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

I believe this would be the third time I've explained mine, but in each thread there have been Researchers whose name origin I hadn't heard before

Thank you I feel mollified

to more PSs to issue personal invitations

Fb

I've been Lady Scott for... ... Decades, actually.

It's because of Lord Scott... which is not his *real* name of course, but he uses Scott as part of his air-name on the radio.

The Scott part in *his* name came from a DJ I used to listen to when I was growing up whose air-name was Kirby Scott. He was my favorite DJ, so when Lord Scott was trying to think of a name that "flowed" better than his real name on the air, he incorporated the K from Kirby and the Scott into his air-name.

Some of Lord Scott's co-workers were the ones who first called me Lady Scott. The reason they did this was not just that he was using the name Scott on the air and I was his "Lady", but also at the time, there was a brand of "bathroom tissue" called Lady Scott...

And now you know... The rest of the story!

Thank you Lady Scott


Fb

I nicked the name from Paul Darrow's character in Blake's 7- Kerr Avon. I don't like user names with spaces though, which is why I ran them together.

It does occassionally lead to confusion however, what with Avon being a bloke and me not

I wondered why you didn't have a space

He was a bit spooky, don't you think? Not that I'm implying anything about you of course


Fb

Lady Scott, I never knew where your name came from . Toilet tissue - I'd have never guessed!

Thanks for the invite FB I hope this answer doesn't go on too long...

As was pointed out the nicknames are often explained in people's Personal Spaces, but for the benefit of researchers like Master B who don't do the nosy skeet when wanting to send someone particular a message I shall endeavour to explain the derivation of my own nick.

I started with simply 'Pimms', succinct and easy to add as a signature. I have always had a rant on my space about the tediously long and silly names some researchers indulge in (Archmage of the Lost Toothpick and Patronising Saint of the Waffle Iron and so on)- they are just a mouthful, and often end up being abbreviated to the first couple of initials anyway.

The reason for the name Pimms is nothing to do with a love of summer drinks (though I do like the occasional ), but actually a throwback to the imposition of video arcade machines that a high-score had to only have three initials (and thus avoid the liklihood of certain four-letter words shocking unsuspecting punters). I chose PIM as it used a couple of my initials. When I had the option of something longer I expanded to Pimms.

The 'Lettuce' was more convoluted. First I became an H2G2 Scout, then looking for a different smiley to put after Pimms I had the brainwave of using , which recalled the unused name in the Reginald Perrin trilogy of the Stout Scout (one character had a (large) girlfriend on whom he would variously use the endearments of 'Stout Girl', 'Good Scout', and 'Good Girl', but (as was pointed out by Reggie) never 'Stout Scout'.
At this stage I was also having the waistcoat problem which you may remember by the joke of thinking of a sentence with the word 'fascinate' in (my father has a waistcoat with ten buttons but he can only ....)

Anyway I thought Stout Scout was aposite. This however left me with the problem of appearing to be overly concerned with alcohol. Then came the opportunity of a slimming competition run by a group I was a member of, and I thought 'Hey, this is the incentive I needed', and I started to diet, and reflected this in my nickname by changing the Stout to Lettuce (which indicates a slimming mentality, and by a happy coincidence is also the name (believe it or not) of the large girlfriend mentioned earlier)

So in a fell swoop I had converted excess alcohol to the more healthy salad vegetable, while retaining the essence of the name

The only chiz (harking back to molesworth) is the lack of a good salad smiley and I was forced to use as a substitute.

As a teaser I can also say that this contrived name (Pimms Lettuce) has an amusing unintentional two-word anagram, but I'm not going to spell it out

Pimms Lettuce

"is also the name (believe it or not) of the large girlfriend mentioned earlier"

I do believe it, having just finished reading the trilogy again

I've just been informed by Amy+ that because I've admitted to being named after toilet paper, I shall henceforth be known as The Loo Roll Lady.

Gee, I feel boring. FordsTowel IS my name.

Of course, if you subsituted mistletoe in real life, Pimms, you'd come to no good, as it's poisonous!

I don't know... I think Fords Towel is 'nicely inconspicuous'.

Pimms gets the prize - a for the longest and most complicated so far

I seem to recall you anagrammed your name for us at Xmas didn't you? I cannot for the life of me remember what is was though

is salad Pimms and not nearly so dangerous as Unless you're in the line of fire

Oh Fords How could I have assumed that we all had pseudonyms?

All hail The Loo Roll Lady


Frenchbean

Oh, my! That anagram *must* be unintentional!
Although 'Mice Pelt Smut' is interesting as well...

If Pimms has the most complicated one, I have the least complicated one.
My real life name is Jordan. I took the R out of it - thus, Jodan. My nickname on h2g2 and a nickname in real life, too.

I'm not sure why I took the R out. If you asked me in another thread, I'd probably say something very fake about a personal dislike for the letter R, because it's easier to explain than saying all of this.
That's not true of course. R is one of the better letters in the alphabet, as far as I'm concerned. So my nickname is really very simple.

Personally, I put more thought into the side-splittingly hilarious word play and bits of wit after 'Jodan -'

Fortunately I'm not the son of Odin and Frigg

If you need assistance in solving complete anagrams to a specifed number of words try http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html

Fordstowel is clearly a poorly hidden anagram of Dot Flowers (or Loft Dowser I'm not sure which )

Pimms

You got me!

I am Lord F. Stowe.

Mr. Beast

B

Great! Now, instead of boring, I feel guilty.

FordsTowel is actually the name I used on my first e-mail account. I had visited some chatrooms that had posts attributed to 'KirksWig', and realized that I had to come up with a similar name but based on h2g2. Thus, after trying 'DentsRobe', TriliansMice', and ZaphodsSecondHead, I settled on FordsTowel.