Forum Members - User Names

[Kaiser Soze]

Mines from a cool film.
As it turned out it's the name of a Turkish crockery producer!

[Shedgirl]

Mines from a cool film.
As it turned out it's the name of a Turkish crockery producer!

It is a cool film; I never knew that about the crockery producer though!

Mine's a political statement (yeah right) about the need for women to empower themselves by claiming the space, time and budget to escape family responsibilities and bugger about drinking cups of tea and listening to badly-tuned paint-splattered radios in A Shed of One's Own - just like blokes have been doing for years.
Oh, and it was easy to spell.

[MrFixIt]

Hi

Originally our products were to be called ShitHot went to Melb to register the name some 20 odd years ago and they wouldn't touch it.

Yes, those people at the Busines Names Registration Board can SOMETIMES be a pain.

I wanted to register "Info" as a business name, in part because I wanted the name as a web domain name, ie "www.info.com.au"

Well did they give me a hard time!

After MUCH lengthy discussion with the counter staff, that said "we don't think it's a *SUITABLE* name", I DON'T CARE if *YOU* think it's suitable or not, if you cannot give me a VALID reason why I CAN'T have it then I would like to register it. We discussed at length the use of the name and what "info" meant ie short for information and as I was in the computer business where people used computers for INFORMATION "info" seemed quite appropriate. Nope!

So I pressed hard for this and lady at the counter went to her superior - in another room and out of earshot. She came back and said NO! *WE* don't *THINK* it's suitable.

So I went outside, called the BRB from outside the building aked to speak to the supervisor, had yet another lengthy discussion on the mobile phone. Eventually I was told I could register a request for review of the name in WRITING, which I did that afternoon. ABout three days later I received a phone call saying that the name was approved. I registered the name and the domain name and used it for a couple of years.

One day I received a request to sell the domain name. I thought about it and decided not to. A couple of months later I received another call from the UK, did I want to sell the domain name?

Hmmm? I was considering my options when the previous offer to purchase was resurected by the original inquirer. Hmmm? again!

To shorten this already long message, there was a two way auction which resulted in my selling the info domain name for quite a few thousand AU$. I guess THAT was an offer too good to refuse. I also relinquished my right to the business name as they were "kind of" tied together.

[MrFixIt]

Hi

Mine is relatively obvious. Because I fix things, pretty much ANYTHING. Normally without a manual or instructions because that's how I receive the broken "things" or there is no repair manual readily available. Not that a manual matters very much, as I only refer to a manual when I have finished - to se if they wrote it correctly

I started about age 8, with a pocket (fob) watch that was given to me in pieces in a small cardboard box. I have not stopped since and I'm now 58.

It has become almost an obsession that I fix things. When I was on the road in the service industry, if I saw things that were broken, like items in view of the item I was supposed to repair, I would fix it and leave a note saying what happened and that I fixed their "broken thing" while I was on site.

I see it as a personal challenge to fix something that was designed NOT to be fixed, but replaced. I most cases I am happy to replace the item, BUT, NOT UNTIL I have fixed the broken one first

[Cliff Rogers]

Still no idea.

[Glen]

Another calumny! Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you

I just used my first name as I thought I could change it later when I thought of something decent, but then found out it's the only thing you can't change - doh. Everyone at work has a nickname, mines weasel after the weasel in the foghorn leghorn cartoons, apparently we are brothers. Its really weird but some people, call em by their real name and everyone goes "Who".

[I_wanna_Shed]

Nothing too exciting, original, or imaginative about my name. I first found these forums when we were renting a townhouse, and I wanted a shed. Hence, "I_Wanna_Shed" I was born.

I didn't think it through though. Now that I have a nice big shed, the username doesn't fit!

[wheelinround]

wheelinround..........well mostly I get called hoppie by those who have known me for many years.. I wont go into why to many reasons.

