yeah mine is just part of my surname. boooooring .
Welsh huh?
I was on overseas forums first, 99.9% seppos, so Mark Australia seemed apt. Geez.... pre- Seabreeze.com.au was a while back Now it seems dumb when I am more active on the Aussie forum
I make Gizmo's and Gadgets and strange stuff for the film & TV industry, camera mounts and cranes and get some weird requests at times..... One of my big ones was the "Wheel Of Fortune" letter board.
When I was a grommie the older crew gave me a 'haircut' (mum went ape) and after the trim they reckon I looked like dr spock, so the name stuck, to this day. They also got stickers made up for my gear 'spocktek'. Cheers Laney!
Season 2 episode 3 of the wire: stringer bell nails d'angelo barksdale's missus while he is otherwise occupied in prison ...and it's the backbone of a board
A nickname bestowed on my rather rotund figure circa 1992 on Moreton Island (I was living the good life of a single 22 y.o.). In fact it was a retort by a girlfriend of one of my mates of "you're half man half sausage" that kick started one of my better known monikers.
Marvin: You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP... Arthur: Um... what's GPP? Marvin: Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...?
Thought I would be extra smart, coz I hadn't windsurfed for 20 years I would call myself after that fairy tale dude who slept for 20 years. And to be extra smart I would add a "g" to the front of the name because I was a grumpy old man.
Turns out I was wrong, the dude who slept for 20 years was Rip Van Winkle, Rumplestiltskin was the troll who promised some chick he would spin straw into gold if she could guess his name
When I went to Italy for work, the Italian's actually thought my name was Simond, instead of Simon. They even put it in my email. I didn't mind. But before long, Simondo had stuck. That was 10 years ago.
Thought I would be extra smart, coz I hadn't windsurfed for 20 years I would call myself after that fairy tale dude who slept for 20 years. And to be extra smart I would add a "g" to the front of the name because I was a grumpy old man.
Turns out I was wrong, the dude who slept for 20 years was Rip Van Winkle, Rumplestiltskin was the troll who promised some chick he would spin straw into gold if she could guess his name
