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Title: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: r90s on July 01, 2011, 04:32:46 PM: I often wonder how members came up with their user names. Some are obvious, while others are a mystery. I signed up as 'r90s' because that is the first motorcycle I purchased (in 1976). I'm guessing there might be some interesting and/or enlightening responses to this post.

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Post by: crc on July 01, 2011, 04:38:01 PM: Nothing exciting about mine, its just my initials.
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Post by: Testarossa on July 01, 2011, 04:47:54 PM: I painted my valve covers red.
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Post by: faffi on July 01, 2011, 04:48:52 PM: When I was 24 and began in a new job back in 1988, people seemed to find me rather old and boring so they called me FARFAR (Norwegian for Grand dad on your father's side) and shortly that was abbreviated to FAFFI. The name stuck for many years and I've retained it as my username.
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Post by: Steve Scott on July 01, 2011, 04:53:35 PM: ???
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Post by: Turin on July 01, 2011, 04:57:35 PM: Real name, spelled phonetically.
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Post by: twhitaker on July 01, 2011, 05:01:03 PM: I believe the origin of my name goes back to old England where my ancestors raised and harvested wheat. Wheat takers.
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Post by: cloudbase on July 01, 2011, 05:08:56 PM: I'm a glider pilot, so cloudbase is where I hang out. Well, 500 ft. below cloudbase. Really!
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Post by: Adk.IBO on July 01, 2011, 05:22:33 PM: Self employed since 1986, self employed in the adirondacks since 1989, therefore Adirondack Independent Business Owner or Adk.IBO
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Post by: demills on July 01, 2011, 05:26:34 PM: My first & middle initials and last name.
Dennis E. Mills
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on July 01, 2011, 05:29:35 PM: Back in the Pleistocene, the moderators on the Guzzi list were Sheldon and Chuck in Mass. When I joined, to eliminate confusion, I was Chuck in Indiana..
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Zoom Zoom on July 01, 2011, 05:31:14 PM: Some time ago, someone posted on another board with a title of "I hate my Guzzi". This person went on to elaborate about the many troubles he had with the bike, many of which took very little time and very little, or no money to resolve. This was a very long rant. Many people countered with reasons that they "loved" their Guzzi, also going to great detail about why. At the time, this was the Mr. Nevada thread of its time. After being entertained for quite a period of time, I finally posted that every time I get on my Guzzi, even after the then 25,000 miles, and hit the starter, I felt like the kid in the Mazda commercial looking over his shoulder with a grin saying Zoom Zoom. It stuck. BTW, I still feel that way about my Guzzi's. ;D

Zoom Zoom,
John Henry
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Post by: daytonars97 on July 01, 2011, 05:31:47 PM: Guzzi model owned + year. This one is an obvious one.
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Post by: Gliderjohn on July 01, 2011, 05:32:09 PM: As with Cloudbase, I am a glider pilot. Was having a hard time coming up with a user name so kept it simple.

Quote from Cloudbase:
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I'm a glider pilot, so cloudbase is where I hang out. Well, 500 ft. below cloudbase. Really!

So how do you measure that 500 ft.? I have had this problem of thinking that cloud is more than 500ft above and next thing you know everything is getting hazy. ;)
GliderJohn
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Steve Scott on July 01, 2011, 05:34:36 PM: Quote from: twhitaker on July 01, 2011, 05:01:03 PM
I believe the origin of my name goes back to old England where my ancestors raised and harvested wheat. Wheat takers.
You're not kin to the Tazewell Co VA Whitakers are you?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on July 01, 2011, 05:36:46 PM: Quote from: Testarossa on July 01, 2011, 04:47:54 PM
I painted my valve covers red.

Oh thank goodness ... I always thought it was something else of yours that were red ... it wasn't a pretty picture! ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: dam on July 01, 2011, 05:39:02 PM: Just my initials.

Dale
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Post by: Crusty on July 01, 2011, 05:39:27 PM: When I tried to sign on a Buell forum, years ago, the name JohnJ was taken. My best friend at the time was 19 years younger than me, and he referred to me as a Crusty Old Fart, so I tried Crusty, and it took.
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Post by: Kev m on July 01, 2011, 05:39:39 PM: Ya see when I was born the nurse asked what they should put on the birth certificate and...
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Post by: Lee Bruns on July 01, 2011, 05:40:07 PM: My first name is Shannon, but it gets tiresome, having to correct people who seem to want to call me Shawn or Shane, or demand to speak to 'her'. So I use my middle name for everything. My wife is about the only person who calls me Shannon. Been using my middle name for many years, works fine.
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Post by: pat manning on July 01, 2011, 05:44:28 PM: Quote from: Steve Scott on July 01, 2011, 04:53:35 PM
???

??? ??? ??? ??? 8)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Steph on July 01, 2011, 05:52:48 PM: Quote from: Lee Bruns on July 01, 2011, 05:40:07 PM
My first name is Shannon, but it gets tiresome, having to correct people who seem to want to call me Shawn or Shane, or demand to speak to 'her'. So I use my middle name for everything. My wife is about the only person who calls me Shannon. Been using my middle name for many years, works fine.

+1 ???
My first name is Stephane, grew up in Quebec, but it gets tiresome to correct people...
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Post by: QCGoose on July 01, 2011, 05:53:11 PM: When I first got my Guzzi, I also had my '06 Ninja. Pretty imaginative, huh? ::) ;D

EDIT: Ah, that was the old name. Guess I'd better update.

"QC" = Quad-Cities.

Again, pretty imaginative lol.
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Post by: rodekyll on July 01, 2011, 06:00:37 PM: My old Convert is a critter magnet. I seem to squash something on every long road trip. After the first few run-overs with it (possums, dogs, chipmunks, birds, etc) people started saying "Here comes Rodekyll" when I showed up, and the name stuck whether I liked it or not.
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Post by: Orange Guzzi on July 01, 2011, 06:13:27 PM: I painted my first Guzzi (79"sp) orange. Big Bad Orange or the color of the General Lee car.
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Post by: diablo45 on July 01, 2011, 06:16:39 PM: I used to play in paintball tournaments and would paint eldiablo(the devil) on my gun. So everything computer lo in related became a varient of that. The 45 comes from two of my favorite pistol calibers,45acp and 45 long colt.

Sam
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Post by: ranette on July 01, 2011, 06:31:29 PM: Back in the early days of the web, before Hotmail and the like, when I signed on with my first ISP, I was allotted one email address. If I didn't include my (then)new wife in the new address it probably wouldn't have been a good idea. So Randy and Annette, predating Brangelina, Bennifer and a host of other celebrity duos, became, and has remained, Ranette.
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Post by: Testarossa on July 01, 2011, 06:32:33 PM: Quote
Oh thank goodness ... I always thought it was something else of yours that were red ... it wasn't a pretty picture!

Oy, that hurts.

Testarossa = redhead = Ferrari tradition. There have been several generations of Ferrari 12-cylinder engines in V- and boxer configurations with red valves covers. See for instance

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/collectible_classic/1003_1984_1991_ferrari_testarossa/photo_03.html
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Post by: Guzziscoot on July 01, 2011, 06:34:16 PM: Very cool thread! My childhood nickname was Scoot, and then Guzzi came into my life........
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Post by: Vince in Milwaukee on July 01, 2011, 06:40:09 PM: Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on July 01, 2011, 05:29:35 PM
Back in the Pleistocene, the moderators on the Guzzi list were Sheldon and Chuck in Mass. When I joined, to eliminate confusion, I was Chuck in Indiana..

My story is quite similar to this one. Before actually joining up back in the day, I checked out the board quite often. There was a Vince in New York. Since I was out in Phoenix at the time, I became Vince in Phoenix. Moving back home, and ending up in Milwaukee, I am now my current handle. Wonder what ever happened to Vince in New York?
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Post by: two-speed on July 01, 2011, 06:41:42 PM: Mine is easy .......(two-speed)....... since all my bikes are Converts ;)
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on July 01, 2011, 06:44:32 PM: When I lived in Nebraska I chased t-storms and tornadoes. I had a 76 F-150 extended cab in green. Body looked like hell, but the glass was always like new, having been replaced fequently. When the clouds would roll in and the wind would climb Id takeoff to chase the storms. Neighbors would see me leaving and say "there goes the stormtruck." Hence the call sign. P:) P:)
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Post by: racergary on July 01, 2011, 06:48:11 PM: My love of road racing caused some people at work to call me racergary,others called me ET due to being 5'4".Nothing wrong with ET but I didn't think the movie was that great so its racergary,did own part of a motorcycle that won a California club Championship way back when.
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Post by: Kiwi_Roy on July 01, 2011, 06:55:37 PM: I'm originally from New Zealand, you can guess the rest ;D
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Post by: rocketcaptain on July 01, 2011, 06:57:56 PM: I wish ThyLard was here...
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Post by: Randown on July 01, 2011, 07:02:36 PM: I crash a lot.
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Post by: MacGlennon on July 01, 2011, 07:05:17 PM: Noswal is my last name spelled backwards.
Jim Lawson
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Post by: samfrank on July 01, 2011, 07:06:53 PM: put a space between the m and the f and that's me. creative, huh?
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Post by: Dr Evil on July 01, 2011, 07:08:19 PM: Big bald Doc. Simple as that :)
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Post by: toddhaven on July 01, 2011, 07:13:43 PM: Quote from: samfrank on July 01, 2011, 07:06:53 PM
put a space between the m and the f and that's me. creative, huh?

Brilliant.
I admire your genius.
You are obviously a man of wealth and taste.
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Post by: Bill929 on July 01, 2011, 07:28:50 PM: Name and birthday, that simple.
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Post by: nick949 on July 01, 2011, 07:34:13 PM: My name + the Eldo's displacement....... ....duh!

Nick
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Post by: studebaker on July 01, 2011, 07:36:14 PM: Mine's easy - I have a Studebaker Hawk - 57 vintage. I figured I'd be the only one here so that was a good name to be recognized with.. Great machine and like my Eldorado I only stick with Brand X.
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Post by: rocketcaptain on July 01, 2011, 07:47:04 PM: My name is Todd Dodds (no middle name). I prefer (and will answer to) anything else. Even Shannon.
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Post by: blackcat on July 01, 2011, 08:36:06 PM: Company name
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Post by: Offcamber1 on July 01, 2011, 08:47:35 PM: Edited a newsletter for an English car club back in the middle 1980s. Had a column called, "The Off Camber Corner."

Edited a newsletter for Southern Indiana Region SCCA in late 1980s, and had a column called, "The Off Camber Corner."

Started writing for Frank on occasion back in the early 1990s. Failing in imagination, it was called, "The Off Camber Corner."

Turn four at Grattan (when run clockwise) is the ultimate Off Camber Corner.

Kip
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Post by: Kent in Upstate NY on July 01, 2011, 09:06:04 PM: Just to remind me where I live.
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Post by: FGO on July 01, 2011, 09:15:08 PM: ToddHaven
What is your real name, Darrell? Barney? Jerry? For some reason you picked ToddHaven, was that some gunslinger in an old western... time to come out of the closet and tell us who you really are......
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Post by: Muley on July 01, 2011, 09:16:04 PM: (http://s1.postimage.org/2nyft4i2s/PC230076.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2nyft4i2s/)

One of my dear, departed friends and as gentle as a big dog, Applejack (Jack for short), went with me on many hunting trips in the Rockies. Only one is left now, and she's getting long in the tooth :'(
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Post by: Tom on July 01, 2011, 09:16:22 PM: I'm not saying. :P Although the other stuff that goes with the avatar if I had one needs explaining......som etimes....
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Post by: Beaver on July 01, 2011, 09:22:40 PM: The first time I met a group of Guzzi riders at the Louisiana campout a few years ago, I was riding a Honda & carrying a stuffed toy, which happened to be a beaver, on my handlebars. When the guys asked my name, I said "Beaver". They all introduced themselves as "Frank Smith". (Turns out Frank Smith wasn't even there.) Nicest folks I ever met!

Georganne
Beaver
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Post by: fotoguzzi on July 01, 2011, 09:28:19 PM: duh,
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/fotoguzzi/Screenshot2010-10-24at30519PM.png)
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Post by: guzziboy66 on July 01, 2011, 09:28:42 PM: I have a stupid boyish grin ;D when riding my Guzzi. I was born in '66.

Eric
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Post by: BrianK on July 01, 2011, 09:46:40 PM: My first name is Sue and it gets tiresome...and if I ever get hold of my old man...!
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Post by: moto zen on July 01, 2011, 09:48:54 PM: Duffs first Guzzi license plate is MZ 7940 and I'm into MOTO Guzzi and ZEN, so MOTO ZEN is my NATURAL FACE, a Zen saying. But you can call me DUFF!!!

Weird huh?
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Post by: ken farr on July 01, 2011, 09:51:31 PM: Yes sir, that's me.

kjf
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Post by: toddhaven on July 01, 2011, 10:25:40 PM: Quote from: Eldo Jon on July 01, 2011, 09:15:08 PM
ToddHaven
What is your real name, Darrell? Barney? Jerry? For some reason you picked ToddHaven, was that some gunslinger in an old western... time to come out of the closet and tell us who you really are......

Zeke,Skeeter Goober, and Doofus did not seem very cosmopolitan...

I have been called lots of things.
Some I would prefer my Mother not hear....

Prolly more of a C cup...
Me, not Mom. ;)
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Post by: dilligaf on July 01, 2011, 10:34:33 PM: DILLIGAF was/is my code name when I go on an undercover mission. Don't tell anyone.
Matt
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Post by: troyhamilton on July 01, 2011, 10:39:36 PM: My mama named me. I go by it still!
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Post by: SteveAZ on July 01, 2011, 11:12:08 PM: I was in Arizona when I signed up to the board. Moved to California since then. I love the ocean but I'll always be a desert rat at heart so I'm keeping the AZ.
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Post by: gsf12man on July 01, 2011, 11:41:02 PM: My username is obsolete, but I guess I'm stuck with it; named for my Suzuki Bandit 1200S, sold some time back. I miss it . . .
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Post by: Sack on July 02, 2011, 12:24:02 AM: Mine comes from Junior High and was my nickname among friends. It stuck and has been with me since.
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Post by: Gnigma on July 02, 2011, 02:33:31 AM: Several years ago I was "N-igma." Then the Compaq Windows machine I had crashed (again) and I was offline for several weeks until I tried reformatting the HD with a Linux OS. By that time, my user name had been ripped off (While the box was down, my ISP somehow decided I was no longer a customer). The Linux Gnome desktop labels lots of windows-similar apps by using the same name with a "g" added in front, so I did the same.
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Post by: hogdogs on July 02, 2011, 02:38:12 AM: I hunt wild hogs with bay dogs and use bulldogs to catch them so we can wrestle them down, tie 'em up and haul them home alive for butcherin' at a point in time to follow.

Carry no guns... just rely on a Buck 110 pocket knife for protection or emergency work.

Therefore, I became "hogdogs" on those forums and just chose to use it out of simplicity for every forum of any genre.

Brent
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Post by: Damnyankee on July 02, 2011, 04:51:51 AM: Funny thread. Here in the south..if you're a Yankee passing thru, you're a stupid Yankee. If you relocate here, you're a Damnyankee. I don't even have a name here after 13 years, even my boss calls me Damnyankee..hopeful ly a term of endearment :D I'll be retiring in a year or so and going home..I suppose then I'll have to change the handle to Stupidyankee...no, scratch that, I'm not likely to return to the south again...except to see family in FL.

Bless ya'll's hearts ;D
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Post by: boatdetective on July 02, 2011, 05:12:14 AM: My job involves investigating marine accidents. A friend gave me the nickname as a tongue in cheek poke- think, "Ace Ventura, pet detective".

hey Muley- sweet photo. Some good friends used to live in Lowesville, VA and had some mules. They always said they were way more intelligent and independent than the horses.
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Post by: Ragnar on July 02, 2011, 05:25:00 AM: My original user name on the board was "patrick". The board crashed some years agoand we all had to re-register, "patrick" was taken so I had to come up with another. At the time I was reading one of Bernard Cornwell's historical novels and like a character in that so used his name "Ragnar". I thought that as Cork in Ireland, where my family came from, was lone of the 1st Norse trading colonies, the name was appropriate.
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Post by: Phang on July 02, 2011, 05:40:20 AM: My last name/surname/family name :)

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Post by: balvenie on July 02, 2011, 05:49:44 AM: Only too happy to spread the word, the best scotch I ever tried. ;-T
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Post by: drdwb on July 02, 2011, 06:05:30 AM: Was a quick and easy name I used for my first Email account when traveling to Russia with a group of Doctors simple adding Dr to initials of name David Wayne Butler Thus drdwb, creative hu.
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Post by: double.d on July 02, 2011, 06:53:35 AM: My tits.
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Post by: drums4money on July 02, 2011, 06:56:14 AM: Recorded & toured & restore vintage drums for... compensation...some times.
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Post by: AMFrider on July 02, 2011, 07:27:42 AM: It used say it was short for Andrew Michael Frider, but that was a fib. It's because fifteen years or so into my ownership of an old Superglide and long before switching to a 'Guzzi, I grew tired and embarrassed at being thought of as a Harley biker. That would have been about the time MotorClothes and collectable trinkets were taking up more catalog space than loud pipes.

So I painted over the tank's HD logo leaving the little AMF decal and told anyone that asked what king of bike I rode that it was an American Machine and Foundry Superglide.
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Post by: Arctic Dude on July 02, 2011, 07:29:53 AM: My friends in southern Ontario joke that I moved up to the Arctic! In the middle of January here it sometimes feels like it.
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Post by: Michael D on July 02, 2011, 07:39:28 AM: The 1st part pretty obvious. The 2nd part, well A, B, & C were taken. :D
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Post by: Moto Fugazzi on July 02, 2011, 07:46:59 AM: Quote from: double.d on July 02, 2011, 06:53:35 AM
My tits.
:PICS!:
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Post by: Moto Fugazzi on July 02, 2011, 07:53:09 AM: First time my friend saw my Griso, he said: "what is that? A Moto Fugazi"?.
Fugazi is one of my favorite bands from years ago, and also means f*cked up. I just added another z to the name.
It works for me.
Ken
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Post by: DaddyRabbit on July 02, 2011, 08:22:46 AM: 5 kids and we take in miscellaneous family members. Stuck to me years ago and so thats who I am to my family.
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Post by: Luap McKeever on July 02, 2011, 08:32:53 AM: Mine started while serving in the Air Force. My call sign was changed from "goosebump" to "blue goose" when I promoted to E-3. I worked with explosives and while on a temporary deployment in January of '91 to "a desert", I did some things that were not exactly anticipated (nor legal today) when it came to handling said explosives. My bomb chief witnessed me in the act during a random quality inspection and said that was the wildest thing I have ever seen. He then jokingly said we are changing your call sign to "wild goose"...now be more careful, followed by a :). My how things have changed in the last 20 years. "It's just a bomb, what's the worse that could happen Chief?"...said this naive 21 year old hillbilly E-3? The return look was priceless and very memorable. I changed my ways...a little bit.

Upon starting my first website in 1996, I used some hosting space from a friend of mine who's last name is Chase, so I called it the "Wildgoose Chase", kinda combining the two names. Then, it became "wildguzzi" when I bought a real domain name in in 1998 because wildgoose was taken. Funny how a few of my old buddies still refer to me as wildgoose after all this time.

Ironic how I ended up riding Guzzi's when I've been a Honda guy all my life. Guess it was fate to make it home and start riding Guzzis ;-T
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Post by: elvisboy77 on July 02, 2011, 08:37:07 AM: Back in the 80s I was walking down the street in downtown Washington DC and a errr ..... elderly gentleman asked me if I had any change. I did not and told him so. I guess that made him angry because he started cussing at me and said "you are just another $#%@#$% white trash elvisboy" I guess it had a certain ring to it.....and I graduated high school in 1977.

One look at my hair in the avatar pic confirms that I am, in fact, a #$%#$%$% white trash elvisboy. And proud of it.
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Post by: wiseoldfool on July 02, 2011, 08:54:49 AM: Mine's pretty descriptive! I'm considered old by most people around me (who are young in their eyes at least ;) ) Wise well that's part of being old I guess you learn some things along the way and fool because being old and wise doesn't prevent me from being foolish.
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Post by: jj145 on July 02, 2011, 09:15:21 AM: Just a nickname for an airplane that I flew at the end of my airline career. JJ= jungle jet.
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Post by: Dilliw on July 02, 2011, 10:14:16 AM: In college I picked up the Dilli nickame; it's what people always told me after I opened my mouth...

Does It Look Like I Give a ......

Other people use the Dilli or Dillagaf as a username (like Matt here), but I've never come accross another DilliW (Westbury)
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Post by: Guido Valvole on July 02, 2011, 10:27:47 AM: It's a play on Don Novello's Father Guido Sarducci character in the old Saturday Night Live.

25 years ago I lived in a funky, cheap apartment in Berkeley CA and had a menagerie of bikes in the echo-chamber garage. Most notable was a Ducati Darmah, which was an ongoing project. How very Italian… Some neighbor asked who I was one day and I said "I'm Father Guido Valvole" as a wise-guy answer. Residents of the building were an eclectic mix of Cal students, GTU (Graduate Theological Union, amalgamation of seminaries on Holy Hill) students and cheapskates like me. Might as well have been International House as well, interesting mix of people and never a dull moment.

Especially when I'd light up the Darmah with Bub "Conti Replica" pipes in the garage or driveway ;D I think that was the loudest motor vehicle in the People's Republic of Berkeley at the time. Political correctness not spoken here! ~;
cr
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Post by: Lank on July 02, 2011, 10:45:39 AM: My son had a friend who would ride in the back seat of his car. He would lean his lotza hair against the window and it would get all oily and funked up. He was called "Lank". Later I bought an oilhead BMW and somehow it got named Lank and I kept it with the Guzzi which is also pretty much an oilhead.
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Post by: AMGeneral on July 02, 2011, 11:38:26 AM: I like to have unusual vehicles. So I got one of these. AM General FJ-8C it's an old mail delivery van. Right drive and Chrysler/Jeep based driveline.
(http://s4.postimage.org/f12634v8/general02.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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Post by: ItalianSpiderman on July 02, 2011, 11:42:54 AM: Because ItalianSpiderman is too good a username not to use, and somebody has to be ItalianSpiderman!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-lYWUVQVJzBQ/Tg7yuGHtUoI/AAAAAAAAA58/_obcFM-QVwo/s800/italspiderman.jpg)

Or it may have to do with the couple of Italian Spiders I have in the garage... 8)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HHlwdCpACik/Tg9IJ9X_ANI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/y0LplUCqQbI/s640/DSCF0504.JPG)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sheepdog on July 02, 2011, 11:45:25 AM: Back in 2001, while I was still in the security business I met a fellow by the name of Dave Grossman. He had just delivered an excellent presentation based on the following essay (its a bit long, but an excellent read):
http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
It had a profound effect on me, as I had spent a good part of my life (about 24 years) in the para-military trade. Colonel Grossman's "Killology" moniker may seem off-putting, but he understands the "warrior class" very well and personally helped me to approach my profession with honor. In addition, he helped me reconcile the suicide of my brother (USMC vet from Desert Storm including some intense combat) and gave me some insights on how to help ease my daughter's return from Iraq in '05 (she also saw a bit of action and was nominated for the Bronze Star). I resolved that I would try to live my life as a "Sheepdog" and use this name as an homage to Dave.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: roofus on July 02, 2011, 11:54:50 AM: my dogs name!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wiseoldfool on July 02, 2011, 12:05:06 PM: This is a brilliant thread :)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: ogsurf on July 02, 2011, 12:15:07 PM: I live in Ocean Grove, NJ and I used to make surfboards.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: scooterjock on July 02, 2011, 12:44:35 PM: Mine is short for Scooter Jockey. I ride motorcycles for a living.

