what's your nickname?

12431 · Sun 27/04/2003 17:28:33

what's your nickname, and why did you pick it?

I chose 12431, simply because noone else would call themselves that.

In norway I call myself "liteklem". only norwegians would understand it.

Layabout · Sun 27/04/2003 17:30:11

I am Ryano. which comes from my name RYan with an o added in for good measure...

Jimi · Sun 27/04/2003 17:33:26

Jimi Hendrix is my hero. I used to be called Hendrix

12431 · Sun 27/04/2003 17:55:07

that song woodoochild rules!

Darth Mandarb · Sun 27/04/2003 17:57:23

DARTH - Well I think if you've been hiding under a rock for the last 27 years or so you won't know what that's in reference to.

MANDARB - Is a name from Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series of books. It's a word from the old tongue which translates to 'Blade'

I started reading WoT back in 1991 and have used the nickname Mandarb ever since. Then, when signing up for theforce.net's message boards I figured I should go with something Star Warsie ... so I added the Darth. Then, when signing up here, I figured I'd stick with the same name. Just 'cause I'm used to using it.

dm

Barcik · Sun 27/04/2003 18:13:59

Die hard fan of FC Barcelona here.

Creed Malay · Sun 27/04/2003 18:14:49

Online - Creed Malay, because it's all mysterious and edgy, and makes me sound like some kind of hard lovin' crime fighter, or just plain Davy, because it's my name.

Realworld - Davy or Steds, Steds being one of those shortened-surname-things.

Sylpher · Sun 27/04/2003 18:22:45

My bands name is 12023 and your name is pretty close. Had you have chosen 12023 for your name I would have freaked out and eaten someone.

Eggie · Sun 27/04/2003 18:47:43

Egg head Cheesy Bird _ Because it's what popped into my head when I first saw a virtual pet thingie.

Eggie_Because some people on IRC were complaining that my nickname was too long

m0ds · Sun 27/04/2003 18:54:13

Outside world, known as mods. Online, uses a zero instead of an o. Thus creating m0ds.

A fat bastard up my street used to call me Marky Mods, hence, m0ds.

m0ds

Archangel (aka SoupDragon) · Sun 27/04/2003 19:15:07

Well, I used to be a Counterstriker. And Archangel is a nice, powerful, awe-inspiring, clichÃ© name.

Did I mention angels ro><or?

Evil · Sun 27/04/2003 19:53:46

Warning: A bad story is comming on!
My greatgrandfather was named Harry. My mom wouldnt call me Harry, she refused to name me Harry. My father helped decied on the name Harrison which actually means Son of Harry. So when I was in I think the 3rd grade my friends called me Harry, now my mom does. Yes a bad story... well here is my list.

Harry
Harrybud (dad's nickname for me)
Harry Balls
Harry Penis
Holly's better half(Holly is my girlfriend)
Evil
And finially Scary

OH! ANOTHER STORY!!! A girl I know calls me scary which she thinks is funny. But what is even funnier is that her name is already funny. Her name is Sala! Heh, Sala is one funny gal... I really need to tell better stories... Oh, about my sn... I am an evil child so hence the name Evil. And as for the numbers... They are single odd numbers, and the reason I didnt use 7 is because sometimes you can only have 8 letters on the sn and because 7 is a dumb number...

Butcher · Sun 27/04/2003 20:18:33

My nick is BUTCHER because BUTCHER in Armenian means Toothpaste and I like to eat my dad's toothpaste. I used to have another nickname in the past CJ because my two favourite bands are Cult and Joy Division.

Wow this thread is so original it inspires me to create a new thread discussing everyone's 5 top adventure games...or maybe if soccer should be called football...

AGA · Sun 27/04/2003 20:37:38

www.agagames.com/index.html - read that.
People always refered to me as 'AGA' because no-one can spell aficionado, so I shortened it...

remixor · Sun 27/04/2003 21:07:24

I sort of alternate randomly between "cremo" and "remixor"

Cremo is the first letter of my first name plus my last name. Chris Remo = cremo. For some reason people never have called me Chris, they've always called me Remo. So then when friends noticed back in high school that my network login name turned out to be "Cremo" I guess they liked that even more. Even my friends who didn't know my in high school somehow call me that too.

