Dear whyamihere......

lost_in_thought

We have an Iain Moore on our database who signs his name I.P. Moore.

No joke. :shock:

Oh and there were a great variety of hilarious names at school. The best one was a korean guy called Bum-Soo Kim.

attica

I went to school with a chap called Will Knott - shortened to Won't

His mother was called Shirley Knott

(and her other son was called Ikidyou. Gotta love I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue)

secretsam

Always Tyred wrote:

I knew someone called "Kimberly Claire".

So easy to slip up and call her "Kimberly Clark".

Whoops.

No...don't get it...

I went to school with Martin Fackerel. How funny it was when we switched the initials on his name, so he became a flatulent fish...

linsen

I was named after Lyndsey De Paul apparently. Amazing coincidence that I turned out tall, blond, slim, busty and a bit dim.......... (with a different spelling of my name)

Soul Boy

We have a Manuel Hung in our company. He probably got a ripping as a kid, but enjoying it now

and I really should have gone for Soul Man, cos Boy isn't really suitable for a 37 year old :oops:

attica

For some reason the other day I thought up a username for somebody of undecided sexuality.

Bi Cried

My mind goes off on far too many tangents when I'm on a bike ride.

Citizen Smith

Thought I'd jump on the name change bandwagon - I had been thinking of it for a while but hadn't worked out how to... :?

DonDaddyD

Citizen Smith wrote:

Thought I'd jump on the name change bandwagon - I had been thinking of it for a while but hadn't worked out how to... :?

Not a fan of name changes, now I don't know who you are. I mean sure your signature says 'formerly Sihuges' but are you? Are you really the member formerly known as SiHuges!?! :shock:

Jay dubbleU

Two of Frank Zappa's kids were called Moon Unit and Dweezil :roll:

benno68

I once worked with Aurthur C0ck, what were his parents thinking!

In the works directory he was "A C0ck" but to his mates he was called Arfa, not Arfa C0ck, just Arfa

always_tyred

SecretSam wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I knew someone called "Kimberly Claire".

So easy to slip up and call her "Kimberly Clark".

Whoops.

No...don't get it...

I went to school with Martin Fackerel. How funny it was when we switched the initials on his name, so he became a flatulent fish...

http://www.kimberly-clark.com/ourbrands/

I remember the name from toilet roll dispensers.

gert_lush

my friend went to school with a Jack Toff!!! how unfortunate is that!

I also heard of (as in read it on the net once so bound to be true!) of a Heywood jablome :shock:

Citizen Smith

DonDaddyD wrote:

Not a fan of name changes, now I don't know who you are. I mean sure your signature says 'formerly Sihuges' but are you? Are you really the member formerly known as SiHuges!?! :shock:

DDD - It is me! The mods do the change on the back-end....look at my old posts...they are connected to this profile! 8)

Kieran_Burns

I dated a nurse for over a year called Julie Andrews.

Apparently her Father was in hospital having a near death experience when she was born and when her Mum was aksed what to call her, without thinking (being somewhat preoccupied) she said Julie. It got recorded and too late to change it.

linsen

There was a very "nice" girl at our uni called Anne Summers. I shouldn't think she even realised why that was funny until the shops started appearing in the high street.....

jonginge

Benno68 wrote:

I once worked with Aurthur C0ck, what were his parents thinking!

In the works directory he was "A C0ck" but to his mates he was called Arfa, not Arfa C0ck, just Arfa

Worked in Denmark for a while some time back. Bent* is not an uncommon forename there. Similarly, Koch (and variants) are not unknown as surnames... :shock:


* The female form is Bente (ouch)

The Chingford Skinhead

The spelling of my name is pretty unique thanks to a clot at the registry office who then refused to change it. Before any race relations act etc... As I have a big work related internet presence I prefer an alias. They vary from site to site.

This bieng a cycling site I wanted something that said bike. I'm near chingford and I'm bald. The cycling connection being that the MP when I moved here was Norman Tebbit, known as TCS and famed for his "get on yer bike" quote - though he actually said, in relation to unemployment that his dad "got on his bike and looked for work"...

Roastie

The most bizzare real name I ever came across was a car salesman (Fiat) named Caution Reachable. His first name was Caution and his surname was Reachable.

My guess is that some joker at the registry office probably just couldn't have been @rsed to ask how to spell the name (Sotho) so just gave him the closest english words. This happened occasionally in South Africa. Incidentally they also messed up my old man's name - but thankfully not tragically.

Roastie

As for my own handle - it is weird because although it is cycling related, this is the first I have used it in a cycling context.

