What's in a name?

PaulieC

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....

Roen

Anagram of my own name, pronounced 'rain'

311

got stung with my name 30 years ago:D

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.

Calina

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

Rojo

My name is Ronan Johns


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

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....

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...

mikeanywhere

I was travelling all over Europe in my previous job.

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

Shiny

I was given this nmme from Primary School.

I had really shiny boots and shiny hair.:)

Hence Shiny.

elven

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

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

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).

rymus

what a shower of queerhawks!

PaulieC

queerhawks? what are they?

Fajitas!

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

rymus

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

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.

mikeanywhere

Soooo, whats your piss poor excuse then Rymus

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

Fajitas!

Dyslexia...


(sorry)

B0rG

rymus wrote:

what a shower of queerhawks!

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

Huggy Bear

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

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

Seb.

mikeanywhere

Can we have a competition as to why Borg has his nickname??

Valentia

Guess.

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?

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

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I am the misspelt Mori God of War :eek:

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

rymus

B0rG wrote:

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

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

B0rG

mikeanywhere wrote:

Can we have a competition as to why Borg has his nickname??

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

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!!)

GristlyEnd

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

CraggyIslander

Since I had to pick a name when signing up, just picked a movie character from an old old favorite. Even tho he aint the one saying the infamous 'Badges? We dont need no stinking badges' line, just gotta love ol bogey

Roen

Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

Since I had to pick a name when signing up, just picked a movie character from an old old favorite. Even tho he aint the one saying the infamous 'Badges? We dont need no stinking badges' line, just gotta love ol bogey

Knew I knew it from somewhere, Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

Trip Hazard

Might aswell add my 2 cents, or something like that!!!

Back in 2003 I was in college in dun laoghaire and got the dart every morning, the construction was being done at the time, I saw a sign with Trip hazard on it and thought it sounded like a character from an 80 cop show, "Agent Trip Hazard, is a man on the egde" "Trip hazard is a loose cannon" or the like. Then started using it as a log in name online. come to think of it, this was the first site that I used it on. and there are many more sites where you'll find Trip Hazard, chances are its me.

BTY, I only heard there was a band named that much afterwards so its nothing to do with them:D

440Hz

A440 is the 440 Hz tone that serves as the standard for musical pitch. A440 is the musical note A above middle C (A4)

Being a techy/musician/audio engineer i think that speaks for itself!!

its also a really nice note to sing

magicbastarder

it's my real name.

Fajitas!

440Hz wrote:

its also a really nice note to sing

Kate, ye forgot to mention - It's also easy.



Charleville is gonna be piss-take central...

440Hz

Fajitas! wrote:

Kate, ye forgot to mention - It's also easy.

Every note is easy when you're as good as me Al :P

Ruu_Old

Just my name shortened a tad, Ruairí->Ruu.

Fajitas!

440Hz wrote:

Every note is easy when you're as good as me Al :P

Tbh, I was just calling you easy!

Ruu...Ruairí

I would never have guessed!

440Hz

Fajitas! wrote:

Tbh, I was just calling you easy!

lmao!!! easy target maybe. thats about all :rolleyes:

melekalikimaka

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EVaF2MTa208&mode=related&search=

i don't need say anymore, i assume its pretty obvious

mikeanywhere

melekalikimaka wrote:

i don't need say anymore, i assume its pretty obvious

I'm impressed you can type for someone so young

abulense

Abulense is to Avila (Spain) as Corkonian is to Cork.
I lived in Avila in Spain for a few years...

Borderfox

My tag when I started playing team fortress classic on the net. Seemed as good as any, although I got a fair bit of abuse for that particular name.

paudie

Do I really need to explain?
Not sure why, I never really use a nick unless Paudie is already taken, and that's pretty rare.

trooney

trooney: Ancient Norse god of laser pointers and also a poison used by some indigenous tribes of New Guinea

bp_me

bp - initials
me - me

elegantly simple. (also unique across the net it seems)

Fionn

some of the nics seem to suit!!



mine is from way back when i got on the internet thing first! i used this for most signups - still do! Fionn was so so irish! and i'm a big fan of those celtic heroes

sineadw

Er... mine is an anagram of a tribe of pygmy cannibals I met travelling in the Congo a few years back, who then gave me the cure for cancer and honorary chiefdom. And NOT just my name at all, because that would be boring.

Ahem.

jlang

Derived from my name years ago when you needed under 8 characters as a unix username and that was your email address, before firstname.lastname@company.com became such a standard. Easier to spell than my real-life name, anyway, so I tend to get my various workplaces to set up jlang@company.com as an alias and use that.