Just to discuss something a little different to take our minds of the current depression.

Usernames, we all have and use them. Some are obvious, some not so. If yours is one that is quite different or just basic, what was the thinking behind it.

I'll get it started. TINTOWNER..........I live in Immingham and when they started building the docks in 1907, the contractors were housed in tin houses and the area became known as tintown...hence my username.

A rubbish thread..........I'll get my coat!

LUKEO
MY name is Luke O'Hara and Int Mariners nicknamed me Lukeo so I use that on here  :)

Mariner_501, I quite like darts.

My name is Michael but, to save time, I sometimes shorten it to Mike and I support Grimsby Town AKA The Mariners.  :P

I have absolutely no idea why I claimed to be a Vicar from BP!

Wellsy_gtfc  wells being my last name and gtfc of course the team I love

had an account before which led to some trouble  ;) so with my first name being Gary and folk call me Gazza i used the name Gazza  :P

Quoted from tintowner

Just to discuss something a little different to take our minds of the current depression.

Usernames, we all have and use them. Some are obvious, some not so. If yours is one that is quite different or just basic, what was the thinking behind it.

I'll get it started. TINTOWNER..........I live in Immingham and when they started building the docks in 1907, the contractors were housed in tin houses and the area became known as tintown...hence my username.

A rubbish thread..........I'll get my coat!

Are they the tin houses down pilgrim ave? lol

I am exiled in Prestwich, Manchester

I am a fish with evil tendencies

My name is edward and im a townaholic.

My name is Tom and i'm a Town fan, Hence Townfantom.

I do like to complain....so my missus calls me this

I think mine is self explanatory, like most peoples, but some do need some explanation...

I got bored of being Billo, changed to Maccabilk and then Poojah but finally settled on psgmariner as i lived in Paris for a year.

im named after a small seedy boozer where i used to drink 20 yrs ago

I support Town and was born in 1991.

Mines just a lie!

My first name is James and I support Grimsby Town Football Club.

Self explainitory, though Wrawbz has become my nickname

Quoted from 75

I have absolutely no idea why I claimed to be a Vicar from BP!

sexually abusing the younger members of the pontoon choir round the back?

Contrary to what you may think, I am not a fan of a certain music genre! but am a supporter of GTFC  ;)

Got accused of starting the famous 'Robbie Fowler' rumours by a certain marinerian, did not even know there was a forum site and decided to have a go back and my sources told me i was being called a Gobby twit! 8)
UTMM

My great-great uncle was James Edwards Bagshaw, Town goalkeeper in 1898-99 who kept goal during the record 9-2 win against Darwen in April 1899.

The name and number on the back of my hockey team jersey.

Quoted from JazzMariner

Contrary to what you may think, I am not a fan of a certain music genre! but am a supporter of GTFC  ;)

and no i didn't get the letters 'a' & 'i' mixed up!!  ;D

mine after one of towns most underated midfielders who used to break up play at let joey waters do his stuff.......oh and a couple of promotions too

Cos I used to stand in the Imp Corner and I'm a miserable twit.

Obvious- exiled to this village on outskirts of Stoke/Newcastle U Lyme (see also Son of and Younger Son Of)

Just used my porno name from the 1970's

I live in Newport on the Isle of Wight
and I used to drink in all the local pubs
and wear various Items of Grimsby Town
clothing and take the urine out of any Newport
Pompey fans(still do) and now they all refer
to me as Mr Grimsby.

;D

Quoted from BIGChris

Just used my porno name from the 1970's

Im from Killingholme, I support Grimsby Town.

I'm an old codger with fishy connotations.

My nickname is Ted and i'm a Grimsby fan :)

where my grandma-in-law was born in Co. Roscommon

like ive said before im steve livingstone

not sure if mine needs exlpaining

I'm a mammary x

Oh lawks.  Complicated.

When I first tried to join the old Fishy the first two tries yeilded that it was too close to usernames already registered so I used this one in sheer frustration. It stems from the old boys organisation from where I went to school (an obscure part of Norfolk) and I just happened to have a letter from them in my hand when trying to register.

history lessen, the Iceni tribe inhabited parts of Norfolk and revolted against the Roman empire under their queen Boudicca.Obviously a member of the tribe is known as an Icenian.

Oh and my real name isn't Ian but Michael.

Told you it was complicated. ;D

If you've ever lived in the GY/Cleethorpes area, chances are you'll have seen this graffiti artist name about, somewhere.