Remixor is sort of just taking "Remo", my last name, and semi-1337ing it. One of my friends came up with it. I refused to use numbers though, and just spelled it out, and now it's this cool semi-word that I use. Also, I'm a musician so I guess he though "remix" somehow fit into it.

Andail · Sun 27/04/2003 21:28:37

Every third time one of these threads comes up I tell the real story about my nickname, but for now:

I read it on the backside of a cereal package.

Nacho · Sun 27/04/2003 21:37:45

My Nickname is Farlander because it was the name of a hero in the manual of the first edition of the superb game X-wing.

My friends had heroes before, one was Indy, one was Batman, and one was Spiderman... I decidd to be more original.

The problem is that Farlander is very similar to a spanish way to say cocaine (FARLA = cocaine, similar to FARLAnder...) and the people thinks I am an addict :-(

But I am a healthy cyclist boy...

Rincewind · Sun 27/04/2003 21:45:26

Well, all of you familiar with The Discworld Games or the wonderful books by Terry Pratchett, will know where my nickname comes from.
But for the others, I'll just say it's the name of the worst wizard ever, who rather runs a way than casts a spell, and who can shout for mercy in 19 languages, and just shout in another 44. Only the fact that he has a beard and that he wears a dress makes him worthy of the title.

I usually use the nicknames "WickedWorld" or "Supertzar" though, after the Black Sabbath-songs, but I felt I wanted someting different this time, so Rincewind was.

shitar · Mon 28/04/2003 00:48:55

mitke shitke (you figure out what it means :

) , I rest my case. 8)

Ben · Mon 28/04/2003 01:25:51

My name is an acronym. Try to guess what it stands for..

evenwolf · Mon 28/04/2003 02:23:28

I work for a guy named Stephen Wolf, and thought it would be cute in public if our names matched. So he calls me cinnamon and I call him honey pie.

TerranRich · Mon 28/04/2003 02:27:19

This is my first time actually participating in one of these threads, so here goes...

When I was a young 'un and AOL was at version 3.0 (!!!), my dad signed up for it (back in 1996/7) and I had to choose a screen name. I originally thought of the Klingon word for human (tera'ngan), but beecause (1) it was taken or invalid, and (2) it was too geeky to live down, I decided to instead go with TerranRich. My name is Rich, and I'm a human, or a Terran in sci-fi terms. So there!

I use TerranRich everywhere, no matter what. It's become a part of me, I've become so used to the name. I've had it for over 6 years, so you can see why.

Matt Brown · Mon 28/04/2003 02:44:15

this isn't even my nickname. I just like pandas. and my band is named PANDAmonium. My nickname is hamburgler (from where I tried to order a cheeseburger off the school intercom), and downtown (don't really know why. something from baseball or soccer or something)

Renal Shutdown · Mon 28/04/2003 02:55:15

Due to some incredible balls-up by someone working for the electoral roll in the uk, I am legally registered to vote under the name "Iqu".

Also, due to a horrendously bad mispronounciation of my name by a science teacher, my friends now know me as "Spleen" in real life. Quite apt really, as I have a champion immune system.

Hugs
Iqu

auhsor · Mon 28/04/2003 05:15:29

Well i was originally called josh on these forums, because of a lack of having a nickname. I havnt really had a nickname that i've liked so i decided to make one up when i was bored in physics.

I decided that auhsor was cool, and it sorta had a reason behind it. I'm not gonna tell anyone what it means, cos i'm gonna see how long it takes for someone to work it out...

evenwolf · Mon 28/04/2003 05:23:17

ur, dinosaur?

Roshua backwards?

auhsor · Mon 28/04/2003 05:41:58

close i guess... well its joshua backwords, with the j upsidown and mirrored sorta. It sounded better than auhsoj

Las Naranjas · Mon 28/04/2003 05:50:55

I had some bad 'rhoids.

You work out the rest.

Quickstrike · Mon 28/04/2003 06:05:34

I play "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" with my friends and they all had cool names, so I thought of "hitting quickly" using a shotgun. Spell quick without a "C" (I changed it because everybody hated it) and strike.

