Nom de Plume! notifiable dieases and other hide behind the curtains crap! [Archive]

Frosty5

11-06-2013, 08:29 AM

Time you invisable beings became men. Tell us who you are? come out of the closet? stop being two faced whimps!

Not sure about being described as above, as I try to remember to put my name on each post, but for the record this is me:-

Dave Graham
Motorsport enthusiast and Technical Auditor - NZ Historic Muscle Cars

Hope to put a face to the name sometime in the future Russ!!!!
Cheers
Dave Graham

david5

11-06-2013, 08:50 AM

I'm too scared now.

David Jackson, motorsport enthusiast, model car collector, and mans who's bum is now too big for his seldom used race suit.

fullnoise68

11-06-2013, 09:09 AM

Russ, would you like to explain who or what you are getting at???...... because a two faced whimp I will never be!

Steve Elliott HMC Camaro #41.

Shoreboy57

11-06-2013, 10:13 AM

No secrets here, its just the informality and norm in much of today's social media -
But for the record: trackside enthusiast, former flaggie and lap-scorer (showing age) & customer of John Bennoch.

Lindsay Mouat.

Frosty5

11-06-2013, 10:13 AM

Russ, would you like to explain who or what you are getting at???...... because a two faced whimp I will never be!

Steve Elliott HMC Camaro #41.

Have sent a PM

928

11-06-2013, 08:07 PM

trying to get to the front of the pack Russ?

Rod Grimwood

11-06-2013, 08:33 PM

Time you invisable beings became men. Tell us who you are? come out of the closet? stop being two faced whimps!

Hi, Russ. Rod Grimwood IS my name and I am so happy I did not have to come out of the closet. Mind you these days we may be a minority in the eyes of some of the "wimps" who call themselves parliamentarians, as we don't hold hands with our mates.

Had couple of nicknames in past "Drifty' , "Rose" "Grimme" and also been called other names by some.

Never been a 'wimp' but have definitely seen/meet a few.

Cheers Russ, don't forget that 'cyber bullying' is now an offence.

Steve Holmes

11-06-2013, 08:53 PM

OK, as Lindsay has said above, this is normal in todays social media. All forums have people using nom de plumes. In the case of this site, their chosen names often relate to their cars, wish list cars, racing heroes etc. There is nothing sinister involved and I don't have an issue with it. In fact, compared to many other forums, I'm surprised by how many people on here actually use their real names! And think about it. If we all used our real names, eventually we'd have the situation where someone couldn't join, because they share the same name as an existing member. For example, if the famous porn star Steve Holmes decided he wanted to join, he couldn't, as there is already a Steve Holmes on this site.

Rod Grimwood

11-06-2013, 09:04 PM

Yea, and you are famous as well now, and you haven't shafted anyone.

good on ya Steve.

Steve Holmes

11-06-2013, 09:12 PM

Ha ha ha ha ha, yeah but who has the better job though Rod, him or me?

Greg Mackie

11-06-2013, 09:19 PM

What's in a name? Even though I've been using my name for the past 72 years, I'm not sure if it is my real name.....I've been called lots of other names !

Cheers,

Greg Mackie ?

John McKechnie

11-06-2013, 09:40 PM

The name we have every day for all our lives is the name our parents gave us.
Here we can finally call ourselves what we desire.
I enjoy the creativity here and the balls of someone who wants to be known as Old Fart

*call me what you like, so long as its not late for dinner*

Jac Mac

11-06-2013, 10:03 PM

Pity anyone with Len Brown for a given name not wanting to use a non de plume....Scchhhwang!

seaqnmac27

11-06-2013, 10:37 PM

Seaqnmac27 was meant to be Seanmac27, anyway, its all due to me being Sean McBride and 27 a nod to the great Gilles Villeneuve.

Frosty5

11-07-2013, 12:41 AM

Time you invisable beings became men. Tell us who you are? come out of the closet? stop being two faced whimps!

Hi Russ, now that some of us have stepped out of the closet and with just one face how about a response to this question below. I think that's the least you owe us for stepping out.

Russ, would you like to explain who or what you are getting at???......

Cheers, Dave Graham

ERC

11-07-2013, 01:51 AM

*call me what you like, so long as its not late for dinner*
Me too...

"A rose by any other name..."

Sometimes it can be useful to use a nom de plume so that the great unwashed or even your employers, can't pin anything on you. Unfortunately, some posters cannot resist naming whistleblowers (which is a shame), so I am happy enough if people want to use one. Without some of them (particularly on another board), many of us would be in the dark about some goings on.

