School holidays, I'm bored pt 1: "How did you pick your KB name?"

[Cajun]

My nick name comes from a member of the x-men comic book series. I use to collect comics/cards of Gambit when i was younger.

Gambit is what he is normally known as, he was also called 'The Ragin Cajun', so i used that instead,

I started using that nick name when i started on BBS 18+ years ago, it got shortedn down to Cajun along the way, since somce places where only allowed 6-8 letter names. So this nick name has been with me for a very long time, i have a few 'alternive' nicks i use on a few other sites, one of my other favourite ones i like to use is farQ, used that in more hacking/cracking/warez scene for about 15 years.

[jrandom]

I started using that nick name when i started on BBS 18+ years ago...

What an old fulla auw!



I do sometimes miss the late-night burble of a 14.4kbps modem finally getting past the busy signals and connecting to a local BBS.

Ah, the excitement of all those slowly-downloaded JPEGs of naked women, multiplayer Doom via modem, and the Anarchist's Cookbook textfiles.

And mum and dad picking up the phone in the kitchen and yelling at me because they got a data signal in their ear at precisely the same time I started yelling at them for killing my connection and condemning me to another half hour of auto-redial.

Good old days (yes, I was 'jrandom' then, too).

[Cajun]

What an old fulla auw!



I do sometimes miss the late-night burble of a 14.4kbps modem finally getting past the busy signals and connecting to a local BBS.

Ah, the excitement of all those slowly-downloaded JPEGs of naked women, multiplayer Doom via modem, and the Anarchist's Cookbook textfiles.

And mum and dad picking up the phone in the kitchen and yelling at me because they got a data signal in their ear at precisely the same time I started yelling at them for killing my connection and condemning me to another half hour of auto-redial.

Good old days (yes, I was 'jrandom' then, too).

yeah bbs back in the day was awsome, i started on a 1200 baud modem, i over clocked to 2400 baud, on my good ol 386

took like 20+ mins to download that picture of Teri Hatcher in superman cape, that was the hit at the time

and playing the muds, and trying to hack the bbs to get myself few net

[mstriumph]

Yes, what's up with all you people who join online bike forums and name yourselves after your motorcycle?

Do you honestly never expect to change bikes?

no?..........

[Donor]

I do sometimes miss the late-night burble of a 14.4kbps modem finally getting past the busy signals and connecting to a local BBS.

yeah bbs back in the day was awsome, i started on a 1200 baud modem, i over clocked to 2400 baud

14.4?

2400?

LUXURY!

Why, when I started BBSing on my Commodore64, I had to make do with a mere 300 baud modem...

You young 'uns... don't know the meaning of hard graft when it comes to downloading pr0n...

[Ixion]

Modems, pfaah. Acoustic couplers FTW.

[Lucy]

Modems, pfaah. Acoustic couplers FTW.

Are you Bill Bryson? I wish you would write a book, you crack me up.

I can't be arsed trying to remember different names, so I just use my real one. If someone wants to steal my identity all I can say is - good onya and good luck being me!

[limbimtimwim]

Modems, pfaah. Acoustic couplers FTW.

Pfft! I can whistle and screech the tones all by myself. But I can only manage 1200/75 baud.

[DUCATI*HARD]

Yes, what's up with all you people who join online bike forums and name yourselves after your motorcycle?

Do you honestly never expect to change bikes?

ducati all the way mate,,,HARD

[cold comfort]

Possibly a lack of imagination/inspiration when faced with a demand for monicker, but reflective of the irony of finally getting a bike again in a climate singuarly unsuited for it.

[DEATH_INC.]

Mmmm a bit tricky... I've always had a bit of a fascination with the Grim Reaper, and I usta kill a lot of bikes.....it just seemed fitting....
All the boys on the turbo site thought i was an undertaker of something....

[NZsarge]

My surname is Sargent, there was already a "Sarge" on the site so I slapped a NZ on the front of Sarge and there you have it..... NZsarge

[MisterD]

My real surname begins with 'D' and I'm a bloke...it's also what young Flatcap, who is a Uni mate of my missus, has called me since I pitched up in the country.

[PrincessBandit]

Pfft! I can whistle and screech the tones all by myself. .

OMG, you're not that lady Terminator are you????? Run for your lives!!!

[Cajun]

I have searched honest, can't find this but will remove if it's been done before.

I have often wondered why some people chose there username,ok some are bleeding obvious but I'm bemused by many others.

I know a lot of you know each other and the choice of user names may become obvious when you meet but I being billy no mates ,have no Idea what relevance some of your usernames have And I'm just interested that's all,ok and nosey.

mine is an actual nickname from a tv show called ,just good friends,70's I think. I used to be sooty till I worked with someone else called sooty,too blardy confusing.

There ya go.love ya to share but if not that's cool.

Why are you number one,what's random about a j, what's a maha...man,Toaster? and my personal favourite,coldablog?? or sommat and many more but my memory is shite. iceblock6344342321

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...highlight=nick