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Post by djtwigster on Jul 5, 2013 15:43:55 GMT
What are the origins of ur username out of interest, mine comes basically from my nickname as a child (twiggy) being a skinny specimen and my name being McGuigan. As the years progressed and my belly expanded it got modified to Twigster and guess what, I do a bit of DJing. What about yours, there seems to be a few interesting ones out there?
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jul 5, 2013 15:49:06 GMT
i am neither hungarian nor a greek philosopher - no, seriously im not
when we found out we were pregnant the missus asked me what names, i said ZS and she was horrified and didnt immeadiately realise i was at it, i strung her along for a few months on this, even when we registered the wee fellah i mentioned it
it wound her up something stupid, i liked it and its better than calling myself by my usual nickname which is already being used on here anyway
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 16:29:46 GMT
Mine goes back to my late teens and was originally meant as an insult, but since I thought it was funny I kept it which really annoyed the guy who thought he was insulting me. It is a nice bit of irony since I'm often described as being like a tigress with a tooth ache. Though I'm quite pleasant when properly caffeineated.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 16:34:13 GMT
My great-uncle was a second world war Spitfire ace.
Widge is good old RAF slang/banter (Crates over the Briney etc!) and his moniker.
'Widge' is short for 'Wizard Midget' and he was also a Wing-Commander. I have been known as Widge since I was at school.
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Post by martin122 on Jul 5, 2013 16:37:52 GMT
my name and 12 and 22 are my lucky numbers
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Post by captslog on Jul 5, 2013 16:48:16 GMT
"Captain's Log, Star Date twenty six two oh seven. The Enterprise is entering the gamma quadrant on a envoy mission to......."
Although I liked the series, I'm not a trekky. I've used Capt Slog all over the internet (and noticed that some others have too, damn their hides!)
I also used the nick as a pseudonym for writing daft letters to Terry Wogan.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 16:54:00 GMT
Oh yes.........I enjoy Trek too..........but am not a trekkie. I chose my avatar very early on in the life of the forum because Rad was giving me grief about calling T3's 'Tribbles'! I I didn't spot the surprisingly apt 'typo' 'til later!!
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Post by zoltansocrates on Jul 5, 2013 17:12:47 GMT
....but im not a trekkie
nothing wrong with that guys, TOS is amazing, i literally have to watch a couple of episodes a wweek, the missus cant work out why i watch these reruns, i just want a piece of the action
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Post by oldtimer on Jul 5, 2013 17:12:47 GMT
From the days of work, when I was the old bloke on the team.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 17:35:12 GMT
My dad called me Buzz hen I was little. My surname is Busby so that's where it started. There are a number of friends that don't actually know my real name, which amuses me lol
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Post by Radchenister on Jul 5, 2013 18:33:22 GMT
HISTORIC THORNBURY
THORNBURY, or Turneberie, is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 I as containing eleven hides of cultivated land, four carucates of which were in demesne.
A hide of land was about 120 acres, enough to maintain a family or work a plough team, and a carucate seems to have been a certain quantity of land, the actual size varying from county to county.
Demesne was a new Norman word meaning domain, and referred to land owned by the lord of the manor, which would have been worked by the serfs for the lord's benefit.
Thornbury manor also contained three mills, a wood estimated at a mile long and a mile wide, a market and a meadow. One hundred and three inhabitants are mentioned in Domesday, but they may well all have had families, so the population was probably greater than that.
The 103 listed inhabitants were villeins, radchenisters, borderers, serfs and colliberts; romantic-sounding names for what was probably a hard existence. A villein was a peasant bound to the lord of the manor and a borderer seems to have been the lowest rank of this class.
Radchenisters, or "riding knights", were a class peculiar to Gloucestershire and appear to have been freemen who worked the fields according to the lord's needs. Colliberts were partly free serfs.
Thornbury Magazine - November 2012
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Post by Phil on Jul 5, 2013 19:21:34 GMT
It's just my name, obviously. Find it keeps me accountable and stops me saying things I otherwise wouldn't if it were in person. Having said that, several years ago, when I was in my teens, I used to go by the moniker Revolutionβmy then DJ name! Ha!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 19:46:14 GMT
Mines an anagram of my real name, people are welcome to try and work it out :-)
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Post by baldbloke on Jul 5, 2013 20:01:23 GMT
The avatar says it all!
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Post by robertsims on Jul 5, 2013 20:05:50 GMT
Mines an anagram of my real name, people are welcome to try and work it out :-) Robert tohams
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