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Aaron Bird

Bird caused controversy after appearing in a Twenty20 match, in which players wore nicknames on their shirts, with the moniker 'Flu' - a reference to bird flu.

Adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome

The swash.com website uses AIDS 2.0 as the moniker for maybe another, apparently highly contagious AIDS-like condition described by The Epoch Times.

Airdancer

Airdancers are generally called an inflatable tube or a moving figure, such as "windyman", "skydancer", "tube man" and "flyguy"; an episode of Family Guy called them "Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman", which also made this moniker popular.

Andy Brassell

He was formerly a regular European football correspondent on the BBC Radio 5 live World Football Phone In where he had been given the moniker "top brass".

Bert Marcelo

Bert "Tawa" Marcelo (June 6, 1936 - December 16, 1995) was a prominent Filipino television personality whose trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", after the Tagalog word for laugh.

Cleto and the Cletones

Cleto and the Cletones is the moniker of the "house band" on the ABC-TV late-night television program, Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003–present).

Donkey Heart

Martin helped form a new band known as Think About Life and has also been performing solo material under the moniker Dishwasher.

Ecurie Bonnier

Retaining the Ecurie Suisse yellow livery, but running under the Ecurie Bonnier moniker, the little Lola T210 provided excellent results, with Bonnier taking class wins in the Salzburgring, Anderstorp, Hockenheim and Enna rounds of the European Sportscar Championship (ESC), in addition to second places at Paul Ricard and Spa.

Eden Fesi

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Eden is now operating under the moniker Manifold.

Emily Prentiss

Prentiss later mentions to Hotchner that while she was away from the BAU and work, she played a lot of online Scrabble with someone with the online moniker "cheetobreath", implying it was JJ keeping her company.

File 13

File 13 was used as a band moniker by Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco of Double Dee and Steinski and record producer David Witz when they released a 12" single on Profile Records in 1984 called "Taste So Good.

Fujifilm X-mount

These include Fujifilm's 'XF' and 'XC' lens line, bearing Fujifilm's moniker "Fujinon" which is used for optics within the company, and the 'Touit' line from Carl Zeiss AG.

Gary Hemming

Together with Royal Robbins he made the first ascent of the American Direct route on the Aiguille du Dru in Chamonix in 1962, and was widely known in France for his role as a rescuer of a party on the same mountain in 1966, earning him the moniker "le Beatnik".

Gas 0095

Gas 0095 was the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis (High Skies) released under his Gas moniker.

Herman Cohen

Cohen also wrote the stories and/or screenplays for at least nine films, co-writing with pal Aben Kandel and sometimes using one pseudonym – either "Ralph Thornton" or "Kenneth Langtry" – between them (Kandel also wrote solo for Cohen on Kid Monk Baroni and, using the Thornton moniker, on Blood of Dracula).

Highter's Heath

South of Maypole Lane the area is often referred to as Hollywood, after the adjacent village in Worcestershire, whilst to the north the boundary with Warstock (and the wider B14 moniker of Kings Heath) is undefined.

Holme Moss

For many years the (now defunct) Leeds Classic race saw internationally renowned riders (many of them, such as Bjarne Riis, veterans of the Tour de France, hence the moniker Le Col de Moss) tackling the climb.

Jeffrey Walker

A solo album, Welcome to Carcass Cuntry, was released on 9 May 2006 on Fractured Transmitter Records under the moniker Jeff Walker Und Die Fluffers.

Jessie Malakouti

In 2011 Jessie released the promotional albums Push It Featuring Yelawolf: The Remixes and Show Me Your Tan Lines under the moniker "Jessie and The Toy Boys".

Josh Ostrander

ECC came about when the two members, formally of Laguardia, left their first major label record deal with Universal Republic only to sign back to the Universal family via Geffen Records after the two released a self produced EP called The Southampton Collection under the ECC moniker.

Jukeboxer

Jukeboxer is the moniker of Brooklyn-based musician Noah Wall.

Jung Da-yeon

Jung Da-yeon is a South Korean diet writer and fitness guru widely known as a Korean popular culture figure under the moniker momjjang ajumma (Korean: 몸짱 아줌마).

Laurent Brancowitz

Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo became interested with electronic music soon afterward, used the quote from the Melody Maker magazine as a moniker, and composed music under the name Daft Punk.

Lee Magid

Joining the staff of National Records at 19, though young, Magid had previously been a song plugger for a singer named Ralph Young who recorded under the moniker Rudy York.

Len Cella

After the Tonight Show, Cella's work was shown on Dick Clark's TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes under the name Len Cella's Silly Cinema, a moniker that Cella despised.

