Well Mutanti In Italian means ...........
You Work it out..
I dont know if its spelt right but youll have a laugh when you work it out.
Its my online itenity for most places I go online. :D
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Well Mutanti In Italian means ...........
You Work it out..
I dont know if its spelt right but youll have a laugh when you work it out.
Its my online itenity for most places I go online. :D
Jack has been a long standing nickname and E is the first letter of my surname.
People have been surprised to learn my real name is not Jack, even after knowing me for years. SWMBO still calls me Jack as that is what she was introduced to me as and we have been together for five and a half years.
Jack.
I was trying to get a an online email address that I could remember. I had tried 10 of 15 different ones and kept getting "That name is not available, would you like Charles1827374728". I was reading an article on the history of St Kilda and it's seedy past and there was a long section about the illegal bookies, so I tried Spbookie (Starting Price Bookie) and it worked. So I keep using it.
Perhaps Squizzy and I should start a forum underworld gang. Hijacking threads and liberating red wine as specialities.
Charles
When first signed up, I was already the webmaster for the Triton club, and decided to not disappear behind a pseudonym (thanks for the spelling Stueysnail). Neil (aka Ubeaut) (aka God) invited me to moderate, and it seemed appropriate to stay with my real name. If I had my choice over......yeah I'd probably change it. I may not have posted as much as some in my time on the board, but I am kind of attached the momentum of it all :D
My only real change to my identity is I now peruse the board in invisible mode. I may now be a moderator, but I'm first and foremost just another member of this community, and the role seems to attract an extra amount of cheap shots from the Kenmils of this world.
Mutande or for you wife caizonciniQuote:
Originally Posted by mutanti
Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
When I was born my Mum wanted to call me Ian, the old man would not hear of it "ye'll noo giv tha lad a sassenach name' or something along those lines.
So Iain it was much to the disgust of numerous government departments who tell me it's spelled incorrectly.
I had a variety of nicknames over the years, mostly derogatory so I kept those out and one I held for a long time was 'Angel' which I had no intention of ever using.
'Dr Who' was another I earned while working for Community Based Corrections, for it was observed by villains that I had the means to materialise whilst they were in the process of being 'naughty' just before I dragged them into court and suggested a holiday might be in order.
I chose neither of these names and just decided to keep mine :p
And my avatar came about after a local committee tried to screw me and I nailed them to the wall, and loved it :D
If you want to play lawyer, don't play with me, you'll lose ;)
nuthin like a good stoush with a collective of morons :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
To a couple of forum members I met at the Sydney WWW show, I actually use the name 'Burn' on my business cards. The legal name is Bernard, but back at Uni, when I applied for a user name on a computer, a staff member had 'Bernie', so as I was just a mere student, it was felt that my login name should be different enough for people not to confuse me with the staff member - so Burn was born.
I got a reasonably well known in my field, whilst wokring at the University, but not as my real name, but as my then e-mail address! When I allowed myself to be bought by private industry (what can I say, I was a trollop back then), they also wanted my 'name' as well as skill set.
The name stuck.
Regards
Burn
And so was I and I'm not doing it again :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...2&postcount=15
I hope these days iain you would at least dovetail them to the wall nails are so crude ( but effective )Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Russell
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
well i was christened "Doug" in 1959.
After i joined the army in 1977, someone started calling me "Doug the Slug" for some reason, ive never been able to work out exactly why but it started right after our first communal shower. ive been stuck with it ever since so ive used it on a number of websites including this one.
Ive been out of the army for 8 years now but the nickname wont go away,
Doug
Did they catch you in shower perhaps ? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by doug the slug
Didnt read the whole post did u gumby????Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
so were you sluggardly leaving the shower or was it because of a snail er slug trail as you got dressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by doug the slug
Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
It's like calling a redhead 'bluey' or a short bloke 'stretch'. :p
It was his soap and he could wash it as fast as he wanted to, so now you can leave him alone.
No fee for the service Doug :D :D :D :D
Only Colonels & chaplains catch anything in the shower. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Like most people I lurked for a while before joining. I got the impression that everyone used unusual names. I guess I saw postings by my good online friend Termite and saw that he turns timber into s####.
So given that it was an Australian forum I thought I would adopt a name the turned termites (and their close cousins ie wood borers) into the same thing.