Unfortunately, I still have to work at the shipyard to help pay for all of that living....... ::)

500 days left until retirement, but who is counting..... ;D

Stripping down the "Duck of Death" (long story, from Unforgiven "...that's Duke of Death, not duck.") for a desmo valve adjustment today. Now that is fun.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wyno on July 02, 2011, 12:54:41 PM: My partner used to live in Ocean Grove Victoria in Oz. But I got my name from an entry I put in to a photographic magazine (which I won) and I printed my surname very clearly as WYND, in capitals. The magazine printed the photo with my name spelt Wyno so I've tried to live up to it ever since.
Mike
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: faffi on July 02, 2011, 12:54:57 PM: Quote from: Ragnar on July 02, 2011, 05:25:00 AM
My original user name on the board was "patrick". The board crashed some years agoand we all had to re-register, "patrick" was taken so I had to come up with another. At the time I was reading one of Bernard Cornwell's historical novels and like a character in that so used his name "Ragnar". I thought that as Cork in Ireland, where my family came from, was lone of the 1st Norse trading colonies, the name was appropriate.

My cousin's name is Ragnar. For more Ragnar, check out Ragnarok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: jcctx on July 02, 2011, 01:02:48 PM: It is plain to see some of us have NO imagination when it comes to these things; toooo obvious!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: roofus on July 02, 2011, 05:10:53 PM: Quote from: wiseoldfool on July 02, 2011, 12:05:06 PM
This is a brilliant thread :)

Yes it is . . . . but 'fess up . . . . what's the origin of yer handle?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Horseman on July 02, 2011, 06:11:02 PM: 6 years of raising my own Clydesdale Horses on the farm in Iowa. Two tours of duty with the Budweiser Clydes at Sea World of San Diego. 12 years on the road with the Hallamore Clydesdales out of Lakeville, Ma. And several years of shoeing the big boys professionally. They're in my blood! ;D I am Clydeman on the Adventurerider Forum. :)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: radguzzi on July 02, 2011, 09:07:58 PM: Just my initials and I ride Guzzis, mostly...

Rob
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Mike Crenshaw on July 02, 2011, 11:21:46 PM: Started riding dirt in the '70's and loved all those Swedish motocrossers that rode Husky's. I spent more time crashing and repairing bikes than winning races. Bengt Phorqs is a play on "bent forks".
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: SRX6 on July 03, 2011, 12:01:53 AM: In 1986, Yamaha sold a fantastic four stroke single cylinder 600cc motorcycle called the SRX6. A modern day cafe racer, it was great to ride and fit me like a glove. It was like making love to an 18 year old.......and you better have been a man to ride it, because it was kick start only. Once started, you were rewarded with good power and sublime handling. To this day, strafing the back roads of West Virginia with my broha on his BMW either ahead or behind me are my best motorcycling memories.......

(http://s2.postimage.org/57mn0f8/srx600.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/57mn0f8/)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: ndmackay on July 03, 2011, 01:42:03 AM: Born and raised in the Netherlands and I like to fly low...ehm, go fast...all legal of course ;)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: double.d on July 03, 2011, 04:11:15 AM: Quote from: Moto Fugazzi on July 02, 2011, 07:46:59 AM
Quote from: double.d on July 02, 2011, 06:53:35 AM
My tits.
:PICS!:

No need to go there.............. ............. And besides, I need to shave :-*
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: steamdriven NZ on July 03, 2011, 05:08:42 AM: I like old machinery. A lot of it is a lot cleverer than people give it credit for, will last if looked after and is a pleasure to use. Like Tiger Moths and radial engines, old tooling and the like.

I especially like steam engines, marine steam in particular. Makes me a shoo-in for being a Guzzi owner then, really.

But technology has its place, for sure, and sometimes "they don't make em like they used to" is a GOOD thing!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Dean Rose on July 03, 2011, 06:50:31 AM: DUH?

That's my name.

Dean
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Green1000S on July 03, 2011, 07:40:20 AM: Mine is difficult.....in lack of proper imagination,
I have a green1000S, duh... ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Legato on July 03, 2011, 08:54:52 AM: In music, "In a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks." (as opposed to staccato).
It's Italian for "tied together" - my take on one corner to the next...
Following Reg Pridmore's admonition, I always try to ride smoothly.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: vacantstare on July 03, 2011, 09:04:06 AM: If there's an explanation to mine, it might be a description of the look I get as I try to think of a handle that hasn't already been registered.

And, like Shannon and Stephane, I have had all sorts of annoying episodes making my way through life as a male Dana. I remember calling my credit card issuer once and being told 'Our records indicate that you're female'...I kind of lost it that time. Tried the middle name thing for a while, but eventually I just decided I was going to make people learn my name, goddammit!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: blackbuell on July 03, 2011, 09:22:12 AM: Mine is a simple combination of the two favorite bikes that I rode at the time I came up with the name for various MC forums: My 2000 Buell S3 (my absolute favorite bike of all time), and my 2003 CBR1100XX. I no longer own either bike, though the S3 is still in the family--my brother-in-law now owns it.

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn253/blackbuell_photos/buellatLakeCity-1.jpg)

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn253/blackbuell_photos/birdfront.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: ldrodo on July 03, 2011, 09:26:16 AM: Virginia only has 6 spaces on motorcycle tags so Eldorado wouldn't fit. Hence LDRODO.
Jim
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: twhitaker on July 03, 2011, 10:06:47 AM: Quote from: ldrodo on July 03, 2011, 09:26:16 AM
Virginia only has 6 spaces on motorcycle tags so Eldorado wouldn't fit. Hence LDRODO.
Jim

All along I thought it was Idrodo. ::) ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Pfaff! on July 03, 2011, 10:14:23 AM: Taken from a German sewing machine. Better than both Bernina and Singer. What did you expect? ;D

I first registered here using my initials, but got a whole bucket of shit from Norcal Randy on that (He later excused for that in a PM. What happened to Randy? Did he get so into his scooter dreams that he lost interrest for the Guzzis ???) so I changed for my last name. But now was time for an update! :BEER:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: mojohand on July 03, 2011, 10:36:28 AM: I celebrate my interest in the blues. So, my name comes from the blues legend/meme of the mojohand. Also, in the '70s, some blues musician friends called me "Mojo" (obviously riffing on my first name) due to my strong support fo the blues, as a radio dj and then as a road manager and all-round supporter.

I have since evolved it on other boards to be Mojoguzzi, for obvious reasons. ;)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wiseoldfool on July 03, 2011, 10:48:00 AM: Quote from: roofus on July 02, 2011, 05:10:53 PM
Quote from: wiseoldfool on July 02, 2011, 12:05:06 PM
This is a brilliant thread :)

Yes it is . . . . but 'fess up . . . . what's the origin of yer handle?

See my earlier post for an explanation Roofus :D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: m13 on July 03, 2011, 12:49:53 PM: a few years back I had to pick a name for a Vespa forum I had just joined and I THOUGHT I was giving my old ,mid '70s dispatch call number for my motorcycle courier days. Being my memory was/is poor I gave the wrong one as mine was actuall M11. We had trucks with "T" prefixes and motorcycles had "M" prefixes. Was too much hassel to change the sign in name to M11 so I just left it in error. My apologies to who ever the real M13 was.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Frank Smith on July 03, 2011, 01:07:58 PM: My parents borrowed it from my grandfather, Frank (nickname=Papa T), on Daddy's side.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Ragnar on July 03, 2011, 01:22:42 PM: Quote from: faffi on July 02, 2011, 12:54:57 PM
Quote from: Ragnar on July 02, 2011, 05:25:00 AM
My original user name on the board was "patrick". The board crashed some years agoand we all had to re-register, "patrick" was taken so I had to come up with another. At the time I was reading one of Bernard Cornwell's historical novels and like a character in that so used his name "Ragnar". I thought that as Cork in Ireland, where my family came from, was lone of the 1st Norse trading colonies, the name was appropriate.

My cousin's name is Ragnar. For more Ragnar, check out Ragnarok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k

Thanks, I love the old Gods and Sagas.
I am writing a book about the 1st Saxons in England (just for me. not to be published), the best part is the research. Saxon and Norse mythology are close.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Old Jock on July 03, 2011, 01:35:35 PM: Hey Luap

I was watching a history channel the other day and apparently (should I say allegedly) the term "A Wild Goose Chase" was first coined by Shakespeare.

Anyway for me the Scottish often get called Jocks and I'm getting on a bit so Old. Its also the name of leg buckling ale (and by US standards you'd probably need an explosives licence to handle the stuff) that's on draft in my local hostelry, 3 pints and the bar just call you a cab without asking.

John
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Matt2 on July 03, 2011, 01:44:34 PM: Back in the early 90's I was living in a buddy's basement and we got another room mate who was also named Matt. He became Big Matt (6'4", 285 lbs) and I became Matt Too. It has stuck and I have used the variations (Matt2, MattTwo, MattAlso) when needed.

Big Matt had a last name that started with "B" and his nickname growing up was ThewBee (matThew B) which I thought was very original.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: faffi on July 03, 2011, 03:44:46 PM: Quote from: Ragnar on July 03, 2011, 01:22:42 PM
Thanks, I love the old Gods and Sagas.
I am writing a book about the 1st Saxons in England (just for me. not to be published), the best part is the research. Saxon and Norse mythology are close.

I love research myself as well ;-T I'm trying to get a job doing this, preferably with NRK (Norwegian version of BBC) for the quality and challenge, but just about anything would do. My job today is as general manager for a small IT company, but it's just to earn money so that I can afford life. Would be far better to do something I'd enjoy every day :BEER:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bigbikerrick on July 03, 2011, 03:48:39 PM: tho origin of mine is from eating too many burritos, and washing them down with too many cold brewskies!
Rick.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Mauro on July 03, 2011, 04:33:32 PM: Grandfather (nonno) :)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: ScepticalScotty on July 03, 2011, 05:25:43 PM: I'm a secular humanist sceptic, been a member of the Australian Skeptics and now about to kick off Plymouth Skeptics In The Pub. And my name is Scott, but I have been called Scotty for 45 years.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Texascat on July 03, 2011, 07:50:13 PM: Texascat
Texas= well, obvious, I live in Texas
Cat = short for Arizona Wildcats (Univ. Of Arizona alumni)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: rocker59 on July 03, 2011, 08:22:21 PM: (http://rocker59.smugmug.com/photos/275716439_NpSos-M.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Nick on July 03, 2011, 08:53:00 PM: Quote from: Dean Rose on July 03, 2011, 06:50:31 AM
DUH?

That's my name.

Dean
Yep
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on July 03, 2011, 09:26:37 PM: It was how I looked and smelled when I lived up in the mountains, sometimes running nekkid into the river.
That helped scare away the bears.

Sasquatch Jim
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: LongRanger on July 03, 2011, 09:47:06 PM: I'm 6'6" and enjoy long-distance rallies... ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2011, 04:32:24 AM: Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on July 03, 2011, 09:26:37 PM
It was how I looked and smelled when I lived up in the mountains, sometimes running nekkid into the river.
That helped scare away the bears.

Sasquatch Jim

Mahalo! for the ugly picture I have in my head now. :P
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Forseti on July 04, 2011, 08:51:20 AM: Well... not fancy.. spur of the moment.

Was reading the Dan Simmons Hyperion series. Shrike is the bringer of pain and redemption, an anti hero of sorts.

It suited my mindset at the time. lol
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Thunderbox on July 04, 2011, 09:40:10 AM: I used to breed and show Boxers. My Registared Kennel Name is Thunder Boxers
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: skippy on July 04, 2011, 11:46:27 AM: Nick name I was given by some crusty old fart I used to work with when I was in college. Now that I am getting older and a little bit crusty, it helps me return to a more youthful place of mind.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: hidn45 on July 05, 2011, 12:19:45 PM: frisk me
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Seagondollar on July 05, 2011, 01:37:29 PM: Last name. Got it from Dad.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on July 05, 2011, 01:49:20 PM: Quote from: Seagondollar on July 05, 2011, 01:37:29 PM
Last name. Got it from Dad.

First name. Got it from great-uncle Lannis Durrence, born Georgia 1914.

I always use my own name on BBs and Internet lists. Keeps me accountable!

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: nilknarf on July 05, 2011, 01:51:38 PM: **C I originally signed on as "Nilknarf" which is my middle name spelled backwards, and that was causing some consternation, so since I used to live in an area where Turkey Creek ran nearby and I still hunt along Turkey Creek , I came up with "Turkey Creek Dave" . It's also my moniker for CAS events. (Cowboy Action Shooting)

**C Dave ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Hal on July 05, 2011, 02:03:04 PM: Hal, short for Harold. I believe there is another Hal on the forum with a different user name.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: AJ Huff on July 05, 2011, 02:09:06 PM: Quote from: Lannis on July 05, 2011, 01:49:20 PM

First name. Got it from great-uncle Lannis Durrence, born Georgia 1914.

I always use my own name on BBs and Internet lists. Keeps me accountable!

Lannis

I don't believe in hiding behind a screen name either. Nothing unique other than I don't use periods, stopped using them in high school. I came home from the hospital as AJ, always been AJ. My great grandfather was Allen Jackson, and went by AJ. My parents liked it I guess and turned my Allen James into AJ. I've never liked the name but never came up with anything better. :-\

-AJ
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Testarossa on July 05, 2011, 02:30:20 PM: In theory I don't believe in screen names. But real-world experience shows me there are stalkers and flamers out there who can make your life miserable. See this:

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=46652

I'm the Seth referred to. This experience forced me out of several online venues and may have cost me a couple of job interviews. Now I'm pretty cautious about forum involvements in general.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on July 05, 2011, 02:40:51 PM: Quote from: Testarossa on July 05, 2011, 02:30:20 PM
In theory I don't believe in screen names. But real-world experience shows me there are stalkers and flamers out there who can make your life miserable. See this:

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=46652

The annonimity of the innerneck emboldens many A-holes who are too cowardly to say things to your face.

Sasquatch Jim
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: AJ Huff on July 05, 2011, 02:41:35 PM: Quote from: Testarossa on July 05, 2011, 02:30:20 PM
In theory I don't believe in screen names. But real-world experience shows me there are stalkers and flamers out there who can make your life miserable. See this:

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=46652

I'm the Seth referred to. This experience forced me out of several online venues and may have cost me a couple of job interviews. Now I'm pretty cautious about forum involvements in general.

I do understand. My rule of thumb is, moderated forum, I use my real name. Unmoderated forum, I use a screen name. I've only had troubles once.

-AJ
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Testarossa on July 05, 2011, 03:42:16 PM: That's a good rule, and it's why I'm willing to identify myself here. Not with my real name on forum discussions, but in personal messages.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Noki on July 05, 2011, 03:58:33 PM: Quote from: balvenie on July 02, 2011, 05:49:44 AM
Only too happy to spread the word, the best scotch I ever tried. ;-T

Aha! So you're the reason I couldn't get that name. Mmmmm... Balvenie Doublewood and Balvenie 21 YO, my favorite scotches. I'm taking a wee smidgent of Doublewood to Elkader.

Noki \ NO-key\ noun 1. slang Resident of the Lake Nokomis area of Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2. noun An award given out by the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association (where I work)

- Doug
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: ponti_33609 on July 05, 2011, 04:24:17 PM: Name and Zip Code ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: fxb750 on July 05, 2011, 04:50:25 PM: My initials + the bike engine size on all 3 of the motorcycles I have owned since I started driving bikes in 1970. fxb750
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Guzzi-Leif on July 05, 2011, 05:02:32 PM: People in my motorcycle club started to call me Guzzi-Leif in the late 70ties cause they found me a bit fanatic about the italian brand.
And yes, my first name is Leif - same as the first explorer of America, Leif Eriksson, the viking ;-)
Kept my name even the years I rode Yamaha and BMW...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Muzz on July 06, 2011, 04:31:21 AM: Muzz. A nickname that a few of my friends use as an abbreviation of my name , Murray. Can also be Muzza, depending on the local conditions. :BEER:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: balvenie on July 06, 2011, 04:50:27 AM: Noki
Yes, I'm into the Doublewood and thanks for reminding me about the PortWood. I have yet to try it ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wyno on July 07, 2011, 08:36:18 AM: Hey Thunderbox,
here in Oz Thunderbox is the name given to an outdoor long drop toilet. Hope this doesn't upset you too much.
It just made me laugh.
Mike
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: steven c on July 08, 2011, 09:53:54 AM: My parents.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Furbo on July 08, 2011, 03:00:22 PM: Furbo:..well, it sounds kinda round & fuzzy...which is not a bad description....unfo rtunately....

It's Italian for "some one who understands how to work the system for their own ends". It's someone who can skirt the rules to an almost criminal limit - but is still held in high regard for doing so....very Italian. There really is no english one-word equivelent.

Todd Johnston (that's really kinda dull....)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MalteseFalcn on July 08, 2011, 03:15:20 PM: I've been a Bogart fan since I was a teenager. So I picked this out a number of years ago, someone else at the time had falcon with an O in it. So if you spot me on other forums (advrider, triumphrat, etc), it'll likely be this same nn.

Occasionally people do ask me, "Are you from Malta?!" Um no, it was just a movie. And not even Bogie's best, truth be told, lol...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: kevdog3019 on July 08, 2011, 05:02:49 PM: Years ago a friend that lived in the apartment across from me called me "kevdog" because I seemed to date a lot of ladies back in the day. Guess he saw them coming and going. Gone are the days...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: crooner on July 08, 2011, 06:26:23 PM: ...born to a real life crooner's (er, singer's) name, though no relation.

Unless inebriated, I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. If inebriated, I'm not sure I could carry the bucket. :BEER:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: guzzimonster on July 08, 2011, 09:35:54 PM: Well not a lot of thought here Guzzi's what I ride and it is a MONSTER!!!!! ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: stealthryder on July 08, 2011, 09:56:12 PM: When I signed on the board I was an engineer in the B-2 program (stealth bomber). I have since transitioned to B-52 so should I change my name to buffryder? That sounds a little wierd.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: izzug otom on July 08, 2011, 10:12:25 PM: Three guesses ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: KaptainKen on July 09, 2011, 09:06:52 AM: I'm a licensed Captain. 100 ton - All waters. "CaptainKen" with a "C" was taken by others on the various nautical forums as you may have guessed, but "KaptainKen" was available. Mis-spelling "Captain" makes a nice alliteration and I have used it on various boards and forums for many years.

On nautical forums many consider me a "go to guy" for information about the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. I made a video about it that continues to be popular:

http://www.snowbirders.net/index.html
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tobit on July 09, 2011, 04:27:21 PM: Tobit: My favorite book of the Bible, is one of several books of the Catholic Deuterocanonicals, aka the Apocrypha.

Cliff Notes:
Tobit is the blind father of Tobias. Tobias travels to Media to rescue and marry Sarah, and reclaim his father's fortune. Before leaving, Tobit prays for a traveling companion to keep his son safe and God's Archangel Raphael descends, incognito, and travels with Tobias, advising him on how to rescue Sarah. Upon Tobias' and Sarah's return, Raphael reveals himself as the Archangel then cures Tobit's blindness.

I'm Roman Catholic and Archangel Raphael is my patron Saint. Yep, I picked a heavy hitter. I wear his medallion. The traveller. The guardian. The restorer of sight.

I travel, I've worked in "Media" for 30 years, ride an Italian (Catholic?) motorcycle, have terrible eyesight am blind in one eye, I rescue damsels in distress and restore fortunes. ;)

Tobit. It kinda fits.

(http://s2.postimage.org/2d9li415w/465px_William_Adolphe_Bouguereau_1825_1905_Tobias_Saying_Good_Bye_to_his_Father_1860.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/2d9li415w/)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Roadmistress on July 09, 2011, 06:01:17 PM: Quote from: twhitaker on July 01, 2011, 05:01:03 PM
I believe the origin of my name goes back to old England where my ancestors raised and harvested wheat. Wheat takers.

Twhitaker---interesting...I'm of the Ohio Whitakers (and Kentucky Whitakers.) That's pretty cool!

My User name is an ode to my 1954 Buick Roadmaster, but all girlied up...'cause I'm a girl.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: jdgretz on July 10, 2011, 01:16:47 AM: Mine relates back to my first network userID - Novell system used the initials of the first and middle names along with the first five letters of the last name. I've used it for years.

jdg
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Travman on July 11, 2011, 08:06:15 AM: My name is Travis. People who just meet me call me Trav and after 5 minutes they just start calling me Travman.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: faffi on July 11, 2011, 08:29:54 AM: Some useless piece of information for you: Trav means 'trot' (like horses do) and Man means 'mane' (like horses carry on their neck). Just thought you'd like to know ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MotoG5 on July 11, 2011, 05:04:19 PM: Inspired by the Guzzi I owned the longest. 81' V1000G5 bought new and ridden for 27 years. Sold it to my boss last year to finance the wife's MP3. Still see her at work from time to time.
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Post by: Atavar on July 14, 2011, 09:24:57 PM: An atavar is a thing out of time, the personification of an atavism.. like the Confederate General in King Arthur's Court..
pretty much what I am.. I was perfectly at home as a hippie in the sixties. Now I am stuck in the corporate jungle and can't find my way out. (but I have a motorcycle!)
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Post by: g5rs on July 15, 2011, 12:17:04 AM: G5RS = G5 and Red Stone
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Post by: On-The-Road-Again on July 17, 2011, 07:00:26 AM: Rode on and off over the last 43 years....more on than off....every time I heard the Willie Nelson song with no bike in the garage, it made me smile....definitely glad I found a Guzzi!
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Post by: Mountain Bob on July 18, 2011, 02:39:13 AM: I lived in and around South Louisiana, off and on, for the first 55 years of my life.
God Bless Sout' Lou'siana, fer sure: best food and coffee in the known universe, and the people are some of the finest you'll ever meet. (Even them Smiths in Nort' Louisiana -- a.k.a. East-East-Texas, or West-Mississippi, depending -- are, Frankly, serious good people.)

But there ain't no mountains. Highest in the state is about 567 feet; it's in some guy's pasture in the north-central part of the state, and even the reddish-necks of that part of the state know better than to call it a mountain.

So when I moved to North Idaho in '99, all a'drool over being in a state with more than 6000 named mountains, I web-nicknamed myself Mountain Bob, mostly to remind my former ATV and dirtbike buddies back in Mountain-Not Land that there are other options, one of which I was willing to rub their noses in.

Thus re-named proudly "Mountain Bob," the carryover to Wildgoose Chase was a natural. Ain't gotta be on a dirtbike to ride these mountains, and ain't gotta have pavement to mountain-ride a big Goose.

