Topic: Forum Usernames - why?

[Rushoid]

Besides being into motorcycles (and music and electronics, etc., etc., etc.) one of my hobbies is model railroading.  KSLRR are the initials of my fictitious railroad:
Kludenberry Short Line RailRoad.  I came up with this name over 30 years ago.

What scale do you work with? I'm into HO and N scales. Sadly, I don't have a current layout. When we bought our new house, 3 years ago, I was excited about setting one up in the big basement, but all of my stuff is still in boxes.

[Rushoid]

Oh, and my username stems from the fact that I'm a big fan of the band Rush. I thought I'd posted that before, but apparently I was mistaken. That or the mods hate Rush and they deleted my posts. 

[DammitDan]

My first year of college the floor of my dorm used to play a lot of CounterStrike (a shoot-em-up computer game for you GHOFs out there).  I was once skilled at this game.  So, whenever we played together on the network and I killed one of my dorm neighbors, they would yell out into the hallway, "Dammit, DAN!  Stop killing me!"

And the legend was born. 

[SteveD CB500F]

Networked Counterstrike was the main reason that my son did so badly in his GCSE (16+) exams...

He survived though and is now at music college in London.

[Bob Wessner]

(a shoot-em-up computer game for you GHOFs out there).

Thanks, this GHOF needed the translation.

[kslrr]

Rushoid, I too work in HO and N.  I started working in N when, by mistake, I bid on some Amtrak cars on ebay and when this small box arrived I figured "OK, I will do N also".  My boys like the N since we were able to put together a working layout in a week including mountains and tunnels.  For the HO, I have 4 modules of verious size and shape in verious degrees of completeness.

N in foreground.  HO is long table.  The layouts and most shelving units in my garage are on casters.

[Bikebuff]

Wow, that's some fun reading where the usernames have come from.  Bikebuff is not really original.  One of my fraternity buddies is huge into movies and can quote chapter/verse/etc. on movies and calls himself moviebuff on his website.  Since I'm huge into bikes (and cars) and seem to carry around a whole lot of what other's on the outside would consider 'trivial knowledge' I came up with Bikebuff.  I love motorcycles in most forms, although choppers are something I don't seek out but can appreciate the creativity.  Anyhow, that's my story and I'm sticking to it, as far as you know.


Prost!

[Rushoid]

My N involvement was out of necessity. I only had a small storage room in my last house to set anything up. I had planned to stay with the N but I inherited a few nice, brass HO locomotives (a 2-10-0 and a 2-8-4 are the nicest) so I'm eager to see them run.

Your layouts look about like mine did before getting packed away. 

[Skonnie Boy]

Because I come from the divine state of Wisconsin.  Its even tattooed on my right arm. 

Skonnie  def:   A person or thing, that is from Wisconsin, or that embodies the noble qualities of Wisconsin.  A term of affection meant to differentiate said person or thing from those that come from lesser and clearly inferior state such as Illinois, Michigan, Iowa or Minnesota.  Person who champions the idea of annexing the aforementioned states under the benevolent and wise rule of Wisconsin.  A person who believes in liberating the Upper Peninsula from the tyranny of the Michiganese.  Also refers to cheesehead jerks who drink a lot of cheap beer and root for the only true People's Team
in the NFL, the Green Bay Packers. 
 
"Boy" refers to my youthful complexion, carefully preserved with copious amounts of Leinie's.

I live in Texas now.  Its OK here.

[Bob Wessner]

Michigan, inferior? Well I never..

[Rhonda750F]

Well Said, nice to see such pride in ones home state.

The PO gave me the idea for the name of the bike and username.
A lot of people have mistaken me to be named Rhonda but to their disapointment I'm a dude.
The PO, Bill is one of my buddys dad.  He worked at a GM powertrain plant and used to ride his 750 to work.  There was a Japanese guy that would always approach him at the end of the day and say (in a strong Japanese accent) That's nice Rhonda! While pointing at the bike.  The name stuck.

Rhonda(Bikes name) + 750(cc) + F (Because Supersport owners have to represent!)

[DammitDan]

Because I come from the divine state of Wisconsin.  Its even tattooed on my right arm. 

