Theres been some pretty interesting nicknames and usernames in use on the site, but how did we all come up with them? Some are pretty obvious based upon car / model etc, others a little more obscure. So.....how the heck did you come up with it and why?
As you can tell....Squizy's mine - named after Squizy Taylor, a leader of a smalltime gang in Melbourne at the start of the 1900's.
Through school I had Fish, Guppy, Salmon, Taylorfish....then one day some guy at work called me Squizy, and it's stuck since. Even bosses at work call me Squizy. :duh
Squiz....
[Edited on 22-10-2004 by squizy]
pyr0 路
pyr0 mate call me it when i fire twirl its just the way it is 馃槈
Anthiron 路
i made up my name years ago for the net so as not to use my real name. i later on found out that there was a place in greece (i think it was greece) called Anthiron. i thought this was interesting as i made up the name off the top of my head but the name stuck and i use it for everything on the net.
Anthiron 路
no one gives me any cool names when i firetwirl lol
pyr0 路
no i think it was along the lines of dude your a freakin pyr0 why the hell did you learn to do this:jesus
VWFREAK 路
I've had the nickname of sorts since I was about 15. When I played footy (Aussie Rules, for reserves in Brighton Tassie) my father, brother and I were know as the Bone Crushers, I then joined the Navy at 17 and the became known as Bones. Then later on the old Dak Dak became more of an obsession I came up with Bone Collector as a Tag/buisness name, I also use this as my buisness mane when importing or selling VW items. You tend to get things a little cheaper overseas with an ABN/Buisness name.
My name is actually Peter Bone, hence the Bones,Bone Crusher and Bone Collector names.
It also seem to go with my look, beeing a heavly tattooed person.
buzzbug 路
like bonecollector i am in the military, the home of the original nick name.
with my surname Cutler i get called Cuts.
at school i use to be called Checker after Chubby Checker because of my perfect figure hahahahha
Chewy 路
My mates brother managed to convince his girlfriend that my name was Chewbacca wookie, which she believed for over 6 months in which everyone called me chewy to keep up with the joke, and it stuck :thumb
yep, she was a dumb one..
penguin 路
Another Mil person. RAAFie though, I don't fly so therefore I must be a penguin.
Being short may also have something to do with it......................
barls 路
just one more mil spec unit, barls comes from a shortened version of my surname, although i did have the one barrels for a month or two, but thats a story id rather not tell
barls 路
Boozer wrote:most people can't pronounce my last name- Buhse-BooSee-Boozer. It has nothing to do at all with the fact that i'm an alcoholic...
are you sure :P:P
phantom 路
It would be interesting to have a survey of all the military members on the forum!
I copped my nickname in early high school, my surname of 'Walker' had me receiving all the jokes from the Phantom comics. The nickname stuck from then on.....
ColumBUS 路
squizy im still in high school, people still call me fish!
i got that because i have large lips. black guys walk past me and say 'woah that guys got big lips!'
Daniel - try all you want but you cant give me another fat lip thug!
Boozer 路
most people can't pronounce my last name- Buhse-BooSee-Boozer. It has nothing to do at all with the fact that i'm an alcoholic...
Unity-28 路
28th Member of Unity Lowrider car club in Australia. Everyone thinks Nectar is also a nickname, But Its acually my REAL name.....
N!
ColumBUS 路
im not an alcoholic
im a drunk...
...alcoholics go to meetings
Daniel
Bizarre 路
Mine is Bizarre - dont ask :duh
Twisted youth
Barry
HotRodMatt 路
You know we aer all gonna ask now Barry.
Could it be so banal and pedestrian as
Barry - Bazza - Bizzare?
Bizarre 路
I think it had more to do with the green grass of home and Limited Slip Differentials :alien
[Edited on 22-10-2004 by blue74l]
Canni. 路
got mine after a 8 day hike... short for cannibal... after a game of truth or dare and getting the question "If we were on a desert island who would you eat first?"
BiX 路
5 week school camp, used to get weat-bix for brreakfast and hated them when they are soggy, so always ate them dry, ended up setting a new record for the calss at 15 dry wheat-bix.
BettyBoop 路
Bix - thats GROSS!!! how could you?!?! that makes me feel like i wanna go and drink about 20 glasses of milk to match ur wheat-bix! YUK!
Um.. BettyBoop - those of you who've seen the insides of Millie and all my other posters, tshirts, bags, pins, earnings, phone covers, magnets, stickers, fun licence plates etc will know how much of an obession she is for me!!!!!
You can never have too much of American's most loved and sexy cartoon character!
Ciao
Kat (Kat is shortened full name)
Canni. 路
hehehe bix reminds me what we did during hikes as well... who can scoff a dry weet bix completely in 1 minute...no drink allowed... eugh...
reverend 路
People call me 'crazy bastard' and 'damn pyromaniac' when I fire twirl 馃檪 2 80cm sticks with double kevlar :thumb
anyway the nickname thing... Well there is a site www.ulc.org where you can get ordained online... So I did :P
scottbugged 路
At school I was allways called "beetle" or "buggy" because I was soo thin (like a stick beetle). Didn't own a vw until 3 years after I left school.
silver 路
My hair went silver when I was young, so I got the tag Silver Surfer now people just call me Silver...........
gazza 路
Back in the day of CB radio - my call sign was CB Hotdog (yes going back I know.....)....so I now use it for all internet names (except my partner logged me in to AVD as CBHotdogd- with a 'd' on the end by mistake). But my real name starts with D so that's not too bad......
gazza 路
oops - thought i was logged on as me (CB hotdog) with my story above, but my boyfriend (Gaz) is logged on. His story is Gary/Gaz/Gazza - pretty straight forward.
pod 路
i`ve had mine since high school:thumb
Pod as in pod gut馃槑
also poddy, podderick even my parents and in-laws call me pod and use it as well on the ol CB:blah:blah:blah
beerdoc 路
After reading all your names mines a bit boring
I have a bussiness called The Beer Doctor
Installing beer systems
Get called Doc mostly but for the net doc is usually always taken
Boozer 路
barls wrote:
Boozer wrote:most people can't pronounce my last name- Buhse-BooSee-Boozer. It has nothing to do at all with the fact that i'm an alcoholic...
are you sure :P:P
Yes, I don't have an alcohol problem. I drink, get drunk, fall down, no problem.:thumb
kodokmerahjambu 路
Got the nickname from my first car which was a 61 beetle and I painted shocking pink. The name came from Indonesian word which means 'pink frog'. My car is white now though, maybe I should change it.
barls 路
Boozer wrote:
barls wrote:
Boozer wrote:most people can't pronounce my last name- Buhse-BooSee-Boozer. It has nothing to do at all with the fact that i'm an alcoholic...
are you sure :P:P
Yes, I don't have an alcohol problem. I drink, get drunk, fall down, no problem.:thumb
not bad but i do have a drinking problem 2 hands and only one mouth 馃榾馃榾
VWFREAK 路
Barls, you're a tipical pusser (Navy guy).lol.
barls 路
and thats a problem?? is it
ned 路
im ned because i used to have an HR holden station wagon. I could not afford the unique number plate that i wanted ("HOLDEN") so i turned the word upside down and it read NED 70H.That then became my # plate,later I sold the car and kept the plates, they are on my current beetle, but no one knows the significance of NED 70H, (unless they are a dyslexic reader) they just think (b4 they meet me properly) that its my name, and so now it sort of is.
twoguns 路
i go hard at everything. i believe in all or nothing. a mate, years ago, said i was like 'yosemite sam with both guns blazing'. later in the night that turned into 'twoguns', which has stuck ever since.