User Names, where did yours come from?

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

User names, and where did it come from.

A couple of people have asked me recently where I got my user name, Red Spider from. Well here's the story.

Way back in 1980 my first car, Mk 1 Ford Escort, had a coming together with a lamp post on the way to work one morning. It needed a new wing, front panel and bonnet, the second hand bonnet I got from a scrap yard was from an earlier car than mine and had the screen wash jets on it, so rather than leaving a hole I put some legs on, painted it and turned it around.

It didn't really have a name back then until I needed a handle when I got a CB radio and a work mate said "well you've got that Red Spider thing on your bonnet", and I became Red Spider.

The Escort went, so did CB and the spider got put in the loft with my modelling stuff. When I joined a modelling forum and needed a user name it was time to dig it out, give it a fresh coat of paint and Red Spider lived again.

 

So what's the story with yours?

[TAFKARM]

I've been on enough forums and too enough forum meets to realise it's eaier to have my name, than introduce myself as something like "Shaggy Bombastic 82".

[B.RAD]

My initials

[Mooch]

I've been Mooch since early teens.  Brother-in-law came up with it as a reference to my propensity for lying in bed until the afternoon, as I did quite a bit then.  On joining the RAF, nicknames were the norm and rather than be given one in the first days of joining up, which would probably not have been a complimentary one, I offered up 'Mooch' and it stuck, at least it did during my airman service.  It was quietly dropped when I was commissioned, but family and some old friends still use it.

[John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO]

i have black eyes and look like a panda

[fatbaldbloke]

Looked in the mirror...

[Marto303]

I've been Marto for years and a good shot 

[Marto303]

I've been on enough forums and too enough forum meets to realise it's eaier to have my name, than introduce myself as something like "Shaggy Bombastic 82".

 

 

Scott, I need your assistance again for a temporary user name change please     

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Be careful what you wish for... 

 

[Marto303]

Be careful what you wish for... 

 

 

Oh go on Dave, I dare you 

[Chris Hooper]

It's my name ........

My email address is

chrisinbanbury@yahoo.co.uk

It's my name and were I lived at the time

I'm a simple soul at heart.

[pistonbroke]

Because I was usually as the name implies , the one leading to the other 

 

(substitute 'on for and ' ) 

 

   

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

marcusa bet me to it 

[cidersurfer]

I like cider and used to surf.

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

I could have used my nickname from when I was a kid, but in this politically correct world it wouldn't go down too well. In fact I saw an old friend yesterday who greeted me with " ey up .... how you doing"