Choosing Your TVF User Name

[Radar501]

There are heaps of quirky and strange User Names here at TVF for which most of the time only the member concerned knows its meaning.

 

My nickname has always been Radar, so that part is self-explanatory.   501's are a style of Levis jeans, 501 is also a dart game where you have to count back from 501 points to zero to win.........but neither of those is why I chose that number.

 

Back in the early 90's my first ever passport included the number sequence 501, as did my new mobile phone.   About the same time, I applied for an e-mail address, and the user  name I wanted was unavailable, so Hotmail suggested the same name with 501 at the end of it.........so I ran with that name.

 

501 kept appearing in my life like planets lining up, so I've been using it as my lucky number ever since.   You can understand my disappointment when the Australian Powerball Draw 501 came along, and I failed to win a red razz.............Ah well.

 

Sooooo, wot is the story behind your user name?

[CharlieH]

Its my name ! No mystery, riddle or funny story, sorry. ????

[Kwasaki]

Spelling. ????????????

[sipi]

I misspelled Phil Smith, and now I'm stuck with it.

Regards, Phil Smith

[ColeBOzbourne]

When I was in college a friend of my wife named her Alaskan Husky dog after me, for some reason, with a slight play on words. The dog was named Cole B. Ozbourne. I was honored, so the name stuck.

[Jingthing]

Word play on the Thai phrase Jing Jing.

(Really true.)

Thing is self explanatory but maybe Thang would have been funnier.

But it doesn't rhyme.

Edited May 20, 2021 by Jingthing

[VocalNeal]

My name is not Neal and I try not to be too vocal.

[AlfHuy]

I wanted "Covid" when I joined in 2018 but was told: Already taken.

[thaibeachlovers]

I loved Thai beaches.

[4MyEgo]

On 5/20/2021 at 3:00 PM, Radar501 said:

Sooooo, wot is the story behind your user name?

 

Back in the day when I was looking at investing into things as I did such as property and shares, I wanted something more so I looked at buying wedding cars and I purchased a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and remember the very first day that I purchased it.

 

I was in William Street, Kings Cross driving away from where I purchased it and pulled up at the very first traffics and had my top (convertible) down, it was a sunny day and I was taking it all in. Next thing I heard was someone saying what an ego and I turned my head to the left looking at two guys in a Volkswagen convertible and they were saying what an ego repeatedly and pointing to their VW, I laughed and drove off.

 

The Roller was booked weekends in, weekends out at $400 an hour with a minimum booking of 4 hours, base to base, and was a great money spinner for the years that I used it for weekend weddings and when I stopped doing that, personalised number plates came out, so I said to myself, you know what, I am going to get me a set of those, hence my user name appears on TVF as it did on the Roller back in the day.

 

I have to admit, I do have a pretty big ego knowing not many people have owned a Roller, and am pretty sure none on TVF....LOL

Edited May 21, 2021 by 4MyEgo

[cyril sneer]

27 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I loved Thai beaches.

you shouldn't have added the 's'

 

it's highly annoying, especially now it's under the rest of your username

 

hopefully this can be resolved soon.

[thaibeachlovers]

Just now, cyril sneer said:

you shouldn't have added the 's'

 

it's highly annoying, especially now it's under the rest of your username

 

hopefully this can be resolved soon.

Actually, I never wanted the s, but there was a software problem when I was joining and the TVF forum wouldn't accept it, so I had to add an s and do it again. I did notice that it's now underneath, and yes, it's annoying, but I've been plural so long I can't be bothered trying to become singular.

[mark5335]

12 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Back in the day when I was looking at investing into things as I did such as property and shares, I wanted something more so I looked at buying wedding cars and I purchased a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and remember the very first day that I purchased it.

 

I was in William Street, Kings Cross driving away from where I purchased it and pulled up at the very first traffics and had my top (convertible) down, it was a sunny day and I was taking it all in. Next thing I heard was someone saying what an ego and I turned my head to the left looking at two guys in a Volkswagen convertible and they were saying what an ego repeatedly and pointing to their VW, I laughed and drove off.

 

I remember seeing that Rolls Royce in Sydney (mid-1980's maybe) with the 4MYEGO plates, my mum was impressed and had a bit of a chuckle.

[CharlieH]

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Actually, I never wanted the s, but there was a software problem when I was joining and the TVF forum wouldn't accept it, so I had to add an s and do it again. I did notice that it's now underneath, and yes, it's annoying, but I've been plural so long I can't be bothered trying to become singular.

Software problem ? Thaivisa ? Surely not......555555 ????

Just drop anote to "support" and they can take it off for you, if you want.

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

mine is of course just an amusong popular stereotype of thai perception of farangs.....pale, stupid and loaded ........BUT opposite meaning here of sacred and venerated...... all white buffaloes owned by monarchy and never killed ?

very surprised name not taken before ! 

[CharlieH]

4 minutes ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

mine is of course just an amusong popular stereotype of thai perception of farangs.....pale, stupid and loaded ........BUT opposite meaning here of sacred and venerated...... all white buffaloes owned by monarchy and never killed ?

very surprised name not taken before ! 

Mmmmm but could the ATM just be "At The Moment" and of course that could change and you would be dispensed with, also playing to the stereotype....55555

[orchis]

It was the first word I saw looking around in my office that day in 2004.
A calendar with a drawing of an orchid and under it its Latin name: 'Orchis'.

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

charlieh: interesting comment but believe the ATM link to white buffalo is unambiguous ! and no plans to change my skin colour as cannot tan good at all these days ........!

