bored

[billb]

bored on this friday and office goddess wanted to know where her name came from - soooooo after looking it up on the net i thought i'd do further research:

Aiden ( carzee ):Pet form of AODH. This was the name of an Irish monk and saint of the 7th century.

Saint??? hahaha

Rich: "brave power" from Germanic ric "power, rule" and hard "brave, hardy".

well u have to be brave to drive a tvr!

Ted: "rich guard" from Old English ead "rich, blessed" and weard "guard".

blessed with the power of piston heads

etc etc www.behindthename.com

best one was informing the office goddess that her name meant:

NINA (2) f Near Eastern Mythology
"enclosure of fish" (Babylonian). This was the name of a Babylonian fertility goddess, the patron goddess of the city of Nineveh.


soo true...

[CarZee]

quote:Aiden ( carzee ):Pet form of AODH. This was the name of an Irish monk and saint of the 7th century.

Saint??? hahaha

Oi!

I'll overlook the fellonious mis-spelling of my name this once..

www.lindisfarne.org.uk/general/aidan.htm

In fact, if you put my full name into Google , someone's been busy

>> Edited by CarZee on Friday 2nd August 10:45

[nigelbasson]

I've just done that google search on my own name and I feel a Dave Gorman esk search coming on. I didn't know my name was that common! (OK, not really that common but more than I thought!)

As for what my name means....it couldn't be duller, just means "black".

[billb]

could be worse mine means:

From the Germanic name Wilhelm which meant "will helmet",

will helmet?!!!!!! dont add that "y"

On a similar line anyone know any good sites for tracing for free family trees since that government one died?

>> Edited by billb on Friday 2nd August 11:01

[V8Bert]

I share my name with the Galatasaray goalkeeper!

...and some geography student at Leeds University.

[CarZee]

Interesting results too if you search on 'CarZee' on Google..

[Fatboy]

My name is quite amusing:

GRANT m /GRANT/ English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Norman French grand meaning "great, large".

Well I'm certainly large

[Podie]

Hmmm... so why did people pick their Gassing Station names?

Podie is a derivation of Paul... apparently my signature looks like "Pod"... hence I became known as Podie... hey that's students for you

Anyway - if you're bored, check out www.popcap.com - and try Diamond Mind or Insaniquariam!

[Terminator]

My 'PistonHeads' name is derived from my driving style at a TVR Car Club track day at Brands Hatch in 1993

[M@H]

quote:
Hmmm... so why did people pick their Gassing Station names?

..well as the @ sign is the "at" sign.. M@H is simply Matt H. the easy ones are the best..

Cheers,
Matt

[CarZee]

quote:My 'PistonHeads' name is derived from my driving style

Abortive?

[mondeoman]

I've always had Fords...... Cortina's, Sierra's Mondeo.....

Never again tho!

[SBD]

You know M@H I don't think any of us had actually worked that out...........

[billb]

quote:
You know M@H I don't think any of us had actually worked that out...........

me neither feel a right tw@!!

[anonymous-user]

quote:
Interesting results too if you search on 'CarZee' on Google..

"Did you mean: Crazee" LMAO!

[JonRB]

My first name means "gift from God" (I knew that anyway).

So I guess I'm God's gift to my wife.

(Question is: would she agree?)

[456mgt]

Nooooooooo... Oh I wish you hadn't suggested using google to search on your own name. I really do; 1.3m hits, and according to this I am several types of sports star, a bloody gynaecologist, a recording artist (with a track called sunday driver- how apt) and there was a film about my disappearance.

Who am I? Fcuked if I know....

>> Edited by 456mgt on Friday 2nd August 12:56

[Terminator]

quote:

quote:My 'PistonHeads' name is derived from my driving style

Abortive?

It was when the engine blew after I revved it to 7000 coming out of Druids

[incorrigible]

Mine was a crossword answer I got about a minute before I registered, it was either that or "Pawky"

[Podie]

quote:
a bloody gynaecologist

Time of the month?