The meaning of our names...

[exposingmyself]

froman98: a little John Frieda's hair serum could tame that fro into luxurious curls. My son has the same type of hair :)

Can't remember if I already posted but too lazy to search. Someone else had this name at another forum. I liked it and used it here. But thinking of changing it 'cause some people seem to get the wrong idea.

[miklav]

mine is simple: miklav = MIKhail LAVrenov i.e. my name :)

[cjm]

My names meaning is my initials.

Christopher J Martin. Simple huh?

[2Hog]

I started riding Harley Davidson motorcycles in 1948. I have had 2 hogs in the garage since 1994 and my son-in-law started calling me 2hog. One of the harleys belonged to him.

As a younger rider in the 40s and 50s I was called Hot Rod but I decided to go with 2hog.

[zacker]

zacker.. a play on the word zack, zac or zak.. which is short for Zacarelli.. My last name.
lol
-zacker-

[TundraBunny]

:rolleyes: First I wanted Queen Bee which is what Deborah means but it was being used by so many and I didn't particularly care for Shark Bait which was given to me as a cb handle when I lived in Alaska. The cb handle was given to me because I was always so full of it...my best friends dad decided I would be shark bait the next time we went fishing, which was often. Sooooo...I decided on TundraBunny because I use to live in Alaska and I am a female which many refer to as a bunny. Noooo...I'm not a playmate.:p

[Music to my eyes]

I wanted to join a really good photography forum, and finally found one......and was wanting something photo related in the name. All the obvious ones I could think of were gone ....lack of imagination perhaps??
So took a different tack -what does a photo do for me? Well, it's like music to my...eyes.....
The images I treasure most are the ones that affect me deeply. That's why I prefer portraiture/people images the most. I think it's amazing that a bunch of dots on a screen/paper can conjure up such emotions.......just like music can make you feel things even though they're just soundwaves.......

[theflyingkiwi]

well there are a number of things that I wonted to acheave with my name. + I wonted I couldn't think of anything interesting.

so NZL (the country I am from) and at the time the type of camera I had, G3 and since I use the camera I am a user.

all really simple

[cerveza4lu]

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, I was a salesman for a Corona Beer Distributor. It did have some benefits :). Seeing as I needed a work related e-mail I chose: cerveza (beer), 4 (for), lu (Lou). Hence the cerveza4lu!

[lomond]

My handle, "Lomond", I took from the hill, Ben Lomond, not from Loch Lomond.
Ben Lomond is Gaelic and means Beacon Hill ( Ben = hill and Lomond= beacon ).


My given name is Cameron, which was my great grandmothers surname.
She hailed from Benavie, near Fort William, homeland of the Camerons of Lochiel.
Cameron is also Gaelic and means "Crooked Nose".
In Gaelic "cam " means crooked or bent and "shron" means nose.

Is it true ? .................my nose may or may not be bent.......... but my lips are sealed. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Big John]

I am indeed a big fellow (6 foot, 5 inches tall and at one point weighed as much as 332 pounds), and when I was in the Army several years ago I aquired the nickname "Big John"....the silly part of it is that my name isn't even John! It was a referance to Little John from Robin Hood, but the person who pegged my with the name was a little confused.....

Knowing that there can be MUCH worse things to be called, I let it slide. Over time it just got shortened to John, and my commanding officer called my by that name for almost two years before he realized my actual name is Chris.

John is a much more manly name than Chris!

[billspaced]

It's my screen name for a lot of things. It started when I bought my first "Windows" computer in '95...and tried to sign up for AOL. Bill D was taken (first name space last initial) so I used billspaced...and now people think I'm an airhead or drug user.

What was I talking about? Why am I so hungry?

[martook]

I am indeed a big fellow (6 foot, 5 inches tall and at one point weighed as much as 332 pounds), and when I was in the Army several years ago I aquired the nickname "Big John"....the silly part of it is that my name isn't even John! It was a referance to Little John from Robin Hood, but the person who pegged my with the name was a little confused.....

Knowing that there can be MUCH worse things to be called, I let it slide. Over time it just got shortened to John, and my commanding officer called my by that name for almost two years before he realized my actual name is Chris.

John is a much more manly name than Chris!

*ROFL*
That is just hilarious!


Anyway, my story is kinda silly, and not funny at all. But as everything else I write, it's long. Many years ago, I needed a nick name to use on computers, so I asked a friend of mine if he had any ideas, since I couldn't come with something 'cool'. He gave it some thought and then told me a few I could choose from, one being "Marduk". He got it from the death metal group, I used because it was a god from the babylonian mythology, and my name is Martin, so half of it was from there.

