What's in a name? Tell us your story.

[Rocket75]

Looking down the ever growing list of members, it struck me that there are some interesting and distinctive names being used. Some, like mine (Rocket), are derived from existing nicknames, and others are simply the users name eg, Angus.

I'm sure there are some interesting stories behind a few of them.

I for one would like to know who dubbed such a nice fella with the name "Feral".

There are some real crackers on the list, please explain!

Rocket

[Leighton]

mine is just a Gee up, Google it..dont support or condone the lads action but its a catchy name

[Zim man]

captain stabbin is a good name. long ago before captain stabbin there was a captain bottom dweller. not as good a name

my name is coz i am originally from zimbabwe hence zim man

[Angus]

Zim man wrote:

captain stabbin is a good name. long ago before captain stabbin there was a captain bottom dweller. not as good a name

my name is coz i am originally from zimbabwe hence zim man

I still prefer to call it Rhodesia

Well my name took a lot of time and thought Angus being of course my christened birth name. It does of course mean in Scots Gaelic "Unique" or "The One" so its kinda fitting i guess hahahaha.

Angus

[faulked]

in twelth century france there was a faulk the black a french noble man and a faulk le chaseur which i believe means frank the hunter roughly and since i used to dress in tights act all manly and run around beating people with sticks wearing armour ive kept the name :laugh:

[ellicat]

If you say mine slowly and with the right accent it sounds like

"I'll lick it"

[Ash]

:blush: Ash= Ashley

Ashley=

"From an English surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "ash tree clearing" in Old English. Until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States, but it is now most often used on girls."

:blush: :blush: :blush:

[Dan23]

The 23 was just a stab at the whole 23 phenomenon. Plus I used to be a massive basketball fan.

[Confused]

???

[WayneD]

I'm a bit more complex than Angus. I put my surnames initial at the end of my first name:P . On some other forums I sign in as Dunks, a shortened version of my last name.

[Funfisher]

Mine is named after the model of my boat a Bermuda Funfisher 480

[pinkey]

When i first ever played an online computer game in about grade 7, i made up a the name pinkpigletdelux, then people just used to call me pinkey as short , so i use it for alot of online things.. =)

[tomca]

The woggy blokes on the council crew I worked with started calling me Tomca....they were macedonian I think:dry:

[rumrunner]

well you probly allready know my boat is a rumrunner hence my username is aswell!

but the funney thing is i hate rum! dont drink at all realy only a beer for a buzz!

my boats name is orgasim! lucky i didnt use that username hey?:ohmy:

Ian

[polyphonic]

"Polyphonic" having two or more voices or parts, each with an independent melody, but all harmonizing

Somtimes I can burp and fart at the same time:laugh:

[buzzid]

my father wanted to name me buzz after buzz aldrin as i was conceived and born around the time of the moon landing. my mother flatly refused because she had her heart set on calling me jamie after jamie redfurn, who some of us older lads would know is a..well, he's one of those. i ended up with jamie but as life went along i was often called buzz by my father and brothers, then friends and finally mum came around. my mates call be buzzid or booze hard, but its usually just buzz.

buzz

[Clawhammer]

I'm learning 'Clawhammer' style Banjo...:blush: ....it's my youtube handle...and thus easy to remember!

[Do$tylz]

Mine is just a nickname that is still used amongst my mates from high school. Its just a play on my last name "Do". The "stylez" part.... I can't remember where that came from, but it stuck.

And the "$" sign used instead of the "S", is just me bieng a dick

[fishyman]

fishyman = a man that fishs and catches fishy's

pretty simple really

[jeff f]

if you cant work mine out for yourself

i aint tellin

[Feral]

Well if you blokes new me before I gave up the booze, you wouldn't have to ask! Been dry for 20 years this year!

[Cowfish13]

When I was trying to look up a user name for eBay, I looked around the room and my sight came across a fishing poster. On there was a Cowfish and it stuck in my head because it looked kinda cool. The 13 part was just the first number that came into my head. So now I use Cowfish13 for every online thingie fromn games to forums to eBay:)

[kriso]

Kriso- aussie for he who speaks much shit on internet!

[chubbstar]

My nick name has been Chubby for as long as I can remember. My in-laws, step daughter and many others still call me by it. A lot of people back in Tassie only know me by Chubby:laugh: Came in handy many times;)

Anyways 1 of my best mates (we've fished together since we were 10) back in Tassie used to call me Chubbstar. So now I use that on the net;)

Jayson

[pinkey]

Your must be pretty well know chubbstar, well naming lures and all .

[Mack_attack]

i once wrote into fishing world magazine about how to target mackeral in the bay. Greg Finney replied to my question and gave it the heading Mack_attack, the name stuck.

[AZZA]

Mines a nic name I get called by some, was just going to use my name, but there was already an Aaron on the site. Being a construction foreman I get called quite a few different names that are a bit rude so I thought azza would be best.

[bootyinblue]

Booty = ass

Blue = the obvious.

Apparently its something to do with my butt in uniform (or so I have been told....) But I am not that modest or anything, so there is no need to agree or pay me compliments.

Feral - I too gave up the booze about 20 years ago, cause that was the day I found rum!!

[geebz]

geebz, cause im a geebin and gammin (i talk alot of shit)

Also sometimes cause of ask jeeves, ask geebz i know alot of useless information.

[Rocket75]

Bump....any more stories behind names?

[owner]

im into owner hooks so decide to become the owner.

paul

[Bri The Pom]

Need i say anything.

[Dinodadog]

I was singing at work when I was about 20 when a co worker said I sound like Dino, I said thanks I have always liked Dean Martin and he said no not that Dino, Dino the dog out of the flintstones. Hence Dinodadog

[pepe66]

When I first started staying with my now wife I had a bad habit of letting wind go in the morning (as I thought all blokes did) and the relationship was made between the aroma and Pepe le Pew the cartoon character (a skunk) and the 66 is the year of my birth. The name stuck and it is used by me in lots of logins etc.

[Kingtin]

well i love a cold tinny or two and have been drinking atleast two cartons of of tooheys cans a week and my missus calls me the king of the tins or kingtin for short

gezz i may just need to grab a tinny on new right now

[Fisher_90]

LMFAO Kingtin, what a legend.

[Dnepr]

Mine is a little "left field"...

The Dnepr is the big river running straight down the centre of Ukraine into the Black Sea... the tricky bit is the pronunciation... it's pronounced "Nipper".

[Rocket75]

Dnepr wrote:

Mine is a little "left field"...

The Dnepr is the big river running straight down the centre of Ukraine into the Black Sea... the tricky bit is the pronunciation... it's pronounced "Nipper".

OK, but why that name????

[Decky]

I first started working as a Decky when i was 15 or 16.Started on the local prawn boats.I also did time on the Combie Trader.

i then did land based jobs for a bit,then when long lining started up out of Mooloolaba i spent a few years going out to the deepwater on them.Then i got in the habit of going upto the gulf and staights on the prawn boats.

Came back home and found myself working on Charter boats out of Scarborough did this fulltime for a few years.Which leads me to now I work weekends on a charter boat and do a land based job during the week.

And the common thread here you guessed it ima Decky.

[Master Sardines]

When I was a boy I asked my father "Papa how did your father name you?" "Well son my mother gave birth to me & my father came out of Tee Pee to see big black bear, so he named me Big Black Bear." The boy continued."So what of my two sisters names?" "Well son your first sister was born & I went out of Tee Pee to see little white dove & I named her Little White Dove. Your second sister was born & I came out from Tee Pee to see a herd of deer grazing so I named her Grazing Deer. Why do you ask Two Dogs F*%^ing?