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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Here's one for a Friday. I've been off this forum for a while - just came back as I've radically changed my commute and so was looking for the latest chat. I was pleased to see so many familiar names from 2011.

    Now, how did you all chose your user names? Is chdot Swiss? Does Greenroofer actually have a living roof on his house/bike shed? Is Wilmington's Cow actually a cow? Is allebong a French smoking enthusiast called Al?

    I'll start - Yellow Pages advert from the eighties. Dad gives his son the racing bike he's always wanted, but which his dad says is impractical and uncomfortable. As the son rides off for the first time by dawn's early light, dad observes proudly from the bedroom window, muttering the famous words.

    Covers my tendency to be both paternal and pedantic...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. threefromleith
    Member

    Mine's the name of my music podcast. I really should have thought of a more interesting username...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. cb
    Member

    See also:

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502

    Not a very exciting story as far as I'm concerned. Tempted to claim it's something from here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB

    E.g. I'm a huge fan of Chef Boyardee canned food.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. fimm
    Member

    fimm is kind of my initials (with addition of the second letter of my first name).

    I also blog as wisob - that pseudonym came out of one of my first posts on this very forum. We were discussing normal clothing "versus" lycra and I remarked that sometimes I'm a MAWIL and sometimes I'm a woman in a suit on a Brompton which someone else abbreviated to WISOB.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. Roibeard
    Member

    Roibeard (strictly Roibeárd) is the Irish spelling of Robert, and usually available as a username...

    It's also what my "other" passport says!

    Robert

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    @cb like so many childhood faves, it's not as good as I remember it being :)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. algo
    Member

    I remember that advert - it was eerily similar to the experience of getting my first bike except I picked it up from the shop with my Dad. Usually if my Dad asked me to go on a walk with him it meant I was in big trouble and he knew that - I still remember the change in emotion from abject fear to disbelief standing in the bike shop now...

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    as for mine - it's excruciatingly boring - algo is "something" in Spanish, and a shortening of the awful pun which is the name of my (latin jazz) band...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. amir
    Member

    Better than "nada"

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. algo
    Member

    mais que nada?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. cb
    Member

    "it's not as good as I remember it being"

    A slight on my username!! Outrageous!

    I'd never heard of it, but reckoned it hailed from the other side of the Atlantic. Have now looked at the Wikipedia page.

    Why do I find American (and possibly Canadian) food packaging so unattractive? Often as if it is the last thing in the shop I would want to buy. Does anyone else find this?

    SRD, do you get the same thing but the other way around?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. SRD
    Moderator

    @cb do you mean on american store shelves, or stuff that is marketed over here as 'american' food? not sure the latter is a fair representation of the former.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  12. jdanielp
    Member

    Mine is an amalgamation of university login names: jdp (my full initials) and danielp (I go by my middle name).

    Posted 10 years ago #

  13. Smudge
    Member

    My surname meant in one particular job, being named Smudge was inevitable, now years later some friends know me by my given name, some as Smudge, and here I am as Smudge

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. cb
    Member

    @SRD, I'm referring to the former, although to be fair I'm not often browsing food stores in America.

    I think what I'm trying to get at is that the style of packaging seems to be very different between the US and the UK with the former seeming to me quite brash and gaudy.
    Sometimes here you get the feeling that more time has been invested in package design than the actual product whereas in America they slap on a caricuture of a ruddy faced chef holding out a plate of something inedible and give it a name like, Mr Chuckle's Cheesy Pork Strings.
    Hmm, maybe I'm not being particularly fair here.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. stiltskin
    Member

    Well that has spoiled that illusion. I was under the impression that one of our members had a particularly regal sprout of facial hair....

    Posted 10 years ago #

  16. Charterhall
    Member

    I was looking to change my username but couldn't see how. Is there an option I haven't noticed ?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  17. gembo
    Member

    You can change your handle as Wilm Cow famously did after a self enforced exile to escape from the extreme pedantry the forum can lapse in to at times.feel free to correct me if I got that wrong. Mine is just my name, tho techincally that should be Mr Gembo. I was going to change to Too Much Gambo which is grafitti on Easter hailes tunnel

    Posted 10 years ago #

  18. SRD
    Moderator

    see also: http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1725

    Posted 10 years ago #

  19. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I was under the impression that one of our members had a particularly regal sprout of facial hair…

    One of them does!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  20. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    Mine is because I wish I could go faster :)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  21. wee folding bike
    Member

    I'm quite fond of a Brompton.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  22. Greenroofer
    Member

    Mine is because I do indeed have a living roof on my bikeshed. Here is a view at a more attractive time of year...

    For those who are interested it includes Sedum, Sempervivum, Armeria, Iris, Saxifraga, Cyclamen and a mysterious small tree-shaped succulent which I can't identify and just appeared by itself and is quite pretty.

    Happy to discuss the lessons I learned while doing it, if you want to do one yourself...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  23. Pocopiglet
    Member

    OOH, pretty! Local school has a grass/ seeded roof but it always seems to have rampant red thread.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  24. deckard112
    Member

    The lead character from one of my favorite films, Bladerunner. Not particularly cycling related!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  25. Stickman
    Member

    Mine is a reference to the extent of my artistic abilities - at a corporate "team building" event we were asked to draw self-portraits and a stickman is all I could manage.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  26. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Nice work on the bike shed, Greenroofer! I'm having a garage/workshop built at the moment, but the roof will be transparent for green reasons....

    Posted 10 years ago #

  27. Tulyar
    Member

    Well there was a particularly good year for this stallion, although I could also lay claim to being almost a Georgian..

    When are you shaving the beard off then A...?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  28. gembo
    Member

    Kaputnik still hirsutnik

    Uberuce still bearded

    Those are the two banjo playing soggy bottom boy, zz top style beards on this forum

    Posted 10 years ago #

  29. wee folding bike
    Member

    A bit more like Kojak here.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  30. allebong
    Member

    You are sadly only 1/3rd correct with your speculation about the origins of my username. I am neither French nor a smoker, but my first name is frequently shortened to either Al or Ali. At primary school Ali Bali was quite a common nickname, more recently through some convoluted process I can't quite remember, alli-bongo became the most frequent greeting from my friends. Now shortened and altered slightly to what you see now.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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