WIL-MART128= well my name is will and i hate walmart but i still shop there, so im a hipporcrit hater that believes you should become one with the enemy and i have 128 more easons but im gonna spare you the agony

my first name in local dialect form

I chose mine for the fact that most speakers here are from North America and, being from Australia, I write from basically what is the other side of the world. Those who know me better know that Victoria, BC is my second home, so it kind of makes sense from that point of view too.
Antipodes is also one of the traditional ways in which people from the British Isles refer to Australia and N.Z.

I like ducks and one duck just wasn't enough.

Jesse Benjamin Schmal

Snore. Who knew when I joined that I'd wind up staying for so long!

NEWSFLASH: British people don't speak English anymore!

Actually I was somewhat surprised...I've visited Britian, well England really, three times though the last time was more than 20 years ago. I really expected people to sound like a sketch from Monty Python or Benny Hill at least somewhere but everwhere I went people sounded sort of like BBC newscasters. Even in Harrigate. Disapointing really. Like I was missing out on something

I was trying to remove the fixed cup on a bb at the time...

Casati
I ride it

TOLFAN stands for Tired Of Looking For A Name. It never seems to be taken anyplace. Is my sence of humor realy that off center?

Why do you think that? What is Homestar Runner?

I think that because of the "Burninating!" tag you have under your name.
To those that enjoy Homestar Runner that word comes from a short where one character creates a dragon named Trogdor the Burninator, who goes around burninating things.
https://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
-Gene-

Initials plus I had four Paramounts at the time I signed up, I am down to three now, but I added a Peloton.

Burninating the peasants!

That's why I said traditional. I sure wasn't going to use the culturally cringeworthy phrase "down under" to refer to myself.
No, there isn't one Antipodes, it's just a term that means two places diametrically opposite on the surface of the earth. It also means opposite or contrary, which quite often I am with many things.

Wot he sed !

Back when I was young and angsty, I decided, for whatever ridiculous reason, that I wanted "Pure Evil" as a screen name. Obviously, that was already taken, but it wasn't in Portugese...or Italian....or something. So I used Puro Malvalgio, I think. Over the years, it got shortened, twisted, and strangled into Oscuro through some method that I don't remember.

It's now my SN on everything from E-mail to gaming, so I seem to have adopted it for the long term (No, I am not the Oscuro who Modded Oblivion however, just in case anyone here might think that)

I joined the forums to seek information on a bike I rescued from the scrap heap. I admit being a budding capitalist I wanted to know what it might be worth and how old it was...

I needed a name on the spot.

My name is Anthony, sometime in junior high there was a french class in which one of the text book characters was called uncle antoine.... Antoine, Antoinette (if you wanted to tease which kids at that age do) and eventually just Toine (which I spelt as Twan all through highschool) stuck. In highschool some people didn't even know my real name anymore nor did half the people I knew during my undergrad (when I signed up)... it's a cycling forum and cyclotoine rolled off the tongue. Anyway, I dropped the nickname when I left everything and everyone I knew behind and moved west... Starting graduate school I felt I must stop introducing myself as "Anthony, but you can call me Toine"... So now most people call me Anthony or Tony.

Sho531 = Sam Howell and 5/31 the day I quit a job that was driving me nuts. I have a Miyata Americana from 1978 that I'm fixing for a commuter.

Ben was taken. Benjamin was taken. Sailorben was taken.

Its been awhile ,and we now have a lot of NEW members soI thought I,d bump this up ! ( hey mods,maybe a new sticky ?).

When I get to 2000 posts, I'm changing my screen name...

-Shin

Ein Prosit

I guess my parents chose mine.
I've owned and used CB radios for 37 years or so. Way back when, everyone used handles rather than their given names. I went along with this for years, but eventually, I came to the conclusion that was just plain silly.
Not saying screen names on a forum are silly, some folks are legitimately concerned about privacy issues, but I chose to just present myself for who I am.
There are a couple of forums I participate in where I do use a screen name, however,

Mine as well. I use it everywhere! (Except on eBay where I'm "Deluxe64" -- model and year of my VW bus)

My avatar was taken (after asking) from someone on this forum -- can't remember who, but it is in the archives somewhere.

Bob

Come on... she could have at least touched up her roots?