Skonnie  def:   A person or thing, that is from Wisconsin, or that embodies the noble qualities of Wisconsin.  A term of affection meant to differentiate said person or thing from those that come from lesser and clearly inferior state such as Illinois, Michigan, Iowa or Minnesota.  Person who champions the idea of annexing the aforementioned states under the benevolent and wise rule of Wisconsin.  A person who believes in liberating the Upper Peninsula from the tyranny of the Michiganese.

Too bad yer still a Yank 

[Ingrid]

Guess my mommy liked it....And it kinda stuck

[Skonnie Boy]

Too bad yer still a Yank 

I'm also Swedish.  Does that help, or just make it worse?

[Badger 5]

Badger 5 is the name of a very fine garbage disposal.  I don't know why some nicknames stick and others fade away but #$%* happens.

[Skonnie Boy]

Badger 5 is the name of a very fine garbage disposal.  I don't know why some nicknames stick and others fade away but #$%* happens.

As a Wisconsinite and a former Chicagoan, I wholeheartedly approve of your username and pic. 

[SteveD CB500F]

Bump for the newbies.

[johnny-from-bel]

I the early days of the sohc4 mailing list we had a guy
Dave Whitney, who called himself dave-from-maine. In 1998 it took a trip to Boston and got to spend a few days with Dave and Linda Julien ( see came to the first WER in 1997).

I had a fabilous time. I remember stepping from the airplane after a 8 hour flight to find myself fixing a problem on Lindas CB650 (yes I fixed it). Later Dave joined us and we had a fabilous evening.

Dave later sold his bike and dissapeard from the list.

So as a momentum to Dave and I live in Belgium, I started calling myself Johnny-from-belgium

I also love languages so I tend to translate it into different laguages

Dutch : Johnny-van-belgie (my native language)
French : Johnny-de-belgique
English : Johnny-from-belgium
German : Johnny-von-belgien
Italian : Johnny-da-belgica
Japanees :  berugi-no-johnny (just started to learn)

And that is the end of my language knowlege I am affraid. (in order from best to worse)

So this is the story behind johnny-from-belgium.

[Rocker]

I love the cafe racers so "Rocker" seemed like an obvious choice. I was supprosed it was not used when I signed up in Mar07.

[S-Dog]

My first year of college the floor of my dorm used to play a lot of CounterStrike (a shoot-em-up computer game for you GHOFs out there).  I was once skilled at this game.  So, whenever we played together on the network and I killed one of my dorm neighbors, they would yell out into the hallway, "Dammit, DAN!  Stop killing me!"

And the legend was born. 

S-Dog was/is my handle in counterstrike... My name is Scott. And I am not that creative. 

I just use this name for all the forums I am in.

[UnCrash]

I got the nickname UnCrash when managing the tech department of a small biomedical company. I built and fixed Commodore 64's (yes that's right) and 286, 386 & 486 clones.

Back then everyone said that everything crashed.  And for the most part all software and hardware I worked on failed inelegantly.  My boss would call me Uncrash occasionally, as it was my job to fix all things crashed.  When picking a name for the online FPS Unreal Tournament Demo in 97 it is the name I used.  From then on I've used it for forums and online gaming and never have found it taken  .  I got extra creative with it by capitalizing the C....

[Hope]

hehe...  Hope is my first name

[Tvag]

You're going to like this...

In college I acquired the nickname 'vagina', don't ask how... along the way it became shortened to just 'Vag'. This was a much less intrusive in public. My first name begins with a T. So, I just adopted T-Vag.

Imagine your in a grocery store tending to your children and shopping when you hear someone yell "Vagina" at the top of their lungs seemingly trying to get his friends attention and completely unaware of the inappropriate nature of this action. Now imagine his friend actually turning to respond to this hale. 

[333]

Well, that's a story for sure.

Some of you have probably figured it out, but for everyone else...  Honda assigns a 3 digit code for all bikes.  At first it was all numbers, in later years they added letters.  "333" is for the CB350F, and is also easy to remember.   All Honda parts carry this code as the middle section of the part number.  It is in this way that Honda signifies the original bike the part was designed for.  For example the 400F has a lot of 333 parts, but it's code is 377.

[SteveD CB500F]

Ha! I'm gonna change my name.

"SteveD 323"