How did you choose your screen name?

[Alexamateo]

I saw this on another forum where I post and thought it would be a good idea for a thread.

I know some like "Mark" will be obvious, but then again you never know just what the true story might be.

Since it's my question, I'll start. Alexa and Mateo are my children's names (ages 3 and 1) and it just seemed natural to use there names when it came to picking mine.

[Azumanga Davo]

I just fancied a change from what I had previously, and thought a drag racing related name would last a while longer than most. :)

[Julia Fox]

When my hair started to turn grey I thought being called Silverfox was a bit better than just being referred to as that old bloke.
Then when I started my transition into changing gender I took my female first name and kept the fox in case anyone from the dim distant past of this forum actually remembered me.

[oily oaf]

I just fancied a change from what I had previously, and thought a drag racing related name would last a while longer than most. :)

Sounds like old Julia quite fancied a change too mate.

PS don't mention "drag" racing you insensitive neanderthal swine :mad:

[Donney]

My real name was already taken so I chose the name a friend, for no apparent reason, decided to give me some years ago. Besides it was the first time I registered into a forum and I could not think of a better nick.

[Hondo]

It was the only thing I could spell at the time.

[Daniel]

It was the only thing I could spell at the time.
If we went by that logic I'd be Hooty McBoobs :mark:

I was originally 306 Maxi (or 48798473929863 Maxi as Tomi prefers to say)
Named after this

http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/319180/maxi.jpg

[millencolin]

simple... im not creative! so i just picked my favourite band and stole their name

[POO505R]

Mine was the number plate from Roger Clark's mk2 "Cossack" escort in which he won the '76 RAC....great car & a great driver
http://www.forddesktops.com/show.asp?f=escort&i=Ford_Escort_Mk1_Race_Car_02.jpg&p=3

[SEATFreak]

Facinating thread.

When I first registered on the forum when it was in the old home of btccpages.com I was known as MGFreak because I supported WSR right until the start of the 2005 Croft meeting (when it was just Rob Collard and before RAC came along) when I decided to change alliegance to SEAT.

A little while later a member wondered in a post why I supported SEAT when I had MGFreak as my name. That was a good point with me. So I asked wor' Mark to change my name.

And here I am now. Pestering and making a nuisance of myself with the best of em'!! :cheese:

[RaceFanStan]

Some screen names are quite obvious & need no explanation ... http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g202/gr8link/orn/00.gif

[Daniel]

Some screen names are quite obvious & need no explanation ... http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g202/gr8link/orn/00.gif
With the intelligence of some around here I don't know Stan :mark:

[Caroline]

I was coerced into a change. :p : Apparently Caroline sounds much nicer than Carrie. But then again, nobody has called me Carrie in a very long time so I guess it just doesn't sound right anymore.

[Tomi]

[quote="Daniel"]
I was originally 306 Maxi (or 48798473929863 Maxi as Tomi prefers to say)

Its because i have problem with numbers. :)

[tinchote]

My name is Martin, and it is fairly common in Argentina (from Basque tradition) to call a Martin, "Tincho" (from "Martincho").

And "Tinchote" would be a big Tincho :D

(There's a deja-vu feeling to this. We probably did this a few years ago :) )

[stevie_gerrard]

I'm named after my footballing hero of course :)

[Eki]

I was coerced into a change. :p : Apparently Caroline sounds much nicer than Carrie. But then again, nobody has called me Carrie in a very long time so I guess it just doesn't sound right anymore.
Car-oline sounds a bit like Gas-oline, so it's appropriate for a motorsports forum.

[tinchote]

Car-oline sounds a bit like Gas-oline, so it's appropriate for a motorsports forum.


Not really. As far as I can tell, they don't rhyme. Or do they in British English?

[Mintexmemory]

When Britain had 6 international rallies every year the Mintex was the English event held in the North Yorkshire Forests, usually in snowy conditions. Access to the Forests was free and pubs on the Thirsk - Scarborough road warm and welcoming. It seemed a time when the drivers were more heroic and the thrill of spectating better

[CCFanatic]

I am a Champ Car Fanatic.

[nicemms]

I don't think I need to explain mine do I?

[Will L]

My name is William (call me Will ;) ) and my surname begins with an L

LOL

[Vez]

I was going to use my real name but it was already taken, so I used a nickname I pick up from college.

[Crypt]

I drive like I have one foot in the grave.

[raybak]

Mine just happened, 1st 3 letters of first name and surname.

Same on all forums that I'm a member of.

