Author Topic: PerttiMe...Why does this guy get a pass on the name game? (Read 6565 times)

Chris McMillin · « **on:** March 09, 2011, 10:14:22 AM »

I thought we had to use our real names on our handles here at Stunt Hangar.
This dude from Europe gets to bash our rules, and bash our rules.
Bill, Bob. Rectify. I thought we wanted to know who is using up band width.
Chris...

RC Storick · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2011, 10:28:45 AM »

He has followed the rules Chris. His login name is his real name. Sorry

PerttiMe · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2011, 11:00:18 AM »

Besides, I feel my full name would be a bit ungainly in English speaking forums.

Pertti Metsänheimo

I am not the only one using abbreviated "handles" or nicknames either.

edit:
I use the same "handle" elsewhere too, except without the capitals.

Andrew Tinsley · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2011, 11:43:15 AM »

Hi Chris,
I think Pertti is doing you a favour, just try pronouncing his full name. I absolutely guarantee your effort will be wrong! What is more why pick on us Europeans? Stunthanger isn't just a US phenomena, there are guys (and girls) from all over the world as members. That is one of the things that make Stunthanger the excellent forum that it is.

Regards,

Andrew.

PerttiMe · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2011, 11:50:36 AM »

Quote from: Andrew Tinsley on March 09, 2011, 11:43:15 AM

just try pronouncing his full name.

Er, can we start from my first name...

Usually I let foreigners (

) get away with something like "Bertie". It is better if the "B" is pretty hard, "e" is like in "echo", the "r" is rolling and short, the "t" is quite long, and the last "ie" is very short.

Annette Elmore · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2011, 12:56:47 PM »

I used to work with a lovely sri-lankan girl called Jasmine Peri - Jasmine wasn't her real first name - but Peri was short for Perinipanayagam!

PerttiMe · « **Reply #6 on:** March 09, 2011, 01:12:35 PM »

Names...

even the concept of having a first name and a family name doesn't seem to be all that universal.

Icelandic names are easy: you get a first name and a patronym or matronym. So I would be Pertti Anttisson and my daughter Olga Perttisdóttir, or possibly Olga Ninasdóttir.

I've been explained how family names work in Spain but always got confused...

I had a temp government job working in a pretty multinational team and could never really figure out the names of the guys from Pakistan and Bangladesh. So I made it easy on myself and asked: "What do you want us to call you?"

Dick Byron · « **Reply #7 on:** March 09, 2011, 01:51:19 PM »

Having traveled around the world several times I find names to be a most enjoyable part of the culture. I have had my name for 69 years and obviously my parents did not have a clue to the alternate meanings. Richard Peter Byron, otherwise known as (dicky peter). NO JOKE. I have had a lot of kidding about that and also a lot of fun. I love it.

W.D. Roland · « **Reply #8 on:** March 09, 2011, 04:55:26 PM »

Noticed P.J. or W.D. misspells last name

P.J.

David

Garf · « **Reply #9 on:** March 09, 2011, 08:00:18 PM »

I'm lucky on this one. It's hard to mess up Brown.

Howard Rush · « **Reply #10 on:** March 09, 2011, 08:20:04 PM »

My boss was Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay.

Peter Ferguson · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2011, 08:26:39 PM »

Howard, I remember "Partha". I didn't know you worked for him. Were you able to spell that from memory?

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2011, 08:31:45 PM »

At one time, I was known world wide as Steve O'Bat, or just O'Bat. That came from our club name Strat-O-Bats, when I became newsletter editor. That morphed into Mr. Areno, which came from the late & great Don Zipoy, who usually called me "Steve-a-reno". When I was editor of my bass fishing club's newsletter, I became S.Basser or Dirty Basser (no relation to da Dirt), depending on which club and which newsletter. Never any intention to defraud or confuse the IRS...

