h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

seeing as I took german I probaly should have known that, but seeing as that was five years ago and the closest I have come to failing a class it isn't to suprising I didn't

Late at night. REgistering. It just came to me in a flash of lateral thinking.

At the time, I didn't even know what bonobos are famous for. . But now I do...doubly apt.

Triply apt. As a card-carrying evolutionist, it emphasises pan paniscus as the third species of chimpanzee, along with our close relatives, pan troglodytes and pan/homo sapiens.

And I've grown to like the name Edward.

Maybe it had something to do with Bono from U2?

I was just seeking another feline moniker to add to my other online names

Nah...cos then his name would be "edward the irritatingtwatbo".

Although...

RF

>>Maybe it had something to do with Bono from U2?

off!

not a U2 fan I take it

You could say that.

They just did.

I was going to say that, but I'm a bit of a coward

Hans Van Smeiter was a fantastic Dutch striker on a Sega Mega Drive football game that I misspent my youth playing in the mid-nineties.

Not sure why I picked him in particular though

Because of the Smite factor, I'd say. It's a fantastic nickname.

The Invisble Knight was a character from the 1st poem I ever had published which was written on a nightshift on Live Ops during the 1st Gulf War.

He's invisible (obviously) and inhabits a post apocalyptic world of legend & science. He carries a VERY big broad sword & he's got a white horse called Benson

He's featured in 5 poems now and might actually feature in a novel one day!

I'm late with this one as always.

Right.

When I joined the site I had a motorbike which was a Virago 535. I called her Vicki. Hence my name

TRG is my initials. The vowel makes it pronouneable. Hence the mixed case. I invented the name for myself in primary school, and have used it here and there ever since. I often sign text messages as TRiG.

TRiG.

You're still in primary school?

My original name on here was derived from my 3rd forename (which is the name I use) and the running time of a record I once cut. However, for some reason, this site won't let me log in with it so I use LaMaestra, the female equivalent of El Maestro 'the Master' because I AM the Master!

This was the name of my imaginary game show host character, resplendent in gold lame, and a Winton-esque hue.

Some of my friends also know me as Fuzzy Jungle Pigeon, coined on a works night out by Sam 'Bruce' Lee, and useful for a username which needs to be secure... mixed with numbers and underscores

My favourite though is 'DiscoBison', which came about as the result of a simple mishearing whilst watching the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony, under the influence of mind and hearing altering substances (which I still do miss, very occasionally). I'm still not sure what it was that was being said to me.

I wanted Albatross, but WA already had it - so my nickname honours a Russian lady whom I have known for 40 years. A long story behind the friendship, but Novosibirsk was where she originated.

Novo

Everything about it was so self explanatory.
No middle ground, no guessing, no obfuscation and the encapsulation of everything grand and good and heroic...