Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

I m a tattoo artist and a friend started calling me it because my arms are full of ink.

Well, my `username' is my name and initials. My `avatar'
is a photo of myself, taken a few years ago in Steveston,
BC on the Pacific Coast.

- Scott

I love British Iron. I have a Triumph Daytona 955i that I've ridden for a few years, but always wanted an old British cafe racer. The simplicity of these machines reflects the same qualities that attracted me to straight shaving. Last summer I finally bought a '67 Norton Atlas that had been sitting in a barn for the last 23 years. I'm restoring it now and hope to be riding it this summer. So...
Got One Atlas--->Got One At Last--->Gotoneatlast
My Avatar is a restored '67 ATlas (not mine)

My first duty station after basic training was Ansbach, Germany. I spent three wonderful years over there serving with a group of guys that I will always miss. It was definitely the best of times! Better friends were never made.

Anyways... "Smoove" was a nickname that my squad leader gave me at one point or another, and it stuck. How or why I couldn't tell you.

And as I am a Registered Nurse now, well... you get it.

Man do I miss my friends and that German beer!!!

Makar is an old Scots word for storyteller or poet - a 'maker' (english) of stories. Harks back to a time when much of what was related was by mouth and within families, groups and clans. The storyteller played a big part in teaching about life, adventure, good, bad etc. I used the name as I am looking in depth at how we tell stories to people in order for them to understand and perhaps even change attitudes and behaviour, hopefully positively. 'Interpretation', or perhaps verging on brainwashing - I have started to call it 'spinterpretation' - marketing worthwhile products.

Mine is because at university my friend(a big guy) entered a play fight with me thinking he would win easily. He got really pissed off when he couldn't keep hold of me and called me spaghetti ever since.

Mine is pretty obvious.......I shave with a straight razor. I originally registered with str8razor and SRP.com took it so I kept it.

I did my undergraduate and graduate degree in John Milton, the 17th century English poet and political activist (author of Paradise Lost) - I had intended to spend my life doing it until my PhD got cut short by "real" life...although I still love his work...my thesis advisor once told me that I was a real "Milton Man" as opposed to someone who adores Shakespeare, etc. I liked that title, so I kept it.

Mark

Mine is my Scottish alter-ego. Alpin means "the blond one" in pictish scots and MacKillop is a sept of Clan Donald and that's the family I'm descended from. I'm the one in the middle.

Hmmm. Let's just say I have found confounding issues in my life. For example, here's two. One, you can be just as wrong by being right too early. Two, saying that the Emperor has no clothes, even though true, will always win you frowns.

I need to buy one of those Sweeney Todd straight razor belt pouches, so that when they catch up to me and tie me to the stake on top of the woodpile, I might be able to cut the ropes from my hands before I get engulfed by the flames.

I certainly hope that's enigmatic enough of an explanation.