Forum Members - User Names

[Cliff Rogers]

Another calumny! Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! :oo:
Wellllll... it is your turn in the barrel. :p

[Dr Jan Itor]

Did you ever watch Scrubs (http://scrubs-tv.com/)?

[joe greiner]

2. Over and Out is a nonsense, it is not correct.

I was a radio operator in US Signal Corps. The full expression is "Roger dodger, you old codger; over, under, sideways, and out.":D

Joe

[silentC]

He's a French Crossdressing Brothel Owner :o

Richard
That French Crossdressing is OK but I prefer a nice balsamic on my lettuce...

[Black Ned]

Catchya,
Cliff


Sorry. I was thinking of Lodger when I mispelt your name.

What does Catchya ----- Mean?

[silentC]

I think it's Polish for "yours sincerely"

[Termite]

They've all got it in for me! :oo:
Providing the price is right Madame. :oo:

[Cliff Rogers]

I was a radio operator in US Signal Corps. The full expression is "Roger dodger, you old codger; over, under, sideways, and out.":D

Joe
It wasn't correct radio protocol though was it? :rolleyes:


..
What does Catchya ----- Mean?

I will catch up with you later.
Catch you later.
Catchya.

Bit like seeya or CU.

[RETIRED]

Keep it on topic, not Friday drivel.

[AlexS]

It wasn't correct radio protocol though was it? :rolleyes:



I will catch up with you later.
Catch you later.
Catchya.

Bit like seeya or CU.

Thanks for explaining, Cliff,

Copya

[joe greiner]

It wasn't correct radio protocol though was it?

Oh, heck no. Only used off the air.

[I use my real name, because if I used some clever handle, I might forget it, and then I wouldn't be able to log on; hard enough remembering my password.]

Joe

[TassieKiwi]

:D

'The cold wind blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first
To ever burst
Into that silent C'

Well, I never, Mr 'umpfries!

I think that, and the 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' bit are the only things I remember from 7Th form English.
Maybe I like allteration?

Oh, and how to spell 'Onomatopoeia'. :p

[Black Ned]

Come On Members - There are plenty more of you out there. Tell us how you got your "Handle" - warts and all!
Some are spelling errors and some have a story attached - tell us Yours!

[pawnhead]

Come On Members - There are plenty more of you out there. Tell us how you got your "Handle" - warts and all!
Some are spelling errors and some have a story attached - tell us Yours! Why don’t you guys with typos just ask Neil to fix it up for you?

Mine stuck from a chess club I joined when I first went on line. I got up to a rating of about 1300, but I haven’t played for a couple of years now.
I’m up if anyone wants a game though.

The helmet and sword is because I'm a Viking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogier_the_Dane). :viking:


Who cares ? :rolleyes:Haha, classic. http://www.woodworkforums.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Bluegum]

I decided on mine after many years ago my grandfather built me a swing between to large bluegums behind where we were living. he told me that they were good strong trees. It was also the first real hardwood i decided to work with a few years ago. When i stumbled across the forum I decided it would be an appropriate log in name for me.:2tsup:

[pawnhead]

Is that a Jack Russel in your avatar Bluegum?

My Rosco's a great little dog.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y266/holgerdanske/th_Rosco.jpg (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y266/holgerdanske/Rosco.jpg)

[scooter]

...bluegums ...hardwood...log in


[groan] :D

[ss_11000]

mine is my initials_11(my birthdate)000(thousand, dont no y...)

cheers

oh, and stirlo was already taken...lol

[tameriska]

Mine is just my standard online name, saw tamerisk as a character in a book somewhere, liked it, and adapted it to tameriska. Hopefully it is also obvious as a female name, and slightly similar to my real one.

[ubeaut]

Originally our products were to be called ShitHot went to Melb to register the name some 20 odd years ago and they wouldn't touch it.

Tried Shidot, Sheedot and a few others but to no avail. Had to come up with another name on the spot and U-BEAUT was the closest I could get to ShitHot.

Out products may be called U-Beaut but everyone who uses them will tell you their really SHITHOT.

So why UBEAUT? Because I am of course.......... well, at least I reckon I am.

Very modest too.

[outback]

Guess who the boss is, he gets to ####, we can't not even shithot


Edit: We can say shithot, just not ####.