[Poet]

The availability of good usernames makes a difference to whether people decide to become regular users and contributors to a forum. It also looks better when posters have good names and don't have to resort to using numbers.

If you end up picking some random mishmash of a name because you got frustrated after the 5 good names you thought of were all gone, you will never feel particularly proud of it, or be inclined to invest much time into producing content under that "brand".

Many big forums that have been around for a while regularly delete off accounts that have been abandoned for more than a year and never made more than a few posts. This allows any good names to return to the selection pool.

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Poet

[Pilotman]

On 5/20/2021 at 12:24 PM, CharlieH said:

Its my name ! No mystery, riddle or funny story, sorry. ????

mine was/is my profession for 40 years, again no mystery. 

[PAWNEESE]

I ferked up BIG time. 

 

I must have had way tooooo many beers, the evening I joined. 

 

Im not a native American .... I know ... your shocked.

 

Pawneese was a commonly used password of mine at the time. For sites not needing a very secure pw, I used famous race horse names.  I transposed chat name and password.  DURRRRRR.
 

Pawneese was the name of my very favourite racehorse ... thus easy to remember. But I used many different horse names at various times

 

So it could have been worse ... I guess I could now be Nijinsky, Red Rum, Mill Reef, Seattle Slew or Dobbin.

 

Pawneese won the Epsom Oaks in the 70s. I was there. Went to post like a crazy wild bucking rodeo horse.  Led all the way to win easy.  I had a big bet and was with a cute girl. So a memorable day. The race is on You Tube.

 

Cant remember what I had planned to name myself .... but it would have been very very sooooper smooth sounding.

 

Probably even cooler than the most cool name ever.

 

No way to change it I found. 

 

Durrrrrrrrrrr.

[jvs]

I am just using my initials.

Some names seem to fit some posters really well,the signatures some people use

are really revealing.

I have changed mine a few times,will  do it again soon.

[poohy]

No idea really I really wanted Ms Bunty Collocks  

[xylophone]

I just wanted something different for mine, and a little incident came to mind in which the word xylophone was used........ 

 

In 1990 after I left American Express I teamed up with a friend of mine (John Morrell) in his insurance business and we targeted solicitors and accountants for their client base.

 

We would arrange to go along to give the partners of the various practices a presentation regarding financial planning, so they could see what we were proposing to present to their clients.

 

One particular accountancy firm was up a couple of flights of stairs in an old building in Auckland (lift not working) so I lugged a very heavy whiteboard and paraphernalia up the steps and started to set it up in the boardroom, after having spoken to the receptionist.

 

I had it all set up and John came into the room and we started to get some handouts together, then the senior partner came in and asked what we were doing, so we told him, and he said that they were expecting a presentation from a company, but not ours!!

 

In fact when he pronounced the name of that company it sounded a lot like Morrell (my friends name) so he'd obviously got us mixed up and we had to pack up and leave whilst the other company moved in. Very embarrassing. 

 

I remember lugging that heavy whiteboard and stuff down the steps, and turning round to my friend and saying that it was a complete cock up, and why on earth couldn't he have a name like xylophone, so that there would be no confusion in future.

 

Hence the name xylophone for my avatar.
 

Edited May 21, 2021 by xylophone

[holy cow cm]

And how is that 501 working out for you on the lottery? and when with your wife or girlfriend or whatever floats your boat, on that 501rst stroke who hits that jackpot? All in jest. 

[2 is 1]

My name coming from saying here in Finland when you speak woman holes! Number 2 is that more brown one and you know what number 1 means! So in this case like it more.

[holy cow cm]

Holy Cow is an expression. CM is where I live.

[radiochaser]

I chased radios.  Why else.  

Yes, really, I hunted radios.  

Sometimes they were mobile, usually they were not. 

And many years ago, when we found the radios.  They dropped bombs on them.  Sometimes, a lot of bombs. 

Edited May 21, 2021 by radiochaser

[CharlieH]

33 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I just wanted something different for mine, and a little incident came to mind in which the word xylophone was used........ 

 

In 1990 after I left American Express I teamed up with a friend of mine (John Morrell) in his insurance business and we targeted solicitors and accountants for their client base.

 

We would arrange to go along to give the partners of the various practices a presentation regarding financial planning, so they could see what we were proposing to present to their clients.

 

One particular accountancy firm was up a couple of flights of stairs in an old building in Auckland (lift not working) so I lugged a very heavy whiteboard and paraphernalia up the steps and started to set it up in the boardroom, after having spoken to the receptionist.

 

I had it all set up and John came into the room and we started to get some handouts together, then the senior partner came in and asked what we were doing, so we told him, and he said that they were expecting a presentation from a company, but not ours!!

 

In fact when he pronounced the name of that company it sounded a lot like Morrell (my friends name) so he'd obviously got us mixed up and we had to pack up and leave whilst the other company moved in. Very embarrassing. 

 

I remember lugging that heavy whiteboard and stuff down the steps, and turning round to my friend and saying that it was a complete cock up, and why on earth couldn't he have a name like xylophone, so that there would be no confusion in future.

 

Hence the name xylophone for my avatar.
 

And there was me thinking you were made from wood and needed striking with a mallet ! How wrong I was....555555....well the first part..????

[DaLa]

It's a mnemonic for remembering my name. For years I was known as Bronco...I'll let the US guys figure that one out.  Everyone I know had a nickname when younger and I sort of miss the Bronco tag.

 

On a separate note I had a pet cat and named her 'Cooking Fat'.