Raybak

[Sleeper]

I used this name when I joined a music forum a couple years ago, my favourit band at the time was Dream Theater, and the name comes from one of their best songs: Metropolis part 1: The Miracle and the SLEEPER. The Miracle was already taken, and I just started using this everywere.

[Hawkmoon]

I pinched mine from a novel by Michael Moorecock. Just liked the sound of it I guess.

[gadjo_dilo]

I think we already had a similar topic, but anway....
Some would probably wonder that a gipsy hater picked a romany name.
I've heard about a french movie with excellent reviews and its title is Gadjo dilo. In romany it means crazy stranger ( stranger with the sense of intruder ) and it matches perfectly my presence on this forum. Isn't it crazy to intrude on a motorsport forum when you haven't any interest in cars? :laugh:

Unforunately I haven't seen that movie yet. :laugh:

[airshifter]

I just had to come up with something related to F1, as that was my reason for joining the forums.

It's somewhat dual meaning, referring to both pneumatic shifters found in cars many years back, and the fact that Formula 1 relies so heavy on aerodynamics, thus "shifting" the airflow.

[A.F.F.]

I drive like I have one foot in the grave.

Then I think I've seen you :mark:

[Captain VXR]

A bit obvious mine...

[Crypt]

Then I think I've seen you :mark:

I should of added, "On the track".

On public sidewalks, I drive like a blue-hair.

[GridGirl]

God, I picked mine so long ago I cant really remember. I guess it was because it was motor sport related.

[schmenke]

My screen name is Johnny Depp.

[Curryhead]

mine is Viggo Mortensen, my wife likes him :dozey:

[jim mcglinchey]

I picked this name to make me sound more colourful and interesting........my real name is Randy Starshagger! (with apopogies to Mark Thomas.)

[Mp3 Astra]

My initials being MP, and MP3 being an audio format, my forename was indeed a fore-gone conclusion. However, my surname was never meant to exist. I joined the forum 2 years ago in the hope of discussing the BTCC (I didn't realise that there was more than the BTCC on this forum), so I thought I'd choose a BTCC themed name to make people take me seriously (don't ask). Astra. It was the only one that seemed to make sense (even though the car is now defunct) and it has stuck forever. All my online names are Mp3 Astra. That's the long and short of (the very boring) it!

[RaceFanStan]

I am a Champ Car Fanatic.
What will you call yourself if Champ Car folds-up ??? http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g202/gr8link/orn/00.gif

[RaceFanStan]

With the intelligence of some around here I don't know Stan :mark:
You have a point there Daniel. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g202/gr8link/orn/00.gif

[MrJan]

Wanted to go under a fake name and decided to choose one of the aliases of one of my favourite Simpsons characters Lionel Hutz aka Dr Ngyeun Van Falk aka Miguel Sanchez.

[gm99]

Mine is a tribute to the late Canadian CART driver Greg Moore who of course carried #99.

[Woodeye]

****ing woodeye! That's what I heard regularly in the army. Thus this name. I use also the finnish version in some other forums.

[Blancvino]

Blancvino = White wine -- I actually prefer red wines, Hendrick's gin, and brown ales.

My real name is David.

[KILOHMUNNS]

Mine isn't an anagram as Oily Oaf once ask but my surname Kiloh-Munns. Not very interesting really and it's the same on other forms and ebay! :s nore:

[Azumanga Davo]

Mine isn't an anagram as Oily Oaf once ask but my surname Kiloh-Munns. Not very interesting really and it's the same on other forms and ebay! :s nore:

Overheard in a Scottich butcher shop:

"Areet, Rab, a punn of munns please..."

"Sorry, EU regulations state I use metric measurements..."

"Ach, a kilo munns then..." :D

[oily oaf]

Mine isn't an anagram as Oily Oaf once ask but my surname Kiloh-Munns. Not very interesting really and it's the same on other forms and ebay! :s nore:

Don't try and act all innocent Mr K :mad:
I happen to know that your username is an anagram of Numkholnsi which is ancient Sanscrit for "I took out Lady Di in that tunnel with an air rifle and I was also staying in the same holiday apartment block as The McCanns. FACTAROONY!

[slinkster]

Mine is one of the many variations of my nickname- slinky. One of my friends at uni gave me the nickname years ago and it's sorta stuck.

[edv]

Mine's more challenging to spell than simply 'ed'

[Lalo]

My friends call me like that :D

[Dave B]

Mine is an anagram of "move bad crank", among other things.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Well. My 1st mane is Jon and my surname is Brown. Then I ran out of letters when I was typing it :dozey:

:dork:

[CarlMetro]

Always been know as Metro, a shortened version of my surname. Trouble is there are several other Metros in my family so I have always been labelled CarlMetro :D