Soft, Gooey, Delicious. · Mon 28/04/2003 07:37:09

I stole mine from a song, but it's not a nickname...

n3tgraph · Mon 28/04/2003 10:20:24

Heh, netgraph is actually a counterstrike code for showing fps n such

/netgraph 3 for example

I thought it was pretty neat and stole it >

I also use it because it is unique. Insert a leet h4x0rrr E - 3 in it and you ares set

Note,
the N3TGraph instead of Netgraph came out of a joke I had with m0ds

I changed my name to N3TGraph, next time I joined mirc with Netgraph and everyone kept telling me N3TGraph was much cooler - so there ye go

Femme Stab Mode >:D · Mon 28/04/2003 10:54:58

SashaSatan - my old nickname. The Sasha bit is obvious and everybody likes Satan ( oh yes they do!)
Sasha - I had that nickname for a very short time, since I'm alex and Alexandra -> Sandra -> Sasha
MonsterSasha - Sasha was too short and monster - I don't know where the hell that came from.
Evil Eyes - green are the eyes of witches... So are mine! (That's an old folk belief)
itkid - Well, I'm the one who runs www.itkid.com , I guess people just started to call me that.
Mop Top - real life nickname. Comes from the odd tendency of my hair to go where ever it likes and not staying in a bun or a plait or a ponytail. Also, it's immune to hair gel

jannar85 · Mon 28/04/2003 11:53:11

I call myself jannar85, because I've been called that since the first time I arrived at Planet Earth. 85 is the year I'm born.

My artist name (as in music) is Jah Nahr, which is a similar name of jannar

Erica McLane · Mon 28/04/2003 12:35:04

My REAL name is Erica so I wrote it.

plasticman · Mon 28/04/2003 13:12:27

I chose plasticman because plasticsea-urchin was already taken.

and my artist name is Albert LeVert.

DGMacphee · Mon 28/04/2003 13:21:55

Some bastard on hotmail already had DGMacpherson.

So I changed it to DGMacphee.

Meanwhile, my Mum, Dad, and girlfirend all call me 'D'.

It's like I don't have a proper name anymore.

It's like I've become J.Lo.

D.Mac.

m0ds · Mon 28/04/2003 13:59:12

Phee.

n3tgraph · Mon 28/04/2003 14:08:37

McAphee

BOYD1981 · Mon 28/04/2003 14:25:14

Quote from: 12431 on Sun 27/04/2003 17:28:33
what's your nickname, and why did you pick it?

I chose 12431, simply because noone else would call themselves that.

In norway I call myself "liteklem". only norwegians would understand it.

doesn't that mean "diet milk" or something?
i like the norwegian word for "fart", but i can't remember what it is, "space" something...

anyway, i was originally called Chameleonâ,,¢ back when i first joined compuserve all those years ago, which came about because i kept changing my name and was kinda stupid and thought it was all mysterious and stuff, then for a little while i changed it to Overmann because i fell madly in love with Beneath A Steal Sky, but soon changed it back again...
then i started using IRC but somebody already had Chameleon so i shortened it to Cham, and because it looked kinda a weird i stuck CSi (to represent Compuserve Inc for some reason) and became known to the world as ChamCSi, then a few years later i changed isp and was known as ChamNTL, then a few years later again i got DSL so i was known as ChamDSL... somewhere between ChamNTL and ChamDSL i thought up the name BOYD while watching some movie (it's an acronym) then i shoved my birthyear on the end of it, i now use BOYD1981 pretty much everywhere except for when i use efnet, as people there still know me as ChamDSL and i don't want to be all awkward and make them get used to calling me something else as me and that nick have a long history, and that's my story, movie coming soon...

DGMacphee · Mon 28/04/2003 14:32:22

Quote from: m0ds on Mon 28/04/2003 13:59:12
Phee.

"Do you want to be called Homer Jr? The kids can call you Ho-Ju!"

Timosity · Mon 28/04/2003 16:04:20

I made mine up, nobody calls me Timosity in real life, just Tim.

but on the topic of hotmail, I got "timdo" cause timbo was taken (plus my last name is Doherty)

got it a long time ago when hotmail wasn't huge

but I never use it seeing as it is spam fucked, probably a longer email name gets less spam, but who knows

Esseb · Mon 28/04/2003 19:00:18

I'm from Germany, Essen to be specific. Also I'm dyslexic.

