Explain yourself! What does your username/avatar mean?
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So many stories behind names and avatars... funny, sad, absurd ones.
As for me, couldn't find out what brand my first road bicycle was (probably custom made), only knew it had Reynolds tubing. So, I called it "the Reynolds". I still have that frame.
My avatar is someone we all should be grateful to - Baron Karl von Drais.
As for me, couldn't find out what brand my first road bicycle was (probably custom made), only knew it had Reynolds tubing. So, I called it "the Reynolds". I still have that frame.
My avatar is someone we all should be grateful to - Baron Karl von Drais.
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A Fist is a commander in the Malazan Army.
High Fist is the supreme commander of the Malazan Army.
Shin is a nick-name. My avatar is grim and perfect with a face that expresses extreme displeasure. Kind of what you would expect from the Supreme Commander of a fantasy series army. What can I say, I'm a fan of Steven Erikson.
-Shin
High Fist is the supreme commander of the Malazan Army.
Shin is a nick-name. My avatar is grim and perfect with a face that expresses extreme displeasure. Kind of what you would expect from the Supreme Commander of a fantasy series army. What can I say, I'm a fan of Steven Erikson.
-Shin
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In high school, my nickname was Mickey (for my last name - McD*****). At the time, I hated it. 85 - my birth year. I've used the handle as one of two on various message boards for the past decade or so.
Charlie Brown...well...it's been a stressful year or three.
Charlie Brown...well...it's been a stressful year or three.
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Wow, somehow I thought that I had done this once before, but maybe on another forum?
Anyhow, I'm the technical team leader (lead engineer) for the Focused Ion Beam lab of a major semiconductor development organization. If you want to be bored to tears, Google "FIB", and check out the Wikipedia page. It's good work if you are into science. We hold a bunch of patents, get to publish research papers and occasionally lecture.
Those of us who 'FIB', are know as Fibbers.
The picture is of me and my beloved puppy Madison, who died of stomach bloat a few years ago.
Anyhow, I'm the technical team leader (lead engineer) for the Focused Ion Beam lab of a major semiconductor development organization. If you want to be bored to tears, Google "FIB", and check out the Wikipedia page. It's good work if you are into science. We hold a bunch of patents, get to publish research papers and occasionally lecture.
Those of us who 'FIB', are know as Fibbers.
The picture is of me and my beloved puppy Madison, who died of stomach bloat a few years ago.
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Alright i'm game. this is a cool thread. I have been posting on BF on and off since 2005 so alot of these avatars/names are familiar.
My last name is hedges, consequently most people call me by my last name and I usually introduce myself with my last name. Its a much more interesting and unique name then my first name. Though i hear it is a common name in england. The mr part came about in high school when i was creating an email address for myself, I thought it would be funny if i used mrhedges since i am about as far from formal as one can get. Since then i have used it for most Internet/computer things. Though lately i have also been using D.G.W Hedges since my full name is David George Willam Hedges, sounds classy huh?
the avatar is the cover of the first album by the band death, i go through periods of time were i listen to alot of death metal when i picked the avatar i was going through one of those periods, I might change it though its alittle of putting, though the band death is really great if you want to listen to only one death metal band pick death, maybe i'll change it to david bowie or john prime.
My last name is hedges, consequently most people call me by my last name and I usually introduce myself with my last name. Its a much more interesting and unique name then my first name. Though i hear it is a common name in england. The mr part came about in high school when i was creating an email address for myself, I thought it would be funny if i used mrhedges since i am about as far from formal as one can get. Since then i have used it for most Internet/computer things. Though lately i have also been using D.G.W Hedges since my full name is David George Willam Hedges, sounds classy huh?
the avatar is the cover of the first album by the band death, i go through periods of time were i listen to alot of death metal when i picked the avatar i was going through one of those periods, I might change it though its alittle of putting, though the band death is really great if you want to listen to only one death metal band pick death, maybe i'll change it to david bowie or john prime.
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First and last initials colt comes from the brand of firearms! Avatar is cause I am from West Virginia and a Mountaineer fan
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<-- First name.
Technically a with silent ğ that lengthens the preceding vowel instead of being pronounced itself, but people just call me Tug.
Thread bumped.
Technically a with silent ğ that lengthens the preceding vowel instead of being pronounced itself, but people just call me Tug.
Thread bumped.
#211
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My friends just call me Colonel, but refer to me as The Colonel. My grand dad gave me a few milk crates of his country records a few years ago. Porter Waggoner's "The Rubber Room" was in there (the same photo of that sweaty forehead and golden pompadour were used on "The Carroll County Accident"). Another relative called me Porter as a child because of a pair of blue cowboy boots I wore. I like awesomely tacky album art. This bizarre number features another Kentucky colonel. Just plain weird.
I've wondered that several times, but never looked it up. Emphasis on the second syllable?
I've wondered that several times, but never looked it up. Emphasis on the second syllable?
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Toytech I am an ex Toyota mechanic, (now at Lexus) I have used it for years on car forums.
My avatar, well you would just have to work next to me for a while..let's just say I have the gift of ridicule.
My avatar, well you would just have to work next to me for a while..let's just say I have the gift of ridicule.
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"Ciocc Cat" was my nickname among members of the Shreveport Bicycle Club "Wild Bunch" (outlaw) racing (and beer drinking) team in the late 1980s. I was the only Ciocc rider and I could shoot up hills like a cat climbs a tree back-in-the-day. My avatar is a photo of me taken right after a ride in March 2010.
