What's behind your AFF user name?

[Flashback]

Well that’s still very cryptic @Flashback

I've been waiting for that to come!

I thought I had slipped through, undetected

 

[Seat0B]

My husband's cough star name is Bo Beaumont. First dog = Bo, First street = Beaumont
My own cough star name is Meg Pearce, and that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

And welcome to posting on AFF, Ms Pearce

 

[Seat0B]

I've been waiting for that to come!

I thought I had slipped through, undetected

And so it did! Anything else you care to add for the uninitiated?

 

[Flashback]

And so it did! Anything else you care to add for the uninitiated?

More words are spoken on many things at offline events

 

[andye]

The combination of flash and park sounds a bit dodgy

 

[Seat0B]

More words are spoken on many things at offline events

OK. I’ll leave it there with my curiosity piqued to the next level!

 

[rugbyskier]

I bet we know each other then, or know of each other - it’s a pretty small club, the ex- Box Packer/ENG PEN.

Even more so if you're a 7SD graduate.

 

[Haplo]

Main character of the Seventh Gate series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

 

[Seat0B]

Even more so if you're a 7SD graduate.

Nah not that pathway for me, but some of my OTS classmates were from 7SD. In early 1983.

 

[Rebus]

Name of the main character in my favourite series of detective novels, set in Edinburgh.

 

[fletty]

Mine is just my nickname, since you just add a 'y' and you're good to go.
My DP is just logo for one of my favourite bands, Opeth.

 

[VPS]

Name of the main character in my favourite series of detective novels, set in Edinburgh.

Love those books. I met Ian Rankin on a literary festival cruise and he's delightful

 

[OATEK]

My username came from when I first stepped into the world of networked computing (UNIX/TCPIP), and was the standard construct for our organisation of 5 letters, 4 surname, 1 first name. This was back in the '80s. The systems were air-gapped, that is they did not have access to the WWW etc, which was mainly accessed via modem from personal PCs to visit bulletin boards looking for help with drivers, scripts etc.

Just to add, my Avatar is my own pic of a statue in Budapest.

 

[Rangalad]

I often wonder what is the story behind some people's AFF user names, and was quite enlightened by @somebol's recent explanation in his epic 5 day Award Heist TR.

Now, some are pretty obviously versions of people's actual names or initials.

But others have a bit more mystery to them. Like mine, maybe. It's Seat zero B BTW, not Seat oh B or seat 08 as some have thought. The back story is this - I used to be in the RAAF and one of my jobs was as an Air Movements Officer. The larger transport planes that we loaded were broken into compartments behind the bulkhead that separated the cargo/pax area from the coughpit. Anything anything forward of that bulkhead was labelled as compartment A/B, or sometimes row zero. My hubby is a private pilot with a Grumman Tiger, and when we fly in that, I am in the copilot seat. So hence he is in Seat 0A and I am in Seat 0B. And that's the story behind my user name.

If you feel comfortable sharing the story behind your AFF user name, I'd be interested to hear it!

I've got red hair.

 

[DejaBrew]

Main character of the Seventh Gate series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Now I know why that name looked familiar! Great series (once you pushed past that bloody Kicksey-winsey section that seemed to drag on forever ).

 

[kevrosmith]

My surname is fairly common, and in combination with my first name, it was very tricky to get a Gmail address with some sort of combination that I was happy with until a friend suggested “kevro” (never really been a fan of “kevy”). So it’s conveniently been available across quite a few platforms now.

For other tennis fans, I’ve managed to attend AO, US Open (pre-roof top) and Roland Garros (also pre-roof top) and covid scuttled my plans to complete my personal Grand Slam of the Grand Slams. I now doubt I’ll ever make it to Wimbledon.

@OATEK makes me think of breakfast cereals.
Based on Avatars, I always assumed @Katie was a hobbit and I’d never zoomed in on @DejaBrew and thought it was someone wearing a burglars cap with masking tape over the mouth.

My avatar is my favourite cartoon character of all time.

 

[rugbyskier]

Nah not that pathway for me, but some of my OTS classmates were from 7SD. In early 1983.

They would have been 7 Course, I was a few courses later.

 

[Groundfeeder]

I am am person of simplicity. Found two adjacent keys on the keyboard, and two consecutive letters in my lysdexic alphabet. Seems to work for me .

And my avatar is a photo I took of a snowman I once made in my home town of Brisbane.

Re BNE snowman, there was a pic of someone's snowed-under front yard in USofA with a sign that said "Snowman For Sale. Some assembly required".

 

[sevenfourtyseven]

The Queen of the Skies

 

[luxury-lizard]

great thread with lots of participation - mine comes from being a "pointy-end" flyer and my collection of crocodiles (wooden and stone carvings) but luxury-croc didn't sound as neat as luxury-lizard which I use on various forums.