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What's in a name?

  • 15-01-2007 01:57PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭


    Completely non-photography related, but I was wondering about how/where people get their user names? Some are pretty obvious, but others, well let's just say they are not as obvious...

    to get the ball rolling, when I was younger, playing football on the street required that you 'be' at least 1 professional player...I was always Emilio Butragueno, formerly of Real Madrid and Spain. Cambogueno stuck as a nickname, but unlike The Vulture, I wasn't any use at football, so I think there was a wee bit of irony in there....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭Roen


    Anagram of my own name, pronounced 'rain'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭311


    got stung with my name 30 years ago:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    I got the nickname Ned Kelly from the lads in my bike club a few years back for some ... unscrupulous behaviour on a bike. It's stuck every since. Oh, and I was born in 78.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    Calina, remnants of a past life as a singer songwriter stage name. Never quite made the big time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Rojo


    My name is Ronan Johns


    and there's where I get the Rojo nickname from!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Exar Khun


    In true internet fashion I got my nick from Star Wars. Had it since I was 14, I'm 21 now and I swear I'm not still a nerd....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    I like Fajitas

    The Gtr part of my name that I use elsewhere comes from my liking of cars, and when I used to own anyone online in any racing game...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    I was travelling all over Europe in my previous job.

    I was nicknamed "Mike goes everywhere" and eventually it became "Mike anywhere"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    I was given this nmme from Primary School.

    I had really shiny boots and shiny hair.:)

    Hence Shiny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    Pointy ears, long hair, who wouldn't want to be an elf?

    Oh, and I love trees. Mmmmm, lothlorien...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    I thought about "...the chick-magnet net-handle" 'Wampa-One' but decided it wasnt pretentious enough. So I stole the name from a character in the movie 'the medusa touch' (as it was more pretentious and over-dramatic - in a cult sci fi kind of way).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    what a shower of queerhawks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    queerhawks? what are they?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Better than sh*tehawks, but still worse than your average human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    it's a term of endearment... or at least it is when I say it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Hawks...that are queer?

    I'm known variously as Fenster or Bhalash. The first came from the film the Usual Suspects, as I have a speech impediment (watch it and you'll understand), and Bhalash came from the character of The Balash from the game world of Legend of the Five Rings. He was nutter who wanted to destroy the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Soooo, whats your piss poor excuse then Rymus

    Said with tongue in cheek of course for the fear of the "ban" button!!!!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Dyslexia...


    (sorry)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭B0rG


    rymus wrote:
    what a shower of queerhawks!

    Yes, rymus, these are the people you hang out with.
    now go and think about it.

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭Huggy Bear


    Nick name from College ... nothing to do with Starsky & Hutch, more to do with siZe :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Sebzy


    Sebzy = Back in the days of BBS, IRC and cough cough Groups :) it must of been about 92 or 93 Everyone started sticking zzzzzz at the end of their nick so I went one better and got Sebzy and it sort of stuck.

    I miss my Commodore CBM m98_105a.jpg:(

    Seb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Can we have a competition as to why Borg has his nickname?? ;):p:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    Guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    someone started calling me rymus a good number of years ago and it stuck. that and I'm too lazy to think of something else. that piss poor enough for ya? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Tarakiwa


    Mine is the Mori God of War ....... except I recently found out that I have been spelling it wrong for years!!

    So in summary
    I am the misspelt Mori God of War :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    Started using it on MSN chat rooms in 2001. Couldn't think of anything so I called myself Jackeen but with cooler spelling = Jaqian :) Discovered then that it was pretty unique on the net and stuck with it. Google "jaqian" and you'll find over 90% of the crap is mine :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    B0rG wrote:
    Yes, rymus, these are the people you hang out with.
    now go and think about it.

    :D

    no thinking about it required... only said it because it takes one to know one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭B0rG


    Can we have a competition as to why Borg has his nickname?? ;):p:D:D

    Well, I can tell a story if you haven't already guessed... :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    B0rG wrote:
    Well, I can tell a story if you haven't already guessed... :)

    No mate - lets guess as it makes it more interesting (joke!!)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭GristlyEnd


    Darren Greene. Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work it out.


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