Your forum name??

[Ms Monny]

I have been wondering for quite a while as to how alot of people on here came about to thinking up their forum name!! Obviously some have used their real names (mine, for example, is what an old boss called me) but there are some weird and wonderful names out there.... :crzy:

what do they mean and where did they come from???? :umm:

do tell, we are all wanting to know!! ;)

[mudman]

mine is made up of the first 3 characters of my surname and i am a man

[Tikira]

We are named after our two dogs. Tip & Kira

Di

[mrDooba]

Another one named after their dog. It's one of his many nicknames.

[NikonNellie]

Mine is pretty obvious - I use a Nikon camera and my name is Narelle but often get called Nellie.

[Boofhead]

For 16 years I shared my life with the best dog in the world and I honour him with my forum name. A couple of years down the track and I miss him as much as ever. That is my boy in my avatar. :)

[Kym]

I had a handle in the past, but changed it to my first name because i don't need anonymity on AP ;)

[Chilli]

mine is my dear cats name who died 10 months ago, she was 18, she was a hot chilli pepper.

[ricktas]

Mine is boring, name and location.

[jasnat]

My name (Jason) and my wife's (Natalie) smashed together

[mitch2147]

Mine is similar to Rick, name and location. Difference is the postcode for my home town as location.

[Arthur Dunger]

Mine is a character Paul Hogan used to play on his TV shows, it just appealed to me.

[Derek-C]

Derek was taken so added the first letter of my second name.

Derek

[rookie]

Because I am

[farmer_rob]

I have a farm - hence farmer - and part of my first name. (I also currently have a paying job in the real world, but this changes from time to time, so changing to pump_rob or GIS_rob seems pointless :confused013.)

[lay-z]

This one's carried back to the ol' days when IRC chat rooms were the place to be, so it's kind of stuck :p

[Rattus79]

ditto on mine for the IRC thing.

Mine was originally a nickname given to me owing some to "the Ferals" and some to the fact i kinda look like a rat.

[Nonas]

:oWhat my grandkids call me - although there was a bit of a problem with the way I spelt it to start with.

[Darey]

My surname is Dare so my nickname was and still is Darey.

[dragons girl]

Well mine is simple Dragons girl I follow st george and i am female . RED and WHITE flows through my veins !!:HardcoreCC:

[Ms Monny]

This is so interesting to read!! Thanks for telling - it is intriguing how people come up with their names! :th3:

[William]

Mines boring also :( William it is, Most call me Bill tho:D

[kiwi]

I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

[Ms Monny]

:lol:

[Art Vandelay]

Mine came about from a fictitious character in the old Seinfeld series. I like things a little bit quirky.

[andylo]

First name + surname, boring as... :o

[Keith]

Mine is even more boring. And kiwi - that does explain a few things !:lol:

[Mat]

Well Mathew with only 1 't' so Mat and not Matt

[gcflora]

I am interested in (and work with) flora. GC is for Gold Coast ;)

[fillum]

Wanted something a bit like my name and a bit photographic. Some of my family had old cameras that used "fillum" so I took that. (It's a lot like film apparently :D).


Cheers.

[ving]

there is a long long story behind mine.... (well not that long really). it started with online gaming. this is an abbreviation of the name that i used (MOOving Target). there is of course more to it but there you go.

[Outoflipsync]

Mine came from the gaming world as well. It's the name from my first toon I made on World of Warcraft.. I use it for pretty much everything online now.

[Kerro]

Mine is boring too. Kerro short for Kerrigan, my christian name.

[dbax]

I tried to fly when I was 4....failed


Cracked me up :lol::lol:

First initial of my first name and part of my surname....... yawn boring I know, but easy to remember and type :D

[ksolomon]

Mine is very boring first initial of my first name Kassy and my full surname. Nice to know where all have come from :)

Question to powers that be - if we want a more creative one how do we change this?

[Kym]

I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

Well, I flew when I was four, with my parents on an aircraft. ;)

Hint to UnZid members... There are flying machines :th3:

[yummymummy]

:confused013 I have 6 kids lol :)

[para]

My short for "Parachute" as in parachute regiment plus has been my nick name back home for years

[AmyK]

Mine is just my name, and the first letter of my middle name :) Works pretty well because my fiance's surname starts with 'K' so once we're married, I'll still be Amy K!

[kiwi]

Well, I flew when I was four, with my parents on an aircraft. ;)

Hint to UnZid members... There are flying machines :th3:

There wasn't a scheduled airnz flight from my window to the ground in those days Kym

[brownie]

Kodak box Brownie was the first camera I used.

[Mark L]

God, I feel a little boring after reading this.
Do you really need to know my surname, it starts with L.

