Explain Your Nick...

flogen · 02-08-2004 11:26PM #1

There are plenty of strange or interesting nicks used here at boards.ie, and I think it would be nice to get the meanings or reasons behind some of them

So post here with the details of your chosen nick, be it boring or interesting or wierd or whatever.

Obviously, if some want to keep the mystery around their names, I can totally understand!! :P

Mine isn't much of a story. When I was younger I kept writing short stories that made no sense or were just strange (in a funny way.. or so i felt at the time). I wrote one called 'Flogen Has A Popen'. Shortly afterwards we got a net connection at home, and I was faced with the challenge of getting myself an e-mail addy and so on. I was still unsure about putting my real name up, so I decided to make one up. I put together the 3 last words of the title, and made my online 'persona' Flogen Hasapopen. I made a very basic website (made in Word

) and put my stories up on it.
After a while I got tired of the whole thing, and began to use my real name (for e-mail addys and blogs etc). I still use flogen for stuff like boards, mind you, but its no longer the alter ego I tried to make of it before...:D
(so young, and so foolish...

)

flogen

RobertFoster · 02-08-2004 11:52PM

Robert Foster is the lead character in Beneath a Steel Sky, one of my favourite games - which you can download for free (and legally) from ScummVM.

pat kenny · 02-08-2004 11:58PM

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Farls · 03-08-2004 12:05AM

mines just short for my surname...a friend of mine (nellie) started calling me it back in third year at secondary school and its kinda stuck since and i quite like it.

Farlz

Big Ears · 03-08-2004 12:07AM

well with my nick being Big Ears , most would assume that I either got the name from the childrens programme Noddy (in which Big Ears is his friend) or I have big ears .

well in a way it is from the programme Noddy , but not souly on that basis .
My brother used the name Noddy in many games , so I just decided I would pick Big Ears (with him being Noddy's friend) for my boards name .

I had not used that name while playing games before then , but I did after I started using boards .

So thats my story .

Stephen · 03-08-2004 12:09AM

eh... its my name.

Giblet · 03-08-2004 12:12AM

Mine came back in the early days of "de net" around 1996 when I was playing a game called Scorched Earth. When prompted to enter a name, I randomly typed, "The Funking Giblet". I shortened it soon after for Quake, and have used it ever since. I pronounce it with a hard G, rather than the "jiblet" most people use.

Simi · 03-08-2004 12:16AM

Childhood nick name that has just stuck with me over the years. (Also short for my first name.)

bizmark · 03-08-2004 12:19AM

Bismarck ...

Bogger77 · 03-08-2004 12:22AM

Cos I'm a bogger / biffo working in Dublin, born in 77.

Barry Aldwell · 03-08-2004 12:24AM

It's my real name. Yes, I am laziness personified

TheJaff · 03-08-2004 12:31AM

Mine is my favourite character from my favourite book, The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. For those of you who haven't read this book you should give it a go. Its a bit hard to follow at times but the storyline and imagination behind is just brilliant.

Sarky · 03-08-2004 12:32AM

ASS and POO were already taken.

GoneShootin · 03-08-2004 12:42AM

http://www.michaelrea.com/GoneShootin/BonScott78.mp3

tribble · 03-08-2004 12:49AM

I was looking through the list of avatars and said...

ooo, look there a...

Sarky · 03-08-2004 12:52AM

GoneShootin wrote:

http://www.michaelrea.com/GoneShootin/BonScott78.mp3

Ooh, good idea. /me pops in Powerage...

The Brigadier · 03-08-2004 12:58AM

Brigadier Leighbridge-Stewart in Dr. Who.........

mayordenis · 03-08-2004 12:59AM

well my name is denis and i should be a mayor just preparing really.

monument · 03-08-2004 12:59AM

RobertFoster wrote:

Robert Foster is the lead character in Beneath a Steel Sky, one of my favourite games - which you can download for free (and legally) from ScummVM.

Dam you! I’ve always wondered why your name sounded so familiar.

MrVestek · 03-08-2004 01:05AM

erm... he's the greek hero from the illad (had this way before it became all common cus of troy). erm, that's it really. I use another nick on irc tho, which is MrVestek. That has a more interesting story. See my name is steven kavanagh, and i shortned that to Steve-k many years ago before that eejit on the radio had even been heard of. Anyways, used that on irc for a while till i fancied a change and came up with Vestek, an anagram of Steve-k. Since then whenever i visit an online mate of mine from irc he always answers the door with 'ahh mr. vestek.. come in come in...' so it kinda just stuck after that. Interesting no? NO?!... ahh to hell with u all then :P

CuLT · 03-08-2004 01:30AM

I wanted something cool... cool and deadly... (for CS) and what's deadly? well a knife is pretty deadly...
But "Knife" was also sort of unimaginitive and lame, but Latin, now Latin was cool. So I found myself a Latin Dictionary to download, and i scrolled through and found "knife", which was listed as Cultellus.

I used Cultellus for a few years, but was informed by PHB that he thought it was too long, and I started getting called "Culty". To nip that in the bud I changed my nick to Cult. Then for variety to CuLT.
After about a year of nobody making the connection between Cultellus of boards.ie and CuLT of IRC, I had my boards.ie nick changed

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embee · 03-08-2004 01:38AM

Mine is just a long version of the initials "MB", which are not my initials.

They stand for something, but I'm not saying what.

billy the squid · 03-08-2004 01:39AM

Was trying to sign up for a yahoo messenger account in 2000 and all the names i wanted were taken.

Out of frustration I typed billy_the_squid_2000 into yahoo and it was availible. Up ontil recently I had different usernames for different things namely yahoo msn boards.ie ebay and the like. Im currently changing them all to billy the squid.

As for the name I got on boards when i signed up it was fcddunne. f for my first name c for my middle name and dunne was my sirname. i made a typo and put two d's in it it should have been fcdunne. I spent many hours trying to log into boards untill i figured it out eventually

tba · 03-08-2004 01:47AM

I was and am in a hurry, so I'll tell you later

CuLT · 03-08-2004 01:59AM

/me high-fives tba.

tba · 03-08-2004 02:10AM

/me reciprocates in manly fashion

acous · 03-08-2004 02:20AM

acoustic. the science of sound!

Agent Smith · 03-08-2004 02:22AM

matrix carature,

nothing else really

Suaimhneach · 03-08-2004 02:32AM

Same story. Lookin for an email name. I like it.

MadsL · 03-08-2004 02:34AM

I was posting first in IOFFL and frustrated at trying to get Broadband. MadsL (I'm Mad as hell...and not going to take it anymore...) + a pun on ADSL.

...I'll get me coat...

Amz · 03-08-2004 02:45AM

My friends all call me Amz/Amzie.
That and Ammo sounded too skangery.

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