So I had a cool nickname, life was good... and then Internet started catching on. It actually happened that someone had already taken my nick when I signed up in places, and on IRC (chat) other people often used it. After a long time of this, I decided I needed a change, so I took "MarDuK" and made it short "mdk". That was a great nickname for quite some time, very short and practical. The problem was that they released a game called mdk - Murder Death Kill, and other also realised that a short nickname was a good idea, so had to stop use that as well. Very annoying.

I had to change again, and this time I went for a nick-nickname.
On IRC, back in the days when I was called Marduk, some people had called me martook, like a combination of Marduk and Peregrin Took in Lord of the Rings. Don't know why (could be because martook sounds like marcrazy but in swedish), but I thought it was strange enough that I should be able to use it for some time, so I started having that as a screen name, and kept mdk for some things. Several years later, this is still a working combination, so I'm very happy with it :p

Cheers!


Ps. Yes, I'm utterly bored, not even I would have written all that otherwise...

[zacker]

The funny thing about my name is "zacker" is short for my last name "zacarelli" and growing up I was caller "zac" or "zak" but i explained all this earlier.. I belong to another photo site called betterphoto.com and there is someone else there who's real last name is "zacker" and I hope I didnt steal his screen name..somehow I dont think I did. About 1/2 hour ride from my house is a camera store called "Zackers Camera" Now that is a crazy coincidince if you ask me!
-zacker-

[2goldens]

My name is simple 2goldens. I have two Golden Retrievers. Alex and Riley.

Let me clarify that statement. My wife has two Golden Retrievers. I just play with them and give them back.

[neil_r]

My name is simple 2goldens. I have two Golden Retrievers. Alex and Riley.

And there I was making a David Beckham connection.

(That may not make much sense to you in the US but it's quite amusing over here ;) )

N

[swiftybilko]

In one episode of the Phil Silvers Show, Ernie Bilko is pleased to hear that his cousin Swiffington "Swifty" Bilko is joining the Motor Pool. A great opportunity for the Bilko family to join forces and clean up....however Swifty (played by Dick van Dyke) is a callow youth who has never picked up a deck of cards in his life.

I was the youngest and most naive in the pub, so was given the name which has stuck for over 20 years. To the extent my mother in law believed my surname was Swift until the day I married her daughter.

[KnobCreek]

I'm an avid rifle and pistol collector and when I went to a shootout, got drunk on Knob Creek bourbon. Took the name to remind me never to do it again and to honor the machinegun shootouts in Knob Creek, KY.

[Tadhg]

mine is my name (Timmy) in Irish.

[DxHatchback]

mine pertains to the car i drive

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amr5015/meet13.jpg

[Matatazela]

Matatazela

I am a white South African, who goes by the name of James Mitchell

However, when I worked in Nature Conservation, the Zulu people that I worked with gave me a nickname as is customary with them when they get to know someone over time.

Matatazela means someone that is always running around, never sits still.

I tried a few James129479 type names but Matatazela is pretty unique and I have yet to come across it elsewhere in this forum. :)

[neil_r]

Matatazela means someone that is always running around, never sits still.:)
Is that what they told you it means http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

I saw a great Madam and Eve cartoon once whe Eve was teaching Madam to speak Zulu, boy she had fun http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif

What part of KwaZulu-Natal are you in, I lived in Pietermaritzburg for a while.

N

[condyk]

What part of KwaZulu-Natal are you in, I lived in Pietermaritzburg for a while.


Well, as my ex-wife was born there it's a chance to explain my name: condyk is a combo of the first three letters of my surname and the last three of her's.

We chose it when we left for out first big travelling trip from 1999-2001 and we wanted a easy to remember hotmail address to keep in touch with people back home and also a domain name to use to upload images as we went.

As it happens I came up with nomadswithlaptops as a domain, which I still keep with all the photo's (postage stamp sized - ever tried uploading over dialup in Sri Lanka!!!!), and so condyk died within two weeks other than for email .... but I have pretty much used it everywhere as a screen name since. So far, it's never failed to be unique.

[schmoelzel]

Ok, I'll explain. My wife and I are both transported Germans living in beautiful Canada and we both have German last names.....mine is Schmidt; hers is Stoelzel. Combine the two and you get SCHMOELZEL!

[Briancd]

Mine is a user name I had to create when I first got onto the internet. It is my first name, middle initial and surname initial.

[CorruptedPhotographer]

Every now and then I come up with a new nick. I would say every few years. The last one was CorruptedSanity, but seeing as this is a photography forum; CorruptedPhotographer sounded devious.

I like the word Corrupted ;)

AKA:

-BlindTaxiDriver
-Lost Tear on a Monkey's Cheek
-BlindSniper

[Skip Souza]

If my wife can use her real name I guess that I can use mine. No imagination necessary. Also easy to remember :rolleyes:
Skip is the nickname that my parents gave me from the begining. Souza means one who dwells in salty places. The rim of a mararita glass is salty, isn't it? :lol:
Make checks payable to Robert J. Souza ;)

[Matatazela]

Is that what they told you it means http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

I saw a great Madam and Eve cartoon once whe Eve was teaching Madam to speak Zulu, boy she had fun http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif

What part of KwaZulu-Natal are you in, I lived in Pietermaritzburg for a while.

N

Dundee, in the north. About two hours from PMB, although I am going there today!

About the name, it's impolite to say "Headless Chicken"...

Matatazela is also one of those three wheeled log lifting and loading machines. The way they move is always this way, then that way, never consistent and steady, which is quite important in the Zulu vaue system.

[photo_luver]

Well after many searches my name means many things lol

Garrett - Anglo-Saxon - Strong spear
Garrett - English - Variant of Gerald rules by the spear
Garrett - Origin: Celtic/Gaelic Meaning: To Watch
Garrett - English - Meaning: Strong with spear!

So i guess spear it is!

[bigun]

Bigun cuz I'm a big one.

[goatee]

umm, goatee, because. . . I have a goatee :)

[Metgolf]

Mine is easy for me as the met are my intials and I my other hobby is golf, therefore, Metgolf :)

[gastroboy]

Oh...I loved Astroboy when i was a kid and the G is the letter of my first name.

Although after a big meal, I can also be called gastroboy :-P

[CorruptedPhotographer]

Oh...I loved Astroboy when i was a kid and the G is the letter of my first name.

Although after a big meal, I can also be called gastroboy :-P

haha gross man

[savra]

S is the initial letter of my name Sophia and avra is my dog's name,also Savra in Greek language means lizard,so my nickname has a double meaning :)

Sophia

[muscleflex]

well, mine started in 1996 - i wanted to use flex (my nick online) as my hotmail but it was taken, so i thought about muscleflex.
i'm a gymnast and a bodybuilder wannabe :( this is me! and i'm very proud of my back! :-) so don't say anything bad coz you'll make me cry!

[ATucker]

Short for Amos Tucker. Tim Conway's character in the Disney movie "The Apple Dumpling Gang".

[Carzee]

Now we have all this info on one thread its time for everyone to study up for the POTN Trivial Pursuit Championships! More details soon. Get busy studying!!

[Desertraptor]

Desertraptor is a play on words

I have a Raptor RC Helicopter and live in the desert. DesertEagle was used elsewhere so I played.

Also the Big Eagles are out here. Hence Desert Raptor :)

[glenhead]

Mine is the only nickname I've ever been given, by a buddy of mine at work back before the earth cooled. Started off as More Glenhead (instead of Glen Morehead (which I've always liked - the valley at the top of the moors (despite the teasing as a kid))), and he started calling me Glenhead. I've used it in just about every forum I've ever joined.

[Airedale1]

As you might guess I am a proud owner of an Airedale Terrier. I've always had Airedales and so did my dad and his dad before him.

So, for those that don't know an Airedale is a black and tan, no shedding, bear hunting, bird retrieving, war dispatch delivering, varmint chasing, member of the Terrier family and they are the largest member of that group. Back in the mid-1920'S here in the States they were the most popular dog.

[wu_wei0]

Took the name back in the 90's for that exciting BB action and text based mudding and have kept it since.
sounds kinda like woo way-- it is a taoist concept-- and can basically mean "effortless effort" from one definition.
Now, the zero at the end can represent "nothingness"- as in "being and nothingness," yin and yang. . . . Or it could be that wu wei is often taken and everyone seems to start their numbering at 1. You choose! ;)

[condyk]

You choose! ;)

Can't be bothered ... too much effort :lol: :lol:

[wu_wei0]

My thoughts exactly!! ;)

[whyzzerd]

ok.... This isn't just my history, but my families history...

My dad is a computer programmer who was really good at his job. He had a "do not disturb the wizard" sign on his door. From there his co-workers started calling the wizard as a joke. When he signed up for aol a loooong time ago he tried to use Wizard, but of course it was taken so he decided to spell it Whyzzerd. I used his name for a year or so before getting my own. However, I was already known as whyzzyrd around the web and wanted to stay close to that so I got Whyzzerd@aol.com. My sister wanted something close so she got Whyzzerd@yahoo.com. My brother wanted to stay with the same family theme so he spelt his whezzyrd. I have a few like whizzyrd and some others I can't remember. I have stuck with Whyzzerd since I was around 15. One great think about it is that it is NEVER taken!

[Neil H]

Well My parents sorta insisted on it!!!

Neil Hammerton.... Im lazy and cant b annoyed everytime Typing my full surname... so "H" is long enuff for my liking

Not origional, Not interesting but the truth :P

[Brands]

needed a name for a F1 site, so picked Brands85 ( first F1 GP I ever went too)......dropped the 85 sometime ago but still use Brands on any site I join;)

[PetersCreek]

I took my name from the community in which I live...Peters Creek, Alaska (http://www.mapblast.com/(wan1uump0nbbnq353pj3ri45)/map.aspx?L=USA&C=61.41072%2c-149.44739&A=21.50000&P=|28D2B|&TI=Peters+Creek+(neighborhood)%2c+Anchorage%2c+Ala ska%2c+United+States).

[bachscuttler]

I'd rather not go there!
My nick may make more sense to UK members who know of a rather crude comedian called Roy 'Chubby' Brown.

I was a bassist for 25 years and rather fond of a little 'JS' (Bach)

Put the 'Bach' and the 'Scuttler together, listen to some Chubby Brown albums and the rest will fall into place :lol:

Some time ago I PM'd Pekka to shorten it to 'Bachs' but it must have got lost in the 'post'

[nation]

No meaning behind mine. Nation was the first 6 letter word that went through my head when on the first day of my very first job the computer administrator asked for a 6 letter password to access the network. For the next 4 years I used variations of nation (nation1, nation2, nation3 ......) whenever we had to change passwords. I started using the name and password on internet forums and it has stuck. I've since changed the password though :p :p

[UCMBA97]

When I joined AOL, I had to come up with a screen name. I was in college at the time, working on a Bachelors in Accounting and expected to graduate in 1996, so I became UCBBA96 (school-degree-year). After graduation, I decided to stick around and get my masters, so I then became UCMBA97. And where is UC you ask, well it's the University of Cincinnati, which makes me a Bearcat Basketball fan.
You can find me on AOL, AIM, and various message boards (MR2 owners club, FJR owners, and here) as UCmba97

My name is Angel, some family call me Angie. Either works for me.

[shortie]

Cos I am not very tall - well thats my story and I am sticking to it

Shortie

[dimman]

Mine comes from Diman which in Swedish means Dimitris.
I had it also for my professional graphics id. (check business card attached)
How come and a Greek guy picked a Swedish version of his name for nickname...???



It sounded great that time!!

dimman:):)
ps I just added an m :dimman

[7SLOTS]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/7slots/avatars/Copyof7slotscopy.jpg

[JohnnyG]

I love this thread!

JohnnyG is just my name but with a twist. My name is John Giles. My mother called me Johnny and I never allowed anyone else to call me that because it was special from her.

My mother passed away many years ago and I stubbornly kept the same attitude until 4 or 5 years ago and I came up with JohnnyG. I don't know why but maybe it was because it was time. I still prefer John but I do like that handle. I use it all over the place and naturally used it here. I was surprised I could get it here with so many people but I did and I'm glad.

Thanks for such a wonderful thread!:D

[saravrose]

not very inventive, saravrose... Sara-vorheese Rose, vorheese a family name I can't possibly tell you how to pronounce it correctly. but, mostly i'm called Sari.

[Maureen Souza]

My mom gave me the first one.... and my hubby gave me the last :)

[JumpJtfp]

Since I'm new to this forum, I figured I'd try out some of the non-photography threads and stumbled - well, not really stumbled since it's out in the open - on this one.

My name cames from another nickname I use on another forum. That nickname came from the fact that I was listening to a particular song when I registered with the other forum and it just stuck. I'm not sure how site-plugging is viewed here so I won't mention the other forum's name, but I think there may be some members there who are members here. If that is the case, then you may recognize me by that nickname, which happens to be JumpinJesus.

Oh, I'm long-winded, too.

[johnnybfan]

NASCAR fan of Johnny Benson, Jr. I have too much of his die-cast, cards, and other assorted memorabilia (according to my wife) plus the fact that he's from our immediate area.

[Tlee05]

mine is because im tommy-lee so it acts as T-lee, :P 05 is just for the year.

[328iGuy]

I originally took this screen name after buying my 1999 BMW 328I; however I no longer drive a BMW and now drive a Volvo XC90.

I am not changing my SN though to reflect that! :lol:

[Racer23]

Racer23...

I race cars and my number has always been 23, except during drivers school when it was 21 but after someone had the number 21 reserved and I went with 23.

[snowrdr]

snowrdr -- short for snow rider

For my winter time passion; snowboarding... :D:D:D

[akacoach]

In my life that is supporting my new 'addiction' I'm a swimming coach, hence....

[Matoch]

I've been using this nickname for about 10 years now. I think i came up with it one day when I needed a nick name for playing fps's online. I've stuck with it ever since. I use it for everything online and I even registered matoch.com (http://www.matoch.com)

James

[fromthebleachers]

I created this one when i set up a site for the HS football team and other interested folks to look at my shots. alot of people call me Renda but even more call me Brenda

[Stevie@JC]

JC means Just Cruizin its a website i started

[Aylwin]

Very interesting thread! In my case, I simply use my first name. I guess I'm lucky that it's not very common so I can just use it as it is. Or actually, I'm unlucky for not being a very creative person.

I think the only time I haven't used my real name is on ham radio. My handle was Black Cat but that was nearly 20 years ago.

[Jaymz]

"Lax" -- Some friends used to poke fun at me for being relaxed and calm ALL the time. One of them just called me Lax, shortened for Relax and it just stuck. "Lacks" -- I am a software programmer for fun, Degree in computer engineering that I do not use except for a hobby. I had a software issue that I just could not work past, spent weeks staring at code wondering what I was doing wrong. One of the friends that dubbed me "Lax" came up and pointed out my error with almost no effort. :evil: :o Simple stupid oversight, heh, so he proceeded to taunt me with "Lax lacks at .....". I just stuck them together.

[Nidz]

My name is Nidan. Probably a name you will never ever hear again in your life. I have never come across another one ever. No idea where it comes from. Both my parents are not around anymore so I guess i'll never find out.

[CorruptedPhotographer]

My name is Nidan. Probably a name you will never ever hear again in your life. I have never come across another one ever. No idea where it comes from. Both my parents are not around anymore so I guess i'll never find out.

sorry about your parents.

Good news though:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:nidan

[Falkon]

Falkon is a name I made up for my election campaign. (http://www.7fire.com/PreZfalkon.htm)

[Nidz]

sorry about your parents.

Good news though:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:nidan


Cheers CorruptedPhotographer. Yeah I knew it was a decipline of a martial art but I don't think that's where it came from hehe.

[Rubi Jane]

I have a Jeep Rubicon and my middle name is Jane.
On the trail everyone calls me Jane which I don't clue in to so I usually fail to respond ;)

[BullittMan]

Bullitt starring Steve McQueen is my favorite movie, and 67 mustangs are my fav. cars.. nuff said.

[grumpyhaggis]

I'm a grumpy bloke from Scotland who (for the avatar) likes greyhounds (and - for that matter - all sighthounds).

[JayKitty]

my full name is Jason Kittle, so everyone thinks that the L is an i. after a while i just started going by it, and now just about everyone i know calls me kitty.

[The22oz]

Ripjaw was the name of my second company, my first real business idea. It was a design studio targeted to working with bands and such.

[Duder]

In case you didn't know, my username and avatar are from one of my favourite films, The Big Lebowski. I used to be know as The Dude on various message boards, but it evolved into duder, although I've also been know as El Duderino, Lebowski, and His Dudeness at various stages as well :rolleyes:

btw, I look nothing like Jeff Bridges.

[Liberalis]

"Liberalis" is latin for gentlemanly, or curtious ... not that I am, just sounds flash, lol

[MattyB]

my names matt

blame my parents.

[othomas]

Initial plus surname, how original :rolleyes:

Ditto! :D

[sharksbite]

i had to think of a screename for something else, and i was looking into my winamp playlist. Freezepop's Shark Attacks! It stuck with me ever since.

[itswillist]

I actualey came up with mine from an old man down the street ...

