User Names

OK, I must admit it! I am intensely curious about some of the user names I see here each time I log in. If you don't mind sharing, how did you get your name?

As for me, my kids consider me a good cook, so they developed the moniker. They also like the idea of calling their own dear mother something that sounds a lot like monster! D The 2 is just a lagging reminder of my former days with AOL. Can you believe that I couldn't be just plain Chefmomster or Chefmomster1 as they were already taken?

What is your story?
Chefmomster2

Sure I'll share!

My given name is Tally, and I love animals. When I tried to think of an animal name to use, I couldn't decide which I liked the best, so I just added animal to my name, to recognise all living creatures. (accept cockroachs. As I said, I love all animals, therefore I decided that cockroachs are not real animals.)

Also my middle name is Haya, which means alive in hebrew, but also means animal. So, another good reason.

I hope more people will let us know how they decided on their nicks

Talanimal
(I thought it sounds better then Tallyanimal)

I'd like to say that there is some great story behind my handle but it is actually kind of silly. Eli is my nickname and my son (four years old at the time) suggested apple because I happened to be eating one at the time. It was easy to type so the name stuck. Guess I should be glad I wasn't eating a bratwurst!

Eli

I love these little stories!! Mine isn't a story, it's just the name of my favourite band Dream Theater. I don't think many of you will have ever heard of a band called Dream Theater unless you are a fan of hardrock/heavy metal.

Maarten

>>What is your story?
>>Chefmomster2

My middle name is Maria and my last name is in english "Stonebush".( It's in finnish Kivipensas.) I don't like bush so much and I took only the stone. I think that Maria is quite lame name and so I cut it shorter.( Mari is common name in Finland too.)
Maristone

>What is your story?

Oddly enough, "Llyra" is my name. ) (it's not the name I was born with, however; I had it legally changed recently)

My first name is Rastislav, in short form it is Rasto. In Slovak the number 100 we spell 'sto' . So Ra100 you can read Rasto.

There is also user Ra200 - Question for him Why ?

Bye Ra100

>My first name is Rastislav, in short form it is Rasto. In Slovak the number 100 we spell 'sto' . So Ra100 you can read Rasto.
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>There is also user Ra200 - Question for him Why ?
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>Bye Ra100

You probably have a fan )

Jan, I always thought you were a guy. If it had been one n, I think I'd have thought you were a girl tho. If it makes you feel better, the "lizard" part of my name makes people think I'm a guy all the time.

My name is pretty simple. Lizard is a nickname most girls named Elizabeth get at some point (lizard breath). I decided I could get angry on a daily basis about it, or embrace it. I took it on as my personal symbol.

When I first got online, freshman year of college, a friend set me up to use a BBS, and I had to think of a name quickly. I chose magenta lizard, because at the time I was into the movie/experience The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and there is a character named Magenta. Maglizrd is a shortened version of Magenta Lizard, fitting the old standard of 8 letters for a name. I've been using one version or the other of the name pretty much constantly since.

qwerty = too lazy to type a real name so I use qwerty whenever possible. Whenever qwerty is already taken I add 42 = the answer to life the universe and everything.

So qwerty42 = the lazy answer to life the universe and everything -)

When I met my partner, he and some friends were playing an online game and kept talking about it over and over... Since I had no clue what they were talking about I thought it would be a nice thing to play that game...
(I also learned "klaverjassen" (cardgame), "risk" and other games...)
I had to come up with a so called "mage name" to play and to be on message boards, guilds and chats...
After to seconds of looking around, thinking of a name, my boss asked me about the EAN-code for bread (or something).
After giving him the number, I thought I'd go with EAN as name.
After 5 years, I am still using it!

Oh, and EAN means European Article Number ;)

ps. I still play the game, after a long period of server shut down, a very, very good copy of it opened at www.the-reincarnation.com
If you'd like, come join the game called Archmage, I can tell you all about it, it has nothing to do with PBN! Mostly men are playing it, it is kinda a war game with alot of magic and stuff.

Regards,
EAN

I have just finished a degree at KEELE university near Stoke-on-Trent, England, but I originally hail from (and support the football team) GILLingham in Kent, England.

Zebadee - a character from "the magic roundabout". I don't know why i called myself that, don't even remember ever watching the magic roundabout, although i think i must of done when i was younger. I think he's a spring or something ???

Zebadee

My user name comes from, surpise, surpise my cat's name. I have a habit of naming my pets really original names like fishey and puppy so when I got my first kitten I name her ... Kitten. But about that time there was a song by the Pretenders that had the lines "Little robbers are in my hair, little robbers are everywhere" and it seemed to describe her perfectly. Since she was already Kitten I kept singing in my head "Kitten Littles are in my hair. Kitten Littles are everywhere." Her official name became Kitten Little. As most know AOL only allowed 8 letters so I became Kitlittle. My beloved cat has been dead for many years but I keep the name in honor of her.

Patricia
Just as a side note.. I was Patty in school, Tricia when I moved away, and Pat in my business life. You can actually tell how people know me by what they call me!

ah, no levels here? oh well.

anyway, i started off as simply "^Galia" on DALnet. actually, I started with HTML chats and ICQ, but i was always Galia - which is my first name. I couldn't find a nickname i'd be happy with, and would "represent" me.
then, one day we had a really bizarre chat where we wrote everything backwards.
at the days i had a slow modem with a bad line while others had better lines or even fast internet. so when my name / nick became "I lag" when written backwards, i found it pretty amusing.