I'm not the graffiti artist though, just needed a name to register with and this is the only one i could think of at the time.

Serving Queen and Country for 23 years.  I joined this board soon after the end of an extremely undistinguished military career (apart from the 6 medals  :) )

Garth from the Mirror was always my idea of a man that I strove to be and failed, still in the next life ;)

self explanatory
im called steve and born in '71

my first name is ben and my surname is bowers
hope that helps!

My brother and I were photographed by the GET on towns last tour of Sweden holding a Fiver (cos that was what it cost us to get there by Ryan Air)  The headline above the photo said "Brothers Grim do Sweden for a Fiver" - hence my username utm

When i first registered before the bald headed one came here,i didn't go to every match.
So the semilapsed bit. I jumped on the season ticket bandwagon when i bought one for the whinging shearer match,and have had one ever since.
If I could change my sig i would but i don't know how without loseing my history.

Mines cos it pisses me off when the Yorkies come to town and ask for cod and chips.. and the chippy man goes 'its not cod, its haddock.'

8)

I'm from Alvingham and I am a town fan, simples.

I used to drive a Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme to away games...It was a bit different & never let me down.....I also owned a 1965 Olds Delta 88,that was not used for away games(7 litre)

I am a Mariner and my name is Josh.

Was it all just a dream?

UTM

Ginnywings are the wings of a skate and my dad was always eating them,so it is a homage to my dad.

I live in in Lincoln (a city) and support the mariners.

simples.

Don't know really - it just seemed like a good idea at the time.   ::)

I used to be 'Reverend' on the old Electronic Fishcake message board - someone had nicked the name for this board so I took the name of two of male private Emery's greatest drag act characters - as you do. I should add I'm neither a vicar or a transvestite. But I am a Town fan and proud of it.

'Male private' Emery! Sounds like one of his scripts....

Name of a band I used to play bass guitar for.

Registered under my real name robmitchell but forgot the password, was gonna use bobmitchell but that'd gone because of the player so used henryscat

I used this on the old old old site circa 97/98 season

it's from a 80s kids cartoon

I'm a Mariners fan, I live in the North East (Sunderland to be exact) ;)

Worked down dock 35 years ago as a barrow boy. Wanted a fishing related user name...corny but seemed ok at the time...

Live in Cleethorpes and drink lots of real ale!

East Marsh lad, now living in Goole after 10 years in London.

Not complicated really.

Quoted from wembley_double98

Was it all just a dream?

UTM

No Mick, it's just that we're all now living through a nightmare. :'(

Not really sure where judas jay came from?
Obviously I know why the jay appeared!

Fred Harris - My hero

I am a Man Utd fan and my name is John!

Coley is a fish and I surf the internet. That is not the real reason for the name but it's the one I'm giving.

I am a fan and sit in the Findus  ;)

Sutton- excrement whole I find my self in.
Mariner- excrement team I support.

I was in the RAF.  "Situation Normal All f ucked Up" (SNAFU) was a regular catch-phrase.   Humour broke up any bad times.

I picked it for Town.  It was supposed to be ironic. Now it is so true!

The number "5" does not mean anything.  For some reason I had to add a number after the user name for it to be accepted.

For a wee while, I played poker for a living - frequenting Party Poker - and I love Grimsby Town.

Erm, left Barnetby, went to university, eventually got a job in Leeds, lived in Headingley, stayed in West Leeds for six years, left, and now my name is obsolete. Never choose a geographical name...  :(

I wanted something fishing orientated - so went for a good seafishing bait = Peeler Crab!

I originally had this username on the electronicfishcake years ago, so just carried it on..

Mid-90's, couple of years after stating in Business Consulting, I was sent to a couple of our client sites to assess some of the consultants that had been employed, with a brief that we needed to lose a few.
After a few sites, working with that same people, someone made the comment me turning up on site was like the Grim Reaper appearing, someone soon would be departing. Knowing I was a Grimsby fan, that quickly turned to being the GrimsbyReaper.
And it has stuck ever since, my Fishcake ID, to the Fishy ID, to my photo site, and here to Australian European car forums (2nd passion after footy), which generally leads to the usual question 'Where is Grimsby?"

