User Names

[mercmonkey]

Now theres gotta be a few good stories behind some peoples choices for their user names

Lets hear em.....

 

[turnipsock]

can't see your point...most of the names look normal to me.

 

[mercmonkey]

can't see your point...most of the names look normal to me.

Dammm and urs was one of them i was curious about

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Mine is very simple really, it's the name of our house, Little Brook, and my name Lyn after it.

 

[shayes]

For the life of me I can't see how to gain anonymity having set up my membership in all honesty not intending to hide behind the vail of obscurity.
Seems impossible to change things now, or beyond my understanding of the system.

 

[shayes]

VEIL you dolt!

 

[blassberg]

surname....

 

[SLinKyjoe]

i am sorry, i dont undertand the question

 

[angus falconer]

err.....I was born with it.

 

[Myros]

so was I, and mine's the short version

Are we to take it that mercmonkey is not your real name? It would have looked good on your driving licence, or as a job description even.

 

[mercmonkey]

no my real name is Chimpy McFlightsuit.

Seriously tho, the name stems back to my childhood, when my dad used to race hot rods, I used to go help him and in the pit area I was always refered to as his "spanner monkey"

The long arms dont help much either

 

[shayes]

good for gathering Bananas from the ground though

 

[190e-nut]

I guess I am just nutzz about 190's.....

 

[mercmonkey]

good for gathering Bananas from the ground though

rather have a second elbow, get to those hard to reach areas lol

 

[turnipsock]

Maybe it would be better if we just left the mystery of the names. I don't think Colin Chapman ever said why he used the name Lotus? The lyrics of American Pie still remain a mystery as well.

If you really must know where my name came from, read on...

Way back when computers were a new thing I and decided to try out the internet, it used to cost money to use the telephone line to connect your 14k modem. I had been annoying a friend who had just open a resteraunt about his stock pot having two many turnips in it and said he should just call it turnip stock.

When I logged in for the first time, it asked for a name so I put in turnipstock. It came back saying I was only allowed 10 letters so I had to quickly change it, so i pulled out a 't' and Turnipsock was born.

That was about 12 years ago and I still use the same name. The chef went on to be a TV celeb chef and now drives about in an Aston Martin. He is lost in show business and rarely gives me a wave even though I taught him everything he knows about mushrooms and he used to use the exact words, that I spoke to him, in the media!

 

[Silver Arrow]

Way back when computers were a new thing I and decided to try out the internet, it used to cost money to use the telephone line to connect your 14k modem.

Wow you were a fast operator. I was stuck with 300 bps.!

Silver Arrow, well need we say more?

 

[turnipsock]

Actually I had a 300 bps modem, as well, that I built myself. I then had a RS232 card that I plugged into my Amstrad PCW. It was once leading edge technology you know. The modem was the size of a shoebox and was all discreate components.

I thought if I mentioned that, nobody would know what i was on about.

 

[Charlotte001]

wow does anyone still use RS232 leads ?

Charlotte

 

[mercmonkey]

wow does anyone still use RS232 leads ?

Charlotte

only under extreme protest!

 

[davidsl500]

mine's a tricky one

i own a david and my name is sl500.....bugger, wrong way round - told you it was tricky....