Internet Nicks WHERE'D YA GET EM ;)

Ry

Ok Peeps Tell all as to how you came about choosing your nicknames that you use on the www. Ill start the ball rolling I searched and searched for a name i liked and wouldn't end up changing in a month or so because im a SERIOUS nick h0r I eventually heard a DJ on the radio called DJ spiral and thought Weh he he HAAAY That would go nicely online so Here i am. Ok Whos next cmon post it baby tell us where that nick comes from!!

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adnans

actually my name is adnan, so to conceal myself from the internet i just added an s to the nickname. (not very original)

adnans

WhiteWashMan

nothing at all to do with the bleached hait i used to have.

Megatron

Me got my one from Transformers ... esp the Movie, as Megatron (yes me) jicks ass and chews gum. he even manages to kill iornhide

but i do have my Fav name adn that is Gamblor
from the simpsons .... oh how my neon claws will once again rule !!!

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No !!!!! I will crush you with my Bare hands

Ronan|Raven

I just got mine really from the film the crow! although i didnt like the name crow so i chose raven now i usually stick me real name in in front of it dunno why!

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Gambler

Gamblor eh ;P I have to say i am quite partial to Gambler myself

I have to say, mine is a bit of a lame story, I was trying to figure out a name while I flicked through the Spray Paints in HL and saw an Aces High Spray Paint and though, Gambler, That's me!

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Kegser

Mine is a bit of an odd one.

It all stemmed from my younger years when I made come comment about Kevin Keegan... and after that everyone began taking the **** because apparantly, unbeknownst to me I was a Newcastle supporter.

And since my name is Kevin O'Regan, Kevin being Mr. Keegans first name; and O'Regan sounding very similar to Keegan... everyone decided to start calling me 'Kegs' or 'Kegsy'.

I bet that's the most obscure idea behind a nickname on these Boards

Lenny

I got mine from my dog

Ry

Not bad Kegser I like the story Gambler thats just sad

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Neil3030

My name is Neil. 3030 came from all those f_a_g_g_o_7_s calling themselves John2000 or Jamo2001. why not Neil3030

Ry

Erm ok lol

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Kali

I used to use Kane (name on a number of systems) but then realised quickly that you didn't use that on the qw servers
so I chose this one.

Ry

But why that one?? thats what Im askin

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Da Bounca

erm which nickname do you want the explanation for?

soul_harvester
milkybarkid
guardian
Da'Bounca
TMP ****HEAD
Pr0tag0nist

FreaK_BrutheR

Used to call myself Baboon Dooley at the very start. Used to sign all my art with that name for some reason. Then, as everyone used to call me the freak brother in school as i had 2 brothers that did everything right and i was a young whipper snapper rebel tyke. so i am the freak out of the brothers.....freak brother. the u is there instead of an o because well i dunno. i just thought it looked better m'kay.

smoke.me.a.kipper

all of them. or just some. which ever.

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smoke-me-a-kipper@ihateclowns.com

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Ry

the only two there ive heard of i spose for me Protagonist and Da'Bounca.Tell meh

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PostmanPat

Mine is as obvious as ya would think,

while playing multiplayer Quake (the original) for the first time I chose blue as my colour and then had to think of a player name PostmanPat was the obvious one so I stuck with it!

Da Bounca

Da'Bounca is from me old quakewolrd TeamFortress days. that was a ****ing class game.
anyways, was looking for a name that suited the role i played in my clan. i was engineer, basically stopping peeps from nicking our flag. so i thought for a while and came up with The Bouncer so i could throw some inults when i killed people, stuff like, sorry no sneakers, or passport driving licence only, or sorry we're full.

si i said **** like that,then one of the lads said that Da'Bounca had a better ring to it and also there was a guy called bouncer and people were getting us mixed up, so i stuck with Da'Bounca.

Pr0tag0nist i got from a cool book called snowcrash.
also it literally means hero of the story which is kinda cool

spod

used to be aspodf (random junk typed on keyboard) because i needed an irc nick and was lazy.

shortened it to spod coz i'm lazier still and people kept dropping the f anyway..