I live with the scunts

Gainsbro Mariner

I used to live in Gainsborough when I first joined the original fishy message board 9 years ago. I now live in Lincoln, but thought I'd keep the same name.

my dad madeleymariner signed on before me and i was to lazy to think up a name so just stuck sonof at the front

From the famous Sunday Sport headline 'Freddie Star ate my Hamster'. Why i choose it?, not sure. Been awol for 4 years.

bean there seen it n done it, was drunk an spelt it wrong

Mine's the often heard shout from the barratt stand when Bobby Cumming's was taking on the full back

I have been convicted of many knife crimes, STB should have been STAB but my old keyboard was knackered.  ;)

now listen carefully - this is complicated.

My name is al and I am big - in a bad way not a good way.

Japers : First name Johnpaul so mates call me Jp or Japers.
Was armpittrouserman on the electronic fishcake. That was a cartton character i drew aged 14 thinking i was going to create the next Viz hero

I did it to wind up Barralad.................and it worked!!
(Mornin' Tonks, from the East Yorkshire section of the Mariner fan club!! xxx)

I work in the North Sea on oil rigs. Seem to spend too much of my time there.
Anyway, that was the reason for the username.

My first telephone number

I havne't got any teeth  ;) and like last of the summer wine,  :) used to be morphieus I like the matrix films.

same lads from same boozer we just love them away days, and nights

one evening at uni my mate asked me if I had watched league of gentlemen, I said no. So he showed me a clip on DVD and I laughed loads at it. Since then whenever I said excuse me it always came out excusebeef. Love this clip. Guess I wanted a username with somet different

I once had the temerity to question the benefits of immigration, many moons ago and was slammed by left-wing zealots for even broaching the subject.

Such was the ferocity of their cyber-assault (they'd never dare say it to my face) I decided to call myself Aryan_imp, knowing that my mere presence wound them up .... and to this day, they still don't disappoint me  ;D

Footballers and ex footballers wonderful grasp of the English language inspired my username.

From my enduring love of House music...not the banging whack whack style,just the good deep funky stuff.Over n out..

OLD FOOTBALLER  
Says it all I suppose I am an old footballer.

I really enjoyed it when I first came on here under another name and people were trying to work out who I was.

I have to admit it is really good fun at times on the Fishy,  alright you get a few dip sticks, but I always admire people who have opinions and put it across in a dignified manner, especially if they actually go to the games.
OLDFOOTBALLER

Phil Nic is one of many nicknames and of course a fan of the not so mighty mariners! (thumbup2)

Quoted from tintowner

Just to discuss something a little different to take our minds of the current depression.

Usernames, we all have and use them. Some are obvious, some not so. If yours is one that is quite different or just basic, what was the thinking behind it.

I'll get it started. TINTOWNER..........I live in Immingham and when they started building the docks in 1907, the contractors were housed in tin houses and the area became known as tintown...hence my username.

A rubbish thread..........I'll get my coat!

Great thread - How do you feel now about getting your coat ? Heading to 3 figures - UTM !!

We've got to chat about something while there is no footy on! Haha when i first saw this post i thought nobody would reply

guess

Pseudonym so no-one knows who I am(spam)

Live in North Leeds and I am related to a 1970's porn star apparently!

Many years ago me and a few mates had shaved heads and BIG boots ,and in mine i had .................. you guest it.  ;) ;)

Quoted from ponnyfan

Great thread - How do you feel now about getting your coat ? Heading to 3 figures - UTM !!

I feel quite humbled by the response. I also feel a togetherness in what we are all suffering at the moment.



I wonder if the site moderator will keep this thread as a permanent fixture......would be nice.


UP THE MARINERS:

I was at an AFL game in Adelaide wearing a Town top and well known Aboriginal celebrity, Johnny Haysman came up, pointed and said "malkamalka" which he explained is the aboriginal word for stripes.  ;D

Quoted from pseudonym

Pseudonym so no-one knows who I am(spam)

Yeha but everyone knows who you are  ;D

Mine because I used to play an online game called CoD2 a couple of years back, I used to play matches in online leagues etc and I was pretty good but had a tendancy to get nervous when I was the last player left alive in a particular round as everyone else on your team is watching you and talking in VoiP (ts/vent) which put me off!!!! I then had a tendancy to start shivering and missing easy shots which I of course blamed on the shivering but they never believed me so I changed nick to 'Shiver' as a bt of a joke!

Enjoyed my stint up front in the late 1990s so much that I started supporting the club even after I left and had a stint as manager of Whitby Town.