On this board, I wanted a platform for our race series, even though 80% of my posts may now be personal.

PS: Wasn't it John Holmes (not TACCOC!) rather than Steve Holmes that was alluded to earlier?

Greg Mackie

11-07-2013, 02:51 AM

PS: Wasn't it John Holmes (not TACCOC!) rather than Steve Holmes that was alluded to earlier?

Naah...John Holmes is an acupuncturist in Mittagong [NSW].:)

Russ Cunningham

11-07-2013, 05:43 AM

Hi Russ, now that some of us have stepped out of the closet and with just one face how about a response to this question below. I think that's the least you owe us for stepping out.

Russ, would you like to explain who or what you are getting at???......

Cheers, Dave Graham

Hello Dave,

My thanks to all those who have responded. Because of certain laws in this country I am unable to divulge the closet dweller in question. Let's just say he's already responded and it wasn't any of you who let us know your true identities. Certainly not "old fart".

Oldfart

11-07-2013, 06:11 AM

Hell, mentioned twice but there are a few who know. When I signed up there were very few real names.
Russ did you really mean to diseases or die arses?
Rhys Nolan ( and to be on here you need to be a BOF sometimes.) Old time user of a Skoda, made a profit from the sport after 52 events over two years, flaggie way back, now deep into vintage racing, and done 10 Targa events as co-driver.

Jac Mac

11-07-2013, 06:23 AM

Hell, mentioned twice but there are a few who know. When I signed up there were very few real names.
Russ did you really mean to diseases or die arses?
Rhys Nolan ( and to be on her you need to be a BOF sometimes.)

Now Oldfart has me wondering, who is the 'her' that makes him feel the need to be a BOF sometimes....?? :)

Malcolm McLeod

11-07-2013, 06:58 AM

I have spent many years, and thousands of dollars setting up my closet, and I refuse to come out of it just to please a learned collegue. However, I confess, I have made an exception this weekend to assist the Sandown flag marshalls....
Having said all that, yesterday I visited a very famous, um, "beast", with the non-de-plume of Godzilla, who was undergoing surgery!

Binzy1

11-07-2013, 07:02 AM

Sounds like a talk-back radio issue not one for a car / motorsport forum!
If I want to stay as the name (albeit minus the '1') the way most people know me that's my prerogative - afterall I could be Elvis P and wish to continue the myth!
BINZY and proud.....

kiwi285

11-07-2013, 07:19 AM

I have never been in the closet. And what's this about being two-faced Russ - is it your face and your ass.

Mike Feisst, motorsport enthusiast since Dad took me to the second NZIGP at Ardmore.

Cheers

Allan

11-07-2013, 07:19 AM

Ran into Elvis P a few years back. He was pumping gas at George Johnson's service station in Te Teko............you did mean Elvis Ponanga I assume.
I am Allan Cameron, motorsport fringe dweller and sometime Targa co-driver/car builder in a variety of FIATs. I am old enough to remember the Ardmore races on the radio.

Oldfart

11-07-2013, 08:31 AM

Now Oldfart has me wondering, who is the 'her' that makes him feel the need to be a BOF sometimes....?? :)

From what a certain racer up here has told me about you I would wonder about where you might fit on that! Thanks for the very subtle correction!

Jac Mac

11-07-2013, 08:20 PM

From what a certain racer up here has told me about you I would wonder about where you might fit on that! Thanks for the very subtle correction!
And if that 'certain racer' is who I suspect then you should stop worrying about the very unlikely possibility of me entering a T-Bird in your pre 61 series & start looking very hard at MKII Zephyrs that probably wont comply....:)

Oldfart

11-08-2013, 04:52 AM

And if that 'certain racer' is who I suspect then you should stop worrying about the very unlikely possibility of me entering a T-Bird in your pre 61 series & start looking very hard at MKII Zephyrs that probably wont comply....:)

The Zephyr actually does comply under the "Historic Racing Vehicle "classification :) As does the Heasley Humber 80.

Russ Cunningham

11-08-2013, 07:20 AM

At this stage it's only a rumour, Rhys but I have heard that your proposed class is looking so popular that a well known motor racing villain is looking at the possibility of running a Tatra. Myself, I'm looking for a Standrive as I don't like the idea of having to change gears. It's too bloody difficult when holding a glass of red.