So Mountain Bob it is.

I'll also answer to MBob or mb if if either of us is wound up tight

in that wonderful V-11 space known as Third-ByGawd-Gear.

--mb
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Post by: kb9mku on July 18, 2011, 07:49:16 AM: Amateur Radio Call Sign
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Post by: cruzziguzzi on July 18, 2011, 10:47:31 AM: When I was studying Czech in the Army, my instructor dubbed my Delta 88 the "cruise-vuz", vuz being car in Czech. My wife knowing this, thought the Calvin should be the cruisey-guzzi (ne-gootsie).
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Post by: Sluggo on July 18, 2011, 03:34:21 PM: I earned the nickname Sluggo back in junior high(?) from my parents for my ability to procrastinate on almost everything. Hence, I moved like a Slug. Since then, I've used it as my forum names. As for the cartoon character Sluggo, he & I seem to have a lot in common. His favorite pastime is napping.

(http://www.sewen.se/media/585/sluggo_dreaming.jpg)
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Post by: Mad Farquhar on July 18, 2011, 03:59:36 PM: It's the way you say it...
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Post by: Oca on July 20, 2011, 08:55:53 AM: Oca = goose in Italian.
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Post by: jim mac on July 20, 2011, 09:22:43 AM: Jim MacNeilage. Not a common name even here in Scotland so always having to spell it. Use Jim Mac as it it easier for people to understand and I dont lose my temper spelling it, again !
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Post by: guzzimatic on July 20, 2011, 04:05:33 PM: My first Guzzi was a '76 convert.The period ads in Cycle called it a Guzzimatic.My friend Joel set up an email account for me with Guzzimatic ...so it just stuck.The 'Vert also is on of my favorites!
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Post by: fatbob on July 20, 2011, 08:18:19 PM: Names Bob, and I am fat.

Bob
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Post by: LowRyter on July 20, 2011, 08:22:37 PM: sorta liked the song and didn't know how to make a screen name outta "spill the wine"

~;
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Post by: Lannis on July 20, 2011, 09:47:56 PM: Quote from: LowRyter on July 20, 2011, 08:22:37 PM
sorta liked the song and didn't know how to make a screen name outta "spill the wine"

~;

"Spill the Wine" .... ? Exactly the same age as me ... I knew it ... ! Next up ... "Gimme Dat Ding", "Chick-a-Boom", "Hitchin' a Ride", and "Mongoose"!

Lannis
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Post by: wits on July 29, 2011, 04:34:43 PM: Work induced Tourette’s syndrome........ Wits
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on July 29, 2011, 04:45:11 PM: Quote from: wits on July 29, 2011, 04:34:43 PM
Work induced Tourette’s syndrome........ Wits

;D BTDT..
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on July 29, 2011, 06:20:40 PM: Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on July 29, 2011, 04:45:11 PM
Quote from: wits on July 29, 2011, 04:34:43 PM
Work induced Tourette’s syndrome........ Wits

;D BTDT..

Doing it now! P:)
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Post by: Yeahoo Whoyah on July 29, 2011, 08:29:39 PM: I use Yahoo e-mail so I wanted two names to kinda rhyme with Yahoo and I couldn't figure out until it was too late how to spell hooyah (1. The battle cry for sea air land specwarriors, aka NAVY SEALS.
2. An affirmative acknowledgment as in: I understand, HELL YEAH, Yes Sir, No Problem.
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on July 29, 2011, 09:41:38 PM: As in "Hooyah Instructer Trujuillo!" Time to make sugar cookies. ;) GET WET!
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Post by: Nukemeanie on July 30, 2011, 08:36:41 AM: I work in nuclear Medicine and the bike I owned when I started using on-line forums was a Mean Streak. I've just kept using it for all my bikes since then.

Cheers. ;-T
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Post by: alphakat on August 01, 2011, 08:13:04 PM: My cat's name is Richard.
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Post by: alphakat on August 05, 2011, 07:33:57 AM: Quote from: r90s on August 04, 2011, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Skin Mechanic on July 11, 2011, 08:35:09 AM
Interesting thread.

So, what's a 'Skin Mechanic'?

Dermatologist or Plastic surgeon?
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Post by: Tom on August 05, 2011, 04:26:38 PM: Sounds too high brow. Tat artist.
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Post by: AJ Huff on August 05, 2011, 05:07:37 PM: Quote from: Tom on August 05, 2011, 04:26:38 PM
Sounds too high brow. Tat artist.

;-T My thoughts too.

-AJ
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Post by: MartyGuzzi on August 05, 2011, 10:21:23 PM: My name is Marty. I ride a Guzzi. MartyGuzzi sounds a lot like MotoGuzzi.
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Post by: Lannis on August 06, 2011, 07:18:21 AM: Quote from: MartyGuzzi on August 05, 2011, 10:21:23 PM
My name is Marty. I ride a Guzzi. MartyGuzzi sounds a lot like MotoGuzzi.

It does?

So you're a native Bulgarian speaker with a bit of a speech impediment? ???

It's fascinating what you can learn from people just from their names ..... :D ;-T

Lannis
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Post by: Perazzimx14 on August 06, 2011, 09:26:31 AM: Perazzi MX-14 is an Italian O/U shotgun I use to shoot Trap with.
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Post by: pcarnut on August 06, 2011, 11:16:14 AM: About 11-12 years ago I bought a wrecked '79 Porsche 911 almost on a whim. Had been looking for a Pontiac and right beneath that ad was the Porsche. Had tended to think of them as just glorified VWs, not that there's anything wrong with VWs. Anyway, after rebuilding the car I came away with a real appreciation for how they are engineered and built, hence pcar (Porsche) nut. And in many ways there are similarities that could be drawn with Guzzi, solid engineering and a refined design over time.
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Post by: harv7 on August 06, 2011, 12:19:04 PM: My last name is Harvey, and I own a V7C, so HAR-V7. Or Harvey7, either way.
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Post by: MOTO-NEXUS on August 10, 2011, 02:58:50 PM: It's a given for me ;D
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Post by: ccoli on August 10, 2011, 04:01:04 PM: I have an infectious personality? You get sick of me sooner or later? Maybe I just smell bad?
C Collins minus a few consonants.
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Post by: IceBlue on August 12, 2011, 03:47:08 AM: It's actually quite meaningless.
It sort of stuck to me from way back at elementry school.

My name is Brian - that became Brilliam - I guess a lot of the kids dad's used this, my dad did too:
(http://images.superbest-web.facility.dir.dk/PRODUKTER/Krop%20&%20Velv%c3%a6re/Herreartikler/Aftershave/6b206d22ec7125854c68ea1af9648135.jpg)

:D

...because then it turned into IceBlue :o
...and I kept that part 8)

Some people kids ;D :D

Ciao
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Post by: pebra on August 12, 2011, 06:22:02 AM: Quote from: Roadmistress on July 09, 2011, 06:01:17 PM
Quote from: twhitaker on July 01, 2011, 05:01:03 PM
I believe the origin of my name goes back to old England where my ancestors raised and harvested wheat. Wheat takers.

Twhitaker---interesting...I'm of the Ohio Whitakers (and Kentucky Whitakers.) That's pretty cool!

My User name is an ode to my 1954 Buick Roadmaster, but all girlied up...'cause I'm a girl.

I've been thinking the name is not "wheat-taker" but "wheat-aker," "aker" being related to the old Germanic term for cultivated field (still used in English "acre"!).
So it would be wheatfield.
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Post by: Monza-jockey on August 13, 2011, 12:51:40 AM: I was watching one of the races in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
I noticed that the jockeys were in a low, stretched forward position, the "monkey crouch."
It reminded me of the freeway position that I ride my Monza in.

Monza-jockey ;)
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Post by: dutchie on August 16, 2011, 11:41:37 PM: well dutchie says in all. im dutch born and breed. when i first got on this board i was given the once over by a dutch member in holland asking how come i got that name since i live in new zealand. explanation given. just good luck. it should have been taken. a dutch guy living in new zealand owning an italian bike putting in arab fuel and american oil, german day lights, japanese battery. im not biased.
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Post by: David Lee on August 17, 2011, 12:50:10 AM: Some desire for anonymity.
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Post by: Avvocato on August 17, 2011, 05:50:59 AM: Avvocato=lawyer in Italian.
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Post by: Luxexterior on August 18, 2011, 04:26:31 AM: My user name is my personal tribute to the late great Lux Interior lead singer of the Cramps. If you never caught them live you missed out big time.

My Guzzi is called Francesca but that's probably whole new thread.
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Post by: wildebube on August 18, 2011, 09:34:00 AM: No special meaning to mine. I just picked it because it was unique and I could remember it.

In 1984, an Austrian rock singer who went by the name Falco released his third album – inventively named Falco 3. Some of you may remember a song from that album entitled Rock Me Amadeus. In any case, there is a track named Vienna Calling (Wildebube Mix). The song is mostly in German, but parts of it are in English – including the Wildebube part. I can’t remember all of it right now, but he says something about, “the return of the Wildebube” and says, “every mother should know – danger, danger.” When my wife and I were setting up our first hotmail account, everything we tried that was some variation of our name(s) came back already in use. One of us came up with Wildebube and it just stuck.

Incidentally, even though it’s German, Wildebube is grammatically incorrect and probably the result of Falco changing languages in mid-sentence more than once. Bube is a masculine noun for a boy that has a kind of impish, lovable rouge connotation to it. Wild means the same thing in German as is does in English. Since Bube is masculine, when wild is used to modify it, it should have the masculine ending and be ‘wilder Bube’. But in German, putting ‘the’ in front of it changes things. In German, ‘the’ would become ‘der’ and ‘wild’ would change from ‘wilder’ to ‘wilde’. Wild boy would be Wilderbube, but THE wild boy would be der wilde Bube. In the song, Falco says, “the Wildebube.” Maybe it’s just music and doesn’t have to be right, but I prefer to think that he was using the English ‘the’ and the German ‘wild’ with the appropriate ‘e’ on the end of it.
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Post by: wildebube on August 18, 2011, 09:35:58 AM: And personally, I'm waiting to see Muschi respond to this thread.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on August 18, 2011, 10:54:31 AM: Quote from: wildebube on August 18, 2011, 09:35:58 AM
And personally, I'm waiting to see Muschi respond to this thread.
;D
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Post by: E Tremble on August 18, 2011, 07:37:54 PM: Peter Sellers character in Casino Royale.

(http://s2.postimage.org/5zugoen8/sellers.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/5zugoen8/)

must have just watched that movie,

before joining,
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Post by: Pfaff! on August 21, 2011, 02:41:46 AM: Quote from: Avvocato on August 17, 2011, 05:50:59 AM
Avvocato=lawyer in Italian.

Ooh yes - watch from 1.34 into this one. Hopefully recognized. ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuFRY5-DVk&feature=related
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Post by: T in NC on August 21, 2011, 07:52:15 PM: 850T+Charlotte Nc= TinNC. I think I was listening to AC/DC at the time.
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Post by: spridget on August 23, 2011, 08:58:30 PM: Austin Healey SPRIte / MG midDGET = SPRIDGET
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Post by: Low Down on August 28, 2011, 10:45:52 PM: 'Low Down' is a term used in reference to a 'diverging approach' signal by a lot of railroad employees.

Diverging Approach: Proceed on diverging route at prescribed speed through turnout prepared to stop before any part of train or engine passes the next signal.

I've taken quite a few diverging routes in my life (and will most likely see some more before I'm done), and I always expect to take one when I'm on the bike. :P
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Post by: lockland on August 29, 2011, 01:33:01 PM: I'm a landlord in a place called Lockport.
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Post by: Lannis on August 29, 2011, 01:41:31 PM: Quote from: Low Down on August 28, 2011, 10:45:52 PM
'Low Down' is a term used in reference to a 'diverging approach' signal by a lot of railroad employees.

Is that the same as being "on the Down Low" or is that something different ....? :D
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Post by: Sheepdog on September 02, 2011, 10:14:47 AM: Quote from: Low Down on August 28, 2011, 10:45:52 PM
'Low Down' is a term used in reference to a 'diverging approach' signal by a lot of railroad employees.

Diverging Approach: Proceed on diverging route at prescribed speed through turnout prepared to stop before any part of train or engine passes the next signal.

I've taken quite a few diverging routes in my life (and will most likely see some more before I'm done), and I always expect to take one when I'm on the bike. :P
Funny how reality clashes with supposition...I thought that you were a Boz Skaggs fan. A divergent traveler is a much more interesting concept.
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Post by: studebaker on September 02, 2011, 01:56:35 PM: I like to bake things in the oven and stew various combinations in the crock so Stew'de Baker became Studebaker.
It is a coincidence I do have a Studebaker in the garage but there was no connection to that an the forum name.

Other reasonable possibilities for future names?

I may change it to Man From Utopia in reference to a splendid Frank Zappa album or maybe Homesteader as I would desire to get off the grid and see if I can make it. Or EMP - as the reason I bought my 73 was to have a bike which would run should the government use an EMP bomb during martial law.
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Post by: Lannis on September 03, 2011, 09:30:20 AM: Quote from: studebaker on September 02, 2011, 01:56:35 PM

It is a coincidence I do have a Studebaker in the garage but there was no connection to that an the forum name.

Maybe not consciously .... ! :D It'd never stand up in court! :D

Lannis
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Post by: Moto on September 03, 2011, 06:48:30 PM: My cell phone has always called me Moto, so I followed suit:

(http://s3.postimage.org/261gd93ic/IMG_1191.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/261gd93ic/)

(It's a Motorola.)

Moto
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Post by: vkennedy on September 08, 2011, 01:19:53 AM: In Europe, you used to have to put a sticker indicating your country on the back of your car. For Slovenia, the sticker said "SLO". I was driving along one day and saw an old Yugo with the country sticker right after the Yugo insignia and thought it was a good description of the way I drive.
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Post by: daveokc on September 15, 2011, 09:46:14 PM: First name + hometown = username (I know . . . kinda boring).
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Post by: Idontwantapickle on September 15, 2011, 10:28:20 PM: I owe it Arlo Guthrie.
It is from The Motorcycle Song.
I sing it constantly in my helmet while I ride.
I recommend the version in which he explains the significance of the pickle.
Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI
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Post by: leafman60 on September 16, 2011, 08:06:57 AM: Years ago, when I opened a hotmail account, I was prompted for name. I looked out my office window and a guy next door was raking and burning leaves in the cool fall weather. I thought, "that's nice." Leave, leaves, I like leaves etc so I made-up "leafman." It has no significance beyond that. Ive had people think everything from me being a landscaper to a pot-smoker but the truth is much simpler.
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Post by: Muzz on September 16, 2011, 12:37:06 PM: Quote from: leafman60 on September 16, 2011, 08:06:57 AM
Years ago, when I opened a hotmail account, I was prompted for name. I looked out my office window and a guy next door was raking and burning leaves in the cool fall weather. I thought, "that's nice." Leave, leaves, I like leaves etc so I made-up "leafman." It has no significance beyond that. Ive had people think everything from me being a landscaper to a pot-smoker but the truth is much simpler.

So what about the "60"? Born in 1960?
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Post by: leafman60 on September 16, 2011, 12:52:15 PM: !!!!! very perceptive
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Post by: Tom on September 16, 2011, 02:42:15 PM: Very good!

Now can you guess why I use Tom? ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Pfaff! on September 16, 2011, 03:43:50 PM: Quote from: Tom on September 16, 2011, 02:42:15 PM
Very good!

Now can you guess why I use Tom? ;D ;D ;D

"There are no stupid questions. There are however stupid people asking questions." ;) ;D
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Post by: nilknarf on September 16, 2011, 03:48:36 PM: Quote from: Tom on September 16, 2011, 02:42:15 PM
Very good!

Now can you guess why I use Tom? ;D ;D ;D

**C You were named after your cat. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Guzzistaracing on September 16, 2011, 04:25:54 PM: Once I had a dream of getting starting with racing and building race bikes. Life has not given me that opportunity yet but it may still be possible! :(
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on September 16, 2011, 07:13:47 PM: I signed up on the forum when there was only 2 pages of members. It was easy using the first name. I am included in the "stupid people" asking questions. I'm not above anyone. ;-T I think it's been about 5 crashes later and Luap is doing a superb job! ;-T ;-T ;-T
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Post by: kidneb on September 17, 2011, 02:17:53 PM: I`m not too smart myself,- so I just spelled my first name backwards.
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Post by: Tom on September 21, 2011, 12:37:45 PM: Quote from: kidneb on September 17, 2011, 02:17:53 PM
I`m not too smart myself,- so I just spelled my first name backwards.

Luap got his name done that way from birth.
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Post by: Muzz on September 21, 2011, 02:04:48 PM: Quote from: Tom on September 16, 2011, 07:13:47 PM
I signed up on the forum when there was only 2 pages of members. It was easy using the first name. I am included in the "stupid people" asking questions. I'm not above anyone. ;-T I think it's been about 5 crashes later and Luap is doing a superb job! ;-T ;-T ;-T

Ah. I remember the saga. ;D

Hence the "big finger". ;-T ;D
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Post by: Samurai on September 21, 2011, 02:09:40 PM: I got my 1st Dan black belt in Kendo a few years ago, hence Samurai.
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Post by: Tom on September 21, 2011, 02:35:05 PM: Actually I could have been Ted. :P
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Post by: EldoMike on September 21, 2011, 06:36:47 PM: Duh....

EldoMike
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Post by: Silver Goose on September 21, 2011, 06:53:00 PM: My name is what I ride.
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Post by: ritratto on September 23, 2011, 10:17:44 PM: Ritratto .... Italian for portrait. I am an artist ( old school ). You can see a bunch of it here http://teo-caffe.com/

an example:
(http://s4.postimage.org/115u4fa90/F3_Silent_Dancer.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/115u4fa90/)
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Post by: kidneb on September 24, 2011, 10:12:50 AM: Quote from: Tom on September 21, 2011, 12:37:45 PM
Quote from: kidneb on September 17, 2011, 02:17:53 PM
I`m not too smart myself,- so I just spelled my first name backwards.

Luap got his name done that way from birth.

I didn`t know that,- but now I see. Hmm,- from birth,- maybe thats why he`s smarter than me.
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Post by: BJParker on September 24, 2011, 10:56:03 AM: Can you guess what my name is?
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Post by: kidneb on September 24, 2011, 11:58:23 AM: Benjamin Juniper Parker ?
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Post by: Tom on September 25, 2011, 01:39:25 PM: As far as I know. His dad's name is Paul. Maybe he can give a full explanation. I'm figuring it's a compromise. "Yes Honey, we'll go to your church but I get to name the kids." ;D Happened to my wife's family. Maurice Jr., Mauriann, Maurinn, Maurynda. 3 girls. One boy.
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Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 25, 2011, 02:04:19 PM: Hi, I'm Daryl and this is my brother Daryl and that's my other brother Daryl.
We all have different fathers and that one is my brother by a different mother.
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Post by: Roach Carver on September 25, 2011, 02:47:16 PM: My name is a dental instrument that just sounds kind of strange (guess what I do). Here's my new "Barn Find"

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/71cb750/2011-09-22185705.jpg
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2011, 12:04:44 AM: Quote from: Roach Carver on September 25, 2011, 02:47:16 PM
My name is a dental instrument that just sounds kind of strange (guess what I do). Here's my new "Barn Find"

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/71cb750/2011-09-22185705.jpg

You tattoo cucaracha's?
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Post by: redhunter on September 27, 2011, 06:44:06 PM: 1951 Ariel 500 cc VH REDHUNTER click for the big pics.

(http://s2.postimage.org/36aoc6zok/VH_Right_rear.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36aoc6zok/)

(http://s2.postimage.org/36ck587xg/VH_Rt_full.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36ck587xg/)
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Post by: Roach Carver on October 05, 2011, 06:50:09 PM: ^^^^^ I also have more experience with the roach carver than my Guzzi but I hope to change that this winter.
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Post by: backnblack on October 06, 2011, 10:00:42 AM: I sold a black r90/6 when I got married. Thought I was done with motorcycles. After 12yrs away, I got the itch again and bought a used black Suzuki Vee Strom 650. Hence the name backnblack. Decided to keep the name even though my current ride is the opposite, a beautiful white Norge.
Bill
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Post by: Denis on October 20, 2011, 09:01:03 PM: My parents gave it to me!

I had an R90S once. Wrecked it, fixed it, sold it and figured I'd best stick with what I'm best with: Moto Guzzis.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sheepdog on October 21, 2011, 10:51:10 PM: Quote from: redhunter on September 27, 2011, 06:44:06 PM
1951 Ariel 500 cc VH REDHUNTER click for the big pics.

(http://s2.postimage.org/36aoc6zok/VH_Right_rear.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36aoc6zok/)

(http://s2.postimage.org/36ck587xg/VH_Rt_full.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36ck587xg/)

I love this bike...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: B0neyard on October 21, 2011, 11:12:21 PM: I live on a farm where local game wardens drop road kill deer. I call it Pet cemetery. At any rate, when the coyotes and buzzards are done, I pretty much got a boneyard...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sickbay987 on October 27, 2011, 09:53:56 PM: Where I worked while in Uncle Sam's canoe club... Was a Corpsman on board the USS O'Bannon DD-987..
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: busdog on October 28, 2011, 12:04:26 AM: (http://s7.postimage.org/y9z8emdhj/van_in_veracruz.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/y9z8emdhj/)

I went to mexico for over 20 years in a vw van or bug and often took my dog. Took a gs 500 in 2002 to Guatemala. I like guzzis because of the push rods and the dry clutch.

Keith "Lalo" Garnes aka busdog
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Stormtruck2 on October 28, 2011, 12:08:10 AM: Quote from: Sickbay987 on October 27, 2011, 09:53:56 PM
Where I worked while in Uncle Sam's canoe club... Was a Corpsman on board the USS O'Bannon DD-987..

And I thought I was the only one to call it Uncle Sam's canoe club. :D :D :D
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Post by: Sickbay987 on October 28, 2011, 12:09:41 AM: Ha!.. We've been called worse...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: hidn45 on October 28, 2011, 06:47:04 AM: Keith-

Sweet bus! We had a similar Type 2 with the pop-up, but not the jalouse windows. Are/ were they noisy going down the road?

Keep your knees in the [tropical] breeze-
randy
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: T in NC on October 29, 2011, 01:40:51 PM: BACK INto motorcycling on a BLACK (at that time) 850 T IN NC.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: tazio on May 12, 2012, 12:08:33 PM: As a boy of maybe 10 or so, I would read everything I could about old motorcycles. All the exotic names of bikes and riders...
If a pretty girl would ask my name I figured "michael miller" too common and B-O-R-I-N-G. (I even had to sit next to another michael miller in school !) so I would tell her "my name is tazio".
(Tazio Nuvolari, was an Italian motorcycle and race car driver I had read about)
I think I got to 1st base one time because of that ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Old Jock on May 12, 2012, 12:27:50 PM: Tazio I thought that name was familiar.

I used to do a lot of work on a couple of power station in the Mantova area and always stayed in Mantova (or Mantua if you prefer) That was where Nuvalori hailed from. Seen a few books about him in the book stores but my Italian is not good enough to read about him.

