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"Where does your name come from?"

I won't spoil anything for the person in question by saying how I found out where the name 'Armatige Shanks' comes from but I found out over the weekend and it's quite funny. I'm sure some of you will also know but that's not the point of this post.

My name comes from the Red Dwarf phrase 'Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast', but are there any other good reasons why people have the name they have here?

I won't spoil anything for the person in question by saying how I found out where the name 'Armatige Shanks' comes from but I found out over the weekend and it's quite funny. I'm sure some of you will also know but that's not the point of this post.

My name comes from the Red Dwarf phrase 'Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast', but are there any other good reasons why people have the name they have here?

I thought everybody knew that Armatige Shanks is a toilet, and also a phrase used in Cockney rhyming slang.

Ahhhh, nice to see a fellow Red Dwarf fan.

How come you didn't know where bog boys name comes from? I've known for yonks.

Mine came to me in a dream. scary but true!

It comes from the deepest and darkest secluded parts of my dank, dry mind.

Seriously.

I love Red Dwarf also... :D

But then I looked it up in my dictionary and it says:

a phrase used to describe a person or persons unknown who seek recognition and satisfaction from seeing their name at the heading of new topics in discussion forums.

A Sniper, what else.

"Armatige Shanks", that is.

tony wrote:
"a phrase used in Cockney rhyming slang."

ahhh...popular misconception... however it only incokes the plural, and not the required singular...

I got the idea for my alias from the name of the fat guy who runs Special Reserve and drives around like a nutter in a yellow Audi TT