For those who like stories

Why wheelinround no not just cause I use the wheelchair to get around most days these days....anything with wheels since I got my first peddle car back as a youngster, rollerskates, trikes, bikes, scooters, motor bikes, cars, an occassional trucks/semi, and 25 years driving buses n coaches and repairing them... along with 5 years building them prior that as an apprentice.

Just need to go for my medical driving test and I'll be back behind the wheel again just hate taking tests/exams.

Family history also has a BIG part in the name they built horse drawn coaches, carts, carridges, RR's, cars, planes motor bikes.
http://www.britishmm.co.uk/history.asp?id=50
http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/nut.htm
http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/com...d=134&filter=M
http://avia.russian.ee/air/england/arm_fk-10.php
http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.../11/96407.html
http://www.geocities.com/summerhillr...rcy_perrin.htm

Made on Tyneside http://www.asaplive.com/Local/public...cs=513&cs=1779
£1.95
The history of the manufacture of aircraft, cars and motorbikes on Tyneside, written by the son of an engineer who worked at the Angus Sanderson factory during the Great War. The booklet includes cars created in Birtley, planes produced in Gosforth and motorbikes manufactured in Newcastle. The companies include Angus Sanderson, Armstrong Whitworth, Vickers and N.U.T. Aircraft include the BE2A,FK3, FK8, and FK10, a range covering biplanes, triplanes and quadruplanes.
In 1920, on the other side of the world, the first regular airmail service run by the Australian company, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service Limited, (now QANTAS) was undertaken with an FK8.

Now comes the worst you all now know my secret............yep and proud of it.

[manoftalent]

I am a chef by trade, also capable of many other tasks .....mowing, whippersniping, cleaning, doing dishes,moping floors, washing laundry, hanging out laundry, folding laundry,scrubbing bathrooms, vacuuming, dusting, glasscleaning, painting, ironing, fixing broken electical appliances, tuning and maintenance of cars,building "stuff"...fences, deckings, walls, sheds, etc, making usfull items out of wood ( big in recycling timber, cause its already aged )...father of two boys, and husband to loving wife

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Hehehe. Given the last post, I feel I should've called myself JOATMON!

[Capt. Zero]

When I first started working river boats I couldn't catch on to throwing lines worth a damn. One of my coworkers decided to start calling me Zero (everyone on boats has a nickname some pretty awful) and it stuck. Later on, when I got my pilots liscence, everyone forgot why the name started and began calling me Capt. Zero thinking it was because I didn't have accidents. The internet came along and I found it to be a handy moniker.
My real name is John E. Aubin.






"I couldn't get you to believe my name is John Q. Smith, could I?"
"Well of course you could, sign here."

[pitbull]

My missus gave me my nickname because i was a bit hotheaded in my younger days, and i dont fancy changing it to Hush Puppy now i'm more mellow.

[Dr.Zook]

Mine comes from the comic strip, "Hagar The Horrible". There is a character in the stip called "Dr. Zook". A doctor that Hagar goes to. I was a Toolmaker by trade for GM and had to go out in the plant to repair dies. I was on radio dispatch and the dispatcher would call for Dr. Zook to go repair said die. Therefore I made 'house calls'. The name stuck and spread and through out the plant, I was "Dr. Zook". Oh yes, my last name is Zook. Doc for short.

[Zed]

My real moniker is a strange one that only I and and the members of my coven have ever been able to pronounce. For some strange reason the presence of caucasian, asian, african, or any other non coven-blood automatically makes the tongue swell when prononcing my name. I grew up with all sorts of nicknames and I dont like them now either - at least the ones I get. Once I got big enough i started to fight back at a few of the more offensive ones.... having to pick a userid for this board - i wasnt gunna use my real name as it stands out like a dogs gonad.... Thus Zed, at least the Z is spelt right..

And yes, all of you that I have met - every one of u, except Boban, have, and contine to mispronounce it, it is my burden and I carry it..

[Sturdee]

My real moniker is a strange one that only I and and the members of my coven have ever been able to pronounce.

I can relate to that as well as mine's also always mispronounced.


Peter.