[Closed] Care to explain your choice of username?

Spur of the moment thing when the site got re launched after "The Hack".

Mine's a boring one:

My parents called me Paul.

I run (when I'm not doing a job that actually pays the bills) Ride The World cycling holidays. Admittedly, it's effectively been dormant for a few years.....perhaps I should change my user name...

I like colour, and it relates to my education, my job and one of my passions.

I like noise, and spent a few years making lots of it.

Plus, for some reason I seem to remember the forum not liking my usual online name (only 3 letters - too short?)

At least you don't live in Port weegie or Johnstone, as previously suggested!.

I was weekendworrier, often abbreviated to ww.

then I left for a couple of months

when I came back I chose ww-as-was but dropped the hyphens.

I've been northwind or a variation on the internet forever tbh. Came originally from the battletech board game, when I was about 17. And I like it tbh 😆 Also gives me a convenient logo.

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(half covered here but this is the only one I've got, that's weird)

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My home is surrounded by them.

Used to work with demolitions quite a bit in a previous line of work. My favorite was a Russian T-series (F knows which one) tank which we went particularly overboard with.

I've lived north, south, east and west of the Ochils for 22 years.

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Northwind... can I assume then you owned a British Racing Green SV650 then ??

Mine is very simple .. my name is Joe and I own a Lowden guitar

I have really really hairy feet 😀

I like weak puns, self-deprecation and fluffy cuteness. And I'm generally and happily haphazard, clueless and lackadaisical about many things... but I have a PhD and have been MTBing for over 26 years, so I might also be being a touch ironic..

Somehow I've written an entire allegory around it now. But probably put no thought into it whatsoever after The Great Hack re-boot, renaming event. I thought it was funny (at the time). It's probably not though.

It seems to make people use 'nominative determinism' a lot on here, which I find amusing.

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i did aeronautical engineering @ bristol and talk gibberish so it seemed appropriate.

thisisaspoon was already taken as a yahoo username circa 2002.

I live in a bin

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Our kid used to call me Bin Lid when we were at school. Then everyone just gradually started calling me Bin Lid. That sometimes became Bin Laden when he was a little known islamic troublemaker. That stopped quite abruptly on September 11th 2001. It was appropriated to Binners at some point. So everyone's called me some derivative of Binners since I was at school. My little nieces call me Uncle Bin Lid, which is cool 😀

It's my name.

(Or maybe someone else's)

I've got no imagination & my first 'proper' mountain bike was a 2001 Stumpjumper....

At least you don't live in Port weegie or Johnstone, as previously suggested!.

Good God no!
I have standards. (admittedly extremely low ones, but not [b]that[/b] low) 😀

i was jonv before the site hack, so i became theotherjonv afterwards

My process was much like this;

I was eating a sandwich.

I had an acquaintance who had a speech impediment for want of a better word. He would start to call me Jim, then stop and say James. Constantly. The drunker he got the worse it became. Eventually he just merged the two together. I thought it was amusing.

I've no idea.

Thought it would be amusing back when I was a pc gamer.

It still creates confusion occasionally on forums etc.

It was a drunken typo logging into a lan game of doom 2 many years ago at uni. It stuck.

I had a G3 Powermac, I wanted to upgrade to a new G4 but er' indoors was dead set against it as it was a lot of money at the time. I bought one anyway leaving the old G3 on my desk for show and putting the new one in the cupboard next to my desk, hence I had a sneaky G4.

The name stuck ever since.

CB are my initials, and I used to race cars.

[s]I have an apendage the size of a ...
I'm fast as a ...[/s]
Irony

Bugger off.

When I was a kid I rode round hanchurch woods in Staffordshire a lot.

Typo of the Pearl Jam album I was listening to when I joined up with an online "talker" in the early/mid-90s and had to think up a username on the spot.

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me.

I'm useful, or I'm a tool, depending on who you talk to.

when I joined up with an online "talker" in the mid-90s

Which one?