Steve

Dick Pacini · « **Reply #13 on:** March 10, 2011, 01:16:20 AM »

Call me anything but late for dinner.

dennis lipsett · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:13:49 AM »

If our newest member is from Iceland it is one of the hardest languages to learn. Or so I have been told on a few occassions.
Dennis

I just knew that this would get a response. It did LOL
Dennis

PerttiMe · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:25:16 AM »

Quote from: dennis lipsett on March 10, 2011, 07:13:49 AM

If our newest member is from Iceland it is one of the hardest languages to learn. Or so I have been told on a few occassions.

Totally wrong: even small children in Iceland speak it fluently

... but they don't take loan words. I am used to recognizing the word "radio" in lots of languages. Not Icelandic...

Paul Smith · « **Reply #16 on:** March 10, 2011, 08:11:45 AM »

This forum has been getting a bit too bland. We could use some more controversy.

Bring it on.

Bill Little · « **Reply #17 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:29:52 AM »

Hi Chris,

The "rule" on names was instituted well after many had already joined with screen names. Pertti DOES have his full real name in his account information, but that can only be seen by admin. (and what he uses as a screen name is real, as Sparky said) The use of a screen name is not forbidden, just the "account name" must be "real".

I have seen several of the original members do not have the full real name in their account, and have wondered if they should be "Grandfathered", or contacted to get their real name added.

Bill

Randy Powell · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:39:00 AM »

My family is from the South so everyone is a two name person. Danny-Jack, Garry-Jean, Candy-Sue and so forth. Except me. My whole family calls me by my middle name (which is a family name and will remain unsaid in the real world).

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #19 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:17:26 AM »

Why Randy-Louise Powell!

Shush your mouth..

L.

"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people." -Lazarus Long (by Robert A. Heinlein)

Randy Powell · « **Reply #20 on:** March 10, 2011, 03:11:19 PM »

Larry Sue?

It's an "M", man, not an "L"; you have to at least make an educated guess. Sheesh!

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2011, 03:54:59 PM »

Ty,
We can all call you Guido.

Will Hinton · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2011, 05:11:42 PM »

This old sailor will just call him "Chief."

John Miller · « **Reply #23 on:** March 10, 2011, 06:00:14 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on March 10, 2011, 03:11:19 PM

Larry Sue?

It's an "M", man, not an "L"; you have to at least make an educated guess. Sheesh!

Around these parts, "Marion" is a common name for a man.

Tim Wescott · « **Reply #24 on:** March 10, 2011, 06:33:44 PM »

Quote from: Dick Byron on March 09, 2011, 01:51:19 PM

Having traveled around the world several times I find names to be a most enjoyable part of the culture. I have had my name for 69 years and obviously my parents did not have a clue to the alternate meanings. Richard Peter Byron, otherwise known as (dicky peter). NO JOKE. I have had a lot of kidding about that and also a lot of fun. I love it.

It could be worse -- your last name could be 'Head'.

Clancy Arnold · « **Reply #25 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:53:51 PM »

Chris
Many people get my name backwards. A local bank issued me two different credit cards, one as Clancy Arnold and one as Arnold Clancy each with it's own account number.

I tell people that I am between two famous people, Tom Clancy & Arnold Palmer.

Clancy

Annette Elmore · « **Reply #26 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:59:13 PM »

Very old joke:

Polish man goes to the optician - the optician says "can you read the middle line on the board for me".

Polish man replies-

Read it - it's my brothers christian name......

Nettie

James Mills · « **Reply #27 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:10:06 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on March 10, 2011, 09:39:00 AM

My family is from the South so everyone is a two name person. Danny-Jack, Garry-Jean, Candy-Sue and so forth. Except me. My whole family calls me by my middle name (which is a family name and will remain unsaid in the real world).

Randy,
I'm from the south as well, my wife still laughs that I had a cousin named Gene Bo. In our family when the middle name was used you'd better duck

. My wife by the way is from "up north" (you wouldn't believe some of the consternation that caused with some of the older members of the family at the time).