I stayed galia on dalnet, i sometimes switched to ailag though. and i started registering new nicks as ailag, since it was nicer, and it wasn't taken by other galia's )

so here i am.

within time, people also tried talking backwards to me (on chats and forums) so my ability to write backwards has really improved.
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>OK, I must admit it! I am intensely curious about some of the user names I see here each time I log in. If you don't mind sharing, how did you get your name?
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>As for me, my kids consider me a good cook, so they developed the moniker. They also like the idea of calling their own dear mother something that sounds a lot like monster! D The 2 is just a lagging reminder of my former days with AOL. Can you believe that I couldn't be just plain Chefmomster or Chefmomster1 as they were already taken?
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>What is your story?
>Chefmomster2

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This is really a cool idea - the nicks stop being only a couple of letters but real people... -)

Anyway, the story of my nick is not very interesting. My real name is Dominika, and everybody at home (and some of my friends, too) call me Nika. My boyfriend didn't know at first how to call me, so he started to call me Domi. Since then I use this nick on internet. I soon realized that this nick is used by too many people, so I added 77 to it. (It's not my age ;-) but the year of my birth.) And that's it!

Dominika

I've used my Nickname for quite some years now. Earlier on I allways had the word penguin in my name. But since penguins are such adorable creatures everybody wants to be associated with them. So it usually took me hours to get my usernames accapted at the different forums. So i dicided to change it.

I was reading "silmarillion" by tolkien at the time. So i chose a caracter from there. And the only name that is seldom used. was the name of the evil god Melkor. Even though its before he turned evil. (There are plenty who uses his evil name, wonder why). Neverthe less. its now seldom that I can't keep my nick.

Tim

>OK, I must admit it! I am intensely curious about some of the user names I see here each time I log in. If you don't mind sharing, how did you get your name?

My name is obvious, a color - a mixture of blue and green. I'm a diver and some years ago me and my husband wanted to register a scuba related site and i like this color very much, so we chose this name. it is also the name of a stone which is known as Turkish stone, well, suits me. Same word exists in turkish but the spelling is different (turkuaz). If you come across a Turquoise in a serious discussion on underwater photography, digital cameras, etc. it is not me, my husband -)

Zeynep

Interesting thread!

Just a comment or 2, RESmith, I thought it was because you were an expert using RESEdit, and hagitm already knows this from a chat session but, I really thought she was a man for some reason. As for my name...gemfire is the name of my favorite game for the original 8-bit Nintendo system. Haven't played it in years but at the time I first needed a user name for the www, I was addicted to it. So, I've been using it ever since.

Mine isn't all that original. I'm a mother of twins! I've tried to use this screen name for years but it's NEVER available. Imagine my surprise to find a site where it wasn't already in use! Normally, I end up with some version of my name, since it isn't all that common.

Alisa

Oh my... This a long and crazy story. Well, here goes.

First of all it will probably make things easier to understand if I say I'm a roleplayer. And so are a lot of my friends. And yes, roleplayers are sometimes (quite often) really weird. (oh, and listen to a lot of rock and metal, yes I do indeed know DreamTheater.)

H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Call of Cthulhu". Cthulhu is a sort of squid-headed man, hard to describe or explain. But it's got tentacles. Lots of them. Hold on to that.

Right, so I was hanging out at a major roleplaying festival, or fair, or whatever you call something where people meet up, have fun with their hobby, buy stuff, give awards, etc. I was actually a member of the Info-crew, but somehow the guys from the cleaning-squad had managed to persuade the Info, that they could rent me for a day... No, not what you think, but believe me, the jokes wouldn't take an end!

This cleaning-squad, bearing the name of DirtBusters, is a bunch of, ah, well, can't say too much, I'll bet you their commander is going to read this! They do a lot of things involving brooms and mops, and black plastic bags, and a lot of green bottles and loud metal... And they have funny hairstyles. Which is the important part.

Someone had the brilliant idea, that I should have spikes. Let me put it like this, I'm not even 1.60 m myself, and my hair would add another meter in the height... If things had worked the way they wanted, I guess it would have been a very amusing sight, and very annoying for me to try to get through doors! But it didn't work, mostly because they got to bored holding a meter of gelatine-soaked locks of hair. So they just let the strands hang. And then they dried up.

You can't even imagine... It was like having sticks hanging down your back, sticks tied to your hair always pulling where it hurt the most. But most of all, the "sticks" weren't totally stiff, they were rubberish and could bend slightly, and were all in all rather much like tentacles.

They had had real trouble finding a nickname for me (they all have one), and had used 'Rental' till then. But of course my lovely tentacles now earned me the name of 'Cthulhu'.

Guess I should add, that I really like these guys, and so I've come to cherish the name they gave me. And if any of you ever got to read the web cartoon called "Hello Cthulhu" (before some %&"#�& crashed their site), you would know that Cthulhu isn't an entirely bad monster.


Sigrid

By the way, slosuzy, Ancorna was my nick for some years...

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