What's in a name? Part Deux

If you have a life outside of BWFC, then this is the place to tell us all about your toilet habits, and those bizarre fetishes.......

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Post by warthog » Tue May 30, 2006 1:11 pm

Raven wrote:Yes but how did you know all that about Warthogs?
I guessed.
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Tue May 30, 2006 1:19 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:Like Cowdrill I was another 'Jonny cum lately' :roll: so went for the first Bolton player to score a goal in the 4th division, and for some reason lost on me now, swapped the lead letters around.

If i'd gone for the scorer of the last ever goal in the 4th division I could now be called Sobbie Ravage.
It's called a spoonerism, Harry, and not uncommon after a couple of drinks.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue May 30, 2006 1:23 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:Like Cowdrill I was another 'Jonny cum lately' :roll: so went for the first Bolton player to score a goal in the 4th division, and for some reason lost on me now, swapped the lead letters around.
And there was me thinking/hoping that you were the real deal, cunnngly hiding behind a spoonerism so as to avoid questions and allegations regarding post footie career impropriety! Blast!!
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Post by Gertie » Tue May 30, 2006 1:23 pm

I tried it with my favourite player.. Jussi.. Oh..

Well a friend of mine started referring to me as Gertie... Not sure why.... I kinda guessed at some reference to my er... nature being friendly and my age.

Anyways I quite liked it so I used it on here.
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Post by fanz » Tue May 30, 2006 1:34 pm

Not sure why I chose this one and its a little obscure but it came from watching the series black box a few years ago. Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten was an impatient pilot for KLM who ignored air traffic control at Tenerife airport in 1974 resulting in the death of hundreds of people.

I'm quite impatient and thought it would be a unique username, later I discovered I had spelt it completely wrong!
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue May 30, 2006 1:35 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:It's called a spoonerism, Harry, and not uncommon after a couple of drinks.
He played for us in the 90s didnt he?
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue May 30, 2006 1:36 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:And there was me thinking/hoping that you were the real deal, cunnngly hiding behind a spoonerism so as to avoid questions and allegations regarding post footie career impropriety! Blast!!
Funny you should mention impropriety. There is/was a bit of goss re Mr Henshaw after his career ended. Not sure TWs lawyers would let me repeat it though!
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Tue May 30, 2006 1:42 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:
Montreal Wanderer wrote:It's called a spoonerism, Harry, and not uncommon after a couple of drinks.
He played for us in the 90s didnt he?
Possibly the 1890s after he (spooner) took holy orders and was teaching at Oxford University. He was the one who called Britain's farmers 'noble tons of soil' and, when toasting the monarch, raised a glass to "our queer old dean". I suppose he might have said, if giving a eulogy for Jussi, May sod rest his goal.
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Post by TANGODANCER » Tue May 30, 2006 1:45 pm

Did he coin Pheasant Plucker too :mrgreen:
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Tue May 30, 2006 2:09 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Did he coin Pheasant Plucker too :mrgreen:
I doubt it, but Lowell Thomas once presented Sir. Stafford Cripps as Sir. Stifford Craps.
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Post by enfieldwhite » Tue May 30, 2006 3:16 pm

I live in enfield.

I support a team that plays in white. :roll:
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Post by Winter Hill White » Tue May 30, 2006 3:52 pm

See reply above.

But replace Winter Hill for Enfield.

It's amazing how homely and habitable you can make a TV mast.
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Post by bobo the clown » Tue May 30, 2006 3:56 pm

Winter Hill White wrote:See reply above.

But replace Winter Hill for Enfield.

It's amazing how homely and habitable you can make a TV mast.
hope the bedrooms aren't on the top floor. Imagine needing to get to the door if the postie rings the bell.
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Post by communistworkethic » Wed May 31, 2006 6:23 pm

Long story but work 5-a-side team was named after a company director though altered slightly in to a double entendre, word came down from on high that it had to be changed, so it was. To ... communistworkethic.
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Post by Gnome » Wed May 31, 2006 6:35 pm

because my friends from home used to call me Gnome cos apparently it sounded like but was easier than my actual name (Naomi), and i couldnt think of anything good when i was signing up
Nay-Nay: so good they named me twice

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Post by Little Green Man » Wed May 31, 2006 7:00 pm

Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.

Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
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Post by Soldier_Of_The_White_Army » Wed May 31, 2006 8:37 pm

Little Green Man wrote:
Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.

Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Wed May 31, 2006 10:10 pm

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:
Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.

Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?
More likely Puck of Pook Hill by Rudyard Kipling if you were to ask a librarian. But it could be a comic book character (I don't know LGM that well).
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Post by Little Green Man » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:31 am

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:
Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.

Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?
That would make me Darth Vader.

Little Green Man is the title of the book. It's about four school friends who get back together in their late twenties and devise a series of dares (that become progressively more grotesque) in order to win a jade figurine.
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Post by ratbert » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:22 am

I always thought you were named after this Little Green Man:

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