Modern Vespa

Greetings:

So many interesting forum names on here got me wondering about their back stories. I'll start:

My first forays into the whatcha-call confuser Intra-nut were with a forum called Sportster dot org. When I joined, the page asked me to make up an username. At the time I was riding my Unicycle rather more avidly than I do today, and my competitive windsurfing USWA sail number was **-111.

Voila: Wheelman-111

OK, I'll play.

Madison is near enough to where I live, and is more or less known.

Sully is a word I'm fond of. Put it this way; my wife got me involved in the Harry Potter game Wizards Unite. In it, my avatar name is Sullied Longpants.

There could be more to the story....

Gas mk1 was my company an abbreviation of my name I did want mk4 but that was already registered

i raced motocross for several decades. my number was 351 (sometimes 51)

My proper name is Attilio of ancient Latin origin, very widespread in the regions of northern Italy; my paternal grandfather was originally from Reggio nell'Emilia and in that place it is a common name due to the brothers Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, famous Italian patriots of our Risorgimento: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandiera_brothers
He imposed it on a son who was killed by the mafia in Sicily in the 1950s (he was a builder who pestered local interests with his business ... quite common stories in Italy.)
A few years later i was born and as happens in many italian families the name of the dead passes to the firstborn.
To shorten and because as a young man I was a turbulent boy my friends called me Attila after the Hun leader.

Well, I'm Chris and I am from CLE.

Chris From CLE

Hummus was what we named our first pug rescue

This is mine I've used for years on motorcycle forums. Just thought it sounded cool.

I'm amused at the implications. So guessing you've mellowed a bit.

Okay, mine came out of frustration in the early internet years when I needed a password/ID of some sort, and everything I came up with had been taken...so as my second language of sorts is German, I tried that out-and I'd always been amused at animal names....Nilpherd, for example, "Nile horse. Anyway, Fledermaus is, as one might guess, "flying mouse." It wasn't taken, so it's mine. Should be capitalized, but that's to throw off imposters.

FWIW, it's nothing like Masala thought....

Hey Fledermaus!

In the '90s I made several trips to the Russian Far East associated with a fisheries project. Had good times there and got to know a number of Russian biologists quite well. The name Douglas is uncommon in Russia and most Russians pronounce it "Dooglas" (Doog-lass).

Just a variation on my initials. My wife and I were inspired by a Goth couple from our home state, Kynt and Vixxen, so we became Suzyn and Warynmak. I just shortened it for forum purposes.

Funny, I missed that goth vibe from you two. But you never really know......


Dooglas...did you make it to Baikal? Friend of mine made friends with Russian ecologists while working for our state natural resources dept. and was invited. Amazing scenery and some great stories. As a lightweight drinker, not sure I would have survived.

the question I have for you is how old is dirt?

2,172,427 days old.

KZ1000st was my 1979 Kawasaki shaftie. I rode it for 125,000 miles. Commuted fifty miles a day in all sorts of weather. I found its power intoxicating and did everything from touring to Field Meets.

Forty-two.

My forum name, mpfrank, is my two initials and my last name. It was, and still is, my screen name on America On Line (AOL) since 1991.

Since I ride an MP3, people on this forum think it has to do with that.

But it doesn't.

good try but its takes about 2 good years to make dirt, depends on how many worms and if you keep adding weekly greens and a bit of nitrogen.

I started off riding dirt bikes along time ago.

It's a mashup of my last name and my wife's last name; and it's also true of both of us quite a few years ago.

..ehm ... once in school (I was 17) I was caught in the toilet with a half-naked girl while I was rolling a joint ... (I don't know what you call it). On a scale of grades of school conduct from zero to ten I always had five ...
But after 20 years of age I have put my head in order ... too much! At 32 years of age the bishop of my city asked me if I wanted to become a priest ... ouch!

Yep, same here. KABarash is my user name everywhere, just because it's easy.

I'm guessing you've deciphered that I live in the Great State of Texas and I ride a Scooter. I was thinking of adding the entire name of TXBootScootandBoogie, but that's too long for a forum... and if I'm being honest, I'm a transplant and I haven't done that dance in 25 year.

I spent my youth bouncing back and forth between Hawaii (My fathers only navy shore duty assignment) and New Mexico (where my parents family lives)
In Hawaiian- Haole means "without breath" (how white people look - pale)
In slang - Haole means white, non islander, tourist.
I grew up being called it as a identifier "you know.. that guy Haole Charles"
To the derogatory "let's get that Haole"
It carried over to here!

