Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - Forum Names

So how did you come up with yours. Some are obvious but others have to have a story behind them. Myself, on many other forums I go by BigUgly but someone here already had that. I say the big part was obvious but the calling me ugly was jealousy.:thumb:Since that was taken I go by youcoming. Basically all I ever heard when I joinied th ecycling club was, youcoming, so I thought it was a pretty good handle. Now I use it in reverse....haha!

The name of my bike.

Back in March of 2000 when I started cycling again, I jokingly asked my wife if I looked like one of those winos' in the neighborhood you see riding beat up old bikes down to the liquor store. I thought the name was funny because wino rider is the exact opposite of what I am and what I ride.

Its just a funny handle I like.

I took mine after my favorite racehorse ......http://www.thoroughbredchampions.com/biographies/dahoss.htm
Cashed some very nice tickets with this horse.

When I was a yearold, my Daddy sat me on his knee and said, "'from this moment on, you shall be known as Mr. Beans".:D

Lots of friends, all my uncles, half my cousins really do call me Mr. Beanz. Dad calls me "Beans". I just changed the 's' to a 'z' for the cool factor. Didn't help though!:roflmao2:

There it is, right there on my bike!:D
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/gulpxtreme/MrBeans.jpg

So how did you come up with your [Forum Name]. Some are obvious but others have to have a story behind them...

See this previous thread with 97 posts, "What's the origin of your user name," started 8-22-02, through 8-28-08:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=13886


Jim from Boston. D'uh.

I occasionally call into radio talk shows as Jim from Boston (I'm sure they would disallow my real moniker of Dr. Perfect.) My favorite calls have been to a couple of WRKO Boston hosts, in particular Howie Carr, who have railed against bicyclists. My subtitle when I call or write the station is "Your Number One Fan among Boston's Bicycle Commuters."

See this previous thread with 97 posts, "What's the origin of your user name," started 8-22-02, through 8-28-08:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=13886

Yeah, but that isn't in the Clyde section, it is in General.


I have always been "flipper", but flipper was taken on the first forum I joined 15 years or so ago back with my 9600 baud modem. I was also a street rodder for many years and built many engines so the 18436572 was second nature to me also. I just put them together. For those of you not car freaks, 18436572 is the firing order of a small block Chevy.

First initial, last name.

Creative huh?

Yeah, but that [previous thread about Forum Names] isn't in the Clyde section, it is in General.

This is off-topic, but I read about 14 Forums, and I find there is a lot of cross-over. For example a lot of threads about winter cycling are found in the Commuter and Road Cycling Forum, even though there is a Winter Cycling Forum. Likewise, some threads of interest to Clydes and Athenas might be found in the Training and Nutrition, and Fifty-plus Forums.

Jim,

I got your PM. I think there is always a lot of crossover when you have that many different forums within a site. But, I usually spend my Bike Forums time in Clydes. I have posted in Road and Triathlon but very limited. This was the first time for me in the General forum that I can remember, unless it was like your post where someone posted a link to another forum thread.

Mine was created for a Nascar fantasy racing league. It is a takeoff off Face the Nation utilizing race for the racing league and my last name is Nation.

I've always been a very mechanical thinker. I think in gears and numbers, hence gearhead, followed by the year I was born. People who don't recognize gearhead as a "car guy" kind of term assume that I have headgear like the kind used in orthodontics work. :)

Mine's a carry over from my vintage motorcycle hobby and a forum I used to hang out in.

Mine's a combination of what I do for a living and probably my main hobby.

D

Mine was chosen for me as a reaction to a silly indiscretion on my part. I signed a newsgroup post with my title "Historian, Pennsylvania State Chess Federation" beneath my name. And for years this is what I endured:

*********
"As noted, every reader on this forum understands that "The Historian"
refers not to exceptional status enjoyed by The Historian but to the utter
pomposity of someone who would arrive on this forum by referring to a
meaningless title and who will not simply say, "Okay, that was a pompous
gesture. I really ought to laugh at myself a bit more because I would then be
less laughable."

Readers know the phrase, "The
Historian," appertains because The Historian is a pompous nit.

Readers are aware that I titled one rgcp participant, "The Historian," because
he appeared here signing himself as the historian of the Pennsylvania State
Chess Federation in an exercise of absurd pomposity. My point was that the
phrase, "The Historian," is a way of pigeon-holing a prancing nit. The phrase
was an exercise in irony. [Another poster] argued that I misrepresented the rgcp
participant's self-description which was, in one instance, "Historian PSCF."
The point was that Our Historian only thinks of himself as a historian rather
than as "The Historian." I said bunkum to that. The phrase, "The Historian," was clearly meant as an
exercise in irony -- whether withering or heavy-handed was and is up to the
reader to judge.

