Often wondered. Some are obvious. But why stew, hardstation, tony baloney, Hardy etc?
Quote from: ONeill on March 11, 2017, 11:28:49 PM
Ofed. Some are obvious. But why stew, hardstation, tony baloney, Hardy etc?
When my family moved to Longstone in Armagh in 71 I played a lot of football with my new friends, when my mother would call me for dinner I would ask what was for dinner, if she said steak or chicken or pork she would not see me until two hours later, but if she said stew I was gone immediately, my next door neighbour noticed this over a period of months and started calling me stew, hence my name on here 45 years later.
Shane why were you named after an Armagh football club? :P
The Sopranos was nearing the end at the time so probably picked a name similar to that in the programme.
I'm hoping most names have a more exciting story!
What I yearn to see again... get Murphy to the edge of the square -ban the blanket :-[
My buddy arrived in with his boxer dog who he always referred to as the big fella while I was registering.
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
Love that name 'CunnyFunt'😂😂
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 11, 2017, 11:52:05 PM
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
And your first name got robbed so you ended up as MR2!
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 12, 2017, 12:14:04 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 11, 2017, 11:52:05 PM
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
And your first name got robbed so you ended up as MR2!
Yeah that was weird!! Cushendall man too
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 12, 2017, 12:16:03 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 12, 2017, 12:14:04 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 11, 2017, 11:52:05 PM
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
And your first name got robbed so you ended up as MR2!
Yeah that was weird!! Cushendall man too
Typical!
I use to post in another forum called An Fear Rua
Some of their names were good
Squirrel Farrell
Read the breaks
Hit them hard hard hard
The crudest one called himself "hurler on the bitch"
Bucked if i mind.
Likin Stews story tho :)
I have used Take Your Points since I joined the Board when football began in 2002. On occasion, I used to be confused by some posters with the much more famous Goals Will Come who has changed his username for some reason ;). Someone else registered Take Yer Points and occasionally posts with it and I wouldn't want to be associated with his/her posts.
No particular reason why I chose Take Your Points other than it was a much used phrase heard at games. In 2005, I was named in a thread created for that purpose by a disgruntled work colleague who didn't like my appointment at that time and who created a username to do so that disappeared shortly afterwards. I continued to use the same username but have begun using my own name since last week as I had always planned to do so when I retired from work and only just got around to it.
In honour of the East Tyrone Junior League Champions 1963
Haven't a clue. I'm not even from Laois.
Seafóid is an Irish word used a lot in Galway. There were no fadas online whenever I started using it.
Much sports analysis is seafóid.
When I first registered I was out of action after surgery. Plus I would have been doing a lot of underage coaching and managing for a good few years around that time as well.
My athleticism and large manhood have saddled me (pun intended) with the nickname "Stallion". It's a bit of a curse tbh. One of my most used phrases is "my eyes are up here luv".
The amount of goals Nikola Zigic scored for Birmingham in the 90th minute.
I live here.
Big Glenavon supporter
I was watching Man about Dog at the time and they kept saying it so deliberately it stood out
Quote from: stew on March 11, 2017, 11:35:19 PM
Quote from: ONeill on March 11, 2017, 11:28:49 PM
Ofed. Some are obvious. But why stew, hardstation, tony baloney, Hardy etc?
When my family moved to Longstone in Armagh in 71 I played a lot of football with my new friends, when my mother would call me for dinner I would ask what was for dinner, if she said steak or chicken or pork she would not see me until two hours later, but if she said stew I was gone immediately, my next door neighbour noticed this over a period of months and started calling me stew, hence my name on here 45 years later.
Shane why were you named after an Armagh football club? :P
Was either that or Harps.
Only Fools was on tv as I was registering and Boycey just seemed right, probably should have been Boycie in hindsight :D
It was my moniker on Hogan Stand which I made up moons ago as a young fella. Kept it on when I ventured over here although I do wish I had a username that wasn't as shite.
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Quote from: The Stallion on March 12, 2017, 09:15:20 AM
My athleticism and large manhood have saddled me (pun intended) with the nickname "Stallion". It's a bit of a curse tbh. One of my most used phrases is "my eyes are up here luv".
I always thought it's coz you've a face like shergar.
Quote from: trileacman on March 12, 2017, 01:59:59 PM
Quote from: The Stallion on March 12, 2017, 09:15:20 AM
My athleticism and large manhood have saddled me (pun intended) with the nickname "Stallion". It's a bit of a curse tbh. One of my most used phrases is "my eyes are up here luv".
I always thought it's coz you've a face like shergar.
A beef burger?
Happy to inform you of the real reason trileacman. I'm devestatingly handsome if you must know.
Although perhaps that's what you meant, I know you Tyrone folk have some peculiar sexual proclivities.
Named in honour of Portadown's second most famous comedian.
