Topic awaiting preservation: Why your nickname ?

Just conducting a little research

There's a waaay old thread on that...

Anyway, for my name; I once read the Klingon word 'majqa' in a gaming magazine. I'm not a trekkie, but I thought it had a nice ring to it (it'd be pronounced like 'mica') so, I added an H to it to make it extra complicated for people to remember (not to mention to evade the Klingon lawyers), and I stuck with it.

We've had another one of those threads more recently, but I couldn't find... Probably lost in some dusty corner down in the basement.

I "found" my name when I was searching for a good name for a mage I was going to play in a DnD campaign. Found the latin word 'veneficus' that translates to wizard in english. I liked the word so I chose to use it when I needed a nickname online. Can't really remember why I chose to use a 'z' instead of a 's', but there is probably a good reason for it

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:FAQ:

(Yes, enough people have asked me this question in the past that I decided to make a FAQ entry for it...)

Well, My name came indirectly from my computer. In some circles I am known as Tao, and when my computer arrived, at a time when other friends were having babies, it became known as my baby, I suppose 'cos of the amount of time I was spending with it when it first arrived. (It was a difficult delivery)! So when a name was needed, to represent (me+puter)=Taobaybee seemed to pick itself.
What about your name Moon Shadow? I recall Cat Stevens having a song "Moon Shadow". Any connection?
Gosh!!! 100, it doesn't feel like 100 posts!!



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The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

My last name is Kretsinger and ever since middle school my nick has been krets.

:::krets.net:::

My middle name is Gilbert, my last name is Nolan.

I wrote the best story ever (and I'm still looking for a comic artist to bring it to the rest of the world, so if anyone feels like making a comic...). It features alot of people and on one page I once mention someone named Fey Silvith. Fey is just the name, Silvith the House. Silvith is also my domain now ^^ Fey stuck as an easy nick for everywhere else on the web.
And I'm new here so I like to see where other people got there nick from, though it's not something I would think of to search an archive for, or the FAQ for that matter ^^

Veneficuz: Yeah I looked for that thread and failed to find it which is a pity. Anyway I started a FAQ on this:

:FAQ: Where did the inmates get their nicknames from?

As the thread where I answered is missing I am The Emperor (shortened to Emperor for convenience) because I am The Emperor in real life. Around 10+ years ago I got to know a group of guys in my local and they had been calling me The Emperor because they thought I looked like The Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon. Hence shortened versions: Ming, Mighty One and Master (mainly Ming). I went with Emps as a shortened version here (which only a couple of people call me in real life) to avoid having to explain why I was signing off as Ming. There are people who would struggle to tell you what my real name is.

A couple of stories:

A guy I'd known for 15+ years came up to me and asked if I was called the Emperor. He'd been in the car with his mother and they'd seen me walking down the street and she'd said "Look there is the Emperor".

A month ago a friend brought her new prospective conquest to the pub and introduced us as "This is Tom and his girlfirend Jo and Daisy and his girlfriend Luct and this is The Emperor and this is my sister.......".

Its worth pointing out that this isn't unusual and amongst my friends there are: The Warrior, Fruit Bat, Sock, Daisy, Vulgar, Bernie (most people don't realise that isn't his real name - if you phoned his parents house and asked for Bernie they would go and fetch him without comment), etc.

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My name is drawn from my draconic name granted me in astral transition and my infinite fascination for dragons.

Long story... no short version. But.. uh... ask if you really want to know.

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"I'm sick of hearing that beauty is only skin-deep. That's deep enough. Who wants an adorable pancreas?" - Unknown

I never really had a nickname that stuck with me through school. My real name being Alice, I got Alice in Wonderland from the time I started school - but for some reason, I resented it then... it's true most of the time now.

When I was in college, a very dear friend started calling me "Bodhi", short for Bodhisattva. Apparently, just because I'm a super nice and generous person.
For those who don't know, in Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is an enlightened being who, instead of moving on towards Nirvana, stays on the earthly plane to assist others in their search for enlightenment. They are known to be very generous.
I wanted to use just "Bodhi" as my nickname, but when I first got connected, the username was taken. I added the 23 as an afterthought (read most anything by Robert Anton Wilson for an in depth look at the number 23...) - it wasn't taken...
Just call me Bodhi...