[graykita]

mine is the concat of Gray & Kita my two cats

[ae1969]

Initials and year of birth.

Boring........ :(

[quickben]

Started playing an online game and this was my second favourite character from the series of books I was reading at the time (my first favourite was already taken).

I subsequently stopped playing the online game because I couldn't use my first favourite name.

I'm stroppy like that.

[sugarzebra]

Sugarzebra is the British Royal Navy's phonetic code for the letters S Z, which is the suffix of my amateur radio callsign....one of my other hobbies. That will make sence to all the other hams on POTN!

[KO_300D]

mine's initials plus camera model

there's a username I used to use a lot when I got my first I.T job. A group of use were asked to create an e-mail address each for within the company and I couldn't think what to use... one of the guys on my team offered me a cadbury's chocolate animal and I reached in and happened to pick out a bunny!
Needless to say my chosen username incited a lot of curiosity and I no longer go by 'chocolatebunny'

[neil_r]

Sugarzebra is the British Royal Navy's phonetic code for the letters S Z,

What happened to Sierra & Zulu ?

[sugarzebra]

What happened to Sierra & Zulu ?

Hi Neil,

Sugar & Zebra are from the BRN's phonetic alphabet that was used in WWI. More recently the ITU and FAA adopted a different phonetic alphabet that included Sierra & Zulu. Post WWII, Sierra & Zulu have been the most popular however I just like the sound of sugarzebra better than sierrazulu when using my callsign phonetically! Hope that makes sense.

[Balliolman]

I was a student at the University of Oxford, specifically, Balliol College. When I met the Master of the College for the first time individually, in a custom called 'Handshaking', he said to me "Once a Balliol Man, always a Balliol Man!'

[WRC]

I'm a big rally fan. Pretty easy to figure it out from there.

[forsaken]

I am the forgotten one :)

[lostdoggy]

It is the opposite of who I am. Never lost and not a dog.

[springbokmackem]

I live in Cape Town South Africa, a springbok is a small antelope and is the name of the national rugby side. I was born in Co. Durham England and have supported Sunderland AFC since 1955. The nickmname for people from Suderland is "mackem"

[BruceC]

Bruce Chastain

[Alan B]

Alan Bryant hence Alan B ;) :lol:

[usukshooter]

Well I'm an american living in the UK and "shooter" is rather obviously a nickname for photographer

[Bass Ackwards]

I am an avid bass fisherman, and it is also my xbox live gamer tag. Just kinda stuck with me. I dont do most things normally...

[Freff]

I don't know if anyone remembers the BBC Micro programme on TV in the early 80s, well Freff was the presenters name on the show and the name was choosen because all the letters in ' Freff ' are all next to each other on the keyboard making very fast to type. I have used it since then. ( Sad isn't it ):o

[cking2]

I use my name where ever I can....its just short for my given name

Carl R King II

[pixelgrunt]

grunt (n.) Slang. One who performs routine or mundane tasks.

I worked in prepress for 6 years doing the grunt work. I liked it better than pixelpusher. Cool thread btw.

[PhotosGuy]

grunt (n.) Slang. One who performs routine or mundane tasks. Then there's Grunt (n.) Slang noun. One who performs routine or mundane tasks while wearing an 80 pound pack! :D

[iKirst]

iKirst.

The i thing was mine well before iPod's.

[volleybrad]

volleybrad - First name is Brad; I play and coach volleyball. :)

[SuzyView]

My turn. My name is Suzie. And I express my own views. So, I thought, a play on the words, thus SuzyView, and it's really easy to type. Try it!

SuzyView

[TomPierce]

Mine is pretty easy to figure out :)

I was playing around with variations of my full name and found that TomPierce.com was available as a domain name. So I snatched it up before anyone else could get it, and use it wherever I can.

Plus it's easy for me to remember...

Tom

[blackviolet]

the first graphical computer game i wrote (back in the days of 4 colour CGA graphics) was a asteroids-like game called 'blackviolet' - because everything was black and violet. the name has since been used for a vareity of projects.

[Yella Fella]

the names Ed :D but my user names relates to my days when i used to DJ, so its stuck as an alter ego hehe

[blacksmurf]

Hi
I've choosen 'blacksmurf' some years ago, when I used to chat on IrcNET.
It refers to belgian comics "Les schtroumpfs", in english "The Smurfs".
And ... why black?
Many people (here in Europe) know about Smurfs, but only a few know that the first story of Smurfs was about the Black Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs noirs):
while "normal" Smurfs are blue, black ones are nasty, enraged, they don't talk; they only run after blue ones, to finally jump and bite their short tail.
After a black smurf bite, blue ones turn to black.

