What does your nick mean to you?

[Midnight Son]

Having been accused of making fun of someone's nick in another thread, I was lead into some deep soul searching..... two seconds later, I thought to myself: "Well, what does it mean?" Assuming your nick isn't a proper name, what does it mean to you?

Midnight Son - I chose this one in honor of a blues CD by Son Seals. The man can right out shred. It made me get up and improve my own guitar playing and singing....

http://www.alligator.com/artists/album.cfm?AlbumID=al4708&ArtistID=002

[SolomonGrundy]

I got mine from some old clanmates, becasue of the way I start talking in grunts and pronouns only in heavy duty quake matches. I've just been too lazy over the past 6 years to change it.

[nutsak]

errm, um. Right.

It started out as a joke - I use to use the name "Pigsnot" ( I hate 'serious' names like 'SupaKillaReaperDeath666' so it had to be 'fun')

I wanted to prank a mate of mine in IRC and chose the dumbest thing I could think of .. = "Nutsak" . Everyone liked it better ( for some reason ) so it stuck.

It also makes serious people feel uneasy. Which is hilarious.

who was the nick you made fun of?

[Midnight Son]

I said that Squirrel Killing was morally repugnant. I said that unless it was a native american tribal name..... anyway, I didn't put a smiley in the post so the usual suspects got all upset. :wink:

[Timemaster Tim]

Timemaster Tim -- Hero of Dino Eggs.

Exploring the past via time warp, you infect the dinosaurs with common measles - Accidentally condemning them to extinction!

Overcome with remorse, you devote yourself to rescuing the entire dinosaur population!

You can do it! For you are Time Master Tim!

Using your time warp you can find and carry the dino eggs and dino babies safely into the 21st century! The dinosaurs live again in our future!

Thanks to you Time Master Tim!

[VegasRobb]

My name is Rob and I live in Las Vegas.

[Stroker Ace]

but wherefore the superfluous B?

[Squirrel Killer]

BTW - I wasn't upset, I just thought it was ironic that someone who went by "Midnight Son" would make fun of "Squirrel Killer" becuase of a fake name.

"Squirrel Killer" is originally from high school debate. There was a brief book (collection of ready made arguments for competative debate) called "Squirrel Killer Briefs" that supposedly focused on obscure topics (the "squirrelly" ones) that might arise. The reality was that, at least in my area, the briefs were so popular that everyone knew the arguments and the counter arguments. Back then I used "Guru" on on-line systems as my nick. Once the Internet took off, I realized that "Guru" was too common a name to ever be available on most systems, so I switched to "Squirrel Killer". It's not entirely inappropriate either, since I always seem to get asked bizzare questions on obscure topics, and always seems to find the answer.

To my knowledge, I have never killed an actual squirrel.

[Dirt]

Wanted something everybody would recognize. Been using it for 10 years now on the 'net.

[nutsak]

I said that Squirrel Killing was morally repugnant.

If his name was "Cow Killer" would you have said the same thing?

[Case]

Case -- both my last name, and the nom de plume of the protagonist in Neuromancer...

[Doug Jones]

Wait, what's wrong with squirrel killing?

[Ergo]

I have no idea why I chose Ergo. Because it's Latin? Because I'd never seen it used before as a nick? I dunno.

[XPav]

AleX Pavloff.

[Midnight Son]

Hey, that's an interesting origin for Squirrel Killer! Now, in my book, there's nothing wrong with hunting for food. And squirrels do not a good meal make, unlike Bessie the Cow. :)

[balut]

http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/balot.htm

And yes, I have tried it, but only during a serious drinking bender that started on a floating bar raft, progressed through a half-dozen dive bars (including a literal divers' bar), detoured through a quicky in a motel room, hopped around a couple night clubs, and ending up passed out in my cousin's bathroom.

IIRC, not only did I partake in some balut, but also such delicacies as frog legs and chicken feet.

Damn that was a fun vacation.

What's funny is that I started using "balut" a few years before this incident, because I saw a relative eat one and thought it really unique and disgusting.