Bodhi - Cell 617

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Well, I am part native American Indian...Cherokee. And since I joined the GN first...but wasn't really comfortable with Guru (that's reserved for real graphic wizards and programmers, IMHO...people that know their stuff), and since my life has been an interesting adventure...Shaman...combined with the internet equals WebShaman.

*shrugs*

la·cu·na: An empty space or a missing part; a gap

i actually was flickin through the dictionary looking up a word and came across lacuna...to avoid a D&M response... it just seemed to fit


*D&M= deep and meaningful

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Contrary to popular belief, my name isn't based off Jurassic Park.

Raptor

bodhi23: I presume you've heard the Beastie Boys' "Bodhisattva Vow"?

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I wonder if I need to explain my name... the little voices tell me you should all know already.


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

Ezra is my middle name and the D stands for Damian, my first name - hence my domain name damianezra.org. when i started gaming i used the nick EzraD (ez - rad) when i came here i put a dash in it.

my name is adam reitsma.

Ruski.....ermm everyone knows it...yeah it means Russian in err Russian simple huh....well since I came to Puerto Rico it seems no one here actually havent seen not a single russian so people just started calling me El Russo, Ruski and so on...basicly I just got stuck with it.....

why cant they simply call me by my first name? Artur...not so hard afterall

Sanzen is a song by dredg .. i've been a fan of dredg for a long time, and i love the song. i recommend anyone to go see these guys live, you'll be amazed.



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I decided on 'norm' because so many people call me that . I've been called lots of other names, but most of them I don't care to repeat, and some of them are just too hard for me to pronounce, so I usually just stick with 'norm'. It's also very close to my real name, which is spelled with a capital 'N'.

The lower case 'n' is my one and only stab at humility. So now I get to brag about how humble I am...

Gamespy (or something) used to have a name generator, and one of the names came up as pig-bacon. I needed a name for CS at the time, so I decided to change it, and decided that counterfeitbacon sounded good. In any case, for internet stuff, I usually just sign up as cfb now, since I like that better than the full name.

Very cool to hear some new people's name origins... Moon Shadow, I'm very interested to hear how you came to yours

. . : slicePuzzle

Yes, that's what I was going to say Bugimus, I like how people here choosed their nickname. Here you go :

Well, I choosed Moon Shadow for many reasons... One of the main reasons is I like a lot watching the moon at night, I can watch it for a long time, always rediscovering its everlasting beauty... I maybe have an exacerbated affinity towards things humans never altered. And, I also was always fascinated by space, stars and such, and the moon belongs to this.

The moon has also lots of effects on humans you know. Even if people say the contrary, I can assure you a lot of them change when the moon is full and bright in the night... And I like it

And well, I sometimes fell very poetic, to be frank I am quite a poetic person, and the moon is an image I always have in my mind for it represents many values that embrace my feelings about love, life, and such...

Furthermore, I also added shadow for some reasons. The first one is that I find the association of those two names quite beautiful. But I also choosed shadow because it sometimes represent me well. You all surely know this type of people that claim everywhere they go, that shout in their cellular phone in the subway so that everyone can hear about them, that always play the interesting. I generally despise such people. On the contrary, I do not show much about myself, and that's why I choosed shadow... I prefer staying more silent, letting the fools speak so much, I do not feel like them this envy characteristic from our century to be assumed and defined only by our relations with others. Not that I'm an asocial, I have quite a lot of friends, I just hardly mix with such peoples, and that's why from their point of view I can appear like a shadow...

So, I am Moon Shadow

PS: Grythus, please share the story with us

I made the name from a combination of the words "demon" and "assassin" using theGrey Company Elvish Language. It came from a D&D campagin that I played about 3 years ago, it was the name of the PC that I played (current lv17sor). I liked the name and have used it in many other things as well. By the way, this character is actually trapped in the Plane of Shadow right now. (Bad experience with an archdemon)



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Emps - I do love the Beastie Boys... I'm 99% certain I've heard the track, but I don't think I've heard the name before... What album is it on? I have 4 of the 5... dang... now I'm gonna have to go and check!



