User names

[Al]

Out of curiosity, why did you choose whatever you user name is?

I will start off, my name, the umfaan, means "young boy" in Zulu (ex South African).

Al

[jrandom]

We've done this thread before.

But, FWIW, 'J. Random' is a sort of online 'Joe Bloggs'. I started using it several years ago when I couldn't think of anything better.

[Joni]

at least you are not Bafana...:lol:
Joni has been the nick name a lot of my friends call me, so it just kind of stuck.

[Cajun]

Well my full nick name is 'The Ragin Cajun'

i have been using this nick for well over 15 years now, when i first started on bbs in auckland.

I have also used a few other nicks my other major one is farQ (nick i use on www.gixxer.com, and few other small places)

This nick names comes Gambit from the x-men, another name for him is The Ragin Cajun, when i was a wee lad, i use to collect cards/comics of him, still have them all, alot of them be worth a good amount of money now.

I have people find me i use to know on bbs 15 years due to my nick. i also use a fake name around the net as well, can never be to careful.

[digsaw]

:Oi: the damn thing tricked me and used my password :ar15:

[Big Dog]

:Oi: the damn thing tricked me and used my password :ar15:
:lol:

When I first went to log on to my first web addy the only thing I was sure of was I did not want my real name accessable. But on hotmail my nick name was well and truly gone, the closest suggestion had 5 digits to remember.

When I was a teenager I used to sign all my "pen pal" (boring story) letters with a cartoon of a dog. Dog, Dawg, and even bigdogonamotorbike were all taken. It suggested Bigdogonamotabike@hotmail.com. And so it began. Now Wk mates call me by my proper name, Mates call me by my nick, web mates call me big dog (now all web coms go by this nick unless I'm going undercover) and those who have met me in person all seem to know who I am at first glance, so it works I guess. :ride:

[Zed]

When I joined KB I was riding a Kwaka Z(ed)X-6R so I aptly named myself Zed.

I use up to 4 other online names :shutup:

[Zed]

:lol:

When I first went to log on to my first web addy the only thing I was sure of was I did not want my real name accessable. But on hotmail my nick name was well and truly gone, the closest suggestion had 5 digits to remember.

When I was a teenager I used to sign all my "pen pal" (boring story) letters with a cartoon of a dog. Dog, Dawg, and even bigdogonamotorbike were all taken. It suggested Bigdogonamotabike@hotmail.com. And so it began. Now Wk mates call me by my proper name, Mates call me by my nick, web mates call me big dog (now all web coms go by this nick unless I'm going undercover) and those who have met me in person all seem to know who I am at first glance, so it works I guess. :ride:
...so how does your avatar tie into things?? What is it exactly?

[vifferman]

I have no idea where my online name came from.

[jrandom]

...so how does your avatar tie into things?? What is it exactly?

It's an allusion to his riding style.

[curious george]

I was wondering one day; what would happen if..................
and there you have it.
Not to mention the cartoon.

[vifferman]

I was wondering one day; what would happen if..................
and there you have it.
Not to mention the cartoon.
The avatar was originally from one of the online bike mag sites, yes?

[Two Smoker]

When i started riding, KK was always talking about my Two Smoker, therefore it became my user name :niceone:

[FROSTY]

Online Ive been XJXJXJ like as long as i've been online.
its to do with my love of yamahas xj series of bikes.
frosty is my "realworld" nickname.
I wouldnt use any association to the realworld elsewhere online

[wkid_one]

Mine has been discussed before.

I only run with a couple of other psuedonyms

NaKed_BatMan
FarQToo

Other two only used when I wish to run rampant in online games and not have my main name banned

[What?]

Mine's a pun on my real name.

[Firefight]

Grumpy was already taken :Pokey:

Firefight :rolleyes:

[Big Dog]

...so how does your avatar tie into things?? What is it exactly?
As the random 1 put it.....
It's an allusion to his riding style.
It is a Jet powered snail.

[Skyryder]

I ride a Drake. Drakes fly. So do I

Skyryder

[Zed]

As the random 1 put it.....
It is a Jet powered snail.
Peculiar - here was I thinking it looked more like some gadget stuck in a dirty running shoe!?

[Big Dog]

Peculiar - here was I thinking it looked more like some gadget stuck in a dirty running shoe!?
Sounds like time to upgrade your monitor. :soon:

[curious george]

The avatar was originally from one of the online bike mag sites, yes?

Can't remember where I got the picture from, but somewhere online.
And the cartoon, curious george, the curious little monkey......

[dangerous]

Sounds like time to upgrade your monitor. :soon:

na mate, for as long as I've been here, I've not been able to work that one out either. But now that you mention it if I push the monitor onto a 45* lean to the right , it does look a bit like a snail with a jet engine :eek: but then again I am due for a new pair of glasses.

As for the user name well its a long time nick name something to do with my driving/riding tecnec I think, more so when it comes to 4x4ing.