[Ms Monny]

MarkL - no, you don't need to devulge your surname if you don't want to!! ;)

Kiwi - I knew you meant 'out the window' when talking about flying!! hahaha

para - I hope the name back home doesn't involve alcohol!! :D

yummymummy - after 6 kids :eek: I would put that as my name too! Actually, hows this for a name for you - 'superwoman'!!!!!

ving - finally I find out what yours means! Yay! Very inventive ;)

jasnat - hmmm, smashed together? Literally???? hahaha

fillum - when I saw yours I instantly thought of the eastern states and how they pronounce words differently ..... my ex's mother in Victoria always said film as fillum! And tissues were said as the brand name ie "Pass the Kleenex"!! Oh, and the vaccum cleaner was a Hoover!! LOL!!!

[Lance B]

I'm as boring as bat sh!t, this is my real name. :D

[Ms Monny]

:D You could have lied and said you were using your neighbours name!! ha ha ha

[Lance B]

:D You could have lied and said you were using your neighbours name!! ha ha ha

Yes, but it's still boring! :D

[Ms Monny]

Mine sounds like I am an old spinster!! Don't know how many other people use 'Ms' in their names?!?!?! Actually, spinsters wouldn't use Monny .... hmm, a bit of a contast there.... I just didn't like 'Miss' as that made me sound like I was only 5 yrs old!! :D

Boring isn't that bad - easy to remember and you don't have to think twice about how you want to spell the darn thing! ;)

[Jacs14]

what a great thread, I agree very interesting .... another boring one here ... Jacs14 ... Jacs is my nickname from way back - Jacqui shortened, 14 my birthday.
the only thing that has become a bit of a joke is I have often been mixed up with Jules - 41Jas, which is a complement to me, but not so kind to Jules :lol: so would be interested in what you could do to change it *admins* ?????
If I was to change it then would change to KelSa {which is what I will use if ever I get to a point of being good enough to add name to shots etc} KelSa comes from mashing my kids Kelly and Sam together

[tcdev]

Pretty boring here too. Years ago I started up a one-man software/electronic design company named 'Technetium Development' ('technetium' sounded technical) and I started using 'tcdev' as an abbreviation (technetium is atomic element #43 and its symbol is 'tc'). The company is long gone but I still use the nick 'tcdev' for pretty much all my online presence, most of which involves nerdy geeky stuff (unlike photography which is hip and cool!) :p

[Ratmick]

Old enough to be also be an IRC user, first group I joined was one that was populated by keepers of domesticated rattus rattus. There was already a Mick, and a Mike and I had two rats...so Ratmick was my boring solution (plus I'm in IT and hence have no imagination).

This is my daughter Emma with one of my girls in 2000:

71960

Funny enough the name has followed me over 15 years, and it's now to be found on Honda and Kawasaki motorcycle web forums globally, photography sites globally, RC racing forums globally and an Aussie caravanner forum (and I haven't even got a van).

The rat on a skateboard avatar comes from a greeting card, and I thought it was apt given how short in the leg I am. The owner of the original artwork is unknown but I salute him now. Salute and kudos, whoever you are!

(Rat)Mick

[OzzieTraveller]

Hey Kiwi...

I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

glad you've succeeded in other areas :cool: :cool:

Regards, Phil

[geoffsta]

Mine is simple.. The forum wouldn't let me just use my first name, or it would add a insignificant number to the end. So I just added the first three letters of my surname.
It's just who I am. I've got nothing to hide, and I like to know that when someone wants to reply to something I've added, that they can call me by my real name. :confused013

[Dylan & Marianne]

mine is because I like repeating what has been said before

nah not really, dylan toh = dtoh

[I @ M]

I @ M = Images At Marlo, I had never been part of a forum before this one and it was never meant to be an "anonymous" user name but it was the first thing that came to mind.

[triptych]

Well mine is from the old IRC days too... triptych = 3 panel artwork and I cant remember why I chose it, but it has stuck with me for years!

[ricstew]

cool thread.....mine is actually my hubbies which makes no sense I know. Way back when we first got the internet we had to choose a name for email and this is what he came up with. That email is long gone but I still use the name on everything cause otherwise I forget what to log on with!

[Ms Monny]

ricstew - I have been thinking alot about your name!! That sounds creepy, I know, and I am not creepy :o Was wondering why you had a 'guy' sounding name!! :D

[ricstew]

Hehehe Ms Monny......I am a not so little grey haired granny aged person with the memory span of a gnat! The avatar is my youngest daughter with my spoiled house cat!

[Ms Monny]

Ah!! And I thought that was you in the avatar! :D

[Simbas]

Sim - short for simon
Bas - short for Basile
Plus it sounded a bit like Sinbad, one of my favourite cartoons way back when!

