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« on: August 09, 2007, 10:36:24 »
Just a thought!

There are some obvious ones, names, surnames, car regs, etc. Then there are some abstract, unusual even scary ones.

Let us know where your's comes from............

I'll start you off with mine - Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

I'm not a builder (I'm a Technology Teacher) but I loved watching Auf Pet. Still watch it frequenty on DVD. Use Eblag to collect signed photos, etc.

Ebay link to me - http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/auf_wiedersehen_pet

I'm registered every where as AWP so if you spot it somewhere else, it's probably me.
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2007, 10:41:43 »
Guess :wink:
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2007, 10:44:16 »
I'm an Ulsterman by birth Though I was raised in Yorkshire.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2007, 10:47:17 »
Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man"
Guess :wink:


You eat kangaroo bits????
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2007, 10:56:01 »
When I got the audi a problem with the wastegate made it 'bleat' when comming off load. Someone commented it sounded like a goat was stuck in the engine bay and so it stuck.

Sounds like a trapped pigeon now though :(
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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2007, 11:11:06 »
Straightforward.

Overweight bloke called Simon.

Big Fat Si.

Hate it when people pronounce it bigfatsee. Grrrr.
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2007, 11:15:28 »
Mines fairly obvious I suppose but there is a bit of a story behind it.

Years ago, I was part of a banger racing team, I would have been about 21 then, another member of the team was <ahem> older than me, so I was called Frankie-Boy, simple really.

Heck, that was 35 years ago, doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself.  :wink:  :shock:
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2007, 11:23:59 »
my mates call me my name especially after i started shaving my head :lol:  they use matt very rarely :lol:
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2007, 11:31:26 »
Surname is Snook, so have been called that since skool, use it for all web stuff sometimes it is Snooky35 as that was the 1st number i could use when I got my hotmail account  :wink:
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« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2007, 12:11:07 »
Quite easy really, I'm a fan of Pink Floyd. I use a lot of warez / mp3 sites and people point me in the right direction for Floyd related stuff. Again, I use it on all the forums so if you see it its me.
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« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2007, 12:19:54 »
simple first 5 letters of my surname....
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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2007, 12:57:41 »
Registration Plate!  :roll:
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« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2007, 13:10:21 »
The cartoon 'The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'.  I'm not really a very pink girlie, so couldn't really use that - instead of going 'ohhhh, heyyylp!' when something goes wrong, I normally get stuck in, and am currently lightly coated in engine oil to prove it :lol:
The car's called chuggaboom, as it's the only diesel in the familiy, it makes a very different noise to the V8's.  Chuggaboom had already gone, as had tail end charlie.....so the obvious choice was The Ant Hill Mob!

t'other half, RRB is easy.  You buy an old Range Rover, you certainly get the Blues when can be relied on to go wrong for the first 3-6 months of ownership.  Oh yeah, and the car's blue in colour.  The car's also known as the Spanish Inquisition (nobody expects it), so Cardinal Biggles was in the frame for a while :twisted:
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« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2007, 13:18:03 »
Use to own/run a Burger van, But now work on the railway so known on other forums as Trainman
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« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2007, 13:23:59 »
A mate of mine started calling my Lyndsey when I started off roading after one of the characters from the fast show, Simon and Lyndsey were the two hopeless off roaders. When I joined Bristol Landrover Owners Club they had an MSN website which you had to have a name for, Lyndsey wasn't available but Lyndsey731 was, just so happens that I was born January 1973.

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« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2007, 13:30:20 »
ohh mines easy am 7 foot tall an built like a tank an called anthony so bigant seemed to fit and has stuck with me for years :)
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« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2007, 13:38:35 »
Quote from: "The Ant Hill Mob"
The cartoon 'The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'.  I'm not really a very pink girlie, so couldn't really use that - instead of going 'ohhhh, heyyylp!' when something goes wrong, I normally get stuck in, and am currently lightly coated in engine oil to prove it :lol:
The car's called chuggaboom, as it's the only diesel in the familiy, it makes a very different noise to the V8's.  Chuggaboom had already gone, as had tail end charlie.....so the obvious choice was The Ant Hill Mob!

t'other half, RRB is easy.  You buy an old Range Rover, you certainly get the Blues when can be relied on to go wrong for the first 3-6 months of ownership.  Oh yeah, and the car's blue in colour.  The car's also known as the Spanish Inquisition (nobody expects it), so Cardinal Biggles was in the frame for a while :twisted:


The one think I remember about the Ant Hill Mob is putting your feet through the floor to propel the vehicle, very apt with some of these vehicles :lol:
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« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2007, 14:48:45 »
Someone already had Blue Range Rover when I joined, so I turned it around.

