What's in a name...

The Sweeper

Something I wonder about occasionally - where did y'all get yer names from?

Mine isn't a secret identity as much as a factual statement of my beverage preference. It actually originated one day when I was trying to set up a hotmail account and didn't want to pick a name with "_2000" or somesuch at the end of it so I typed in the first thing that sprang to mind and it sort of stuck...

GoneShootin

i asked to same question not too long ago, and was told that its been done to death, this name business.

in any case mines taken from my fav AC/DC song, plus it gelled nicely withg my gaming antics

pugwall

I got mine from the lead singer of The Orange Organics. He even had his own programme. How cool is that? I looked up to him as a rebellious kid and took his lyrics as religion........."nobody tells me what to do:eek:.............."
Mad or what?

The Sweeper

Originally posted by Gone Shootin
i asked to same question not too long ago, and was told that its been done to death, this name business.

Yeah, I know it's been done and done, but my excuse is that the number of noobies justifies the post - looks like new material to them...

Panda

It has been done to death but what the hell,

My name is my counter-strike name, is abbrev. from a character on South Park called Sexual Harassment Panda.

Irish_Ranger_IR

I'll never tell......

Monty - the one and only

have a look here

the question thats been asked before

The Sweeper

Ah yeah, but that thread started on 4th April 2001 and finished on 15th May 2001... surely it's time for another go? I mean, that was forkin ages ago...

(And no comments please about the fact that the time lapse may not change the reason that people picked their nicknames)

Ahhhhh Montellllll, wouldya ever just PLAY ALONG!!!!!!!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

from the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.

although I didn't figure that out till about a year after I picked it

smoke.me.a.kipper

hmm. i think a special option in your profile should be "tell us where you got your name, because were dying to know" and that would stop all these threads. problem solved by prof. smak.

..... smak because its a shortened version of smoke-me-a-kipper (im lazy.) and thats from my favourite episode of red dwarf.

Mills

Mills is my real second name, people round here call me by it sometimes because there used to be three richards in my class at school. I started out with "Millenator" (hey, I was really young ) but I soon realised it was a tad lame and changed to Mills, people called me "Mill" anyway.

Oh and I only realised lately that Brad Pitt's character in Se7en's name is Mills, which works out well because I like the film a lot, I should really say that's where I got the name as it sounds more imaginative.

Clinical Waste

A tribute to the famous Wicklow mountains.

(Besides Biohazards been done to death....)

Mr.Applepie

My name comes from cs. I like apples and i like pie combine the two and hey presto you have my name(and a nice dessert)

Crash

Make a wild guess

Mr.Applepie

Originally posted by foobar
Make a wild guess

Name of a Medievil King somewhere???

Dave

Guess

Spunog UIE

from a freaky book called Gideon where this guy impregnates these all these different women and then their sons seek each other out to be the last one and take his place kinda thing, kinda highlanderish but t'was excellant and one of the few books i've read that i liked. My name as someone asked before, is not some 'relgious' thing, like those bibly guys! cool freaky guy. uh huh.

Celt

I have so many I cant remember 1/4 of them

(CelticFable = Planetarion nick, been using it for ages, cant remember where I got it from.
WhiteLancer = MechCommander and MechWarrior 3 nick, got it from L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s books.
Zephyr = .
Luthair = rpg'ing name a variant of a robert jordan char.
Bastion = Unitywars nick, got it from Star Wars.
& Pax Imperia = Neveron nick, got it from a game, translates as "Imperial Peace"

Mark

My name is Mark and Million is aliteration-tastic

Makaveli

Makaveli as in Tupac
Also in other places Knowledge, taken from the name of a character in the flim Belly

Chinafoot

i have absolutely NO idea!!!!

daftbegger

I do Peach! x

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by daftbegger
I do Peach! x

ho ho ho.

such the wit arent we......

Beruthiel

Queen Beruthiel was the evil sister of Queen Gladeriel in LOTR

eddhorse

well since my first name is "ed" i decided to start with that, and ppl kept calling me after that show about the talking horse (must be the good looks) so eventually shortened down to "eddhorse"....taa daa:rolleyes:

ToxicPaddy

The Paddy part as I'm irish... as for the Toxic part... ermmm.. dunno about that part... but there is a nice ring to it...

although doesnt really encourage others to chat to ya when I'm in any of the chatrooms, unless they know you of course.. :rolleyes:

Chinafoot

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan


ho ho ho.

such the wit arent we......

are u always such a bitter little man!!!!

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by peachypants



are u always such a bitter little man!!!!

nope

Johnny_the_fox

a thin lizzy album......

viking

Well all us true native Dubs are descended from them, aren't we??


viking

Dr. Loon

Fink was given to me by my brothers friend when I was very young, taken from 2000AD's Fink Angel and Ratty characters.

Dr. Loon came abuot as I was going through some warp in time on the day that I registered here, I was temporarily insane and neglected to pick my usual nickname!! Very silly. Now I couldn't be arséd requesting to change it!

sinus

a joe dolan song

Terminator

Terminator - the anglicised version of an Irish name

Terminfeckinator

Acidflash

i honestly can't remember

Kolodny

I got my name from Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Case's sidekick/other stuff partner Molly uses a fake or maybe her real name at one point when checking into a motel type place - Rose Kolodny.
I admit I liked the character as she has mirrored lenses instead of eyes and blades built into her fingernails - my kinda gal!

Later on, when the Turing cops are trying to track her down - they're interrogating Case as to her whereabouts and shouting "Where's Kolodny?" a lot so the name just stuck in my head.

po0k

SyxPak.

My first gaming name was Maugan Ra - Eldar Dark Reaper Exarch from Warhammer 40,000. Used it in Lanfest for about 2months.
Switched to SyxPak sometime after that cos I couldn't put spaces in my CS/HL name (at the time). Had to choose something else.

Has some connotations of either a pack of alcohol fuelled madness or a rippling abdominal area.
In fact is is a reference to the Magnum pistol in HL, which I thought was cool.
On Boards.ie I used to be [FCA]SyxPak.
I got the [FCA] dropped a month or two ago (thx John) after a chat in a pub.
Origionally haad it on cos after 4 mins browsing the CS boards looking for irish servers I saw people with strange symbols before/around their names.
Not wanting to look like a total n00b (;)) I added the only acronym I could think of, having joined the FCA a while before it.
Only a week after i'd registerd did I cop that they were 'Clans'.

Ah, the ignorance and innocence of youth.......

n.catenthusiast

my name is notorious cat enthusiast, but boards only allows a limited number of characters in a name.
the notorious came from when we were talking about notorious B.I.G., and how dead and fat he was. so you could stay I ripped it off a dead man, but the cat enthuiast part is my own, coming from when the conversation moved on to cats

The Corinthian

From the CD comic Sandman. So, perhaps after the letters, the pillars, the leather, the place, or the mode of behavior...

daftbegger

Originally posted by daftbegger
I do Peach! x

The meaning behind that statement is "I know where you got your name from"

NOT "I am shagging this poster"

Thank you!!

FireDragon

Got my from all them fantasy movies
and ya they games 2:D

*I ran and i just ran*

Chinafoot

Originally posted by daftbegger


The meaning behind that statement is "I know where you got your name from"

NOT "I am shagging this poster"

Thank you!!

well that was an unnecessary statement as it goes without saying!!!!

The_Bullman

I am The_Bullman

My nickname in school was Bull. So when I tried to setup an e-mail account with hotmail, i realised that bull was taken. I tried bullman, the_bull and other interesting combinations. until i finally came up with

the_bullman@hotmail.com

now nobody calls me Bull, it seems all a waste