Oldfart

11-08-2013, 07:42 AM

Bruce302

11-08-2013, 07:48 PM

Bruce 302 is kind of shorthand for our real family name, Triotou. (its polynesian) But when I was growing up, all the palagi kids would tease me and throw abacados, so we anglicised it to the very common Thompson, and now it is hard to register that anywhere because it is so common.

I am, Bruce Thompson, international gentleman of leisure, except I have to work, lots.

Spgeti

11-08-2013, 08:33 PM

Spgeti,.....well I love Italian cars, but I probably just love all fast cars....

Bruce Dyer and I don't live in the closet....

Greg Mackie

11-09-2013, 12:06 AM

Spgeti,.....well I love Italian cars, but I probably just love all fast cars....

Bruce Dyer and I don't live in the closet....
So, where do you and Bruce live?:)

Spgeti

11-09-2013, 04:35 AM

Oh dear, for the sake of a comma. Lol.

Racer Rog

11-10-2013, 09:36 AM

I have put my name in the bio, a lot know who I am, just about always sign off with my name, one of the many Roger's here ( but I am the real one)
Roger Eade

Kwaussie

11-10-2013, 10:36 AM

Go Russell
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/sport/9379585/Inter-island-flavour-to-speedway-season-opener
and I know Russell from along time ago - his father Bruce was a very good customer of our company.

CRC

11-11-2013, 05:09 AM

Think you might have the wrong Russell Cunningham there..

Yeah, Russell, of speedway AKA "Sneeky Meat", "Sly Bacon", has until recently been racing a classic 240z (unfortunately, no longer due to ill health) as opposed to Roger (son of Bruce) Cunninghame (with an "e") who currently races HMC mustang.
CRC

Kwaussie

11-11-2013, 08:35 AM

Yeah, Russell, of speedway AKA "Sneeky Meat", "Sly Bacon", has until recently been racing a classic 240z (unfortunately, no longer due to ill health) as opposed to Roger (son of Bruce) Cunninghame (with an "e") who currently races HMC mustang.
CRC

Very sorry to all - I did not think it was possible for me to make so many mistakes in one three line post!!!

stubuchanan

11-11-2013, 09:56 AM

Yeah, Russell, of speedway AKA "Sneeky Meat", "Sly Bacon", has until recently been racing a classic 240z (unfortunately, no longer due to ill health) as opposed to Roger (son of Bruce) Cunninghame (with an "e") who currently races HMC mustang.
CRC

Is there a message in this?

Even with the right name, you end up with the wrong person! Might be better to stick with the "nom de guerre"

Stu Buchanan (yes, my real name, as if anybody cared)

928

11-11-2013, 06:44 PM

Is there a message in this?

Even with the right name, you end up with the wrong person! Might be better to stick with the "nom de guerre"

Stu Buchanan (yes, my real name, as if anybody cared)
you got that right I reckon. in fact you can call me by my first name if you like, 9

Jac Mac

11-11-2013, 08:01 PM

you got that right I reckon. in fact you can call me by my first name if you like, 9
Heck, & here I was thinking it might be something cryptic like the time you leave home to go to work each day..:)

John McKechnie

11-11-2013, 08:57 PM

It is cryptic- a prime example

928

11-12-2013, 07:20 AM

Heck, & here I was thinking it might be something cryptic like the time you leave home to go to work each day..:)
work WORK work is the curse of the drinking class
9

Trevor Sheffield

11-13-2013, 07:19 AM

Greetings Stu/ Stewart,

There are those who care and for good and obvious reasons. :-)

Cheers, Trevor.

Oldfart

11-13-2013, 07:22 AM

I think this is one of the most meaningless threads ever on TRS!

Trevor Sheffield

11-13-2013, 07:29 AM

I think this is one of the most meaningless threads ever on TRS!

Old farts are a load of hot air. LOL

stubuchanan

11-13-2013, 10:47 AM

Greetings Stu/ Stewart,

There are those who care and for good and obvious reasons. :-)

Cheers, Trevor.

Thanks, Trevor, for those kind and chivalrous words. I tend to agree with Oldfart's comment about this thread, but maybe it was all only intended as a wind-up!

Stu(art)

David McKinney

11-13-2013, 11:58 AM

I'm sure it was...

