Origin of your forum id

[Cyclezee]

I started a thread a while back suggesting people might like to use their real name in their forum signature to make it little more friendly.
A few thought it a good idea, but quite a lot prefer the anonymity of their forum ID which is fair enough.

I was just wondering if members might reveal the origin of their ID, was it a nickname at school, something to do with your job, where you live etc,.

Mine for example, Aldby is the name of the farm in Cumbria where I lived as a child.
The name is of Norse or Viking origin and means ‘Old or disused stronghold’

I have mild dyslexia and have always had a problem with lower case letters like b, d, p and q. You can imagine the problems I had writing my address, I even get d and b mixed up on keyboards. So fank good ness for spil cuckers

 

[Blew it]

Smokin!

Back in the Eighties and Nineties, I spent a lot of time in the company of 11 metre band radio pirates, sometimes further down on 3.5 metre band.

Many a night would see me sitting in my car on remote hill-tops contacting other triple-fiver's in exotic far off countries with my Kenwood TS-50. High powered linear amplifiers drawing forty amps from a couple of lorry batteries were needed during periods of low sun-spot activity, but of course, sometimes things went wrong.

Courting couples sharing the same remote car-parks, were often treated to the sight of yours truly leaping from a car rapidly filling with smoke from burning cables, sometimes the amplifiers themselves would burst into flames as the output FET's blew. And that's where my nick-name came from.

At eyeball meetings with other side-banders, enquiries as to the health of my latest set of 'boots' would invariably get the same answer. "Oh that!, yes, I blew it!."
Incidentally, in the late nineties, I operated the first ( illegal ) 24-hour Packet Radio station in Swindon on European Citizen Band channel 24 under the call-sign ENGB_31, later as a mobile Packet Radio station using a lap-top in the car. Happy days!.

All the best
26 Delta Tango 083 (fm)
26 Kilo Fox 312 ( u.s.b. )
26 Ghost Buster 31 (u.s.b. and fm data )
Bob

 

[PennyFarthing]

I ride a REALLY old non e bike. :

(It's a bit of a bone shaker!)

 

[indalo]

Indalo is a good luck charm in Almeria, Spain where I have a home. It originates from old cave drawings in southern Spain. Can't say I've noticed any great upturn in my fortunes since I adopted it!

Indalo

 

[PennyFarthing]

Indalo - do you ride your electric bike in Almeria?

 

[indalo]

No, I have two mountain bikes I use there. Being coastal, there aren't too many hills and I never like to pass a bar so pain is never felt!

Indalo

 

[Marchant]

I took the name Marchant in honour of the quasi-magical bicycle belonging to John Omally in Robert Rankin's excellent Brentford Trilogy, so it's actually my ebike's name. My other bike is an old '70's French 'racer' called Frank, short for Frankenstein as it's hodge-podge of spare parts & odds & ends...

 

[deadmonkey]

From playing first person shooters on my pc (eg. counterstrike or call of duty)

 

[Scimitar]

I'm on my third Scimitar in twenty-five years. Great cars, sleeping classics and go quite well, even at an advanced age (it, not me).

 

[flecc]

I'm on my third Scimitar in twenty-five years. Great cars, sleeping classics and go quite well, even at an advanced age (it, not me).

Yes, sad that they couldn't have kept going with further development, it was a classic from the beginning.

 

[mike killay]

Er
My names Mike and I live in Killay (or Cila^ if your Welsh)
How do you put the circumflex over the a?

 

[indalo]

Er
My names Mike and I live in Killay (or Cila^ if your Welsh)
How do you put the circumflex over the a?

Do you mean like this Mike? Cilâ

It's very simple on a Mac but I can't remember how to access special characters on Windows computers as I gave up using them a long time ago. You can probably find the answer quicker by Googling it than by using Micros..t help if you're on one of those machines.

Regards,
Indalo

 

[mike killay]

Do you mean like this Mike? Cilâ

It's very simple on a Mac but I can't remember how to access special characters on Windows computers as I gave up using them a long time ago. You can probably find the answer quicker by Googling it than by using Micros..t help if you're on one of those machines.
Regards,
Indalo

Correct. I had a Mac and when this PC busts I am going back to Mac.

Mike killay

 

[flecc]

On a PC with Windows use the Character map which I think is usually in Accessories within the Start menu. In the Character Map choose "System" as the font and you'll see the upper and lower case alphabet with circumflexes etc. Select your character, click Copy and back in here right click and Paste.

Example: â

 

[lectureral]

Alternatively, a cheat's way, Google the word/name you want without accents and copy and paste the result shown with the accents and voilà - Bob est ton oncle or even mae Bob yn eich ewythr (according to Google translate).

Also, this website is handy http://french.typeit.org/.

Sorry - should have credited indalo who refers to the Google method above.

 

[carpetbagger]

Building soceitys.....say no more !

 

[Synthman]

Hold down ALT while typing 0226 on the number pad, NOT on the main keyboard = â. By going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character
Map you can see all the characters, and it tells you the key stroke for each one. I have all my favourite ones in memory!

My name comes from the fact I like synthesizers, maaaaaaaaan.

 

[Salad Dodger]

6 foot 2 and I was 17 stone so I must have been dodging the salad in favour of something more substantial....

Now down to 16 stone 1 lb and gradually going down, thanks to some bike riding, some swimming, and a bit more caution over what, and how much, I eat.

 

[muckymits]

I used to be a HGV/PSV Tech so all ways had dirty hands. Wife used to shout 'get your mucky mits off there'