[Namus]

Real name = Nam; one of the school nicknames was 'Namus'. Yay for interesting back-stories :rolleyes: :p

[Ionica]

The first ( and only ) Internet forum I've joined, so unsure what to use. Took the name of the region of Italy I come from. My avatar is a photo of one of the many ancient and interesting hill towns which abound in the area.

[kiwi]

I have two feet

[Dave Clifford]

GOYB is for 'Get Off Your Butt' and my name is Dave.

[Ms Monny]

:lol: GOYB!! I love it! Thats what I should use....my hubby would be impressed if I did!

Kiwi - so glad that you do! :D

[Roo]

its my Nickname nothing special.

[canonboy]

All my gear is Canon & I think I'm still a boy.:th3:

[ving]

My short for "Parachute" as in parachute regiment plus has been my nick name back home for yearsnothing to do with MC Hammer pants then?


:confused013 I have 6 kids lol :)and you taste good? :p

[Patagonia]

mine is in honour of the most amazing place on earth and not to forget at some point in my life I will settle somewhere there.

regards

[yummymummy]

yummymummy - after 6 kids :eek: I would put that as my name too! Actually, hows this for a name for you - 'superwoman'!!!!!


LOL I dunno about superwoman.. but yeah, 6 kids :) 5 boys and one little girl :)

[Doninoz]

One of my international mates coined my alias and it stuck...I'm Don in Australia (OZ) so doninoz!

[kiwi]

I'm a NZ citizen

[geoffsta]

I'm a NZ citizen
That's not our fault, is it? :confused013 :lol:

[brindyman]

got mine in school...someone gave it to me...no idea what it means or why but there you go......the silly stuff that goes on in the school playground right?

[yeeoff]

My first name is Geoff and I worked with a Sweedish guy for years who always pronounced my name as Yeeoff.

[seastorm]

I needed something for my email with only 8 characters, so seastorm it was :)

[Mr Lensbaby]

because i like them

[Ms Monny]

That's not our fault, is it? :confused013 :lol:

:lol: classic!!

[Ms Monny]

because i like them

and it sounds :cool:!!

I checked out a site for Lensbaby - wow! I really like! I have a Holga toy camera and I like the effects from that....fun, hip and unpredictable!! :D

[hawko02]

Well.. All our kids were known as Hawko all through school and still in the real world ( 4 of them) They have hot mail addresses with hawko in them etc.. so when I ventured online with ebay and live mail and now ausphotography i figured my husband must be 01 so I made myself 02 and the kids can do what they want but we are still 1&2...

[chamellieon]

well mine has quite an in-depth history. I'll give you the breakdown.
cha-mellie-on
in highschool (quite a few years ago now) i called myself a chameleon... we all know what those lovely creatures are. Anyway, this was based around the fact that I had friends from all different circles, but could change my discourse and behaviour to fit in with each whenever I met up with them. Chameleon was way too common on forums, so I modified the bits - cha-mel-eon became cha-mellie-on (as my real name is mel). Here, I had created a unique username for everything on the internet, and haven't had a problem getting first priority email addresses ever since! So it's stuck, but recently (and a choice based around maturity) has seen me change my photographic-operative name to Mel Sinclair photography.

[Speedway]

Mine is simple, after over 30 years involved in speedway racing it was an easy to remember username when I got my first windows computer back in 1997 and I've just stuck with it. My avatar is the first Hot Rod I built from the ground up in 1983.
Keith.

[Ms Monny]

Some of my friends said the same about me being a chameleon....I too had friends in different circles! Never thought of that for a name though! :th3: I like the change to the name too.

[Stingray]

This one's carried back to the ol' days when IRC chat rooms were the place to be, so it's kind of stuck :p

Mines the same .. I have been (and still am ...lol) Stingray on Irc since about 95/96 or so and its stuck...

:)

[fjoe45]

I own an old FJ45 Landcruiser and my name is joe.

[Ms Monny]

Ok, WHAT IS 'IRC'??? There are a few of you that have 'used' it but what do you do with it?? Is it a game online??

[WhoDo]

An interesting read, Ms Monny. At the risk of sounding ancient, mine goes back to Bulletin Board days on dial up modem at 1200 bps when I got involved (through an IT acquaintance) in an early online game called Trade Wars. I was always a bit of a doer, as opposed to a talker, and when a piece of graffiti extolling the Hoodoo Guru's caught my eye I modified it to better explain my personal motivation and perhaps exposes even the tiniest smidgeon of my own self image.

In those days using your real name online was only asking to be spammed or worse, so everyone used a "handle". I have kept mine through IRC chat rooms, baseball umpire forums, graphic arts forums, Linux developer forums and a whole host of other environments that now include AP and Pentax forums. It has become a part of my psyche in philosophical terms because in the world of Linux software development, those "who do" are forever being set upon by those "who want" something done! I always preferred to be one of the former rather than the latter; I figured that I could learn to "do" what I needed so why couldn't they?