At least this forum seems to have avoided what some others allow - ie, noms de plume of real people (Jim Clark, Keke Rosberg etc)

driftwood

12-17-2013, 12:57 AM

Many Italians used non de plums to go racing
some to avoid family riot of them racing against parents wishes ( as jackie stewart did with A N Other at his first few races)
some presume to deter kidnapping (rife in the 60s/70s) no one knew who they were
we had an Austrian racer Fritz Glatz race for years as Pierre Chavuet and Fredrico Carecca
both surnames meant "bald" as he was but he was another banned by mummy from going motor racing

I however am not worth much so no one will kidnap me possibly pay someone to take me away for a few more hours
and my mummy has banned me from coming round to visit

Shoreboy57

12-17-2013, 03:32 AM

The non de plumed racing driver - there should be some great tales.

Baroness Hélène van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar entered the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris Trail using the pseudonym Snail and became the first woman to compete in an international motor race.

Another reason was surely ease of use - for team management, announcers, programme typesetters etc. For example:

B Bira = Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanuband
JJ Lehto = Jyrki Järvilehto (Imagine Murray Walker getting his tongue around that name)
Johnny Dumfries = John Colum Crichton-Stewart (7th Marquess of Bute)
Alfonzo de Portago = Don Alfonso Cabeza de Vacade y Leighton

Did Umberto Ledfotti really race at Bathurst 12-hour? Surely taking the piss

Of course had Norman Barry racing as Frank Bryan in the Mustang around '67. Were there any others on the local scene? Some may have preferred to be anonymous in hindsight

RacerT

12-17-2013, 05:11 AM

stubuchanan

12-17-2013, 10:30 AM

And I always thought your name was Stub Uchanan!

Just a nasty rumour put about by the forces of evil.

Stu

Grant Ellwood

12-17-2013, 12:32 PM

Scandinavian rally driver in the 70s - Bengt Axel.

David McKinney

12-17-2013, 01:34 PM

Johnny Dumfries = John Colum Crichton-Stewart (7th Marquess of Bute)

Crichton-Stuart, please! In his racing days he was Earl of Dumfries. He didn't inherit the Marquis of Bute title until the 1990s

Alfonzo de Portago = Don Alfonso Cabeza de Vacade y Leighton

Or more correctly Don Alfonso Antonio Vicente Blas Ángel Francisco Borgia Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton Carvajal y Are, Conde de Mejorada, seventh Marquis de Portago

John B

12-17-2013, 03:29 PM

French driver, Jean-Marie Brousselet, raced a Jaguar D-Type at Le Mans several times under the racing nom de plume "Mary" ... I wonder if he was also a lumberjack and, "...cut down trees, skipped and jumped, and hung around in bars."

stubuchanan

12-17-2013, 11:40 PM

The non de plumed racing driver - there should be some great tales.

Of course had Norman Barry racing as Frank Bryan in the Mustang around '67. Were there any others on the local scene? Some may have preferred to be anonymous in hindsight

With due respect, Norman Frank Bryan Barry was not using a fictional name, just not all of his real name.

Shoreboy57

12-18-2013, 12:30 AM

[QUOTE=David McKinney;36461]Crichton-Stuart, please!

Bloody spellchecker - thanks for correction David. Now taking a lie down after trying to memorise de Portago's full name.

ERC

12-18-2013, 04:31 AM

There was a guy I used to compete against in the annual Silverstone Sprints Winter Series, called "Wally Pratt". Lovely guy (I think he might have passed away fairly recently) - but that was his real name.

GeebeeNZ

12-18-2013, 06:41 PM

Ray wasn't he the guy who appeared in the Duckhams Ads with his racing Fiat Abarth.

There was a guy I used to compete against in the annual Silverstone Sprints Winter Series, called "Wally Pratt". Lovely guy (I think he might have passed away fairly recently) - but that was his real name.

ERC

12-18-2013, 10:13 PM

More than likely. He certainly ran a Fiat Abarth.

jamie

12-19-2013, 08:04 AM

He He guys what A giggle look what I have been missing out on wile I was away overseas RUSS you were ALWAYS A!!!
HO HO Merry X Mass and A happy New Year Jamie A

driftwood

03-02-2014, 12:12 AM

yes Wally Pratt was his real name and he was an old guy when he sprinted his Fiat Abarth 1000 tt in the 70s and 80s
i do recall seeing his name in Autosport obituary

Times have changed and he would never have dreamt his names would be used to chastise and ridicule people
Its the same as making the statement you are happy and gay
40 years ago it was a reasonable expression to describe your joy

I like the non de plumes for forums those who don't tough