Ry

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by spod:
people kept dropping the f anyway...
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Heh I c

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richindub2

richindub2 = richard in dublin (the 2 is because i forgot me password to the MSN zone, where i used to play a few games as richindub and then i just added a two on )

And MightY - Pe0n (meh cs name half the time now ) because since everybody gets called a pe0n i decided to be mightier than them

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UP DA DUBS!!

Ry

I believe ive actually played some Rogue Spear with ya before I knew you on Irc

(OMG I let out the secret hang out spot for all r337 Irish players )

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ThunderingMike

A local drunk named Thundering Mike. He drank more alcahol then any normal human being could. He'd often be found lying in a pool of his blood under a van or something. He eventually had a heart attack in a phone booth and died. He had actually been in the phone booth for about a day and a half before anyone checked if he was alright. Yup, Mike was a scary ****.

Anyway, I was playing CS one night and a player called Daz told me about the IGN scene and that was around september 1999.

I came to IGN a few times and one night I put on this name and met Daz. From that point on, it stuck. Other names were:

freakout! (still my favourite )
Mambones
Porter
One
and Trunks.

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ThunderingMike Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their current turns away, And lose the name of action... Nows that's a sig.

Kali

question -
what the hell is pe0n?
is this some new internet term for muppet or something.

Cake Fiend

Sico = psycho + sicko

don't ask...

Trev

My real name isnt actually Trev believe it or not.

The name Trev comes from Trevelyan (everyone just shortened it down in IRC. And I mysteriously got 12-clicked or something on Trevelyan from here a while back) so I just shortened it down to Trev.

Trevelyan comes from Alec Trevelyan, the character played by Sean Bean in the 007 movie Goldeneye.

Other nicks

Penfold - Dangermouse's trusty sidekick
Moonraker - 007 Film, Moonraker
Goldfinger - 007 Film, Goldfinger
Scaramanga - Scaramange was "The Main With the Golden Gun" in the 007 film of the same name.

Looking back up that list there, I seem pretty sad. I only used Bond film names 'cos I couldnt think of anything else at the time and Bond films are pretty damn good.

Figment

Well as you are still wrapped up all snug in bed asleep, im just a part of your dream...

Bard

how many times has this been asked before?

Bard: Im a writer and designer, so it's kinda obvious really...

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Bard

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smoke.me.a.kipper

I saw it in reddwarf, laughed my ass off and it became my nick.

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ciaran@ieatcatsforfun.com
smoke-me-a-kipper@ihateclowns.com

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Ry

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
how many times has this been asked before?</font>

Well I dont bloody know!

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Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D

Shiminay

Warhammer 40000 Leader of a Chaos Khorne army - called Kharn the Betrayer cause he killed all his mates and I chose it cause I used to be far too trigger happy when playing Quake on the LAN in college (killing my team mates).

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All the best,

Dav
@B^)

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Prepare yourself - The Beefy King stirs from his slumber...</font>

[honey i] violated [the kids]

Thanx 4 The Fish

Hitchikers guide 2 the galaxy,
Dolphins,
Need I say more ???

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neuro-praxis

Most mornings I wake up with pins and needles or numbness in my hands (I sleep on them without noticing, *unconsciously* if you will ) and, the rest of the time too, I constantly suffer from this affliction of limbs falling asleep.

So when I was watching some movie where some guys were on a university challenge type - show, and the question was asked about what neuro-praxis was, and its meaning unfolded...well, i just adopted it then and there. WHOO-HA!

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D-Generate

I got mine from the WWF.
I am so ashamed

amp

And the award for most interesting nick goes to ..... neuro-praxis

My old web page has all the details of my ancient nick....
http://homepage.eircom.net/~adamj/aa/old.html

amp: who will never quite think of pins and needles in the same way again.

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Lunacy Abounds! Play GLminesweeper!
art is everything and of course nothing and possibly also a sausage

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Ry

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
question -
what the hell is pe0n?
is this some new internet term for muppet or something.</font>

Its out of a game called Warcraft im sure you have heard of it. Peons are the peasants the lil muppets

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DrunkLeprachaun

Well, mine is obvious, isn't it?

