I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by the nom-de-plumes used by PALS on the forum. The derivation of some of them may be obvious but many are not (to me at least).
In an earlier thread, BeppoSapone told us the story behind his, if you use one, please tell us the story behind yours.

Roy

Roy,
No big secret, my Grandfather joined the 18th Hussars in 1914 before transferring to the M.G.C in 1916 and I thought Hussar was a better name than Machine-Gunner!!

Mine's the name I get people to put on any cheque they send me ...

Roy.

I am also a member of other forums and use the same nom-de-plume on them all.

Some time ago, I was working towards some aviation exams on Digital Techniques. One of the subjects was Cathode Ray Tube displays. These use a process called Raster Scanning as part of their function. I thought the name was good for using on PPrune (Professional Pilots Rumour Network) and have retained it for all other forums I have joined.

I have largely given up on the other forums, this is the only one I now use on a regular basis.

Well you did ask............

I have always had a hatred of my first name and thus very rarely use it, when given the chance of adopting a nickname i jumped at the chance.

Armourersergeant was the rank of my grandfather by the end of WW1 and originally i used it as a tribute to him. Like others i use this on any sites i visit and for easyness when signing i use 'Arm'


Regards
Arm.

I use the same non-de-plume on several forums.
I have a dream of setting up my own publishing company for military subjects and Heritage Plus was the name I came up with years ago for it. One day it will happen!

Dave

I rather embarrassingly have no professional call on the nom-de-plume "SIGNALS" other than my Great Grandfather was a Chief Yeoman of Signals RN, and I thought it appropriate to use in his memory.

no mystery with mine: I am GRUMPY

But MUCH more significance in the Red Dragon and the RG quotation.

Nice post Roy - I have nothing to add to my name.
Thanks to Langley, Heritage & Raster. I think I had worked out Hussar, Signals and Arm.

I blame my parents.

Hi,

Mine is just from my name, Alison, although everyone calls me Alie, apart from my parents that is!

Coco was a beautiful chocolate labrador, that we rescued when he was 6. He had to be put to sleep at the age of 13. A few months after that, I discovered the internet. He was still very much in my thoughts when I needed an 'internet name'. Even though that was six years ago, I always use aliecoco!!


Alie.

I seem to remember I had spent the afternoon in the pub before I joined here and was too far gone to think of anything more original!

Do you know, I've NEVER spent an afternoon in the pub. Is it good? Mine is only a few yards away, so it is feasible, I suppose.

ttd0- my university account name, I use it every day and hence I can remember it!!

Tim

David

I can't remember any arvo Ive spent in the pub.

Care to join me in the great experiment?

Patrick

If anyone would like a training excercise on how to sit in the pub for the afternoon, then I am quite happy to teach, through the medium of practical demonstration. Please let me know, can do weekends and weekdays (any excuse to take an afternoon off! )

I served in the Royal Green Jackets in the early 70's. During my last 2 years I was posted to Woolwich & reported regularly to an officer up in Whitehall.

Each time he would say " The Mafia Man is here again !" When I asked him why 'Mafia Man' he would reply that the General Staff was awash with officers from the Royal Green Jackets & it was like trying to beat the 'bloody mafia' !! So everyone in the RGJ was a 'Mafia Man'.

I never minded too much because this officer used to sign off all our claims, etc !!!

So the RGJ were known as the 'Mafia' or the 'black buttoned bas***ds' depending on where you came from !! I thought the latter would not have been accepted as a NdeP.

Cheers

Joe

It can be excellent, David. Then again

Not too long back, I was at a "works do" which started about 11.30am and carried on for the next 12 hours. Not long after that I decided to give up the booze. It was one of those "never again" times that I've managed to stick to.

Kevin yes as in Kevin and spent many a afternoon,evening,night and morning in the pub.It helps having a brother as the Manager.
Regards Kevin.