Anyway thats mys tory and I'm sticking to it.
Cheers
When I was a young fellow growing up in Kiwiland we had a neighbour by the unfortunate name of Crapper who owned race horses, one of which was a reasonable nag called Otakiri Girl. Based on the amount of c..p that flies on this forum I thought OtakiriLad was appropriate.
Well nobody was ever going to guess that association. :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by OtakiriLad
It just sounded better than my usual name "silly old b******"
Kind regards
Brian
Craigb
I know I am going to regret this but I have to know. Would you please tell me; what does your avatar represent?
The other one is 'LOL'. Lots of Luck? Lordy oh Lordy? Lots of Love?
Curiously Yours
5T http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...cons/icon7.gif
Before you ask how about an answer to the thread why five thumbsQuote:
Originally Posted by Five Thumbs
why not four thumbs and a thumb
or ten thumbs
or eight thumbs and two thumbs
or all thumbs but only on one hand
AS for the avatar ask Rex
LOL Russell
O.K. The avatar is a T-Rex. This is because I've been accused (not on this board (yet)) of being a dinosaur. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Five Thumbs
LOL means laughing out loud :)
ROFL means rolling on the floor laughing
ROTFLMAO means rolling on the floor laughing my asre off
HTH :)
Craig
Being an Australian rubber stamp manufacturer, one uses quite a lot of imported stuff. In the USA, rubber stamps are called marking devices.
One of the lines we used to manufacture, was called Optimark. Which, advertising wise to Americans, meant an optimum rubber stamp unit.
That line has now been replaced with the Ultimark stamp, so I haven't a clue what it's successor will be called.
Anyway, I use my real name on at least 4 motorcycle forums around the world but when I was submitting the form for this site I looked up and saw the old Optimark vacuum chamber and thought that would be alright.
Just as a matter of interest, having a vacuum chamber is a great thing to impress 7 to 15 year olds.
It goes like this:- I usually say do you have a micro wave that makes boiling hot water in your house? To which the answer is always, "yes".
I then tell them I have a machine which makes boiling cold water!
This really gets them going, I tell you.
Well we get a glass of water, everyone puts their finger in, yep, it's cold water.
The unit is turned on and the vacuum starts, all eyes are on the glass of water, which, as the vacuum hits around 28-9 inches in around 30 seconds, starts to boil.
Everyone agrees that the water is boiling, which it is. At this point I turn the machine off and quickly pull the glass out and theatrically I place a digit in the glass. Usually the ones below about 12 years gasp, the older ones frown and think, how did he do that.
What is really interesting, is that I have never gotten a child under 10 years of age to stick their finger into the glass before they watch their mother, or someone elses mother, stick their finger in.
For those who don't know, water, at that low level of air pressure, boils at or around 2C. So with tap water usually being around 12C in winter and 20C in Summer, it boils easily.
Mick.
Heard of desalinators using the vacuuum principle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimark
But the IMPORTANT QUESTION IS
would it work as a still for making booze :D :D :D :D :D
OK
Five Thumbs is meant to convey, literally, my ineptitude at woodworking. By that I mean making furniture, I can repair and refurbish furniture fairly well. I can do minor electrical work (very carefully), small plumbing jobs, install sprinkling systems, build fences and gates, prune roses and hedges, put floors into roof spaces, hang new doors, build interior walls in garages, work out drainage systems and install them, build retaining walls, fix small problems in washing machines, make leather belts and handbags and stitch them with waxed thread.
On reflection I may have been a little hard on myself. :) Anyway, starting next week I am going to miss golf on Fridays (so only play on Wed & Sat) and start doing woodwork on Fridays. If I start improving I will post a picture and the members can tell me whether I can start taking thumbs away.
Cheers
5T
PS. Thank you CraigB
NIK
You get to do all that AND play golf 3 time a week :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Five Thumbs
I'm guessing that you must be retired. ;)
Lucky you :)
Cheers
Craig
Cagey doesnt refer to my demeanour. I happens to be my initials KG. A guy I worked with labled me many years ago and Ive used it ever since for all kind of things including personal plates on the SS Commodore.
I have a daughter who we call KT, works for her.
I also have heard that SS interprets as Stock Standard :D :D :D (I don't drive a local car)
Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain