What are the origins of your nicks?

[patrick0brien]

-All

Ok. This has to have been asked before, but I can't find such a recent thread:

What are the origins of your nicks? I just gotta know.

I wish I could say I was original myself, but mine is my name - and not really a nick - I know you're disappointed :D

There are just too many interesting and curious ones out there, and that makes me wonder about a few things. I'm pretty sure I understand what idea_hamster means, but what is a mullens, and why is it so huge? Why does bennet say argh? Do I want to know what a maradong is? And "Capt Underpants" is just plain funny. ( ;) ;) all in good jest guys)

So, what do you say?

[eyelikeart]

Well...anyone who knows me or what I do for a living...

I like art... ;)

[MacFan25]

I am a fan of macs. And 25 is just a random number. :D

Very creative. ;)

[Capt Underpants]

Well Captain Underpants is a children's book that I saw in a library one time. The Captain Underpants website is my homepage if you look up my member name. I thought the name was rather interesting. Too bad I couldn't put all of the word Captain in my nick (there is a character limit). I will get over it. When I get an avatar, I want to get a animation of captain underpants flying around, or atleast a pic of him.

[eyelikeart]

Capt Underpants...that's a damned funny visual I get... :D

[Capt Underpants]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Capt Underpants...that's a damned funny visual I get... :D

Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

[Veldek]

Well, I play fantasy role-playing games with my friends and one of the characters I liked to play very often was a priest named Veldek Barain. So my friends began to call me this way and it became my nick.

But as I'm not the most creative person in the world, I have to admit that the name wasn't completely my idea. At this time, I watched an episode of "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine" where there was a Bajoran priest called Vedek Bareil, where Vedek was his title. I only changed the name a little and voilà - there was my nick.

[evoluzione]

evoluzione (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24478)

also see my current 'tar :)

[TEG]

Well mine is a self imposed Nickname. Its formed by my initials. Its also the name of a Computer Company I started 7 years ago. Very Successful, lots of fun. Computer Consulting it the best, except for some who claim your wasting time. But, of course they think PCs are the best until you show them a Mac... hence the reason for my Sig'.

TEG

[P-Worm]

Mine's on the FAQ of my website. Hope you're not disapointed.

P-Worm

[WinterMute]

Mine comes from the William Gibson Novel Neuromancer, it's the name of part of the Ummon AI that was running Corto and manipulating Case and Molly.

It's just an evocative name.

If you haven't read Gibsons work you should.

[Stike]

I was designing an action game for the Amiga back in 1991, and I was looking for a name for the hero, a super-military-fighting-robot. I invented the name "Stike", because I thought it sounds cool and I never heard of before. :D

The game was never realized, but the name stuck to me like glue, some people even call me that today.

I was majorly shocked during my US vacation, when I saw 1999 in the white pages of L.A. that there was one "Robert Stike" - it is just a normal family name!! :( So it was not so original in the first place... whatever. That´s my story.

[guiverunit]

mines because i spelt gyverunit wrong and it just stuck

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Capt Underpants
Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

ha ha...it's damned funny! :D

[Angelus]

Mines just the evil alter ego of Angel from buffy.
It's also happens to be a prayer said in Ireland at 6pm each day.Maybe thats why people ask me if i'm really devout?

[morlium]

a cross between Morla from The Neverending Story, and Morpheus and Delirium from The Sandman comics.

it was once the name of my turtle. when she deceased, i adopted it for myself.

[BaghdadBob]

Well I think everyone knows who Baghdad Bob is.

I had just quit my job in preparation for moving up here at the time the war started, so of course I was watching the news like 24/7, and I was usually up late enough to catch the Minister of Misinformation's little press conferences every morning. Once I figured out how ridiculous he was he started cracking me up. Of course, after giving full attention to his conferences for a week or so the news channels stopped putting him on the main screen due to the utter meaninglessness of what he had to say.

My first BBS, called the "Chatterbox" in San Diego, back in '93 or so, I went by Devil Bunny. That was a combination of what I went by sometimes (you could change your chat room name at will) which was Warlock, and a girl calling me a bunny because I was a vegetarian.

[mrjamin]

my name's benjamin - split it in two you get Ben Jamin - first name Ben, surname Jamin, hence Mr Jamin.

[Mblazened]

mblazened = emblazoned

symbolic of the tons of weed i blaze all day

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by Mblazened
mblazened = emblazoned

symbolic of the tons of weed i blaze all day

-Mblazened

I could only imagine what the Aqua interface does to your head like that - especially the Genie Effect.

[dethl]

For those of you who played the Zelda: Link's Awakening on the GB or GBC, my nick comes from the final boss of the entire game. I remember reading the name out of a help booklet at a bookstore at a mall I went to. The name stuck in my head, and I've been using it since.

[Cuckoo]

I usually go by qwerty, but that one is often taken, so i used my domainname cuckoosnest...

Sometimes i use 1014399 (used to be my student number) and is never taken, but it's a bit weird to use a random number.

That's how i came to Cuckoo....

Not much of a story, I would rather have used Qwerty

[Doctor Q]

My nickname in the real world has been "Q" since the 11th grade. I purposely don't admit whether I use the title "Doctor" because I like the way it sounds, or because I'm actually a doctor of some kind (with a medical degree or a doctorate), or because I'm planning to be one someday, or because the title suits my hobby of helping people fix their computer problems, or because I'm just a pretentious nobody with delusious of grandeur. I like maintaining the mystery about that question.

[vollspacken]

hehe, I'm not gonna tell you... ;)

people who know German might understand what it means... :eek:

vSpacken

[pivo6]

I couldn't think of anything clever at the time so I chose pivo, which is Croatian for beer. 6 is -- well you just can't have one now can you. :D

[tazo]

well...

tazo is short for tazoberry which is either a hot or cold tea, or a berry smoothie. Both are from Starbucks.

The smoothie is my fave drink and i like the way it sounds so i just went with that :)

and its tah-zoe :)

tazo.com

[Stike]

Originally posted by vollspacken
hehe, I'm not gonna tell you... ;)

people who know German might understand what it means... :eek:

vSpacken

You mean, you´re one card short of a full deck? ;) :D

I have a nice one for you: How about "Woz´n Shice"... speak it out loud.. hehehe! See?

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by vollspacken
hehe, I'm not gonna tell you... ;)

people who know German might understand what it means... :eek:

vSpacken
Anyone want to fill me in? :rolleyes:

Well the origin of my Username was that even though the AOL account 'MrMacMan' was never taken they forced me to add '23' which of coarse is one of AOL's lame schemes to suck ass at creating screen names.

Hence forth the worst, most spammed AOL account ever:
MrMacMan23.

So there we get today where many of my account around the mac universe are MrMacMan or MacMan (which is most-likely taken already).

MacMan, my original idea for a screen name was taken, along with every randomly generated numbers (example they gave me the choice of MacMan264 or MacGMan, so I made MrMacMan, which I was told was never taken by gAyOL, anyways... but you know what happened already).

I original idea was I like macs, I was, er, am a man.

i have kept the AOL account (cause I get if for free, don't ask, it is based on a contract signed in the aol 2.0 days) even though I have cable.

Yeah that is the story.

[iJon]

well i took my name and put a "i" in front of it, really wasnt thinking of it at the time because i never thought i would post here much. but actually i like it, its short, easy to read, easy to refer too. and i was able to make my neat ical avatar. i was thinking of a new avatar but i cant think of anything cool that would say ijon, plus i really like my avatar now.

iJon

[tazo]

Originally posted by iJon
well i took my name and put a "i" in front of it, really wasnt thinking of it at the time because i never thought i would post here much. but actually i like it, its short, easy to read, easy to refer too. and i was able to make my neat ical avatar. i was thinking of a new avatar but i cant think of anything cool that would say ijon, plus i really like my avatar now.

iJon

don't change your avatar! that is how i recognize posts when i am scrolling at 40 lines/sec :)

[tpjunkie]

Me and some friends were really bored during the 4th of july about 7 or 8 years ago (wow i feel old now), and with nothing better to do, we wrapped me up in toilet paper (TP) and joined the parade with a banner saying "Toilet Paper Lovers of Montclair" The funny part was the mayor announcing us at the end of the parade...we did it for another couple years then lost interest. Well, thats where TPjunkie comes from...i use it for everything else too.

[pretentious]

tazo:You don't work for Starbucks, do you?

Mine is from a year or two ago when I was searching for a nic, everything I came up with seemed too pretentious and dumb. I soon came to the rationalization that all nics are pretentious in a way, and so I thought it would be clever and a bit odd to just call myself 'pretentious'.

[scem0]

too corny.

I'm just gunna say that I thought it sounded cool from now on. The real origin, which y'all will no doubt will figure out in the next 2 hours, is embarrasing.

scem0

[iJon]

Originally posted by tazo
don't change your avatar! that is how i recognize posts when i am scrolling at 40 lines/sec :)
yes, now i dont feel bad about it now. ill leave until i figure out another genious idea for an avatar.

iJon

[Waluigi]

When I was playing Mario Tennis 64, I was introduced to the most evil, yet funny twin of luigi: Waluigi.

http://www.marioguide.com/images/renders/n64/mp3/waluigi-33.jpg

[xDANx]

well...my first name is daniel, so there's the 'DAN' part. as for the enclosing x's...i'm straight-edge (i don't consume any drugs or alcohol), and x's are a time-honoured way of denoting that. not that i really care if anyone knows what i do or do not put into my body...but it's simple and more interesting than just 'dan'.

[jbomber]

back in college, a few of us ordered some junk food and we got these blazing hot jalapeno things called 'jbombers'. no one could handle them except me, and thus the name stuck.

[Capt Underpants]

Well, I thought some of you would want to see Captain Underpants, since some of you (eye) said they got a funny visual when you thought about my user name. Well anyways, here is Captain Underpants (the real one... I don't look like that ;) ).

[applemacdude]

applemacdude...i like apple, macs and i am a ur dude

[trebblekicked]

there were a couple threads on this. here they are for posterity.

Link 1 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28824&highlight=trebblekicked+pavement+malkmus)

Link 2 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24478&highlight=trebblekicked+pavement+malkmus)

as for me:

originaly posted by me
my favorite band is (or at least was for a while) pavement, fronted by steve malkmus. it's a three part reference:

1. from the song "mercy snack; the laundromat"-- i'm chosen for a mercy snack / i'm regular, i'm treble kicked

2. from malkmus' music publishing company (name)= treble kicker music, bmi

3. it's trebblekicked because i can't spell.


the end.

[Veldek]

Originally posted by vollspacken
hehe, I'm not gonna tell you... ;)

people who know German might understand what it means... :eek:

vSpacken

Do you only use this nick in the English speaking community or is it used (as a nick) in Germany, too? ;)

[Edot]

It's my name! E.

[rainman::|:|]

i don't really remember...

[vollspacken]

Originally posted by Stike
You mean, you´re one card short of a full deck? ;) :D

;) well done Strike, good German skills

Originally posted by Veldek
Do you only use this nick in the English speaking community or is it used (as a nick) in Germany, too? ;)

hehe, sometimes... :D

vSpacken

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Capt Underpants
Well, I thought some of you would want to see Captain Underpants, since some of you (eye) said they got a funny visual when you thought about my user name. Well anyways, here is Captain Underpants (the real one... I don't look like that ;) ).

I can just see it...a comic strip or mini cartoon...

Capt Underpants...avenging the Dirty Panty Squad!! :eek: :D :cool:

[britboy]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Capt Underpants...avenging the Dirty Panty Squad!! :eek: :D :cool:


Arch-Enemy to the PPP ;)

My name comes from....being british, and a boy :eek:

A few years ago when I was in austria at a language school I needed a name for the network access. Being the only brit there, I chose this name. It's since stuck, seeing as how not many people use it and all.

The other one I tend to use is schwuliduck. That's mostly for email addresses though.

[JackRipper]

Anybody remeber Life and Death by Software Toolworks ( I think )? It was a surgery sim, pretty cool for it's time, apparently you could go all the way to brain surgery with it!

Anyway, whenever you'd screw up the head surgeon would call you into his office and tell you that you need more training.
In the class ( which he taught ) he would review your mistakes and if your incisions were messy enough he'd call you Jack Ripper. I had no idea who he was at the time ( I was only 11 or 12 ), but I liked the sound of it and it's been my handle ever since.

[Veldek]

Originally posted by JackRipper
Anybody remeber Life and Death by Software Toolworks ( I think )?

Hey, yeah, I remember this game. Though I could never finish any surgery, because my "victim" always died. Has there been a Mac version of this game? I think I had it for my Amiga back in the days...

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by Veldek
Has there been a Mac version of this game? I think I had it for my Amiga back in the days...

Sure was, I think it was only B/W though.

[jethroted]

I think hillbillys are super funny. The redneck back-woods pig lover kind. They are so stupid and inbred, you can't help but like them. So, "Jethro" is my tribute to the hillbilly, and "ted" is just something I threw on because hillbillys have those stupid double names. You know, like "Bobby-sue" "Billy-Joe" "Sally-Anne". It's funny, because It's such a unique name that if you do a search for it on google, all the pages that come up are related to me.

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by JackRipper
Anybody remeber Life and Death by Software Toolworks ( I think )? It was a surgery sim, pretty cool for it's time, apparently you could go all the way to brain surgery with it!If only I'd known about this game, I could have used the sim instead of practicing on other kids in the neighborhood!

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
If only I'd known about this game, I could have used the sim instead of practicing on other kids in the neighborhood!

LOL

[Das]

Mine comes from the word the in German and MS-DOS. It's mainly my gaming name "Das 3.1" which is from my other gaming name "Das Chupa" which is from my other gaming name "Raichupacabra" which is from my other gaming name "Unnamed Player".

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by Mblazened
mblazened = emblazoned

symbolic of the tons of weed i blaze all day

I suppose at that point, heaven IS iTunes at 63 fps :)

I chose Phil Of Mac because, well, it sounded good at the time. This was before I started using the pretentious nickname, "The One And Only" (which I use on Slashdot).

On MSN Messenger, you can change your nickname, and make it incredibly long, so my nickname on there is the far more interesting, "If you behave there will be cake for the miscreants we call your brothers", which is a surrealist compliment (http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG/).

In the past I used to call myself the Digital Messiah, after an old (and stupid) shareware game.

[jefhatfield]

jefhatfield relates to cartoon characters i made a tape of

jhatfield is the shortened version

and this has no relation to juliana hatfield, a singer/songwriter:p

[solvs]

Greek spelling of an old Latin word. Back from my self-pitying days, same as my e-mail addy. Got the idea from an old cartoon, Gargoyles, back in the early days of the internet. I was based on Demona's computer password. I loved that episode.

-

The night is my companion
And solitude my guide...
- Sarah McLachlan

[jbomber]

Originally posted by jethroted
I think hillbillys are super funny. The redneck back-woods pig lover kind. They are so stupid and inbred, you can't help but like them. So, "Jethro" is my tribute to the hillbilly, and "ted" is just something I threw on because hillbillys have those stupid double names. You know, like "Bobby-sue" "Billy-Joe" "Sally-Anne". It's funny, because It's such a unique name that if you do a search for it on google, all the pages that come up are related to me.

Reminds me of Owen Wilson in Armageddon talkin about how he hates when people think that Jethro Tull is just some guy in a band.... :)

[Megaquad]

In 24th century computers don't measure data in megabyte, gigabyte... Instead, since technology is so advanced they use kiloquad, megaquad, gigaquad.. so from there comes my nick :D
(oh yeah that's in star trek)

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by jbomber
Reminds me of Owen Wilson in Armageddon talkin about how he hates when people think that Jethro Tull is just some guy in a band.... :) Why did Ian Anderson name his band after an early 18th century agriculturalist inventor?

[Skandranon]

Derived from an old fantasy book I read as a kid by Mercedes Lackey.

Skandranon was the protagonist of the 'Black Gryphon' series and since another login name was already taken (I can't remember which now) I opted for this one.

Once I get around to securing an avatar, I'll bust out one of the many illustrations of Skan from Lackey's novels. Good reading, by the way.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
If only I'd known about this game, I could have used the sim instead of practicing on other kids in the neighborhood!

But practicing on the neighborhood kids was much more fun than the software version. The computer screen is just not the same as reality! :p

[Vector]

Originally posted by vollspacken
hehe, I'm not gonna tell you... ;)

people who know German might understand what it means... :eek:

vSpacken

I thought vollspacken was a full-pack, how does it translate to one short of a full-deck

My name is Vector because i really love vectors, you know those things you had to learn in trig. I just love math.


Or maybe it is because i do vector based design.

[judith]

A woman, and title of a song her son (one of my favorite artists ever) wrote about her.

[Waluigi]

I consider our usernames to be aliases, more then nick names.

--Waluigi

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by Waluigi
I consider our usernames to be aliases, more then nick names.

--Waluigi
I would say mine is a nickname since it can be associated fairly easily with my real name.

My aliases cannot be traced back to me in any way. Durandal7 does not have a forged birth certificate, medical records or a false address so it is not an alias.

[Daveman Deluxe]

My username is definitely a nickname because folks call me it in real life.

It started when I was hanging out on the IRC channel of a website I liked. The webmaster was "reidman", and my name is Dave, so I figured "daveman" would be pretty cool. It wasn't really about being like the über-l337 webmaster, it was just one of those free-association things.

Back then I was on AOL and getting tired of my screen name. I had been using it for some online roleplaying but had quit roleplaying. Well, surprise surprise, "Daveman" was taken. I decided that I might as well go for the gusto and be "Daveman Deluxe". I have been ever since.

[zach]

i like the letter z, it being the first letter of my first name. i like electricity, therefore zap. 23 is my lucky number.

so henceforth, zap23. i am known as zach in the irc channel, but some idiot already took it on the forums...

:D

[Physiognome]

My nick is shortened from "The Physiognomist", from a trilogy of science-fantasy novels by Jeffrey Ford.

[Giaguara]

i wanted a jaguaristic mac.com username. so i got giaguara = jaguar in italian (female jaguar). and it stuck.

[themadchemist]

well, first there was the SN2 backside attack, oh yes, a lot of that...And then there were the enolates, don't get me started on that keto-enol tautomerism.

Stereochemistry, regiochemistry, organic chemistry, oh my!

And the liquid nitrogen steaming out of the its little container. Me, with my organic macrocycle, crystallizing it, accidentally getting it all over my hands, not knowing what it was since this was the first time anyone had synthesized it, begging for mercy, hoping that I didn't get cancer...

Yes, me, going into the glove box, opening the freezer, trying to put my stuff in the freezer while manipulating those darn gloves (oh how hard it is to do stuff in the glove box!), and pow!bang!kablammy!, the grad student's stuff goes flying all over the place...

And things bubbling and boiling, and toil and troubling, and then there it is,

themadchemist!!!

Hahahahaha!!!!

What can I say, I kinda like chemistry. *shrugs*

[question fear]

question fear comes from a point where i was having problems that in a grander sense were small, but for me were fairly big.
the best advice given to me was to question my fears.
i took that advice, straightened myself out, and in hindsight it was the first time i started acting like an adult, rather than floating from point a to point b.
so i fell in love with the handle as a constant reminder, as well as a message to anyone who thought about it.
--carly

[aethier]

WEll, My first name is Adam, my last name is Ethier (it is french, i live in quebec canada) so "adamethier" is borring so "aethier" was born, also thats what i used since ever

aethier

[XnavxeMiyyep]

If you type my name in the Symbol font that looks similar to Greek, it come out looking something like Xnavxe Miyyep.

[rhpenguin]

Before I dumped the PC and got the Mac, I ran Red Hat Linux on my system. And since the adorable penguin Tux is the mascot i decided to call myself RHPeNgUiN!

Kinda stupid, but an interesting nick...

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by rhpenguin
Before I dumped the PC and got the Mac, I ran Red Hat Linux on my system. And since the adorable penguin Tux is the mascot i decided to call myself RHPeNgUiN!I can guess what your avatar will be!

[shadowfax]

originally posted by shadowfax
My grandpa makes his own computers, and puts computers together for other people. he always used to rename "my computer" to "Gandalf."

when he made my first computer, i named mine "Shadowfax," having read Lord of the Rings not too long before. it kinda stuck, and then i ended up putting it everywhere, email, AIM SN (sh4d0wf4x because some loser took the normal form ), and so on.
and it's shadowfax now. not Shadowfax. ha! ;)