Thank you for clarifying this. I always assumed you just reversed the first two letters for fun.

My name is a multicultural pun on what I assume is most peoples' favorite STD.

It's what I ride.......The day I signed up I was frustrated and lacking in inspiration. I'd become increasingly disillusioned in attempting to join as, for several weeks, there was a glitch on the site with the security 'reCAPTCHA' settings not allowing any new members to register. Anyway persistence paid off.

tl;dr: It was my nickname in High School.

Long version:
When I started HS, I was new to the school district, and my records from Jr High hadn't caught up with me at the time they set class schedules, so they put me in the "average" classes, figuring if I was below average, they could move me to the "slower" classes later, and if I was above average, they could move me to the "faster" classes later. My Algebra 1 teacher happened to have gone to HS with my parents, and after class the first day I mentioned that I'd had the highest score of my entire 8th grade class on the Pre-Algebra test the prior Spring. He said I must take after my Dad, and said he'd look into getting me into the faster Algebra class.

Two days later, I got called into the assistant principal's office, and he asked me how my History grades were. I told him high-Bs to low As. So he simply swapped my History & Algebra classes, to make adjusting my schedule easier to deal with. That meant that I joined those two classes on the third day of school, which meant that seating charts had already been set, so I was simply placed at the end of the alphabet, even though my last name is Bates.

I am very good at taking tests. I understand how to do them, and will skip questions that I don't know, and go back to them later. During the first test in the History class, I ran across the following question: "_______ means the belief in one god." As I'd missed the first couple of days of class when this was gone over, I skipped it and went back to it. When I got back to it, I thought it out logically: Then I moved on. (btw, I know now that it's monotheism.)

The next day in class, when we got our tests back, the girl next to me was laughing at her wrong answers. I said to her, "you think that's funny, check this one out," and showed her monogodo.

She yells out, "MONOGODO! That's hilarious!"

Everyone looked at me, and I became known as monogodo.

As time went on, very few people called me it. By the time I graduated, only a couple people called me monogodo.

Over a decade later, I needed a nickname for email/web forums/etc. with the internet. All the ones I wanted were already taken. Then I remembered a word that no one else would use: monogodo.

So if you happen to be on another site somewhere, and run across a monogodo there, chances are it's me.

Also, it's pronounced mon·o·god·o
/ˈmänōˌ gädō/

My first name is Maximiano and 6200 was the last four digits of my landline. Hence Max6200.

Cheezus whiskers - you, and those fussy, fiddly diacritical marks. See you in hell, buddy. Séè. Yôû. In. Hëll.

Sorry.

It just bugs me when people pronounce it either mōnōgōdō or mänōgōdō. Because it's god, not gōd.

You guys are creative. I got nothing!

Bob Copeland

And here I've been abusing your name since...well, forever.


Mr. Copeland....C'mon, just give us a hint!

AZ, because that's where I live.

slynch is my standard username.

Got tired of forums appending five or more random digits to my standard username. So I prepended the state.

Seems to work in most places.

Mine comes from my motorsport background, a car called Piglet and I'm the one who pilots her. Use it all sorts of places, never been taken by anyone else.

When I was signing up to Modern Buddy I had an SYM HD20. My name is based on the first part of the first and the middle part of the second. I couldn't think of anything else, and JimR was taken.

He is the only user with the real name!

Dave aka Flying Mouse,

My scooter riding group started using nick names for everyone. Although I come from a family that believes in humor to show affection, some in my group were to sensitive and we had to suspend the practice. Example, one of the guys talked all the time constantly changing subjects. We called him "The Mouth".

My scooter group nickname was "Bubbles". Anyway, the practice went away.

Despite this, they still call me Bubbles.

I have enjoyed this thread and learning the source of thread names.

Bubbles
Frost Bite Falls Minnesota

I am sorry, but that information is classified... Mm

I am the Rat Man goo goo cachoo

Best Rat Bike Amerivespa 2015 and it's been cannonballed twice, 67 GT

And I live in Boca Raton

I just wanted to add that my surname (and it's the real one not a nick) is Ferrari and don't think it's rare, in Italy Ferrari is the second surname by diffusion and it is frequent especially in the North and Lazio while it is the most widespread in absolute terms. Emilia-Romagna and in the cities of Brescia, Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Reggio nell'Emilia, Rovigo and Verona.
In my particular case my great-grandfather was the direct cousin of Enzo Ferrari's grandfather ... oh yes, just that.