Here you can see a few images, to show some steps of the original story, in french (the original language):
http://puffonero.tripod.com/
you have to click on the first image, and after that on the right bottom link, to proceed.
"Puffi neri" means "Black smurfs" in italian.

In my choice - joking - the "nasty" side and the fact of "transmitting" something: some time ago it was some alternative music that my friends listened and loved; now, maybe, the passion for photography.

bye
Fabio

[DwightMcCann]

Dwight was always taken! DwightMcCann is never taken, unless I have been there before and have simply forgotten, sigh!

[SezzySue]

I was named after my grandmothers sister, Sarah. Her little brother couldn't say sarah and called her Sezzy. She has always called me that. When I wanted to get a screen name for aol as a teenager, I wanted something easy to remember. My favorite character is Suzy's zoo so I rhymed it and called myseld SezzySue. IT is funny because everyone thinks my name is Sue, which I don't mind people thinking that. It is more privacy for me.

[staciecd]

I absolutely love my name - Stacie - so I added my middle initial and last initial for staciecd. I've used it since 95 on all e mail, chats, etc. Would love to have something cool, but sticking with my name for now.

[twocats]

Mine's not too creative, I'm afraid. ;) But appropriate, seeing as how my cats are frequently the subjects of my photos.

[JDrex05]

J for my First name Jordan
Drex for the shortened version of how my last name is pronounced (Drexler)
05 for the year I graduated high school.

[3Dart]

3D as in three dimensional i make my living as a sculptor

[scottykm]

First name scott, have a hyphenated surname K-M, kinda fits, have been using it for years on msn etc

[philpereira]

well phil is my nickname (anglicized from my portuguese given name) and pereira is my last name.

[Togra4]

My name is Barb, and 42 is, well, if you have know the Hitchhiker's Guide the the Universe, then you know.....

do you know for the longest time i thought i was the only one in america who knew who Douglas Adams was......sigh.......those were the days. May God rest his soul, a literary and philosophical genius he was.......

oh and as for my name:
im a girl and i do crafts......lots and lots and lots of crafts. I have crafted with my new craft pictures of my other crafts. if anyone is interested in seeing my crafts, please feel free to inquire. :)

[MazerRakhm]

do you know for the longest time i thought i was the only one in america who knew who Douglas Adams was......sigh.......those were the days. May God rest his soul, a literary and philosophical genius he was.......

Trust, (Don't panic!) me there are plenty of DA fans out there!

[Togra4]

oh how fun!!!!!!!!!!! yay....do you know that i actually keep my 1996 edition copy of the ultimate guide by my bedside, just in case i cant sleep....i dont pick it up quite as often as i should because i am generally exhausted anymore.....but i have been inspired...lol

Feel free to contact me if you (or any other Adams fans for that matter) would like to discuss the guide.....:)

[quietman]

Douglas Adams rocks!

....and my name was given to me as a teen when I started boxing, from the John Wayne Movie.

It also fits since my (other) hobbies are soaring and kayaking.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

[stoneylonesome]

oh how fun!!!!!!!!!!! yay....do you know that i actually keep my 1996 edition copy of the ultimate guide by my bedside, just in case i cant sleep....i dont pick it up quite as often as i should because i am generally exhausted anymore.....but i have been inspired...lol

Feel free to contact me if you (or any other Adams fans for that matter) would like to discuss the guide.....:)

Picked up the DVD a few months back, I thought it was pretty darn good as far as a movie take off goes. well I've watched it about 3 times already. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[JackieS]

I promised myself as a kid when I was first learning to write at school I would shorten my name as soon as I could. By the time I had written "Jacqueline Margaret Sutherland" at the end of every lesson, everyone else was done and gone. So later I cut it down to Jackie S. My married name still begins with S, so I just stick to that on line.

[NordieBoy]

Well one of my motorbikes is a Gilera Nordwest (well two of them are actually) so NordieBoy was an obvious pick for motorcycling boards and it went from there.

[mikegoat]

I was an early subscriber to AOL. Back then my passions were in my Pontiac GTOs ( a 65 and 66). Called "Goats" by those in the hobby, those cars have skyrocketed in value since I sold them cheap. I created my aol screename back then in honor of my hobby and have kept it ever since. Unlike the cars, the screen name has not skyrocketed in value...:(

[rklepper]

First initial last name. No time to make up anything cute and all the nicknames I have had throughout my life have not been cute.

