Your user name, what does it mean...?

[gpw42]

My vehicle (1942 Ford GPW)

 

Tim V

[Dotty Dodge]

Dotty Dodge is what my dodge was called when i bought her so i thought i would

carry on using it and use it for my forum name.

 

Rowan

[stanpart57]

Before I got the Jeep I was (and still am) heavily into Triumph cars, STANPART was Standard Triumphs trade name for spare parts, on its own the name had already been used, so I added 57, a significant year in my life!

Should probably have got a new 'handle' for Jeep things but my memories not what it used to be....................................

 

Regards

Paul

[MilitantGraham]

Graham Phillips and I am best known at shows for driving a Militant, hence MilitantGraham.

[TooTallMike]

I'm 6'6". According to friends this is 'too tall'. I think it's normal - everyone else is just short.

[saracenstump]

my nickname is "stump"and i own a saracen not really interesting :dunno:

[abn deuce]

its abn deuce , which stands for Airborne Deuce.

I guess it would be more properly thought of as an airportable but couldn't come up with an easily recognizable abbreviation

Because thats the most significant feature of my HMV a 1944 GMC CCKW353H-1

[Joris]

What can I say, Joris is my real name and Bolero was just fantastic!

[lightweight]

Lightweight, 'cos I've got one!

 

There are 3 Martin Smith's where I work (on the duties we appear as Smith M, Smith MA and Smith MAR - who says the Civil Service is unimaginative!) so it seemed reasonable to assume that there would also be lots out in computerland. To be honest I was amazed that 'Lightweight' wasn't already taken.

 

Am always Lightweight on every forum I frequent. I generally refer to my son as Lighterweight, although he prefers WW2MP (his particular area of interest)

[Mrs Hardyferret]

Mrs Hardyferret because I am Married to Hardyferret :dunno:

 

 

Hardyferret - on the lines of his porn star name -

Pets name = Hardy vehicle = a ferret

 

As the said ferret is now going to a new home with another member of the forum his name may soon need to be changed to his second porn star name- Puzzlepig

other pets name = Puzzle

other vehicle = Pig (well actually now its 2 pigs)

 

 

[N.O.S.]

New Old Stock, a term given to spare parts which are new (to the forum) but have been hanging around for a long time not doing much (definitely not.....).

 

Our army chucked anything over 18 years old out, a lot of which I seem to have subsequently acquired to make useful work machinery from. A bit of a hoarder I'm afraid.

 

It always amazes me where this stuff keeps coming from, like crated N.O.S. jimmy cab doors at W&P. Apparently there are still barns and sheds across France full up with the stuff, just forgotten.

 

A few years back I found a customer at work looking around my trucks, turns out he was just retired from RAF and had been out in the Falklands.

 

He was given the task of making secure storage for missiles and warheads, they found a remote level plateau and bulldozed the black volcanic sand up into high bund walls to create a screened compound.

 

He stood in the middle with his mate, admiring their work when suddenly they both disappeared into the ground. They had fallen 10 ft into a 35 ft Romney shed full up with crated WW2 M.V. spares!

 

It turns out the Americans used the island as a staging post for flying planes around the globe, and at the end of the war had simply bulldozed the site and totally covered the buildings.

 

The RAF boys found one more shed and had all the stuff 'Hercules'ed back to Lincolnshire. Wonder where it ended up?.........

[Grumpy]

Nick name I was given a long long time ago when I was in the music business – Still suits me rather well, just ask my family and friends :whistle:

[LeeEnfield]

I was driving this

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Messed myself up a bit and my mates gave me the name. At least I got to meet Jimmy saville :-D

 

 

:-o...OUCH !!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Mine, cause I also belong to a reenacting forum, and 'do' infantry,.....(or did, before bedford came along).............Lee Enfield No4, riflemans best friend, so hence forum name,.................thinking about changing it on here to something more appropriate,...................who knows. :dunno:

 

Andy

[Grasshopper]

I was named named Grasshopper (anyone seen the film Karate kid....) by a friend who led me down the"dark path" of tracked armour. There I was, happily playing with land Rover 101s and Matadors, and he saw fit to take me under his wing and "educate me" in the way of CVRTs. I now know more than I never wanted to about tanks, and have been well and truely bitten by the armour bug.

 

To think, my involvement in tracked armour can be traced back to fitting a helicoil in the hull for an engine mounting about 4 years ago, then it was "could you just help fit this engine/gearbox.......).

 

Vince.

