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Internet Nicks WHERE'D YA GET EM ;)

  • 04-04-2001 11:24AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭


    Ok Peeps Tell all as to how you came about choosing your nicknames that you use on the www. Ill start the ball rolling smile.gif 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 wink.gif I eventually heard a DJ on the radio called DJ spiral and thought Weh he he HAAAY That would go nicely online wink.gif so Here i am. Ok Whos next cmon post it baby tell us where that nick comes from!!

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭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 smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭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 frown.gif

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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,164 ✭✭✭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!

    What are we going to do tonight Brain?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Gambler


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

    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! wink.gif

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭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 smile.gif


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    I got mine from my dog smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


    Not bad Kegser I like the story wink.gif Gambler thats just sad tongue.gif

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


    Erm ok lol tongue.gif

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭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 wink.gif
    so I chose this one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


    But why that one?? smile.gif thats what Im askin smile.gif

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Da Bounca


    erm which nickname do you want the explanation for?

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


    tongue.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    all of them. or just some. which ever.
    rolleyes.gif

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

    This post has been brought to you by the letter C, and the number 7.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


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

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭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!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭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 smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭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..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


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

    Heh I c wink.gif

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭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 smile.gif )

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

    UP DA DUBS!! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


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

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

    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭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 smile.gif)
    Mambones
    Porter
    One
    and Trunks.

    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,333 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Sico = psycho + sicko

    don't ask...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Figment


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    how many times has this been asked before?

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

    Bard
    "Ooh! You're so clever today you'd better be careful your foot doesn't fall off." -Nursie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


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

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

    This post has been brought to you by the letter C, and the number 7.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭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! rolleyes.gif



    Quothe the Raven, "JennyRooba!" ;D


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