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There are some great user names out there - Mastilies Fannilon is my personal favourite.
But what does your user name mean or how the heck did you come up with it? Some are pretty obvious, like TJ and Ton, but 'This is not a spoon'? It's bordering on Lewis Carol levels of sanity.
So come one, tell all. Mine's really simple. My best mate always called me Gee (way before the Atherton's were around!) as my initials are GT and I was born in 1972, hence GeeTee1972.
I think the Fannylions are/were a group of riders...
I wonder why people see any need to hide behind a pseudonym?
mickey take name given by northern mates when I moved back 'darn sarf' 😆
Its the street I live on
It fitted.
[i]I wonder why people see any need to hide behind a pseudonym? [/i]
Not a need but a choice.
I have fangs.
I had a dog that died in 2005. A beautiful GSD that used to run with the bike. Best friend in the whole wide world. Can you guess what his name was?
That's right, it was Trevor.
It was my snakes name.
Was my nickname at school.
I had a cold when registering
Best friend in the whole wide world
wow
i used to ride a Titus (RIP)
It's my nickname in real life.. short for youngster.. cos I'm the oldest Dave in our group of mates.. (by some way)..
Also it rhymes with junky and has a sort of pun based on the scandinavian pronounciation of the letter J. This is mildly amusing to my mates as I used to have an obscenely gluttonous drug habit.
because i once saw a real live yeti
Well, my name is Julian and my surname begings with A... Not too imaginative!
I did get an offer to go ride with some ladies though, which was nice... (Didn't take them up on it though!)
I think that thisisnotaspoon is a reference to Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'...
One of my favourite user names on here is anagallis_arvensis - the scientific name of the flower better known as Scarlet Pimpernel.
Oh, and talkemada must have been a reference to a certain Spanish Inquisitor, but I'm not going to get into a discussion about that particular user!
Mine comes from my cat (rip) who was named after [url=
bit in Bils and Teds.
hei hei - because I have one
I'm really tall so I called myself shorty...
After the most consistently good band on the planet - Napalm Death.
no idea
It's the same as my real name, so you'd better ask my parents.
Er, i'm bloody short and i ride my bikes in the mud of course!
I am a climber first and foremost
though i am not high when I climb, I climb to get high
Mine came from a Kenny Everett chararacter, 'Cupid Stunt.' Just liked what he did there.
Creg...because I had been watching Southpark
most of my family comes from cullen, i quite like the beach in "cullen bay".
I ride a bike with a Lefty fork and I'm a boy - fairly old boy but leftymiddleagedbloke doesn't sound quite right 😆
I wonder why people see any need to hide behind a pseudonym?
Why not? What does it matter? It's a bit of fun, is all.
Anyhoo, mine's a character from a book by one of my favourite authors, William Gibson. I would have chosen Chevette, a bike courier from a book of his called [i]Virtual Light[/i], but she's female, and I ain't, so I chose Count Zero from his book of the same name.
knick name given to me by my buddies from darn sarf. apparently its cockney rhyming slang for miserable ****er,
guess.
My initials - thought I'd probably be able to remember that
guess...
N.A.Palmer (Andy Palmer), credited as pseudonym B.A.Nana on some albums. It's was a teenage thing, so might be my mid life crisis name?. Certainly not anything suggesting that I'm a joker and a cad, I'm actually a morose bstrd.
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Partly my name and a piss take about my biking abilities...or maybe not a piss take.... 😕
i was gonna go for crazy legs cause thats what my mates call me back home in the homeland on account of wild cadences ... but james beat me to it
so trail rat was the name of my blog so it was then made my user name
in a previous life i was known as sideshow barbie or barbie for short .... on account of a bright pink dh bike and my dreadlocks looked akin to sideshow bob
A nickname my mates call me. Supposed to be 'Cato' after the crazy manservant in the Pink Panther films, but somewhere down the line over many years it's been misspelt as Kato and stuck
Mine was on account of my spectacularly good Singular i had at the time.
A play on the saying flippin heck, as I owned a Heckler, the rest is self explanatory, now I have killed the heckler I will be looking to change my name.
First thing i thought of.
my personal fave is nofrontlobe
After Grossberger in Stir Crazy, nickname that stuck.
Mc pronounced em cee is the prefix to my surname. At a Grundig World Cup race in the 80's the Italian race announcer listed those with the above prefix em cee Laren, em cee Leod, em cee Intosh. It was around the time MC Hammer. At the time we also produced a bike magazine called Moont.