Zippy is always taken so I added kona even though I'm slow and no longer own a kona. [img] [/img]

sure this has bin dun before, but tbf that thread probably got autolocked after a year.

0 guesses what my name is
for a hobby a fly rockets (although my job also involves rockets)

honeybadger was apparently already taken.

Tim is my first name and I've run a pub in Bath since 2004 called [url= http://www.theravenofbath.co.uk/ ]The Raven[/url]
We even have a Mountain Bike Team, that would be Team Raven 😆

Came a'trollin'
Stayed
CBA to change

Coz that's me innit ... 😆

Imagine if I call myself Chew-K-Y ... 😯

Needed a damper urgently, needed a username, had just been watching these:

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I'm lazy

a because of the road club I was in
a because I used to wear briko zen sunglasses that made me look like an alien (apparently)
So, ashbyalien.

Soma from one of my fav record labels [url= http://www.somarecords.com ]soma records[/url] and also from [url= http://www.huxley.net ]my fav book : Aldous Huxley - Brave New World[/url] where [i]Soma[/i] is the state-sanctioned anaesthetising drug of choice to aid with everyday ills

"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects…."Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds."

….and funk from how we used to describe that mid sunday afternoon feeling in the pub after clubbing all night at the sub club/arches/soundhaus then onto various after parties in Glasgow.

Put the two together and you get somafunk, as in :

I'm in a somafunk this afternoon

Simple really.

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Brian Johnson from AC/DC gave it to me. "forget about the check, we'll get hels to pay".

True story.

I have a cat called; well you get the rest...

originally from the black country and support team in adopted city as majority of mates who went drinking supported, certainly not for the glory !!

I'm incredibly right handed and also right footed EXCEPT for on a bike when I lead with my left foot, I was also running a Cannondale with the original Lefty fork so ended up with LeftyBoy.

Was very amused a while back when I was told my username was because I was a left wing whinger, but that's just coincidence 😉

Should probably change it to NotAsLeftyAsIWasAndNotABoyAnyMore but that seems a bit much 🙂

I ride a Global TH1.5 titanium mountain bike from Ride-On in Rawtenstall. I don't think Craig makes them any more.

Because I work in AV and my name is Brian. The 2 came after the hack.

It came from the chippies when I did a lot of exhibition stand builds and I'd be constantly called from from one bit of the stand to another to get my stuff done so they could then carry on.

It's my name.. backwards.

I lived in Rossendale, when I set the account up and I have the downhill skills of a Lemming.

Username on another forum was Adventure Racer (because that's what I was very seriously into, and also trolling because it was an orienteering forum where they were being rude about adventure racers). Contracted it a bit for here, which keeps people guessing. About 18 months since I've done a race or anything competitive at all.

My name is Tom.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti had a pet wombat called Tom.

Based on the above, it seemed appropriate.

Joke init 😉
There is no such thing as a fast haggis.
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I used to have a dalmatian.....dally

I worked with young people especially those who society class as hard to reach, vulnerable, or difficult.

One of the lads thought vin diesel was similiar to me...bald head being the only link i could see but his spelling was not the best so it became
von dally.

I was the oldest member of our crew and if caught on a bad day would moan about how young people have got it easy, So I got the nickname youngster..
I was also a bit of a fiend for intravenous drug use at the time so it was abbreviated to yunki the junky and finally just yunki

(there was some sort of reference to Scandinavian pronunciation too which was hilarious at the time but I guess you had to be there)

Was my user name when I first got a PC. Often wish I had chosen something more identifiable and interesting!:-)

Vaguely reminiscent of a romanticised outdoorsy kind of vibe, and inspired by a line in a song "The north wind, is like a Spanish guitar, soaked in petrol, burning on the bar" (also pretty abstract and meaningless). Also I'm a northerner.

Nothing to do with Northwind, and definitely not trying to claim I'm [i]the[/i] northwind and somehow more genuine than him. Sorry about that.

According to Matt's MuddyMoles blog when I went for my first ride with them, I was some guy on a Turner...

joelowden - Member

Northwind... can I assume then you owned a British Racing Green SV650 then ??

