Forum Name

**Kiltman** · 2nd September 07, 09:31 PM

Great idea Big Mickie. My avatar just happened. When my son was little (he's now 30) he called himself 'zooming man'—he was always moving at warp speed. When I had to give a name it just came to me. I typed it in expecting it to be taken already; but I got it.
Have a happy and entertaining long weekend.

**porrick** · 3rd September 07, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by slohairt

Porrick is from Padhraic, a variant of Pádraig.

Exactly - that's precisely why he called me Porrick

**McClef** · 3rd September 07, 07:27 AM

Mine is a play on Clever Trevor with Welsh spelling then Scottified!

**David Thornton** · 3rd September 07, 07:34 AM

Not really sure how my parents came up with mine

**cloves** · 2nd September 07, 02:36 PM

My name has to do with "cloves" flavored cigarettes. Now I don't smoke at all.....but a girl i used to know did. She had said "they make your lips taste sweet"......i never did try smoking them, but they DID make her lips taste sweet!

**Kid Cossack** · 2nd September 07, 02:43 PM

Kid because either a) I'm an arrogant young punk or b) I haven't lost that youthful zest for wondering what's over that way . . . or maybe a little from column a and a little from column b!

Cossack because of Central Asia. The Russian Cossacks have an occasionally dark reputation for participating in/organizing pogroms. That part, I have ZERO sympathy for. The original (Russian) cossacks were serfs that ran away to the frontier to escape their serfdom, and that part I have plenty of sympathy for. The Russian word Каза́к comes from the Central Asian nomadic herdsmen of the, well, Kazakh and Kyrgyz peoples. I'm fluent in Russian (well, pretty good anyway!) and met my (Russian) wife in Kazakhstan when I was working there.

So . . . I an arrogant punk kid/who hasn't lost his zest for life, and a Russian speaker who feels the tug of Central Asia. Ah, the silk road, Tashkent and Samarkand and Khokhand and Khiva!

**Moosedog** · 2nd September 07, 02:59 PM

Good thread! I am looking forward to learning how to pronounce a few that have me stumped as well...

I have two very charismatic Norwegian Elkhounds, also known affectionately as "fuzzies" or "Moosedogs."

moosedog

**AL-58** · 17th September 07, 04:50 AM

Mine is whats on my bike plate since 1986. I chose my name AL instead of my initials AP and 58 is the year of my birth. It's been a useful user name in various forums as i never get the message that it's already taken (which happened often when i used to try and use TwoDogs). Why do you ask?

Al

**Cawdorian** · 17th September 07, 05:23 AM

Mine is from one of the Campbell lines of my ancestry, the Campbells of Cawdor, my first kilt was in the Campbell of Cawdor tartan.

Since that time I have discovered closer clan ties through Clan Lamont.

**sorcererdale** · 2nd September 07, 03:05 PM

I like wizards and dragons, but neither sounded right and I wanted it to be different. I searched around and found sorcerers which sounded neat and more intriguing than wizard dale.

Oh, and when the internet became more than just a few bulletin boards and there were more dot com sites, I started putting a period or dot after my name, and again to be different, I capitalized all the letters.

DALE.