What is the significance of your Pelican name?

[red-beard]

What is the significance of your Pelican name? Is it just your name or is there a story behind yours?

Mine comes from my home-brewing days. A fellow local brewer used the Pirate theme. He liked to make a brown ale he called “Black Barnett’s Bilge Swill”. With the fact that I had brown hair/bald, but a red beard, he suggested that I should also go with the Pirate theme. Red Beard brewery!

And I made a modified blond ale with some red carapils/crystal malt to add a reddish hew to the beer. Red Beard’s Ale. I made a series of beers which had a red color component. I had a porter which looked almost black, but was actually red when you shown a light through it.

I started using the name on quite a few forums. Pelican already has a redbeard, so I became red-beard

[Buckterrier]

Had a Manchester Terrier for 13 years. In his honor.

[GH85Carrera]

My 911 what else.

Well my initials are in there.

[Jim Richards]

There isn't a whole lot of significance to either me or my Pelican name.

[scottmandue]

My first name is Scott... and scottmachupicchu just didn't have the same ring to it.

The name has followed me around the internet for many years, can't remember how I first came up with it. I think maybe Bob Seger has something to do with it.

[Hard-Deck]

Snapper is my fighter-pilot callsign.
33 is the number painted on the Senior Marine's Airplane.
All from my younger days.

[vash]

i mispelled "gash"

[83_Silberpfeil]

My 1983 'Silver Arrow' --- auf Deutsch

[motion]

I misspelled "lotion"

[bivenator]

Nickname from my days as a bartender. At the end of the night, the mat that the drink glasses sat on while making drinks would become filled with spillage. We would then empty the mat into a glass and dare a drunk to drink it. It was known at one time as a mat dillon but morphed into the bivenator as a play on my last name.

[speeder]

Funny you should ask. When I joined Pelican, I was new to online forums and had just bought my first PC. I'd also just bought a 1982 911SC that I was going to need a lot of tech help with. When I realised that I needed to pick a user name, I thought of a few not very clever ones and picked "speeder" because I had a penchant for speeding on the open road. I was actually surprised that no one had picked it yet.

I saw a 911 once with a vanity plate that said "SPEEDER", (or some close variation), and thought it was funny.

I was at a Porsche gathering a few years later and someone was standing 3 feet away from me saying, "speeder!". I completely ignored him, (thought he was saying "Peter"), it never occurred to me that he was addressing me. It was Wayne from Pelican Parts.

That's about how much connection I have to that name. I do not use it on any other BBSs.

[UconnTim97]

Mine goes back to my AOL instant message name from many years ago. I would like to change it to something more up to date.

[Jeff Higgins]

I merely thought of the biggest ass hole I know, and started using his name on all internet forums in an effort to ruin his reputation.

[vash]

Originally Posted by motion

I misspelled "lotion"

hahahha..that is so much better..and creepy at the same time..well played..ha!

[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I merely thought of the biggest ass hole I know, and started using his name on all internet forums in an effort to ruin his reputation.

I did the same, but failed at it.

[Esel Mann]

Many names came to mind that night long ago when I signed up on PP....

However it seemed that PP moderators and forum creators were quite clever with their English words screening abilities. I however sensed a huge hole with German words..... How fanciful seeing as it is a Porsche forum....

If you go here: German to English Translation

and type in my name on the German side (left side box) "Esel Mann" click the translate button....

Voila, and no I'm not a doctor.

Oh how a smile is always put on my face when Folks reply "Esel, ..." or "Esel Mann,..."

[yellowperil]

Had a replica of the yellowperil Norton Commando, loved Nortons and still do.

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by bivenator

. . .We would then empty the mat into a glass and dare a drunk to drink it. . .

Dude! That drunk was usually me. Good times - although I never thought of it as a dare; I thought of it as free booze.

Burnin' Oil is my life in a nutshell.

[Les Paul]

We had just gotten a new computer and I had to change my user name for some reason don't even recall. My son was sitting there playing his new Les Paul and hey nobody had used that name. Les Paul a renowned instrument just like Porsches and close to the same age.

Years ago I got a pm from someone asking about pickups and if I was interested in his new design. Alas not the real Les Paul sorry.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Mine is a sobriquet I was given many (too many now) years ago. I still hang out from time to time with a few of the 'boys' from those days. When I joined Pelican the name was already taken so I just added the model name of my project car to it.

Cheers
JB
(& those really are my initials)