Author Topic: Where Did Your Name Come From? (Read 52209 times)

thepenguin77 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2010, 11:31:11 am »

Back in fourth grade when I started runescape, (I stopped in 6th), I really liked penguins. So I felt it was appropriate to make my name thepenguin. But that name was already taken. So I took my favorite number, which is also my kindergarten bus number, 77 and stuck it on the end.

The 77 was probably for the better as the only website it's been taken on was youtube where I just used thepengwn77.

TravisE · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2010, 12:10:38 pm »

I've never been good at coming up with names, so my usernames are always based on my real name, usually first + last initial (like on this forum).

I would have done the same thing with my nick when I first came to EfNet last summer, but I thought of another idea with the username ‘mha’ that Magnus on ticalc.org always seemed to use. I figured that might have been first letter of first name + first two letters of last name, so I tried the same thing with my name and got ‘tev’, which I kind of liked, so I ended up sticking with that.

TsukasaZX · « **Reply #17 on:** June 17, 2010, 06:48:01 pm »

* TsukasaZX ahems and prepares his lengthy explanation of his online nicknames.. j/k

Originally, my nickname was just "Tsukasa", however there was another person on IRC who kept using it so I added "ZX" to the end. The "ZX" doesn't stand for anything (although one could say it means "Zero eXpectations" ;P). As for "Tsukasa", the canon origin is from the Tsukasa of Tokyo Japanese Steak, Seafood, and Sushi Bar in Illinois.

As for my other IRC nicks "SubaruZX" and the rarely used "JenosaZX", the former comes from the Japanese name for the Pleiades/Maia Nebula and the latter comes from Jenosa Arma, the name of the female bounty hunter in Scurge: Hive (an excellent game, despite being a Metroid clone/rip-off).

So no, you silly people, my nicks don't come from .hack//sign or automobile manufacturers

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2010, 10:15:17 pm »

Isn't the nickname you use on Cemetech the nickname of a spambot we got on the old Omnimaga board?

Iambian · « **Reply #19 on:** June 17, 2010, 10:53:23 pm »

11th grade English class, messing around with the topic "Iambic pentameter."

I suck as making up nicks, so I gave it some real thought. Some online identity that I would be consistent in throughout my time here. So... here you have it. Not that long. Except with how long I've actually *used* the name.

On IRC, I've used "Xethyl" as an alternate nick in case of disconnects and nasty things like that. That was derived off the pack of a chewing gum, where it advertised "Now, with Xylitol!"

TsukasaZX · « **Reply #20 on:** June 17, 2010, 10:57:36 pm »

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 17, 2010, 10:15:17 pm

Isn't the nickname you use on Cemetech the nickname of a spambot we got on the old Omnimaga board?

My username on Cemetech is my real name

How ominous that there was a spam bot here using it :X

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2010, 11:57:01 pm »

Sadly it's the truth

Same for Zaphod Belbeerox

quasi_Phthalo · « **Reply #22 on:** June 18, 2010, 12:20:18 am »

my name is 100% random. quasi of course means 'sort of', and phthalo is short for phthalocyanine blue or green dye. i thought it sounded cool

meishe91 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2010, 12:25:01 am »

Quote from: quasi_Phthalo on June 18, 2010, 12:20:18 am

my name is 100% random. quasi of course means 'sort of', and phthalo is short for phthalocyanine blue or green dye. i thought it sounded cool

Gotta say, that is one of the coolest explanations

Silver Shadow · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2010, 09:22:51 am »

Well, originally I was called ZagorNBK. Zagor was a mage in a fantasy book I once read and I thought it sounded cool, since I was fully into RPGs and that sort of thing at that time. Since it was already used in many places (yes, including Runsescape

), I added NBK to the end, short of Naheulbeuk, which is an humoristic fantasy adventure in MP3, which I'm really fond of.

Gradually however, it became to seem more and more geeky and "WoW fanatic", so I decided to change it. So one day, I stumbled upon... a bottle of perfume (!) with Silver Shadow written on it! I thought "Wow! What a stupid name for perfume. Couldn't it be used elsewhere instead?". And then I realized that it would sound cool as a nickname, still RPG-sounding, but not as hardcore.

And I'm now known as Silver Shadow ever since.

I did have some recent thoughts about an alternative, non-RPG nickname which I'll be able to use in appropriate places. Maybe "Alek"?

FinaleTI · « **Reply #25 on:** June 18, 2010, 09:31:29 am »

Honestly, I can't remember how I got the Finale part of my name, cause I can up with a long time ago, before I even knew there was a massive online TI community.

I do remember that my name used to be Finale83, cause I only had an 83+ at the time, but after I got my 84+ SE, I decided to change it to FinaleTI.

Hot_Dog · « **Reply #26 on:** June 18, 2010, 11:22:23 am »

I just decided to pick something catchy, something that would get people's attention and not soon forget. For those of you who think I picked my favorite food as a name, my favorite food is actually chicken.

rcfreak0 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 18, 2010, 12:39:14 pm »

I find it interesting that half of the names here came from runescape

Mine did too aswell. When I was in middle school, I got into runescape and I really like rc cars, and had a few until they became a bit to expensive $:-\$ ( and the fact I blew a motor up on one). Well needless to say, rcfreak was taken on runescape, so i just added the "0" after it cause i wanted the name, and its kinda taken to everything. I pretty much use this nick for just about everything. This includes WoW, and for those of you who know me enough on IRC i play a bit too much WoW sometimes, but since WoW doesnt allow numbers in names, its back to rcfreak for my main character, and if you wanna look at rc, and the other characters, the link in my signature shows them all. The stats might be a bit off but w/e.

Quote from: Iambian on June 17, 2010, 10:53:23 pm

11th grade English class, messing around with the topic "Iambic pentameter."

I suck as making up nicks, so I gave it some real thought. Some online identity that I would be consistent in throughout my time here. So... here you have it. Not that long. Except with how long I've actually *used* the name.

On IRC, I've used "Xethyl" as an alternate nick in case of disconnects and nasty things like that. That was derived off the pack of a chewing gum, where it advertised "Now, with Xylitol!"

I like the gum part lol

(edited for shameless WoW plug )

tloz128 · « **Reply #28 on:** June 18, 2010, 01:34:11 pm »

My name is just an abbreviation for "The Legend of Zelda" (because I am a huge fan of the series, and I couldn't think of anything else

). I added 128 at the end because it just seemed to fit.

Builderboy · « **Reply #29 on:** June 18, 2010, 03:10:05 pm »

Builderboy2005 was my first email address (because at that time i was a huge fan of building with Legos) and all of my internet names have been a derivative ever since

Luther (my alter ego) was the nickname given to me by my 5th grade teacher after he said I reminded him of Lex Luther for some reason

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thepenguin77

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DJ Omnimaga

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Iambian

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TsukasaZX

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DJ Omnimaga

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quasi_Phthalo

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meishe91

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Silver Shadow

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FinaleTI

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rcfreak0

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