Quoted from LeeNogan

Enjoyed my stint up front in the late 1990s so much that I started supporting the club even after I left and had a stint as manager of Whitby Town.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

Before I moved to Scotland in 1991 I got my old mate Cappo to take me up to the top of the dock tower - a moving experience (especially in my bowels)

I'm not telling (because it is boring)  :P :P

Quoted from Havelock the Dane

I'm not telling (because it is boring)  :P :P

Then you are boring sir

bit of a pun from a cohead down south

Got a Lambretta believe it or not?

It's my name.

Quoted from Garth

Then you are boring sir

See all my previous posts for confirmation  ;)

ok ok ...i will tell
Brazilnut

because they where my favorite nut at xmas ...the only time we got them as a kid ...andi one christmas years ago my eldest brother got an AM CB radio (the illegalone) and when i went on it i needed a "handle"....so for some reason ...maybe i was eating one at the time i chose Brazilnut .....it was a mare of a name as the Z in the name never seem to come over the airwaves clearly ......anyway after many years of no CB  and i needed a  username  .....

Doctor Sanchez is my favourite TV character from an obscure comedy called Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Check here:  

I'm sure you can work it out.....

Cheers

Ron.

Another boring one - I live in Cairns, Queensland.



Just seen in the ebay ad at the bottom of my screen a programme from the WBA vs Town game from the early 80s. Was at that game and still (like the saddo that I am) have that very programme in a box in my garage. Think we lost 3-0 to a side featuring Bryan Robson. The programme has a feature on the new executive boxes at The Hawthornes - a new development in football grounds back then!

Quoted from Garth

Garth from the Mirror was always my idea of a man that I strove to be and failed, still in the next life ;)

i like that - I sometimes forget where i am and describe my dad (a docker for many years) as having arms like Garth. Nobody here knows what the hell I'm talking about.

Mine came when the Rivals publishers all communicated on a forum, and most people used to put their team name somewhere within their name so make clear who you were if the site name didn't make it clear

what about clarkiesmate, SNOOZE, RUSSELL SLADE etc etc etc etc etc

It's my inits, innit.

It's the job

I use to stand in the Imperial Corner - but someone had already chosen that as a username!!

im ginger

i love jean louis

My name is Roberto Coddingtoni and my dad is in da mob, and I could have you killed.

OR...

Just something loosely fish-related, and a rather excellent video game on the legendary Amiga computer.

Pelham after the original name of the club.

Born in 87 and a Town lad via Newcastle

My Surname is North, and all other numbers were taken ;)

UTM

Favourite AC/DC song...and also favourite character from the Rocky Horror Picture Show...what are the chances?

Quoted from DocDock

If you've ever lived in the GY/Cleethorpes area, chances are you'll have seen this graffiti artist name about, somewhere.

I'm not the graffiti artist though, just needed a name to register with and this is the only one i could think of at the time.

yep,iv'e seen this "tag" all over starting way back in the 1970s,not sure i would describe his as an "artist" though mate, true graffiti art is the stuff sprayed on the wall in ainslie street park,and in the old subways in town in the 70s/80s. iv'e been into hip-hop and rap for a while now and graffiti was a big part of it,oh the memories of happier times eh?i wonder if this doc/ock guy is still alive? it would be great to meet him,what a legend. 8)

I used to work down south ,after i told the locals where i was from they  named me grimps

Quoted from bladerunnner

yep,iv'e seen this "tag" all over starting way back in the 1970s,not sure i would describe his as an "artist" though mate, true graffiti art is the stuff sprayed on the wall in ainslie street park,and in the old subways in town in the 70s/80s. iv'e been into hip-hop and rap for a while now and graffiti was a big part of it,oh the memories of happier times eh?i wonder if this doc/ock guy is still alive? it would be great to meet him,what a legend. 8)

Grimsbys answer to banksy,although he probably could have put a bit more effort into it

Quoted from conscorner

I used to stand in the Imperial Corner - but someone had already chosen that as a username!!

What a git! If you find out who he is, let me know and I'll sort him out... (bheem)

i used to live in dubai, but i should probably be called WybersMariner now.

flash is my name,,and b4 anybody asks its nothing to do with plastic macs neither,,(majnu)

Originally called GrimGary for obvious reasons but decided to shorten it to just GG because I'm a lazy twit.

ZZZZzzzz

Quoted from SNOOZE

ZZZZzzzz

We always do when you're on line .........

