What's in a (user) Name?

[Ting Tong]

Having been a member for a little while now I have seen a fair few of the regular posters usernames. Some are self explanatory, some are humorous, some intriguing while some downright mysterious.

So what's in a username?

My username "Ting Tong (ติ๊งต๊อง)" is the english phonetically spoken word "crazy, mad, wacky (something along those lines)" in Thai. I lived in Thailand for seven years, and it's a word I heard on a daily basis, although thankfully not necessarily about me.

BTW my avatar is of my dog Ting Tong, an English bulldog at 4 months old.

So what is in your Username or Avatar?

Dave

 

[Wingy]

Wingy > Littlewing has been my nickname since I was about 17 I think - Jimi Hendrix song.

 

[OrcaTorch]

OrcaTorch= Orca+ torch= dive light. LOL

 

[RainPilot]

Im a pilot. I do cloud seeding to make it rain.

 

[Ting Tong]

Wingy > Littlewing has been my nickname since I was about 17 I think - Jimi Hendrix song.

I had to google that song.

"Well, she's walking through the clouds
with a circus mind
that's running round.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
and fairy tales,"

Your avatar seems to have wings as well.

OrcaTorch= Orca+ torch= dive light. LOL

Nice!

Im a pilot. I do cloud seeding to make it rain.

Rain Pilot? I would have guessed a pilot that flies into storms for data. Mind you coming from the UAE makes perfect sense to me now.

 

[RainPilot]

Well, the other half of the job is data collection in the storms so yep, you were right!

 

[tbone1004]

tbone is a nickname I've had since I was a kid and it stuck

 

[chillyinCanada]

I live in Canada. First time I signed up on a scuba rec.net/forum, I knew very little about posting. It was chilly in my computer room and my nickname was born. I actually signed up here perhaps 20? years ago also as "chilly" which was my nick at another site.

A decade or so ago, I was diving in Roatan and wanted to ask a question of Scubaboard. I couldn't get in as chilly so dubbed myself chillyinRoatan. I didn't read or post for a good portion of time and subsequently my email address changed. By then, I couldn't get back in as just chilly or chillyinRoatan because Scubaboard identified my nick as used (ya, used by me ).

Ergo, same person/persona became chillyinCanada which due to a typo, near as I can figure, dropped the capitalization.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Good to have you here TingTong.

 

[olphart]

My name speaks for itself....*sigh*

 

[Rhone Man]

About 400 of my first 800 dives were on the wreck of the RMS Rhone, so for a diving message board site I adopted the moniker: Rhone Man.

Afterwards my wife said I should have called myself "The Rhone Ranger". Yeah, that would have been better.

Weirdly, since then I have probably dived it only 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years.