Hi Dave, welcome in the community!
My guess is Rev uses a wheelchair to move around? 
… now about that chicken dinner, … how can we arrange that 
?
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+1…
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Nothing as interesting as the rest of the posts. I read somewhere that the act of making music is a social production as well as a social activity. Even for solo performer the production of music takes a level of social effort. So “social” became “socio”.
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All interesting in their own right James 
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Thats easy to describe. About 25 years ago in the late 90’s I was looking to create a userid for the email website Hotmail which my employer had just purchased. Everything simple based on my name like BarryH was already taken so… I was known by the nickname ‘Snout’ by one friend since childhood (and he still calls me that). I then conflated ‘Snout’ with Microsoft where I was working to produce microsnout and tried that and Yay it was available - no surprise. Since then it has been always available on new sites.
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.
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We have another winner!!! @Narjuna takes home the cake; err… chicken dinner. 
Yup, I’ve got “round legs” a.k.a. my wheelchair 
So Chris, you have also done a jolly good job mate!
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I’m 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 gorilla…
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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 it’s 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 Loner…which is also appropriate.
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OMG. @TheMadman_tobyjenner’s name is not Toby. Now this has really distorted my reality!
For me, well, it’s dull, it’s my name, which is why I hadn’t commented already. I haven’t used a handle in years, aside for on Steam/PSN/Xbox. But some extra trivia, I go by JK in real life, that’s not an internet name only
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@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 … if I remember correctly … of course stand to be corrected.
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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 I’ve used it quite a bit ever since.
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Great thread, loved reading everyone’s 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 I’m 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 names…
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 didn’t 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 “Jeff or Mandy” so I’ve wondered whether Mandy could become some sort of alter ego
Finally, I had a lot of nicknames in high school, “sloth”, “wombat” and most unfortunately “stoner” 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. Can’t 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, I’m 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. Don’t know why that’s funny, but… 
Not a massive fan of any of those nicknames, so hence why I just made something up on the spot when joining here
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Hey , It`s back , hope you had a nice time 
greetings…
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I was known by the nickname ‘Snout’ by one friend since childhood (and he still calls me that). I then conflated ‘Snout’ with Microsoft where I was working to produce microsnout…
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, I’m not the only one to mention an economist in this thread!
Well, Manilow’s 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 90’s (and beyond) I had lots of my mates singing 
“Jef with one f, Jefrey!” 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.