I miss Mantova great town

John
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: tazio on May 12, 2012, 01:55:09 PM: Quote from: Old Jock on May 12, 2012, 12:27:50 PM
Tazio I thought that name was familiar.

I used to do a lot of work on a couple of power station in the Mantova area and always stayed in Mantova (or Mantua if you prefer) That was where Nuvalori hailed from. Seen a few books about him in the book stores but my Italian is not good enough to read about him.

I miss Mantova great town

John
Yes!, Tazio Nuvolari-"The Flying Mantuan"
Dr.Ferdinand Porsche called him "The greatest driver of the past, the present, and the future" !!!
(http://s16.postimage.org/b8mv8rc9d/200px_Targaflorio23nuvola.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/b8mv8rc9d/)
I Just Needed His Name To Get To 1st Base... ;D
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Post by: HOG4DNR on May 12, 2012, 02:18:30 PM: First off I would like to introduce myself. My name is Scott and I have just been given the go ahead from the boss to purchase a Griso 8v. I work for a euro (mainly Ducati) performance race / service shop in Ft. Lauderdale. I have only owned Euro bikes in my life and this will be my 3rd Guzzi (97 Sport 1100 & 98? Centauro).

Abot my name: In my earlier life I was not a big fan of Harley riders (all in fun of course, had nothing against them) but got tired of all the BS the weekend badboys would spew. At the time, late 80's early 90's, I had a BMW and of course most of my friends had Harleys. Well I do not have to tell you guys that a BMW could literally run circles around them, plus I had the added benefit of not leaking oil.

So when I got a personalized plate I got "HOG4DNR" if I saw an HD in front of me I wouldn't let them stay there long.

I have had this name for almost 25 years now.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: balancer on May 12, 2012, 03:08:01 PM: Quote from: Stormtruck2 on July 01, 2011, 06:44:32 PM
When I lived in Nebraska I chased t-storms and tornadoes. I had a 76 F-150 extended cab in green. Body looked like hell, but the glass was always like new, having been replaced fequently. When the clouds would roll in and the wind would climb Id takeoff to chase the storms. Neighbors would see me leaving and say "there goes the stormtruck." Hence the call sign. P:) P:)

Sounds almost like "lookin fer trouble." Yeah. I can relate. kim
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: balancer on May 12, 2012, 03:11:35 PM: Balancer is a reference to integrated self. Integration refers to the miscellaneous and sundry drives that comprise the human amalgam. Balancing is a form of art therein. kim
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Rotten Ralph on May 12, 2012, 07:08:22 PM: Rotten Ralph.

That's easy and it has nothing to do with gas! ::) ::)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wavedog on May 12, 2012, 07:28:37 PM: Well, being new here I thought I would chime in. I use the user name augerdin sometimes because thats what happened when I was ag flying. I left more than one plane in pieces in some field somewhere. Now I use wavedog because my wife says I am a dog. She said to me one time ' how do I love thee.. let me count the waves.' Yikes. I hope she doesnt read this.
(http://s15.postimage.org/5aazl3niv/moto_guzzi_2.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/5aazl3niv/)
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Post by: redbirds on May 12, 2012, 08:07:20 PM: When we moved to south Georgia 20 years ago we were amazed at the many Cardinals that would come to our bird feeders so we started calling the place Redbird Acres.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: conchscooter on May 12, 2012, 08:20:54 PM: Conchscooter was given to me by the V11 Forum when I first started considering a Moto Guzzi. That was years ago and I went with Triumph instead as Moto Guzzi had zero presence in South Florida.

Now I am considering a move North to a town with a dealer and an independant shop that both work on them and a woman I like who also likes the California (a V11 is not my idea of two up riding much though I still like the Lemans). I grew up in Italy but never owned a Moto Guzzi so it is something I want to rectify before I die. This may be my chance.

A Conch (pro: konk) is an edible shellfish found in tropical waters and a Conch is also a native of key West (which I am not). It is an online name I've had for so long I can't imagine changing it even if I do end up moving to Roanoke, Va.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: guzzidoo on May 12, 2012, 11:23:50 PM: Guzzi half is obvious, doo comes from Ski-Doo, my other favorite motorized vehicle!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: alphaBETAdog on May 13, 2012, 11:16:06 AM: Mine comes from my other motorcycle passion - dirt riding. Had the first Beta registered in AZ. Use the same handle for all mc related forums, otherwise I would forget who I am!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: yrunvs on May 13, 2012, 05:17:17 PM: yrunvs=why are you envious?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on May 13, 2012, 10:18:48 PM: Quote from: yrunvs on May 13, 2012, 05:17:17 PM
yrunvs=why are you envious?

I'm not. RU?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: redline on May 14, 2012, 08:38:32 AM: As a fairly, new tractor trailer truck driver, the best way to make time on hilly or mountainous roads, was to keep the engine wound up to the "redline" on the tachometer. This also pertained to my motorcycle racing...hence the 'handle' ... REDLINE.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: fanattic on May 14, 2012, 10:13:10 AM: I've been collecting antique and vintage electric fans for close to 20 years.
Early on, I was a bit of a 'fanatic' about fans, and since many (good) old fans are found stashed away in someone's attic, a friend came up with the moniker 'Fanattic'.

So no, I'm not a 'fanboy' of comics or celebs or anything like that. I'm just an old fart with lots of extra wind! ;D

Here's a few of my favorite fans: 1898 Emerson F1 'Tripod', 1900 Westinghouse 'Tesla', and an 1899 GE 'Pancake'

(http://s7.postimage.org/798ki16zr/earlyfans.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/798ki16zr/)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MotoGuzzi on May 25, 2012, 08:32:50 PM: That 1951 Ariel 500 is awesome. :drool

My username was the first thing that came to my mind. I punched it in, and wala! :BEER:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Carlo DeSantis on May 25, 2012, 08:38:03 PM: My parents :)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: LawDawgEMT on May 25, 2012, 08:48:00 PM: Hello All,
I am a first time owner of a Moto Guzzi. Today I bought a 1999 Cali EV. I am new to riding a Guzzi, but my father has a couple..... I am the son of Stormtruck 2. (Insert any condolences here ;D ). I wanted to weigh in on the origin of my User Name. I studied law enforcement in college P:) , and love the movie Tombstone hence the LawDawg. I have also been an EMT for 7 years.

Regards
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MotoGuzzi on May 25, 2012, 08:57:40 PM: Quote from: LawDawgEMT on May 25, 2012, 08:48:00 PM
Hello All,
I am a first time owner of a Moto Guzzi. Today I bought a 1999 Cali EV. I am new to riding a Guzzi, but my father has a couple..... I am the son of Stormtruck 2. (Insert any condolences here ;D ). I wanted to weigh in on the origin of my User Name. I studied law enforcement in college P:) , and love the movie Tombstone hence the LawDawg. I have also been an EMT for 7 years.

Regards

Well congrats to you sir! ;-T
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on May 26, 2012, 11:14:23 AM: Welcome son. You've joined a great group, and have a "decent" ;) motosickle. Now as you have heard before "dammit kid" wheres the pictures? Thanks to Jimmy at Neds for setting us up on a great bike. Ride safe son. BTW LETS RIDE!!!!!!! :bike :bike
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: QCGoose on May 26, 2012, 11:51:11 AM: Another "youngster" in the flock. I'm starting to feel less akward now! :D

Welcome, and congrats on the bike. As most of us, especially your old man, will tell you, beware of the Guzzi bug; once bitten, you can't be cured! ;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Gravel guy on May 26, 2012, 01:08:45 PM: I like to ride gravel as fast as I can......on my KLR650 and was gravelklr for several years on TWT (two-wheeled Texans). Pronounced "gravelkiller" I chose it because my MIL took one look at the new 2007 KLR and said "Great, it says KILLER on the side!" But then my buddies and newfound friends started calling me Gravel Guy and it just stuck. I weighed my Quota 1100ES on the Co-op scales the other day with panniers and 1/2 tank of gas.....600lbs! I'm not scared to take her off-road but won't be speeding/ sliding/ jumping like with the KLR.
;-T
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: QCGoose on May 26, 2012, 04:53:25 PM: Quote from: Gravel guy on May 26, 2012, 01:08:45 PM
I like to ride gravel as fast as I can......on my KLR650 and was gravelklr for several years on TWT (two-wheeled Texans). Pronounced "gravelkiller" I chose it because my MIL took one look at the new 2007 KLR and said "Great, it says KILLER on the side!" But then my buddies and newfound friends started calling me Gravel Guy and it just stuck. I weighed my Quota 1100ES on the Co-op scales the other day with panniers and 1/2 tank of gas.....600lbs! I'm not scared to take her off-road but won't be speeding/ sliding/ jumping like with the KLR.
;-T

Hell, some people consider the KLR to be an overweight off-roader lol.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: SunBum on May 26, 2012, 05:12:39 PM: Back in the 70's storming around the American south on a BSA, a Suzie tea-kettle and a couple Z1s, canoeing the rivers, camping or sailing around in the gulf - I was outside as much as possible. Had a tag frame on my bikes back then - a gift shop trinket - that read "SunBum." Still doing some of that stuff (with less hair and some sun-damaged skin to show for it)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: clubman on May 26, 2012, 06:03:24 PM: When I developed a burning desire for motorcycles (early sixties) and was reading every Cycle World as it hit the newstands, road racing and the English scene was everything. Mike Hailwood was my hero (still is). Cafe racers were all the rage in England and the closest most of would get to sit on a bike that was at least "racey looking". Most of the factories at one time or another produced a cafe or "clubman" style bike. I am honored to have 2 of those sitting right next to my cherished V7C in the garage, a 1954 BSA Goldstar (one of the first 100 with the now Iconic big fin head), and a Velocette Thruxton, the bike that dethroned the Goldstar at the IOM Clubman races. Hince the name "Clubman".

P.S. After 30 yrs as deckhand, mate, and capt. on fishing boats in the Gulf and Carib., I know right where Navarre is. Wonder how the Cobia season was? Could sure some right now for a sandwich or the smoker. Good riding, and be safe.
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Post by: Caffeineo on May 26, 2012, 07:04:18 PM: I like coffee and lack a good imagination/patience to be any more creative. I buy green beans, roast them, grind daily, use a french press and am constantly trying to make it better and be consistent. Being consistent is the hard part as there are so many variables. **C I have a Bassa and am planning on getting a Stelvio or maybe using a new V7 classic for a dual sport bike to replace my WR250X. Maybe I need to start a thread to see if anyone is using a V7 for dirt roads..... :o
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Caffeineo on May 30, 2012, 07:09:42 PM: Quote from: r90s on May 30, 2012, 11:17:37 AM
(http://s15.postimage.org/3js9yf1on/coffee.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/3js9yf1on/)

:drool :bow

I tell ya just by looking at that picture I can smell that coffee! MMMMmmmmmmmm coffee. Just got some new green beans from Sweet Marias to roast up tomorrow. Can't wait.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: poorBob on May 31, 2012, 05:52:38 AM: From Robert Johnson's Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil):

"Travel on, poor Bob. Just can't turn you 'round..."
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: StaysCrunchy on July 16, 2012, 04:30:33 PM: In the old Ren and Stimpy cartoon, Stimpy wrote a poem to his favorite cat litter company saying that he likes it because it "Stays crunchy even in milk!"
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MGKrebs on July 16, 2012, 09:29:30 PM: Quote from: poorBob on May 31, 2012, 05:52:38 AM
From Robert Johnson's Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil):

"Travel on, poor Bob. Just can't turn you 'round..."

Love it!
Have you heard Delta Moon? They do Son House's version and it's killer.

My pseudonym is Maynard G Krebs, a tv character played by Bob Denver (later to be Gilligan) on an old show called Dobie Gillis. Maynard was a beatnik who liked jazz and bongos but did not like work. Seemed like a good alter ego for me.

P.s. I am not quite old enough to have watched Dobie Gillis when it first came out!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: QCGoose on July 16, 2012, 11:03:20 PM: Quote from: StaysCrunchy on July 16, 2012, 04:30:33 PM
In the old Ren and Stimpy cartoon, Stimpy wrote a poem to his favorite cat litter company saying that he likes it because it "Stays crunchy even in milk!"

Classic cartoon!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Caffeineo on July 17, 2012, 11:59:51 AM: Quote from: MGKrebs on July 16, 2012, 09:29:30 PM
Love it!
Have you heard Delta Moon? They do Son House's version and it's killer.

My pseudonym is Maynard G Krebs, a tv character played by Bob Denver (later to be Gilligan) on an old show called Dobie Gillis. Maynard was a beatnik who liked jazz and bongos but did not like work. Seemed like a good alter ego for me.

P.s. I am not quite old enough to have watched Dobie Gillis when it first came out!

I remember watching Dobie Gillis when I was a young un. Now that makes me feel old.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Spuddy on July 17, 2012, 01:01:10 PM: All my life people have been mystified how to pronounce my last name, Smietanka. [Take out the 'I' and it's phonetic; put the 'I' back in and it's Polish. It means: cream.] In the bars :BEER: the intelligentsia of my rugby club resolved any confusion dubbing me "SPUDDY."
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Post by: Spuddy on July 17, 2012, 01:20:26 PM: Hey, I Know what the "N" on the North Dakota football helmets if for... "Noledge!"
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: greyghost on July 18, 2012, 07:59:03 PM: As I get older I seem to be fading into invisibility. Except to cops, for some reason.
I also lurk around this forum soaking in all the experience and wisdom without making much noise.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Hit Man on July 18, 2012, 10:19:45 PM: detailed in my signature line below....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Stormtruck2 on July 18, 2012, 11:58:33 PM: Quote from: Spuddy on July 17, 2012, 01:20:26 PM
Hey, I Know what the "N" on the North Dakota football helmets if for... "Noledge!"

Thats Nebraska helmets with the big red N on them.. But I no you nu that. ;) :D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: stogey on July 19, 2012, 12:35:21 AM: I like a fine Cigar on occasion.
Seems that Stogie is the preferred spelling for the stick.
Most forums, this spelling is taken.

I remembered an ad for hooked on phonics... Am I the only one who finds it ironic that phonics is spelled like that?
I digress, phonetically, stogey works too. Been using stogey as a handle for darn near 20 years.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bratman2 on July 19, 2012, 06:26:03 AM: Had a little Subaru Brat since 1997. A Subaru forum was the first forum I ever joined. Almost everything I typed in had been taken.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Pfaff! on July 19, 2012, 06:34:33 AM: Quote from: bratman2 on July 19, 2012, 06:26:03 AM
Had a little Subaru Brat since 1997. A Subaru forum was the first forum I ever joined. Almost everything I typed in had been taken.

I take it as you're not related to Molly Ringwald. ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: auto on July 19, 2012, 07:14:06 AM: I work for an automobile manufacturer.Hence the name auto.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Indefatigable on July 19, 2012, 08:04:27 AM: I just like the name, along with the Royal Navy.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: kitze2 on July 24, 2012, 08:33:12 AM: Quote from: Indefatigable on July 19, 2012, 08:04:27 AM
I just like the name, along with the Royal Navy.
Just stay away from the Jutland Peninsula. ;) :D ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: aschem on July 24, 2012, 10:13:44 AM: Last name, first initial.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: HOG4DNR on July 24, 2012, 10:45:20 AM: In my younger days I used to ride with a lot of Harley riders, since most of them were weekend "badboys", I got sick of them always bashing what bike I would be riding, whether it was a BMW, Ducati or Guzzi.

I would definitely harass them back and came up with HOG4DNR for my plate. It basically means I would eat them alive out on the road. My wife would always knew if I saw a Harley in the distance, I would overtake with extreme prejudice, slow down, let them read the plate, and take back off ~;.

I remember coming back the the Peterson H/D run to Key West and this custom chopper tried passing me on my R1100RS, needless to say, I do not get passed by HD's or clones. We were clipping off a pretty good pace (yes over the limit), for about 3 - 5 miles, my wife trying to keep up on her Monster, when all of a sudden his motor blows, blowing out enough white smoke to hide a carrier task force. I felt bad for the guy but he was with others and a support vehicle, (which most H/D's from the 80's needed) so he was going to be OK.

Of course, this was all in fun and I really do not care what you ride as long as you ride.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Doubleclutch on September 09, 2012, 08:24:46 PM: When i was younger and rode crotch Rockets you needed to double clutch to get the front wheel in the air!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Travman on September 09, 2012, 08:31:12 PM: Quote from: r90s on September 09, 2012, 07:57:38 PM
Subaru should make an updated version of the Brat.
I thought they did make an updated version of the Brat a couple years ago.

Edit: I was thinking of the Subaru Baja which is kind of like a 4-door Brat.
(http://sbolen.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/subaru-baja.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Pequeno on September 09, 2012, 09:27:45 PM: i'm 5'6", 120 pounds and I have two semesters of high school spanish under my belt.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on September 09, 2012, 11:37:32 PM: Quote from: Pequeno on September 09, 2012, 09:27:45 PM
i'm 5'6", 120 pounds and I have two semesters of high school spanish under my belt.

Well, there's advantages to being a big guy, but there's not many when it comes to motorcycling.

You've got 5 times the number of great performance bikes you can effectively ride and get full performance from than I can .....

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: sidecars on September 10, 2012, 01:14:08 AM: I've wanted a sidecar forever. Someday. Someday. Maybe on my Guzzi CalVin.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: borderer on September 10, 2012, 09:31:31 AM: I live on the Border. ????
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wittangamo on September 10, 2012, 06:53:13 PM: My name is Witt.

I went to college with a bunch of slow-talking Southerners. I had a bad habit of finishing their sentences for them.

One day one of them asked, "How'd you know what I was going to say?"

Before I could come up with an answer, a buddy next to me piped up and said, "The Great Wittangamo sees all, knows all ... "

We had a good laugh and the nickname stuck. ;D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: guzzitk on September 11, 2012, 12:59:52 AM: The bike I love and ride with my initials attached to the end. At the time there were too many Tom's fighting it out on this board. :bike
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Nick in PRC. on September 11, 2012, 02:16:57 AM: I forget.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bettythebear on September 11, 2012, 10:53:05 AM: My chow chow's name is Betty. She likes like a miniature black bear.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: hooger158 on September 11, 2012, 11:47:30 AM: My first snowboard was a 158cm Hooger Sin-airG. The name outlasted the board.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on September 11, 2012, 12:39:56 PM: Quote from: Nick in PRC. on September 11, 2012, 02:16:57 AM
I forget.

I'm with Nick on this one. :+1
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Kiwi_Roy on October 13, 2012, 10:07:17 PM: Quote from: redhunter on September 27, 2011, 06:44:06 PM
1951 Ariel 500 cc VH REDHUNTER click for the big pics.

(http://s2.postimage.org/36aoc6zok/VH_Right_rear.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36aoc6zok/)

(http://s2.postimage.org/36ck587xg/VH_Rt_full.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/36ck587xg/)

One of the nicest singles ever made, I had a buddy with one, I rode a 600 side valve VB myself then traded up to a Vincent Comet
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Nic in Western NYS on October 14, 2012, 12:31:04 AM: My initials and the degree it took me forever to get.

Nic in Central Mass USA
_{'07 Breva 1100}
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Gooze on October 14, 2012, 06:44:31 AM: It's quite obvious...

(also have guzz1, guzzz, haawk and one plate yet to be customized, thinking of (am)bassa(dor))

ugh, and the numbers are the lifetime membership no. goes w/o saying.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Speed King on October 28, 2012, 04:59:05 PM: Custom car & motorcycle club.

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d76/SpeedKing199/Speed%20King%20Chopper/cid_A1B2F346-59C2-4953-9F12-033A3B2.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Cocalpiper on October 28, 2012, 07:07:10 PM: I am a piper with Colorado Caledonian Pipes and Drums. Thus Cocalpiper
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Red Dog on November 01, 2012, 06:09:31 PM: The name of my 74 T.

In Lakota (most people say Sioux but there are no Sioux) it is: Sha Shunka Wakan which translated literally means:
Red Dog Big or Red Dog Mystery or a number of other interpretations including Red Horse. I used to refer to my bikes as my "ponies".

The T was painted a kind of reddish maroon when I got it and I was calling it "Red Pony" but it never clicked. In Lakota Shunka is dog but Shunka Wakan is Horse (or God Dog, Big Dog, Great Dog), Sha is red.

My old El Do was Buffalo Pony or Ta Tanka Shunka Wakan.

Washte. It is good, it is said.
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Post by: Dynamo73 on November 01, 2012, 10:54:28 PM: My first bike. A 1973 Benelli Dynamo (in 1974); a 65 cc, two stroke, four speed trail bike. My personal rocket ship, bought with my paper route money for $165. That's why, to this day, I still get done riding with a smile on my face.
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Post by: jp98226 on November 02, 2012, 12:55:26 AM: Quote from: Tom on September 11, 2012, 12:39:56 PM
I'm with Nick on this one. :+1

============

+2
Like Nick (in PRC) and Tom, I forget things too . . .
So to make sure I get mailed back to my home-town Post Office when lost,
I have my initials (John P.) and zip code memorized, finally.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sorry, what were we talking about?
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Post by: GT3 Techno on November 02, 2012, 09:32:54 AM: "GT3" because I race with a GT3 Cup car and "Techno" because some friends like to call me like this as I like technology (computers, softwares, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjHm5NHRhg0&list=UUhgpknJIcsb0_DrOHMD-oBg&index=4&feature=plcp
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Post by: Travman on November 02, 2012, 09:44:05 AM: My name is Travis. People shorten that to Trav and then it becomes Travman. I'm always surprised when people I've only known for a short while start calling me Travman. It isn't something I actively encourage, but don't mind it either.
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Post by: FASTFREDDY on November 02, 2012, 10:22:37 AM: It is an ironic nickname by my dirtbiking group. Ironic because I was the slowest in the group. But the name stuck.
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Post by: webninja on November 02, 2012, 11:50:39 AM: Internet website company I had for a while. Also my radio call sign while stationed in Kosovo.
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Post by: Pizza Guzzi on November 10, 2012, 12:12:37 AM: Two of my favourite things Italian, plus if you say it over and over it sounds like a Guzzi idling. ;D Well at least to me it does.
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Post by: Marshall on December 30, 2012, 10:46:47 AM: Marshall is my dog's name. He hates my motorcycles because he doesn't get to ride along... we're still looking for a decent sidecar hack to add to the stable, though!
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Post by: Loser-At-Life on December 30, 2012, 10:58:11 AM: I'm the only person at work that hasn't been married, that makes me a 'loser-at-life' .!!!!! :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife:
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Post by: Marshall on December 30, 2012, 12:26:09 PM: Quote from: Loser-At-Life on December 30, 2012, 10:58:11 AM
I'm the only person at work that hasn't been married, that makes me a 'loser-at-life' .!!!!! :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife: :wife:

I just watched "This is 40"... I was wasting time, to be certain, but after an hour and a half listening to that woman whine at her defeated husband, I'm glad to be single! That, and with 4 BMW's in the stable, I'd count you on the winning end. Just sayin'.
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Post by: Lannis on December 30, 2012, 01:23:22 PM: Quote from: Marshall on December 30, 2012, 12:26:09 PM
I just watched "This is 40"... I was wasting time, to be certain, but after an hour and a half listening to that woman whine at her defeated husband, I'm glad to be single! That, and with 4 BMW's in the stable, I'd count you on the winning end. Just sayin'.