[750Y]

mine is named after the model bike i had at the time. gsxr750(Y model)
I always knew bigdog's was a snail but i thought the jet engine was one of them ol skool police sirens that they used to run in the early days, the ones with the real sick wail.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Posh Tourer :P. What else do you use when you are a young guy riding a 1983 BMW R65LS (the baby boxer)

[Zed]

...I always knew bigdog's was a snail but i thought the jet engine was one of them ol skool police sirens that they used to run in the early days, the ones with the real sick wail.
Lol, combine both of our misconstructions together and you end up with a dirty running shoe with an old school police siren protruding out of it :killingme


Next: what the heck is that green symbol thingy that RiB has hanging off his profile??

[Lou Girardin]

The one I really wanted to know hasn't been revealed yet. Guess who?

[Aucker]

mine is obvious...cos i live in Fiji! :shifty:

[Magua]

Magua, in the movie "Last of the Mohicians" a Huron Indian, Magua, kills Duncan an Englishman and Munro a Scotsman. My name is Duncan Munro and I'm hald English half Scotish.

[RiderInBlack]

Both bikes I had had were black at time (see Profile Pics:niceone: ) , and my leathers, helmit and gloves were black. I wanted "Black Rider" (LOR) or "Man In Black":niceone: for another site, but they were already gone:bye: , so I came up with RiderInBlack:Punk:

Now my bike is mainly white, with red and blue. My new helmit is mainly white and red. If this trend keeps going I'll have to change my user name to "The Rider Formally Known As RiderInBlack" :bye: :killingme

[jrandom]

Next: what the heck is that green symbol thingy that RiB has hanging off his profile??

It's the Hunter clan badge. One would assume that RIB has a strong familial awareness.

[RiderInBlack]

Next: what the heck is that green symbol thingy that RiB has hanging off his profile?? Ooch a noow:drinknsin . It's ma Clan Badge, ya heathen scum:P

[jrandom]

Ooch a noow:drinknsin

See?

Tole ya.

[RiderInBlack]

It's the Hunter clan badge. One would assume that RIB has a strong familial awareness.Aye:first: , give the man some of your best Scotch Zed:apint:

[dangerous]

Aye:first: , give the man some of your best Scotch Zed:apint:

Ohhh..... I'm in Ill bring me 18yr old Glenlivet and Talisker malts

[Ghost Lemur]

I think I've mentioned this before, but mine comes from William S. Burroughs last book "The Ghost of Chance". Set in Madagascar. the main character is befriended by a Lemur he names Ghost. Ghost Lemur (Lemur by the way mean Ghost in Madagascan) sounded call and hadn't been taken around the place so I used it.

The only other nic I've had was i_morpheus, which related to a short piece written by a French writer who's name I can't recall. It was a piece about drugs and had huge amounts of symbolism in it. I really liked it and the name, with the Greek/Roman mythological significance too. Then of course The Matrx came along, and all of a sudden every man and his dog was Morpheus so I decided I'd better move on.

[Motoracer]

I feel truely alive during racing conditions.

I decided to choose the name "Moto Racer" from the game because it felt the most appropriate.

Although I have a hell of a lot of work to do to become a real racer yet.

[Racey Rider]

I just wanted something I could aspire too.
before my wife came up with RR, I almost went with Podium. :Oops: :no:

Was reading the site threads for quite some time without login on as I didn't know what user name I wanted to be stuck with.

[Motu]

Finding a user name is a pain and I think of one and forget what it was.When I joined ADVrider as the only Kiwi I wanted a name that told where I came from.Around the same time looking in a Maori dictionary for the spelling of a word I couldn't find,in the back I found a section for the names of things they didn't have names for - kinda onamatapoeia stuff...like kau,hama and poaka,I had a laugh when I saw the word for motorcycle - motupaika - say it with a Maori accent,neat eh? so I used that as my handle on the site.They soon cut it down to Motu,so I use it everywhere now,I like it and it's easy to remember.

[erik]

... Was reading the site threads for quite some time without login on as I didn't know what user name I wanted to be stuck with.

That's pretty much why I just use my real name - because I think I'd probably have second thoughts about whatever alternative nickname I thought up.

[Bandito]

Out of curiosity, why did you choose whatever you user name is?

I will start off, my name, the umfaan, means "young boy" in Zulu (ex South African).

Al
Hello my name is Bandito and I ride a bandit< I don' :wacko: t think I am an alcoholic but clearly I have no imagination when choosing names.

[Her_C4]

Well now... boring actually!

Mine is my online name for www.clubsub.org.nz :first:

I found this site almost by mistake as I was looking for a new bike to buy and I was taking the time to have a look around first.

Then by the time I actually bought the new bike (having been a visitor to the site for a while) I was really excited and keen to 'share' and login.

Ooops no login name - and (because at my age the gray cells die off at an alarming rate :yeah: ) I have no imagination so I used the one that I used on a couple of other sites.... :o

[bluninja]

Mines same as the biker ones...rode a blue ZX9R C1 for 5 years...used the name all over and it stuck.

I did try using the name Black Mille after I changed, but I started getting lewd pms and posts (on other sites) from none bikies who seemed to think that it was descriptive of me and that I was a gurlie :rolleyes:

TTFN

[Slim]

It's an old nickname that my sister used to call me, although I'm not as slim as I used to be (read: f*ck'n skinny).

