This is how my username Prof_Thunder came about: Iām a university professor in Switzerland. We had a visiting researcher from Japan who was unable to pronounce my family name Sanders. When he said my name, it always sounded like Professor Thunder. After that, everyone in the lab called me Professor Thunder, with great amusement.
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Never had much interaction with horses, Franz. My youngest daughter & now my granddaughters are bonkers for horses 
! I have found that just about every horse instructor they have had areā¦ wellā¦ letās be nice and just say ādifferentā!!! Characters for sure!!! Nice story!!!
Tod
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Love this one!!!
Good thing though that you donāt have one of those hyphenated namesā¦ imagine if your name was Ian Sanders-Burns.
Youād have been Professor Thunder-Buns!
Tod
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Ah go on thenā¦
Notter is very much a play on words courtesy of my brother and I continuously acting like 5 year olds when weāre together, for reference Iām 48 heās 51ā¦ We āinventedā the word to describe perfectly normal people doing odd things. Where the word ānutterā has harsh and unpleasant connotations, we concluded that notter is more playful and better suited to things like pratfalls, freudian slips and other stupid behaviour.
So why do I use it? Iām quite susceptible to doing randomly stupid things so here I am as Notter!!
(You can imagine my amusement when I stumbled across an email address for someone where I work who carries the surname Notter 
)
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I posted the origin of āsairfingersā a few years ago in Sairfingersā Learning Log so Iāll copy and paste the entry across here.
Back in the Summer of 1990 (not ā69) I was on a campsite in France with my wife and 2 kids. We were touring around with our caravan and ended up near Sarlat in the Dordogne region.
Anyone who has been camping/caravanning in France will know that the campsites are full of Dutch people and I met up with a bunch of Dutch guys. They all spoke great English so communication wasnāt a problem. They had brought their guitars on holiday with them so there were regular singalongs in the bar and swimming pool area etc. So my interest in guitar was reignited some 20 years after my initial short lived introduction as a teenager.
One of the guitar players was suffering from painful fingertips as he was not a regular player. Much to my amusement he described this in Dutch as āzere vingerā, but it was pronounced as āsair fingerā (finger pronounced as in singer).
Had our national bard Robert Burns ever written a poem about a sore finger in addition to those for which he is famous like āTae a mooseā (thatās mouse, not the large North American animal) he would undoubtedly have used old Scots and written and spoken it as āsair fingerā.
Unfortunately when I returned home the guitar spark, like many post holiday plans, was extinguished by work and family commitments.
I never forgot the Dutch guy and his sore fingers and on the 21st March 2018 (I checked my profile) when I joined Justin guitar and needed a nickname and certainly had sore fingers from playing for the previous few weeks, āsairfingersā was born.
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Wow! Super interesting post! Iāve spent almost all my practice time reading this one thread! ooops 
but have enjoyed reading everyoneās responses 
I know right!? Do they still make childrenās movies that are so horrifying and tragic!? (The Dark Crystal is another one that comes to mind)
@Helen0609 Hope you are feeling better these days Andrea 
so awesome that you discovered JG and the community so soon after taking up guitar, hurruh! Thanks for sharing your story, it is beautiful and inspiring!
My username was originally Calvin after my old dog (in my profile pic), then changed it to my name, but had been thinking of going back to using Calvin 
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Thanks Jax, I make my way through the days and guitar helps a lot 
I would be Nelly then or, after our current dog, Emma
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Haha, I initially presumed you were a Carpenters fan
When I read you were a teacher, I wondered whether it was a nod to Gordon Sumnerās Donāt stand so close to me ditty 
I canāt believe you had to āimagineā scenarios where teenagers were being cheeky 
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It is amazing how guitar can help with so much!
Love your dogsā names - sweet 
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I was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester. A town renowned for the poor quality of its meat.
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Very dull for me Name_pincode (for my security box held at Bank of Dave)
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My favorite character from that show, too. I like engineers, lol. Met James Doohan when he was speaking at my college. Scotty is my first favorite engineer.
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I think my Mum gave me mine, but that was 62 years ago, so my memory is a bit vague 
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Yeah.
Astronauts are cool, I joined the air force in an attempt to become one but washed out of flight training (at that time only 10 woman pilots existed in the USAF and that was just to appease congress, sigh). And then they kept increasing the requirements as everyone wanted to join as a civilian astronaut. sigh
But astronauts, at least the ones Iāve met are very cool.
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I love Canadians. 
Been to various parts of Canada quite a few times. In fact, my paternal great grandmother, Victoria hailed from New Brunswick.
So, I am part Canadian.
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I hardly dare to post my own poor āstoryā after reading all these creative, inventive, witty and smart ideas behind your usernames
Mine had simply been taken straight from my birth certificate. End of āstoryā 
I donāt even like my first name much. It would have been a great chance to get a much cooler one 
Really missed a unique opportunity here 
The ladybird in my profile picture reminds me of my two guitars. I have a red and a black one 
And Iām very fond of ladybirds anyway. Always happy when they visit my garden
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I guess I should also add that I used to be plain old tobyjenner on the old forum, before the amp incident. However, Toby is not my given name but a nickname I was given when I was eleven and that was a long long time ago.
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Well, when I write that it was an imagined scenario, what Iām avoiding saying is that it was actually a product of stress-induced nightmares.
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Aaahhā¦ I still go on the occasional ward rounds in my ādreamsā 
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