The husbands that have to listen to the whining nags at 40 are generally the husbands that picked their wives based on bust size or the frequency that they had sex at the age of 21, neither of which is a solid basis for a long happy marriage ..... !

Lannis
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Post by: Marshall on December 30, 2012, 06:30:28 PM: Lannis, I think you nailed it. A large-breasted nympho is fun for about 2 months until... :winer
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Post by: paper on January 03, 2013, 11:11:05 AM: Paper..

Been involved in paper making equipment since March of 1989 and I'm still at it..

I travel all the time for work (mostly USA) and I service the wet end of paper machines.. Everything from putting a dot of weld on a razor blade tip, to straightening precision plate to within .001" per foot.. I'm lucky enough to have a job that keeps me challenged and requested for service jobs over and over again.. And I've met some great people while doing the job, all over the country..

(http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/personal/pindo_deli/paper_machine.jpg)
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Post by: guzziboy on January 03, 2013, 06:09:31 PM: I have surfed since I was 10 and in my later years(I'm 60 now) a partner started calling me "skinnyboy" as my beach nickname so when i came to this it seemed natural to go with guzziboy...I can only remember so much so best not to stray to much. I remember faces for a lifetime but names...not so good...thats my story...best I can recall ;0)
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Post by: Eric Plante on January 04, 2013, 08:52:33 AM: Hi,
You may say I have no imagination but I felt no need to use a nick instead of my real name.
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Post by: Eric Plante on January 04, 2013, 09:18:14 AM: Quote from: Arctic Dude on July 02, 2011, 07:29:53 AM
My friends in southern Ontario joke that I moved up to the Arctic! In the middle of January here it sometimes feels like it.

Boy! I hear you...
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Post by: Eric Plante on January 04, 2013, 09:23:29 AM: Quote from: Moto Fugazzi on July 02, 2011, 07:46:59 AM
:PICS!:

:+1. :PICS!: LOL
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Post by: Gregory on January 04, 2013, 09:40:12 AM: My Mother.
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Post by: IceBlue on January 07, 2013, 12:54:49 PM: Quote from: Marshall on December 30, 2012, 12:26:09 PM
I just watched "This is 40"... I was wasting time, to be certain, but after an hour and a half listening to that woman whine at her defeated husband, I'm glad to be single! That, and with 4 BMW's in the stable, I'd count you on the winning end. Just sayin'.

Hey - you forgot the Lario - basically 4 times the fun of a beemer ;D ;) Nice balance in the stable :D
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Post by: David 54 on January 07, 2013, 01:27:54 PM: Rather boring, my Christian name and the year of my birth!
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Post by: doug2943 on January 07, 2013, 07:22:15 PM: :+=copcar

My name and my badge number P:)
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Post by: IceBlue on January 12, 2013, 07:46:27 AM: Quote from: r90s on January 12, 2013, 07:01:08 AM
We're all law abiding on this board - especially the small block guys. :D

Jep ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: JackalRider on February 10, 2013, 08:18:52 PM: Mine is obvious since it's jackalrider, have enjoyed a couple of R90's myself.
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Post by: Papa Smurf on February 14, 2013, 07:07:22 AM: Wikipedia: "Papa Smurf is a male fictional character from the television show the Smurfs. Most Smurfs are said to be about 100 years old, but at the advanced age of 542, Papa is the third oldest Smurf and the leader of all Smurfs. Despite his age, he is still quite energetic. Easily distinguishable from all the other Smurfs, Papa Smurf has a bushy white beard ...", and "Papa Smurf is a gentle, wise, and knowledgeable village elder." (Bwahahahahaaa)

About 10 years ago the then girlfriend of a good friend of mine attached the name, and it stuck. I got even - I conducted their wedding ceremony about 5 years ago!

By the way, wiseoldfool, your avatar photo is remarkably similar to my own mugshot - my face is perhaps a little more round, but my wife was amazed at the likeness.

Ride safely,
Russell Dold in Germiston, South Africa
V50 Mk11 slowly being returned to her former splendour - this was the bike I lusted after in my 20's
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Post by: flatop on February 14, 2013, 09:39:17 AM: Well here we go..My real name is Al but with so many common names used on the web you always have to try a different name when selecting
the one that the web site will accept so hence the name Flatop which also
happens to describe my hair cut, lol. Since 1998 when I bought my first Big Bike a Harley Fat Boy the only other change in my life style was to get a short hair cut so I wouldn`t have to wear a hat after removing the helmet
to expose the dreaded helmet hair which all of us riders are quite familure
with. Oh we`re so vain....
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Post by: sliphorn on February 14, 2013, 10:05:33 AM: I make my living as a trombone player. Sliphorn is a 1920's - 1930's term for a trombone.
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Post by: Lannis on February 14, 2013, 11:19:18 AM: Quote from: sliphorn on February 14, 2013, 10:05:33 AM

I make my living as a trombone player.

That's got to be one of the rarest combinations of words in the English language, next to "Isn't that the banjo player's Porsche out front?" :D

Welcome! ;-T

Lannis
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Post by: Curtis Harper on February 14, 2013, 11:21:41 AM: My mom gave it to me on my birthday.
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Post by: fat albert on February 14, 2013, 11:33:18 AM: old racing nickname from the 70s
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Post by: Porterhouse on February 14, 2013, 04:14:45 PM: Big, delicious, beautiful steak wasn't available...
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Post by: Bella on February 14, 2013, 08:20:55 PM: What else would you call a beautiful black Italian that you ride??
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Post by: sliphorn on February 15, 2013, 09:12:52 PM: Quote from: Lannis on February 14, 2013, 11:19:18 AM
That's got to be one of the rarest combinations of words in the English language, next to "Isn't that the banjo player's Porsche out front?" :D

Welcome! ;-T

Lannis

Thanks for the welcome. You'd be surprised. There's quite a few of us sliphorn players out there that do quite well. Movie and television soundtracks, jingles, symphony orchestras, Broadway shows, jazz gigs, etcetera.
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Post by: GenghisTron132 on May 02, 2013, 01:27:35 PM: Nothing to special here, Genghis Tron is one of my favorite bands and 132 is a riding # I used to have when I did some dirt bike racing when I was a kid.
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Post by: Matteo on May 02, 2013, 06:03:27 PM: Matteo wasn't available so I copied my Old Shop name (58 degrees North) from Its location in Kodiak.
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Post by: Doolin on May 03, 2013, 05:56:57 AM: Name given to me by my parents.
Easy to remember as I get older.

Doug
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Post by: stmike on May 24, 2013, 09:13:44 PM: Back in 1989 or so when I first began using the internet and emailing, my board administrator suggested his disciples to use the first two letters of their last name followed by their first name, so that's what I did. Makes me feel rather saintly.
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Post by: AbuDaoud on June 30, 2013, 03:11:23 PM: Abu is a Kunyah name in Arabic. It means "father of" so with my son's name David I changed it to the Arabic spelling and pronunciation. Thus "Abu Daoud"= father of David.

My motorcycle is getting a nickname because ever since I shipped it here in the Middle East I have heard nothing but "bookrah" meaning tomorrow. When is it getting released from customs? Bookrah. When am I going to get the last paper I need from Customs? Bookrah. When will the registration be finished? Bookrah. When am I finally going to get to ride this bookrah bike??? Bookrah. I'm the proud new owner of a 2011 Moto Guzzi V7 Bookrah
:winer
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Post by: Lannis on June 30, 2013, 03:13:06 PM: Quote from: AbuDaoud on June 30, 2013, 03:11:23 PM
Abu is a Kunyah name in Arabic. It means "father of" so with my son's name David I changed it to the Arabic spelling and pronunciation. Thus "Abu Daoud"= father of David.

My motorcycle is getting a nickname because ever since I shipped it here in the Middle East I have heard nothing but "bookrah" meaning tomorrow. When is it getting released from customs? Bookrah. When am I going to get the last paper I need from Customs? Bookrah. When will the registration be finished? Bookrah. When am I finally going to get to ride this bookrah bike??? Bookrah. I'm the proud new owner of a 2011 Moto Guzzi V7 Bookrah
:winer

You MIGHT be the owner of a V7 bookrah ..... Inshallah ....

Lannis
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Post by: AbuDaoud on July 01, 2013, 07:40:01 AM: No, I own it. It's sitting in my little courtyard. I can ride it too as Saudi Arabia has only recently changed the laws for registering motor vehicles to include motorcycles. The police like motorcycles too much to bother me, but I go for a ride on Thursday and Friday mornings while they are all asleep.

And today is bookrah for the last part, picking up the plate and the registration card so tomorrow I ride, inshaAllah. ;-T
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Post by: Dean Rose on July 01, 2013, 08:19:36 AM: That's me. Not the pic, just the name.

Dean
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Post by: Loftness on July 01, 2013, 10:36:55 AM: It's a morph of my dog Lofton's name. Used to call him the Loftness Monster. He passed away in January so now it's simply a tribute to the boy.
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Post by: tiger_one on July 01, 2013, 11:47:00 AM: When I bought a Triumph Tiger 1050 used in 08, I joined their forum to read up on the bike as it was my first Triumph. Lots of names with Tiger so I tried "one" instead of falling in line with all the other "numbered ones", rest is history.
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Post by: barenekd on July 01, 2013, 05:20:05 PM: Bare, being my nickname, was a pretty common screen name with other endings, so I needed something a little farther out. Nekd worked real well, it usually doesn't caught up in junkmail or porn site blockers! Haven't had much trouble with duplicates! I shoulda dug a little deeper and brought back my old racing nickname from about 40 years ago, "Valves", because I was the guy who raced 4-strokes in a jungle of ringdingers, Cheney Triumph, BSA B50MX, and Grumph.
Bare
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Post by: fxb750 on July 17, 2013, 09:00:56 PM: Pretty simple: my initials and I love to ride 750 cc bikes.
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Post by: gootsi on August 14, 2013, 06:50:22 PM: I'm a language buff/snob and I get annoyed when people pronounce Guzzi as Guh-zee or Goo-zee or whatever else. It's GOOTSI*, people! :wife:

(It's a bit more complicated/nuanced since it has two zs, but you get the picture.)
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Post by: faffi on August 15, 2013, 05:57:19 AM: The way you pronounce things in America, wouldn't it be closer to Gootsee? Personally, I'm not bothered by it. We call them "Gussee" in Norway, and that's fine my me. We also say "ny-ork" instead of New York because it's natural. Not correct, but it's the Norwegian way :D
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Post by: JackalRider on August 28, 2013, 08:37:15 PM: just call me Mr Obvious. ;-T
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Post by: oceanluvr on September 12, 2013, 09:50:31 AM: Oceanluvr.....my first love

(http://s12.postimg.org/gy4rob14t/IMG_0315_edited_1_Medium.jpg)

But a real close second...

(http://s12.postimg.org/4m6gok2nx/IMG_0394_Snapseed.jpg)
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Post by: cimbian on September 12, 2013, 05:12:26 PM: My business name... Cimbian UK Ltd.

Cimbian itself is a play on symbiosis, an essential partnership.
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on September 12, 2013, 06:00:38 PM: Quote from: oceanluvr on September 12, 2013, 09:50:31 AM
Oceanluvr.....my first love

(http://s12.postimg.org/gy4rob14t/IMG_0315_edited_1_Medium.jpg)

But a real close second...

(http://s12.postimg.org/4m6gok2nx/IMG_0394_Snapseed.jpg)

When I get down to Florida, ya gonna take me bonefish fishing?? :D HUH HUH HUH? ;) ;D I love ocean fishing, haven't done it since I lived in Virginia Beach VA.
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Post by: Triple Jim on October 05, 2013, 08:27:35 PM: Until a month ago, the only motorcycle I've owned has been my Kawasaki H2, known as a Kawasaki triple because of its three cylinders. I standardized on using "Triple Jim" when "Jim" is already taken on a board. I'm glad I broadened my horizons, by the way. I'm enjoying the heck out of the contrast afforded by my Mille. In some ways, the two bikes are opposites, and in others they're pretty similar. Interestingly, this board and kawi2strokes.com are similar in that the members are a bunch of helpful, knowledgeable, and friendly guys.
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Post by: Guzziman on October 05, 2013, 09:14:47 PM: My kids (3 and 7 at the time) started calling me Guzziman when I got my first Guzzi about 4 years ago, it was a 1971 Ambassador. I was always talking about it so they would just roll their eyes and say, "There goes Guzziman again". It stuck so now that I have 2 it's even worse.....or better!! Ha ha.

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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Post by: tat2guy on October 05, 2013, 09:39:57 PM: Mine has the obvious AND a backstory...

I do tattoos. Tat2guy. Obvious.

BUT, where the name actually came from was kinda funny... I lived in Philadelphia for 14 years. West Philly, specifically. One night I was near the University of Pennsylvania's campus, in a Wawa (local convenience store chain) around 2 am... Some drunk freshman were in line at the deli counter, and I guess they had seen Boys in tha Hood too many times or something, and assumed that since they were Asian and the clerks were black, there must be some kind of hostility between them, and were deliberately starting trouble... (It was a very common thing to see Penn freshman of all ethnicities who felt like they needed to prove how tough they were now that they've moved to the big bad city... that night it was a couple Asian kids...)

Anyway, just as things are reaching the point where it could get ugly, I intervene, and point out how nice it would be if we all ate sandwiches and stuff instead of calling some parents in Connecticut or Deleware or something to tell them their kid is in the ER cuz he thought he was gangsta, when suddenly one of the girls working the counter recognizes me from the tattoo shop. She yells out to everyone, "WAIT! Don't you know who dat is?!? DATS TATTOOGUY!"

Suddenly everybody shut up and looked at me as if I must be a superhero named Tattooguy or something... And the freshmen apologized... TO ME, first, then to the Wawa workers... Then they left t go sleep it off.

And ever since, I've been tat2guy.
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Post by: guzziart on October 06, 2013, 07:33:31 AM: Simple & unsophisticated...I'm Art and I have a Guzzi!
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Post by: luthier on October 06, 2013, 08:45:53 AM: Well of course a Luthier makes guitars. www.kellawayguitars .com

I don't make many but I've been doing it for the last 40 years.
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Post by: Rough Edge racing on October 06, 2013, 08:55:30 AM: Our racing team name.
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Post by: markw on October 06, 2013, 03:06:10 PM: Mine ? Complete lack of imagination it would appear....Mind you I really wonder if some of the achingly cool ones reflect truly the person behind them , bit like Facebook profiles ? If you have a cool moniker and are cool no offense just jealous !!!!!
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Post by: segesta on October 06, 2013, 03:30:36 PM: Segesta is a beautifully preserved Greek temple and amphitheater about 30 minutes outside Palermo. It is always one of my favorites stops when I visit western Sicily (along with Erice and the beach at San Vito lo Capo). In general I'm an Italophile, so I took it as a screen name.
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Post by: segesta on October 06, 2013, 03:32:34 PM: Quote from: luthier on October 06, 2013, 08:45:53 AM
Well of course a Luthier makes guitars. www.kellawayguitars .com

I don't make many but I've been doing it for the last 40 years.

Wow, those are beautiful! Very impressive. I always admire people who can do things I couldn't learn in a million years.
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Post by: mgfan on October 07, 2013, 09:49:44 PM: Gawd-I'm so boring! 6 Italian mistress, a blonde bimbo and my wife doesn't mind. 6 Guzzis and a yellow lab named Bimbo. Oh well. Harold
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Post by: MincerRay on October 08, 2013, 12:20:56 PM: Mine is the name of a song by Lo-Fi indie band, Guided By Voices. The prolific songwriter (and ex elementary school English teacher), Robert Pollard, comes up with the most interesting song titles, and I thought this one sounded funny as a profile name.
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Post by: tat2guy on October 08, 2013, 07:13:53 PM: Quote from: luthier on October 06, 2013, 08:45:53 AM
Well of course a Luthier makes guitars. www.kellawayguitars .com

I don't make many but I've been doing it for the last 40 years.
Dang! Nice work!
Far better guitars than I am a guitar player... But I can still tell quality.
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Post by: John Ulrich on October 08, 2013, 07:30:55 PM: My parents gave it to me at birth and it stuck!
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Post by: faffi on October 09, 2013, 04:44:31 PM: The name is the same, and the age could be correct, but the bike doesn't quite fit - still, did you work and write for Cycle World cirka 1980? Was it you who crashed the KZ1000R? Curious mind would like to know 8)
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Post by: DungeonMaster on October 11, 2013, 10:47:30 AM: I was working at Moto Italiano (Guzzi, Laverda, Aprilia dealer) in 2000 with a guy named Sean Fader.
He was looking at me with a real weird and dorky look on his face and then he asked me
"Did you play Dungeons and Dragons in high school?" like it was tattooed on my face (that I was a D&D geek).

So I confessed "yesssss, yes I did."
Sean cackled with glee and started crowing "I knew it. I knew it."
And at the moment I was dubbed "DungeonMaster" at the shop.
Just walk into the parts counter and ask for "DM" and they would get me.
Cuz real given names were never used in that shop.

DM
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Post by: Lannis on October 11, 2013, 11:02:57 AM: Quote from: DungeonMaster on October 11, 2013, 10:47:30 AM

I was working at Moto Italiano (Guzzi, Laverda, Aprilia dealer) in 2000 with a guy named Sean Fader.
He was looking at me with a real weird and dorky look on his face ....

I hate to spring this on you, but if Sean recognized you as a Dungeons and Dragons geek, he wasn't the only one in the shop that day with a weird and dorky look on his face .... :D
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Post by: nsumax on October 18, 2013, 11:11:49 PM: One of my favorite motorcycles is my 1953 NSU 250 Max, oh and it's easy to remember.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on October 19, 2013, 07:12:46 AM: Quote from: Lannis on October 11, 2013, 11:02:57 AM
I hate to spring this on you, but if Sean recognized you as a Dungeons and Dragons geek, he wasn't the only one in the shop that day with a weird and dorky look on his face .... :D

Sean's onehellova wrench.. ;D ;-T
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Post by: guzzi4cats on December 07, 2013, 11:20:00 AM: I give a home to three Guzzis and four cats.
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Post by: Railroad Bob on December 18, 2013, 01:05:42 PM: Came from a 3 generation railroad worker family, Mom's side. Back to the steam
days. When a toddler, one of Mom's uncles took me up into the cab of his GM&O
freight locomotive and sat me in the engineer's seat. Still have a pic of the day.
Made a big impression. After a college stint studying poli sci, got a job on the electrical
construction gang of the NWP/SP RR out of Santa Rosa, CA. Then moved over to
a 24 year run with Amtrak, 4 to 5 different crafts/jobs/positions. Medicaled out
in 2003. So that makes me Railroad Bob. We still have one railroader in the family
clan, a Metra conductor out of Chicago, my cousin's son. Last one to carry the "Flag."
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Post by: WFORIDER on December 27, 2013, 09:54:42 PM: used to race moto cross and flat track…
In the Magazine "Dirt Bike" the coin or used the phrase "WFO"

Which stands of "Wide F'n Open" grapped it in the 70"s ..it stuck.

My Old signature was "Life in the on-coming lane"
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Post by: meccanicab on December 28, 2013, 05:01:11 PM: When I decided UJM's were not for me,and started riding Italian,the classic 60's Ducati tank badge struck me as interesting, meccanicab was available as a e mail address, so here we are!!
On several of the forum's in the Uk. i'm know as grumpy. My ex wife;s family gave me the nick name, to long a story to repeat!
I now own 2 Ducati monsters, 2 Guzzi's and a Cagiva....a 3rd Ducati is possibly joining the family, pending negotiations. 8)
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Post by: guzzista on December 28, 2013, 08:43:51 PM: Back in 1998, I made the pilgrimage to Mandello del Lario and was telling my personal Guzzi history to one of the older employees, who said: Now that you made to our factory you are a real Guzzista! Like the words of a Stones song > I was pleased to be informed of this...promised to return again, something that is yet to happen.. decided to keep the moniker though...
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Post by: the balding bunyip on December 29, 2013, 05:14:58 AM: It is the name of my brewery.... :BEER:
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Post by: nunzio on December 29, 2013, 07:59:31 AM: In the 70's I worked in Alaska with a guy by the name of Nunzio Falco.

I've always thought that was the coolest name, so, I have it as a user name ......Alan
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Post by: RoMoMoTo on December 29, 2013, 09:04:03 AM: RoMoMoTo is short for Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Tours, my company's name.
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Post by: r3bauer on December 30, 2013, 01:23:17 AM: 3 boys all R and last name.

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Post by: spyvito on December 30, 2013, 06:01:33 AM: Spy Vito is my Air Force nickname. Before there were drones that could consistently find targets.
(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af323/spyvito54/RF-4Cart2.jpg)
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Post by: Hellgate on December 31, 2013, 10:31:49 AM: Mine has two sources for inspiration; 1) been to the gates of Hell and back several times with the Army 2) the name of my favorite Rossignol telemark skis so I repurposed the name.

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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 31, 2013, 03:22:08 PM: Quote from: WFORIDER on December 27, 2013, 09:54:42 PM
used to race moto cross and flat track…
In the Magazine "Dirt Bike" the coin or used the phrase "WFO"

Which stands of "Wide F'n Open" grapped it in the 70"s ..it stuck.

My Old signature was "Life in the on-coming lane"

I think Super Hunky coined that in the 60s. ;D I've practice his famous "flying W" getoff more than once.. ;D ;D
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Post by: FODFA on March 02, 2014, 09:54:48 PM: (http://s4.postimg.org/aybtv0hzt/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/aybtv0hzt/)

Not sure if that translates to Umericun or not, but the Aussies will get it :BEER:

Cheers Andrew
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Post by: Triple Jim on March 02, 2014, 11:25:25 PM: It wouldn't have a few years ago, but the worldwide interweb has united us.
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Post by: Tom on March 03, 2014, 12:14:15 AM: Have to admit. It's pretty cool. Getting advice or giving advice half-way around the world. ;-T
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Post by: Don Ivey on March 03, 2014, 06:59:08 AM: Mom.
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Post by: TalkingGriso on March 03, 2014, 01:54:20 PM: Well, the only reason I'm here is because I bought a Guzzi, and the only reason I bought that Guzzi is because it told me to! My Griso has been talking to me since the very first ride. I guess I'm just a good listener.

Although on the last outing it just said "Shut up and ride..."
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Post by: FODFA on March 03, 2014, 07:45:51 PM: Quote from: Tom on March 03, 2014, 12:14:15 AM
Have to admit. It's pretty cool. Getting advice or giving advice half-way around the world. ;-T

Well getting advice from this end, first bike in 20 years and first Guzzi so I am on a steep learning curve.

