Your username explained

Because red pandas are awesome. Really should've gone dressed as one to Preston.

lordromford said:

Apologies for lengthy post.....

Many years back, I was a few drinks into a good session in the Chandos at Trafalgar Square. I was a smoker at the time and Marlboro were doing a promotion where they had foxy ladies going round the pub who took your packet of fags and replaced with a pack of Marlboro and a Marlboro Zippo. Naturally I accepted, (first emptying all but one of my pack into a coat pocket, of course), but they wanted my name for a mailing list or something. Small price to pay, I thought, so I said my surname to the highly attractive but slightly short on braincells lady. Now, many people misspell my surname, so I started to spell it - "O...R...M..." the girl repeats back "R...O...M..." I say "No, it's O, R, M" she says "R, O, M" so, now slightly irritated, I sarcastically said "Yeah, that's right, my name's Romford." She didn't bat an eyelid, just asked for my first name, so I said, (as 'Lord Melbury' did in Fawlty Towers), "Well I am Lord Romford, but people just call me Romford." and the no-brained-dollybird dutifully wrote down Lord as my first name.
Name stuck, obviously. I'm generally referred to as 'Romf' by close friends.

Great story.

Simple.
I'm old, miserable & agit.

Definetly Miserable !

(Thank You though CE).

Tutt-Tutt said:

Graham Tutt - Charlton keeper of the 70's. Tragically injured at Sunderland and forced to retire after damage to his sight. Was at Primary School with him (Turnham Road, Brockley).

My neice went to that school aswell.....Tutt was a good keeper and given more time would have been a great keeper.

"The flying kiwi was a TV show I used to watch as a kid plus I am half New Zealander (hence "kiwi"). I now live in Copenhagen with my Danish wife (hence "DK" - the International numberplate code for Denmark).

Lived near to Benidorm for many years. Sounds better than grahamvillajoyosa. I'll get my coat.

surname plus the 2 numbers i've worn for a football side. 1 & 10 - 110
simple

I've thought quite a bit about whether to explain my user name because thanks to CL I feel that I have actually become Bill Stumps, rather than it being a pseudonym. But, I have to confess it is not my real name. It is the name of a character in Dickens, who is my favourite author. Actually Bill Stumps is not so much a character as an anecdote.... but that's another story.

_MrDick said:

Bear with me on this...

The team I support is Charlton

My second team are Glasgow Rangers

There used to be a character on Soccer AM called Ali McMoist (It's a Wee Stain)

Put everything together and you come up with Valley McMoist

Lol makes total sense now 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't think I've posted the reason before & yes I am/was addicted to golf.

Got divorced (first one...🤔)  in 1998 & having just got into golf AND having a lot more free time I started to combine playing golf & watching CAFC. So when I joined up on here it seemed a good username.

Sadly I havent played golf for around 5 years due to health reasons but hoping to get back playing again soon.....otherwise I might have to change my username to bowlsaddick....😄.

Thanks Sporadic.  Really appreciate that!  Great memory AFKA.  Thanks for bringing this thread back, even if it has cost me half the morning to read it!  Nothing from Fanny Fanackpan or Tel yet.  Would be interested in those among others.

Sage said:

AFKABartram said:

When i was on a lads holiday in Malia in 1996, we were staying just outside the resort and had to get this clapped out bus into the strip at night. It was known as the 'Bar Tram', and the driver was this crazy Greek guy called Afkandris, who kept saying 'call me Afka man'. So it become known as Afka's Bar Tram. Wonder if he still does it.

This has blown my mind. I now see the world completely differently. Thanks for sharing, way back almost 11 years ago. 

I could have sworn your username was based on " Also Feckin Known As Bartram " for some obscure reason - maybe your Grandad was a fan of Sam ! Loved reading the real reason behind it. 

I thought I'd put this on a similar thread a couple of years ago but my old Gran sometimes would call me FF, as in " Eat up that mashed potato & baked beans, little Fanny Fanackapan" ( I rarely ate anything else when I was small, being very picky, so maybe I should have chosen Fussy Fanny Fanackapan ! ) 

It was a term of endearment & NOT usually accompanied by a clip round the ear .....

I have just googled it for the very first time & found it's a Lincolnshire term meaning " little dear" . Ah, bless ! 

Anyway, I'm glad that my chosen monniker has brought some light relief to some of you when a touch of humour is needed during the dark days we regularly experience as Addicks. 

And it does bring a smile to my old face when someone approaches & tentatively enquires " Are you Fanny ? "....and when my very own song is sung by those in the Covered End choir...

I think there’s been some expert whooshing at play here!