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side_FX 11-19-14 08:22 PM

I am a pharmaceutical sales rep who happens to like Trek hybrids

ThermionicScott 11-19-14 08:30 PM


Originally Posted by dramiscram (Post 17322323)
We must about the same age because I remember this vividly, at the time I didn't speak English so I didn't understand what they were saying but I Watched it regularly. There was also this TV program with 5 people that were each riding a robot wolf/dog (or beast of some kind) and to defeat the vilain at the end of the program they would join together to form a giant robot. I don't remember the name but one Christmas I got the 5 of them and I was a very happy kid.

EDIT: I remembered, it's VOLTRON Voltron Opener - YouTube


Originally Posted by RaleighSport (Post 17322445)
I'm digging how this thread is quickly becoming a flashback thread for us 80's kids.

YUP. My folks bought us kids a bunch of Beta tapes (remember those?) to watch when we were really little, and one of them happened to be a Spanish-dubbed collection of "Heckle and Jeckle" cartoons. We didn't understand a word of it, but we watched it over and over and over... ;)

ThermionicScott 11-19-14 08:33 PM


Originally Posted by Matariki (Post 17323003)
Matariki is the Māori name for the star cluster we know as the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. It's the name of my sailboat. Ever since I was a kid I would scan the sky for this cluster and feel a lot of excitement when I located it. Coincidentally, the seven stars are featured on the flag of my city, Durham, NC, also called the Bull City. Since the Pleiades are in the constellation Taurus, the bull, it's all connected.

It was also the logo for Subaru (symbolizing several companies that had been merged to form Fuji Heavy Industries) before they reorganized the stars. :thumb:

Todzilla 11-19-14 08:43 PM


Originally Posted by tarwheel (Post 17322740)
Actually, I'm a Georgia Bulldog grad and fan but my daughter went to UNC. I pull for all the local teams, but my heart goes to the Dawgs.

How 'bout them Dawgs?

Clyde1820 11-19-14 09:29 PM

Clyde1820's typical of the sort of naming I happen to do, when randomly picking a handle. Has no real meaning.

Found out soon after that "clyde" has a particular meaning among some. Who knew? :p

Furcifer 11-19-14 11:21 PM

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I usually go by Solid Snake, but that was already taken by the time I showed up...

Furcifer as in Furcifer pardalis, as in:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=418714

AbsurdChalk 11-19-14 11:53 PM

Absurd chalk is like absurd talk.

putupwet 11-20-14 08:27 AM

putupwet is typically what i do with my bike after i rodehard. "rodehard" was taken, and I typically don't really ride all that hard, so putupwet works well as a truthful observation on my daily bicycle commuting way up here in PNW. Also, I don't spend much time grooming my steed, so "rode hard and put up wet" still holds. that's about it. Looks like rain out there...

Deal4Fuji 11-20-14 08:58 AM


Originally Posted by tarwheel (Post 17321178)
People from NC are called Tarheels, so obviously a cyclist from NC would be called a Tarwheel.

One of the local bike clubs is called the Carolina Tarwheels.


Originally Posted by Todzilla (Post 17322346)
Yes, but some of us native North Carolinians are Dukies who blanch at the term. Still, your advice is always on-point, so I'll forgive it and hope you're a packbacker.

I have a daughter at NCSU & one who just graduated at Peace, so I'm a packbacker, pacer & seahawk (me @ Wilmington) supporter - but in our beloved basketball, pull for UNC (brother) & Duke above all others. Yes I'm conflicted :) There's a thread in foo about avitars BTW. Obviously by the many Bono threads a lot of folks here stay in their section of choice.

My last name is Deal, born on the 4th, and 1st real bike was a Fuji. Also works this way: I really like Fuji's and am always looking for a good deal on a Fuji.
On the avitar, my favorite band is Metric, and it has cycling meaning too, so it also works on 2 levels.

Todzilla 11-20-14 09:35 AM

I'm an amateur cartoonist, so my avatar is from a doodling I did a while back.

PatrickGSR94 11-20-14 09:40 AM


Originally Posted by RidingMatthew (Post 17322162)
so you still own this car? is this a recent picture. LOOKS awesome.

Don't I wish, that pic was taken over 7 years ago, before my wife and I were married (pic location is/was the venue for our wedding). The paint is unfortunately looking really trashed these days. 10 years and 200K miles will do that, though (car was repainted in 2004).

Rick@OCRR 11-20-14 10:18 AM

Rick is my first name, easy enough, and OCRR is the club I ride for/with.

OCRR stands for Orange County Rebel Riders, who got their name by rebelling against the rules and politics of BCI (Bicycle Club of Irvine).

The rebellion was before my time (I joined in '98) but the club name remains. I joined while I lived in Orange County; now I live in Whittier (Los Angeles county) but still ride with OCRR.

Rick / OCRR

RidingMatthew 11-20-14 10:32 AM

this made me chuckle, very clever

Originally Posted by side_FX (Post 17323126)
I am a pharmaceutical sales rep who happens to like Trek hybrids

I like it also creative.

