What's in a name?

Xmetal · Dec 19, 2005

Xmetal - stole it. :twisted:

Verbal · Dec 19, 2005

My name is from The Usual Suspects. Verbal Kint was the name of Kevin Spacey's character. I really liked the movie, and Spacey is a great actor and portrayed that part wonderfully. And since in person I talk a lot, I thought Verbal was pretty fitting!

PlasticSpanner · Dec 19, 2005

I seem to remember posting a similar reply like this a couple of months ago but here goes again!

Some people will recognise the phrase "As much use as a Plastic Spanner!" meaning bloody useless but this isn't the origin of my name!

I bought my second radio control car about 2 years ago which was a Team Associated TC3 and with the plastic kit came a set of moulded plastic tools, several of which were spanners! Although I saw the irony of having Plastic (useless) Spanners for an RC car they are actually very good and I still use them today!

So in summary the name PlasticSpanner comes from my association with RC cars and my plastic tool kit! :lol:

Andrea K · Dec 19, 2005

andreag5....

Andrea is my first name and the g5 part was because when I first joined, I used a Canon g5. I guess my name needs a little updating because I hardly ever use the g5, instead I use a d70.

JohnMF · Dec 19, 2005

after hours of pondering i decided to use my first name and two intials :meh:

I think i was tired when i registered here and couldn't come up with anything more creative. sorry

besides, i couldn't use my real name JohnMichael because i had noticed somebody already had a very similar one... wonder who that could have been? :er:

Peanuts · Dec 19, 2005

Peanuts well.. a hint is that my dogs name is Schroeder. Can you guess now?

good

clarinetJWD · Dec 20, 2005

Mine came to me in a dream.

Rob · Dec 20, 2005

HUNDREDS of years ago there was a king of Scotland and his name was Robert the Bruce. It was a good thing that he was both brave and wise, because the times in which he lived were wild and dangerous. The King of England was at war with him, and had led a great army into Scotland to drive him out of the land and to make Scotland a part of England.

Battle after battle he had fought with England. Six times Robert the Bruce had led his brave little army against his foes. Six times his men had been beaten, until finally they were driven into flight. At last the army of Scotland was entirely scattered, and the king was forced to hide in the woods and in lonely places among the mountains.

One rainy day, Robert the Bruce lay in a cave, listening to the rainfall outside the cave entrance. He was tired and felt sick at heart, ready to give up all hope. It seemed to him that there was no use for him to try to do anything more.

As he lay thinking, he noticed a spider over his head, getting ready to weave her web. He watched her as she worked slowly and with great care. Six times she tried to throw her thread from one edge of the cave wall to another. Six times her thread fell short.

"Poor thing!" said Robert the Bruce. "You, too, know what it's like to fail six times in a row." But the spider did not lose hope. With still more care, she made ready to try for a seventh time. Robert the Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched, fascinated. She swung herself out upon the slender line. Would she fail again? No! The thread was carried safely to the cave wall, and fastened there.

"Yes!" cried Bruce, "I, too, will try a seventh time!" So he arose and called his men together. He told them of his plans, and sent them out with hopeful messages to cheer the discouraged people. Soon there was an army of brave men around him. A seventh battle was fought, and this time the King of England was forced to retreat back to his own country.

It wasn't long before England recognized Scotland as an independent country with Robert the Bruce as its rightful king. And to this very day, the victory and independence of Scotland is traced to a spider who kept trying again and again to spin her web in a cave and inspired the king of Scotland, Robert the Bruce.

That story has nothing to do with my name Rob which is actually my real name. Gotcha.

Rob

aprilraven · Dec 20, 2005

actually, april is my birth month.. raven, 1) cause its black...2) tea cup poodle of mine is named raven....so works on two levels.....

and my real name, "satans little sister" , is just too long to write everytime!

doenoe · Dec 20, 2005

nothing very interesting here: was drinking with a couple of buddies of mine and we started talking with alot of "oe" sounds (which would be "oo" in English.........like cool) and then suddenly Daan (which is my real name) became Doenoe. And thats it...............ah the blessings of booze.