Forum names

[Bruno Moore]

@Orestes Munn 102965 wrote:

I had to look her up. I wish.

Had to look her up too…and then noticed that she graduated from my high school the year before I arrived. So that’s two reasonably famous people* who went there…

As for me: “Brünø Moore, with the dots over the ‘u’ and a line through the ‘o'” comes from that one time I raced the Giro d’Italia. We needed a name, and our director pulled out his phone with the comic name generator app on it; “Bruno Moore, ex barista” was the first thing we found, and I ran with it. I’ve very nearly used it a couple times when racing on one-day licenses.

Those of you who know about my coffee habit know why it’s appropriate.

*The other being Sam Bradford, a Heisman-winning hotshot quarterback from the Big XII who went to the pros, saved his struggling team during his great rookie season before the knee issues started. No, the other one.

[GuyContinental]

@jabberwocky 103015 wrote:

Jabberwocky is a famous nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

My avatar is a piece of the John Tenniel illustration the accompanied the poem.

I call my children (boys -3 & 5) “the Bandersnai” As the elder one was most seriously a “frumious Bandersnatch” for his first couple of years (but, thankfully, went un-smited by my vorpal sword). Big Lewis Carroll fan, have Jabbewocky framed in their room.

[KLizotte]

Just watched the Proteus video again. So you’re Bruno!!!! We’ve met but I didn’t put the name with the face before.

[OneEighth]

@ShawnoftheDread 102902 wrote:

I’m both dreaded and dreadful, and my momma named me Shawn.

Certainly not because of any resemblance to Simon Pegg or as an allusion to his work.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@OneEighth 103112 wrote:

Certainly not because of any resemblance to Simon Pegg or as an allusion to his work.

Certainly not. I’ve never heard that before. Not this month anyway.

[oldbikechick]

I was feeling old the day I picked my forum name. It only became a problem when I joined Strava to do FS last year and used the same name (in first name, last name format). So, every time Strava sent me an email, it was addressed to “old.”

[Bruno Moore]

@KLizotte 103104 wrote:

Just watched the Proteus video again. So you’re Bruno!!!! We’ve met but I didn’t put the name with the face before.

Being Brünø has been my one brush with celebrity; especially after last year’s dicycle video, in which I trotted out the alias again, I’d have complete strangers come up to me in the bike lanes, when parking Val the Inschwinnerator, or at Baltimore Bike Party and tell me they loved my work.

Sorry everyone. No autographs. Those of you who have seen my handwriting know why you wouldn’t want one.

[Tim Kelley]

@acl 103054 wrote:

ok, seriously, how do you change your forum name? I can’t find an edit for that– and I already changed my strava name so they’d match and I’d be (hopefully) less confusing to my forum friends!!!

I know a guy.

[americancyclo]

[OneEighth]

@ShawnoftheDread 103115 wrote:

Certainly not. I’ve never heard that before. Not this month anyway.

My bad. It takes me a while to switch gears.

[ramblingrider]

One translation for “randonnée” is “ramble.” I’ve done some randonneuring rides (which was my original inspiration for the name), but I tend more to actually ramble around when I ride. Also, I like the Led Zeppelin song.

[jabberwocky]

@hozn 103032 wrote:

I always assumed you were naming yourself after Vassago’s iconic 29er. I love that wet cat geometry. The poem is pretty awesome too.

I get that a fair bit. I first started using it as a forum name in 2003 (and was using it as an online moniker well before that), which long predates the bike though. I like to think vassago is copying me.

[mattotoole]

I’m just me everywhere, ‘cuz it’s easier.

[Anonymous]

@Tim Kelley 103130 wrote:

I know a guy.

There’s $0.91 in it for him if I become Amalitza. (I bought a soda for lunch with the rest. Sorry.)

[Anonymous]

Wow 91 cents buys speedy service! thanks!

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