Reply With QuoteI needed a clever nickname.
Originally Posted by TakesALickin
If you don't know where my name came from, you don't deserve to call yourself a watch collector!
Is it something to do with the necessary act before hand winding your watch after enjoying a rather delicious bucket of fried chicken?
I needed a clever nickname.
robbie - a friendlier alternative to ........................ Robert but in some other places I'm known as
20vrr4
that's music to my ears. If anyone's interested I'll explain.
... pinpull = specific type of parachute hand deployment system. A bit old school now to them tharrr young whippersnapper skydivers!
Ricky
vRS -
G60 -
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Yes. Yes, that's it exactly.
I'm not a freelance heating engineer, but it always seemed so glamourous somehow - a man alone, a wrench, some micro-bore, in and out before anyone knew it...
I like coffee.
...and java is easier to spell than Yirgacheffe.
Its my name.
OK, here we go...
Mycroft is the first name of Mycroft Holmes, who was the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes.
My younger brother was a detective for many years, and I'm smarter than he is, so...
My avatar is a picture of Mycroft Holmes taken from an early edition of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books.
So now you know :)
Simon
Mine is my name + a poker nickname I picked up after winning a tournament with King Jack (nicknamed kojak) of spades.
It was a name that stuck at the poker tables, so I had a couple of shirts made with Kojak on the cuffs.
Ironically, I am now (at 30) going the way of Telly Savalas up top....
Just a boring BillyMac as my name is Billy Mac Dougall.
I've followed the Boston Bruins since '92 and Cam Neely was my favourite player. I met him a few years ago and thankfully he was a decent bloke.
Possibly the funniest show on the radio......ever.
My name is Simon and I almost always wear black (black=sev in Armenian) simonsev was given by an IT guy as my office username in Armenia 16 years ago and have used it ever since for all my online capers, emails, forums and etc.
Techireland= a dodgy company name and email used to get free software from microsoft
2000= was the year..
Only worked once by the way...
joe
Mycroft rocks!
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You don't need Sherlock or Mycroft to work out mine, it's my name and year of birth
Malc
My name and a nod to the football team I so dearly love :)
It's the username I've stuck with on a few forums.
I like that. :-)
Another hockey username, named after Bob Probert #24 of the (Detroit Red Wings booooooooooooooo) and the GREAT Chicago Blackhawks.I've followed the Boston Bruins since '92 and Cam Neely was my favourite player. I met him a few years ago and thankfully he was a decent bloke.
Bruins looks good this year... my pick from the East.
Probert vs Quintal of the Habs
my real name is aldrin and this thread makes me feel bad
aldrin
I am so lazy when it comes to signing in to stuff that I can barely manage to hit the Caps Lock button in the process
gray
Gray
Mindforge, from William Blake's poem, 'London' when he refers to 'mindforg'd manacles', that I have always liked. Sounds pretentious now I write that down....
And my avatar is Blake's own illustration in miniature. He also set his poems to music so really was one of the first multimedia artists.
Mine comes from my other obsession, archeology.
Imbrex is a type of curved clay tile; the romans used them together with flat tegula tiles on roofs.
As a keen amateur archeologist I have spent hours uncovering and recording fragments of these. I suppose to the layman this is not the most interesting of finds, but to the archeologists it’s a clear indication of roman occupation.
Mine had a lot of thought put in to it - Chris being my name and W the first letter of my surname.........
My initials are JC and at the time I had just bought a Merc C180 so I just used JC180 ;)
My dream of you being a professional darts player have just been shattered
surname is waite and joined not long after seeing U2 in concert! its that simple!
Frankly that's pathetic, couldn't you come up with something more imaginative?
My car registration ........
Wonder if anybody will admit to a second username and why they chose it?
Just saw sheepsteeth......got to be a story there!
My surname is Butler.......
and bits of my birth date....
I have a long-winded Dutch surname.
Reeny is my nickname from school.
It is also Mrs R's car registration
Andy - easy
RS2113 - the build number of my (now departed) Focus RS mk1......
I wish there was.Just saw sheepsteeth......got to be a story there!
It is a term we use to describe those with big teeth (mine arent big or remarkable in anyway) we use a slightly more unpleasant version of the same name (where the "teeth" syllable is replaced with a colloquialism for the female reproductive organs) to describe someone you dont like.
i did the age old british thing of being self deprecating by giving myself an insulting name
rudy russo: kurt russell from movie used cars
highly recommend it
mwurliinkomeg was the result of not checking the box where I first typed my username. So basically it was a mistake.
Don't really know how it happened especially the 'm' at the beginning and the 'ii' in the middle.
The 'omeg' bit comes from 'Omega' of which I have three and the 'wurli' bit comes from 'Wurlitzer' as in Cinema Organ.
The first 'Wurlitzer' cinema organ installed in a cinema in the uk was in the Picture House (Later Gaumont and then Odeon), Walsall - my home town.
I shall refrain from giving you any more useless information.
I hate it but don't think it's possible to change - or is it?
Always an avid admirer and advocate of alliteration!
lol TikTok Trev.
From another Trev.
airwave from the Manufacturer of the best hangglider I ever had.
my name when I was a little boy and my birth year. Mike would be too common :)
we have a winner !!
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
My names Joe and I have a very big second toe!
Mine is a user ID that I've been using for ages, back as far as the days of dial up bulletin boards, does anybody remember them?
It was made up to be humorous and not being imaginative enough to think of something else I've stuck with it.
Can and has caused problems as sometimes people seem to take it at face value, people are wary, on other forums I've been given the 3rd degree and on another watch forum a seller refused to sell me a watch because of my user ID.
Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow. Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma who, out of his desire to fit in and be liked, takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him. The film, presented as a documentary, recounts Zelig's intense period of celebrity in the 1920s and includes analysis from present day intellectuals.
The film was photographed and narrated in the style of 1920s black-and-white newsreels, which are interwoven with archival footage from the era and re-enactments of real historical events. Color segments from the present day interview real and fictional personages, including Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag.
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A polite bump in case anyone else can shed light on their username...
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