what's your nickname all about?

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:33 am

I'm lurch because I look like lurch lol

lurch

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:33 am

Grebnaws, it's my last name backwards. I always thought it sounded like some kind of mythical beast so I use it whenever possible.

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:44 am

Grebnaws wrote:

Grebnaws, it's my last backwards. I always thought it sounded like some kind of mythical beast so I use it whenever possible.

Mythical beast? haha

That's awesome man. Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:19 pm

...any of you other mythical beats etc. care to add to this thread?

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:58 pm

Not too exciting here either....M for Matt, Wis for Wiswall...everyone thinks I'm from Wisconsin

Hawk Joined: Dec 03, 2006 Posts: 407 Location: Madison, WI

One boring set of a few minutes during my adolescence, I decided to see what my name looked like spelled backwards... Naginalf Kcirtap. I liked it because the dork in me thought it sounded like a wizard name. That has been my internet name ever since (well the first part anyway). Oddly enough, I have never been accused of being an Alf fan.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:39 am

I was an avid scuba diver and the family summer house is on Manomet Point on Cape Cod Bay so my boat was named "Pointdiver". Also my handle on the fishing and diving forums. It just stuck.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:43 am

I miss Boston. Sad

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:55 am

sobernclean......doesnt take a genius to figure it out. This is actually the first forum I have reall taken any part in other than readin. Just pulled it out of my head while I was signin up. I usually keep my recovery to myself but I figured here it doesnt really matter who knows!

Nicknames in the past have been.....Flounder while I was in high school, cuz they said I drank like a fish hahahah

Snail was handed to me the short while I lived in Rhode Island because they said I was very docile and when I got liquored up I would come out of my shell. The name evolved to both me and my car at the time, an old 1983 Volvo wagon. I lived in that car for months on end going from show to show to show....It wasnt pretty or fast but it was full of goodies and other than a busted exhaust I fixed with JBWeld the thing never gave a bit of trouble. Just add oil gas and hippie chicks

Most recently among certain circles I am known as Panther, at about a year sober went through the Cherokee Tribes (no I am not native but used to be a big dirty hippie) rights of passage into manhood. The old Shaman warrior all knowing silent dude gave me the name Panther after one of the longest weekends of my life.

David

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:25 pm

naginalf.......i know a patrick Flanagin....lives in N.H. ......small world!

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:15 pm

My name is John Stedman but nearly everyone calls me Red. Even though my red hair is getting alot of gray in it. Shocked

also known as "Uncle Red"

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:41 pm

well i like Kawasakis,suppose someones got to Cool

Hawk Joined: Dec 03, 2006 Posts: 407 Location: Madison, WI

MWis wrote:

naginalf.......i know a patrick Flanagin....lives in N.H. ......small world!

They are both very common Irish names.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:43 pm

My Family always paid the price when I put my first 1100 back together because of all the time I was away.So I used the first Letter of each childs name. William,Alexandra,Matt,Kylee,Annmarie(wife) and Phil(myself) alias: WAMKAP!! I didn't like the look and sound of PAKMAW.[img]

I can't seem to find a picture with me and my wife But here is my crew.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:32 am

oneonta...my sis lives in ellicottville!

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:14 am

BEERo - my friends are calling me Miro, but due to my love to the beer.... they started calling me Beero

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:05 am

Blue Thunder - Blue bike, goes at the speed of sound (thunder - bold, powerful).

Hawk Joined: Oct 12, 2007 Posts: 320 Location: Connecticut

didn't think i was goign to get invovled at all with the forum in teh begining....it kinda grows on you, so m is for michael, last name rukus. pronounced rookus,, but people have fucked it up so much that my friends just call me ruckus. and Patrick Flanigan is the second most irish name i have ever heard in my life. first would be my bio teachers son.. liam phelan

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:19 am

DirtyBoatGuy was taken Sad

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:00 pm

Not to say Mr Flanigan"s name isn't Pure Irish, but, I had a neighbor whos name was P. O. McDonald. Patrick O'Brian McDonald. I kinda think his name was about the most Irish name I ever heard.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:26 pm

Many years ago I designed and built power supplies and back up battery supplies for the telecom industry all over the country, they were low voltage but very high amps -48VDC but up to 100,000 amps Shocked

so lots of power, and Roy is my name, so I ended up with powerroy on job sites and it just stuck Wink

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:03 pm

Stenben is a name i have been stuck with since 10th grade. My last name is Viksten and where
ben comes from... i dont know Very Happy

Sometimes its just sten and sometimes stenben or even stonebone hehe.

english:
sten = rock, boulder, stone
ben = bone, leg

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:43 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QPkJJFC9bx0

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:21 pm

The origin of my handle is lost way way back in the mists of time...
It's something my family have called me since before i can remember.
My parents suggest it was the first collection of letters my elder sisters taught me to say (as elder sister are want to do ?) when i was first learning to talk.
I use it for all my virtual identities. I have never yet had problems with someone else having already chosen my email address Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:31 am

Mine is just like it sounds, I've always been a Kawi freak I owned and
restored only 73-74-75 Z-1s. A friend of mine gave me the 900 but one
time when I was riding I was doing about 110mph and the #1 rod came
out of the front part of the case and left a hole bigger than my fist but
the engine still kept running and would of if I did not run out of oil.
This impressed me so much I bought another engine for it and then bought an 1100. now I'm a cb nut but my passion will always be Z-1s

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:19 am

Mine Is zman ..short for zone. It was zone at first but someone started calling me "Z" then zman.
i didn't care what they called me as long as it wasnt gay.
I received that name by being a pot head way back in the 70`s. I would zone out they say. or I was just thinking.
I don't smoke anymore but just in case an old friend see`s my moniker, what the heck.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:17 pm

This was a pretty cool topic, contrary to what most people assume I am NOT a doctor. Well actually I am certified by the Perfect Circle Corp. as a doctor of motors (no kidding I mailed in 4 piston ring boxtops and pictures of my first exploded 396 BBC to get it.) I worked at an Oldsmobile dealer for 18 years. A fellow gearhead (thanks Dennis AKA Harley.) from the performance years (early 60's to 71 when they dumped the compression) started calling me Dr Olds since I worked at an Olds dealer. FYI for you kids or automotive performance war challenged people Dr Olds was some guy that stood in the magizine ads next to whatever latest Olds Cutlass 442 (or other Olds HP) GM was humping on the public back then. The name stuck in the circles I hung in for many years and I use it in my e-mail and most other on-line sites.

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:45 pm

mine's simple.

a reference to the serial killer known as the DC Sniper, followed by the model of the first rifle i ever bought. the mosin-nagant M91/30

it's been my online handle/screenname ever since i can remember. well not really, cause those shootings happened when i was in like 8th grade. so we'll say all through high school until now?

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:24 pm

what was the question?

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:05 am

Im an Orthotic Technician for twenty years, I fabricate custom orthopedic bracing for the largest provider of Orthotics and Prosthetics in the United States. Hence Bracemaker, I should of thought about it a little more, probably could have come up with something better.