Explain your name

paint it black · 11 Oct 2004, 00:29

a bad habbit. keep fprgetting to wash the brush out

shambeko · 12 Oct 2004, 09:58

F--kwit wrote:Basically I'm a f u c kwit. I have a few real life friends on here and chose not to use my real name as when I first joined I thought it would be a laugh to pretend it wasn't me. It quite clearly is though. I use my real name (not necessarily the one I was born with...) on most forums, or occasionally my other alter ego of Blackout (because I do... ask Debaser... it's also a British Sea Power song but so are lots of other things and none of them quite as appropriate... thud!)

Cath - you don't half get around!
Are there any messageboards you don't post on?

As for my username - got it from Pete Wylie

It's a song by Wah! (on the Wah! The Maverick Years album) and Pete used the name Shambeko Say Wah! for the release of the single "Remember".

Black Shuck · 12 Oct 2004, 10:56

A Black Shuck is a huge phantom Black Dog said to haunt the lonely country lanes of East Anglia.

to see one is an omen of death.

weather vane depicting a BS from the town of Bungay.

here is a description from an epic peom called 'Black Shuck' by Martin Newell:

"As big as a calf,
with eyes like burning coals,
he pads silently beside the traveller on lonely country roads.
Always keeping pace,
he never drops back but simply seems to melt away.
In some parts of the region,
they believe that if you see old Shuck,
then you or someone in your family will die.
But best not to see him."

I chose the name as I own one as a pet, and also cos it's a bit like my real name, Charles Shuckworth.

12 Oct 2004, 11:00

Black Shuck wrote:A Black Shuck is a huge phantom Black Dog said to haunt the lonely country lanes of East Anglia.

I knew that.

Reading Fortean Times every month does have its uses after all

Mrs RicheyJames · 12 Oct 2004, 11:03

Mine's obvious

Black Shuck · 12 Oct 2004, 11:03

markfiend wrote:
Reading Fortean Times every month does have its uses after all

Hey, I read that as well!

I read my monthly copy at Picadilly station, Manchester, over a period of a few days, while waiting for trains to arrive.

I do the same with 'Record Collector'.

sneaky, eh?

paint it black · 12 Oct 2004, 11:16

paint it black: should be paint in black, but hey..

khepri II: 'he who changes form'

ez: english zloty

??:

12 Oct 2004, 11:26

paint it black wrote:paint it black: should be paint in black, but hey..

khepri II: 'he who changes form'

ez: english zloty

??:

Wot? They're all you?

Sexygothâ„¢ wrote:Mine's obvious

Is it?

*Ducks*

Black Shuck wrote:I read my monthly copy at Picadilly station, Manchester, over a period of a few days, while waiting for trains to arrive.

I actually buy mine

Mrs RicheyJames · 12 Oct 2004, 14:06

Bastard

12 Oct 2004, 14:41

Well, what would Richey do if other men went around calling his beloved bride-to-be Sexy?

RicheyJames · 12 Oct 2004, 14:50

markfiend wrote:Well, what would Richey do if other men went around calling his beloved bride-to-be Sexy?

he'd commend them on their excellent taste whilst reminding them of her soon-to-be-married status.

12 Oct 2004, 14:53

Ah well then. I retract.

christophe · 12 Oct 2004, 16:32

RicheyJames wrote:
markfiend wrote:Well, what would Richey do if other men went around calling his beloved bride-to-be Sexy?
he'd commend them on their excellent taste whilst reminding them of her soon-to-be-married status.

shambeko · 12 Oct 2004, 19:56

[quote="shambeko
As for my username - got it from Pete Wylie

It's a song by Wah! (on the Wah! The Maverick Years album) and Pete used the name Shambeko Say Wah! for the release of the single "Remember".[/quote]

Just dug out my copy of the Maverick Years and found this in the sleeve notes:

"From first Warner demos. We were getting into our stride, loving Frank Sinatra and getting confident. When we hear about Nazi Germany and Nazi Europe we assume everyone was in the Hitler Youth and goose-stepping. Well they weren't. Although it was a scary thing to do, part of the rebellion was to dress up Sinatra's zoot suit style and go dancing. It was underground and secret, their 'f**k you equivalent of the leather jacket. Then, they used to go out and jump stormtroopers. They were called 'Shambeko' in Germany, Zazu in France. The catalogue number of "Remember" is Zazu 1."

12 Oct 2004, 20:27

shambeko wrote:Just dug out my copy of the Maverick Years and found this in the sleeve notes:

"From first Warner demos. We were getting into our stride, loving Frank Sinatra and getting confident. When we hear about Nazi Germany and Nazi Europe we assume everyone was in the Hitler Youth and goose-stepping. Well they weren't. Although it was a scary thing to do, part of the rebellion was to dress up Sinatra's zoot suit style and go dancing. It was underground and secret, their 'f**k you equivalent of the leather jacket. Then, they used to go out and jump stormtroopers. They were called 'Shambeko' in Germany, Zazu in France. The catalogue number of "Remember" is Zazu 1."