A long-ish story, and no doubt a boring one, but from what I've read here I'm guessing my nick was probably one of the more enigmatic around AP. So now you know! :D

[Ms Monny]

Well, thanks WhoDo! No, not boring at all, actually enlightening!! I think it is a very POSITIVE name, just like GOYBDave (Get Off Your Butt Dave)!! :D

[WhoDo]

Ok, WHAT IS 'IRC'??? There are a few of you that have 'used' it but what do you do with it?? Is it a game online??

Internet Relay Chat, an Internet-based, text only communications facility from the early days of the 'net before Worldwide Web (www) graphics. Probably best known among geeks from IT and University who used the Internet for cool stuff before Bill Gates even invented it and called it the Information Superhighway! :)

[Ms Monny]

Ok! Thanks for that info! I think that it was way before me too!! We only got the computer in 2000 when my hubby decided to start his own business (he still has the business too :D).

[Bennymiata]

Benny comes from an old school nickname (even one of my headmasters used to call me Benny), and I love Mazda MX-5's, which are called Miatas in the US, and I thought the 2 names put together has a certain "ring" to it.
On the MX-5 Forum I'm just plain Benny - and use the same avatar as I use here.

[Adrian Fischer]

Ummm...go on, have a guess...

[Doninoz]

:lol::lol:Ha Ha (laughking so loodly I kep strikin de wong keys...)I tink dis is a clasik too. no offence to our NZ cousins!:lol::lol:

[ving]

Ummm...go on, have a guess...
your name is ardian and you like fisching? :p

[wheellathe]

I am a wheellathe operator . The lathe is a Hegenscheidt which I suppose makes me a Hegenscheidter, but I think wheellathe sounds better.

[Lance B]

I have two feet

Who's a big boy then. :D

[Ms Monny]

Ummm...go on, have a guess...

hmm, a name of a Superhero??? no, no, wait, I think I know....no, sorry, nothing comes to mind! What does it mean??? :lol:

[kiwi]

Who's a big boy then. :D

They call me tripod

[41jas]

This photo says it all.
Though it's normally cleaner than this. We picked up these hitch hikers after a trip towards Broken Hill last year. Grasshoppers......1000's of them!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3312/5706625996_67673080c3_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41jas/5706625996/)
bugs'r'us (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41jas/5706625996/) by 41JAS (http://www.flickr.com/people/41jas/), on Flickr

[41jas]

We were actually at a car wash when I took this.

[Bennymiata]

We were actually at a car wash when I took this.

It obviously didn't do much good!

Those grasshoppers are a real pain.
Many years ago, I drove through a plague of them and had to remove my radiator to pick them all out with tweezers, as no high pressure cleaner would make a dent in them!

[mistletoe]

mine's the name of my first pet cat. I use the handle on other forums so....

[Ms Monny]

41jas - love the number plate and the car isn't that shabby either (envious! ;)). Whats the 41 stand for??

wheellathe - much easier to say too!! ;)

[Ms Monny]

They call me tripod

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[41jas]

41jas - love the number plate and the car isn't that shabby either (envious! ;)). Whats the 41 stand for??

When we went to buy the plates I was acually after 33JAS due to the time I had a Skyline R33. Cos that was taken and I wasn't going to pay $2,300 for a fancy number plate, I had a choice of 4 left with JAS. Ivan thought the 41 would be good because he's getting it for(4) me(number one) so there is how we became 41JAS. You have to understand Ivan's way of thinking but very clever Plus 4 is my favourite number. Ivan always said it's for (4) my one (1) and only JAS.... Julie-Anne Smith (JAS)
A boss at work parked beside me one day when I noticed she had 42JAS. She even said there wasn't much to choose from. LOL Funny story I reckon.
I did have a number plate 444FUN, lol, sold that with the 4x4 we had.

[41jas]

It obviously didn't do much good!

That's before we washed. and boy was it hard work getting that clean. and your right. We had to do some serious picking to get those buggers out from around the lights and off the radiator.

[Ms Monny]

I love this story, Julie-Anne! I was actually hoping it wasnt your age because what happens when you turn 42?? Don't understand people who do that. Our numberplate is our car (SVZ) plus the year it is made but I didn't like 007 (can't have 07 as it is the old style numberplates - S series) as people would think it is a Bond thingy, so 700 it became. Still not too sure but can't do much about it!! Would loooove to have 'Monika' but that was taken. I joked with my hubby that I will hunt her down, knock her on the head and then I can have the numberplates!! :D ;)

[ozcopilot]

My partner is OzzieTraveller, and I'm his navigator, hence, ozcopilot.