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Well my Avatar at the time of writing this is of me in a 34 foot 2500 HP Skater off shore racing boat.
My User name Spookeay Bird is also the name of my marine business. It originates from one of my five parrots and my oldest African Grey parrot who's name is "SPOOKEAY BIRD".
Now the spelling of Spookeay is a play on my maiden name of Keay "Like a key in the lock".... So spook+keay=spookeay. And so came Spookeay Marine and the use of Spookeay Bird as a nic on many chat rooms....... Hope this helps!
My User name Spookeay Bird is also the name of my marine business. It originates from one of my five parrots and my oldest African Grey parrot who's name is "SPOOKEAY BIRD".
Now the spelling of Spookeay is a play on my maiden name of Keay "Like a key in the lock".... So spook+keay=spookeay. And so came Spookeay Marine and the use of Spookeay Bird as a nic on many chat rooms....... Hope this helps!
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#215
Mostly Mischief
My name.
And the avatar has been a changing set of popular music performers that I listen to. I only remember the last 3: Joe Strummer, Zappa and Trey Anastasio. My biggest hero, Shane MacGowan, is simply too ugly to be avatarized. But, to connect with earlier posts, he uttered more than once: Pogue mahone!!
And the avatar has been a changing set of popular music performers that I listen to. I only remember the last 3: Joe Strummer, Zappa and Trey Anastasio. My biggest hero, Shane MacGowan, is simply too ugly to be avatarized. But, to connect with earlier posts, he uttered more than once: Pogue mahone!!
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Ha! His new teeth only worsened the problem! I've been trying to convince my wife for years that we should name our first born child Ely Strummer. She's yet to budge on the issue.
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Haha, quite a response at midnight EDT.
Don't think so, although I've repeated my name in my head so many times at the moment that it's starting to hurt.
Somewhere in the ball park of two rule.
Somewhere in the ball park of two rule.
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Is where I live and like it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Bend,_Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Bend,_Washington
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Wow, that feels like a million years ago. The Clash at Monterey. The place was empty. There was a wood platform maybe twenty feet deep running the width of the stage and everybody in the whole arena was on it when the band was playing. I think it collapsed eventually, but nobody cared. It was great.
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Randy here. nwbikeman is because I love bikes and have work on bikes professionally since I started in a bike shop in Tacoma 1975. Went to the Bicycle shop in Anchorage AK in 1981 for a summer, back to Tacoma in 82 and then worked for a small shop by the University of Washington. Then I found Gregg's cycles in Seattle in 83, they opened a store in Bellevue and have been there ever since. I have all types of bikes and to many to list and flip bikes on the side. My current customer build is a 1984 Eddy with full Super Record. My current build is an NOS 1993 OCLV Trek carbon hard tail Mountain bike(frame with box) and 1972 Olmo race bike.
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"azorch" has nothing to do with C&V or, in fact, bicycles. The short version is this: I'm an artist and many, many years ago I penned a daily cartoon strip - one of the comic relief characters was named Alex Zorch, a name I blatantly stole from a book titled "Superfan," which was written and inked by the great Jack Davis. For some reason, people started to call me "Zorch" (back when I was a competitive runner, one "clever" newspaper went so far as to call me "The Zorch Scorch"... but I digress.) The clincher came when I was working for one of the best graphic design firms in the country but getting paid a pauper's wage. To add insult to injury, we were restricted from doing any sort of freelance work whatsoever (at the risk of losing our day job.) Needing the money, most of us to the risk and freelanced anyway - but under a pseudonym. One lady I know went by the name of "Larry Denton." Another fellow was "J. Raymond." I was, of course, "Alex Zorch" - or simply "Zorch." It was all a comical game in the end because these pseudonyms were very badly cloaked secretes. Most of us developed some degree of reputation or notoriety under these guises. And oddly enough, some clients are impressed with vaguely Eastern European sounding names - they will trust their creative projects to someone named Alexi Volkovich before giving it to Joe Smith (even if it turns out to be the same person.) Many of those people tried to connect me, in their fantasy, to Baltic States, where Design is spelled with a capital "D" and genius runs like water through the streets of academe. (All nuts, of course. After all I had named myself after a cartoon character drawn by an artist from Mad Magazine!) Anyway, as all silly things tend to do, the name stuck. It far outlived the original purpose of hiding my illicit extracurricular career from my evil employers, and people began to call me "Zorch," a completely fictitious name, entirely based on whimsey. My wife had personalized license plates made for me that say "ZORCH," and I still treasure the memory of a delivery guy who was standing outside looking at the back of my car with a puzzled look on his face. He turned to me and said, "Zorch? That's your name?" He paused and asked, "Would you be of the Independence, Missouri Zorch family?"
No friggin' way.
No friggin' way.
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Mine doesn't mean anything. When I first signed up here, my user name seemed unimportant so I just picked something out of the air. Rootboy? No idea where it came from. I could've made up an explanation, but, alas, there is none.
My avatar? I change it now and again, when the whim strikes me. Old bike parts seem appropriate.
My avatar? I change it now and again, when the whim strikes me. Old bike parts seem appropriate.
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Whenever I read this thread, I want to change my user name again. Something interesting. Something enigmatic. Hmm.