Cheers Andrew
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Post by: Tom on March 03, 2014, 10:21:30 PM: We'll help as much as possible. ;-T
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Post by: zedXmick on March 14, 2014, 10:56:03 PM: I owned a Kawasaki zx6e back in 2002,I was looking for any info on the ZX12R and came across ZX12R.org joined the site in 2002 and used zedX and mick as Mick Doohan was my favorite GP racer.....boy could he ride them two strokes :) gawd I miss the 500cc GP days of old.
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Post by: 2gooses on March 14, 2014, 11:48:54 PM: I used to have 2 guzzi's (2gooses) I'm fond of impropa gramer. Now I have 3 guzzi's maybe I should change to treegeeses? Dave A.
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Post by: nsumax on March 15, 2014, 07:00:10 PM: When I was 15 my dad and I were fixing up a honda CL 160 for him, while he was negoiating with the shop owner for some parts we needed I was looking around the storage area and found a 1953 NSU 250 Max. Long story short, about six months later, I came home from school and it was setting on our patio. All these years later I still have it. Easily one of my most treasured bikes.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 15, 2014, 07:06:21 PM: Quote from: nsumax on March 15, 2014, 07:00:10 PM
When I was 15 my dad and I were fixing up a honda CL 160 for him, while he was negoiating with the shop owner for some parts we needed I was looking around the storage area and found a 1953 NSU 250 Max. Long story short, about six months later, I came home from school and it was setting on our patio. All these years later I still have it. Easily one of my most treasured bikes.

;-T Another Indiana guy. We'll soon take over... ;D :BEER:
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Post by: normzone on March 15, 2014, 11:50:56 PM: It was 1996 and I was trying for my first Hotmail address. Every possible variant of my name was taken, and I get getting rejected as I tried "Norman123...NormanS tormin...NormanNorm an..." Finally normzone was accepted and I never looked back.
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Post by: oldmxdog61u on April 16, 2014, 09:51:57 PM: Ahrma then avdra national number 61u. Retired from vintage motocross in 2012. Still run an occasional enduro, and may be campaigning a tt500 flat tracker next season. Love my Guzzi as it replaced my what to do on sunday mornings after always heading to the track for many years, with take the lemans out with my red suspenders friends.
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Post by: oldmxdog61u on April 16, 2014, 09:55:13 PM: Fwiw... I see super hunky now and then. Same great story teller.
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Post by: right_slide on April 16, 2014, 10:59:41 PM: My first bike's suspension was a little sacked out. If I wasn't careful when loaded up w luggage (most of the time) it would fall over when on it's side stand. Also I wrecked on that side.
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Post by: v7john on April 17, 2014, 06:40:21 PM: v7john. Back in the late 70's I belonged to a local biker group. No one ever used their real name and many nicknames referred to the bike they had. Mine was a V7Sport and I'm John. My brother was "massive beezer". His BSA was only a 250 but he was, well, massive.

Nothing to do with bikes but a local policeman here is called "Thrombosis" by his colleagues because he's a slow moving clot. Best nickname I've heard.
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Post by: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 08:20:04 AM: My grandpa's given name. Lotta 'odd' names in my family. Except for mine, which is Douglas.
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Post by: Lannis on May 22, 2014, 09:28:48 AM: Quote from: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 08:20:04 AM
My grandpa's given name. Lotta 'odd' names in my family. Except for mine, which is Douglas.

Lotta odd given names in my family too. "Lannis" being one - others are Minifee, Filmore, Rixey, Eldred, Cloninger, Allie-Lee, and great-grandpa Amzi ....

Lannis
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Post by: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 11:38:25 AM: You win. Mennonite?

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Post by: Lannis on May 22, 2014, 12:26:12 PM: Quote from: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 11:38:25 AM
You win. Mennonite?

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Don't think so. They were always "Church of the Brethren". Amzi Weimer was of "Pennsylvania Dutch" extraction whose family migrated down from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, where he was born, then he came to Remington, Virginia and farmed, and ran the "Cozy Corner" restaurant there until the 1950s ....

Lannis
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Post by: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 03:27:04 PM: Amsey is a fairly common name among the Mennonites around here.

I like Orangejello, kinda reminiscent of Jello Biafra. One of my closest friends is named Dorcas Cornelia.
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Post by: Triple Jim on May 22, 2014, 04:40:46 PM: Quote from: oldbike54 on May 22, 2014, 04:16:10 PM
..and I went to school with a girl named Dorcas Deathridge . Dusty

My 7th grade geometry teacher was a cute young woman named Dorcas Hughes. As I remember, she was married. I wonder...
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Post by: balvenie on May 22, 2014, 04:49:48 PM: You blokes have made me recall my grandfather's third given name, which was Withiel. Now that I've done that, I'm going to have to google it, although I remember they were tin miners from Cornwall in the mid 19th century.
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Post by: Triple Jim on May 22, 2014, 05:28:00 PM: Dark hair, fairly petite? Smart enough to be a math teacher?

I knew her in Bethesda, MD, but here's an interesting newspaper clipping:

http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/5421077/ (http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/5421077/)
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Post by: Triple Jim on May 22, 2014, 05:41:24 PM: It would have been 1970 when Dorcas was my math teacher in MD, so it fits pretty well. I bet there aren't many Dorcas Hugheseseses in the world.
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Post by: desmohead on May 22, 2014, 05:46:25 PM: Bought a 900ss in 1980
It's still in both my head and my garage
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Post by: Triple Jim on May 22, 2014, 05:49:38 PM: Quote from: oldbike54 on May 22, 2014, 05:43:56 PM
Nope , we were Juniors that year .
Dusty

OK, so your Dorcas isn't my Dorcas, but I bet the newspaper article is about my Dorcas.
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Post by: sturgeon on May 22, 2014, 05:53:48 PM: My Dorcas denies all knowledge of you lot.

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Post by: sturgeon on May 23, 2014, 08:46:50 AM: I've blamed all sorts of things on her, but not this :BEER:
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Post by: DBLCape on May 23, 2014, 09:47:34 AM: Just my initials and where I live. Not very imaginative.
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Post by: Far star on June 29, 2014, 01:13:20 PM: I named my boat Far Star after a starship in Issac Asimov's Foundation series. Like the name, use it for forums.
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Post by: oldbike54 on June 29, 2014, 01:21:46 PM: Quote from: Far star on June 29, 2014, 01:13:20 PM
I named my boat Far Star after a starship in Issac Asimov's Foundation series. Like the name, use it for forums.

Ahh , another Asimov fan ;-T
Dusty
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Post by: Far star on June 29, 2014, 03:06:58 PM: Dusty, if you like Asimov ever read Ian Banks some of the Culture series? I have to admit its even better than Asimov.
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Post by: Uzidzit on July 29, 2014, 08:25:10 PM: was a class II mfg and a class III dealer Uzi does IT
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Post by: canuguzzi on July 29, 2014, 08:33:29 PM: Started out as canuguzzi. I reminder to myself to get one. When I did and rode it home, I realized that I had been riding motorcycles all this time; the Norge seemed to have so much going on I figured I'd have to pilot the thing.
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Post by: airheadmike on July 31, 2014, 05:20:10 PM: airheadmike55 - 36 yrs. repairing air compressors.....
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Post by: normzone on July 31, 2014, 06:25:02 PM: Several years ago I was part of a team researching ways to use genetically modified plants to help alleviate poverty in third world countries.

    We had done some promising research in the area of developing genetically modified giant zucchini with the capability to transmute solar energy into slow but high torque movement.

We hoped to enable the poor to grow them for use as farm equipment. Our goal was to develop the Recumbent Modified Zucchini. We called ourselves RMZ One.

    Some wealthy investors contacted us and made it clear that they would prefer that the project not succeed, since cheap labor was essential to their business model. They offered the team a handsome price to dump the project.

    My team mates accepted the offer. I declined my share of the profits, donating it to charity.

    And I chose for my user name, No RMZ One.
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Post by: oldbike54 on July 31, 2014, 07:15:12 PM: OK Norm , you are gonna have to elaborate JUST a bit more on the recumbent zucchini thing :D

Dusty
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Post by: Sasquatch Jim on July 31, 2014, 07:16:28 PM: DNA and genetics I guess.
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Post by: MincerRay on August 02, 2014, 02:40:23 PM: Quote from: Far Star on June 29, 2014, 03:06:58 PM
Dusty, if you like Asimov ever read Ian Banks some of the Culture series? I have to admit its even better than Asimov.

Both Iain M Banks (Culture series) and Iain Banks (offbeat fiction) are one of my favorite authors. Shame he died last year.

Steve
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 02, 2014, 11:06:56 PM: Mine falls under the Obvious category
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Post by: Triple Jim on August 02, 2014, 11:23:53 PM: Where are you, Bass Player Dave? We can always use help jamming.
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Post by: oldbike54 on August 02, 2014, 11:44:36 PM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 02, 2014, 11:06:56 PM
Mine falls under the Obvious category

"No man , the violin is a little wimpy thing " :D

Dusty
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 04:43:30 AM: Quote from: Triple Jim on August 02, 2014, 11:23:53 PM
Where are you, Bass Player Dave? We can always use help jamming.
NW PA, not real close to you. What type of music are you talking about anyway?
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 04:46:28 AM: Quote from: oldbike54 on August 02, 2014, 11:44:36 PM
"No man, the violin is a little wimpy thing" :D

And I play the electric bass, so where does that leave me?
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Post by: tusong200 on August 03, 2014, 08:43:09 AM: Cuz if I'm asked to do a song I always do two.
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Post by: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 08:45:00 AM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 04:43:30 AM
NW PA, not real close to you. What type of music are you talking about anyway?

When I can get a couple guys together, we'll jam electric blues and blues based rock. Strictly amateur, and mistakes ignored.
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Post by: oldbike54 on August 03, 2014, 11:30:51 AM: Quote from: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 08:45:00 AM
When I can get a couple guys together, we'll jam electric blues and blues based rock. Strictly amateur, and mistakes ignored.

Heck , mistakes make things interesting ;D
BPD , I was referencing Fire Sign Theater , no idea where playing electric bass leaves you , at least you aren't a drummer ;D

Dusty
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 12:06:14 PM: Quote from: oldbike54 on August 03, 2014, 11:30:51 AM
I was referencing Fire Sign Theater, no idea where playing electric bass leaves you, at least you aren't a drummer ;D
Dusty

Oh, I have no clue about the Firesign Theater quote. I thought you were talking about an acoustic bass, with it being violin-shaped and all. Yeah I'm not a drummer, but I was told once that the bass player and the drummer should be best friends as we're both part of the percussion section
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 12:08:37 PM: Quote from: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 08:45:00 AM
Strictly amateur, and mistakes ignored.

Well then there's a chance I would be largely ignored throughout the jam session. ;D
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Post by: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 12:34:53 PM: No, I'm sure you'd be better than the rest of us. :D The bass player and drummer have the opportunity to work together, that's for sure. Decades ago I got a chance to play with a pro bass player and a near-pro drummer a couple times. It was easy to sound good because if I screwed up, I could just stop and let them keep the music going, then after a while join in again.
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Post by: oldbike54 on August 03, 2014, 12:51:24 PM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 12:06:14 PM
Oh, I have no clue about the Firesign Theater quote. I thought you were talking about an acoustic bass, with it being violin-shaped and all. Yeah I'm not a drummer, but I was told once that the bass player and the drummer should be best friends as we're both part of the percussion section

The quote was in reference to a stand up :D Hey , don't feel bad , I was a trombone player , kind of the electric bass of the brass instruments ;D No one notices us until we make a mistake , and then ... :D Sounds like you and TJ should get together and make some music , mistakes and all .

Dusty
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Post by: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 01:04:09 PM: Believe me, nothing about my playing is worth that long a drive. :D
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 04:38:23 PM: Quote from: Triple Jim on August 03, 2014, 08:45:00 AM
When I can get a couple guys together, we'll jam electric blues and blues based rock. Strictly amateur, and mistakes ignored.

When I asked what type of music you play, I was thinking there might be a chance that you do bluegrass, being from NC. Also, maybe you got the idea I play the acoustic bass. That's significant because I also own a Stelling 5-string banjo that I learned to play a little, but haven't picked up for a couple of years.

However, blues is also significant, because I have several chromatic/diatonic harmonicas that I started (and stopped, and restarted, and stopped, etc.) to learn to play blues-style music on. I really like all the instruments I own, and will get serious one day about getting better on them. It's just that if I'm busy, the bass always seems to take precedence.
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on August 03, 2014, 05:21:05 PM: If we ever get together then I'll let you have a go at my 57 4000 bass my father bought new, through his 68 bassman amp. There's a blues set up, and jazz. I love the sound of my Casino through the Bassman. ;-T
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 04, 2014, 05:32:59 AM: Quote from: Stormtruck2 on August 03, 2014, 05:21:05 PM
If we ever get together then I'll let you have a go at my 57 4000 bass my father bought new, through his 68 bassman amp. There's a blues set up, and jazz. I love the sound of my Casino through the Bassman. ;-T

Sounds like a cool, classic rig setup. Brian Setzer plays his Gretsches through twin Bassmans. I have a Danelectro guitar which I think sounds good through my bass amp (Carvin).
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Post by: Stormtruck2 on August 04, 2014, 11:15:57 AM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 04, 2014, 05:32:59 AM
Sounds like a cool, classic rig setup. Brian Setzer plays his Gretsches through twin Bassmans. I have a Danelectro guitar which I think sounds good through my bass amp (Carvin).

I have a red Gretsch Country Gentleman that I play through the Bassman. Must be something wrong with the amp or the guitar. It doesn't sound like Brian Setzer at all. It certainly couldn't be my complete lack of talent. ::) ;)
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Post by: BassPlayerDave on August 04, 2014, 02:30:34 PM: Quote from: Stormtruck2 on August 04, 2014, 11:15:57 AM
I have a red Gretsch Country Gentleman that I play through the Bassman. Must be something wrong with the amp or the guitar. It doesn't sound like Brian Setzer at all. It certainly couldn't be my complete lack of talent. ::) ;)

Yeah, wonder what it could be? ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out. :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool. Photo?
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Post by: Lannis on August 04, 2014, 02:59:55 PM: Quote from: NCAmother on August 04, 2014, 02:39:14 PM
NCAmother - national coalition of arms
"mother" - nickname

"Arms" or "Arts" ? If it's "Arms", it's hiding well!

Lannis
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Post by: normzone on August 04, 2014, 06:06:33 PM: Actually it came from (nor)th american (m)oto gu(z)zi (o)w(ne)r.

:P
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Post by: oldbike54 on August 04, 2014, 06:10:39 PM: Quote from: normzone on August 04, 2014, 06:06:33 PM
Actually it came from (nor)th american (m)oto gu(z)zi (o)w(ne)r.

:D Well dangit , the other story was much better , kept envisioning a giant zuke with a saddle ;D

Dusty
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Post by: normzone on August 04, 2014, 06:38:48 PM: Yeah, that's a tough act to follow. I'm sure I'll think of something else when my brain cells grow back.
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Post by: Muzz on September 12, 2014, 04:52:02 PM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 04, 2014, 02:30:34 PM
Yeah, wonder what it could be? ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out. :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool. Photo?

I admit to not being a muso; however many (and I mean many ::) ) years ago I flatted with one. He came back from holiday with his mates Gretsch Tennessean (sp?) to sell it for him on behalf. plugged it in to his Gibson Maestro and out through his speaker box which ran rather large German Phillips speakers. I don't think I have heard a nicer sound since. :drool ;-T Just beautiful. Sold to the first guy who came, no haggling and both thought they had a great deal.
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Post by: normzone on October 02, 2014, 05:47:47 PM: Naturally Outgoing Rider of Motorcycles Zooming Over Near Materials

No, really it's the recumbent zuchinni thing. I am just casting false trails because as of late I think they're looking for me. If anybody asks, make something up.
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Post by: cruzziguzzi on October 03, 2014, 10:13:15 AM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 04, 2014, 02:30:34 PM
Yeah, wonder what it could be? ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out. :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool. Photo?

This morning I did one of my regular Clist searches and found two of my favorite off-beat things in the world joined at the nexus of on line trading: A fellas willing to trade a Gretsch Country Club for an IHC tractor.

Can't imagine an IHC man willing to give that one up in trade - maybe he has a couple. Great sounding in general but I think the body and bout dimensions require a modified interaction as well. Let the only one I had go in a fit of Strat-lust. Fool was I, says I!
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Post by: CND on October 03, 2014, 02:46:39 PM: My initials.
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Post by: Bill Hagan on October 03, 2014, 02:58:11 PM: Saw this thread reappear and don't think I've posted in it.

OTOH, it is, I suppose, pretty obvious in my case.

That said, here's proof, too:

(http://bill-and-kathi.smugmug.com/photos/i-4fcjrgM/0/X2/i-4fcjrgM-X2.jpg)

;D

Bilhelm
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Post by: dibble on October 03, 2014, 03:01:58 PM: This won't translate but people presume that I used to work as a Fireman on my watch were the Pugh Twins and a bloke called Cuthbert .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6YE4PCRNwc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6YE4PCRNwc)

It actually dates from my days as a London Motorbike Courier, surnames weren’t used much, a lot of people couldn't remember the name they were working under or were avoiding Debts, the Law or ex wives.

Nick-Names moved from job to job and stayed with you....
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on November 02, 2014, 05:22:14 AM: Quote from: BassPlayerDave on August 03, 2014, 04:46:28 AM
And I play the electric bass, so where does that leave me?

REAL bass men play the tree.. ;D
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Post by: Viker on November 05, 2014, 05:07:38 AM: When I took the course to get my rider's learner permit (L plates), a fellow learner a) told me about the local riders' forum and b) told me I look like a viking.
I tried to join the forum as Viking, but the name was taken, so Viker = Viking + biker.

Since then I've used the same name whenever I join a biking forum.
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Post by: kidsmoke on November 05, 2014, 06:41:37 AM: I'm also obsessed with guitars (apparently not alone in that illness, per the above), and music in general. When joining a guitar forum several years back, and in an effort to be creative, I got to thinking. Bad idea, generally.

So I live in Chicago
The greatest electrics ever made were from southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo specifically.
There is a Chicago based band with three guitarists that sings a song that mentions "on a private beach in Michigan"...southern Lake Michigan shore is a playground for Chicagoans, you understand.

The song is "spiders(kidsmoke)". Seemed like a good idea at the time. Name took. Actually have become good real world friends with several of those guys, and they actually call me by my forum moniker, kid, generally.

Sounded cool. Thought I'd recycle it here.

Hey, you asked.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on November 26, 2014, 04:36:41 PM: It's a holdover from when I was the president of the National Organization of Registered MZ Agusta Owners, North East chapter.

MZ Agusta owners are fanatics who modify their MV Agustas until they cannot be recognized as the original machine. There are thousands of them in the US - you probably ride by one every day and mistake it for a rice burner of one type or another. It's kind of like a country club - somebody has to sponsor you for membership, and then your machine has to pass inspection.

The standards are pretty high - if your bike is ever recognized for what it really is by a non-member, you are disbarred and you have to forfeit the bike, which is then ceremonially destroyed while you walk out the gates, similar to the beginning of the " Branded " television show of the sixties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk

The rumor that Chuck Connors was an MZ Augusta owner has been debunked many times, but still persists to this day.
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Post by: Guzzistajohn on November 27, 2014, 11:51:38 AM: I always liked the show BRANDED, But I change the word branded to galded in the title song. Funnier that way.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Waterbottle on November 28, 2014, 02:11:55 AM: Because of this baby I spent my retirement money on

(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y401/aerotor/39610DF7-FBFC-42DA-8627-C5E38E8B1A9D_zpsb3kmf7a4.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/aerotor/media/39610DF7-FBFC-42DA-8627-C5E38E8B1A9D_zpsb3kmf7a4.jpg.html)

Waterbottle is a nickname that was given to the GT 750 suzuki's here in Australia.
Water Buffalo in the USA and Kettle in the U.K.

(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y401/aerotor/33DD3C21-8C3B-42B2-B902-AB65599DD4F0_zps0tklakrg.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/aerotor/media/33DD3C21-8C3B-42B2-B902-AB65599DD4F0_zps0tklakrg.jpg.html)

(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y401/aerotor/E76671AD-F488-4C0E-9541-E38A687A0B87_zpslhq1fz59.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/aerotor/media/E76671AD-F488-4C0E-9541-E38A687A0B87_zpslhq1fz59.jpg.html)

(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y401/aerotor/810F66FA-2B7F-4B14-BD4E-0E2D31ADA48C_zpsywxa8nvd.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/aerotor/media/810F66FA-2B7F-4B14-BD4E-0E2D31ADA48C_zpsywxa8nvd.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Triple Jim on November 28, 2014, 08:16:29 AM: That's a beauty, Waterbottle. As you know, I'm partial to 2-strokes.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on November 28, 2014, 08:28:58 AM: Quote from: Triple Jim on November 28, 2014, 08:16:29 AM
That's a beauty, Waterbottle. As you know, I'm partial to 2-strokes.

Me too. If for any reason I had to give up the Guzzis and BSAs and start again, it'd be a ~~Evinrude~~ Suzuki GT-750. I loved the one I had .... Just tires, gas, and chain to maintain. No valves, no oil to change, a quart of injector oil every 1200 miles, just a pleasure to burble along on ....

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Petrus Rocks on November 28, 2014, 08:39:57 AM: Petrus Rocks is the name of my business and a play on words. I do stonework and also make fountains, benches, etc., anything I can think of from stone. Petrus is latin for Peter stone, and Jesus said "you are the foundation I build my church upon" to Peter. I'm not real religious but but the end result of the name is "Peter Rocks, Stone Rocks". As my name is Peter...
I also wanted a motorcycle neutral moniker as I have a Triumph T140, stripped down Cal II, BMW 90/6, and a Buell Ulysses
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: vintagehoarder on November 28, 2014, 05:57:58 PM: Self explanatory ;D

(http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp219/Mstarvideo/Our%20Vintage%20Bike%20Collection/1559360_10153369945661515_1711724784_o_zps688c0f13.jpg) (http://s413.photobucket.com/user/Mstarvideo/media/Our%20Vintage%20Bike%20Collection/1559360_10153369945661515_1711724784_o_zps688c0f13.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: wikaby on November 29, 2014, 10:06:07 AM: Wickaby, what I call it anyway, is a small soft leafy tree that grows under maple and other large hardwoods. According to my uncle if the bark is boiled it is an excellent laxative! It is my user name for the forestry forum.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Muzz on November 29, 2014, 08:20:59 PM: Waterbottle, as well as the "buffalo" they also got called waterbus, watertruck or, a bit disparagingly, watertank.

The advertising campaign they had for them out here went a bit flat. They started out with "the world's first water cooled two stroke" until someone pointed out that the Scott was watercooled in circa 1920. Then it appeared as "the world's first oil injected two stroke" until it was pointed out that by about 1926 the Scott was oil injected. They gave it away after that as the Scott had a rotary disk valve engine while the waterbus was only piston ported. :D
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: crc on November 29, 2014, 08:34:09 PM: im kicking myself now. I got given a rolling waterbus years ago and ripped the front end off it for a triumph chopper (ok I was desperate for a front end ok). the guy that gave it to me told me to go to the bike shop and pick up the motor which had had work done on it, and I never did as they weren't worth anything back then, like a lot of things
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on November 29, 2014, 08:46:13 PM: You guys are forgetting the term "Tea Kettle" for the GT 750 .