[41jas]

I love this story, Julie-Anne! I was actually hoping it wasnt your age because what happens when you turn 42?? Don't understand people who do that. Our numberplate is our car (SVZ) plus the year it is made but I didn't like 007 (can't have 07 as it is the old style numberplates - S series) as people would think it is a Bond thingy, so 700 it became. Still not too sure but can't do much about it!! Would loooove to have 'Monika' but that was taken. I joked with my hubby that I will hunt her down, knock her on the head and then I can have the numberplates!! :D ;)

I think I acually got them when I was 39 and people that didn't know me thought I was like 25...I'm 45 now and I still get people saying they thought I was 38. BONUS!!!!

[WhoDo]

My partner is OzzieTraveller, and I'm his navigator, hence, ozcopilot.

Great to have you aboard, Mrs Phil! :th3: :cool:

[Indigo]

Mine is from where I live , in the Indigo Valley, it is very easy to remember :D

[Ms Monny]

Mine is from where I live , in the Indigo Valley, it is very easy to remember :D

I thought it had something to do with your favourite colour!! :D Cool name for a Valley!

[sunny6teen]

moreamodelprofessionalthanaprofessionalmodel was my first choice but I kept falling asleep during the login procedure.

[Ms Monny]

moreamodelprofessionalthanaprofessionalmodel was my first choice but I kept falling asleep during the login procedure.

:lol: :lol: you could have shortened it to.....MAMPTAPM???? Everyone one does this nowadays! LOL ;)

[bushbikie]

Grew up in the bush and loved riding bikes.

[bobt]

[QUOTE]

[fastr1red]

I had a fast RED R1 in 1998 (Yamaha) now it's white/grey 2009 model. Still just as fast but I wasn't going to change my name cos lots know me as that.
(Have a couple of other bikes still)

[Marion]

Marion........ plain and simple boring real name :)

[mitgonk]

I usually just go with gonK.. but had to go with mitgonk for one reason or another when I signed up here!

Nothing fancy, just a rearrangement of the first and last letters of my name- Tim Kong (well it's actually Timothy W K Kong....)

[WhiteFire]

If I ever start a business, it will be White Fire Photography. White Fire is the meaning of my christian name.

[Matix]

Matix is a derivitive of Dogmatix, the little dog in the Asterix and Obelix series of French comic books. My kids loved me reading from them when little, as they grew up we had a little white dog in the family which had the same name, and when I started using a computer BBS a long time ago and then the Net, 'Matix' was the name that stuck. Hard to change it now, it is everywhere...

http://photos.photo-matix.com.au/img/v22/p99667692-3.jpg

Phil

[Boo53]

I've used a variety of nicknames on the net over the years, pretty much all relating to my work, so now that I'm trying to retire I thought I go back to an old High School nickname.

With a surname of Rapley, when the class read To Kill a Mockingbird I was always going to get Boo as a nickname

[mongo]

Mine is a real nickname I have had for several decades.

Mongo is a mythical simple/basic ( OK , he is plain primitive !) creature. He gets up to mischief , says and does whatever he wants to and is allowed to get away with it – some even think him a likeable rogue.
I could never get away with anything Mongo gets away with. So, when I want to get away with it , I just say Mongo did it and all is forgiven. BTW, this does not work on the tax man when I try to tell them its not my bill - its Mongo’s .

[mechawombat]

My name stems from my name and then nickname. My name in native tongue means Wombat, and as a little one my mum used to call me wombat as crawled along I looked like one. however when I sign up on the web, wombat is always taken.
So I decided to add Mecha to the beginning after watching mecha-Godzilla vs Godzilla and that has stuck ever since

[Cage]

My nic also comes from the old IRC days when I used the nic 'TheBiker'.

At the time my bike was my only means of transport and one of the other chatters said I was a 'true blue biker'.
The others picked up on it and it stuck. It got shortened to trublubiker and I've used it ever since.

[whytebate]

my original surname & my married surname together make Whytebate. When we took our Dog to puppy preschool originally they wrote him a "graduation" certificate & made it out to Max WhyteBate. It kinda stuck form there.

[darkbhudda]

When creating an email address many moons ago I had to think of a name. My nickname is Buddha - though now most people call me DB. I'd flipped one of the Buddhist teachings of "Life is suffering" on its head and gone with a "Life is joy" as my life's motto instead so that made me some kind of evil version of Buddha.

Evil Buddha didn't do it for me. Too limiting in scope. Thus Dark Buddha.