[size=8]may be a lie[/size]

Spyros · Mon 28/04/2003 21:50:21

Spyros is an anagram for pyrsos.
Pyrsos is a Greek word for Torch.
Also Spyros is my name

Evil · Mon 28/04/2003 23:51:06

Quote from: TÃ¬mÃ´sÃtÂ¥ on Mon 28/04/2003 16:04:20
I made mine up, nobody calls me Timosity in real life, just Tim.
but on the topic of hotmail, I got "timdo" cause timbo was taken (plus my last name is Doherty)

heh, i know someone named tim doherty...

Goldmund · Tue 29/04/2003 01:36:36

My nickname is "Goldmund".

Soft, Gooey, Delicious. · Tue 29/04/2003 04:11:22

Quote from: Goldmund on Tue 29/04/2003 01:36:36
My nickname is "Goldmund".

Yes, but why? It makes no sense. Unless mund means mouth and the whole thing is anagolous to silvertongued in English. But, it that is the case it's just creepy, since no-one should call them selves something like that.

n3tgraph · Tue 29/04/2003 08:19:43

but goldmund just answered the thread question

Las Naranjas · Tue 29/04/2003 08:44:19

It's Krepschtenkoist.

I don't want to go into it too much.

The "Ussian" occupation by R and Pr produced some strange shit though.

c.leksutin · Tue 29/04/2003 16:11:30

My nickname has always been C. My last name is Leksutin (pronouced lex-soo-tin)...

....anyone got a problem with that?

C.

Privateer Puddin' · Tue 29/04/2003 17:33:52

Custard, from UK cartoon Dangermouse which featured Custard Mite Of Glutt

BOYD1981 · Tue 29/04/2003 18:00:04

heh, i have that episode on one of my Dangermouse DVDs

Adamski · Tue 29/04/2003 19:28:56

Dangermouse DVDs?!

* Dark Stalkey runs out to get one

Pumaman · Tue 29/04/2003 22:49:36

* CJ echos DarkStalkey

Dangermouse on DVD? \o/ \o/

w00t, it's only Â£5.99 per series too... http://www.playserver4.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2itle=91504

danny* · Wed 30/04/2003 07:38:45

Danny is my pet name.Iordanis is the real one!
Wizkid is from the quiz show movie!

DodgeR · Thu 01/05/2003 00:09:37

I always got called dodger at school mainly by some tit or the teachers(among other stuff :-)), not anymore though so now i usually go by Dodge, or DodgeR dunno why i like it.

Robert Eric · Thu 01/05/2003 01:23:17

I wanted my nickname to be my name and my first and middle names are Robert and Eric, and I didn't want my last name in it. Hence, Robert Eric.

Squinky · Thu 01/05/2003 06:08:19

I changed my name to squinky, because no one liked me as Kikme/Hosamov....

n3tgraph · Thu 01/05/2003 08:09:09

LoL

miguel · Thu 01/05/2003 11:26:05

my real name. Im also very popular with girls

Dmitri · Thu 01/05/2003 14:05:04

The story of my seemingly innocent nickname is fraught with death/blood and pain (and bunnies surprisingly...).

long/pg rated story aside... I wrote a book, main dude's name was Dmitri, the name stuck...

Harvester · Thu 01/05/2003 22:33:09

Yey! Great opportunity for me to post something on this board!
Anyway, during my long Internet career (almost 6 years) I've mostly used the nick Horror (because that is my favorite genre in movies, music and literature). Now I use nicknames Invisible_Man (on IRC) and Harvester (everywhere else). Invisible_Man is after that great Queen song and Harvester is the name of one of my favorite (adventure) games. There!

Trapezoid · Thu 01/05/2003 22:37:47

I've said this before:

Trapezoid is a shape.
___
/____\

shitar · Thu 01/05/2003 23:06:19

My name actully comes somehow from russian, Demitri, mitri, mitar. my father nicknamed me mitkeshitke, meaning... you can guess it.

scotch · Thu 01/05/2003 23:33:20

Scotch is a variant of Scott, which is my surname.

