Mine is the colloquial term for a West Australian plus the year I was born. Not overly original. A sandgroper is also a type of burrowing insect very similar to a mole cricket.

Currently am in the process of selling up and moving back to Queensland where I was from originally. So will be a banana bender again  .

BTW, sold my GS last weekend, planning on riding back so the decision was made on the fact that the V-strom would be better for the long haul. Longer legs, more comfort and room. Sad to see the GS go though, I'm sure it will serve the new owner as well as it did for me.
Cheers, Mike

My dad nicknamed me Jools (from Julian). As a sideline I used to make and sell aerobatic RC Slope-soarers, a variant of which were slope racers which do fast traverses along the slope*. I named them 'Tacho' -for my username I just tacked the two together 'joolstacho'

"Origin of tacho-
combining form representing Greek táchos; akin to tachýs swift"

Quote from: Joolstacho on June 30, 2018, 09:25:59 PM
"Origin of tacho-
combining form representing Greek táchos; akin to tachýs swift"

How do you pronounce 'Tacho'?

Surely its not "Taco", and the "ch-" sound seems wrong somehow.
Is it "tay-ko?"

Pronounced TAKKO (A as in 'and'). As in 'tachometer'.

Quote from: Joolstacho on July 04, 2018, 07:10:55 PM
Pronounced TAKKO (A as in 'and'). As in 'tachometer'.

Jool's tacho... I cannot accept this... I have been mentally pronouncing your name "jewel stash-O" and I can't unread it that way.

I admit, my mind puts an "i" in between the h and the o in 'joolstacho' to make it "joolstachio". Funny eh?

BTW my username... well I was born in '72. simple as that. I use the same username on a dozen other forums.

Kito was the nickname that my brother called when I was a child.

My name is Marcus
In portuguese, as similar in other latin based language the sufix ITO can be used as a diminutive (Marcus+ito).. as Marquito (pronounces like Markeeto="Little Marcus").
... and was shortened to Kito (pronouce: Keeto)

Closer friends call me by this nickname till today.. (39 years old).

The photo is from the movie Gran Torino... man old Mr. Kowalski is than cool!

I some day I will have  lawn....then I will say... "get off my lawn" too!

Cheers 

Pretty self explanitory I guess.  I wear a kilt as often as I can get away with it.  Though not when riding a motorcycle or bicycle.  There are some activities for which bifurcated trousers are simply better.