A name dripping with personality and potential. A name that would make brooders such as Raven Darkheart and Obsidian Corvus sound like the Wiggles. A name that will be known throughout the ages as a touch stone for philosophical thought. A name of depth. A name of whimsy. A name to be feared by my enemies. A name to strike terror into the populace. A name that will ... *ahem*

I then went and spelled Buddha wrong when creating the email address.

[Ms Monny]

These certainly are interesting ways of coming up with names!!! It's great to know a little bit more about the people on here ;)

[ashey]

Mine is the nickname all the guys at school gave me, my surname is Ashcroft.

[charton]

Mine is made up from the property name of my parents (many moons ago), also first 4 letters of mum's name and 3 from dad's.

[Wilky]

Wilky, Surname is Wilkin so it starts from that. Old man was called Wilky, elder brother and younger brother both called Wilky, a funny story to go with it. Took the ol man and mum on a steam train ride once. Now we mum who was Di, my wife who is Di and elder brothers partner at time was also Di. We went to a vineyard (in Tassy) where the owner met us so I jumped at the opportunity to introduce us with "(mum and dad first) This is Wilky and Di, and this is Wilky and Di, and I am Wilky and this is Di.

The guy cracked up laughing and about an hour later he came back and called us all by our name, laughed again and said we were the only group he could remember. Was a great day.

[Mr Lensbaby]

Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

[Xenedis]

I am a dyslexic former game show hostess.

And no, you cannot buy a vowel.

It's pronounced "Zen-eh-dis".

Like the names of a few others here, mine goes back to the good old days of IRC in 1996.

If you type "Xenedis" into Google, most of the results relate to me (my photography, more specifically).

Interestingly, guitarist Phil Xenedis also comes up in the search results. I have been a musician for over 25 years (guitar is one of the instruments I play), but other than that, there is no relation.

[ricktas]

Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

Perhaps you may enlighten us by actually showing us some of your photography?

[Ms Monny]

Wilky, Surname is Wilkin so it starts from that. Old man was called Wilky, elder brother and younger brother both called Wilky, a funny story to go with it. Took the ol man and mum on a steam train ride once. Now we mum who was Di, my wife who is Di and elder brothers partner at time was also Di. We went to a vineyard (in Tassy) where the owner met us so I jumped at the opportunity to introduce us with "(mum and dad first) This is Wilky and Di, and this is Wilky and Di, and I am Wilky and this is Di.

The guy cracked up laughing and about an hour later he came back and called us all by our name, laughed again and said we were the only group he could remember. Was a great day.

I love it!! What a great story! Hi Wilky :)

[Ms Monny]

Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

Yes, please, do show us some images!! :th3:

[DylMah]

Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

[Ms Monny]

Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

unique! I guess is is said like the tea Dilmah!? We were going to name our business from our kids - Tomax Plumbing - but it didn't really have a good ring to it, unfortunately!!!

[DylMah]

unique! I guess is is said like the tea Dilmah!? We were going to name our business from our kids - Tomax Plumbing - but it didn't really have a good ring to it, unfortunately!!!

Yes, said like the tea. I also meant to add that I am a huge tea drinker, and Dilmah is my tea of choice.

[Mark L]

Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

Ah, so it's not what your kids say to you? :):)

[Keith Young]

Mine is even more boring. And kiwi - that does explain a few things !:lol:

Keiths of the world unite we have no imagination! :scrtch:

[Keith]

Keiths of the world unite we have no imagination! :scrtch:

Amen to that !!

[Geoff79]

Mine is a bit crazy. It's actually my name, and the year I was born (because someone had already stolen... uh, I mean taken the name "Geoff").

Craziness, right? ;)

[ApolloLXII]

I was enthralled with the Apollo space program as a child and just added the year I was born to the end of it.

[Sezzy]

My name came from my real name...Sarah, which is very rarely used unless in a formal setting (or I'm in trouble! :rolleyes:). My brother used to call me Sarsparilla and Sars (which was okay until 2003 hit), but now Sezzy or Sez is what I'm normally called...it's kind of stuck.

[Ms Monny]

Mine is a bit crazy. It's actually my name, and the year I was born (because someone had already stolen... uh, I mean taken the name "Geoff").

Craziness, right? ;)

:eek: OMG! That is just totally way out there! :lol:

[Ms Monny]

Well, it has been over a year and we have had many a newbie coming into AP....and once again I look at their name and wonder how they came up with their name???? :scrtch:

Please do tell .... :D

[Cage]

I used to chat in one of the old Bigpond chat rooms in the 90's, and in conversation I mentioned that my motorbike was my only means of transport.

I posted a pic and somebody commented that I looked like a true blue biker, and that was what the other chatters called me.

It got shortened to trublubiker and here I am.

