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Offline growly

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #50 on: June 14, 2012, 09:15:59 PM »
You blokes must have been close to underage 22 years ago  :rofl
Diesel and i were just early starters  :law, hmmmmm not something you can say 22 years ago old chum
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #51 on: June 16, 2012, 01:36:31 PM »
My initials are ROC and at school this was natually converted to rocky. In the 70s I worked for The Rural Bank and when transferred to Hay NSW the people did not know my last name so thay put my nickname to together with Rural and thus was born rockyRural. :13Candy
 

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #52 on: June 16, 2012, 01:50:07 PM »
Never had a nick name, Brock was short n easy so no-one came up with anything different.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #53 on: June 16, 2012, 03:44:04 PM »
Brock...........I would have thought you had more sense than to post "no one came up with anything different".....ha ha!!....you've left yourself open my friend!! :rofl :rofl

Never had a nick name, Brock was short n easy so no-one came up with anything different.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #54 on: June 19, 2012, 10:38:39 AM »
Leethal came from Lethal Lee which a speedway commentator named me when racing... not that i was killing anyone, just that my driving was lethally fast :-) I've proudly worn this moniker for years!
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #55 on: July 14, 2012, 08:56:58 AM »
g-day guys,

years ago when i was a lad of about 12, i was working on a dairy farm back in scotland, we had started using cb radios and i had to find a handle, so working with cattle my handle became cattleman, years later i ended up as a truck driver still on the cb, but in scotland a slang name for a cow  is a coo, now one of the old guys that was showing me the ropes, his name was auld bunnet, changed my name from cattleman to cooman, still the same animal but with the scottish lingo applied, and ive been known as cooman for a lot of years now.



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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #56 on: July 14, 2012, 12:17:34 PM »
YET!! :crackup :crackup

Never had a nick name, Brock was short n easy so no-one came up with anything different.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #57 on: July 20, 2012, 06:00:22 AM »
Alphafang

When I started using the internet I found for some reason nobody wanted to use their real name so I needed an "handle" I was on a dog handling course with the police at the time and opted for topdog. That was taken so I adapted the theme and came up with alphafang. It stuck, many call me alpha...many call me worse  :wink1.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #58 on: October 22, 2012, 10:56:48 PM »
At 6'6" (200cm to the younger ones,) and in the olden days very skinny, how could I be anything but Stretch? Conveniently I have ridden my ST for over 10 years, but I resist the urge to be STretch, the 1100 on the end is probably fairly obvious to you lot. I have added it to the nickname as an identifier when on the net.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #59 on: October 22, 2012, 11:07:32 PM »
At 6'6" (200cm to the younger ones,) and in the olden days very skinny, how could I be anything but Stretch? Conveniently I have ridden my ST for over 10 years, but I resist the urge to be STretch, the 1100 on the end is probably fairly obvious to you lot. I have added it to the nickname as an identifier when on the net. http://ozstoc.com/Smileys/default/bl11.gif


Welcome Stretch,

Good to see you signed up. I'm the 1300 rider that assisted you on Morrison Road. Did you get the problem sorted?

Put a post on the "Ride Reports" about your trip in Asia, I know there will be many members interested.

Take care and see you soon,

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #60 on: October 22, 2012, 11:19:28 PM »
Bloody Hell Roper! I just posted that and trying to get around to doing a few other things here as well, finally sat down and joined. Yes, I remember you, saw your picture on the forums a little while ago. The problem was a stuffed alternator. One of those things that should not happen when you just pick your bike up from a service. $980.00 later and we can ride again. Thanks for the hand that day, fate can be amazing. Did you get the cable put to good use?
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #61 on: October 22, 2012, 11:21:22 PM »
Sure did.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #62 on: October 22, 2012, 11:40:31 PM »
i got mine from my days in Navy Cadets as teenager, no could say my last name propley so it was shortened to Gaz.  :phone
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #63 on: October 22, 2012, 11:48:23 PM »
i got mine from my days in Navy Cadets as teenager, no could say my last name propley so it was shortened to Gaz.  :phone

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #64 on: October 22, 2012, 11:59:13 PM »
it was only Cadets so no funny business  :spank
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #65 on: October 23, 2012, 12:26:15 AM »
Garrard is the name

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #66 on: November 14, 2012, 05:36:13 PM »
I started to research the family history a couple of years ago. My grandfather was Alsatian and when I looked up a site it had the information that Huard, my surname, is Old French for Owl so I have used The Owl for a while now.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #67 on: November 14, 2012, 05:55:47 PM »
I started to research the family history a couple of years ago. My grandfather was Alsatian and when I looked up a site it had the information that Huard, my surname, is Old French for Owl so I have used The Owl for a while now.

OK, that's the subtitle out of the way.  Now for the nickname...    :popcorn
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #68 on: November 14, 2012, 08:29:26 PM »
Silky is an extension of my last name .

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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #69 on: November 15, 2012, 03:51:18 PM »
Way, way back when I was a lad, I had ginger hair (not any longer - pure grey now). When I moved to Australia, I had no choice - I was always called either blue or bluey. Gone out of favour these days, but Richard Branson knows about it. Virginblue planes are red!
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #70 on: November 16, 2012, 10:14:48 PM »
A lifetime of gaming.

Mech Warrior is a term for a pilot of a Battlemech (a massive walking war machine) in the futuristic fantasy game BattleTech. Back in the 80's it was a board game, these days it's played on all manner of platforms.
I loved the game and since "Mechwarrior" was already taken when I registered online to play MechAssault I've been known as TheMechwarrior for roughly a decade online with a good number of those years as an admin for a couple of the largest gaming communities in Australasia.
I also played competively as well...not always well...but with great enthusiasm  :runyay

Mainly playing Battlefield 2, Joint Operations, Battlefield 2142, Battlefield Heroes, EVE Online, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty Black Ops, Diablo III and many others.

Now with a toddler and a newborn I have little to no time for online gaming so for stress release I've returned to my beginning...2 wheels. :beer
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #71 on: November 16, 2012, 10:56:33 PM »
Mainly playing Battlefield 2, Joint Operations, Battlefield 2142, Battlefield Heroes, EVE Online, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty Black Ops, Diablo III and many others.


Is there really a difference between all those games?  Aren't they all a matter of moving your gun to shoot the next thing that pops up?
I've heard vague reports that there is a storyline.  Can it be?    :popcorn
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #72 on: November 16, 2012, 11:08:26 PM »
Don't listen to them Mech, I played the board game, I have just finished boarder lands 2, and am a huge fan of the mass effect series..but with kids and work, don't play much at all now
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #73 on: November 16, 2012, 11:14:33 PM »
The only online game I really got into was Earth and Beyond.  It was the only way I got to spend any time at all with the (now ex)husband.  He still uses nicknames from that game on just about everything.
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Re: How did you get your nickname?
« Reply #74 on: November 16, 2012, 11:20:14 PM »
Can some one please enlighten me on what an "Online Game" is?

Although I suspect I don't want to know as these people have stopped doing them and now ride ST's.

TheMechWarrior has stopped now he has kids. Does this means he spends more time with the kids now he rides his ST?

Confused!
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