It's Renault Vert Anglais 👿 Get it right! Yeah, that's me. There's a couple of other sv650.org folks on here too

First name Chris, second name Lupton. It could so easily have been clupton but it wasn't, which was pretty handy (in avoiding confusion) a few years ago when glupton was about (or was about and using that name, I'm not attentive enough to keep track of who went away and came back in disguise).

No explination needed I would assume, 853 Inbred frame bought from that Brant chap, however it was retired last year after many years sterling service. Should really change my user name to Elmarkungfu now!

Cockney Rhyming Slang Nickname given to me by friends in senior school after I shrunkwrapped my irritating science teachers car and got dobbed in. "you're totally Daffy Ducked".

That was in 1994....I've had my synonymous e-mail and domain name since 1995.

My online name has been Jekyll for years; msn chatrooms, steam on-line CS & TF2 games used this handle previously. Came on here one to ask about brakes one day and finding 'Jekyll' taken I simply added another letter. I don't really like it and would like to change it but I suppose it doesn't really matter. The real 'Jekyll' goes on the classifieds a lot and never comes on the chat/bike forum. My real name's Michael. 🙂

Father Yod on lead vocals along Djin Aquarian on guitar, Octavius Aquarian on drums, and Sunflower Aquarian on bass

Zinaru Aquarian was the sound guy - to my all time favourite band YA HO WHA 13

Always like to think of him as the Eno of the band, hence my username. And its slightly more exciting than 'John'

A group of us used to go snowboarding every year, usually to somewhere different each time. Despite being rubbish at languages at school, i would turn into a international linguist while away. I invented a new language (a mixture of Irish, French, Spanish + German) while drunk one evening. Weirdly, foreign folk could understand what i was saying (ordering food, drinks etc) so my mates named the this new tongue Euromar and another nickname was born.

I too have my own logo 😉

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Years ago I was given the nickname "tenfoot" by my friends after my sister-in -law changed the words to a rhyme we used to use when we were kids - My friend Billy had a ten foot willy etc...."

My name is Phil, so Billy was substituted with Philly, and the nickname stuck.

We've definitely done this before but,

During my formative hackish years online it became apparent that a unique alias was required. "Cougar" was inspired by Top Gun (which dates how long I've used it), it's a loose play on my real name, I'm a 'cat' person and TBH as a teenager I thought it was kinda cool.

Fast forward a quarter of a century and it now has an unfortunate other meaning which I could never have predicted, but the name's too well entrenched to change. I've a couple of Real Life™ friends who address me as Cougar even, the horse has well and truly bolted. Ho hum.

If I had known how long I would spend on this forum, I would have thought up something witty and amusing (possibly!) 8)

However, as some on here know, a Rockape is a nickname for an Raf Regt Gunner and 63 was the sqn I spent my last few years in (up to 1985). It was used more as a code for similar others at the time to spot. A lifetime ago now.... 😕

Real name Jonny Williams becomes Wonny Jilliams becomes wonny j

I was eating a sandwich.

Not this one.

It's an old school nickname based on my surname. I was hamster before the hack but the felching got too much.

Yorky as I was raised as a wee boy on a farm in Yorkshire & CSL as I owned a bonkers BMW m3 CSL which superb but I couldn't drive it to save my life, the stig Not.

First name Chris, second name Lupton.

That's interesting, there's a classifieds-only user with the same name. Do I need to dust off the hammer?

Mine was just random words that i heard someone else use the week I was signing up. It doesn't have any deeper meaning.

I sail a lot, I windsurf a lot, I ride bikes a lot.

I wanted a combination of that lot so came up with:

bikebouy, bike = bike and bouy = bouy you sail around.

Simple eh.

Nothing to do with medicine - was from at a certain point I was pretty down and Dr Dre's "Still DRE" was a bit of a pick-me-up 🙂

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I live in Cheshire, and I have a cat

I blame my parents.

I'm Benjamin when in trouble, Ben in more formal situations, and Benji when having fun.