Nothing to do with the fact that I was utterly fed up with it at the time and on here looking for advice :wink:
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« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2007, 15:01:29 »
Have used sleeplessparadise for about 9 years now, started on the interenet as helenj28 and then when hubby started working nights and I stayed up chatting I changed my name to this. I also use mrsjohnty occassionally for obvious reasons :roll: but I prefer this name as it makes me an individual and not just Johnty's wife :lol:
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« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2007, 15:20:07 »
Simple Eric from Andover  :lol:  :lol:

Nah....... Lee from Birmingham  :wink:
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« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2007, 15:31:57 »
Started using Staffy in 99 when I was playing online Quake2 & 3.
Reason being I live in Staffs and also used to breed Staffy's. Don't anymore just keep one now:)
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« Reply #21 on: August 09, 2007, 16:08:20 »
I am only 5ft 5 ish and in earlier years some what slimmer, my name is Andy, and was called Big A to take the P**** and so it stuck.

Also matches my rounder figure more lately  :lol:
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« Reply #22 on: August 09, 2007, 16:23:27 »
Mine's one of the obvious ones  :lol:
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« Reply #23 on: August 09, 2007, 16:35:15 »
Short, pink and a fondness for green stripy sweaters....erm no...spent the last 10 years working with swine (...4 legged...not two  :wink: )....and money being no object, yes it would be coveted plate!  :D

Now get called it outside of forums...little worrying...would much prefer Babe (...that'll do pig) LOL  :wink:

Although that being said, a certain site moderator sure does call me babe often  :wink:
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« Reply #24 on: August 09, 2007, 16:36:57 »
well !!!! It started out a little rude and questioning my parentage because I had a slight case of 'builders bum'  :roll:  As I am a welder it was changed slightly and became my e-mail address as a laugh....... 5 years later....... :wink:

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« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2007, 16:38:36 »
I needed a name for an email address and Driftwood by Travis had just come out and was playing on my pc so I used that, then Shortened it to Drift for Forums as I kept getting called Drifty  :lol:

Funny as the song summed up my life at the time  :oops:
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« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2007, 16:40:46 »
Quote from: "The Ant Hill Mob"
The cartoon 'The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'.  I'm not really a very pink girlie, so couldn't really use that - instead of going 'ohhhh, heyyylp!' when something goes wrong, I normally get stuck in, and am currently lightly coated in engine oil to prove it :lol:


'oooh heyylp' would have been a little different than last Wed
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« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2007, 16:41:11 »
Mine came from a very very drunken night when still at school many years ago,

Apparently I had an hour long conversation describing the dangers of electricbluebadgers that live in kitchens and come out after dark to walk on cold clammy floors?????? ,

I then also went on to explain the full rules of Hasball which apparently is baseball but played on an oil rig hellipad???

No idea to this day but I was very very very drunk....arghhhh Tiger!!!!

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« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2007, 16:44:12 »
Hi,

bought my disco and was trying to find an appropriate name for the disco forum i had just joined - five year old twin girls helping me to choose and suggested that as discodancer/queen/princess had gone and as i was their mummy, maybe discomummy was a good name - and 5 years later it still is :lol:

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« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2007, 17:30:52 »
Quote from: "electricbluebadger"
Mine came from a very very drunken night when still at school many years ago,

Apparently I had an hour long conversation describing the dangers of electricbluebadgers that live in kitchens and come out after dark to walk on cold clammy floors?????? ,

I then also went on to explain the full rules of Hasball which apparently is baseball but played on an oil rig hellipad???

No idea to this day but I was very very very drunk....arghhhh Tiger!!!!

Cheers Steve


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And the other breed of butt badger. Which aparently come 'en flambe' too (PM me if you need an explaination if you dare)

Who remebers the House Hippos? </hijack>
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