Explain your forum name!
Posted by: Markus S on 14 March 2004
Some people on this forum have their full name as their forum name (myself, obviously, included). Others go by just their first name with or without an initial to separate them from the other Daves or Mikes.
Then again, some members have forum names which, at least at first sight, seem to have no relation to names, my current favourite being long-time-dead.
Would those of you who were more creative than I in choosing your forum name please explain yourselves?
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by gusi
Gustaaf means "Stick of the Goths" Though I am usualy called Gus, I am not much of a Goth. (Cure collection excepted)
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Former member
Rockingdoc, I've got you now - you're Frasier Crane!
Devraj, so does the 'B' bit mean you're the 2nd king-of-the Gods - after Dev A?
Matthew Robinson, so you're really Matthew Kelly?
(I use 'Patrick Dixon' as my forum name, but I'm really Ayrton Senna)
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Markus S
Patrick, sorry to hear of your death.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Former member
Markus, it was just a sham to give Michael a chance.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by seagull
Why seagull? Simple really, I am one.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by BLT
BLT - My initials are L. T. (Lindsay Taylor) and the "B" is for "big" (unfortunately this refers to my overall size rather than that of any appendage). I had been called Big LT and then BLT at work for some time, so it seemed a natural pseudonym for fora use. Although I am called Konteebos on the Pink Fish forum - but that is another story.....
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by domfjbrown
Dom FJ Brown (you can guess what stupid name the "F" stands for - luckily when I was confirmed I was able to choose a PROPER middle name (Joeseph - spelt wrong intentionally).
And no, the F doesn't rhyme with Duck.
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Posted on: 15 March 2004 by greeny
Surname = Green, hence a rather unimaginative lifelong nickname of Greeny.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Cheese
Matthewquote:
"Remaining Resolutely Neutral Even During Major World Conflicts"
Are you sure, Matthew ? Ask the Jewish community... I shouldn't say such things but the truth is that Switzerland isn't exactly the virgin it is expected to be ! Another shattered myth.
Oh and the cuckoo clock actually comes from southern Germany. So this is stolen too.
Cheese
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by DJH
quote:
Originally posted by Matthew Robinson:
My forum name is a fake name to protect my real identity. I'm actually a well known pop star and TV presenter.
<collective forum aside>you wish
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Andrew L. Weekes
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by syd
Syd.
A nickname picked up at School some 37 years ago which has stuck fast since. Very few people now call me by my own name Kenneth.
Yours in Music
Syd
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Rasher
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Andrew L. Weekes:
The forum is male-dominated, hence the cunning disguise, this is the real me
Long commute from Kent then, Suzanne!
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Former member
quote:
I'm actually a well known pop star and TV presenter
"Matthew"
If you are in fact Kylie, can I have your number?
I am really the former footballer John Sheridan, and couldn't use my own name because there was already a John Sheridan here (who doesn't seem to post as much as he used to).
ag
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Rasher
Matthew - If you really are Kylie, what are you doing Tuesday?
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by matthewr
If that were true Alex then I would be spending my days having showers not reading hi-fi forums.
Matthew
Real name Dean Friedman
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Rasher
Dean - What are you doing Tuesday?
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by matthewr
Got a date with Kylie
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Rasher
I feel a duet coming on...
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Jez Quigley
I was a long time poster on the net before I came to the Naim forum. I found that my real name had long gone on whichever list I subscribed to, so I took to using the name 'aaa101' as it was free and meant I came somewhere near the top in alphabetical lists to save me scrolling down. When I came to post for the first time on the Naim Forum I innocently used 'aaa101'. I then received a truly nastly stream of abuse from Vuk V accusing me of hiding behind a made up name and suggesting dubious motives. We then got into a 'discussion' about this, and I argued that what the hell did it matter? If I was dishonest I could have picked a normal sounding name and no-one would be the wiser. To prove my point I adopted the name of a murderous thug that was appearing in 'Coronation Street' at the time - one Jez Quigley. I've stuck with it ever since. My real name is in my profile for all to see.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Joe Petrik
Markus,
quote:
Would those of you who were more creative than I in choosing your forum name please explain yourselves?
Matthew and I did a study and we came to the incontrovertible conclusion that the weirder the poster's display name, the greater the likelihood that that poster is running a mullet system.
Joe
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Markus S
Damn! I had my heart set on a Planar 2/202/200/DBL system. Will I be allowed this if I ask Naim to change my forum handle to, say, Marky?
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Joe Petrik
Markus,
For a mullet that spectacular, you'd want to change your display name to Marky Mark, the boy who sings like a meadowlark. Well, either that or a blatantly made up name like Vuk Vuksanovic. ;-)
Joe
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Markus S
I'll compromise. Mark Marksanovic should do it.
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by Thomas K
Joe, can I just congratulate you on that truly wonderful graph. In my case, it's almost accurate (I reckon my system has a non-mulletude factor of 0.75).
Just before the Great Crash of 2004 I asked Richard D to change my monicker to my full name (which he did), but it seems Infopop knew that I don't qualify for anything approximating 1.0 on that scale.
Thomas
