Author Topic: What is the origin of your user name? (Read 196568 times)

fxb750 · « **Reply #360 on:** July 17, 2013, 09:00:56 PM »

Pretty simple: my initials and I love to ride 750 cc bikes.

gootsi · « **Reply #361 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.)

faffi · « **Reply #362 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

JackalRider · « **Reply #363 on:** August 28, 2013, 08:37:15 PM »

just call me Mr Obvious. ;-T

oceanluvr · « **Reply #364 on:** September 12, 2013, 09:50:31 AM »

Oceanluvr.....my first love

But a real close second...

cimbian · « **Reply #365 on:** September 12, 2013, 05:12:26 PM »

My business name... Cimbian UK Ltd.

Cimbian itself is a play on symbiosis, an essential partnership.

Stormtruck2 · « **Reply #366 on:** September 12, 2013, 06:00:38 PM »

Quote from: oceanluvr on September 12, 2013, 09:50:31 AM

Oceanluvr.....my first love

But a real close second...

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.

Triple Jim · « **Reply #367 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.

Guzziman · « **Reply #368 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.

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tat2guy · « **Reply #369 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.

guzziart · « **Reply #370 on:** October 06, 2013, 07:33:31 AM »

Simple & unsophisticated...I'm Art and I have a Guzzi!

luthier · « **Reply #371 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.

Rough Edge racing · « **Reply #372 on:** October 06, 2013, 08:55:30 AM »

Our racing team name.

markw · « **Reply #373 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 !!!!!

segesta · « **Reply #374 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.

segesta · « **Reply #375 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.

mgfan · « **Reply #376 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

MincerRay · « **Reply #377 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.

tat2guy · « **Reply #378 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.

John Ulrich · « **Reply #379 on:** October 08, 2013, 07:30:55 PM »

My parents gave it to me at birth and it stuck!

faffi · « **Reply #380 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)

DungeonMaster · « **Reply #381 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

Lannis · « **Reply #382 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

nsumax · « **Reply #383 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.

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #384 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

guzzi4cats · « **Reply #385 on:** December 07, 2013, 11:20:00 AM »

I give a home to three Guzzis and four cats.

Railroad Bob · « **Reply #386 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."

WFORIDER · « **Reply #387 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"

meccanicab · « **Reply #388 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)

guzzista · « **Reply #389 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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Author Topic: What is the origin of your user name? (Read 196568 times)

fxb750

gootsi

faffi

JackalRider

oceanluvr

cimbian

tat2guy

Rough Edge racing

MincerRay

tat2guy

faffi

DungeonMaster

WFORIDER