Explain your name!

My fucking eyes are going shit, and my dick looks bigger with these glasses on.
My other half uses them at hanky panky time.

Boggersbelief wrote:I'm the only one with no thought behind my name it seems.

Yes, it boggers belief, it really does.

The year was 1980 and it was a hot summers day in July, my mum had just given birth to me and was showing me off to the midwives. My mum said she saw a scruffy looking woman and made eye contact with her and felt a cold shiver down spine. Then suddenly the woman's eyes went a violent shade of red and ran over to my mum and shouted at me, "I curse you! You will support Bolton until your dying day!" The name Bolton Till I die seemed appropriate.

BoltonTillIDie wrote:The year was 1980 and it was a hot summers day in July, my mum had just given birth to me and was showing me off to the midwives. My mum said she saw a scruffy looking woman and made eye contact with her and felt a cold shiver down spine. Then suddenly the woman's eyes went a violent shade of red and ran over to my mum and shouted at me, "I curse you! You will support Bolton until your dying day!" The name Bolton Till I die seemed appropriate.

Yes sometimes it does feel like a curse being a Bolton fan.

My name comes from a while back when I was registering on another site and they wanted a user name. I'm a big Miles Davis fan so I put Miles down. Unfortunately the site insisted on a six letter minimum for user names so I just added an X.

Ask my kids.

Doffcocker Lodge is my favourite place to walk the dog. I'm up there several times a week - very peaceful.
I also spent a lot of time at Doffcocker Inn watching Wanderers on a foreign channel as a small kid when all the Halliwell Road pubs were strictly under-18 free zones. I like a drink there from time to time, too.

So, very sentimental as usual.

Soul Kitchen is a Doors song that I happened to be listening when I signed up.

The team I have always supported and the year I was born!

Well if no-one else will...

I had a very good friend who i used to work with when i was 17. When i was 18 he was going away with all his best mates but had a drop out so asked if i wanted to go. Obviously i went but didnt have a clue who the rest of the lads where and they didnt know me. They just started callin me jonnyrandom and its stuck with old friends and new ones!

OK I'll play. It's got nothing to do with being randy. Used to follow the Wanderers all over the shop but then work took me all over the world. Some years later when I got back from my travels I opened a few small businesses and my travel was restricted as I was working silly hours. Love to travel, love the Whites hence Wanderlust which means "a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world".

Rather spoiled by the recent crap film of that name.

Anyone who remeberers the late 80's and early 90's will remember a blow up pig in a wanderers strip being thrown around the Burnden Paddock from time to time. It was probably around this time i started going to the football (my first game on my own as a 15 year old was Grimsby at home in our first match in Division 4).

Does anyone still have a Norpig? I did have a Norpig as my avatar when i first joined here so for all you young un's google it if you've never seen one!

Norpig wrote:Anyone who remeberers the late 80's and early 90's will remember a blow up pig in a wanderers strip being thrown around the Burnden Paddock from time to time. It was probably around this time i started going to the football (my first game on my own as a 15 year old was Grimsby at home in our first match in Division 4).

Does anyone still have a Norpig? I did have a Norpig as my avatar when i first joined here so for all you young un's google it if you've never seen one!

I swapped my Norpig for a Torquay scarf at the Sherpa Van Trophy Final in 1989. Big mistake.

I have a Norpig and a Happy Wanderer somewhere. If you look carefully on the Sherpa Van Trophy final video you can spot me with my Norpig.

Bernard Dennis Park wrote:I have a Norpig and a Happy Wanderer somewhere. If you look carefully on the Sherpa Van Trophy final video you can spot me with my Norpig.

I've just flicked through the video, are you a fat bastard in flared trousers?

No but it does sound like my brother.

Mine comes from Burnden being by The River Croal and walking past the Croal
when on my way to the Match late 50s and 60's when i was a kid.


although the water you can see in this picture is the old Canal at Church Wharf.


This one shows the Croal nearer Burnden.

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My Christian name is Kevin and I earned the moniker "Keegan" on the footy fields of my youth due to my lack of ability. A cruel joke that stuck.