[journeyman Mick]

Originally our products were to be called ShitHot went to Melb to register the name some 20 odd years ago and they wouldn't touch it.

Tried Shidot, Sheedot and a few others but to no avail. Had to come up with another name on the spot and U-BEAUT was the closest I could get to ShitHot.

Out products may be called U-Beaut but everyone who uses them will tell you their really SHITHOT.

So why UBEAUT? Because I am of course.......... well, at least I reckon I am.

Very modest too.

Neil,
probably just as well though, seeing you're "U" and Pauline is "Beaut" does this mean that if you'd managed to register your original choice you'd be "S**t" and Pauline would be "Hot"?:o

Mick

[Sturdee]

Guess who the boss is, he gets to ####, we can't not even shithot


Edit: We can say shithot, just not ####.

and



Lets try a few others... :wink:
##########



Well sheyetsticks doesn't work.


The drivel is taking over again, alas the end of an interesting thread.:((


Peter.

[jmk89]

JMK89 - having worked as a solicitor in major law firms for many years, you get given initials or a number to use for an identifier on your letters and other workproduct. Overtime people refer to each other this way. I flipped and flopped between jmk and 89 and so people got tired of remembering which it was and just called me JMK89 and it stuck

[ubeaut]

SHITHOT pronounced She tho or Shith oh (the T is silent) is a trade name just like FCUK (French Connection United Kingdom) is a trade name and as such can be used in these forums.

Why did I decide to call it Shithot? Because I gave out a dozen sticks to my students some 20 odd years ago and said give it a try and tell me what you think..... The overwhelming reply was "It's shithot stuff".


http://www.ubeaut.com.au/SHWAXTIK.gif

.http://www.ubeaut.com.au/waxtik.jpg
:U

[Mattsplatt]

Mine is real easy!

When I was in the Air Force, surnames were used everywhere! I was just Probert! That's all anyone called you. But with your mates there was always a nickname. Splatt rhymes with Matt and I had a tendency to succumb to the forces of gravity at inopportune times, then hence MattSplatt or just plane (mispell intended) Splatt!:doh: :doh:

[Sharpasaknife]

I have allways liked sharp cutting tools and I was given my first pocket knife at the age of 12, a Henry Boker, to cut it short ... if it does not shave it is not sharp ... Sharpasaknife... and yes my hand plane blades can give do a bikini line.

[Rusty]

Because I am made of metal and do not own an umbrella.

[black1]

i have two on here blackone that i did 3or 4yaers ago and cant remember the password.
so i did another one last year when i refound this forum and truncated it to black1. (by the way this is my last name):cool:
(and i dont do caps either) :cool:
(blackone was a navy nickname as opossed to nigger or darky)

[Black Ned]

Time to resurrect this post!

Still a lot of great handles out there that could do with a good explanation.

[Barry Hicks]

I first saw mine written on all my gear on my first day of school - a long time ago.

Barry Hicks

[Studley 2436]

So Barry you are just hoping teacher spelled it right?

Studley

[Gingermick]

My father used to call me gingermick or sometimes gingerdick. And I'm a red head named mick.

[wattlewemake]

When I first decided to make some furniture, swmbo asked "What are you going to make?"

Then I bought a heap of silver wattle and some black wattle really cheap.

So the name seemed appropiate...

Shane.

[Howdya do that]

The first thread I ever read on the forums was Rockers Rocker and I said...................

[Kaiser Soze]

Mines from a cool film.
As it turned out it's the name of a Turkish crockery producer!

[Shedgirl]

Mines from a cool film.
As it turned out it's the name of a Turkish crockery producer!

It is a cool film; I never knew that about the crockery producer though!

Mine's a political statement (yeah right) about the need for women to empower themselves by claiming the space, time and budget to escape family responsibilities and bugger about drinking cups of tea and listening to badly-tuned paint-splattered radios in A Shed of One's Own - just like blokes have been doing for years.
Oh, and it was easy to spell.:B

[MrFixIt]

Hi
Originally our products were to be called ShitHot went to Melb to register the name some 20 odd years ago and they wouldn't touch it.

Yes, those people at the Busines Names Registration Board can SOMETIMES be a pain.