James

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #28 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:15:57 PM »

I know a British person who live in a English speaking area of Montreal whose name you can't get wrong. His name is Gordon Gordon.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #29 on:** March 11, 2011, 08:25:17 AM »

For years I was known as John E. not Johnny. Then in high school it became DOC Holliday. That was my Junior and Senior years at Humansville High. Also the last name was also misspelled by peole leaving out one of the "L"'s. Had a clerk came by and ask me if I seen a note she left me. I said no. She picked it up off the desk and handed it to me. I gave it back and said that is not me, it has only one L. Even our NATS control line manager refers to me as John. Have known her and Melvin for years. But, as someone has already stated, "When it is dinner time, you can call me anything respectable".

By the way I was one of the early ones on this site. Hence jeh66203. My almost full name is at end of posts. The E stands for Eugene which I almost started using in high school until the principal told me not to do it. jeh

Bill Little · « **Reply #30 on:** March 11, 2011, 08:39:31 AM »

Hi Doc,

The software is a bit confusing when you sign up. What I believe you wanted to use for a "screen name" (jehold) became your account name! (only seen by admin) Then your "account name" became your screen name. Sparky added a note under "name" to explain which is which.

In our profiles, the "names" ARE confusing, but it is the way the software was set up when Sparky got it..

When you register, you have to fill in two boxes:

"Username:" This is the account name, only seen by admin, but since it says "Username" it would appear to be what would show up in your posts. It has a qualifier, "User", as in what name you use to post.

Name: This is what shows up in your posts. (which is the explanation Sparky added)

Big Bear

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #31 on:** March 11, 2011, 10:18:22 AM »

Quote from: John Miller on March 10, 2011, 06:00:14 PM

Around these parts, "Marion" is a common name for a man.

Hey, wasn't that John Wayne's REAL name?

L.

"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first, to always keep my word
and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be
goddam sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble." -John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2011, 10:28:57 AM »

Randy-Billy-Bob Powell.. Nice ring to that.

My middle name is Eugene, which I always hated. When my mother would call me Eugene, I would get very upset and say, "I not Gene! YOU Gene.". I wanted to be named Roy (after Roy Rogers) Although I was about 4 when that started, I still talk that way. And still want to be named Roy.

What's in a name, anyway? My surgeon tells me we're all the same on the inside.

L.

"Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries." -Henry Wotton

PerttiMe · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2011, 10:35:46 AM »

Quote from: Larry Cunningham on March 11, 2011, 10:28:57 AM

My surgeon tells me we're all the same on the inside.

I wonder. Every time my dentist has to dig into the roots of my molars (

), she swears there's something weird about them.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2011, 11:59:56 AM »

James,

Yea, I understand having married a Yankee my own self.

John,

Not Marion.

Annette Elmore · « **Reply #35 on:** March 11, 2011, 12:14:26 PM »

Quote from: Larry Cunningham on March 11, 2011, 10:18:22 AM

Hey, wasn't that John Wayne's REAL name?

L.

Yes Marion Morrison!

Bill Heher · « **Reply #36 on:** March 12, 2011, 08:22:26 AM »

My last name seems to give people fits- and it's only 5 letters! I tell them the correct pronunciation, He - guttural E like Echo + her - like a girl He_her, then say they can mangle it any way they want- I don't get offended- I've heard them all.

Worked for years with a big ol Texan- given name as proven with his US passport was
Billy Bob Jack- not William Robert Jack - or anything else- jist plain ol' Billy Jack,
Billy Bob Jack was what his momma called him when he was little and gonna get a whippin!
I asked him once if his dad thought it was funny to give him 3 first names- his reply still scares me ... " Don't be makin fun o my daddy" - this from a 6'3'' 250 lb Texan.