Anyone interested in the topic may want to check out http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 99-8589240 (in the U.K.) or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... c&n=507846 (in the U.S.) or http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 23-0632059 (in Germany). I guess that it could be elsewhere than Amazon; I am not plugging any aprticualr vendor.

Martin

eastmidswhizzkid · 14 May 2005, 11:36

saw this thread whilst trawling through the stats board (yes,i know, i really should get a life-however,in the meantime...)and thought it might be worth resurrecting for all us "newbies"(see how easily one slips into "forum speak").

oh yeah;where i'm from,why i cant sleep and 'cause i was born yesterday(actually my original user name was "body dyslexic" but i forgot the password before i'ld stopped laughing at my own wit.or not.)

Obviousman · 14 May 2005, 11:51

Owh, I did not explain mine yet, so if you didn't know yet, it's from a comic, Non Sequitur (great site with a daily comic), I saw a Obviousman comic on the net once, and I immidiately loved it and therefore chose Obviousman to be my nick...
You can see his legend here
And just the other day, I discovered: Obviousman, the movie

canon docre · 14 May 2005, 11:58

ask Spartacus Mills for mine.... He is an erudite man....

Black Alice · 14 May 2005, 17:45

Thanks for resurrecting this thread - most informative

I think I have already explained my name - its my Dads nickname for me. He gave it to me years ago. I had got into the sisters, dyed my hair black and completely changed my clothes whilst away from home at college, without telling my parents - they got a bit of a shock

In fact Dad got quite upset - especially when I had my nose pierced.

But that was all a very long time ago and now he gets really protective when people stare at me in the local pub (my parents live in a very small village in a very conservative part of Kent - not that I can think of any part which is not conservative!).

Loki · 14 May 2005, 19:22

Just to update for the newbies, I was originally Johhny Boy (typo

) but then corrected to Johnny Boy. After awhile, to avoid duplication with the other 'Boy' on here I abbreviated to JB. At the same time Red Sunsets changed to James Blast. We both started getting referred to as JB.

So to end the confusion, I did a straw poll amongst those nearest and dearest to me and on the day of the infamous 'Spiggy asks for the non-existent TC demos' ** thread, markfiend

suggested Loki.

As name-changes are strictly 'one-off' I sent QB the following rational, coherrent arguement for a further name change:

JB wrote:Loki... is the creature who transgresses all boundaries; even more significant, Loki represents the boundary itself... Loki may most properly be seen as representative of more than either the boundary or the boundary crosser; in the character and role of Loki, the boundary, difference itself, has collapsed. But to say that it 'has collapsed' implies its prior existence, and this does not adequately describe Loki. In Loki that opposition has never been created; what is elsewhere, two is one in Loki.

Understandably, that weirded him out so much he agreed. Hence Loki.

Though those Black October kids stuck in the same 84 time-warp as me, still refer to me by any of the 'J' names.

** I have looked for this thread but as you appreciate, on HL all topics are derailed by 5 posts so maybe it never started as a TC demo post so maybe another anorak can find it?. It was funny.

Or maybe it was another victim of the hack.

Or Spiggy bribed Quiffy to delete it ...

@ QB - Appears the "sticky" 'One-off user name change thread' in Announcemets disappeared in the hack also.

filthyrikky · 14 May 2005, 19:56

Blame Kaleidoscope Magazine who started the "rikky filth" (a riff on the teeny tiny nutcase singer of cradle of filth who at that time I apparantly resembled aside from being several feet taller) thing. It soon Mutated.

Attention seeking singer of a noisey metal band ? Moi ?

Oh the blessed irony.

Black Alice · 14 May 2005, 19:59

filthyrikky wrote:Blame Kaleidoscope Magazine who started the "rikky filth" (a riff on the teeny tiny nutcase singer of cradle of filth who at that time I apparantly resembled aside from being several feet taller) thing. It soon Mutated.

Attention seeking singer of a noisey metal band ? Moi ?

Oh the blessed irony.

Please tell me that you don't really resemble twit filth

- I need to sleep tonight

pikkrong · 15 May 2005, 00:01

There are two things you should know about pikkrong...

Loki · 15 May 2005, 00:25

pikkrong wrote:There are two things you should know about pikkrong...

Indrek,

Stop showing off ...

In true Baldrick style ...

"Is one a train ..?"

...hang on I've got it " ... a lovely big turnip train?"

Andy TG · 15 May 2005, 00:34

Andy TG

Used to be Andy The Goth

AKA The Smiling Goth to some - as it is known that I am NICE and have a dark / sick sense of humour.

I have been known as Andy The Goth or simply The Goth to quite a few old friends/fiends i know from my home town (and i still want to leave and NEVER return!)