I wanted to register "Info" as a business name, in part because I wanted the name as a web domain name, ie "www.info.com.au"

Well did they give me a hard time! :((

After MUCH lengthy discussion with the counter staff, that said "we don't think it's a *SUITABLE* name", I DON'T CARE if *YOU* think it's suitable or not, if you cannot give me a VALID reason why I CAN'T have it then I would like to register it. We discussed at length the use of the name and what "info" meant ie short for information and as I was in the computer business where people used computers for INFORMATION "info" seemed quite appropriate. Nope! :((

So I pressed hard for this and lady at the counter went to her superior - in another room and out of earshot. She came back and said NO! *WE* don't *THINK* it's suitable. :(( :((

So I went outside, called the BRB from outside the building aked to speak to the supervisor, had yet another lengthy discussion on the mobile phone. Eventually I was told I could register a request for review of the name in WRITING, which I did that afternoon. ABout three days later I received a phone call saying that the name was approved. I registered the name and the domain name and used it for a couple of years.

One day I received a request to sell the domain name. I thought about it and decided not to. A couple of months later I received another call from the UK, did I want to sell the domain name?

Hmmm? I was considering my options when the previous offer to purchase was resurected by the original inquirer. Hmmm? again!

To shorten this already long message, there was a two way auction which resulted in my selling the info domain name for quite a few thousand AU$. :2tsup: I guess THAT was an offer too good to refuse. I also relinquished my right to the business name as they were "kind of" tied together.

[MrFixIt]

Hi

Mine is relatively obvious. Because I fix things, pretty much ANYTHING. Normally without a manual or instructions because that's how I receive the broken "things" or there is no repair manual readily available. Not that a manual matters very much, as I only refer to a manual when I have finished - to se if they wrote it correctly :2tsup:

I started about age 8, with a pocket (fob) watch that was given to me in pieces in a small cardboard box. I have not stopped since and I'm now 58.

It has become almost an obsession that I fix things. When I was on the road in the service industry, if I saw things that were broken, like items in view of the item I was supposed to repair, I would fix it and leave a note saying what happened and that I fixed their "broken thing" while I was on site.

I see it as a personal challenge to fix something that was designed NOT to be fixed, but replaced. I most cases I am happy to replace the item, BUT, NOT UNTIL I have fixed the broken one first :2tsup: :doh:

[Cliff Rogers]

Still no idea. :think:

[Glen]

Another calumny! Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! :oo:

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you:D

I just used my first name as I thought I could change it later when I thought of something decent, but then found out it's the only thing you can't change - doh. Everyone at work has a nickname, mines weasel after the weasel in the foghorn leghorn cartoons, apparently we are brothers. Its really weird but some people, call em by their real name and everyone goes "Who".

[I_wanna_Shed]

Nothing too exciting, original, or imaginative about my name. I first found these forums when we were renting a townhouse, and I wanted a shed. Hence, "I_Wanna_Shed" I was born.

I didn't think it through though. Now that I have a nice big shed, the username doesn't fit! :doh:

[wheelinround]

wheelinround..........well mostly I get called hoppie by those who have known me for many years.. I wont go into why to many reasons.:rolleyes:

For those who like stories

Why wheelinround no not just cause I use the wheelchair to get around most days these days....anything with wheels since I got my first peddle car back as a youngster, rollerskates, trikes, bikes, scooters, motor bikes, cars, an occassional trucks/semi, and 25 years driving buses n coaches and repairing them... along with 5 years building them prior that as an apprentice.

Just need to go for my medical driving test and I'll be back behind the wheel again just hate taking tests/exams.:doh:

Family history also has a BIG part in the name they built horse drawn coaches, carts, carridges, RR's, cars, planes motor bikes.
http://www.britishmm.co.uk/history.asp?id=50
http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/nut.htm
http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/competitors.aspx?ride_id=134&filter=M
http://avia.russian.ee/air/england/arm_fk-10.php
http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2003/4/11/96407.html
http://www.geocities.com/summerhillroad2002/percy_perrin.htm

Made on Tyneside http://www.asaplive.com/Local/publications.cfm?ccs=513&cs=1779
£1.95
The history of the manufacture of aircraft, cars and motorbikes on Tyneside, written by the son of an engineer who worked at the Angus Sanderson factory during the Great War. The booklet includes cars created in Birtley, planes produced in Gosforth and motorbikes manufactured in Newcastle. The companies include Angus Sanderson, Armstrong Whitworth, Vickers and N.U.T. Aircraft include the BE2A,FK3, FK8, and FK10, a range covering biplanes, triplanes and quadruplanes.
In 1920, on the other side of the world, the first regular airmail service run by the Australian company, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service Limited, (now QANTAS) was undertaken with an FK8.