Originally Posted by putupwet (Post 17324054)
putupwet is typically what i do with my bike after i rodehard. "rodehard" was taken, and I typically don't really ride all that hard, so putupwet works well as a truthful observation on my daily bicycle commuting way up here in PNW. Also, I don't spend much time grooming my steed, so "rode hard and put up wet" still holds. that's about it. Looks like rain out there...


cool doodle.

Originally Posted by Todzilla (Post 17324247)
I'm an amateur cartoonist, so my avatar is from a doodling I did a while back.


Telly 11-20-14 11:12 AM

... is my nickname (care to guess the whole name?)


BTW, for those in the UK and Commonwealth, it's NOT this ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...devices_tv.png

PatrickGSR94 11-20-14 11:15 AM

This guy? :)

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...y-Season20.jpg

FBinNY 11-20-14 11:15 AM


Originally Posted by Telly (Post 17324543)
... is my nickname (care to guess the whole name?)


I grew up with a Telly, and always wondered why it wasn't shortened to Ari.

qclabrat 11-20-14 11:35 AM

surprisingly don't remember that one either as an 80s child would spent the summers either on the green Murray or in front of the television. Unsupervised summers, remember those...... a thing of the past


Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94 (Post 17321093)
heh yeah MASK didn't catch on nearly as much as say, Transformers, but I've always loved motor vehicles of all kinds which is why MASK appealed to me in particular when I was a kid.


Booger1 11-20-14 11:35 AM

:).....From a little known movie called Animal House.

qclabrat 11-20-14 11:43 AM

I remember you, Ultraman also kicked your butt
http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images...-review-01.jpg


Originally Posted by Todzilla (Post 17322300)
My real name is Todd.

As a child, I was monstrously hideous and gigantic and used to vent my anger by destroying major Japanese cities until Mothra took me down.


qclabrat 11-20-14 11:54 AM

or this
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...xgjZ5-kfaED9Lg

or this?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...ubbies-015.jpg


Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94 (Post 17324548)


79pmooney 11-20-14 12:16 PM

Mine's pretty self explanatory. My first custom, a Nervex lugged, canti all-arounder Peter Mooney. The bike I had my clubmate build me as an aid to my sanity for the years after my head injury. It succeeded. And went for some crazy rides in the process. Now it is semi retired. My good farmer's market bike and not a bad off road machine. It will always have that sweet Peter Mooney steering. At 35 years and 46,000 miles, it's earned its wings.

It's also a handle that's always there, so I'll stick to it.

Ben

PatrickGSR94 11-20-14 12:25 PM


Originally Posted by 79pmooney (Post 17324724)
Mine's pretty self explanatory. My first custom, a Nervex lugged, canti all-arounder Peter Mooney. The bike I had my clubmate build me as an aid to my sanity for the years after my head injury. It succeeded. And went for some crazy rides in the process. Now it is semi retired. My good farmer's market bike and not a bad off road machine. It will always have that sweet Peter Mooney steering. At 35 years and 46,000 miles, it's earned its wings.

It's also a handle that's always there, so I'll stick to it.

Ben

Any pics of it?

crank_addict 11-20-14 12:34 PM

ditto

alexaschwanden 11-20-14 01:13 PM

Mine is my full name and it works fine.

babaluey 11-20-14 02:05 PM


Originally Posted by treadtread (Post 17319363)
I started using tread on some forums, but that id was taken, so now I'm treadtread...

Can we call you retread?

treadtread 11-20-14 02:12 PM


Originally Posted by babaluey (Post 17325088)
Can we call you retread?

Damn, I should have thought of that :D

babaluey 11-20-14 02:16 PM


Originally Posted by noglider (Post 17320646)
Ya know, this question has been asked before, but the responses are interestinger (to coin a word) than before. I don't know why.

Yea this is one of those topics that cycles around (pun intended) every few years on forums. Pretty sure I've seen it on here a few years back. Anyway, mine is a cartoon character from my childhood days in the 50s and 60s. Baba Looey was Quickdraw McGraw's sidekick.

Todzilla 11-20-14 02:21 PM


Originally Posted by qclabrat (Post 17324601)
I remember you, Ultraman also kicked your butt
http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images...-review-01.jpg

Please, don't rub it in.

I also got my butt kicked by Megagilas, MechaGhidorah, Kumonga, King Ghidorah, Hedorah, Gimantis, Gigan, Gabara, Gaborah, Ebirah, Destoroyah, Biollante and Battra.

But the ultimate humiliation was getting defeated by Matthew Broderick in 1998. I was devastated for months.

caloso 11-20-14 02:44 PM

I assume that Telly is a diminutive for Telemakos, son of Odysseus and Penelope, heir to the throne of Ithaca.

Mr Flibble 11-20-14 03:54 PM

Mr Flibble was a character (puppet) on the finest british comedy ever made-Red Dwarf. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it has a cult following some 25 years after it first aired. No relation to cycling-but rather unique!


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