Araon - well being an imaginative sod when I stumbled upon this site I enrolled immediately and couldnt be bothered to sort out an alias...the only real nickname I had was during my RAF days and that didnt seem suitable on an open forum :lol: :lol: :lol:
get me a few drinks at a meet and I might divulge that one and the reasoning behind it :lol:
My name is a nickname that kinda developed from my second name Manley, that went to Mansville...then shortened to Vil...don't ask me why I am still confused over that one! :?
sparky 'cos I'm an electrician and wig 'cos that's what all my mates and family call me,
a short form of wiggy, a services nickname for anyone called Bennett.
Don't know why before you ask.
Faux because....My old 52 Barndoor was featured in Volkworld a few years ago and they talked a lot about Faux Patina. (I love my Bay more....before someone tells me off for owning a pre 67 bus)
I liked the word Faux and thought this is my Faux (fake) name.
Before I had dreads I grew my hair, it got down level with my ears and then decided to grow horizontally outwards instead of down, which according to my mate made me "look like professor weeto"
The H was a typo but didn't want different usernames on different boards to kept it :lol:
an unhealthy interest in Warner Brothers cartoons as a kid, especially the Duck Dodgers series led to me being "Marvin", which is OK, but the wife gets hacked off with being "Mrs Marv" all the time :lol: . I tend to buy anything with Marvin on it, no matter how tatty.
Spelt my own name wrong on an e-mail at work 5 years ago and some of my mates started calling me sa-raj.
When I signed up for another forum Sarah was already taken so I went for this. No-one gets it though and most people think my name is sara j when really there are no j's in my name at all.
Mine can be confusing when people meet me as my real name's Andy and i'm normal proportions
Sid came from Sidney which was a name that got given to my 72 bus many many years ago which evolved into Big Sid
At that moment when I first had to chose a name on a forum it was hard to be witty / clever or original. Have come up with 101 smart arse names since but its been easier to live with the one I've got.