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Mar 2019
9:17am, 20 Mar 2019
30,015 posts
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Derby Tup
A tup is indeed a male sheep or ram. The Rams is the nickname of my home town (city actually, following Royal charter in 1977) team
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Mar 2019
9:17am, 20 Mar 2019
38,883 posts
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McGoohan
"Who did your makeup? You look like a badger"
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Mar 2019
9:20am, 20 Mar 2019
10,209 posts
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Cerrertonia
Had to think up a user name on a website about 15-20 years ago and there was a packet of ceratonia siliqua (carob tree) seeds next to the PC. Changed the spelling on here a couple of years back because I wanted to find some things with google.
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Mar 2019
9:23am, 20 Mar 2019
32,557 posts
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Night-owl
Because I work nights and I am.
I'm not a morning person.
Used to be Pammie because that's what people called me. I fancied a change
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Mar 2019
9:23am, 20 Mar 2019
20,106 posts
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Meglet
One of those nicknames partially made up from my real name, by uni mates I think.
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Mar 2019
9:24am, 20 Mar 2019
33,951 posts
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Nellers
When I first joined up (2009) I just used my own name with no space. GregP, who is colloquially known as Greppers in certain parts of the forum, began to call me Nellers (My Real Life first name is Neil) and it kind of stuck. After only a matter of a month or 2 I stopped fighting it and changed my Fetchname to match. I've been Nellers almost ever since.
I did change to "Jingle Nells" one Christmas and in the January when I came to change back some joker had set themselves up as Nellers (on an unused profile so it was someone just pi55ing me about!), and for a month or 2 I was "Therealnellers" and "Theartistformerlyknownasnellers" and various almost humorous combinations like that but eventually Mr F sorted it out and Nellers was reborn.
I've never done a Xmas name since though.
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Mar 2019
9:26am, 20 Mar 2019
2,530 posts
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Goofee
I had very sticky out teeth as a kid and changed schools quite a lot, default nickname at any new place was always Goofy, which I hated. When I started using online forums I decided to reclaim the language of oppression and became Goofy. It soon became impossible to get 'Goofy' on any site I joined so I went for 'Goufae' as a sort of mock archaic spelling but found that pronunciation varied (unsurprisingly) so on Fetch changed to the more straightforward spelling still in use to this day!
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Mar 2019
9:29am, 20 Mar 2019
2,944 posts
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K5 Gus
Many years ago, when I thought it was cool to have a personalised numberplate, I got myself K5 GUS :-
- my first name is Angus ( often called Gus by mates )
- my surname is Kay so get my whole surname, phonetically if not actual spelling-wise
- 5 was the only one available at DVLA but has no significance to me
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Mar 2019
9:32am, 20 Mar 2019
25,166 posts
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HellsBells
Hells for Helen, Bells because I've been a campanology widow since before we were married 27 years ago. My avatar is the bells at Great St Marys in Cambridge which were replaced a few years ago and hung in a new frame designed by Mr HB.
My name is also appropriate as I lost 40% of the hearing in my left ear due to squishing right up to the speakers at ACDC, Quo and Whitesnake gigs around 1980!
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Mar 2019
9:37am, 20 Mar 2019
33,952 posts
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Nellers
Whitesnake! Whitesnake? Really? I though better of you HB (Except for the bits Steve Vai played on).
Actually there's another thread idea. If it's not a picture of you why did you choose your avatar pic? And even if it is you, why that particular pic to represent the you that you want us to see?
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