Why/How did you pick the nickname you did?

Stephanie · 01-02-2004, 03:05 PM

stephanie

My real first name. I used to have another name, but my ex gave me that and he turned out to be an asshole, so I created a new profile.

amos · 01-02-2004, 03:36 PM

Amos: My surname is Ames, so at school that became Amos.

Cheers
Amos

vasudevadas · 01-02-2004, 04:03 PM

Vasudeva Dasa is the name given to me by my most worshipable Gurudeva, and as you can see is the inspiration for my username. The final 'a' is not pronounced, hence "vasudevadas," or, amongst my godbrothers, "Vasudeva" (vas-oo-dave) for short.

To my Mum and everyone else I'm still Richard.

Imek · 01-02-2004, 04:05 PM

I've spent ages looking for an original name, and recently I think my current one 'Imek' is it. It's a scramble of 'Mike', that being my middle name. It used to be 'Ikem' but I dropped it because I didn't like being called 'ike' by people.

Jose Muñiz · 01-02-2004, 04:11 PM

Josè Muñiz = My name

It's cool to be allowed to use blank spaces and special characters (é and ñ) so wee

320mb · 01-02-2004, 04:16 PM

My first P3 box had a Mobo that would only handle 320mb of RAM......

Megamieuwsel · 01-02-2004, 04:19 PM

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My first P3 box had a Mobo that would only handle 320mb of RAM......

My first was completely stuffed with 640k , so what's yer c'playnin'?

DrOzz · 01-02-2004, 04:32 PM

well back in the beta 1 and 2 stages of counterstrike, there were a few buddies of mine up at university that started a somewhat "clan" in a sense, but all we really did is put "Dr" (doctor) in front of our names....
Ozz comes from ozzy osbourne, and that was something i was listening to back when i was in university...so basically the Ozz part was just something of the top of my head influenced by an ozzy song i was listening at the time...

Gill Bates · 01-02-2004, 04:39 PM

still waiting on darthtux to grace us with his presence

WindowsBurner · 01-02-2004, 06:44 PM

Mine is windowsBurner cause I hate windows.I burn all copies of all versions of windows I can get my hands on(Or seriously screw them.) :-D

darthtux · 01-02-2004, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by Gill Bates
still waiting on darthtux to grace us with his presence

Well, thanks for remembering me Gill Bates.

I think you know where mine comes from - Darth Vader and Tux the "Bill Gates" slaying penguin

But when you think about it, Tux should be Luke and Gates should be Vader. But hey, DarthTux sounds cooler.

teval · 01-02-2004, 07:38 PM

It's originally T'Eval, unfortunately I couldn't use the ' in here. A contraction of to evaluate.
eval is the evaluate statement in most languages (lisp, perl.. so on).
I was reading a lot of patches for a game I was making a long time ago, and I decided to use the name

scott_R · 01-02-2004, 08:08 PM

I used a variation of my own name because nobody would possibly suspect that.

No, wait. I used the name of a popular, handsome, studly citizen of the state of Michigan, because I think every beautiful woman should know about, and flock to him.

Or maybe, I used this name because I lack the creativity of my peers...

twilli227 · 01-02-2004, 10:00 PM

When I fill out forms and they print it, my middle name is always cut short, from William to Willi. Hence twilli. I have a long name, 21 letters. I had to add something to it because twilli seems to be a common nickname on the net. I came up with 227because, um, I don't know. Doesn't mean anything that I know of.

UltimaGuy · 01-03-2004, 01:19 AM

I named my first Linux box as UltimaLinux, and so my nickname wherever I go is UltmaGuy. Not pretty creative, but no one else uses this name.