Christina as in Christina, all my parents fault and I've never spent an afternoon in a pub either. But then I don't much like beer. The chap who updates my computer from time to time spells my name Christena so perhaps I'll use it sometime if I need a NdeP.

Christina

Mine is a nick name given to me many, many years ago.
My name is Jennifer, which got turned into Jenniflower (I used to sign all my notes etc. with Jenni and then a little drawing of a flower) which then got turned into Miss J. Fleur on notes addressed to me by chums at school and ended up with just being plain old Fleur.

So that's why I use the name Fleur.

As for afternoons in pubs - it is pure bliss sitting in a pub, wasting an afternoon on beer and good company.
Sunday afternoons are best I think - but so too is the unplanned mid-week afternoon pub sesh.
mmmmmmm......... beer!

Fleur

Fleur... what is your avatar of?

Puzzled Gwyn

Max is a pet name given to me as a child by my parents (God knows why!?!). The only person who calls me Andrew is my wife , especially when she is mad.

Those over 50 will recognize this: "My name is Harry Worth - I don't know why, but there it is."


Terry "Don't tell him Pike" Reeves

Ok, so you all remember Munkeh, from ITV Digital, yeah??
My avitar is of Munkeh dressed as Travis Bickel from Taxi Driver.

Fleur

Sometimes I wish I hadn't started this thread!

Roy

Er...

Me not speak Digital.

Could you please translate?!?

Even More Puzzled Gwyn

You must have seen the ad's on TV around that time for ITV Digital (before it went kaput)
There was a fat bloke and a knitted monkey ... called Monkey - but the fat bloke (johnny Vegas) is very northern with a right thick accent and when he said Monkey it sounded like Munkeh.

Anyway, to celebrate the great success of Johnny and Monkey (who also had a show on ITV digital), they issued postcards with pictures of Monkey dressed as different characters from films ... so there's one of him as billy elliot, as Gladiator, as Fight Club, as green mile prison warden etc. etc.

http://www.geocities.com/rhiafilan/Monkey.html

Fleur

*sorry - this thread has gone really off track - end of monkey debate ?*

Before we go on Fleur, may I just ask if you feel this 'Munkeh' reflects something of your own persona, or is it perhaps a statement about family history in the evoluntionary sense?

Equally puzzled Kate,
whose whacky username was first conceived by my mother, who called me Katharine, then truncated by my schoolfriends into Kate / Katie, and given another makeover upon marriage to one Mr Wills.

Martin has also suggested that, since my intials are KEW, I should now be known as National Archive.

I'm pretty new here , but never let it be said that I don't like to join in , so I thought I would explain my user name ...couldn't pronounce that de plume thing if you payed me .
The word comes from a WWI aviation book called Bloody April -BlackSeptember about two particularly hard months for the R.F.C/R.A.F. . On another forum I used just BlackSeptember , but someone thought I was meaning the terrorist group !!?? . So I added the 1918 . I guess it's a name that has put me in hot water , so one wonders why I would persist with it ...I guess I'm just stubborn .
Phil.

Yeah ....... all of those!

nah, just found the image amusing - that was all.
Might change it now though --- keep y'all on your toes!
*Mwahhhahahahahaaaaaa - evil laugh*

Fleur

Then I shall call you Mini-Fleur!!

The name of, probably, the world's most famous art deco design - the Racing Teapot - which we have put back into production after an absence of nearly 60 years, and by which name my company is registered at Companies House.

The Racing Teapot carries the equally well known, and distinctive, registration number OKT42.

That's 'okay, tea for two' - did you get it....??

LMAO!!

Fleur

I have used by nom de plume for a few years. My husband originally came up with it after an afternoon in the pub!

Ali after my first name of Alison and Bee comes from my maiden surname. My husband says he moved be up the alphabet when we married from B to A!. Anyway AliA doesn't have the same ring to it.