[dredi1975]

Mine is my uni nick name plus the year I was born
Cheers
Maciek aka dredi1975

[shelly1170]

Not very original I'm afraid. My proper, grown-up name is Michelle but only my Mum and Brother call me that.

Shelly is what the rest of my friends/family call me and I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

[bobt]

I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

I don't think I'll use that system ... I'd have to put "BC" after mine .....

Happy birthday - seeing that it's November ....... if you need candles for your cake I have a lot to spare.

[Mathy]

Mine is Mathy because I have a maths degree (with Hons) and 2/3rds of a PhD, I love numbers, my favourite is Pi, cheers Deb

[Wayne63]

Mine is the same as Geoff79, It's my name, and the year I was born

[xxdrakexx]

mine is a little hard to explane lol

[Tikira]

Happy birthday for November Shelly- it is a good month- mine is this month too:party6:

Wayne63. - my Wayne is born in '63 too, but as family historians we live more in 1863 than 1963 :efelant:

Jim- that sounds really intriguing, you have my imagination working overtime.

I am enjoying this thread, as it is something I often wonder about too

Di

[Wayne63]

Happy birthday for November Shelly- it is a good month- mine is this month too:party6:

Wayne63. - my Wayne is born in '63 too, but as family historians we live more in 1863 than 1963 :efelant:

Jim- that sounds really intriguing, you have my imagination working overtime.

I am enjoying this thread, as it is something I often wonder about too

Di



Must of been a good year :lol2:

[Ms Monny]

Now, come on Jim, fess up! I thought it had something to do with a duck and lots of kisses....now the mind is wandering!! :lol:


mine is a little hard to explane lol

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I admire anyone that are good with numbers!! :)


Mine is Mathy because I have a maths degree (with Hons) and 2/3rds of a PhD, I love numbers, my favourite is Pi, cheers Deb

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Happy Birthday for this month!! :party5:


Not very original I'm afraid. My proper, grown-up name is Michelle but only my Mum and Brother call me that.

Shelly is what the rest of my friends/family call me and I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

[ameerat42]

I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

[Ms Monny]

I'll give you a lolly if you tell!!! :D


I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

[xxdrakexx]

well ok then lol its another name some people know me as 'drake' the xx is something my step sister teached me that if you put xx in front and behind the name it is more likely that no one els has that name on a website/ forum so there i eplaned it lol wear did you get the duck idear from lol

[Ms Monny]

ha ha! Oh, now that sounds very innocent! A drake is a duck (I think! :rolleyes:) and, well, I just thought you loved ducks! :lol:

[xxdrakexx]

ha ha! Oh, now that sounds very innocent! A drake is a duck (I think! :rolleyes:) and, well, I just thought you loved ducks! :lol:


have you seen me upload a duck photo yet :lol:

[PhotoPaul]

My name is Paul and I am really just a photo. :eek:

In reality, I signed up late at night and couldn't think of anything interesting to use...

[MattNQ]

Also in the boring column - I'm Matt & I live in .......drum roll.......NQ (North Queensland)
I once got creative on a different forum after a few rums and reading a very very strange scifi novel... Sounded cool at first, but once the novelty wore off it just sounded silly, so now I just use boring plain names

[Xenedis]

Must of been a good year :lol2:

(re 1963)

John F. Kennedy might disagree.

[geoffsta]

Thats the year that I tried to burn my parents house down. The building was also a nursing home. I was only 1, and matches were my new found toy... Great year that. :action:

[ktoopi]

wear did you get the duck idear from lol

A male duck is called a drake!:D

My online name came from trying to find a version of my own name that wasn't taken!! Every version of my name is taken so it morphed into ktoopi! That's what happens when you have a very common name!!:)

[Quacked]

Mine is a gaming handle that I have used for a number of years. Years ago at a LAN I sneezed and it came out sounding like Donald Duck. A friend asked me if I just quacked at them. Apparently I had, so the name stuck.

It toggles between Quacks and Quacked, depending on forum/game.

[outstar79]

outstar79, part of a Japanese Animation I used to watch in high school called Outlaw Star and 79 for year of birth. :p

[Ms Monny]

ummm, so what is your name? I can't make out a common name from ktoopi!!!! :confused013



My online name came from trying to find a version of my own name that wasn't taken!! Every version of my name is taken so it morphed into ktoopi! That's what happens when you have a very common name!!:)

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Welllllll, the truth comes out now!! Pyro in training???? :eek:


Thats the year that I tried to burn my parents house down. The building was also a nursing home. I was only 1, and matches were my new found toy... Great year that. :action:

[Mark L]

I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

Go on M:)u can do it
Jimmy the xxduckxx did!