Bodhi - Cell 617

My nick actually came from an episode of M*A*S*H I was watching several years back. The outfit's generator wasn't working and they needed to keep a patient's abdomen drained after surgery, but the electric pump wasn't working. So, they slapped together a "Wangenstein pump" out of whatever they had handy (a couple of jars, some tubing, a old can, etc.) in order to save the patient's life.

A year or so later, I was making a Mage character for an 1880s campaign, and wanted to make a mad scientist-type who appeared to be a snake-oil salesman. The name "Harvey Wangenstein" seemed to fit nicely, and the name has become a favorite (and relatively unique) pseudonym of mine.

I am a big fan of A) science, B) history, C) inventing things and D) bodging things together, and so the name of a scientist from history who invented a device you can build from whatever is lying around really appealed to me.

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bodhi23: I'm not sure it is on the anthology 'The Sounds of Science'.

[edit: Ahhhhhhh got it - track 14 'Ill Communication' - it is superb ]

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asptamer = tamer of asps (snakes)

No I do not tame real snakes, but I enjoy getting "cracking down" people by getting to know the way they think, and thus getting past any masks they put on themselves. Sometimes it works.

Wolf is an animal spirit that had appeared to me once. This is one way that I honor him. In some cultures, Wolf is symbolized as a pathfinder, teacher and healer. I love wolves and respect them.

Rameses Niblik the Third is a reference to Red Dwarf, a really funny British sci-fi comedy. I heard about the episode one day, and thought it would make a good name.

P.S. The actual name is Rameses Niblik the Third, Kerplonk Kerplonk, Whoops! Where's my Thribble, but I shortened it for the sake of the Asylumites. Thank me whenever you feel like it, folks.

P.P.S. I'm actually considering having my name changed to Handara Zuur, a name I came up with myself. Perhaps when the Doc is not so busy...

This nick came partly from whimsy and partly from spiritual views. I have a great affinity for the moon... I feel like my spirit dances when I stand in its pale light. (Hence Moon Dancer) I chose MD for this forum, because it is a name with no past history, and no strings attached. It reflects my personality well (no pun intended)... at least so I believe.

Nimraw is a old name that I've been using in computer related situations since the C64-days.

In the beginning I used several different names, but stuck for a while with Nimrod. Then I read (or actually first played the text-adventure) the HHGTTG and there was Marwin. Started playing around with the characters and ended up with Nimraw.
It's more unique than Nimrod and since I sometimes takes on a doomsday attitude (to my father I sometimes went by the nickname "Eeyore") I found it quite fitting.

Emps - wouldn't you know that's the one album I don't have! Now I have to go get it...
Thanks for the reference though. Be sure I'll be checking it out!



Bodhi - Cell 617

Years ago I needed a name for something stupid like an online game, and the first 7 or 8 that I chose were not available.

I got frustrated and grabbed the closest book, which happened to be the Star Wars visual dictionary. Opened it up randomly to the page that listed the DL-44. It was short and simple and available, so it stuck.

my real names :Edward C. Kaboi need I say more, besides its quite rare a name

Yes, please say more.

mine comes fromwhen i was doing a comic book with a friend and we each had a character and mine was a platypus so thats been one of my internet names from when i was doing the comic. my first name is jim so i just mixed that with platypus

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The moth has always been special to me though I didn't know why. I dreamed of them and drew them as a child. Later, I had a spiritual event.

One day when I was in high school, I had a very bad day and was thinking of suicide. In despair, I went into a field behind my house. I was wrapped in a repeating loop of sadness and worthlessness. Self-hatred overwhelmed me. I fell to the ground, striking myself with my fists until I was bruised on the face, arms, legs and chest. Suddenly, I couldn't hit myself anymore. I became aware of a large white thing I thought was a bubble flying toward me accross the field slowly. As it flew closer I realized that it was a moth. It's wings were beating so furiously they were just a blur. It flew up to me and circled me several times. I put out my hand and it landed on it. I stood there looking at the moth and it looked at me. Everything seemed still, like the field was holding its breath. After a few moments the moth flew off my hand. I stood looking at it. I then realized that my problems that I thought were so big were really small. I put aside my desire for suicide and left the field. Since then whenever I feel really down I remember that day. I guess some people may call the moth my power animal. I just know that it's important to me.