A description for some area of Longford in the Chronicles of St. Alun from the 7th Century - rough translation from Latin:
"And we set forth from the seat of Mel of Ardagh, to the Shamrock Shore of the great river, all in the glory of God"
Jases Sham that's very historical altogether ;D
My user name doesn't require much explanation :)
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on March 12, 2017, 11:28:12 PM
A description for some area of Longford in the Chronicles of St. Alun from the 7th Century - rough translation from Latin:
"And we set forth from the seat of Mel of Ardagh, to the Shamrock Shore of the great river, all in the glory of God"
You live and learn. I just thought you picked the name because you're a Horslips fan. I wasn't aware of the deeper meaning.
Quote from: Dougal Maguire on March 12, 2017, 11:37:21 PM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on March 12, 2017, 11:28:12 PM
A description for some area of Longford in the Chronicles of St. Alun from the 7th Century - rough translation from Latin:
"And we set forth from the seat of Mel of Ardagh, to the Shamrock Shore of the great river, all in the glory of God"
You live and learn. I just thought you picked the name because you're a Horslips fan. I wasn't aware of the deeper meaning.
Oh yeah! Maybe I dreamt that other nonsense!
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on March 12, 2017, 11:28:12 PM
A description for some area of Longford in the Chronicles of St. Alun from the 7th Century - rough translation from Latin:
"And we set forth from the seat of Mel of Ardagh, to the Shamrock Shore of the great river, all in the glory of God"
Excellent choice of username and well researched.
With knowledge like yours we should be "happy to meet sorry to part. "
This topic is a hardy perennial; it pops up every once in a while. Anyway, my username goes back to the mid-70s when Railway Cup games were big news and the broadcasts were in Irish. I was sitting in my local one Paddy's Day and there were very few punters in the place. There was an American GI sitting beside me; mean looking hoor with the regulatory crew cut and mean disposition.
He just sat there getting steadily pissed and saying nothing to anyone around him. The few of us who were there just spoke in whispers and the atmosphere was quite tense. Finally, the game was over and he stood up to leave. He hadn't spoken to anyone, not even the barman, for an hour and a half. He just grunted and held out his glass whenever he wanted a refill.
He turned around and spoke for the first time as he pulled the door open. "I don't understand that game and I don't speak that lingo but I'll tell you one thing."
Dead silence all around...
"That Lar Naparka is one helluva player."
Quote from: Dougal Maguire on March 12, 2017, 11:37:21 PM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on March 12, 2017, 11:28:12 PM
A description for some area of Longford in the Chronicles of St. Alun from the 7th Century - rough translation from Latin:
"And we set forth from the seat of Mel of Ardagh, to the Shamrock Shore of the great river, all in the glory of God"
You live and learn. I just thought you picked the name because you're a Horslips fan. I wasn't aware of the deeper meaning.
I always thought yours was Horslips related also.
Sidebar: managed to find 4 Horslips albums still in their plastic on vinyl over here last month.
I'm named after a 17th Century Russian poet.
Quote from: seafoid on March 12, 2017, 07:45:28 AM
Seafóid is an Irish word used a lot in Galway. There were no fadas online whenever I started using it.
Much sports analysis is seafóid.
I thought it was for all the shite you post!
Laurel was taken.
Quote from: Hardy on March 13, 2017, 09:17:34 AM
Laurel was taken.
Was there not a fiddler somewhere in the story ?
I am named after the hybrid computer on Quantum Leap called Ziggy, who has the ego of Barbra Streisand, bench ZiggysEgo.
Quote from: seafoid on March 13, 2017, 09:20:05 AM
Quote from: Hardy on March 13, 2017, 09:17:34 AM
Laurel was taken.
Was there not a fiddler somewhere in the story ?
I'm just embracing the post-truth philosophy.
When i was younger i used to think i decided on most things (didn't really though, was just full of sh1t)
Sounds like diarrhoea, which a few regularly post !! :-X
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Should thread not be called The Story Behind Your Username/s?
It's been done before
You can check here if some users have changed their story.
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=13145.msg604427#msg604427 (http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=13145.msg604427#msg604427)
Our Nail Loney :D whatever happened to him?
Chuck Liddell - the Ice Man. I was training and competing in MMA when very few people even knew what it was. In Chuck's era he redefined MMA for me with his sprawl and brawl style. I'm also a very black and white person. If I like you I like and if I don't, I don't. A bit cold some might say........
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Say it to my face and you'll have both of those😂
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:00:09 PM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Say it to my face and you'll have both of those😂
It would explain the vaseline on your lips.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 13, 2017, 01:15:48 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:00:09 PM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Say it to my face and you'll have both of those😂
It would explain the vaseline on your lips.
f**k off!😂
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:22:30 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 13, 2017, 01:15:48 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:00:09 PM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Say it to my face and you'll have both of those😂
It would explain the vaseline on your lips.
f**k off!😂
ye big chappy lipped Vaseline wearin crossbar breaker
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 02:41:16 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:22:30 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 13, 2017, 01:15:48 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 13, 2017, 01:00:09 PM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on March 13, 2017, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: stew on March 13, 2017, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 12, 2017, 01:31:05 PM
My actually has a double reference...firstly I registered around the time that my football career and worklife were going through a period of change as both were 'breaking' at the time. Also I played in goals a bit when I was younger. We were playing in a schools match out in Knockbridge in Louth and I jumped up to safe the ball. I was a big gassun and I took a swing off the crossbar. It broke, fell on my mouth and busted my lip very badly. To this day the lip would still crack in very frosty weather.