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Yukonica on September 17, 2015, 10:11:47 PM: Simple for me: (alternately: me simple). I live in a beautiful land north of 60 where interstates and road rage have no claim. Predators and ungulates are by far the highest order of road hazard. Tire thrown stones are next. This magical land is Yukon; neighbour to Alaska. As a young man one of my favorite cameras was a Minolta (aka Konica).
Not difficult to press Yukon and Konica into Yukonica.
If you like photos of aurora head to my Yukonica photo link on Borealbreeze.com.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: pete mcgee on September 18, 2015, 04:49:47 AM: Born with it.
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Post by: BRIO on September 18, 2015, 06:00:17 AM: Italian equivalent of Joie de vivre
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MGPilot on September 18, 2015, 09:38:10 AM: Like some of the others, I'm a glider pilot. Started with bug smashers in '78. Recently traded my 1975 RF5B (www.rf5b.com) for the Moto Guzzi. Had been RF5BPilot on some other forums.....became MGPilot.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Fuzzy on September 18, 2015, 02:58:40 PM: I was a hippie. Now I'm an ageing hippie
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Guzzer on September 18, 2015, 06:09:13 PM: I was 65 before I rode my first street bike. it was an Eldorado basket-case that I had put together and surprisingly, it ran! So I was a Geezer riding a Guzzi.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on September 18, 2015, 06:28:27 PM: Quote from: Fuzzy on September 18, 2015, 02:58:40 PM
I was a hippie. Now I'm an ageing hippie

I'm an ageing flower child, but still just me. :smiley:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on September 18, 2015, 08:39:51 PM: Mine is an anagram of the words Zen Moron - it was my nickname before I flunked out of meditation school.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on September 18, 2015, 09:54:57 PM: I can't remember if I posted in here, and I'm not paging thru 17 pages to check an anecdote...

I used to manage a regionally famous BBQ joint calld 12Bones here in Asheville.

This place was busy.. like insane... Serving 1000 folks on a friday in 5 hours busy....

Also EVERYONE in town loves this place, it is a crushing mass of locals and tourists. The line is often out the door and around the building.. Actually it's kinda famous for standing in line for the counter service.

The kitchen is open , and the dozens or hundreds of ppl in line can look right over and see you stirring a kettle of 180# of collard greens or pulling 300 racks of ribs out of the smoker or whatever.. and that's what I was often doing.

We had tons of regulars, everyone is really happy to be there, asking questions about your work, etc...

My mom and uncle came to Asheville to visit once, it was their first time in the restaurant.. we were busy as heck. (I think it was like 3 weeks after the 2nd time Obama came in to eat)

All the regulars, friends, and tourists were talking to me, asking questions, complimenting the food... I was practically shaking hands and kissing babies while I worked.

In addition, anywhere I went in town, I would see servers, chefs, and bartenders who were like 'hey, 12 Bones guy! have a free beer!" or whatever.

At the end of my mom's visit, she said "Damn, everyone in this town knows you from working there!" "It's like you are the MAYOR OF BBQ"
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Yukonica on September 18, 2015, 10:07:43 PM: Quote from: Mayor_of_BBQ on September 18, 2015, 09:54:57 PM
I can't remember if I posted in here, and I'm not paging thru 17 pages to check an anecdote...

I used to manage a regionally famous BBQ joint calld 12Bones here in Asheville.

This place was busy.. like insane... Serving 1000 folks on a friday in 5 hours busy....

Also EVERYONE in town loves this place, it is a crushing mass of locals and tourists. The line is often out the door and around the building.. Actually it's kinda famous for standing in line for the counter service.

The kitchen is open , and the dozens or hundreds of ppl in line can look right over and see you stirring a kettle of 180# of collard greens or pulling 300 racks of ribs out of the smoker or whatever.. and that's what I was often doing.

We had tons of regulars, everyone is really happy to be there, asking questions about your work, etc...

My mom and uncle came to Asheville to visit once, it was their first time in the restaurant.. we were busy as heck. (I think it was like 3 weeks after the 2nd time Obama came in to eat)

All the regulars, friends, and tourists were talking to me, asking questions, complimenting the food... I was practically shaking hands and kissing babies while I worked.

In addition, anywhere I went in town, I would see servers, chefs, and bartenders who were like 'hey, 12 Bones guy! have a free beer!" or whatever.

At the end of my mom's visit, she said "Damn, everyone in this town knows you from working there!" "It's like you are the MAYOR OF BBQ"

great story: :1:
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Post by: normzone on September 19, 2015, 01:18:49 AM: I second that (searches for the +2 symbol fruitlessly) :1: :1:
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Post by: father guzzi obrian on September 19, 2015, 06:48:17 PM: Was Eldo Jon for many years, then finally sold my 72 Eldo to Ed Milich, so I adopted my old name from Commie Nicks board, Father Guzzi Obrian... Damn, I miss Nick, he was a great friend
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: DARKHORSE on September 19, 2015, 09:22:19 PM: My name comes from a term we use at work for old items that are still usable but obsolete. fits me exactly.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: jumpmaster on September 19, 2015, 10:32:03 PM: Around the time I first started using the internet, I had recently completed Army jump school at age 49 - not the hardest thing I ever did in the Army, but not the easiest, either, so I used Jumperjohn as a user name regularly. Three years later, I completed jumpmaster school in Georgia in the summer - that WAS one of the harder things I did in the Army. So, I upgraded my user name accordingly.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on September 20, 2015, 12:09:48 AM: Quote from: DARKHORSE on September 19, 2015, 09:22:19 PM
My name comes from a term we use at work for old items that are still usable but obsolete. fits me exactly.

Back when I'd first started riding horses and home brewing that was the name of the first dark beer I brewed - my cowboy friend loved it.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: twinsport on September 20, 2015, 12:22:16 AM: I like 2 cylinder sport bikes. I ride street and dirt. so Twinsport fits.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Scud on September 20, 2015, 12:38:58 AM: First four letters of my last name. I also like the fact that it is a verb:

verb 1. move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind.
"we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky"
synonyms: speed, race, rush, sail, shoot, sweep, skim, whip, whiz, flash, fly, scurry, flit; More
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: twodogs on September 20, 2015, 08:36:39 AM: In 81 or there abouts the old Indian joke came out and was told, when the teller was done and everyone was laughing they all looked at me and started calling me Twodogs %#$&&*# Can't pick your nick name :boozing:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: azguzzirep on October 01, 2015, 05:31:29 AM: I have seen this thread, but never contributed, so....

azguzzirep

AZ- abrreiviation for Arizona, my place of birth and residence for 50+ years.
Guzzirep- I was the MGNOC rep for, I dunno, 10 years? sounds right.

I took over the position at the request of Nolan Woodbury and Jim Knaupp after the previous rep from Tucson, gave up the position.
The Arizona Guzzi rally was in jeapordy of folding, and they convinced (buffaloed) me into taking up the job. It was fun, met hundreds of great
Guzzi people, no regrets.

Tom
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: neverquit on October 01, 2015, 06:46:26 AM: Neverquit - Because I never quit, at least so far. I bought my first bike 55 years ago and can barely swing a leg over one now but I keep doing it.

I knew a guy who rode a Honda Gold Wing into his late eighties and then had trouble with the weight and getting on and off so he then bought a Honda Silver Wing, the scooter, and rode that until he was 92 and then his kids made him sell it. I don't think I'll be able to do it nearly that long but I'll give it a try.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on October 01, 2015, 10:48:30 AM: I was the first born of two twin boys. Predating George Foreman's example, my dad named us both after himself - Norman.

My mother insisted that we be sub-titled as one and two in order to help keep the paperwork straight.

So we were Normzone and Normztwo. The Z came from my parents Hiberno heritage language influences.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bikeseamus on October 01, 2015, 02:23:25 PM: In Irish, James is Seamus. I have loved and ridden bikes for over 50 years.. and no plans to stop, so bikeseamus made simple sense to me. Glad I grabbed it years ago, I guess. Jim who loves and rides bikes. Also... glad the Guzzibug bit my ass hard a couple years ago. Best bunch of riders on the planet; to my taste. Thanks, Fellas.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: OlderSlower on October 02, 2015, 06:26:03 AM: Well, when I was young I was kinda fast, but now I'm...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on October 02, 2015, 08:31:11 AM: Quote from: OlderSlower on October 02, 2015, 06:26:03 AM
Well, when I was young I was kinda fast, but now I'm...

... older and just half fast! :laugh: I'm surprised no one's taken that name yet ...

I'm a poet and do not know it, I make a rhyme every time ....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: cognosticator on October 02, 2015, 11:11:27 AM: 16 years ago I bought a 1986 Kawasaki Concours and joined COG. I decided instead of being a prognosticator, I became COGnosticator. I can tell you tomorrow what happened today :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: brenwin on October 02, 2015, 11:05:32 PM: Our best dog ever Rocky who passed on last year and my little sister who was nicknamed Widge because she was a tiny wee thing when born . There you have it , not very original really but first thing that came to mind .
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: stick on November 09, 2015, 08:31:45 PM: My handle is my nickname from WAAAY back in Jr. high, and then high school, and so on. It's derived from my last name: Stolicny

One bar maid likes to call me "Stoli". "On the rocks, baby!" , I reply.

Even my brother was called "Stick" when he was in the Air Force...

:thumb:
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Post by: Thunderbutt on December 26, 2015, 08:10:17 AM: My wife thought it was appropriate
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: kingoffleece on December 26, 2015, 03:05:43 PM: It's the name of my motorcycle business-King of Fleece LLC. Strangely enough,I started in the ski and snowmobile field, hence the name.
Thur some connections I got access to our SplitWeight(tm) super fabric, which I used in winter sports clothing. The nature of the fabric was perfect for motorcycles and as that grew it took up so much time the winter stuff got passed along to someone else. The name stayed as I already had enough in all the legal, patent, and copy write stuff.

Starting to branch off into a few Guzzi things now-the nice 3D decals are just the start.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on December 26, 2015, 05:40:49 PM: Quote from: Thunderbutt on December 26, 2015, 08:10:17 AM
My wife thought it was appropriate

You thing that maybe she wanted "Thunder stick"?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: twowings on February 23, 2016, 04:57:53 PM: Guzzi logo...
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Post by: HardAspie on February 23, 2016, 05:21:35 PM: Although I have Asperger's Syndrome I am not a whiney leftist looking for free stuff and the next thing to offend me. When in the filming of the documentary, "Vectors of Autism" I described that while my sister wants me to avail myself of all sorts of entitlements that I would rather be me. I said then, ". . .I guess I'm a Hard Aspie." I like that pun. I like the handle and use it often. Yeah, it fits.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: 190 Octane on February 23, 2016, 05:56:50 PM: In 2004 I bought my Stone, a left over 2002 model with the "Flint Orange" paint. The dreamsicle orange color reminded me of the "190 Octane" from Fat Tuesdays.
(https://fattuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1131.jpg)
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Post by: Huzo on April 13, 2016, 04:21:25 AM: Quote from: cloudbase on July 01, 2011, 05:08:56 PM
I'm a glider pilot, so cloudbase is where I hang out. Well, 500 ft. below cloudbase. Really!
Don't know about the states but in Oz when at or below 3,000' AGL the requirement is to remain clear of cloud, although I admit it's a hazardous practice.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Huzo on April 13, 2016, 04:26:47 AM: Quote from: dilligaf on July 01, 2011, 10:34:33 PM
DILLIGAF was/is my code name when I go on an undercover mission. Don't tell anyone.
Matt
Come on Dilly, most of us know what it means but for the ones who don't......?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on April 13, 2016, 05:11:28 AM: Quote from: Huzo on April 13, 2016, 04:26:47 AM
Come on Dilly, most of us know what it means but for the ones who don't......?

Dilligaf's screen name did not fit who he really was , he departed this mortal coil about 5 months ago.

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on April 13, 2016, 07:49:59 AM: Quote from: oldbike54 on April 13, 2016, 05:11:28 AM
Dilligaf's screen name did not fit who he really was , he departed this mortal coil about 5 months ago.

Dusty

Yeah, he was a good un. RIP, Matt. Shoulda took the SP, though.. :smiley:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: v65tt on April 13, 2016, 02:02:48 PM: Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on April 13, 2016, 07:49:59 AM
Yeah, he was a good un. RIP, Matt. Shoulda took the SP, though.. :smiley:

joys of dyslexia for a long time I have read Chuck in India :violent1: :violent1: :violent1:

Mine is because I have a v65tt :bike-037:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: giusto on April 13, 2016, 09:10:02 PM: Giusto

Giusto Gervasutti was an Italian Mountaineer from Como. He, though not as well known as his Italian counterparts Walter Bonatti and Riccardo Cassin, was likely the finest mountaineer of his time by far.
His play ground....and home was the "Gringa"...the peak in this photo's background just over the top of one of my favorite buildings in front of one of my favorite peaks :bow:

(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag132/fvdituri/iphone%20pics%201767_zpse5acpib0.jpg) (http://s1302.photobucket.com/user/fvdituri/media/iphone%20pics%201767_zpse5acpib0.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Penderic on April 14, 2016, 09:23:17 AM: Not saying.

But my old handle from another hammer is up for grabs.......

- Qwerty Ergo Typo! -

(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic001/start%20riding_zpstla6gubk.jpg)
:bike-037:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: yrunvs on April 14, 2016, 09:30:49 AM: Why are you envious?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: TBShorty on April 14, 2016, 09:48:11 AM: I'm too short for my Thunderbird Sport.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: 1984LeMansIII on April 18, 2016, 12:36:33 AM: Before I registered my account I never really thought about it. I thought long and hard, faced with endless possibilities, really agonizing over it. Should I keep it simple, creative, clever, absurd, cryptic. After 30 exhaustive seconds of this it came to me. I chose what would forever remain a mystery.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: spikemcfinn on April 18, 2016, 07:21:41 AM: When I was a penniless student - a few ( ?? ) years ago - I had a shitty old Renault with a surfboard fin glued to the roof. My name is Mike - so therefore became Spike the Fin - then I embraced the Irish Republican cause ( Irish girlfriend ) and so became Spike McFinn

It's stuck
Life's like that
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Noguzznoglory on April 18, 2016, 11:46:03 AM: I had been following the forum for a while and didn't own a guzz. I came up with this user name cuz it was apropos before and after I bought my Breva 750.
It changed from a personal lament to an admonishment to non guzzi owners
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Post by: Huzo on April 19, 2016, 05:15:35 AM: Did I see Esmae Watson as a username ?
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Post by: John Ulrich on April 19, 2016, 06:09:50 AM: My user name came right of the birth certificate! :thumb:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Zazu on April 19, 2016, 08:18:30 PM: RCAF call sign. I was the Sqn Adjutant (Majordomo) back in the early 90s and my office was next to the CO's (the King). Every time a young pilot would get himself into hot water, he'd be directed to "the office", and it became common practice to pop in to see me first to find out how deep. Lion King was all the rage at the time, Zazu was an easy tag ... :cheesy:
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Post by: Clancy on April 20, 2016, 06:24:55 PM: It was a gift from my father.
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Post by: steelby on April 20, 2016, 08:19:44 PM: I make steel wall sculpture and sell it in a store I own.
Steel by....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Triple Jim on April 20, 2016, 08:49:40 PM: Quote from: steelby on April 20, 2016, 08:19:44 PM
I make steel wall sculpture and sell it in a store I own.
Steel by....

Any photos?
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on April 21, 2016, 02:55:51 AM: Quote from: steelby on April 20, 2016, 08:19:44 PM
I make steel wall sculpture and sell it in a store I own.
Steel by....

Steel by who ?

Dusty
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Post by: Toecutter on April 21, 2016, 12:53:06 PM: Best character in one of the best motorcycle movies of all time... in my opinion. :evil:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: janusz on April 21, 2016, 05:01:30 PM: My real first name :smiley:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: omega1987 on May 31, 2016, 07:49:27 AM: First air rifle = Webley Omega (second love after motorcycles)
Year or birth = 1987
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Johncolleary on June 04, 2016, 08:18:21 PM: Its my name I'm not very creative....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: davedel44 on June 04, 2016, 09:21:56 PM: Quote from: janusz on April 21, 2016, 05:01:30 PM
My real first name :smiley:

Spent a week in Toronto last Summer great town.

D5
Galveston
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: coastdude on June 05, 2016, 02:10:35 AM: I'm a horticulturist specialising in the restoration of coastal vegetation systems in Northern NSW
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: balvenie on June 05, 2016, 06:23:50 PM: G'day dude,
From the Sunshine Coast............wh ich is Not living up to its name today :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: kirkemon on June 06, 2016, 06:51:21 PM: Since Kirk was already taken, I use my Japanese version Kirkemon. I have also been know as the Kirkster, Kirkules, Kirkatolla, the American Kirkolo.....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on June 06, 2016, 07:09:16 PM: No Captain Kirk? :smiley: slacker..
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Post by: VA Sean on June 07, 2016, 10:09:55 AM: uhh. Well.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: webmost on October 06, 2016, 05:09:59 AM: Quote from: Noguzznoglory on April 18, 2016, 11:46:03 AM
I had been following the forum for a while and didn't own a guzz. I came up with this user name cuz it was apropos before and after I bought my Breva 750.
It changed from a personal lament to an admonishment to non guzzi owners

Great name.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Dean Rose on October 06, 2016, 11:46:50 AM: Quote from: VA Sean on June 07, 2016, 10:09:55 AM
uhh. Well.

Where in the world have you been?
A budding law practice, marriage and children are no excuse to abandon your friends.

Dean
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on October 06, 2016, 01:55:25 PM: It was an email account name I created to answer a "help wanted" ad for a supervisory position in one of those " soldier of fortune " magazines.

I just used the first letter of each of the words in the advertisement heading.

" Nanotechnology operations resistance management (zoological option) needs employees "

I didn't get the job but the interview was very interesting.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: OlDogface on October 06, 2016, 07:53:19 PM: I tried to use my current profession, "Master_of_Universe" but it was already taken. So, I just used my former profession.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: JJ on October 06, 2016, 08:36:48 PM: Pretty simple for me...."JJ" = John Jude... :wink: :grin: :laugh: :thumb: :1: :cool:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: little750 on November 16, 2016, 06:25:02 AM: I own a Breva 750, nuf said.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: RANDM on November 16, 2016, 06:49:52 AM: Just a play on my name Maurice Randell > RandM, I like to
KISS.
Maurie.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: drburt on November 16, 2016, 07:32:40 AM: Bought a 1972 Mercedes 280 SE 4.5 in the mid 80s.
Doctors drove Mercedes (I'm not a doctor)
One of my friend's nephews couldn't remember my name.
He referred to me as Dr. (because of the Mercedes) Burt (because he couldn't remember my name, but knew it started with a B).
That name stuck with me in that circle of friends.
Now you know.

Brent
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 16, 2016, 12:27:05 PM: Quote from: little750 on November 16, 2016, 06:25:02 AM
I own a Breva 750, nuf said.

OK....I'll bite. What are you saying. :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on November 16, 2016, 01:34:32 PM: Quote from: Tom on November 16, 2016, 12:27:05 PM
OK....I'll bite. What are you saying. :grin: :grin: :grin:

I think (under the heading of "Occam's Razor") that he's saying that his screen name of 'little750' comes from the fact that he owns a Breva 750, which might be considered 'little' compared to the big-block Guzzis ... ?

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 16, 2016, 01:37:55 PM: I got that. I was referring to the "nuff said" part. Usually, when thrown in, it's part of a arms folded and a challenge to others. :tongue:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on November 16, 2016, 01:41:06 PM: Quote from: Tom on November 16, 2016, 01:37:55 PM
I got that. I was referring to the "nuff said" part. Usually, when thrown in, it's part of a arms folded and a challenge to others. :tongue:

According to the Revised Oxford Urban Slang Dictionary, it's only an arms-folded Challenge if you use two "f"s in "nuff".

He only used used one ("nuf"), so that's like an EOM marker with no challenge implied.

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 16, 2016, 01:42:34 PM: Okay but that's what I was looking for.....clarificati on. :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: motts on November 16, 2016, 01:54:40 PM: My real name is Ken, and like so many kids in my generation the name is very popular. I worked in computers when mainframes were all the rage and technicians were flaky. The technicians liked to come by my area where there were 3 or 4 Ken's on most occasions and yell, "Hey Ken!" just to see how many of us would respond. Soon we would only respond to our surnames, which got modified. Woltman became Wolfman, Deak became Dick, and Applegate became, Apple whatever (bee, yard, pie, etc.) which I generally ignored so it morphed from Applesauce to Motts Applesauce and then just became Motts.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 16, 2016, 02:17:45 PM: 'ey Applesauce dude....Aloha!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Green1 on November 16, 2016, 05:17:37 PM: When I started using mine most thought it was a Kawasaki thing,its not,it came when I joined a forum based in California,those lucky Bs easily ride year round,mine means 'envious one'
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: DH8a on November 18, 2016, 04:06:28 PM: The aircraft I fly for a job ;-)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on November 19, 2016, 05:32:20 PM: Quote from: DH8a on November 18, 2016, 04:06:28 PM
The aircraft I fly for a job ;-)

I don't enjoy flying much, but I'm as comfortable on a Dash-8 as any other airliner. They seem like one of those designs like a DC-3 that's just done right and lasts a long time. I got to use them a lot because for years they've been the only type flying in and out of our regional airport ....

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: lwbdriver on November 20, 2016, 01:58:59 AM: I used to drive a 94 Range Rover LWB ( Long Wheel Base) Classic. Really wish I still had that one!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: SmokinJoe on November 20, 2016, 02:03:08 PM: Pretty obvious from my picture. I shoot very smokey bullets and shells in my chosen type of competition. No imagination, just been called this name many times.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Uss on November 21, 2016, 04:59:55 AM: Comes from my name Usman......my mates here in the Oz have called me Uss ever since I can remember....
Cheers....
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 21, 2016, 02:25:34 PM: You're lucky it's not Asman. :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Uss on November 22, 2016, 11:24:23 PM: Quote from: Tom on November 21, 2016, 02:25:34 PM
You're lucky it's not Asman. :grin:
HAHAHAHAHA....True that.....
....I like the second sentence in your signature though....... :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 22, 2016, 11:48:15 PM: Quoting the Firesign Theater. "I think we're all bozos on this bus." :grin: Uh.....guess why my username is Tom? :tongue:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: o1marc on November 23, 2016, 09:39:05 AM: My name is Marc and my race car number for 20 years was 01. AOL won't let you start a screen name with a number so I had to use the "o", hence the o1marc.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Ncdan on November 23, 2016, 02:28:08 PM: Ncdan, I live in NC and my Christian name is Danny.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Ion66 on November 25, 2016, 10:35:13 AM: Ion is my middle name, and 66 is date of manufacture.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: britman on November 25, 2016, 03:27:27 PM: See Below......

(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s310/britman1/Gotabreak1_zpsvkyunewz.jpg) (http://s155.photobucket.com/user/britman1/media/Gotabreak1_zpsvkyunewz.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on November 25, 2016, 04:54:10 PM: Uh.....don't see why. :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: scra99tch on November 25, 2016, 05:04:11 PM: Surplus tank helmet in bold yellow letters during my high school years. Driving around in my 81 Grand Prix pulling on the steering column, breaking the adjustment which made it sound like it was an AA gun with the keys rattling which sounded like falling shells. Scared the beejeesus out my passengers.