Dracusis was the name of my first D&D character, which was an elven theif. I first created Dracusis when I was about 9 years old, he died a horrid death at the hands of a rather angsty Dragon (He had lots of loot, I was only taking a little) some years later.

Several years on when video games would let you enter names for highscores longer than three letters my friends and I all started using the names of our first D&D characters. I can't really remember why but we just did. This carried over to the net quite well as most of these names are quite rare and unique. Some of the others were Baleggdell the Dwarven Fighter and Rannthalver the Priest.

To date I've never found any record of the word/name ever being used.

In the Dragonhunt world, there's a small band of air pirates called the Skyseekers. Their ship is the Perfect Thunder.

In real life, the closest thing I have to a nickname is "Senator," and my roommate just picked that one out because it sounds cool.

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My name came from a combination of words. Orion is the hunter, the most beautiful (in my opinion) constellation in the heavens. I took that on as a nickname, a long time ago. Many people called me Rion because of it. Unfortunately, Orion is a popular name on-line. I decided one day, after using the screen names Orion485, Maester Orion, Isotope Or-ion, etc. that i needed an original name. Inspired by names like Morpheus, I changed the spelling of Orion so that you could still see the resemblance if they knew me, something that was similar to Orion (the Orien- part) and a smoother ending like that of morph*eus* (the -os part). I knew it was original and it sounded good I thought. (pronounced: Or-ē-in-ohs). I have also heard that the ending is like that of a suffix that means 'dreams.' But i am not sure how true that is.

Nothing to do with Marvel's Punisher.
Mine comes from angry days and fighting web-monkeys.
I wanted to reply to milkey.milker, and "warjournal" was the thing on my mind at the time.
Not that mikey is a web-monkey - just so we are clear on that.

Kind of a funny question: did you become your nick, or did your nick become you?

I love the South Pacific, Hawaiian shirts, sailing, deep sea fishing and just about anything having to do with living on or near the beach.

As for WJ's question, Tiki and Nik(my real name) have been fighting for control for a while now. Tiki would take less money and live a simple life on an island somewhere. Nik wants all the good things money can buy.

--tiki

The Jerk.

my nick goes back to my first months of internet (ab)use... my father limited my online time very strictly - so I had practically no time on the net... when I was looking for a nickname, it made "click" and ever since I've been known as notime...

Just because I'm paranoid that doesn't mean people aren't following me.

I was mixing up my real names, then after minutes of playing with it, I finally got this boring name.

Mine's not really a nick. It IS my name and formal title.

Mine is actually very simple. mob68com translates to Martin O Brien, the 68 is when I was born and the com ties them both together as my website is mob68.com how's that?

Based on only fools and hourses, when I moved to my last residence with my parents I started to hang out with 2 guys
one called Will and one called Ricky,
Well we where watching fools and horses and I commented how Will looked like Rodney, he took offense and decided to say well Rickys Short and Podgy like Dell Boy and to go full Circle Ricky said, Well Liam is Fucking ugly and dumb like Trigger, and I went shut up chunk,
anyway it ws ovibus the name annoyed me and so it carried on and itspread aorund school to clal me Trig to annoy me, then I realised it was a name shrugged my shoulders and let it go, the prats who thought they where big tyring to wind me stoped caling me Trig when it did'nt and then my friends started calling me it so Trigger stuck in real, and thne we moved and the name kidna still stuck there too and so when Icame on the internet Trigger was the naturla choice of nickname

GO Only Fools and Horses

my name is Thomas James McCrea. To avoid confustion with my dad named Tom I was called TJ. The use of my intials has stcuk with me to the point of signing checks with it.

tj was taken on one web site so I choose tj9 since I like the nmmber 9.
Since what I liked about 9 was that it was 3 threees I then went to tj333 when I found that tj9 was taken on another site, not sure if that as me from an earlier visit or not. tj333 has just stuck with me since then.

About the only difference between TJ and tj333 is that tj333 meets more interesting people.

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