Now comes the worst you all now know my secret............yep :U and proud of it.

[manoftalent]

I am a chef by trade, also capable of many other tasks .....mowing, whippersniping, cleaning, doing dishes,moping floors, washing laundry, hanging out laundry, folding laundry,scrubbing bathrooms, vacuuming, dusting, glasscleaning, painting, ironing, fixing broken electical appliances, tuning and maintenance of cars,building "stuff"...fences, deckings, walls, sheds, etc, making usfull items out of wood ( big in recycling timber, cause its already aged:U )...father of two boys, and husband to loving wife :2tsup:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Hehehe. Given the last post, I feel I should've called myself JOATMON! :rolleyes:

[Capt. Zero]

When I first started working river boats I couldn't catch on to throwing lines worth a damn. One of my coworkers decided to start calling me Zero (everyone on boats has a nickname some pretty awful) and it stuck. Later on, when I got my pilots liscence, everyone forgot why the name started and began calling me Capt. Zero thinking it was because I didn't have accidents. The internet came along and I found it to be a handy moniker.
My real name is John E. Aubin.






"I couldn't get you to believe my name is John Q. Smith, could I?"
"Well of course you could, sign here."

[pitbull]

My missus gave me my nickname because i was a bit hotheaded in my younger days, and i dont fancy changing it to Hush Puppy now i'm more mellow. :U

[Dr.Zook]

Mine comes from the comic strip, "Hagar The Horrible". There is a character in the stip called "Dr. Zook". A doctor that Hagar goes to. I was a Toolmaker by trade for GM and had to go out in the plant to repair dies. I was on radio dispatch and the dispatcher would call for Dr. Zook to go repair said die. Therefore I made 'house calls'. The name stuck and spread and through out the plant, I was "Dr. Zook". Oh yes, my last name is Zook. Doc for short.

[Zed]

My real moniker is a strange one that only I and and the members of my coven have ever been able to pronounce. For some strange reason the presence of caucasian, asian, african, or any other non coven-blood automatically makes the tongue swell when prononcing my name. I grew up with all sorts of nicknames and I dont like them now either - at least the ones I get. Once I got big enough i started to fight back at a few of the more offensive ones.... having to pick a userid for this board - i wasnt gunna use my real name as it stands out like a dogs gonad.... Thus Zed, at least the Z is spelt right..

And yes, all of you that I have met - every one of u, except Boban, have, and contine to mispronounce it, it is my burden and I carry it.. <HO-HUM>

[Sturdee]

My real moniker is a strange one that only I and and the members of my coven have ever been able to pronounce.


I can relate to that as well as mine's also always mispronounced.


Peter.

[HappyHammer]

Mine is a combination of the fact I have a positive outlook on life and pays some homage to the stereotype of the the cheeky cockney. The second half relates to my love of football and one team in particular West Ham United. Nothing to do with the hand tool I'm afraid.

HH.

[Ruddigar]

I saw mine on the side of a woodworking machine.
Pfft. Moron. :rolleyes:

Mine comes from an exchange between Brad Goodman and Bart Simpson in "Bart's Inner Child".

[speedy]

When I worked as a auto-elec for a ford dealer the service manager called me speedy behind my back in a derogatory way, I didn't find out until I left to become a paramedic. I told my partner one day, she laughed and laughed saying the name suited me so I adopted it as a handle.
:2tsup:

[silentC]

Nicknames are funny things, they can take on a life of their own. I've never really had one that stuck. I've been called all sorts of things but the most common would be Dazza or Dazzler - but not many people call me that either.

Yet I can think of several examples of people I went school with whose childhood nicknames went on to become the only names they are known by today. One of them is Speed by the way. Even his wife calls him that. He picked it up in high school (similar reason to you I recall).

