How Did You Choose Your Forum Name?

[Bossybabe]

It's my real name. Professor Sir Malcolm Volio, CBE, DFC and bar.

Curtseys, tugging forelock:rolleyes:

[The Ayatollah Buggeri]

In my case, an accurate answer would require my being able to tick two boxes: 'the name of someone I hate' and 'my nickname'. A, shall we say, unmotivated employee I line managed many years ago while working in the cinema industry started describing me as The Ayatollah Albert (my real forename). She was blissfully unaware that I had any idea of this until I showed up at the Christmas party dressed in suitably adapted bedsheet, wig and stick-on beard. When choosing my forum name I decided to combine 'The Ayatollah' with whatever concept was most likely to píss off a lunatic Islamic extremist most effectively. Anãl sex seemed to be a pretty safe bet. Furthermore, the result has the same number of syllables, and finishes with the same syllable as the name of several infamous ayatollahs, too.

[Guest Noodle]

Sounds a bit like a James Bond villain, my degree is in physics and I liked the low-temperature stuff.

Tis' a good one.

Bose-Einstein condensate doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[Frank Hovis]

In which case the main forum would be scattered with 'Sad Depressed Loser'

It would be really hard to keep up. Bit like if you were in bed with Bella Emberg.

I made the mistake of trying to think what this might mean. My advice is don't do this.

I am now going to watch some Fawlty Towers videos and drink beer to try to forget the last two minutes.

[Potwalloper]

Tis' a good one.

Bose-Einstein condensate doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Or per root Hertz?

[blankster]

I've had a couple of names before I was Blankster. I can't remember what they were. Anyway, on both occasions I forgot my password and couldn't be bothered to go through the retrieval process so I joined with a new name (no, I haven't ever been banned).

Why Blankster? Literally i couldn't think of a name, so it's Blankster. However, people on here talk anout banksters, so in a way, it's an accidental play on words.

[Guest Noodle]

Or per root Hertz?

Or Heinz Beans.

[Sibley's Love Child]

It's my real name. Professor Sir Malcolm Volio, CBE, DFC and bar.

Now that is a surprise.

[Sibley's Love Child]

Contraction of middle name, plus the horizontal pixel count from a full HD telly picture (I work in telly).

I always wondered the significance of the '1080'; now I know - this really is a journey into discovery.

[Sibley's Love Child]

After lurking for a couple of months I quickly realised that most on here were economically savvy (or at least pretended to be...) so I thought i'd better come up with something suitably witty and yet knowing; hence Hyperinflation-a-go-go. Despite the fact that I knew sweet Fanny Adams about finance and the economy. After a year or so (and fed-up with Sibley's incessant ramping) I thought i'd change to something a little less serious. Et voila.

[ccc]

What was the long version?

Coppercrutch.

Got that name when I worked at Safeways when I was 16. Bloke used to call me coppercrutch due to the ginger hair.

[tonytramcar]

My name is Tony, as you can probably guess. At the time I first needed an "internet" name I was living near Croydon, where a new tram system was being built...

It may be naff but at least it's unique !

[Bob8]

Coppercrutch.

Got that name when I worked at Safeways when I was 16. Bloke used to call me coppercrutch due to the ginger hair.

You're a Hearts fan?

[PunK BeaR]

I like punk music and im a bear.

[blobloblob]

Other - just typed something without giving it any thought whatsoever. I really should have tried harder.

[Guest happy?]

Mine is the idiot catchphrase of a tw4t of a manager I once had. This individual had the propensity to interrupt people doing a task to bring them altogether to give them instructions on doing the task they were already capably doing without his interference.

Having given a set of tedious and unnecessary instructions the said manager would end the conversation with "Happy?"

In his own mind this individual probably saw himself as indispensable - people just gave each other meaningful silent looks.

[interestrateripoff]

My name I would think is pretty self explanatory interest rates are a rip off.

[TopTaff]

I just wanted to make friends and pull birds - all got was a Noodle fixation and an addiction to the OT forum which causes untold marital misery !