Quoted from SNOOZE

ZZZZzzzz

I'll help you out....SNOOZE is Swahili for "I know absolutely nothing about football" and I thought it summed me up very well so was an obvious username.

Quoted from barralad

I'll help you out....SNOOZE is Swahili for "I know absolutely nothing about football" and I thought it summed me up very well so was an obvious username.

i thought that was actually Newell......i could maybe have confused it with Zimbabwian though.

Sweet because since I stopped smoking it's my new vice and GTFC because when people see me they say 'Get That Fat girl private'

Because my name is Dave and I've got a very big tackle :)

actually its because I'm 'abit' fat but we can be whoever we want on the internet can't we?

I used to have a Town shirt (when we were sponsored by Jarvis and our shirts were made by fruit of the loom or someone), with Big Dave on the back. I stepped out of the car when we were away at Donny in the cup (Terry Flemming got sent off I seem to recall), and literally 10 seconds across the car park, some Donny fans started chanting Big Dave is a male masturbator. cheers for that

Quoted from bigdavemariner

Because my name is Dave and I've got a very big tackle :)

actually its because I'm 'abit' fat but we can be whoever we want on the internet can't we?

I used to have a Town shirt (when we were sponsored by Jarvis and our shirts were made by fruit of the loom or someone), with Big Dave on the back. I stepped out of the car when we were away at Donny in the cup (Terry Flemming got sent off I seem to recall), and literally 10 seconds across the car park, some Donny fans started chanting Big Dave is a male masturbator. cheers for that

Nevermind mate 10 secs after that he was on his toes with the rest of the donny wing mirror smashers ;) Terrible night wasnt we 0-2 up as well?1mickylyons because my best mate  Mike Smith (rip) once stood on a crash barrier  possibly Oldham ?singing the above as we plummeted towards the division below to the utter astonishment of the other Town fans present .It was a priceless moment and i never thought things could get worse than under old Micky then along came another Scouser :'( :'( :'(

Was self explanatory, but now live in Sydney, New South Wales. And also as others have said, I don't know how to change my name either without losing everything.

Happy Days :-)

I once gave a koi carp mouth to mouth and it worked!   8)

Season ticket holder in the Distinti Stand at Napoli whilst living in Italy.  Not amusing in any way..............apologies.

Quoted from NorthLeedsMariner

Live in North Leeds and I am related to a 1970's porn star apparently!

;)

Rather boringly I created this just before....yes you guessed it....the millenium and dived in there before anyone else did expecting a mad rush!!!  Would like to change it to something more inventive but looks like thats an imposibility.  Maybe it's something GRIMROB can explain or sort out!!!

My surname is Brown, and as Civvy will confirm, in the military 24hour ration packs of the good old days, THE best thing out of them were the biscuits, Brown (combined with the pate of course!) My nickname was Biscuits but it got shortened to Biccys.

I live in suffolk   BUT was born  in grimsby and lived in the area for 40 years,

I like to let the suffolk people know I am a grimsby lad and always will be. 8)

Being 6ft 6" tall, some bright spark decided when I first joined the RAF, to burden me with the nickname Tiny. The rest is obvious.

just my name tbh

Quoted from RoboCod

My name is Roberto Coddingtoni and my dad is in da mob, and I could have you killed.

Hi
I Liked this and your name make me think about a very famous football player.
I think you know him.
Cheers !

Mine came when the Rivals publishers all communicated on a forum, and most people used to put their team name somewhere within their name so make clear who you were if the site name didn't make it clear.

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male pattern baldness adrenal exhustion

Quoted from Pelham

Pelham after the original name of the club.

Good on you

UTM

I actually created this username years ago on the old fishy when Austin Mitchell changed his name to Austin Haddock. (I don't eat haddock by the way, I'm vegan).

Quoted from CairnsMariner

Another boring one - I live in Cairns, Queensland.



Just seen in the ebay ad at the bottom of my screen a programme from the WBA vs Town game from the early 80s. Was at that game and still (like the saddo that I am) have that very programme in a box in my garage. Think we lost 3-0 to a side featuring Bryan Robson. The programme has a feature on the new executive boxes at The Hawthornes - a new development in football grounds back then!

omg, I've visited Cairns many times as my mum lives there, from the trinity beach area

I lived in Port Douglas for four years, running a restaurant on Marina Mirage complex.....ah my little bit of paradise!!