Your Screen Name

[craigb]

I was wondering how the members came up with their screen names.

For myself, I wanted to post a question on the board and found out that I'd have to register first. At the time, I had no idea if there were other "craigs" so the easiest thing was to add the first letter of my surname to my first name.

Of course, I fairly quickly realised that this was not a particularly witty choice.

Suffice it to say, I wouldn't pick the same screen name again, but after nearly 3,000 posts I'm well and truely stuck with it.

Anyway, to stop rambling, I was wondering why you members chose the screen names that you did.

[scooter]

Mine came from my namesake scooter on the muppet show, I wore glasses (pre laser treatment) up until 9 years ago, and some witty soul thought I looked like him .


Cheers..............Sean

[Gumby]

Well, when i was born, I had a large bump on the side of my head. I was also made of plasticine. So they called me Gumby

When I logged on here, not agreeing with people using ficticious names and hiding behind a image to show their absolute insecurity with the world, I used my real name.

I mean, take that Graham Sands guy who posts on here. I wonder what his real name is. :confused:

[echnidna]

I had seen an echidna earlier in the day.
the"n" was a typo

[Gumby]

I had seen an echidna earlier in the day.
the"n" was a typo

Lucky you didn't see two dogs................

[routermaniac]

when I bought my first router I loved it so much that I couldnt put it down. Useful little buggers.... then I got to build a router table... and then I bought the triton and table, and then another router... welll you get the point, I WAS obsessed with routers.

Luckily that was just a phase and I am fully cured of that obsession, the flavour of the past few months has been handtools, esp planes... tell you what, they certainly are much more fun than a router

regards

marios

[gatiep]

AS most of you have discovered from my 'accent', I originally came from South Africa. In the Cape province ( I'm from Natal & the Transvaal ) the 'coloured' people have a habit of using a generic name for the males , i.e. Gatiep and Maraai for the females. I'm not one of them but I thought it would make it easy for fellow bb members from South Africa to work out my country of birth. After my first post Derek Cohen ( must be his non deplume ) asked me if I was from South Africa, so either he heard my accent in my typing or put 2 + 2 together and got 5.

[DanP]

Can't remember.

[Groggy]

Can't remember.

Yeah, that's my excuse too...

[knucklehead]

cos its true!!!!!!!

[DavidG]

craigb - Same as you.

[Grunt]

I was going to choose Ozwinner but it was already taken. Ugg.

[craigb]

Dear dear dear.

Grunt, Groggy Knuckles and Dan. You just can't be serious for one nanosecond can you?.

Don't you realise that most people are bored stupid by your flippant responses and your constant attempts at hijacking threads?

It's not funny boys. (Well, actually it is, just don't tell it to sad Taswegians and you'll be o.k. )

[knucklehead]

May be I'll change my name to "flippant responses".

That should atleast give fair warning that all that follows is nonsense.

[Grunt]

Craig,

Sorry for the flippant responses. I don't like myself most of the time and I never listen to what I have to say. That is good advice for everyone.