The All New "How Old Are You Thread" (plus the "What's the Origin of Your ID" Thread)

[Teatime FatCat]

With so many lovely new chums on this board, I thought we'd rekindle the nosey b*****ds favourite thread and ask the important questions -

How Old Are You + What Is The Origin of Your ID?

I shall start the ball rolling, and lay my innermost secrets open to you all -

I am a youthful 34, and the origin of my ID is a combination of my cat-like prowess in the field, and before the cruel onset of diabetes, my phenominal appetite at Teatime!!

Come on all you youngsters - shame me with your wit and youthfulness (Ernie - we're still waiting for the magic figure mate!)

[greg]

I am 29 and my name is Greg.

Pretty boring really.

[CJ D]

I am 29 and my initials are CJD

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Teatime FatCat

How Old Are You + What Is The Origin of Your ID(Ernie - we're still waiting for the magic figure mate!)

I am just plain Ernest I am afraid, I do have a cat like girth, due to steroids - due to smoking which I have not done for 10 years.

I lost a lot of weight with an OAT, and then put it back when it was stabalised as some (not fair really)

As for my age, I also suffer from confussion on this matter, I feel at times 18, but I am really not 18 back to front.

Back to the weight, I will be having Whiskers one meal a day, as I need to lose some before going to the Costa-Del Sol in July, I don't want the pool emptying when I jump in (water I mean).

Back to my age, I will be one year older on the 2nd of August 2006.

[flanflinger]

32 - it involved a game at Pyrford where a bowled the worst spell in my life (and I have had some bad ones)

Pyrford became Pie-ford... Pie-man became Flanflinger history was made...

[Notts Exile]

31. Exiled from Nottingham, moved down to the Thames Valley for work nine years ago and haven't left.

[Irish Left Armer]

22. And my name is fairly self explanatory. Though I always liked to consider myself as more of a batsman.

[Andy Mellon]

I think my website finally gave my age away, even though I've never said it before. I'm 25.

My screen name can from school during an A Level History class when a new guy called Jamie Goldring got me mixed up with the Head of the New York Stock Exchange, the erstwhile Andrew Mellon. At the top of a poster that we were assigned to do, he wrote in large letters 'BY JAMIE GOLDRING AND ANDREW MELLON' and the nickname was born. It has been a nickname that has served me well, and always attracts the following conversation.

Person: Why are you called melon? (seeing as Mellon is pronounced as melon, it is always assumed as the fruit)
Me: Its nothing to do with what you think
Person: Tell me why?
Me: Its not very interesting
Person: Its got to be! Why else would you be called melon
Me: (I then describe the story above)
Person: Oh (Walks off, embarrassed to have listen to such a tedious anecdote)

[Mongoose]

Originally Posted by CJ D

I am 29 and my initials are CJD

They didn't name the human form of BSE after you, did they?

Anyway, my name of Mongoose was given to me by Lemming. Lemming is a dab hand with a snooker cue, and while we were playing a few frames one day, and he was beating me about 5-0, I gave him his 'snooker name' of the 'Lichfield Lemming', a la Hurricane Higgins, Rocket Ronnie etc (Lichfield being the Lemming's home town). In return for this compliment, he dubbed me the 'Manchester Mongoose'. And the Manchester Mongoose is 27, although I have (to steal one man's description of Clive Lloyd) 'the knees of an octogenarian'.

[CJ D]

Originally Posted by Mongoose

They didn't name the human form of BSE after you, did they?

No - but the term was not created until well after I was born and did not come into common usage until I had labelled everything I owned (bunch of thieves in my school) with CJD with the result that I spent a good deal of time being referred to as the Mad Cow.