[Devil]

Devil, shortened from DevilWTKC (because people kept spelling it wrong :Pokey: ), which is short for Devil With The Kings Card.

[RiderInBlack]

I did try using the name Black Mille after I changed, but I started getting lewd pms and posts (on other sites) from none bikies who seemed to think that it was descriptive of me and that I was a gurlie :rolleyes: Gee Bluninga, I through you was a "Girlie":Oops: as you don't ID your gender (it's your right, but don't blame anyone if they assume wrong if you don't):Pokey: Just teasing ya dude (or is that dudette:rolleyes: ).

[scumdog]

Freezing works days :sneaky2:

[riffer]

celtic from my ethnic heritage, and no6 is my favourite position on the rugby field. plus it's also my hotmail addy.

[Deano]

No guesses for mine. Its pretty obvious I think.

[Dr Bob]

Okay the muppets are an inspiration, but it's close enough to my real name for me to identify with it.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Gee Bluninga, I, through you was a "Girlie":Oops:

Vicarious girlyness? strange.....

[Racey Rider]

Vicarious girlyness? strange.....

I always thought you were a girl PT. Something to do with Posh Spice I suppose. :spudwhat:
The other day you wrote something that didn't sound very girl-ish which made me check, and to my suprize, :Oops:

[Funkyfly]

I have also used a few other nicks my other major one is farQ (nick i use on www.gixxer.com, and few other small places)


Heh, i remember seeing that nick on gixxer.com,

I have no idea where FunkyFly comes from sorry, i just made it up.

[Cajun]

Yeah thats were i first meet 750Y on that site, i only found this site, about 6 month or so ago, read it for a month or so before i joined

Cajun is first then farQ aka fuck you

[Wenier]

Well mine is because i was the youngest at the flat, but at least a wasnt towely or CIB(Cum In the Bum) or Skeletor or Queen Leo, so i think i got off reasonably lite for naming then.

And the pic is jus some random shit that we do at the flat.

[vifferman]

Well mine is because i was the youngest at the flat

So it's supposed to be "Wiener" then?

[FROSTY]

ok ok all the nstories But comeon spankme--whats your story????

[Wenier]

yea i no but in my hast of joinin the site at some stupid hour of the morning one night i made the spelling mistake and didnt pick it up so o well its jus gonna have to be the way it is

[Joni]

ok ok all the nstories But comeon spankme--whats your story????

Now thats a question I want the answer to as well XJ? A few options do jump to mind....

[Ms Piggy]

Mine is b/c my 'celtic' heritage (Scots & a bit of Irish) and 'sea' b/c I love the ocean and I just like 'lily' as a name. I use it as a login for some other sites.

[toads]

mine is boring really, when the triplets were toddlers they were so naughty/ mischievious that I called them toadlers, then it got shortened to toads, when they turned 5 a mate gave me a card with real life photos of toads on it and they saw it and asked what they were, I told them "they are toads," they said "but we are toads, those are ugly", I said, you guys are my toads, so the next comment was that I must be one as well seeing as I'm their mother, so our whole family has used toads as a username/email address etc, ie Pete's is A toad 2. Neat eh!!

[Fluffy Cat]

Well I'am a cat and I have this long fluffy hair....

[DEATH_INC.]

Hmmm,I usta crash a lot,and killed a few motorcycles......

[Andrew]

I'm just not smart enough to remember more than one name. :(

[Kickaha]

I took mine from a character I enjoyed in a book by Phillp Jose Farmer in his World of the Tiers series.

[marty]

The one I really wanted to know hasn't been revealed yet. Guess who?
i'll play your silly game. who?

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Out of curiosity, why did you choose whatever you user name is?

I will start off, my name, the umfaan, means "young boy" in Zulu (ex South African).

Al
Not hard to work mine out. :ride: I have had 2 GSX-R 750's. :wavey: As they are called Gixxers and I can not live with out one and they rock my world I wanted everyone to know what I ride :love2: .....and they are 4 ever :bleh:

[BurnCycle]

Bernard - Bern - Burn

Motorcycle - Cycle

BurnCycle

[Zed]

Bernard - Bern - Burn

Motorcycle - Cycle

BurnCycle
You've got a big head mate! :sick:

[RiderInBlack]

I thought your was after the Kiwi Band "ZED". Their Album "Silencer" is still one of my faviourites:Punk:

[White trash]

If you've met me, you'll know why I'm "White trash"

Or if you've seen the tip that is my place of residance ;)

[Hitcher]

"Hitcher" (or surprisingly, 'Hitch' for short) is a name intermittently used since the "dark ages" -- I can't remember if it was acquired from the Territorials or Hash House Harriers. It was definitely my HHH nick but then things start getting a bit blurry... I believe that its genesis was due to compensatory action required for shorts with no elastic whilst running...

[matthewt]

No guessing where mine comes from. Anyone that can't figure it out probably shouldn't use a computer anyway ......

[LB]

I can't remember where mine came from..... :rolleyes:

[riffer]

I can't remember where mine came from..... :rolleyes:

Probably your mummy and daddy, who loved each other very much.... ;)