Vertakill

Hmm, well....This is a stupid story, but wot the hell..

I was playing Total Annhilation against my bro.........and I didnt really have a decent name.....so i was always thinking of shít.

Then after a while....(On the toilet in fact) Verta popped into my head....then i decided , its a bit short.....so i added kill, since i'd try kill some ppl now and then.

A couple weeks came and went....when i slagged my bros name 'KodaChrome' (Paul Simon Song of Kodaks Film) and he slagged me back by saying 'Ooh its Vertical, Such a stupid boring name' bla bla bla....then i sed wtf...he explained wot my own name meant to me .....And from then on ive been telling ppl i knew wot my name meant all along


(Somewhat long winded story.....but fúckit, i enjoyed it :P)

Mills

Used "Millenator" originally back when I started playing TFC (Don't ask)........everyone called me Mill or Mills anyway, and seeing as my 2nd name is Mills, I changed it, not very original

Paladin

Paladin:

Knights of King Charlemagne's court in 15th century. It was different at the time I chose it, but has become more common as the years go by Makes getting my mirc nick a pain in the ass. Ill get that brit one day

MiCr0

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
question -
what the hell is pe0n?
is this some new internet term for muppet or something.</font>

peon \Pe"on\, n. [Sp. peon, or Pg. pe?o, one who travels on foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See Pawn in chess.] 1. A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

2. A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

peon n. A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account on _foovax_ for you; I'm only a peon there."

Xithus

Mine came from Armada (surprise surprise )
I picked it cause I ran it through a search engine and no results came out sweet

Wyverne

a fourth century (or thereabouts) mythological creature/beast that devoured its victims with pincer like jaws

it walked upright as man does, and had incredibly powerful limbs....

it is aslo spelt Wyvern / Wyvryn

but Wyverne is the least used and looks that much better,

i started to use it because i have always been interested in mythology, and this creature stood out as being one not to f*ck with and one that had a kewl name

also used (as a kid)

Super
(then) SuperMario
(then) Supermario2
(then) SuperMarioMarvel

but i only ever used those nicks for PC games, my entire online life i have been know as Wyverne (unless you count - muppet/spamwhore/fagg0t/gheyness ...................................

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Im Going to Thrash you to within an Inch of your Life.....................
AND THEN TAKE THAT INCH!!!!

Yossarian

From a book. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Captains Yossarian's atttempt to remain sane and alive while surrounded by the stupidity of humanity....

Well worth reading

gandalf

Well my current nick is fairly obvious

But my first online nick was "Fr.Ted" in the days of my 14,400 Modem, but it became a real pain when I joined US IRC chatrooms and they thought I was an actual priest !!! I got some interesting offers thou Stupid Yanks !

Gandalf.

[This message has been edited by gandalf (edited 06-04-2001).]

strat

bit of a crap story how i got this nick but here it goes

i started playing Quake 1 and Red Alert online as Inferno (yer i know,i know) then i
realised how common as muck that name so as i was playing Action Quake 2 at the time (from the same lads that made cs mind )
and i was in a clan called [DOGS] as in Reservoir Dogs. Well i was put in charge of the tactics, strategies and such and i was told i was quite good at it so the lads called me the strategist so i changed the e for an a and it stuck (told ya it was a crap story)


other nicks included
LagimusMaximus - kinda self explanitary when ur playing AQ2 on some crap uk server with 400 ping

bl33tingDonkey (my current cs nick) well im always ranting about summit and someone called me a bleeting donkey one night so i changed and its still there in my conifg

ShottyMcHeadshot - teehee i like to run around in CS on UK servers like a mad whore with meh m3

finally strat0r - my cuttent IRC nick -kust an abbreviation of StrataGIST with an uber kool "0r"

sin è

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Lucy_la_morte

My cat is called Lucy, I had an interest in vampires at the time, i'm half french.

Thus becomes...

Lucy_la_morte.

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J'ai dormi sous l'eau.

Lucy la morte.

Monty - the one and only

Monty was a nickname I had in school....

"- the one and only" came from a time where some gimp stole the password off my nick and changed it(before I became a moderator).

Ry

Millenator lol

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Clintons Cat

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