It is amazing how guitar can help with so much! 
Love your dogs’ 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 I’ve 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 “story” 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 “story” 
I don’t 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 I’m 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 I’m avoiding saying is that it was actually a product of stress-induced nightmares.
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Aaahh… I still go on the occasional ward rounds in my ‘dreams’ 
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C’mon… @TheMadman_tobyjenner that’s not a complete response!!!
Now you gotta tell where the Toby came from!!!
Tod
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from the uncanny resemblance of Toby’s mug to a Toby jug
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Now that would be telling !
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Ah, you can confide in us… nobody’s going to tell your secrets!!!
Tod
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I was actually born in St Pete, my parents moved back to Canada when I was a baby, so I’m a dual citizen Cdn & American.
But really I’m Canadian 
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Tobias?
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Well, nothing interesting. The nickname was suggested by my dad while registering my email a long time ago and it’s pretty obvious.
metramaks = metra + maks
metra — Artem, just reversed; maks — the first four letters of my surname.
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Well Toby, you have really raised the curiosity quotient here so I had to start Googling…
Found this in Urban Dictionary:
Toby
A Toby is a guy who is one a million; he somehow manages to stray from the usual path of men, and go off in the right direction.
Found this on Quora:
“Toby” in popular culture as a typical name of a jolly, boisterous, and usually corpulent character …
Finally this:
It is cockney rhyming slang. Toby jug = mug. A mug is someone who is an idiot / gullible/ foolish . Nothing to do with race, if it has that connotation in NZ that is nothing to do with it’s origins.
So, based on these 3 possible explanations mashed together, @TheMadman_tobyjenner could possibly be “One in a million, jolly, boisterous, chubby fellow who is a bit of a mug… “ oh & Mad as a Hatter as well!!!
If he doesn’t tell… that’s what we’ll just have to assume!!!
Seriously, I’m just teasing 
… if you don’t want to tell, that’s okay with me!!! I do appreciate you & your contributions to the group!!!
Tod
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back in the late 90’s when I created my first email account (not tied to school or work) one of my hobbies was snowmobiling, I did a little racing, SnowCross to be exact. hence, snoxracr.
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