engineering aside, so the Tiger E1 bit stayed when I
joined the forum.
Hence marktigere1.
Cheers
Mark
My name is Ewan Scrymgeour
Escary, worst ever spelling of my name on a letter.
Told my mates and ( ok ok Guy who i pay money to to say he is a mate) and he almost wet himself.
Thought it was funny.
regards
Ewan
Guess what I was drinking while pondering my user name ?
A bloke at work used to call me Scoobystu, but that sounds like I'm either a Subaru freak or "one of those pesky kids!"
Changed it to Scubastu when I qualified as a diver.
Stuart
i couldnt be bothered to use imagination when i thought my original posting name up, so just used my full name. I woulda forgotten anything flash
anyway
I think there is an advantage hiding behing a nickname - you can be much more insulting without getting tracked down
atb
steve
After 310,000 ton super tanker I spent 6 months of my life on -- it and I were both quite new then however unlike it I haven't (yet) been broken up for scrap on an Indian beach.
My full name is Alejandro López or Álex López (we use Álex as a short for Alejandro in Spain). Long ago I picked these letters: ALEx lopeZ, for some
internet account, I now use that all the time..
Colibrí is also some bird in Spanish, I guess the same bird?
Catchphrase from "The fast show"
Chrisg is my stage name, my real name is "Brett Star-twinkle"
and wasn't it Harry Enfield MrConsiderably?
Cheers
Chris
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Originally posted by Considerably
Catchphrase from "The fast show"
Noooo
Oh, suits YOU sir, Mr Considerably.
The shout of anger after I have smashed my knuckles again trying to undo a rusted bolt. The biggest hammer more often than not never fixes the problem
in hand, but somehow beating the s**t out of it sure makes me feel better.