[Ms Monny]

Hey, I don't know you from a bar of soap, so I really had noooo idea what you did with ducks, esp when you put kisses in the duck name!!! :D :lol:


have you seen me upload a duck photo yet :lol:

[Dylan & Marianne]

lol I'm afraid mine wasn't very inventive :P

[Mark L]

lol I'm afraid mine wasn't very inventive :P
Better than dtog.
I go away now.:)

[Ms Monny]

:lol: Oh, Mark, you are funny! Ohhh, Mark is your name, isn't it? I mean with a forum name like "Mark L" I can only presume such a thing!! :D ;)

[geoffsta]

Welllllll, the truth comes out now!! Pyro in training???? :eek:

Yep..... 36 years in the fire brigade, and 6 years of that as a captain. I feel I learnt a couple of very important lessons that day. 1. Not to play with matches.. 2. How much a smack hurts.

[One Click]

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd270/iaandam/Smile/112282245ylsXZNlQdigitalcameralarge.gif

Get It?

[Mark L]

:lol: Oh, Mark, you are funny! Ohhh, Mark is your name, isn't it? I mean with a forum name like "Mark L" I can only presume such a thing!! :D ;)

Post #42 (great number)


God, I feel a little boring after reading this.
Do you really need to know my surname, it starts with L.
Mark it is.





http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd270/iaandam/Smile/112282245ylsXZNlQdigitalcameralarge.gif

Get It?


Nope?

[shelly1170]

Awwww...thanks for the birthday wishes! My birthday was the 11th and celebrated with hubby at a fancy rooftop restaurant here in Bangkok. Ate and drank too much!

[Ms Monny]

Whoops!!!! Sorry Mark L, I didn't remember what other posts were made during last year!! :o We will just keep it at "L" for now, hey?? Maybe next year you can divulge more info! :D

[ameerat42]

MarL, until next year, just use an "L".

What a Lark!
LAm.

[xxdrakexx]

A male duck is called a drake!:D



oh yeah now i rember lol

[Cecile]

Cecile, my real first name.

[zeroharm]

Nothing exciting for me.. It is the job I am in!! Mining, and Safety

[geoffsta]

What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

[Ms Monny]

Nothing exciting for me.. It is the job I am in!! Mining, and Safety

Well, on the contrary, I think that is pretty cool to come up with that name!! :th3:

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What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

Hmmm, Ms Monny is pretty close to my name....that is what a few people actually call me (my old boss and the friend I worked with)!! I don't mind the odd names - makes me ponder as to why they chose it; but I do like to see a name SOMEWHERE in the signature, so I can say "Thanks *NAME*". :D

[Mark L]

What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

That hits the Mark with me.:)

[William]

William, Also called Bill :lol2:

[fotog]

Pretty obvious but I was surprised it wasn't already taken.

[WhoDo]

Pretty obvious but I was surprised it wasn't already taken.

Just as well you didn't go with fauxtog though! :p

[Ms Monny]

Just as well you didn't go with fauxtog though! :p

:lol: thats funny Waz! I haven't heard of photographers being named that....but there are plenty out there!!! :D

[41jas]

William, Also called Bill :lol2:

Or Willy...by me ;) :D

[disco2td5]

Mines a bit boring its my forum name from the Australian land rover owner forum.
Disco =discovery, 2= version 2, td5= turbo diesel 5 cylinder. The land rover site was the first forum I went on and have used the name on all other forums.

[Alexam]

Mine is the first 5 letters of my surname (Alexander) followed by the first letter of my Christian name (Malcolm).

I also used it for my photography name of Alexam Images.

Malcolm

[Brandy]

My name occurred because of computer spell check. Our property is called Bransty, and the computer decided it liked Brandy better, and I didn't see it until it was saved. I never bothered to change it.

[FallingHorse]

I had a serious horse riding accident years ago. When I got out of hospital and went home my housemates dog greeted me. Her name was Little Foot. I said "How Little Foot, Me Falling Horse". A play on Indian names but it kind of stuck :2smile:

[Papou]

My granchildren call me Papou "grandad" so papou it is:)..

[MissionMan]

MissionMan I got from my mates who said I was always on a mission.

[Mark L]

So what's your story extraball.
Bet you weren't born in Tassie. :D

[Mathy]

I'm a mathematician (by qualification) and I've used the nic Mathy on all the forums I belongs to :D

[Miyuki]

My real name...it's Japanese name, so it was available. Easy :D

Funny thing is that there's a forum post called 'hilarious photos of Miyuki' in the not-for-critique section. I'm looking into posting a funny photo of myself ;)

[*~Min~*]

Mine is just my nickname since I was a toddler basically. My real name is Mirjana - a Croatian name where the "r" is rolled slightly and the "j" is pronounced with the "y" sound. Very confusing to those reading it, and almost impossible to pronounce (as I came to realise in any roll call haha). So Min it is!