It relates to an old photo in my first snowboarding outfit with big white boots and crash helmet. The GF said I looked like Buzz Lightyear. It's become a nick-name. BTW I look nothing like Buzz Lightyear as those who have met me can testify.
A club night in Manchester that welcomes all
Why not? What does it matter? It's a bit of fun, is all.
I suspect people use it as licence to be more obnoxious than they would under their own names! (not me, obviously)
Nickname given to me by friend years and years ago, while stoned probably.
Its a nickname from my surname, that and catfish, could have gone either way.
mine isnt showing my devotion to pesticide free nosh as you might expect, but simply an anagram of my surname followed by the number of my old flat in San Francisco.
Bit Random eh?
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Coz I drink it, hic!
I'm a small and angry man who has no problem getting a bike to fit.
first name, last initial and year I was born simples
Can't remember where Esselgruntfuttock came from. I always thought it was from the Goon show but I just Googled it & nowt much comes up, at least not as a Goons character. Maybe he just got a mention.
My real name's Jim Gruntfuttock
I'm a fat bloke who's name starts with a G, been called this for as long as I can remember..
I think Gruntfuttock was one of Kenneth Williams's characters in Round the Horne...
My real name's Jim Gruntfuttock
😯 You poor futtock - can't imagine what that was like at school.
I wonder why people see any need to hide behind a pseudonym?
Hide behind a pseudonym? for most people on here, what difference does it make? are we ever going to meet? If we do, I'll introduce myself. 😉
simonfbarnes - MemberI suspect people use it as licence to be more obnoxious than they would under their own names! (not me, obviously)
No Simon, you could never be accused of being obnoxious under a pseudonym!
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But otherwise... 😆 8)
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J Peasmould Gruntfuttock was the Round the Horne character I have just been told by my wife (whose maiden name was Lemon - so suck on that) 😉
acute lack of imagination for me...
I am a man wot lives in Marsden....
I am called Christopher Reeve 😀
Due to hurting my arms too much on bikes i now have a shed full of rusty trowels.
a nickname given to me by my mate Drunken Duncan when we were training & ordering food at the pub. I always had a bacon sandwich & asked for the bacon to be crispy.
My alternative was going to be 'Ellsie' which is both my initials & also an anagram of my first name. 😆
Did I have to let it linger?
apparently I did.
[i]I think Gruntfuttock was one of Kenneth Williams's characters in Round the Horne...[/i]
That must be it then! Where the hell did Essel come from though?
Ah well....
my poker name at Uni and first thing that came to mind when registering.
Our kid used to call me Bin Lid at school (manchester rhyming slang for our kid). Then gradually everyone started calling me it. At some point it was appropriatted to Binners
I went through a brief spell of Bin Laden when he was a little known Islamic trouble-maker. People stopped calling me that fairly abruptly on September the 11th 2001. Cant think why
It's easy, you'd understand if I took my shirt off 😉
My name is Mitch, and I hail from the South Yorkshire shangri-la that is the people's republic of Barnsley.
It was the bike I rode when I first came on the site.
last name Hadaway shortened at school to haddocks and somewhere in the mists of time changed to Trout .
I wonder why people see any need to hide behind a pseudonym?
Because we're not all literal-minded engineers.
I'm from Dorset, and I'm a knob.
I don't know about the underscore though. Why would anyone put an underscore in their name, FFS?
I used to be Blimey, but changed it after the great schism.
It's my surname, i've always been slightly left leaning in my politics and i'm a bit of a geek. I can't actually remember why the vowels got removed. My real names ben, stalk away 😉
Had a rely bad day at work and seizednuts was the problem. Had me screaming, Bloody knuckles from spanner rash. burnt from gas axe and generly thinking I hate custommers and their bloody vehicles.
I was christened Bartat by Mark when being reregistered, may have something to do with riding on Ilkley most days back then, albeit rarely baht'at.
I had a 1993 Manitou HT... stupidly expensive bike
+1 Dorset. Couldn't have put it better.
mmb- muddymountainbiker as in my e-mail address, incredibly boring i know! wish i'd excersised more imagination at the time and it would be great if the powers that be would let me change it, we could make suggestions and then take a vote that way it can be open for all to see who i am
(no hiding) c'mon mods what do you say!.
Name is tim and I live in the willows
Short for my ful moniker on Bikemagic, Notoriously Bad Typist,cos I is, butit's easier to type NBT and that's what I've been known as for the best part of ten year online
the dorset knob is the name of a pub in poole dorset and i believe a dorset knob is a type of local biscuit!