People's real names v forum names

[jma]

hi new to this forum, haven't got my new car yet, but thought i'd introduce myself anyway.

jma = john ma

[Wotsa]

wotsa - is a contraction of "what is a beer worth?" - in 1972 it was 17cents, I shudder to think what it is now.

Paul Beerworth

[greenMachine]

Hi all,

The Green Machine - self explanatory, but also a name give to the local RL team, the Canberra Raiders ...

The driver - Ed

[Boags]

Hi all,

I'm Geoff. The nickname is a long story, but it originated from grogen, meaning "small turd." It moulded into many different things, and became bogen after the song "no body likes a bogan." (I have a charming family don't i?) Then the beer came.... bogen ---> Boags.....

Thinking of personal plates 80GEN

hmmm...... Seeya.

[Okibi]

Okibi is the name I gave our MX5.

Okibi means "Blazing Fire"

[FoxForceFive]

My name is Adam...Any Tarantino fans on here would know what my name means...its out of the movie "Pulp Fiction"....and the Five connection is more obvious!

[Okibi]

was the red one called "Ketchup" ?

[FoxForceFive]

was the red one called "Ketchup" ?

Baby Tomato
No, she was called "Mia" Wallace

Mmmmmm, Uma

[Casey]

I originally used my real name (Troy) when Matty first started the forum and Ted and I were about the only other members around. Time passed between logins and some how my old user name disappeared - I also found everything had changed and the forum had grown beyond my wildest expectations. I created a new forum name using my (then) current location - Casey Station.

[Okibi]

I need to photoshop your MX-5 in for you Troy.

My old man went to the Antarctic, the trip of a life time even though he was in a nasty chopper crash.

[Casey]

When abouts? We had a nasty chopper crash on the Polar Bird during my last couple of months on station (late 2000 early 2001). The pilot's name was John IIRC - but I don't think he was from WA?

Have some spectacular video footage from all angles (well if you crash in front of a hoard of Antarctic expeditioners, what else would you expect?)of bits of Squirrel flying off in all directions as the heli did a dynamic roll into the deck (got a skid caught on a barge).

It was a very worring time as I was manning the comms back at base listening to the catastrophie over the radio. The second heli had a very long, lonely flight home (about 150nm IIRC) and if the ice breaker had gone up with all the ATK spilt everywhere we had no means of launching a rescue. As this was also to be our ride home we could have been trapped on station for longer then expected.

There are a few shots of the SP and some Antarctic pictures on my Cardomain site below.

[Okibi]

This was late 70's i think, he was working as a surveyor . Never got compo from the government.

He has a banana shaped Altimeter he found wedged in his rucksack when he got out of hospital.

[Kuntry Kuzzin]

what an interesting thread.

This is Kuntry Kuzzin on a rare trip to the forum. My friends call me Mr Carter. My mother called me Stephen.

The nick is because I'm a country member. Oh, you remember!!

[hugh_ness]

My real name is Peter. Hugh Ness is the name of a rather dubious alcohol guzzling, sheep shearing, yobbo who appears in one of my books ...totally unlike me at all.
(Hic)

[maxwolfie]

<----- Who knows.....