Magic 104

Magic 104, the former moniker of a radio station (104.1 FM), KMGL, licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, which is now Magic 104.1

Might

Might!, a 1995 album by Boyd Rice under the moniker NON

Mike Paradinas

Paradinas continued to release solo albums under the above-mentioned names as well as Gary Moscheles, and a one-time collaboration with Aphex Twin under the Mike & Rich moniker.

Mungolian Jet Set

On their website they have also initiated a Halo 3 Clan under the moniker of "The Noble Order of The Knights Of Jumungus" in order to perform battle reenactments from the artificial history of the Mungolians.

New York State Route 94

Crossing over the abandoned branch, NY 94 gains the moniker of West Main Street and passes Washingtonville High School.

Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank

As Eubank made his strutting ring walk to the thumping sound of Tina Turner's 'Simply the Best' (his ring moniker), the record suddenly stopped.

Norman Nawrocki

Nawrocki continued to work with G7 Welcoming Committee releasing a benefit CD Fight to Win! (2001) for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) under the moniker Bakunin's Bum with percussionist Aidan Girt.

Ohio State Route 118

The moniker changes to North Broadway near the junction with East Water Street, passing south of Treaty of Greenville State Park.

Peter Greenberg

Also known as the "Travel Detective"—he has published several books with that moniker—Greenberg was brought to NBC's Today by Jeff Zucker.

Pinback

The band's moniker is a reference to a character in the 1974 film Dark Star (played by Dan O'Bannon, who also co-wrote the film), directed by John Carpenter.

Ray Gordy

On Smackdown airing July 24, Jesse was officially renamed Slam Master J; his first match with this moniker was on the August 7, defeating Charlie Haas on Smackdown.

Robin Bengtsson

In 2010, Robin took part in the charity song "Wake Up World" for "Hjälp Haiti" with Karl Martindahl and Daniel "The Moniker" Karlsson and also performed the song "Long Long Night" with Kim Fransson (known from the TV reality program Made in Sweden.

Robotech Defenders

Contrary to what their name seems to imply, the "'Robotech Defenders'" are not part of the Robotech Anime Universe adapted by Carl Macek and released by Harmony Gold USA, however they did adopt the same moniker and logo.

Rufus and Carla

Rufus and Carla was the moniker Stax Records used when releasing duets by Rufus Thomas and daughter Carla Thomas.

Saints' Rest

It was only after the hall burned that it acquired the moniker "Saints' Rest", which came from the Puritan devotional The Saints' Everlasting Rest, written by Richard Baxter in 1650.

Sheep on Drugs

Fraser continued his relationship with Invisible Records, releasing two more albums as 'Bagman' and was briefly a member of Atkins' bands Pigface and The Damage Manual, usually under the moniker "Lee 303".

Sour grapes

"Sour Grapes" (Puscifer song), a song by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan under the moniker Puscifer

Southwest Tower Building

The building has also earned the moniker of "Telemarketing Tower" for the large number of telemarketing operations that have been based inside it over the years ranging from the Republican Party of Texas phone center to Sears Vinyl Siding.

Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department

The two would collaborate again in 2003 under the moniker Lifeguards with the album Mist King Urth; this time, however, Gillard composed all the instrumentals himself, with Pollard adding lyrics and vocals.

The Adventures of Stevie V

Vincent released a second album under the moniker in 1993 entitled Satisfy Me, which featured a host of different singers, including soul divas Thelma Houston, Gwen Guthrie, Ruby Turner and Beverlei Brown.

The Crane Wives

While the band’s moniker came in part from The Decemberists' 2006 album, The Crane Wife, the members claim a wide variety of influences: folk, blues, ska, punk, and even heavy metal.

The Eclectic Moniker

The Eclectic Moniker took part in the Roskilde Festival 2011 and on 12 January 2012 won the Talent Prize for $15,000 at the "Odense live prisen" held in Odense.

The Life of a Peasant Woman

The Life of a Peasant Woman (Житие одной бабы, Zhitiye odnoi baby) is a short novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in 1863’s 7th and 8th issues of Biblioteka dlya chteniya magazine, under the moniker of M.Stebnitsky.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

They chose their band name after actor Tony Danza; the humorous moniker is occasionally misinterpreted, as older concertgoers have attended shows in hopes of seeing Danza himself.

Wally Joyner

The film National Lampoon's Vacation had featured a fictional theme park by that name, and the Angels' proximity to Disneyland may also have helped inspire the moniker.


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