I got mine from Green Wing. The scene made me giggle for ages afterwards (although I was admittedly a little high already) so I picked that for my name!
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"I couldn't get your bike to stand up, so I sold it."
I nicked mine from a (thankfully now-defunct) satirical column in a national newspaper, as I was having a complete imagination failure the day I signed up.
Had I known that in the future I was going to have to introduce myself to people with it, however, I might have given the whole thing a bit more thought...
mine was because the day I signed up I'd just watched the ad for the new film confetti and thought it sounded alrite, also has stephen mangan in it so kind of a link with green wing, i guess.
Haha, Pash, me too. I'd never have chosen Patroclus (my previous screen name, new forum chums) if I'd known I was going to have to introduce myself by that name in the real world, because it sounds so ugly (not to mention silly) when I say it out loud, and I never know how to pronounce it. At least you have a nice name!
Roquentin is just as bad, but fortunately I haven't had to introduce myself by that name...yet.
Um, mine is because I am slighty obsessive about GW, and also I went to a site which had a checklist of obsessiveness one of which was: You know you're obsessed when you start ending every phone converstaion with "See you in Zurich" and I mostly fitted the criteria of the checklist so I am slightly obsessed and 26 is he date of my birthday.
Mine involves a long running joke between me and my friends, which originated on a school trip to France. The translation of le cerf has already been mentioned somewhere on this forum, but I would just like to point out that it was not actually me who was the original deer (or stag, as we liked to translate it).
it's my nickname. but it's boring, I kind of hate always using it, it's just that I got into the habit. I'd rather be called DrBeardface.
------------------------- Do I look like a mug? Have I got a handle? Am I made of china? Am I kept in a cupboard or on a small wooden tree? Would you like to put your lips on my rim? You may answer that question, the rest were rhetorical. ------------------------- Get Brian.
hey, 1988, me too. I'd high five you if we weren't speaking over the net. And if I ever actually gave anyone high fives.
------------------------- Do I look like a mug? Have I got a handle? Am I made of china? Am I kept in a cupboard or on a small wooden tree? Would you like to put your lips on my rim? You may answer that question, the rest were rhetorical. ------------------------- Get Brian.
erm, my name originally went the other way round (poppy445) but someone decided to ban me, so it's now an anagram, but with less thought. as for poppy...i think it was around remembrance day when i first joined. not quite as clever as other people's, i know. *sigh*
_____________________________________________________________________ He's going to have to move to America and live in a caravan with his mother, where they'll have big-foreheaded children with very small hands, very small.
After years of random, original, funny, unfunny, rude and damnright rude screen names I thought it would be easier to use my name! My parents did kindly give it to me to use after all!!!
The Beatles - *In My Life I'll Love You More* 
Though, this is the first site I've had a different name on. I'm usually Miss Lancing (The Brittas Empire) elsewhere.
