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Its a nickname from my surname, that and catfish, could have gone either way.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:04 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:05 pm
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Coz I drink it, hic!


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:05 pm
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I'm a small and angry man who has no problem getting a bike to fit.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:09 pm
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first name, last initial and year I was born simples


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:09 pm
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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


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:17 pm
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I'm a fat bloke who's name starts with a G, been called this for as long as I can remember..


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:19 pm
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I think Gruntfuttock was one of Kenneth Williams's characters in Round the Horne...


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:20 pm
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My real name's Jim Gruntfuttock

๐Ÿ˜ฏ You poor futtock - can't imagine what that was like at school.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:20 pm
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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. ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:20 pm
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I 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!

[joking]
But otherwise... ๐Ÿ˜† 8)
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Posted : 27/05/2010 8:21 pm
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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) ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:21 pm
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acute lack of imagination for me...
I am a man wot lives in Marsden....


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:23 pm
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I am called Christopher Reeve ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:23 pm
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Due to hurting my arms too much on bikes i now have a shed full of rusty trowels.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:27 pm
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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. ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:31 pm
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Did I have to let it linger?

apparently I did.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:31 pm
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[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....


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:33 pm
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my poker name at Uni and first thing that came to mind when registering.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:36 pm
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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


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:38 pm
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It's easy, you'd understand if I took my shirt off ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:40 pm
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My name is Mitch, and I hail from the South Yorkshire shangri-la that is the people's republic of Barnsley.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:40 pm
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It was the bike I rode when I first came on the site.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:43 pm
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last name Hadaway shortened at school to haddocks and somewhere in the mists of time changed to Trout .


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:43 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:47 pm
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I used to be Blimey, but changed it after the great schism.


 
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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:47 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:48 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:50 pm
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I had a 1993 Manitou HT... stupidly expensive bike


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:51 pm
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+1 Dorset. Couldn't have put it better.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:51 pm
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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!.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:52 pm
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Name is tim and I live in the willows


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:52 pm
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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


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:54 pm
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the dorset knob is the name of a pub in poole dorset and i believe a dorset knob is a type of local biscuit!


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:57 pm
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Inspired by Fred's Obi_Wan emails....


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 8:59 pm
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Its a long but interesting story, everyone who hears it laughs uncontrolably and ends up smiling for days, sometimes even weeks. I will have to tell it you some day.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:01 pm
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he dorset knob is the name of a pub in poole

Really? Whereabouts? (And what did it used to be called - I'm sure there was no pub of that name when I lived there!)

a type of local biscuit

'Biscuit' is stretching it a bit. Stale elephant bollock, more like.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:02 pm
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It's a song. 8)


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:06 pm
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I'm a real life Mr. Darcy ๐Ÿ™‚ Nickname at uni was Deadly (insert any word beginning with "d") Darcy. Tends to be my username anywhere.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:07 pm
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Name is tim and I live in the willows

Sounds a bit like a scary tree in The Lord of the Rings...


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:08 pm
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I don't like nettles


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:08 pm
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Always like the retro component brand name of nukeproof back when I started mountain biking as a teenager even if their carbon hubs weren't overly reliable, not that I could afford them anyway....got the username way before nukeproof rose again as a brand and, when it did, I cut it short to nuke. What an exciting story to tell the kids one day ๐Ÿ˜


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:09 pm
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I once got shot by one (it's a type of shotgun)


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 9:09 pm
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The slim fast advert used to make me laugh...

It was only recently I found out that [i](that was me)[/i] Barry Bethell [i](before I took the slim fast plan)[/i] was found guilty of sexually assaulting kids. I should probably change it now. Perhaps to something less creepy like Jonathan King or Gary Glitter.


 
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