[FlipsidE]

Flat out stole mine off IRC back in 1996. I went into a room and saw someone with this name formatted exactly this way...loved it. I've used this username ever since.

[KatmanDu]

Came from an obscure comic book character back in the days when login names had to be 8 characters long. Constanly confused with an online comic of the same name (but not the same as the character I took the name from). It's the one I've been using longest, so I stuck with it.

[rsheele]

Mine is my username from work. 1st initial from my first name and the first 6 letters of my last name. Rich Sheeley = rsheele
It's boring but it is always available when I go to register onto a site.

[Woolburr]

Woolburr is short for Wool E. Bear...the furry little fellow psoing as my avatar. Was told he was dangerous and hated men when I saw him frantically trying to get my attention at the shelter. The shelter staff freaked when I opened his cage and he literally jumped in my arms and demanded to go home with me. I knew he was serious when I was walking him around the parking lot and he jumped in the back end of my Explorer and refused to get out. He's been my sidekick ever since, as well as providing a less than common user name.

[Dragonfli Spirit]

Ok, don't laugh ;)

Whilst starting out on my spiritual path, someone offered to read me my 'Medicine Cards'.
One of my cards was, the dragonfly. Since then, I have always been known as 'Dragonfli Spirit'. :)

[Sparky98]

In 1998 I had an electrical accident at work and afterwards one of my fellow workers started calling me Sparky so I decided Sparky98 was as good as any.

[MX Oilcan]

The MX = Motocross :D My passion other than photography.

Oilcan is an anagram of my name. :D Can you guess what it is? ;)

[shredchic]

I snowboard and I'm a female.

Snowboarders = shredders
females - chicks

Shortened, I came up with shredchic. 9 years later, I'm still using it for online purposes.

[BIGTUFFGUY]

it was just something i was calling people one day. like oh that guy is a toughguy. i just added to it and called people bigtuffguys. soon enough. when i had to think up a domain name BIGTUFFGUY it was. i used it on one forum and its just easier to use the same sign in name on all the forums i'm on.... 6-7 20? lost count.


Oh, and to float my own boat. I'm 6'2" 240ish pounds and quite athletic. I'm most always the biggest guy out of my friends.

[yonni]

My grandfather called me this when he was alive. He was a Finn from N. Minn. The Virginia, Cook, Lake Vermilion area.

[b0b]

Being a non complex sorta kinda guy user name chosen so I could remember who I am
Also helped if I was ambidextrous

b0b

shades of Black Adder also appealed to sense of humor

[Lotj]

My real name is Charlotte, so people call me 'Lotj(e)', because I'm rather small. (-tje is a thing you place after names etc. to make it 'smaller' in Dutch).

Lot also means 'destiny' and 'ticket' in Dutch.

So maybe I'm just a little ticket to the destiny :)

[wanderer488]

mine is that I love to travel and wander to see what I can find..:D

[am_pitbull_terrier]

Mine is named after my favorite breed of dog.

[imrtun]

I
Must
Remember
This
User
Name

[328iGuy]

I
Must
Remember
This
User
Name

Now THATS hilarious..... :lol::lol::p

[imrtun]

It all started back in 1997 when I was about 10 and I forgot my username an password on yahoo!

Those were the days.

[Hatch1921]

Out of frustration... tried to register with Yahoo mail a couple years back and every combination of "Hatch" was taken... tried hatch1921 and it worked...lol ... just started using if as a screen name on the sites I visit.

Hatch

[Marshal]

Real name = Sam Morgan
Eminem = Marshal Mathers

Moved from SoCal to NZ and being a white american who can sing (rap?) along to all of Eminem's songs I was quickly nicknamed 'Marshal Morgan'. It later got shortened down to Marshal and here I am today.

[panasonic]

Don't you just get sick of looking for a user name you can remember? I took mine off my Microwave!

[wannabe_at_glamis]

wannabe : meaning I would like to be
at
glamis : home of the biggest, and most abundent sand dunes in North America

It like to ride motorcycles, quads, sand rails etc., and this is the best place on the continent to do it. (if you like to ride in the sand) Also the name never seems to be taken no matter what forum I am joining up with.

[Onwuma]

Holy cow... i forgot about this thread. I had no idea it would last this long! Or be stickied! Awsome!