Back in the late nineties I played a game called serim ral. It was a fantasy war game that you played by post (at first) then by email, every two weeks. Think 100 people playing game of thrones mixed with lord of the rings and a complicated game of chess. I got dragged into it by friends and ended up loving it.
I had to come up with a load of names for the characters and I wanted a theme, it was before I had Internet at home so I picked names from the bible and Damascus was born. I've used the name ever since including an email address.
Im currently planning my Badger divide trip and booked a few days parking in Glasgow. Paid by PayPal but they payment got blocked due to security concerns.
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During one of these screenings, we noticed an issue concerning a recent transaction.
In connection with the issue, PayPal's Compliance Department has reviewed your account and identified activity that we have a couple questions about.
Please provide the following information:
An explanation of the reference to "Damascus"
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience.
So even though I've had a PayPal account for over ten years with this email address that includes Damascus it's all of a sudden stopped payment.
So I think my username has possibly put me on an FBI watch list.
So whats the story behind your username and what does it say about you?
Signed, Dave 😁
foo all man
Mine is a grape-based spirit which brings back fond memories from a time in Chile
I feel mine is slightly self explanatory. Nowt exciting really.
Not particularly interesting; the name and the sail number of the dinghy I sailed as a teenager.
I like Irish mountains in Kerry, not the highest but most picturesque.
I like the Clive Cussler novels with Dirk Pitt and the year I was born......
Mine shows both a lack of imagination and that its second time around
Originally I was TandemJeremy. I tried to register as Jeremy but it wouldn't accept it so I added the tandem as I rode one. I got called TJ
Then I got banned and returned a couple of years later in deep cover as TJagain. Unfortunately they soon worked out who it was but kindly let me stay 🙂
I had a dog called Onza
Mine's the name of the Lancaster bomber from the Len Deighton novel Bomber. Epic book telling the story of a fictitious WW2 bombing raid from both perspectives, and how in the end everybody loses.
You should read it.
Have a guess?
Just a bike I needed an identity and background for over in ReetroBike.
It's not a homage to an 80's pop band. Instead, 'tallpaul' was taken when I joined (how vary dare you!) and hyphens etc weren't allowed so my normal second choice of tallpaul_s wasn't allowed, so ta11pau1 it was.
Oh, and my name is Paul and I'm very tall.
Don't know where I learnt this limerick from, but:
There was a young man called Paul
Who was so extremely tall
When he got into bed
He stuck out his leg
And turned off the light in the hall!
I prefer my wheels to have contact with the ground, airtime is achieved regularly but for as small amount of time as I can get away with! Only use this name on here, my older forum names are not really suitable to me anymore. One that I used a lot in the late 90's was a completely innocent abbreviation but has since taken on a totally different meaning in one language so has been retired, one forum actually deleted all my posts purely due to the name!
My favourite car a MK1 Escort Mexico Sebring red YES712M
Mine was given, not chosen
But worn with pride
My mate at school helped me create my first email address, Phil was taken so he mashed some extra numbers.
I don’t use that email anymore but it’s become my username on a few forums.
My user name is just what everyone has known me as since I was at school. I’m 53.
Me and our kid always referred to each other as our kid, then as a rhyming thing she started calling me bin lid, then her mates started calling me that, then my mates. It then got appropriated to Binners by one of her mates and that’s what I’ve been called ever since
I reckon there are people who’ve known me for years who don’t know what my actual name is. Everyone just calls me Binners, apart from my wife and my mum and dad. Actually… they do some of the time too
My name stems from where I spent an excess of spare time fiddling with bikes and cars before children intervened and it was shorter than
"5 minute job turns into all nighter"
YES712M
MOT due 1st July 1984.
You'd better get those sills welded!
I used to breed penguins and sell them to local restaurants in Ireland.
the jonv bit is obvious enough. Then after the hack I somehow bodged up registering / re-registering and couldn't work out how to be jonv so I became theotherjonv, which is actually still thejonv really.
Originally originally, it came from the character in Top Gun. I've gone by Cougar (or latterly UKCougar) online since the late 80s. It somewhat unfortunately has a different meaning these days of course, but after 35 years it's a bit late to be changing it.
ABC warriors 2000AD back in the day.
Been Pond, Pondy or Pondo since ooo - about 1980 or so? I couuldn't say with any certainty why - I didn't fall into a pond until 1998, so it's not the obvious.
I used to be a crazed aeronautical engineer making mad but ultimately flawed pigeon killing aircraft for a mustachioed cad and his s****ing dog.
I think he was on Rhythm or bass guitar in a punk band called Crass, I saw them at the Trades Club in 82 in the town I think this website resides from, lose connection. It's all a long time ago.
a reflection of a lack of imagination on signing up to stuff over 10 years ago... an old car registration and Nikon D90 camera mashup.. seems to have stuck across a variety of forums..
My nickname is Big Gordi some of my friends are Gaelic speakers they call me Gordi mhor.
It was pretty much chosen at random when every conceivable combination of my name was already taken as an e-mail address even back in 199something.
John Peel indie band from back when I used to listen to him on the wireless. Chosen because its a little bit like my original username what I had to abandon cos the account got ****ed up. Oh, and “bicycle”, obvs.
Student days - basically a bunch of misfits united by a general lack of getting shit together who applied for accomodation late were stuck into a closed halls of residence until all the temproary American students buggered off home at christmas. The other residents of the grounds (the squirrels) took serious exception to this and would sit in the trees and pelt our young students with sticks and conkers. One young man, possibly under the influence of alcohol, decided this should be a two way fight and retaliated with a barrage of conkers. The squirrels acquiesced and following an offering of half a 2.6kg catering tin of beans wedged in a tree* peace reigned and the champion declared the King of Squirrels which stuck forevermore.
We do not talk about the Other Shit That Went Down inside (and outside) those halls.
*those beans remained there for at least 3 years and as I recall were still there even after the halls were redeveloped into flats.
Have a guess?
Accountant from Dumfries, with dreams of the Brecons 🫢
Mine is simply the first letters of the first names of the firstborn of each of the surviving squadron members of my late grandfather. Or is it?