Best story yet by a country mile.
ima gonna call him BustedLip from now on
or chappylips. yes that's maybe better
Say it to my face and you'll have both of those😂
It would explain the vaseline on your lips.
f**k off!😂
To my face ye chicken!!
ye big chappy lipped Vaseline wearin crossbar breaker
Quote from: Main Street on March 13, 2017, 12:23:53 PM
Should thread not be called The Story Behind Your Username/s?
It's been done before
You can check here if some users have changed their story.
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=13145.msg604427#msg604427 (http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=13145.msg604427#msg604427)
Our Nail Loney :D whatever happened to him?
Ohh he's still about and in fact he posted something on the board only a few days ago...Some say he changed his surname to the same as his boss...i'm not so sure but he is getting more like him every day ;D
Quote from: Owen Brannigan on March 12, 2017, 01:01:00 AM
I have used Take Your Points since I joined the Board when football began in 2002. On occasion, I used to be confused by some posters with the much more famous Goals Will Come who has changed his username for some reason ;). Someone else registered Take Yer Points and occasionally posts with it and I wouldn't want to be associated with his/her posts.
No particular reason why I chose Take Your Points other than it was a much used phrase heard at games. In 2005, I was named in a thread created for that purpose by a disgruntled work colleague who didn't like my appointment at that time and who created a username to do so that disappeared shortly afterwards. I continued to use the same username but have begun using my own name since last week as I had always planned to do so when I retired from work and only just got around to it.
Hopefully to avoid confusion rather than association with his/her posts being a negative thing?
Just read the links to the two previous threads on the same subject and I've never explained mine yet, it is intriguing.
Named after Oliver Cromwell or Oliver Plunkett.
My club is O'Hanlons, Poyntzpass, Co Armagh, named after Redmond O'Hanlon.
For about the 13th - 16th centuries, the O'Hanlon clan were lords of the barony of Orior which stretched from Tandragee to Newtownhamilton or so.
An anagram of the home town, back home in Derry.
Quote from: bennydorano on March 13, 2017, 05:21:28 PM
Just read the links to the two previous threads on the same subject and I've never explained mine yet, it is intriguing.
I know they why behind your name full well there Benny. )
I wanted everybody to be afraid of me. Whether they believed in God or not!
Quote from: Aerlik on March 16, 2017, 03:40:12 PM
An anagram of the home town, back home in Derry.
Anagram is pushing it.
It might be obvious to some, but when registering, I thought of what was a prominent image from the glory years of Down football when I was growing up in the nineties. The one that had stuck with me was the bandage that was put on Barry Breen after he suffered a head injury. I haven't seen it before or since in any sporting arena:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjyCFVYUgAEg-IK.jpg)
A medical breakthrough that, for some reason, never caught on.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 11, 2017, 11:52:05 PM
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
so your club ground is named after paedos???
The Stallion only thinks he's a stallion.
my username could have been anything. but back in 2002 when football began.. how do I do that wavey thing that means I'm remembering..
I had just got married and we had moved into this house. sweet jeez we hadn't a penny. we were living in the kitchen and the bedroom with the en-suite. well you know your nibbling away trying to get wee bits done mrs lawnseed had seen this lovely bathroom set. porcelain toilet handle and matching soap dish and bowl for your poporee. so off we went to newry and got the stuff which was great until we arrived at the till. we hadn't the price of it. the boss wasn't best pleased and I was a bit redfaced myself. we had to put it back. as we made our way out, tails between our legs. I noticed there was a special offer on lawnseed so I pick up a bag. when I got home the oul fella said to keep it dry so I put it in the hot-press. little did I know that when you buy lawnseed your beloved expects a beautiful lush lawn to miraculously appear overnite.. and then it started when are you doing the lawn?? when are you doing the lawn.. when ARE you doing the lawn..?? and on and on. so when I was hiding in the hot-press for a bit of fukn peace on the board there I was me and my 30% off bag of LAWNSEED. ;)
Quote from: lawnseed on March 23, 2017, 09:47:02 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 11, 2017, 11:52:05 PM
Our club changed the name of the ground to De La Salle park around the time I joined, so I figured I'll keep it as Milltown Row!
so your club ground is named after paedos???
Paedos?? If you had an experience with one of these guys it must have been awful... but you seem fine now....
I got mine off an a oul lad that used to drink in our local, he used to call everybody either man or woman Paddy John. Used it in his memory.