Explain your KB name

**nadroj** · 14th February 2006, 19:08

When you get old
and your balls get cold
and the end of your knob turns blue
and the hole in the middle won't piddle no more
I'd say you're stuffed wouldn't you?

**et al** · 14th February 2006, 20:27

In case anyone was wondering (which I doubt very much) here is my story about how I chose my KB name:
Went on my first ride with Jim2 and some of his mates including Mangell6, Mooch, Snuffles - this was a couple or three years ago, the group later became loosely known as the "SCMCC", but that is another story!
Anyhoo........... on the way back from that ride back from over the Wairarapa we passed by the Rimutaka Summit without stopping and LB later posted something like: "I was up the top of the Tuks and saw Jim2, Mangell6, Mooch, Snuffles, et al pass through". So I thought that means I must be "et al" then - and I promptly joined up as such.
My name therefore is nothing to do with me having an ETALian bike, I am totally nothing to do with the "artist" group known as et al, or the reverse of the word: late, or any other connotations there-of.
There you have it, and thanks for asking.

**Virago** · 14th February 2006, 20:46

Originally Posted by scumdog

Is that shawda as in "he threw his pack over his shawda and walked off"?

Only in Glasgow.....

**Slingshot** · 14th February 2006, 21:39

Originally Posted by et al

Ithe group later became loosely known as the "SCMCC", but that is another story!

Do tell!!

I always though your handle must have meant "and others" and I guess based on LB's post, I was right.

**et al** · 14th February 2006, 22:02

Damn - here was me thinking I was a man of mystery and you had figured it out anyway. As for the "clubname" - the thread and picture which would explain it all appear to have been lost in the fullness of time but it was to do with a picture taken of our bikes outside an establishment roughly opposite the Wild Oats in Carterton. It was the local Senior Citizens club and none of us were too happy when someone noted the appropriate building signage had appeared in the picture.
PS 100 posts not out!

**R6_kid:Me** · 15th February 2006, 22:40

my name is gareth and my last name starts with d.

i was in class at the time i joined up so i didnt have much imagination going on...

have thought about changing it though, but everyone knows me as gareth_d now so that would just be confusing

**Mooch** · 15th February 2006, 23:44

Originally Posted by et al

It was the local Senior Citizens club and none of us were too happy when someone noted the appropriate building signage had appeared in the picture.
PS 100 posts not out!

Was that the day that Snuffles destroyed a couple of rims trying to keep up with us old farts? Next time we’ll take his wife with us instead, I hear she’s a far better rider.
Well done on 100 posts!

**et al** · 17th February 2006, 19:25

Originally Posted by Mooch

Was that the day that Snuffles destroyed a couple of rims trying to keep up with us old farts? Next time we’ll take his wife with us instead, I hear she’s a far better rider.
Well done on 100 posts!

Thanks Mooch. Not quite sure (mists of time and all that getting the better of me) but I think the "square wheels" incident might have been on the second ride for SCMCC. Agree that young Snuffles is a bit of a worry, you are quite right to suggest he probably should not be let out on his own with us anymore.

**thealmightytaco** · 17th February 2006, 21:38

Back in high school, 6th form, some challenge was put forth and no one was doin' it, I forget what it was but someone nominated me to take it on, saying I could do it and I said "yes, for I am, the almighty taco." And used it ever since.

**yevjenko** · 18th February 2006, 13:54

Mine was a corruption of my surname that was given to me by a friend far cooler than me.

**janno** · 18th February 2006, 19:40

My nic is highly classified information, only known to members of the Jan O'Connor secret squirrel masonic lodge, a highly secret select group of . . .

What??

Oh. Bugger.

**crash harry** · 19th February 2006, 14:37

Mine comes from what my dad used to call me as a kid whenever I crashed anything (bikes, mini-motorbikes, gocarts, 4-wheelers, skateboards, cars, you name it I've crashed 'em all).

I started using it when I joined the JDM CBR forum as a result of buying a CBR250 to replace the ZZR250 that I'd just written off...

I don't know where "Harry" comes from, that's just what he used to call me.

**Rhino** · 19th February 2006, 20:22

My nick was givern to me by Scorpygirl about 10 years ago. We were at the movies watching the Robin Williams movie "Jumanji".

There is a scene where a whole herd of African animals appear stampeding down the road while a car is waiting at an interesection. They all go past and then, lagging way behind, is a very old and slow Rhino. She looked at me and said "It's just like you, old, grey and behind the 8 ball."

After all that I still married her.

I use this nick in both Ulysses and KB.

And you all thought is was to do with a large horn.

**oldrider** · 19th February 2006, 20:37

I was just looking for old biker friends that might be on the net and stumbled my way onto this site.
Didn't know what to do to get on here so just called myself oldrider and it went through.
I didn't think I would be on here for long but just sort of kept coming back and found out I liked it.
I feel like I belong now and have actually met some of you, so I am going to stay.
I think I might be one of the oldest on here!

So it fits me OK.

Cheers John.

**Wolf** · 20th February 2006, 08:55

Originally Posted by Rhino

My nick was givern to me by Scorpygirl about 10 years ago. We were at the movies watching the Robin Williams movie "Jumanji".

There is a scene where a whole herd of African animals appear stampeding down the road while a car is waiting at an interesection. They all go past and then, lagging way behind, is a very old and slow Rhino. She looked at me and said "It's just like you, old, grey and behind the 8 ball."

After all that I still married her.

I use this nick in both Ulysses and KB.

And you all thought is was to do with a large horn.

Well, that prevented me from making a stupid assumption in the "Mental Image of KBers" thread...