An example of what I call Billy Jack-isms- you never knew what he was gona say
" I'm so broke - I had to stroke off the dog to feed the cat".....

jim ivey · « **Reply #37 on:** March 12, 2011, 11:29:54 AM »

re reply by steve helmick The steve areno, came from the original tonight show in the 50s starring steve allen, gary marshall. mel brookes, bill dana, edie adams and the guy we're intrested in, Louis nye. he would greet steve every night with "hi ho steve areno" . Naturally everyone whos name was steve became steve areno. Theres a bar in sacramento named "steve arenos." Now you know where the areno came from. just FYI. Hi Ho, steve areno jim

FLOYD CARTER · « **Reply #38 on:** March 13, 2011, 11:32:17 AM »

I'm always amused that, in some parts of the U.S., children are given just a couple of letters of the alphabet as a given name. My first encounter with that phenomenon was with JC Yates. I asked him what the "JC" stood for? He said "JC, just like my birth certificate." I later worked with a guy whose real name was "RB".

Some parents have no imagination at all!

Floyd (real name)

Randy Powell · « **Reply #39 on:** March 13, 2011, 11:35:58 AM »

Hey Floyd,

my dad's name was Lloyde.

FLOYD CARTER · « **Reply #40 on:** March 13, 2011, 11:51:58 AM »

And my dad was Boyd! It's catching!

Floyd

PerttiMe · « **Reply #41 on:** March 13, 2011, 12:18:38 PM »

Quote from: FLOYD CARTER on March 13, 2011, 11:32:17 AM

I'm always amused that, in some parts of the U.S., children are given just a couple of letters of the alphabet as a given name....

Seriously?

I know people have been giving their kids names after Elvis and other stars. Are you sure there isn't anyone called R2-D2 or C-3PO?

Frank Imbriaco · « **Reply #42 on:** March 13, 2011, 07:54:01 PM »

Went to school with a Charles Brown .
Had a student Joseph Young.

Bill Little · « **Reply #43 on:** March 13, 2011, 07:55:49 PM »

Quote from: Frank Imbriaco on March 13, 2011, 07:54:01 PM

Went to school with a Charles Brown .
Had a student Joseph Young.

I've known three "Charlie Brown"s. One was a student and good friend of my youngest son, the other two were around my age. Lot's of "fun"!

Big Bear

Joe Just · « **Reply #44 on:** March 14, 2011, 08:57:55 AM »

My wife and I have counted about 50 miss-pronunciations of our last name. It is so ingrained in our life to say for example..."Hi, this is Joe Just..... .J -U- S- T.." and have the person answering the phone say (one of 50 repleys) Yes Mr. Jensen, how can I help?" Our last name has become a never ending source of laughter.

Joe Jensen, oops Joe Johnson, oops Joe Justice, oops Mr. Joseph, oops..well you get the idea.

JOE JUST

FLOYD CARTER · « **Reply #45 on:** March 14, 2011, 11:26:16 AM »

If you were "Just Joe", it would sound more humble./

("I'm Just plain ole' Joe.")

F.C.

Annette Elmore · « **Reply #46 on:** March 14, 2011, 12:01:05 PM »

Used to deal with a lady called Susan Hogsflesh - she chamged it tho - to Amy Hogsflesh... (the first bit is true - the second bit i made up!)

Also worked with a lady whose married name was Marjorie Buttery....

Annette

Phil Coopy · « **Reply #47 on:** March 17, 2011, 07:03:12 AM »

A lot of folks think my name is Cooper and that "Coopy" is just a nickname. I also get "Coop" a lot.

Phil

Randy Powell · « **Reply #48 on:** March 17, 2011, 09:50:24 AM »

Yea, my son gets a lot of flak. His name is spelled Aric (Gallic spelling, named after my great uncle from Wales). His entire school career he was called "Aric with an A".

He now goes by Ric.

I always told him to quit whining. He could have been named after my grandfather instead of my grandfather's brother. Then he would have been Ernstgert.

Will Hinton · « **Reply #49 on:** March 17, 2011, 02:29:02 PM »

My (soon to be 98) mother-in-law's maiden name was Creek, her married name? Banks. Hmmmm, is that a twist of fate or what? Helen Creek Banks. She's a winner, still sharp as can be and lovable.