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Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:19 am
by knotnuts
Mine is from my boat, it just has so many meanings. :lol:

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:35 pm
by pharriso
elanner wrote:Mine is explained by a stunning lack of creativity..... my eBay username is no better. :-(

Nick

I know what you mean... Mine is first initial then last name shortened to 8 letters.. From my first bulletin board circa 1990... Still used by me everywhere!

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:55 pm
by Orsom Weels
Like one or two others, I can never think of a fitting username when needed. I had pretty much composed my first post for this forum but was at a complete loss as to what username I could use. :?
At the time, my daughter & her teenage friends seemed to refer to everything as ?awesome?, then one of them referred to my Capri as ?nice wheels, mate, awesome?. Coincidentally, that evening my wife brought home a DVD of the film ?The third man?, starring Orson Welles, & the idea of Orsom Weels was born. After all, what could be more apt when talking Lotus Elans? :wink:
My lack of creativity, coupled with plain laziness, means he also now visits a few other forums. :oops:

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:13 pm
by elancoupe
Not sure where mine came from.

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:28 am
by Tahoe
It came from where I live. Easy to remember unless I start having dementia. Now what was this thread all about again? :?

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:30 am
by jimj
I couldn`t choose my username from where I live as I feel my erudite remarks might lack gravitas if I was called Foolow.
Jim

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:38 am
by Galwaylotus
Like some others on the forum, mine was due to a lack of imagination. I'm not aware of any other Lotus based in Galway. :roll:

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:59 am
by ericbushby
I couldn`t even think of one, but what is this about eight letters?
Eric in Burnley,
1967 S3SE DHC ( managed to get out in it yesterday with a fellow believer. Who cares if it was cold.)

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:12 pm
by mbell
Mines a sanitized version of the username i almost always use that i came up with when I was too young to know better. Basically relates to some of my name plus a 3 digit number, I dropped the three digit number for this forum.

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:40 pm
by richardcox_lotus
Mine's far far far too obvious - but I made a mistake using an '_' as the convulated key strokes on an iPhone are a real pain in the ****.

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:01 pm
by billwill
Heh Heh, I've been using BillWill as a user id since the first days of online bulletin boards, (CiX) back in 1987.

Shortened version of my own name of course.

8)

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:10 pm
by Quart Meg Miles
Tried to use "?M miles" to boast of the car's mileage (M is engineering for million) but it wouldn't take the ? and just got out of hand. Then I hijacked Meg ...

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:22 pm
by Galwaylotus
Quart Meg Miles wrote:Then I hijacked Meg ...

Bet she wasn't very amused! :lol:

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:54 pm
by AussieJohn
I have been known as Aussie John at NYLOC for the last 10-15 years so I thought why not! It does confuse folks as I have lived in Yorkshire for 22 years..

Re: What's in a User name ?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:08 am
by pharriso
AussieJohn wrote:.... as I have lived in Yorkshire for 22 years..


I'm sorry... ;-)