[Qwijybo]

I used to go as Moose or MooseBungler, but surprisingly I even found a couple of places where the latter was already taken (perhaps by myself in a stupor the night before). So I switched to Qwijybo from Bart Simpson's Scrabble high-scorer ("A Fat, dumb, balding, ape from North America").

Except I must have been in a stupor when I started using that nick because otherwise I would have correctly spelled it "Kwyjibo". Of course, there might be other people using that spelling - no one uses my rendition. And it scores higher, too.

[Bub, Andrew]

It's my name - only with my last name first.

[extarbags]

Took this picture at my old high school:

http://home3.netcarrier.com/~geoff/extarbags.jpg

Perfectly surmises the problems with the US education system. Added to which, it's freaking hilarious.

[Jobe]

That's hilarious, but people who attempt (and fail) to write "extra bags" on a trash can aren't likely to be educated or educating anybody. The problems with the US education system must be either that we don't educate everybody or our schools aren't such bastions of learning that the guy who takes out the trash can just glean an education by diffusion.

[extarbags]

That's hilarious, but people who attempt (and fail) to write "extra bags" on a trash can aren't likely to be educated or educating anybody. The problems with the US education system must be either that we don't educate everybody or our schools aren't such bastions of learning that the guy who takes out the trash can just glean an education by diffusion.

It's really just the irony of it that I love.

Although I don't seem to fit in here, where a lot of people use full names. My deepest fear is that that will come back to haunt me.

[Jobe]

You mean your name doesn't fit in, or you personally? I think you fit in just fine, and I don't mean that in a derogatory way like when I said the same thing to Midnight Son :p

My name is basically a substitute name. It doesn't mean anything, it's just a name to use as a name instead of my actual name because I like the sound of it. I've had it for a few years now.

[extarbags]

You mean your name doesn't fit in, or you personally? I think you fit in just fine, and I don't mean that in a derogatory way like when I said the same thing to Midnight Son :p

My name is basically a substitute name. It doesn't mean anything, it's just a name to use as a name instead of my actual name because I like the sound of it. I've had it for a few years now.

The name.

And whenever I see you post, I think of Gob from Arrested Development.

[Jobe]

Since you probably don't mean the band that brought us "Tennessee" and "Mr. Wendell", I'm not sure I want to know what being compared to a guy named Gob in a dysfunctional prison-based sitcom is really saying.

[Anaxagoras]

I used to use various amino acids (Alanine, Tyrosine, and Tryptomine were the usual.) but they've been getting used more and more often, so I had to switch to obscure historical figures. Thus... Anaxagoras!

Stupid people taking my my precious amino acids... why I oughta....

[Jobe]

Yeah, the amino acids are biology-freak heaven. That or the 30 letter scientific name for mundane stuff like apple juice.

[Anaxagoras]

Yeah, the amino acids are biology-freak heaven. That or the 30 letter scientific name for mundane stuff like apple juice.

Which consists mostly of fructose, which is a disaccharide consisting of glucose and galactose.

:)

[Troy S Goodfellow]

My initials.

Very creative, I know.

Troy

[Kalle]

My first name. Well, actually my first name is Karl, but Kalle is the standard Swedish nickname for Karl (like Fredrick is usually shortened to Fred/Freddie), and the only people every to call me Karl have been a couple of high school teachers.

I decided against using my full name since my last name is fairly unique, to my knowledge only about 20 people in the world share it, and I prefer to remain semi-anonymous from google searches and such.

[Lunch of Kong]

I go by MetroCube everywhere else but here.

See, I had a comfy window office until Motorola bought us out and made me move into a cubicle underneath 500W industrial grow lamps. The MetroCube was the photon and sonic-resistant covering that helped me concentrate on my work. Which, as you can see, included a circular slide rule and a pipboy cardboard cutout.

I had to put her down after Motorola moved our company into new digs. (sniffle)

The MetroCube
1999 - 2003
R.I.P.


edit: Wow. I really *do* look gay.

http://www.rogerw.com/photo.net/metrocubeOuter.jpg

http://www.rogerw.com/photo.net/metrocubeInner.jpg

[Theodore Rex DX]

Theodore Rex is the name of a movie starring Whoopie Goldberg and the titular animatronic talking dinosaur. The DX stands for deluxe.