Every now and then a knowledgable and erudite poster here , puts up a photograph of a chaste maiden in her finery , always of course to reinforce a major philosophical or political statement - I probably happen to spend 8 - 10 miliseconds viewing said chaste maiden but every time , EVERY time , Mrs TopTaff will be somehow behind me and tut at my internet porn habit , I mean ffs the phone rang other night while I was enjoying the diverse financial ponderings only currently available in the 'Top Sci fi babes thread ' on the phone ? mrs Toptaff, her first words ? 'bet your on that w@nk site again'

SHE LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER FROM 365.5 Miles away !!

there is no justice !

Oh and btw TopTaff because I'm the #1 welshman in my household.

Edited to disguise twuntage

[Guest Noodle]

I just wanted to make friends and pull birds - all got was a Noodle fixation and an addiction to the OT forum which causes untold marital misery !

Every now and then a knowledgable and erudite poster here , puts up a photograph of a chaste maiden in her finery , always of course to reinforce a major philosophical or political statement - I probably happen to spend 8 - 10 miliseconds viewing said chaste maiden but every time , EVERY time , Mrs TopTaff will be somehow behind me and tut at my internet porn habit , I mean ffs the phone rang other night while I was enjoying the diverse financial ponderings only currently available in the 'Top Sci fi babes thread ' on the phone ? mrs Toptaff, her first words ? 'bet your on that w@nk site again'

SHE LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER FROM 365.5 Miles away !!

there is no justice !

Oh and btw TopTaff because I'm the #1 welshman in my household.

Edited to disguise twuntage

But do you wear the trousers old boy?

[TopTaff]

But do you wear the trousers old boy?

Only the badly ironed ones!

[Guest Noodle]

Only the badly ironed ones!

Just wait 'til she gets home.

[Kingding]

I just wanted to make friends and pull birds - all got was a Noodle fixation and an addiction to the OT forum which causes untold marital misery !

Every now and then a knowledgable and erudite poster here , puts up a photograph of a chaste maiden in her finery , always of course to reinforce a major philosophical or political statement - I probably happen to spend 8 - 10 miliseconds viewing said chaste maiden but every time , EVERY time , Mrs TopTaff will be somehow behind me and tut at my internet porn habit , I mean ffs the phone rang other night while I was enjoying the diverse financial ponderings only currently available in the 'Top Sci fi babes thread ' on the phone ? mrs Toptaff, her first words ? 'bet your on that w@nk site again'

SHE LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER FROM 365.5 Miles away !!

there is no justice !

Oh and btw TopTaff because I'm the #1 welshman in my household.

Edited to disguise twuntage

Oh thank Christ, I thought that just happened to me. My Mrs has some kind of pixellated boob detection system that is operable from the other side of the house. I suffered on the Sci Fi thread as well, I heard the door close and thought "Right! let's have a squiz then" and no sooner did a pert buttock appear on the screen when a voice spoke from over my shoulder: "Oh yeah, so thats what you do on that site is it?". She moves like some anti-porn ninja.

[winkie]

Mine is the idiot catchphrase of a tw4t of a manager I once had. This individual had the propensity to interrupt people doing a task to bring them altogether to give them instructions on doing the task they were already capably doing without his interference.

Having given a set of tedious and unnecessary instructions the said manager would end the conversation with "Happy?"

In his own mind this individual probably saw himself as indispensable - people just gave each other meaningful silent looks.

Happy...I know just the sort you are talking about....sad people.

Mine is a childhood nickname...one thing I have never been able to do only

[The Generation Game]

I obviously thought far too long and hard about mine.

Its message is threefold:

1. The economic cycle is attributed to be roughly 18 years, something I would describe (rightly or wrongly) to being a generation. There will be winners and there will be losers. Most of these can be attributed to timing. It's like a big gambling game.

2. We are witnessing an inter-generational transfer of wealth, the asset rich vs the debt rich. There's not a lot you can do about it. Age is the most important factor. It's just a big game. Some will take a punt and get burnt, others will steer clear and get burnt.

3. "The Generation Game" was a television programme synonymous with "the cuddly toy". Due to my bear status I thought this quite apt.

Even with all that I still haven't managed to find an appropriate avatar in nearly 3 years.

[The Generation Game]

What about this one?

or this?

or how about this?

Too much choice

I feel an off-topic poll coming on... or maybe the people of this thread would be so kind as to make a suggestion.