The story behind your nickname...

Grüezegg wohl Miteinand,

My nickname is how the original inhabitants of the Bernese Oberland pronounce my name: der Dickgg. And as you all know I like to be there, high up in the Swiss mountains among my Swiss friends.

Last summerholidays (for the first time in many, many years) we didn't went to the Alps but to Scotland. I don't regret it at all, but when we made a stop at Starbuck's and they asked my name to write on the cup I was a bit embarrassed... I wasn't to pleased with the idea that they would call me if my order was ready: "Hey Dick, your coffee!!" Yet another reason why I use a nickname.

Edited by der dickgg - 30 October 2014 at 19:09

Wasn't to shure about that, Neil. It was at Gretna Green, you know...

I was lazy to think about nickname for Dyxum   

Del23 is my univesal name on few forums and other sites. Del is short from my name and 23 presents age of my first registering on one online site, so nothng spectacular

King Arthur Tales..


Uther Pendragon father of King Arthur

2001...Year I got Promoted to Sergeant

Added the double nn's for effect, and individuality.

Edited by penndragonn2001 - 02 September 2015 at 22:28

My nickname is my name. Technically it's my first initial plus my last name. Not terribly creative, I know, but I like to be open and honest about who I am online. Yeah, uh... that was probably boring for you all to read.

My father's first SLR was a Japanese Miranda, the model F, which he bought (new I think) some time in the 1960's. It looked a gorgeous camera, shiny chrome and so neatly arranged.


It was only much later, when I started collecting the various models they made, that I discovered how much less attractive and neatly designed the earlier models were!

For several decades I used another Miranda, the Sensorex, which had a built-in match-needle metering system and was a great camera to use, and like the F (which I have now after my father's death) it had a neat removable pentaprism allowing you to fit a waist-level finder like the Rolleis.

Using the camera was and still is a delight, with nice rigid controls, excellent lenses for their time, and a wonderful ground-glass focussing screen with a rangefinder slit in the middle to give you the best of both focussing methods. After fifty years, it still works well and looks as gorgeous as it di then, and every now and then, when I get bored with the auto functions on my Sony, I get it out and run a film through it. What a pity that my old Weston master III meter has died . . .

Edited by Miranda F - 19 April 2016 at 13:33