*********

There's a lot more, but more only means louder in this case. :)

Well anyway, after a couple of years I adopted the screen name "The Historian" and jokes stopped. I'll let you folks determine if I've stopped being a pompous, prancing nit. :)

Like bautieri, I have never had an original or creative idea in my life:)

To the crossover subject. I like it here. Its big, warm and fuzzy. :hug:

Jay

I work for a video game hardware and software review website, GamingNexus.com

We all have user names for xbox and the like so we can identify each other in games.

I like technology and i have always seemed to know a lot about it, so technology became TechKnow, add the GN for Gaming Nexus and there you have it. I go by a different handle in hockey forums.

And I visit other forums based on what I want to talk about. Here its mostly clyde specific or about my rides as I am a clyde, my rides belong here. But I wont hesitate to hop over to commuter to learn about commuter gear, or to the triathlon thread to do some learning there as well.

I spend most of my non-clyde time in Foo though.

prancing nit. :)

:roflmao2: Lots of Character rolled into your forum name, in more ways then one.;)

Jay

I just use my name.

Evey time I try to come up with an INTERNET name it has always been taken.
So after five or so trys I give up and go with simple.
Five bikes in the garage = 10 Wheels.

I work with html and other web languages. In html there are open html <html> tags and close html tags </html>.

The close tag basically means it is ending that piece of html.

So </intolerance> basically means end intolerance.

I think I used it as my name because at the time I was getting an electric bike and everyone was putting me down for it. The electric bike actually turned out to be a really big (and heavy) mistake.

Clifton = neighbourhood I lived in when I came up with the name
GK = Goal Keeper (position I used to play on a beer-league soccer team)
1 = my jersey number when I played goalie

I ride so hard so fast for so long I am always looping back to collect stragglers

or

I am the straggler, and where I am, is the loopback address

Neil, you can be one, but you're OUR pompous, prancing nit and we've grown used to you and wouldn't have you any other way. ;)


Mine is my real first name and my old radio handle when I was trucking. I got tagged with Stormcrowe because I was a wizard at routing, and in the winter, if you ever wanted to find me, pick the point where the winter storm was the worst and chances were that that's where I'd be at. :p


Mine was chosen for me as a reaction to a silly indiscretion on my part. I signed a newsgroup post with my title "Historian, Pennsylvania State Chess Federation" beneath my name. And for years this is what I endured:

*********
"As noted, every reader on this forum understands that "The Historian"
refers not to exceptional status enjoyed by The Historian but to the utter
pomposity of someone who would arrive on this forum by referring to a
meaningless title and who will not simply say, "Okay, that was a pompous
gesture. I really ought to laugh at myself a bit more because I would then be
less laughable."

Readers know the phrase, "The
Historian," appertains because The Historian is a pompous nit.

Readers are aware that I titled one rgcp participant, "The Historian," because
he appeared here signing himself as the historian of the Pennsylvania State
Chess Federation in an exercise of absurd pomposity. My point was that the
phrase, "The Historian," is a way of pigeon-holing a prancing nit. The phrase
was an exercise in irony. [Another poster] argued that I misrepresented the rgcp
participant's self-description which was, in one instance, "Historian PSCF."
The point was that Our Historian only thinks of himself as a historian rather
than as "The Historian." I said bunkum to that. The phrase, "The Historian," was clearly meant as an
exercise in irony -- whether withering or heavy-handed was and is up to the
reader to judge.

*********

There's a lot more, but more only means louder in this case. :)

Well anyway, after a couple of years I adopted the screen name "The Historian" and jokes stopped. I'll let you folks determine if I've stopped being a pompous, prancing nit. :)

I was working at an auto dealership and was basically named SpeedXl by racer/mechanic friends when I use to race cars.

Its was derived from one guy ( Jamaican) calling me speed racer extra large, so speedXL came about. Its been my handle on every forum I have joined for the past 14 years. Its sounded funny when my buddy said it with his accent and 6 redstipe beer's! yeah Mon!

Bearsy's Revenge is a song from a friend's band.

My other hobby is racing cars. My '01 Camaro SS came with an LS1 engine. At the time I got it, a lot of the Camaro owners on the forums I surfed had older cars with LT1 engines. gotls1 was sort of a "got milk?" taunt. :p

H-huge
A-@$$
W-White
G-Guy

=HAWG

Its what the Offensive Lineman at my high school called themselves. When I played I adopted the name for my Online gaming, and then Forums

He's ...Just This Guy...You Know?

