Iām a fan of the Goon show. (The Goon Show - Wikipedia)
One of my favourite characters is Hercules Grytpype-Thynne - Wikipedia.
Originally played by Peter Sellers. (also one of my favourite comedians/actors).
So in search of a username (i had another one back in the old forum days, but changed it to this one some time ago), i went with this one.
Have a gorillaā¦
I like to find names or words via an anagram. So strictly speaking my actual name jumbled up should Ne Wobler, but I took some liberty and added two letters to come up with Knee Wobbler. I also have a habit of jiggling my leg/knee, so itās appropriate. I do also go by another name, also using my middle name as well and using the anagram routine, I came up with Thurra Web Lonerā¦which is also appropriate.
OMG. @TheMadman_tobyjennerās name is not Toby. Now this has really distorted my reality!
For me, well, itās dull, itās my name, which is why I hadnāt commented already. I havenāt used a handle in years, aside for on Steam/PSN/Xbox. But some extra trivia, I go by JK in real life, thatās not an internet name only 
@adi_mrok Adrian, I see that James has answered your call but @Rossco01 is currently not that active in the Community, so I think it is a simple abbreviation of his full name, Jason Ross Collins ā¦ if I remember correctly ā¦ of course stand to be corrected.
mikemycroft comes from my first name (Michael) and my last name, Holmes.
I had a lot of nicknames that played on my surname,Sherlock was the most common. I told a customer I got on with really well, and he said What? Not Mycroft?
So Iāve used it quite a bit ever since.
Great thread, loved reading everyoneās stories! Thanks to all those that have shared, some super interesting ones for sure 
Mine is boring and probably should have tried harder 
NZ (New Zealand being where Iām from) Metal (being my preferred genre of music). I guess easy to remember and gives people some info about me.
But to add to the stories about namesā¦
I like my first name Jeff (or Jeffrey but only my mum calls me that 
), named after my uncle who I also very much looked up to as a kid.
My middle name is Mark because with having an O for the start of the my surname my parents wanted to avoid any unsavoury abbreviations that people would tease me with (not sure what they had in mind 
). So JMO didnāt stand for anything. But, for that reason another uncle took it on himself to always call J-Mo to annoy my parents , I kind of liked it though, reminded me of the Muppets 
Also with my surname being Ormandy, I have had a lot of correspondence over the years addressed to āJeff or Mandyā so Iāve wondered whether Mandy could become some sort of alter ego 
Finally, I had a lot of nicknames in high school, āslothā, āwombatā and most unfortunately āstonerā which was the one that stuck the most. Had nothing to do with a particular bad habit, other than early high school being very boring and always nearly putting me to sleep, so my mates decided I looked like a stoner. Canāt always choose your names! Did not go down well when they forgot themselves though and said to their parents that Stoner was coming around to hang! 
Finally, Iām typically known to my friends these days as Spuddog or Spuddy as they found it funny that I grew up on spud (potato) farm as a kid. Donāt know why thatās funny, butā¦ 
Not a massive fan of any of those nicknames, so hence why I just made something up on the spot when joining here
Hey , It`s back , hope you had a nice time 
greetingsā¦
I was known by the nickname āSnoutā by one friend since childhood (and he still calls me that). I then conflated āSnoutā with Microsoft where I was working to produce microsnoutā¦
Ha ha, nice!
PS: I have recently discovered that the famous economist John Maynard Keynes was also known by the nickname Snout in his college days. An Ex- of mine read this in an autobiography of him.
Yay, Iām not the only one to mention an economist in this thread!
Well, Manilowās always been a firm favourite of mine, but going with the Pixies this time by a whisker
And just for completeness, yes, in the early 90ās (and beyond) I had lots of my mates singing 
āJef with one f, Jefrey!ā whenever they wandered up to say hi 
I went to school with Dave, back in the day.
Really? the Dave Fishwick? At school in Burnley? I lived in Burnley during my teenage years - Towneley High School.
Yes, really. We were friends in junior school. Which was in Nelson.
Towneley park is nice. I used to play pitch and putt there and I went to Towneley hall from junior school. They locked us all in the dungeons.
When I was a child I had a dream to go ranching in Arizona. I couldnāt afford riding lessons in those days. For my 50th birthday I delivered my childhood dream, got on a flight and went ranching near Tuscon in Arizona. I learned western riding and had an amazing time. That was where I became Arizona Angie!
@SgtColon I only found out about Bank of Dave overhearing someone talking about the film. I liked hearing the Burnley accents and the local setting. It brought back nostalgic memories growing up there, going to Turf Moor, herding round the towns pubs on a Saturday night. My Mum and Dad ran a Sub Post office next to Cockers Sports shop for a while. Later on we lived in Brierfield. Lots of nice countryside around there. I have this oil painting they gave me when they were downsizing. No prizes for guessing the landscape feature.
Great thread idea @CATMAN62.
Many years before taking up guitar I spent some time learning to play blues harmonica, and I love blues music, hence the blues bit.
At the time I was living in outback South Australia, in an area where there are no eucalypts, that niche being filled by acacias and in particular a very beautiful variety known as the Western Myall.
I needed an email address and thus myall_blues was born, and Iāve been using it ever since.
@myall_blues And there I was thinking it was a shout-out honouring John Mayall. At least the blues connection works 
