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Nothing too complicated about mine, other than the fact a friend of mine set up my first forum account for me some years ago  he came up with "pedalcarjoe" as I used to collect toy cars, motorcycles and pedal cars and my first grandson was called Joe a grandson gave me the perfect excuse to start collecting pedal cars again  |
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Could have used onomatopoeia. Instead I used an example for what that is with a relation to this forum's interests.  No, I once had a sticker with my avatar pic, guess the picture came off a motorcycle comicbook. Funny, I neither am really interested in motorcycles nor two-stroke engines! I'd always assumed you had an interest in rotary engines! |
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Dec 19, 2021 10:19:49 GMT
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The truth is out there.
Let’s just say, it is an abbreviation for nickname from a very horny girlfriend 20 plus years ago, that i needed to modify as there are a few Grizzly usernames globally on forums.
So Grizz or Grizz1963 is what it became.
And it stuck.
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My name is Paul & my moggy had the original reg WAP347 The car & the reg I still have from 1987 I have a small reminder so I can't forget it  |
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One Julie Stoner christened me thus one evening in 1975 when telling her mate that she was going to a show with Phil. There were two Phils in our social group, and the mate asked "Which Phil?". "E-type Phil" was Julie's response. A reasonable way of identification I suppose, and it stuck. I have occasionally wondered whether, had the other Phil been the object of her desire, he would have become known as (Bedford) Beagle Phil.
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Thought the Beagle Boys never used their real names, only their numbers.
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Thought the Beagle Boys never used their real names, only their numbers. 😂😂 A bit harsh to describe Phil as a crook, although he did wear Moustache Pete style face decoration, as was the fashion at the time, and his surname Robino suggests Italian descent.😎 |
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One Julie Stoner christened me thus one evening in 1975 when telling her mate that she was going to a show with Phil. There were two Phils in our social group, and the mate asked "Which Phil?". "E-type Phil" was Julie's response. A reasonable way of identification I suppose, and it stuck. I have occasionally wondered whether, had the other Phil been the object of her desire, he would have become known as (Bedford) Beagle Phil. Some people at Uni called me FEP ......This was explained as Frog-Eye Phil! |
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MiataMark
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,969
Club RR Member Number: 29
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My name's Mark and I've got a MX5 (Miata)...
I first drove MX5s in the US as hire cars and bought an Eunos and got a Miata badge for it...
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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Dec 20, 2021 10:51:08 GMT
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Naaah, don't think I'll bother....😁
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jimi
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,079 
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Dec 20, 2021 11:39:01 GMT
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My name is James, but I've always been called Jim, when I first left school and started working I found people called me Jimmy. Rather than fight a losing battle for many years to come, I decided to go with the flow. Partly to be different and partly because I'm a Hendrix fan I decided to spell it Jimi. Started with my scooter back around '68 and used it ever since  When the internet / forums came about about it was only natural to use it for a username, which I do, on almost every forum I'm signed up for, a that's quite a few . On here (Proboards to be more precise) Jimi was taken so I used Jimil and changed my display name on here to Jimi  |
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Last Edit: Dec 20, 2021 11:41:09 GMT by jimi
Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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Dec 20, 2021 11:52:00 GMT
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I bought a boat in 2003 called Tineca. One day a very posh lady on the towpath told me it was the name of a Dutch princess. I didn't have the heart to tell her the previous owner was a guy called Eric from Bolton as his wife was called Annette and he had a dog called tiny. Kept the name as it's obscure.
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Dec 20, 2021 12:19:39 GMT
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I cannot remember if I've explained my user name on this thread or not but it's good this has been dug up...
I used to have 'hand-me-down' bicycles when I was younger and in the late 1980's, when youths were bombing around on these new fangled mountain bikes (it seemed like everyone had an Apollo Blizzard), I had some Raleigh Grifters!!
I eventually got a mountain bike (some luridly coloured Emmelle creation)!
My dad opened a bike shop in the late 1990's and Grifters were considered scrap so when he got them I had them, I think I had about 12 at one stage. They ended up finding new homes or (the really crusty ones!) got broken for parts. I kept one (a later one in electric blue) which ended up getting stolen!!!
I will have another Grifter one day but, until then my username keeps the torch burning brightly.
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***GARAGE CURRENTLY EMPTY***
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Dec 20, 2021 12:27:37 GMT
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I like a flutter a whoosh and a dump valve
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Dec 20, 2021 13:10:38 GMT
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I have a pop. And it's black. So originally on forums I was blackpop. A friend had a really cool pop (Craig Harris) and he put stickers on his car for Harris Racing, which I liked. So my forum name morphed into blackpopracing.
Not very exciting really.
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Dec 20, 2021 13:23:58 GMT
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Nothing too interesting here.
Although not all is as it seems.
Martin is my middle name and forums are the only place i actually use it, the numbers 42006 are quite simply because i had a horse back in 2006 when i first needed a username and she was 4 years old.
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Dec 20, 2021 13:27:27 GMT
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Way back in 2008 when I was joining Oppositelock my dad had a Biturbo 228 and all the other bleedin' names I was trying were taken served me well though as I've never had to alter it on any forum I've been on since. |
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Dec 20, 2021 15:37:32 GMT
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Naaah, don't think I'll bother....😁 You'd be banging your head against The Wall... |
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Dec 20, 2021 17:10:33 GMT
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Mine is simply my gamertag
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Dec 20, 2021 22:16:17 GMT
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Drove Astras for years, someone called them disastras which tickled me and the 98 is the year I got married.
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