[ChrisPWRR]

Chris - my name

Pwrr - my old regiment

[79x100]

79x100 is the bore x stroke of a 500cc Norton single engine (until the post-war Manxes went "short-stroke" )

 

In Norton circles it is a term spoken with reverence. Proper engines have proper long strokes.

 

If I had a WM20, I'd have to call myself 82x94 and that doesn't sound nearly so impressive - sort of short and fat :-)

 

I chose a user name because I thought it was the done thing but on forums that I've joined since I use my real name and I actually feel more comfortable with that.

 

Rich

 

I am not a number... I am a free man !

[Joris]

We can change your name if you want to, just send me a PM.

[andreadavide]

andreadavide: simply my name. Davide (David) was added to Andrea (in Italy a male name) because I was born at the start of the six days war and my father was... erm... an Israeli supporter 8-)

Andrea

[AlienFTM]

Alien = Neil A backwards

 

FTM is a footballing thing. If you know what it means, you know what it means; if you don't, think of it as a TRL (three random letters) like the random numbers some sites add to your chosen name to uniquetise it, except they are character, not numeric.

 

In this case FTM has absolutely NOTHING whatever to do with transsexuality, other than unfortunate coincidence.

[Jessie The Jeep]

Alien = Neil A backwards

 

FTM is a footballing thing. If you know what it means, you know what it means; if you don't, think of it as a TRL (three random letters) like the random numbers some sites add to your chosen name to uniquetise it, except they are character, not numeric.

 

 

FTM - Something every Sunderland fan knows!!! :whistle:

 

Steve

[MiketheBike]

Mick - firstname

Kearney - surname

 

I come from a long line of Mick's...in fact I am the first generation in my family who is not really a Mick...being born in the UK.

 

I actually meant to have a nickname of "mikethebike"...thats what I use everywhere else, but messed up my registration and was too lazy to change it.

And no....that has no relation to my sexual prowess....I used to be a keen bike racer (the pedal variety) and still try to get out whenever I can.

 

Mick

[LCplCombat]

 

My last job in the army. I was a Supply Controller RAOC. My job in the establishment at HQ 4 Ord Bn in Herford, as part of HQ 4 Armd Div was in the Combat Supplies office and I was a LCpl. One of the civvie girls went around the HQ building one day asking if anyone wanted a mug with a name on (from one of those marketing mags). It has the 4 Armd Div symbol on the othr side.

 

I needed a loggin for various games on the net and I thought this was dead war'y. And I alread had a mug! :whistle: So I've used it for various websites and forums.

Edited March 22, 2012 by Marmite!!
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[AlienFTM]

 

My last job in the army. I was a Supply Controller RAOC. My job in the establishment at HQ 4 Ord Bn in Herford, as part of HQ 4 Armd Div was in the Combat Supplies office and I was a LCpl. One of the civvie girls went around the HQ building one day asking if anyone wanted a mug with a name on (from one of those marketing mags). It has the 4 Armd Div symbol on the othr side.

 

I needed a loggin for various games on the net and I thought this was dead war'y. And I alread had a mug! :whistle: So I've used it for various websites and forums.

 

 

Lol. I transferred to the RAPC from recce and was posted to a REME Workshop. My Div 2 Mil Acct (Staff Sergeant - himself a failed wannabee infantryman) was so dead proud that his team had a real soldier in its ranks (so real I spent more time on exercise with 12 Armoured Penal Kindergarten than I had ever done in 15/19H) instead of being composed entirely of shiny-bums, that he started a rumour that I was not in fact simply a Military Accountant ("Pay Clerk") but in fact a Combat Accountant.

 

Worst thing was that the REEMs believed him.

[AlienFTM]

I spotted a link to this bottom left of something else entitled something like "Related stories" or something. I didn't remember posting on the thread (which hasn't been added to for over a year) so I revisited. I definitely don't remember posting the last post (above).

 

Amazingly I did this week find something directly relating to the previous post.

 

Having unofficially retraded me from Military Accountant to Combat Accountant, my boss started unofficially retrading lots of people. He informed the master chef (who was a good bloke) that his slop-jockeys - I mean cooks - now had to address him as Combat Chef.

 

As others who have served will tell you, this is most definitely a fundamental dichotomy, but it was a good laugh at the time.

 

Imagine my surprise this week to watch a programme on telly called "Combat Chefs".

 

Laugh? I nearly did.

[Lord Burley]

I gave myself the title due to ancient intresting family history.