[Jobe]

I still say you found a way to extend calculus to words, and your name is the derivative of Horace Grant with respect to X.

[snowmyr]

I wanted something unique. I tried Myrddin, but enough people were using that. I went by snowfox in rainbow 6 online play. Snowmyr might not make a lot of sense, but it's MINE goddamnit.

[Jobe]

Depending on the pronunciation and your gender, Ms. snowmyr could work on about 100 different levels.

[Qenan]

"Qenan" was my EQ handle. When I started posting on web boards I decided to use an alias because I didn't want future employers googling-up my gaming pastime.

[Union Carbide]

I used to use Yellowbelly or Mooseknuckles. I changed after this one time I was playing Quake at a LAN party and doing rather well, and someone said "Damn, you killed more people than Union Carbide!" and I've used it ever since :)

[Kool Moe Dee]

This is actually the only place I use KMD. When I registered, I didn't want to use my regular nom-de-plume, so I just looked over at the TV for inspiration from late-night cable ads. The rest is (uninteresting) history.

[Poops McGee]

I took mine from the D's "Kyle Took a Bullet":

KG: I took a bullet for JB.
Now I'm in Heaven and I can see...

JB: Your decision to rescue me...

KG: It was definitely Poops McGee.

[Duality]

Theodore Rex is the name of a movie starring Whoopie Goldberg and the titular animatronic talking dinosaur. The DX stands for deluxe.
I seem to recall that the animatronic was strangely identical to that of Earl Sinclair from Dinosaurs (www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/).

I stole my nickname (or handle, as it was once called!) from the first electronic band I ever heard some 10 years ago. A two-man group from Minneapolis called Psykosonik (the name Duality is from one of the Silicon Jesus remix single).

Doing a search, I was amazed to find that one of the members, Paul Sebastien, has revived the name some 8 years after the last Psykosonik release for a new album called basic pleasure model (www.basicpleasuremodel.com/). Wow. Just. WOW.

[Robert Sharp]

When I registered, it asked me my name. I wrote it. I used my real name...because I am an adult.






Actually, I think nicknames are fine...just thought I would irk ya a bit.

[bago]

bagofmice.

Mice, cows, What's the difference?

[VegasRobb]

but wherefore the superfluous B?

Grew up with alot of guys named Rob, Robert, Bob so the extra b was just something to separate myself from the others. Is use it for casual things, but not for professional work related things.

[Robert Sharp]

but wherefore the superfluous B?

Grew up with alot of guys named Rob, Robert, Bob so the extra b was just something to separate myself from the others. Is use it for casual things, but not for professional work related things.

I used (and still use) the name Bobert online for the same reason.

[Funkman]

The word Funk is just so versatile. It can be applied to almost anything and still sound pretty.. well... funky.

So.. Funkman it is.

[Sebmolo]

I wrote my name down in a note for a friend, abbr. as Seb M. L. (with faggy little circles instead of dots, for some reason) and someone went 'sebmolo? who the hell is that?)

[Midnight Son]

Ok, there's some well known knuckleheads still missing! Let's go!

[BulletSponge]

Mine's been my online gaming handle for as long as I can remember. I chose it for the funny mental image 'soaking up bullets as a sponge does water', which was ironic in that it implied I sucked when I usually fared half decent :wink:

[Brian Rucker]

My handle online is Oddjob or OddjobXL. Picked it almost at random when trying to sign onto one of my first dialup BBSes back in the day. At the time it seemed clever and unique, I was into debating politics and saw alot to like in the imagery of the Bondian Oddjob chopping the head off a statue with his razor brimmed bowler hat. Since then I've seen other Oddjobs (including one that's a level designer somewhere) and at least one Oddball.

Here I just use my real name. I don't work in the industry so I really don't need a handle. Also it cuts out the 'if you really believed what you were saying you'd use your real name' argument that crops up at times.