Ali

I've been fascinated by the 1914-1919 War for a long time, and have always found the war in the air especially interesting. I can just remember talking about flying with an ex-RFC/RAF Sopwith Dolphin pilot some forty plus years ago. The thing I best recall was his descriptions of the major operations late in the war, when Camels flew at low level, Bristol Fighters and SE 5as were at medium heights and Sopwith Dolphins guarded the high altitudes.

I'd never heard of the redoubtable Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin before, but the name stuck in my memory. Alas, I've long forgotten the identity of the old airman but, on a whim, I chose to use the name of his machine - perhaps the most under-rated fighter of the War.

As is the case with other veterans I've spoken to, I really regret the absence of a tape recorder at the time!

Myrtle is an anagram of M. Tyler , my name. The M is for Margaret but this is usually shortened to Maggie.

This is one of the few places where I actually use my real name. Mostly I am known as Midge (I'm only 5 feet tall in my stockinged feet)
At school I was known as Mich which I hated. My sister calls me Dick (check out the Famous 5) and my Dad calls me Bob (check out Blackadder)

as in "Kate ........ short for Bob!' ?

Fleur

As in Blackadder goes forth........

"I understand cricket"

My girlfriend/partner or whatever first names are Rebecca Michiko (her father was Japanese interned in the isle of Man during the war, but thats another story) she hates Rebecca and prefers being called... Mich.

By chance, I happen to have the full Blackadder scripts next to me. I've just had a nosey to see if there were any good "Bob" lines that i could post. It is with great regret that all of the really good ones almost certainly offend against the "good taste" guidelines of the this Forum. But try this:-

Blackadder - "You are a girl. And you're a girl with as much talent for disguise as a giraffe in dark glasses trying to get into a polar bears only golf club."

Bob - "Of, sir, please don't give me away, sir. I just wanted to be like my brothers and join up. I want to see how war is fought, so badly."

Blackadder - "Well, you've come to the right place, Bob. A war hasnt been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.

Bob - " I want to do my bit for the boys, sir."

Blackadder - "Oh, really"

Bob - "I'll do anything, sir."

Blackadder - "Yes, I'd keep that to yourself if I was you , Bob."

LMAO!!!

Damn, I love that series - though I must have consistantly missed that episode - how very odd!

Fleur

I'm Tintin because twenty years ago I had a ridiculous quiff which made me look like him. Or so people said...

1689 is to remember the Cameronians (The Scottish Rifles) and their bravery and sacrifice for this country from Dunkeld to Aden

My real name is actually Alfonse R. ..., no in reality it is simply Ralph J. Whitehead. All I can add is that the middle initial stands for Justus and you would be amazed how few people know where this name comes from.

I like using my real name as I have had problems in other forums years back, I thought it was time to keep it as simple as possible, like me.

Ralph

Banjo because I play one badly .

Chris

I was "Quax" on another forum, Quax being a German cartoon character and nickname of a WW2 fighter pilot who I liked. Moving to another forum - The Aerodrome (hi BlackSeptember1918 and the rest!) I found Quax was taken.

But if it looks like a duck and quax like a duck...

you can guess the rest.

Then I found this place.

Frank

G'day Duckster !...I mean Frank
Ahhhhh...so thats why you've got that name , I always wondered . Karl Schnorrer would be proud . JG54 and JG7 on the jets , oneday we'll have to find out why he is your favorite . If we just say that he belonged to a WWI Jasta we should be o.k. to talk about him ....mostly foot slogger experts here .....just joking folks .
Beware everyone ..Duckster has an I.Q. of 480 million , never ask him to explain anything ....or you'll feel like your reading a university professor's papers ....heh heh
Phil...

I use betula at times. Aurel Sercu immediately realised why, but most don't. Latin scholars or gardners might twigg!

Tim

Hi All:

There is a reoccurring character in the Dilbert cartoon series, Mordac The Preventer Of Information Systems. I provide technical support to a daily newspaper and 4 or 5 years ago a couple of editors hung the name Mordac on me. The name's stuck like a wet shirt.

Garth (aka mordac)