The story goes as such: Two weeks before Uni was due to start I had a colossal accident. I was heading down a steep hill, and one of my friends had the audacity to sprint off ahead. And he was not even a racer so I definitely wasn't going to have any of that; I dumped the right lever (yep, down tube levers) and gave it horns. The last I looked at my computer I was doing 75km/h. Then I saw a shiny slick of oil right in my line through this fast right hander.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The front wheel just disappeared from under me. The grey flash of tarmac heading for my face, my hands still on the bars. Pain. Wondering if I'll lose any teeth. Turning around on my face, then light again - I'm sliding belly down, feet first down the hill. Looking back up the hill I see my bike (<3 month old Columbus tubed Le Turbo) very expensively bouncing after me. I'm convinced that when I eventually come to a stop, it will hit me. It does.

I crawl off the road. And then it all goes white, like a TV with snow. But I stay conscious. My best mate collects bits of bike while the culprit (ok, I don't really blame him) heads into one of the houses to use the phone to call his mum.

Fast forward two weeks. I'm covered in scabs from my numerous roasties. In between I've been called, amongst other things "the Walking Roastie". Insurance has paid out on damage to the bike and I've just rebuilt it with new brake levers, mechs, chainset, bars, ... It is our first ride out after the crash, I'm heading through a fast flat section after a downhill. In the shadows I miss seeing a large detached branch, but I don't miss the branch itself. WHAM!

My Dad goes ballistic. Calls me a reckless idiot. My mate (who was living with us) decides to call me "The Reckless Roastie". It sticks.

linsen

I have many tales to tell of amusing names form having been a teacher for many years but I fear it may be too naughty to type them all here.

We did have a pupil called George Dragon.

George, if you are a cyclist and you read this forum - Hi

greg66_tri_v2.0

There's a female lawyer who has been in the news recently, called Anal Sheikh.

Where would you start?

cyberknight

My name?

happens to be a conglomeration of 2 things i like

Cyber Punk aka the novels of william gibson ala neruomancer


Dark Knight aka batman ( not the 60s camp version ) i suggest everyone reads the dark knight returns

These 2 made the basis of a character called Cyberknight for the few spare moments i get on the pc playing.........

http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/

And of course the avatar is from the watchmen

DonDaddyD

cyberknight wrote:

My name?

happens to be a conglomeration of 2 things i like

Cyber Punk aka the novels of william gibson ala neruomancer


Dark Knight aka batman ( not the 60s camp version ) i suggest everyone reads the dark knight returns

These 2 made the basis of a character called Cyberknight for the few spare moments i get on the pc playing.........

http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/

And of course the avatar is from the watchmen

Dark Knight returns is awesome. How do you feel about Loeb and his Long Haloween? Anything Jeph Loeb writes sucks! Fact!

whyamihere

DonDaddyD wrote:

cyberknight wrote:

My name?

happens to be a conglomeration of 2 things i like

Cyber Punk aka the novels of william gibson ala neruomancer


Dark Knight aka batman ( not the 60s camp version ) i suggest everyone reads the dark knight returns

These 2 made the basis of a character called Cyberknight for the few spare moments i get on the pc playing.........

http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/

And of course the avatar is from the watchmen

Dark Knight returns is awesome. How do you feel about Loeb and his Long Haloween? Anything Jeph Loeb writes sucks! Fact!

*Ahem* you like Marvel. If you're over 10, I'm not sure you can comment.

Long Halloween and Dark Victory (both Loeb) weren't the best I've read, but certainly weren't bad. Alan Moore's still easily the master though, The Killing Joke's my favourite Batman story.

DonDaddyD

whyamihere wrote:

*Ahem* you like Marvel. If you're over 10, I'm not sure you can comment.

Actually I'm not that big on Marvel these days. The Bendis domination, with decompression everywhere and single issues not actually doing anything coupled with Secret Invasion has all but destroyed my Marvel love. That said, Thor and the cosmic based comics are golden.

whyamihere wrote:

Long Halloween and Dark Victory (both Loeb) weren't the best I've read, but certainly weren't bad. Alan Moore's still easily the master though, The Killing Joke's my favourite Batman story.

Never really been a big Batman fan, just remember reading Long Halloween and thinking that it was typical Loeb, not making sense and very much a book that is only liked because people think they should like it.

I generally love anything Geoff Johns writes. The current Star Wars books (KOTOR - brilliant game as well - and Legacy with Cade Skywalker) alongside JMS' Thor and the cosmic based Marvel comics (Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova). Oh also Mark Milar and Yost and Kyle are great writers as well!

(That'll probably be the last I'll say about comics or else I might suffer the wrath of LiT)