Choosing Your TVF User Name

[G Rex]

I am quite tall & when my kids were young a friend of theirs said I was as big (& scary) as a T Rex.

Dinosaurs were all the rage with the kids at that time. My real name is Grant - so I became ‘Grantasaurus Rex’ - shortened to G Rex. 

Funny - now I am beginning to feel like a dinosaur too…

[Mister T]

About 20 years ago one of my P6 students explained that the students had trouble pronouncing my name. He asked me if they could shorten it to Mr T, not a problem for me. Four schools and twenty years later it followed me, my Thai family and friends all call me Khun T. Nothing to do with the avatar of BA.

[AlfHuy]

2 hours 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.

 

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

I owned the first and only "Roller sheep" in the village but I am still a down to earth guy.

[AlfHuy]

2 hours ago, CharlieH said:

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

Hiding her husband's PIN number

[CharlieH]

22 minutes ago, Mister T said:

About 20 years ago one of my P6 students explained that the students had trouble pronouncing my name. He asked me if they could shorten it to Mr T, not a problem for me. Four schools and twenty years later it followed me, my Thai family and friends all call me Khun T. Nothing to do with the avatar of BA.

Oh dear, hope they left the space between khun and T ! ????

[NCC1701A]

i wanted "mr super insecure big banana bad man with five girlfriends who talks s**t all day" but thought better of it. 

[KannikaP]

2 hours ago, 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.

No, he should have used 'it' instead of 'ea'!

 

There was someone a while back used Tyler Visan. Quite innovative.

Edited May 21, 2021 by KannikaP

[Radar501]

25 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Oh dear, hope they left the space between khun and T ! ????

 

Why you should never name your son Clint

 

[Tarteso]

Being a student of culture and history and born in south of Spain, Is my favorite and special User name.

Tartessos or Tartessus, was a semi-mythical harbor city and the surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula (in modern Andalusia, Spain), at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It appears in sources from Greece and the Near East starting during the first millennium BC. Some studies identify this lost culture with the survivors of the mythical Atlantis.

Herodotus, for example, describes it as beyond the Pillars of Heracles (Strait of Gibraltar). Roman authors tend to echo the earlier Greek sources but from around the end of the millennium there are indications that the name Tartessos had fallen out of use and the city may have been lost to flooding, though several authors attempt to identify it with cities of other names in the area. Archaeological discoveries in the region have built up a picture of a more widespread culture, identified as Tartessian.

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Tarteso

[faraday]

Used to work in a Faraday cage.

[Thailand]

Nothing else left! ????

[metisdead]

My member name was related to a certain FM radio station going "dead":

 

 

[skatewash]

6 hours ago, orchis said:

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'.

The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis, meaning "testicle",

[covidiot]

for me, nincompoop was taken.

 

 

[tinca tinca]

does it really matter it is upto the person what username he/she chooses.......can be anything user wants, and probably a username he or she will not forget !!!

[ballpoint]

Similar to another poster above, the names I wanted to use were taken, so I looked around, saw a ballpoint pen on my desk and used that.

[rumak]

My grandfather named me after his grandfather:  Josef Rumakski 

 

living long time in Thailand , with everyone having a nickname,  i just went with what

those Soi 7 girls used to call me    ROO MAAAK

[captainjackS]

When I came to Thailand the first time 12 years ago, I attempted to introduce myself to Thai people using my real name.  They had never heard my real name before and had some difficulty pronouncing it, but it reminded them of Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean.  This happened on many separate, independent introductions.  I guess the movie was popular at the time. So here I am 12 years later 

[ThailandRyan]

Was born here in Thailand to US parents back during Vietnam.  Grew up in the US, but returned here due to my Job over the years.  So be it, whats in a name, but what we make of it.

[gamb00ler]

I bet you can figure it out.

[orchis]

3 hours ago, skatewash said:

The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis, meaning "testicle",

better having balls than being a dick. ????

Edited May 21, 2021 by orchis

[faraday]

15 hours ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

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 ........!

 'Buffalo.... ATM'.....

 

I expect so...????

[faraday]

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

So be it, whats in a name, but what we make of it.

"That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet"

 

 

 

[ezzra]

I really wanted to use Ezra but this name was taken long time ago by someone who hasn't been active for many years now, i would to suggest that given the appropriate length of time of not being active, said user name should be allowed to use by others...

[rumak]

8 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Was born here in Thailand to US parents back during Vietnam.  Grew up in the US, but returned here due to my Job over the years.  So be it, whats in a name, but what we make of it.

 

as they say in Thailand........... you ain't Lyan

[bojo]

32 minutes ago, ezzra said:

I really wanted to use Ezra but this name was taken long time ago by someone who hasn't been active for many years now, i would to suggest that given the appropriate length of time of not being active, said user name should be allowed to use by others...

Good call............. I second that..................

 

[colinneil]

Well one thing for sure, i will never forget my username.

I never had any trouble choosing it, as it is my name......... Colin.... neil........####

Why hide behind silly names? As some members do.

[Damrongsak]

Mine was given to me by a venerable old monk in Loei back around 1977/78.  I got the name, I got the amulet, which is why I'm still around.

 

 

[Damrongsak]

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

... Why hide behind silly names? As some members do.

Because my nickname is D!ck and some sites can't handle it.  My name, not my dick.

[bojo]

5 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well one thing for sure, i will never forget my username.

I never had any trouble choosing it, as it is my name......... Colin.... neil........####

Why hide behind silly names? As some members do.

I think most do hide, I do as well, however, personally, it's not a silly name to me, it has meaning to me....From some of the dialogue on here and the internet in general, it's no wonder that many do though...................