Whats in a name

[James Taylor]

I like English names. They have class!

[Guest]

me love pattaya, my home sweet home..........

[alan1chef]

My name is Alan and while I went to a regular university and graduated many years ago, I have always loved food. A few years ago I had a chance to get a degree in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts from California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, hence the name alan1chef.

[alan1chef]

Oh, yes, the avatars...I use some different ones and they are all LB friends of mine from the Philippines.

[katoeylover]

(ozzie @ Dec. 14 2007,00:04) I am from Australia. I know I am very original aren't I

And all this time I thought you were a Kiwi?

[bigmick22]

(katoeylover @ Dec. 14 2007,08:56)

(ozzie @ Dec. 14 2007,00:04) I am from Australia. I know I am very original aren't I    

And all this time I thought you were a Kiwi?

same thing surely?

[allstar88]

my name is alan starr (honest) ?

[Guest]

SF1B4. Several meanings.

Special Forces one before.

I had the misfortune (due to injuries) of having spent 10 of my 17 SF years working BN S1 (admin) - thus the SF1B.

B4 is a Special Qualification Identifier I held on my occupational specialty. B4 = Sniper (old and don't see as good as I once did -- now use shotguns and handguns).

And contrary to popular belief SF does not stand for San Francisco (I have been asked that a lot).

Later

Rebel Ray

[thaibound]

i was bound for thailand when i joined this forum
and now that the LOS has an irrevocable hold on my soul and body i'll be bound to thailand for ever.

my avatar is an occasionally changing example of the main reason why i am -- thaibound.

[mardhi]

As many people who know me, Mardhi was was the surname of a girl in Indonesia who picked ME up one night - the rest is history other than the fact that we never left the room for 48 hours and I have never seen or heard of her since. That is one GG who broke my heart, not to mention, she was by Jakarta standards very well off - I hope she is doing good - but thats the first and only only GG in Asia to get so under my skin. To say she was good enough to die for is an understatement.

So thats why I keep calling myself Mardhi

Cheers
Mardhi

[stogie bear]

This is turning into a very insightful and fascinating thread...

[strocube]

(strocube @ Dec. 14 2007,09:59) Well, since you asked... strocube is the first three letters of stropharia and the first three letters of cubensis put together, stropharia cubensis, aka, magic mushrooms.
I was a huge fan of Terence Mckenna, (RIP) and I believe he mentioned the the name strocube in one of his talks, or possibly in a book.

Details will be the death of me.
I meant the first four letters of stropharia and the first four letters of cubensis put together, stropharia cubensis, aka, magic mushrooms.
That is all.

[MaiPenRai]

(Monkey @ Dec. 13 2007,20:21) I like monkeys!

I like Monkey in The Water Margin (precursor to Monkey (was Tripitaka a boy or girl in real life? I fancied 'him' when I was a kid, and insisted she was a girl, kinda made my friends worry a little lol)),

Tripitaka was female but passed a long time ago unfortunately. This is from Wikipedia;

Natsume Masako, December 17, 1957 - September 11, 1985) was a Japanese actress from Tokyo.

She played the part of "Tripitaka" (Sanzō-hōshi, Japanese translation of Sanzang-fashi) in the 1970s Japanese TV program Saiyūki which proved amazingly popular in many English-speaking countries in the 1980s when dubbed by the BBC and titled Monkey.

She died from acute leukemia at the age of 27.

Oh, and The Water Margin was a different series altogether. (Memory going? )

[divertwo]

..........name of first boat that I captained............

[Guest]

(divertwo @ Dec. 15 2007,09:00) ..........name of first boat that I captained............

Why wasn't it called diverone