Well I didnt come up with it ok..

Robert Eric · Fri 02/05/2003 02:51:50

Before I came to the lovely land of the Alien Gin Sippers, my nickname was Golden Boy. That was from Golden Eye when on some rare occasion, 006 would say "So, the golden boy is a traitor." Then I used the nickname Somebody. This was just random since I was stumped for ideas. When I puchased a domain, I set up my email address as roberteric@new-evil.com. After that, my nick became Robert Eric.

There were a few more, but they don't matter.

Ali · Fri 02/05/2003 10:32:07

Does nobody have a nickname which is just a shortened version of their name? And what happened to just adding 'y' to the end of your surname? Nicknames these days...

Andail · Fri 02/05/2003 13:19:25

Quote from: Ali on Fri 02/05/2003 10:32:07
Does nobody have a nickname which is just a shortened version of their name? And what happened to just adding 'y' to the end of your surname? Nicknames these days...

If I added Y to my real name it would be Pettery, which people would confuse with Petteri.
Additionally, it would suck as a nickname

n3tgraph · Fri 02/05/2003 14:10:16

Quote from: Ali on Fri 02/05/2003 10:32:07
Does nobody have a nickname which is just a shortened version of their name? And what happened to just adding 'y' to the end of your surname? Nicknames these days...

lol
what IS your name then?

Ali Baba?

Pet Terry · Fri 02/05/2003 14:37:39

Petteri is my first name and A is a first letter of my last name. I don't know why I put that there though... probably because I used this same nick on ezboards over a year ago.

And adding y to the end of name sounds pretty... stupid?

Ali · Fri 02/05/2003 14:56:08

Quote from: N3TGraph on Fri 02/05/2003 14:10:16

what IS your name then?

Ali Baba?

Your words hurt me. I'm going to go hide in my enchanted cave.

remixor · Fri 02/05/2003 17:26:56

Quote from: Ali on Fri 02/05/2003 14:56:08
Quote from: N3TGraph on Fri 02/05/2003 14:10:16

what IS your name then?

Ali Baba?

Your words hurt me. I'm going to go hide in my enchanted cave.

Better hope you don't get caught by forty thieves! Ha! Ha!

OneThinkingGal and ._. · Fri 02/05/2003 23:16:32

I think a lot...at least I think I think a lot. And ._. is my pet smiley.

* OneThinkingGal and ._. pets ._.

Evil · Sat 03/05/2003 04:31:32

Quote from: Ali on Fri 02/05/2003 10:32:07
Does nobody have a nickname which is just a shortened version of their name? And what happened to just adding 'y' to the end of your surname? Nicknames these days...

Harryy?

Ali · Sat 03/05/2003 16:17:02

I'm starting to wish I'd never said that thing about putting "y" on the end of your surname. That's just how nicknames were done in my school.

Anyhow Harryy is a cool name.

And remixor, I needn't fear the 40 thieves, they work for me. They do my bidding.

Scummbuddy · Sat 03/05/2003 16:34:33

Quote from: Ali on Fri 02/05/2003 10:32:07
Does nobody have a nickname which is just a shortened version of their name? And what happened to just adding 'y' to the end of your surname? Nicknames these days...

Is mine close enough? *Scummbuddy* Whatever happened to everyone adding just a b to the end of their name. When did that craze end. Would you perfer me to add 'ate my balls' to the end?

Ufke · Sat 03/05/2003 16:46:30

I used to call people Ufke when they did something stupid. I decided to use it as my nickname on the internet 2 years ago, I don't know why.

n3tgraph · Mon 05/05/2003 08:14:11

lol a short version of my name?

my name is Jan, make that shorter

putting y behind my name - Jany (bah)

I actually don't use my front name so much on internet because then everyone thinks I'm a girly. Jany is a woman's name too - I'll stick with n3t

Hobbes · Mon 05/05/2003 10:52:34

Nickname's Hobbes from the ever-inspiring comic "Calvin and Hobbes".

Not that I have fur or a tail in real life.

PeaceMan · Wed 07/05/2003 17:34:49

I call myself PeaceMan because I like 60's and 70' music. 8)