Stuck

I added the 99 in for my graduation year.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: creaky99 on November 26, 2016, 12:08:09 PM: My younger friends say I creak/groan/pop & snap when I move.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: 3CRider on December 26, 2016, 12:07:44 PM: The Stelvio is my newer of my two bikes, my original is a Laverda and 3CRider is my ILOC on their forum as well.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: pressureangle on January 01, 2017, 04:39:55 PM: (http://images.slideplayer.com/14/4288904/slides/slide_7.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Mooney78865 on January 01, 2017, 05:41:03 PM: (http://thumb.ibb.co/gJqkRF/DSC00603.jpg) (http://ibb.co/gJqkRF)

The registration number for the air-de-screwzner...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Muley on January 03, 2017, 08:44:41 PM: I probably already participated in this thread a while back, but here is an addendum of sorts.

For many years I had mules. I used them to pull wagons, pack out game in the Rockies, and even to ride on occasion. I think the last one died about five or six years ago. My sister in law pinned the name Muley on me, probably more for my personality than the fact that I loved all these mules. :rolleyes:

Not long after getting my collection of mules we adopted two jackasses from the BLM. One was captured in Arizona, and the other was captured in Nevada. The estimated ages of these jacks at that time were five and twelve, respectively. I came home tonight to find the younger one dead, apparently of just old age. He had been going down for the last few months, and I suspected his time was near. He was approximately 26 years old. The older one died quite a few years ago, and now I'm left with one pregnant Jenny. The foal will be old Kofa's legacy.

My sister in law probably wanted to nickname me Jackass, but she knew I'd most likely reject that one :wink:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on January 03, 2017, 08:56:15 PM: Muley ,
Nothing wrong with loving another creature , mules are really pretty cool . Adios Kofa , well done .

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Huzo on January 03, 2017, 10:39:33 PM: Pretty un interesting really, my surname's Hughes. I've got other nicknames, Champo, Zizzy, depending on who I'm talking to, but just chose that one. Thought I'd only do one post... Oh dear.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: zebraranger on January 03, 2017, 10:48:31 PM: I use to do Hazmat work and Zebra was the name of my Hazmat team.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Huzo on January 03, 2017, 11:04:17 PM: Quote from: oldbike54 on January 03, 2017, 08:56:15 PM
Muley ,
Nothing wrong with loving another creature , mules are really pretty cool . Adios Kofa , well done .

Dusty
Yeah, but don't get caught !!!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Huzo on January 03, 2017, 11:07:02 PM: Quote from: zebraranger on January 03, 2017, 10:48:31 PM
I use to do Hazmat work and Zebra was the name of my Hazmat team.
Should'a used Hazmat, Zeb. Sounds like a soccer player from glorious Kazakhstan...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: flower_king001 on January 10, 2017, 08:32:46 AM: Name taken from a Progressive Rock band in Sweden I did roadie work with for many years.

http://www.flowerkings.se/
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: pikipiki on January 10, 2017, 12:22:21 PM: As it seem Moto... is almost universal for motorcycle in almost all languages I was surprised to find the Swaheli for motorcycle is PikiPiki maybe the word is onomatopoeic I don't know I just decided to use it as my username as I was mildly amused by it.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bassman on January 12, 2017, 11:14:49 AM: I play this:

(http://i.imgur.com/rxvU8E4.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on January 12, 2017, 02:32:58 PM: Quote from: bassman on January 12, 2017, 11:14:49 AM
I play this:

(http://i.imgur.com/rxvU8E4.jpg)

To paraphrase fire sign theater , "Now that's a man's instrument". Jazz , classical , another genre ?

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: yellowheader on January 12, 2017, 03:38:09 PM: My nickname refers to the Yellowhead Highway that goes from Winnipeg, through my hometown of Edmonton, to Prince Rupert on the BC coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowhead_Highway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowhead_Highway) I've ridden some miles on it in both directions, and like to think I'll do a bunch more before I hang up the jacket for the last time.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: bassman on January 12, 2017, 03:46:10 PM: Quote from: oldbike54 on January 12, 2017, 02:32:58 PM
To paraphrase fire sign theater , "Now that's a man's instrument". Jazz , classical , another genre ?

Yes. Except for the classical part - most genres that don't require skill with the bow. "If you catch my meaning, if you get my drift." :laugh:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on January 12, 2017, 03:52:04 PM: Quote from: bassman on January 12, 2017, 03:46:10 PM
Yes. Except for the classical part - most genres that don't require skill with the bow. "If you catch my meaning, if you get my drift." :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: simonome on February 15, 2017, 02:07:01 PM: I've been using my username ever since my first newsgroup posts back in 1997 or 1998.

My user name was supposed to be "Simonone" but while registering I've made a typo and written "Simonome"

Simonone in Italian sounds "Big Simon", which is how my closest friends used to call me at the time.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: solarmoose on February 15, 2017, 05:43:48 PM: We have solar PV system and caught a moose licking the panels while one of the arrays was sitting on a trailer during construction, thus solarmoose. see also http://www.solarmoose.com/html/gallery.html

(http://thumb.ibb.co/k2X8iv/db_Moose_Lick1.jpg) (http://ibb.co/k2X8iv)

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Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MikeLemon on May 07, 2017, 06:52:34 AM: I'm Mike and I've got a Le Mans. Seemed appropriate, somehow?

Sent from my SM-T810 using Tapatalk
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MotoChuck250 on May 07, 2017, 07:53:12 AM: A most excellent friend of mine named Mike Abernathy who shared my interests Guzzis & Ducatis and in Sport Car Racing started calling me Moto Chuck because I was riding a 1970 Ambassador at the time. So I got to be known as Moto Chuck around the Sports Car Club and some of the rallys. Mike moved to Florida in the 1990s and died in 2012.

I added the 250 a number of years ago when I ran into another MotoChuck on another forum. The 250 references my love for 250 & 350 single cyl. Ducatis from the mid 1960s.

So there you go MotoChuck250.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Gliderjohn on May 07, 2017, 03:28:09 PM: I enjoyed meeting you at Cedar Vale. Hope to see you at the MCC ride in a couple of weeks.
GliderJohn
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Mr Pootle on May 07, 2017, 04:00:19 PM: It describes the way I ride round the Yorkshire lanes, in much the way Compo wandered them on foot. I'm retired, I've no need to hurry anywhere (except when the enlarged prostate makes its presence felt).
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Fireflyr on May 07, 2017, 06:03:03 PM: I get to terrorize humanity in this:

(http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee191/fireflyr_photos/2010%20Fire%20Pics/IMG_0539.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Northern Bill on May 07, 2017, 06:10:16 PM: I'm Bill from Canada hence Northern Bill. It is embarrassing after reading the creative names on this thread. My only excuse is that I was in a hurry to get on this forum!!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on May 07, 2017, 06:34:35 PM: Bloodline I suppose.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: helmetbolt on May 08, 2017, 09:57:36 AM: Mine goes back to 1992 when I got an ampallang piercing. My mates in the Laverda club used to refer me to their friends as the bloke with a bolt through his helmet. I've been called Helmetbolt or Bolta ever since. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on May 08, 2017, 11:17:22 AM: Too much information.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: waxi on May 08, 2017, 11:18:09 AM: Mine is family history related. Our family tree (by my father's side) goes back to the time of counts. We have it drawn from year 1300 till roughly 1900. Some informations we dig out are even from year 734! Indeed, there are some holes in between, but I am working on them slowly. It's a lifetime project.

Our surname was "Barbo von Waxenstein", which somewhere in 1700 only become "Barbo" thanks to weird church laws and priests not interested in writing long surnames. Waxi is just abbreviation of the original one.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on May 08, 2017, 12:38:02 PM: I found Waxenstein Mountain about 55 or 60 kilos SSE of the Starnberger See in Bavaria.
Did your family holdings extend that far north back in the day, or is that a different part of your family.
It looks like some beautiful mountains with not much for roads there.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: waxi on May 08, 2017, 02:13:13 PM: Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on May 08, 2017, 12:38:02 PM
I found Waxenstein Mountain about 55 or 60 kilos SSE of the Starnberger See in Bavaria.
Did your family holdings extend that far north back in the day, or is that a different part of your family.
It looks like some beautiful mountains with not much for roads there.

Yes, I'm familiar with it, but to my knowledge it is not related with us. At least not directly. There was a castle named Kozljak (in German Waxenstein or Wachsenstein) in today's Croatia after which "we" got this surname addition. That was in 1529.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on May 08, 2017, 08:26:56 PM: I camped and kayaked the Starnberger See for about a week in 1964. Carried the kayak and gear on bicycles from the north end of Munchen. Great place and very historic. I paddled across the lake to see a marker in the water.
It read that it was the place that King Ludwig drowned under suspicious circumstances. It was believed he had help.
Mad Ludwig wasn't the most popular king Bavaria ever had. He wasted a lot of the treasury. There was the wreck of an old castle nearby, all abandoned with steps going down into the lake. I poked around the internet and see that it has been rebuilt to its' former glory and is now a tourist attraction.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: TimmyTheHog on May 09, 2017, 02:38:15 PM: TimmyTheHog

Timmy <-obviously my real name

The Hog <- well, I just simply like pigs & hogs in general...LOL...I eat like a pig :P, I sleep like a pig (snoring wise), and I just find them god damn cute...On top of that, I ride my bikes and chug along like a hog would waddle thru the mud...lol...wonder if that makes any sense...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Pop on May 09, 2017, 07:29:27 PM: Since my kids call me Pop, my grandkids also call me Pop. So how it spread like a virus. Better than the nickname I had at work.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: brider on September 15, 2017, 10:42:15 AM: Raced motocross back in my youth in Michigan, always in the "B" class, could never keep up with the "A" class.....hence "B" rider.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: lucian on September 15, 2017, 10:50:54 AM: Lucian is my given middle name, was my grandfather's first name and my fathers middle name. It almost became my brother Paul's middle name until they realized he would be Paullucian. :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: stonelover on September 15, 2017, 01:33:23 PM: Should be obvious!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Peter949 on September 15, 2017, 01:36:44 PM: mine is Peter949 ... because the size of the engine on my 84 California II is 949cc, and of course my name.
Is there anyway to 'Change or Modify' your user name ?? :cool: :huh:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: normzone on September 15, 2017, 02:47:02 PM: N is my first initial

Orm: Object-relational mapping (ORM, O/RM, and O/R mapping tool) in computer science is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages. This creates, in effect, a "virtual object database" that can be used from within the programming language.

Zone: any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established:

None of this has anything to do with my user name. You may now return to your previously scheduled reading.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: lorazepam on September 15, 2017, 04:17:41 PM: Mine is Kekistani. Translated it means "magic happy"
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Psychopasta on September 15, 2017, 05:22:18 PM: Mine is a slight modification of a user name suggested by Disney for a game my then-10-year-old was playing.

- Pasta
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: MedicAndy on December 30, 2017, 08:45:21 PM: Pretty much self explanatory. Medic - I was a national certified Paramedic, and Andy (Andreas) is my first name. I now work at our local Level 1 Trauma Center's Pediatric Emergency Department while I'm also finishing up my RN. So I will one day change my user name from MedicAndy to PedsRNAndy
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: BRG-BIRD on December 30, 2017, 09:50:19 PM: British Racing Green Thunderbird of which I own one and am a member on a Triumph forum using the same user name. Wasn't feeling very creative when I signed up. :laugh:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Idontwantapickle on December 30, 2017, 09:57:32 PM: Quote from: MedicAndy on December 30, 2017, 08:45:21 PM
Pretty much self explanatory. Medic - I was a national certified Paramedic, and Andy (Andreas) is my first name. I now work at our local Level 1 Trauma Center's Pediatric Emergency Department while I'm also finishing up my RN. So I will one day change my user name from MedicAndy to PedsRNAndy

You could change it but I’ll still call you MedicAndy! Lol!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: drbone641 on December 31, 2017, 08:27:05 AM: Dr Bone was my call sign during my fighter pilot days. When email started up, someone already had drbone so the 641 (no meaning) was added.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on December 31, 2017, 08:38:26 AM: Quote from: drbone641 on December 31, 2017, 08:27:05 AM
Dr Bone was my call sign during my fighter pilot days. When email started up, someone already had drbone so the 641 (no meaning) was added.

I've never figured out why they have to add "random" numbers for a name that's already been taken.

Sometimes I'll try to sign up somewhere with my name, and the system says "Username already exists". Nine times out of ten it's already me, so I try to re-use it; sometimes you can't.

So you'd THINK I could use Lannis1 or Lannis01. But nooooo ... the system says I have to use "Lannis6785", like there's 6784 other "Lannis"es in the system already.

AI = Automated Ignorance sometimes ....

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: rider33 on December 31, 2017, 09:11:12 AM: the first moto-board I signed up for years ago was Adventure Rider. It was also the first time I needed a screen name. I figured I'm a rider not a biker and my favorite road is Route 33 (there is one in almost every state & they are nearly always good), hence rider33. The Avitar by the way was an accidental shot at Glacier National Park. I had handed my disposable camera to a lady to take my picture and it went off in her hand before she really aimed. When the picture came back (film, rember that?) it was a close-up of my hand with Logan Pass in the background, 'best shot on the roll actually..
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Devildog on December 31, 2017, 07:06:29 PM: (http://thumb.ibb.co/jPLTKw/image.jpg) (http://ibb.co/jPLTKw)

how to upload a picture online (http://imgbb.com/)

It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on December 31, 2017, 07:22:58 PM: Quote from: Devildog on December 31, 2017, 07:06:29 PM

(http://thumb.ibb.co/jPLTKw/image.jpg) (http://ibb.co/jPLTKw)

It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.

(http://imgbb.com/)

WOOOF! Humans aren't always smart but he got the "beautiful" part right, sugar.

Hey what’s your sign baby? Virgo, am I right? I’m a Taurus the BULL myself, WOOOF oh yeah!

Hey look what I can do, look at that form …

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Jack/i-59fkK8f/0/c7310c2a/X3/100_0631-X3.jpg) (https://lannisselz.smugmug.com/Jack/i-59fkK8f/A)

How’s about we hang out together some, do a little running and barking then back to my place, you look good in that collar baby …

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Jack/i-jWp6R5W/0/78644dfb/X3/DSC00903-X3.jpg) (https://lannisselz.smugmug.com/Jack/i-jWp6R5W/A)

Call me. Once you go border collie, you never go back ...

Jack
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: timmythecop on December 31, 2017, 08:40:02 PM: People have been calling me "Timmy the cop" for 28 years.
I am a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC.

.........for 68 more days, then, I finally retire. At least They let me ride.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/ghYhew/FB_IMG_1514774664717.jpg) (http://ibb.co/ghYhew)
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Tom on January 01, 2018, 05:21:19 AM: :thumb:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Lannis on January 01, 2018, 08:09:37 AM: Quote from: timmythecop on December 31, 2017, 08:40:02 PM
People have been calling me "Timmy the cop" for 28 years.
I am a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC.

.........for 68 more days, then, I finally retire. At least They let me ride.
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Congratulations!

I'm sure you've heard people "complaining" (moaning?) about the retirement ages and compensation for police officers, which tend to be "early" and "good".

I'm not one of them. I'M not the one taking a chance on getting killed by my clients every day when I'm out doing my job. I'm sure you've earned every penny of it.

Retirement is more fun than most people think it is .... !

Lannis
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: giusto on January 01, 2018, 09:01:02 AM: (http://thumb.ibb.co/cJBcCG/iphone_pics_frank_002.jpg) (http://ibb.co/cJBcCG)

Because of this guy....a Bracco Italiano dog named "GIUSTO" who was named after one of the greatest mountaineers that ever lived...
Giusto Gervasutti. He learned and honed his skills on the mountain faces that surround Lecco and Mandello del Lario
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Rainrider on January 01, 2018, 09:48:55 AM: Where I live, if you don’t ride in the rain, you don’t get much riding in.
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Post by: bobrebos on January 01, 2018, 11:09:52 AM: Write mine backwards and it tells you a lot about me. (I quit drinking) :thumb:
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Post by: mojoe on January 02, 2018, 10:54:06 AM: My name is Joe,
In my younger days I was quite small and light built, just like the four for a penny sweets called mojo's so became my nickname from street buddies, everybody had a nickname in the 60's!!

I now scale the heights at 5' 7" and 85kg so didn't as such grow up just out.
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Post by: jcctx on January 02, 2018, 12:15:56 PM: Been a while ~~~where did I come up wit dat?????????????
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Post by: Bulldog9 on January 02, 2018, 01:53:52 PM: Mine is my first Military Call Sign
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: 93spada on January 02, 2018, 04:07:50 PM: Not very original but.....
93 - 1993
Spada - SP (III)
Spada is Italian for sword

As an aside, Maybe named for.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercole_Spada

Great stories? all around.

Paul
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Bonaventure on January 02, 2018, 07:33:11 PM: Giovanni di Fidanza of Bagnoregio, Italy c. 1217

...or a number of British warships.

Take your pick.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Vagrant on January 03, 2018, 08:44:45 AM: back in the CB radio craze of the early 70's I decided I most closely resembled this handel.
Still do!
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Guzzi Gal on January 03, 2018, 09:52:18 AM: Quote from: Devildog on December 31, 2017, 07:06:29 PM

(http://thumb.ibb.co/jPLTKw/image.jpg) (http://ibb.co/jPLTKw)

how to upload a picture online (http://imgbb.com/)

It's the nickname for this very beautiful girl.
:1: Devildog is my moniker on many a site due to this little old lady.

(http://thumb.ibb.co/kC8Euw/IMG_3056.jpg) (http://ibb.co/kC8Euw)

She was given the nickname by my dad when just a pup, and a varient became my email address because my parents weren't likely forget it.

My name here is an easy one to figure out. I'm a gal with a Guzzi.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: LuftWolf on January 04, 2018, 01:23:58 PM: My user name was bestowed upon me one evening, many decades ago, by my Wing Commander who just happened to be at the Air Base gate when I came through in my Porshe 944 loaded to the max with flight nursers. My predilection for German sports cars, the Air Force and being single…. well.. At any rate he said I was getting greedy, what with all those women and called me a Wolf. I replied: “ you know what they say Colonel, “Diamonds are a girls best friend”, the Diamond being the insignia designating the position. From the back of the car came a melodious voice, ringing out, “ that’s right he’s an Wolf … an AirWolf.” The monicker stuck and then I managed to acquire the license tag LuftWolf, which is the German translation. Still have the tag and some fond memories to go with it.
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Post by: seventy1 on January 04, 2018, 02:11:15 PM: My first restoration was a '71 Yamaha XS1B (XS650), wish I still had it...
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: TalbotMatra on March 08, 2018, 11:17:59 AM: Thats the origin of my user name:

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Ciao
Lars
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Diploman on April 29, 2018, 07:55:15 PM: I was a diplomat (Foreign Service Officer) with the US Department of State for 30 years, most of that time abroad.
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Post by: craigclu on April 29, 2018, 09:16:33 PM: Pre-internet, back in the electronic bulletin board days, I helped run a local BBS (Co-Sysop). I was a financial counselor, CFP (Certified Financial Planner) and CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter) and was using the handle "Craigclu" and found that it was never taken in various venues such as email, web domains, user names, etc. I just kept using it as it never had conflicts.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Paul Brooking on May 26, 2018, 06:57:49 AM: LOL
For my sins my job searches and monitors my Social Media Posts. ((sigh)
It’s just easier to use a variation of my actual name.
I am seriously considering changing it to “Flamin Stelvio” as a result of an exploding whisky flask on a recent group ride

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Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on May 26, 2018, 06:36:02 PM: Quote
exploding whisky flask

:shocked: Uhh, there *has* to be a story..
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Paul Brooking on May 26, 2018, 06:54:32 PM: Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on May 26, 2018, 06:36:02 PM
:shocked: Uhh, there *has* to be a story..
LOL
Posted before
Group ride through central Australia
Second day and just getting into a comfortable speed
I'd made a last minute decision to bring a nice single malt for the campfire
Small hip flask went into my tank bag.
Large hip flask was stuffed into my nylon seat bag on exhaust side but well away from exhaust.
Metal flask had settled and became heated, reach flash point and boom, huge blue flame
First I knew of it was when my companion raced passed me and frantically waved me to stop.
He was following 50 metres behind and had been showered with burning nylon as my toiletries bag shot out as a burning missile
He had just attached his GoPro to his helmet but had yet to switch it on, else I would have won the Internet that day.
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Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Muzz on May 27, 2018, 04:05:19 PM: I did post earlier but Muzz (or Muzza) is just the ncik-name for my usual name, Murray Turley.

Nothing too deep.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: oldbike54 on May 27, 2018, 05:02:50 PM: Quote from: Muzz on May 27, 2018, 04:05:19 PM
I did post earlier but Muzz (or Muzza) is just the ncik-name for my usual name, Murray Turley.

Nothing too deep.

A friend's granpa went by Muzzy , for the same reason .

Dusty
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: tasdisr on May 27, 2018, 05:14:31 PM: Mine is an abbreviation of my job title and division I worked in before retiring.

Technical
Acquisition
Services
Division
Inside
Sales
Rep
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: mechanicsavant on May 28, 2018, 06:54:07 AM: Mine was bestowed upon me in the early eighty's @ an East coast tech school held for Jeep-Renault factory techs. I had figured out repair solutions for new product that the factory said didn't exist
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on May 28, 2018, 07:34:29 AM: :shocked: Yes, that *would* have won the internet.. :grin:

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Post by: Goosed_Again on May 28, 2018, 08:42:59 AM: A few years after I had sold off my first Guzzi, a '70 Ambo, I acquired another Guzzi, a LeMans, and joined this group and I couldn't think of anything more appropriate the Goosed Again. Unfortunately, due to inactivity, that account was deleted so I'm starting as a newbie one more time now that I've been goosed again with a '74 Eldo.
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Muzz on May 30, 2018, 03:43:20 PM: Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on May 28, 2018, 07:34:29 AM
:shocked: Yes, that *would* have won the internet.. :grin:

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This got a laugh from my wife. I had to shorten the straps on my soft luggage due to the Breva's upswept pipes. Started scorching the underneath originally but fortunately I caught it in time. Note to self, when I go on holiday make sure whisky is packed on the top!!!!!! :grin:
Title: Re: What is the origin of your user name?
Post by: Jimijoe on June 23, 2018, 12:10:38 PM: The old "Rockford " tv show, every time he disguised himself, he printed a business card in his front seat of his camaro. quite often his name was jimijoe meeker, at least that's how I remember it, "correct me if I'm wrong jimi but I don't think I am" my real name is John
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Post by: JukeboxGothic on June 23, 2018, 11:17:51 PM: Back in the early eighties I was getting into British bikes and I was reading an article about the Matchless G12CSR. It was a reprint from the 60s and the author was decrying the horrible cast badges that had replaced the old ones as " the worst kind of JukeboxGothic". It stuck in my head.
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Post by: Bulldog9 on August 03, 2018, 07:21:54 PM: My screen name goes back to my first military call sign.
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Post by: Rebochi on August 28, 2018, 04:14:50 PM: I was serving as Chief Engineer on a Factory Trawler with a Multi national crew .A lot of them were amazed that I actually worked on and around the process equiptmment and got my hands dirty. Soon go to be known as a "Rebochi" which is the Russian word for worker.