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the meaning behind your TB name?

#42
It's just my name, so it's easy to remember.

First name Rune because my parents wanted something that wouldn't be turned into a nick name. Last name Bivrin because our family changed last name from Andersson back in '70. There were just too many Anderssons around. I think there were 5 Olle Anderssons at dad's workplace.

It's quite cool to have a name that's pretty much guaranteed to be unique among 6 billion people.
 
#44
OK, my name is in two parts:

1) Happy - fairly self explanatory - I'm usually quite a happy person

2) Noj - this is my name (Jon) backwards. It goes back to when I was at school, and we discovered that my friend Robert's name backwards was Trebor, who happened to be the company that made Trebor Extra Strong Mints, which he ate pretty much constantly. We then all flipped out names round to see if we could come up with anything else cool. Mine stuck as a nickname for several years, and AFAIK I am the only Happynoj on the internet, so if you see one anywhere it is probably me.
 
#48
Rune Bivrin said:
It's just my name, so it's easy to remember.

First name Rune because my parents wanted something that wouldn't be turned into a nick name. Last name Bivrin because our family changed last name from Andersson back in '70. There were just too many Anderssons around. I think there were 5 Olle Anderssons at dad's workplace.

It's quite cool to have a name that's pretty much guaranteed to be unique among 6 billion people.
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What's the reason behind the choice of "Bivrin"?
 
#49
A long time back I had a band that did okay for a while. Whenever we had time to fill and hadn't introduced the bandmembers at a gig we would stretch it way out by giving each other these really pompous and overblown nicknames. For example We wouldn't just say 'On keys...Eric!' He had to have a big drawn out phrase, like "Chairman of the 'boards" And I wouldn't just be the bass player and singer. I'd be "The Lord of Low Frequencies."

Yes I know it's lame. But back then it passed for cool.

Well I wrote all our lyrics, and one time the guitarist introduced me as "The Bard of Wedgewood" (I had an apartment in Wedgewood at the time.) and that one would change based on where I was living at the time. Since "The Bard of Burleson" and "The Bard of Arlington" didn't sound as good, they got shortened down to just...The Bardman.

Somehow Bardman stuck as a nickname for long after it made any sense at all.

When I was signing up here I tried to use Bardman. It didn't go. So I had to think of something else. 'Bad to the Bone' was playing on the radio at the time. So I took "Bardman" and "Bad to the Bone" and put them together and of course came up with Munjibunga. But that was being used. So I went with Bard2dbone.
 
#51
F'nar F'nar is from a popular english adult comic strip known as Finbar Saunders and his Double entendres. In which, when ever anyone says a double entendre (something that sounds sexual but actually isn't, for instance "can you hold my balls" when requesting someone to take some tennis balls off you) Finbar would laugh and snicker words like "arf arf" and "F'nar F'nar"
 
#52
ACLEEX - my college's e-mail naming convention was "first initial + middle initial + first 4 letters of last name." My last name only has 3 letters, so they tagged a 'X' on the end (my older brother also went there - he was MMLEEX),

Some of my computer geek friends began using is as a nickname (pronounced "A. C. Leaks") and it stuck.

I joined a small service fraternity and I was the 38th member of our chapter, so "ACLEEX38"
 
#54
Lalabadie said:
What's the reason behind the choice of "Bivrin"?
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They found it in a list of suggestions at the Patent Office, which for some inexplicable reason handled name changes back then.
Mum figured it sounded a bit French, and they thought it would be easy to spell correctly. Were they ever more wrong? :crying:
It's easy enough once you've seen it in writing, but getting it right over the phone is just impossible. Most often it turns into Bevrin, but the number of permutations I've been subjected to is ridiculously high.

The problem is that it doesn't mean anything. It's just random letters. One of my brothers has changed again to Svanberg, which means Swan Mountain. Now, that is arguably even more silly but names in Sweden are often made up like that by combining things from nature.
 
#55
Mine evolved over the years. First, I was wayching a movie with a charactor named Buck Larson, All American. I started calling myself in the band, Buck Karlok (my last name) eventually that became Buck. Latter on I added von, making it sound arty, when I was playing in mjy lounge band that became "Big Money von Buck"
Now I use von Buck whereever it it's needed

Andy, Big Money von Buck
 
#56
von buck said:
Mine evolved over the years. First, I was wayching a movie with a charactor named Buck Larson, All American. I started calling myself in the band, Buck Karlok (my last name) eventually that became Buck. Latter on I added von, making it sound arty, when I was playing in mjy lounge band that became "Big Money von Buck"
Now I use von Buck whereever it it's needed

Andy, Big Money von Buck
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Sounds like a porn star name;)
 

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