Esoteric quote found in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. (A reporter describing Zaphod)

Ceste moi! (without, of course, the additional head)

Depending on how well you recall your Jr High reading assignments, the character is relatively well known.

Why did I choose it? Well, back in my early days in this medium (when a 1200 baud modem was screaming!) I detected a tendency among a percentage of the on-line population to [ahem] overstate their personal knowledge, experiences, and etc.. So as a not-too-subtle jab at a particular situation I would don my "Walter Mitty" persona and pontificate ad nauseum on something I could obviously and gloriously know nothing about. It certainly gave me a chuckle.

As time has gone by I have stuck with it because I get a laugh out of it every once in a while. Someone will ID the character and make some funny comment. It also serves as something of a reminder of where I am and who we all may be. :thumb:

Back when I was in college P. Diddy (Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy, etc...Sean Combs) was all the rage amongst the cool kids. I got the name B Piddy, cause it fits really good with my first initial and last name. Just kinda stuck among me and my friends. I don't even like his music, or rap/hip-hop, but whatever.

I'm stubborn and "stick" with things until I get them right.After the guys that work for me saw the movie Animal House many years ago,the "boss" got a new nickname.

You can't use your real name in my shop if you work for me,takes all the fun out of it.I have people with names like Rat,Foureyes,Yo Momma,Dumbass,makes work much more fun.The customers laugh like crazy when I tell Rat to go get Dumbass and look at that engine or whatever....LOL!

I'm stubborn and "stick" with things until I get them right.After the guys that work for me saw the movie Animal House many years ago,the "boss" got a new nickname.

You can't use your real name in my shop if you work for me,takes all the fun out of it.I have people with names like Rat,Foureyes,Yo Momma,Dumbass,makes work much more fun.The customers laugh like crazy when I tell Rat to go get Dumbass and look at that engine or whatever....LOL!


You can only use that name if you can belch for longer than 2 minutes. :)

Since I stole youcomings screen name I feel compelled to explain why I use BigUgly:). I played and coached football in my younger years. I was an offensive lineman and coached offensive lineman at the high school level. The great college football commentator Kieth Jackson coined the term Big Uglies to refer to the offensive lineman who battle in the trenches every play. They only get recognized when they screw up by way of a penalty for illegal motion or holding. They usually never receive any recognition for a job well done. They are the unsung hereos most of the time during a football game. It's the pretty boy skill players that get all the press. The O-line players are usually big and ugly (cause they are smashing heads every play) and don't care what they look like and take pride in the job they do albiet quietly. BigUgly to me has a pride factor to it, cause I am not embarrased by being a big guy and I really don't give a hoot how I look(hence a fat guy wearing spandex out in public).

I like bikes and I like cats. I had briefly played with the name Psychokitty but that lacked cycling spirit. I thought of Psychocyclo but then I realized that sounded nuts and when I tried the name out to my friends it turns out none of them think I'm the least unhinged. But Cyclokitty was liked by all.

Mine is from my old days of habitual golfing. At the time there seemed to be lots of Texan-type names "Joe Don", "Billy Ray" and the like, emerging on the tour. I am a southern expatriate, so, for a swashbuckling aura, I became the long-hitting "billydon" to a select few golfing friends. Then when it came time to pick my first online username I settled on billydonn, the billydon (with one n) having already been taken. I now use this username on several email accounts and forums... it's easy to remember. My real name does not involve any "billys" or "williams" at all and only one person that I can think of still really calls me "billydon".

Mine is from a nickname a co-worker give me years ago. Osito (Little Bear), I was about 275lbs full beard and slightly long hair. Later when I started brewing beer and I called it Little Bear Beer. The name has stuck around for abot 25 years. So when I joined BF I became lbear.

Little Bear Beer label.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e156/rrost54/LittleBearColor-1.jpg

Several years ago I was at a family reunion where I was reunited with my biological father's family. I was named after my father, Darwin.

So, even though I am 5 or 6 inches taller, and outweigh him by 150 pounds, the family who hadn't seen me in 30 years had always wondered "What ever happened to Little Darwin" so, I was called Little Darwin several times during the reunion.

At the end there was a fun awards ceremony, and I was introduced me as Little Darwin, and then she looked at me walking up and said Darwin Junior, but I corrected the presenter, and said it was Little Darwin... So, a little family background, and a lot of irony for someone 350 pounds. I weighed a little more then.