My Dad has a nickname that was given to him by his mum when he was a toddler - he hates his real name and no-one ever calls him by it twice. Very few people actually know what his name is. He calls himself Ted and always has done, so people assume his real name is Edward, but it's not. It's XXXXXX. :)

[Ruddigar]

It's XXXXXX. :)
:oo:

I've been using your old man's real name as my password to log on at work! What a coincidence. :oo:

[silentC]

You know, that happens all the time!

[Manuka Jock]

Mine, started out a graham paige, but seems to have got shortened by the board. I is a user id I use across the internet, it comes from my favorite toy (See my sig)

My brother drives a Graham Paige , a '28 , or a '29 , I think .
Green and black , with a dickyseat
:2tsup:

[Cliff Rogers]

My brother drives a Graham Paige , a '28 , or a '29 , I think .
Green and black , with a dickyseat
:2tsup:

Gra has a '28 4door, I went for a ride in it a couple of weeks ago. :2tsup:

[Gra]

My brother drives a Graham Paige , a '28 , or a '29 , I think .
Green and black , with a dickyseat
:2tsup:

get him to drop me some pictures. always interesting in new cars. Havent got round to building a roadster yet (Its on the list, but well done the list). Have a look at the link to my toys in my sig

[Manuka Jock]

Years ago , at an International Ta Moko Symposium ,
I had my clan crest tattooed on my chest. The Maori organiser , (who it turns out , is also of my clan and is now a good mate ) started calling me 'Jock' , 'cos he didn't know my real name at the time , ( not so sure that he does yet :D ) .
'Manuka' is a great , small hardwood we have here




get him to drop me some pictures. always interesting in new cars. Havent got round to building a roadster yet (Its on the list, but well done the list). Have a look at the link to my toys in my sig

Gra , I have emailed him , when he replies to me , I will pass it on .

cheers ,
Jock

[Barry_White]

No prizes for guessing what my name means because it doesn't mean anything other than it's my real name.

No that's not really me in my Avatar either. People usually ask me if I can sing. I usually answer:

No I can't sing, I'm the wrong colour, I've got no money and he's gone and I'm still here.

[RETIRED]

Keep it close to the topic please people.:;

[Sturdee]

When I had to decide on a username I thought long and hard for a worthy Australian to emulate.

I looked for someone uninterested in sport, but who liked pottering about in his garden and making things in his well-equipped workshop and yet was a great influence in our nation. Someone I would be proud to honour by using his name as my usename.

I finally selected Sir V.A.H. Sturdee (http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160406b.htm) who was a succesful soldier rising through the ranks and retired as Chief of General Staff, first military member of the Military Board and chief of the Australian Section of the Imperial General Staff.

His insistance during WW2 in stopping the shipping of the 7th division to the Far East and the bringing back of the AIF from the Middle East is what helped save us from the imminent Japanese invasion. Without these decisions we would be speaking japanese instead of american.

He was one of our greatests Australians and when retired he burnt his private papers, commenting, 'I have done the job. It is over'.


BTW it's also the street sign that I look at out of my windows.:D


Peter.

[HappyHammer]

Finally I get a post axed by ...:U

HH.

[journeyman Mick]

My real moniker is a strange one that only I and and the members of my coven have ever been able to pronounce. For some strange reason the presence of caucasian, asian, african, or any other non coven-blood automatically makes the tongue swell when prononcing my name. I grew up with all sorts of nicknames and I dont like them now either - at least the ones I get. Once I got big enough i started to fight back at a few of the more offensive ones.... having to pick a userid for this board - i wasnt gunna use my real name as it stands out like a dogs gonad.... Thus Zed, at least the Z is spelt right..

And yes, all of you that I have met - every one of u, except Boban, have, and contine to mispronounce it, it is my burden and I carry it.. <HO-HUM>

Zed,
That's a bit of a challenge. if I ever catch up with you you'll have to give me a go at pronouncing it, Lots of people from different countries have taught me snippets of their languages over the years. They all reckoned I must have an ear for languages and a flexible palate because I've not only gotten the pronounciation right, I've also gotten their particular regional accent.

Mick