A few years ago, I did a season of biological field work in pinyon pine - one-seed juniper woodlands in southeastern Colorado. Pinyon pine trees are usually short and small, but they live in a really dry and harsh environment for hundreds of years (we saw some 600+ years old where I worked). In the desert landscapes where pinyon trees grow, the temperature fluctuates from -20 F to 120 F almost every single year. Tough trees. I also think that pinyon-juniper woodlands smell good in the summer (hot pines, junipers, and grasses; with intermittent spicebush and skunk-bush smells).

Nature freak here. Sorry.

My name came as a result of an outing with my mom. I had just lost all my weight (which I am now doing again….10-15 years later) and was a svelte size 8. We went off to shop at Bloomingdales for clothes and found the designer sales rack. So this was back in the day – had a lot of velour back then. So we went in the dressing room and I tired on an outfit – navy blue velour pants and a top – navy blue and yellow thick stripes. Well I looked in the mirror and said Buzz Buzz (Think of the Bees in the SNL skit with John Belushi). My mom and I cracked up. So I became Miss Bumble whenever I joined a forum.

Mom plays online poker and she is Bumble’s Mom.

Also if someone has a cute Bee Smilie please send me the website so I can add it to my smilies....


PS I am really loving this thread... very fun reading.

We live in Arizona and ride custom ZONA tandem.
Simply twice the fun!
While we are neither Clyde or Athena, do occasionaly check out this forum.
Pedal on TWOgether!
Rudyand Kay/zonatandem

mine started when i was young. kids would ask me if i was Chinese and others for some reason thought i was Hawaiian. so they started to call me flying Hawaiian. the last time i was called that, my friend at the time dared this kid to call me flying Hawaiian when they came to my work. as i went to go jump over the counter my other friend dragged me into the garage before i killed him(i happed to be in a very bad mood that day, hence the other nick name angry asian). that kid is now a very good friend of mine and we joke about it from time to time so it kinda changed to flying asian. and since i have always been faster, stronger, and more athletic than anybody my size it just became fastflyingasian instead of being called fastflyinghawaiian.

now a days i am not really offended by to much anymore. when i was a kid, on top of everyone else i was called every racial slur that would describe anybody of asian decent. it was just natural that being called hawaiian would feel no different than being called g--k or chi-k.

now i think its kinda halarious and have a new mascot on my MTB. its a yellow duck and it quacks when you press its stomach. it pisses my friends off when its quacking as i pass them on the climbs.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j170/fastflyingasian/duck.jpg

Mine came from my wallet.

Mines just my name.

I wanted UncleJoey since I am an uncle to 6 kiddos BUT someone beat me to it.

...So now I am UncleJoey...and not the one from "Full House"...

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh223/joeslow/AddiandLilly.jpg
6 month Adi and 10 month lily. They made my finals a living hell.

Mine name comes from the bike I ride Zipp2001. I fell in love with the bike when I read an article on beam bikes in Bicycle Guide in early 90's. I presently own 3 of them, but will be down to 2 in a couple of weeks. Sold my Zipp with 40,000+ miles to a friend who is picking it up after the holidays.

Well, my name is Ed, and the nick name was given to me by a former boss who liked to tease me about my easy going nature. He never could decide if I was relaxed, or just lazy. He started calling me "Easy Ed" and it just stuck.

I'm an unmarried female condor.

back in 2004 I started this email account and i was a Dive Controll Sepcialist for SSI(scuba schools internation) and really into diving. first think i could think of at the time

Since I stole youcomings screen name I feel compelled to explain why I use BigUgly:). I played and coached football in my younger years. I was an offensive lineman and coached offensive lineman at the high school level. The great college football commentator Kieth Jackson coined the term Big Uglies to refer to the offensive lineman who battle in the trenches every play. They only get recognized when they screw up by way of a penalty for illegal motion or holding. They usually never receive any recognition for a job well done. They are the unsung hereos most of the time during a football game. It's the pretty boy skill players that get all the press. The O-line players are usually big and ugly (cause they are smashing heads every play) and don't care what they look like and take pride in the job they do albiet quietly. BigUgly to me has a pride factor to it, cause I am not embarrased by being a big guy and I really don't give a hoot how I look(hence a fat guy wearing spandex out in public).


Amen brother, Preaching to the choir. Fellow big Ugly right here.

I think I qualify
http://triton.imageshack.us/Himg187/scaled.php?server=187&filename=picture083xa6.jpg&xsize=578&ysize=480
That is a Big Ugly ready to do business in the trenches.

Pic 0f me in High School cant find any from College