Nicknames?

[Guest]

Just out of curiosity, why do you have the nickname that you do? I think it could be interesting to hear the reasoning behind everyone's handle (if you want to of course).

To be fair, my name (Sinsear) didn't really have a dramatic origin. Obviously, it's a play of words off of "sincere", but spelled differently (i.e. "Sear", as in "Searing Heat" or something of that order). I thought it had its own little bit of irony to it.

Sinsear

[BADGER]

That's funny, I was just thinking about posting this topic. Anyway, when I was born, my dad said that I looked like a Badger from those children books. So that's where mine came from.

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BADGER
Not Building Software
members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm (http://members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm)
Current favorite quote: Oh Behave!

[Loser]

Hmmm...

[Aurora51]

I was watching some show on Area51, while registering for these boards. It then showed the super secret Aurora, a super sonic plane. Well, i just mixed the to and got Aurora51.

[Uncle Duke]

I was reading The People's Doonesbury: Notes From Underfoot when I registered for the board. Naturally, I thought of Duke Nukem, and that made me think of Uncle Duke from the strip. Since he was my favorite character, due mainly to his outlandishnes, I chose his name for mine.

I didn't notice this until several weeks after it happened, but I also registered to use the Bulletin Board on the Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall at [url]www.doonesbury.com[/i] the same day, and my handle there is Dopefish . . .

If you ever see me anywhere else on the internet, I'll be under the name "BadChicken", except two places: on the Internet Gaming Zone, I'm "MarvinBot", and on "Deep Blurting: The MST3k Message Board", the name's TomSerVo.

Whew . . . i feel schizophrenic, now.

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Uncle Duke
samherald@usa.net
Visit HodgePodge International:
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[Guest]

Heard the superchicken cartoon theme song on the radio and was singing it all day and it somehow got on the net. Luckily i didn't here rocket robinhood theme song http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[hellchicken]

My nickname has no real origin! Whenever I play in a multiplayer game (lets say Quake II) and somebody is about to kill me, I turn into a chicken and run like hell (easy, isn't it?). It sometimes even works, but usualy I die anyway. Well, nevermind!
My other nickname/callsign is DevilMan (no, I'm not obsessed with hell or Satan).

[AXE]

I had just rented the "Hackers" movie when I named myself, so I was on a hacker kick. I figured, "what hacks besides a nerd?" Since "Paul Bunyon" or "lumberjack" would sort of suck as a nickname, I chose A-X-E, but later shortened it to AXE, because those damn hyphens slowed down my WPM rate A LOT!!!

I am known as SpoonMaster just about everywhere else, except on sailor mercury's chat room, where I combined my two handles to be: SpoonAxe!!!

SpoonMaster came from the fact that people in this classroom I am in would steal my cookies from inside my sack lunches (cafeteria food should be discarded at a toxic waste dump, not at a lunch line with eager children waiting to get a free meal, but I digress...). Actually, it was the teacher!!! Anyway, I finally started leaving threatening notes written on brown paper bags in the fridge saying that "if you touch my food, I will disembowel you with a spoon!" I eventually started Signing them "SpoonMan," and even taping a plastic spoon to the bag. They never touched my lunch again, but spoonman is already taken as most handles on the 'net. So I changed it up to SpoonMaster, and have lived happily ever after.


Also, I think it was the November issue of PC Gamer, but on the last page where they have that tiny little stupid story, it tells about some girl walking in a park, and then is "threatened" by a guy with a grapefruit spoon!! LMAO!!!

[Doppleganger]

Well Doppleganger has been my nick for a long time, ever since the days of real BBSes. I chose my nick because I had been playing Magic the Gathering all summer and I found that the Vesuvian Doppleganger kicked ass when you used him right. Anyhow I shortend it and that is what you see today.

Doppleganger

[fool]

In death matches and most chat things I'm in (like ICQ), my name is "fool". It's just something I kinda developed from tricking people in multiplayer. People will think I'm an idiot one minute but then they step into my trap. Heh heh...(I'm not that great but it sounds good...)
Someplaces like IRC and Yahoo chat, my name is "Monogoggle" (Chop off the "e" for IRC, ; They won't let me have that long of a name) which was basically my alternative to "fool" since that name is gauranteed to be taken. I logged onto IRC and it told me to change my name, I looked around the room and saw the box with my chem lab goggles in it and it said "Monogoggle". I figured nobody would have that name so I used it.
In even other places on the net like some Delphi bulletin boards, my name is "Atook". Atook is the character Ringo Star plays in "The Caveman", a really cheesey but fun caveman flick they show on TNT or TBS sometimes. My sister introduced me to the movie shortly before I tried to post a message on a forum and of course "fool" was taken.
Whenever I'm on AOL (which is rare), my name is MattatVT. I think it's really lame but my dad being the head of that account gave me the name and I was stuck with it. Basically derived from my real name which is Matt and the I go to VT (Virginia Tech for those not in the know http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif ).
I think that's about it. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif


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Fool
Random quote of the moment:
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." --Peter F. Drucker

[BADGER]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Hmmm...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Was that in reference to my story, Loser? Just curious, that's all.

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BADGER
Not Building Software
members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm (http://members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm)
Current favorite quote: Oh Behave!

[Guest]

Have more nicks here, but this one sounds funny (it's a common middle name from the old days). I often use it in games like in Duke, it's pretty funny I think to get shot by Petronella instead of 'Mr. Chainsaw' or 'Skullcracker'.

I don't know why I use it here though!?

[Guest]

Hey sinsear this thread skyrocketing!!

Warlord - flying, disappearing, stealth, gigantic warrior, with a heat seeking missle launcher.. in UnReal...

I must've gotten killed 1000 times with this guy!! and that was from the friendly one i put in a room with the Editor...I havn't gotton to see the Angry one Yet!! *GULP*

When you get to this guy - save the game - then run like mad and prey he dosn't see you!!
I thought he was cool!!


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Damn!! I goto get me one of those!

[Guest]

I really like the movie "The Shinning" so obviously....REDRUM. I just think it sounds cool and the fact that it's murder backwards makes it good for death matches. I dunno, it just stuck in my head...

-Redrum
"Billy's not here Mrs. Tourence"

[This message has been edited by REDRUM (edited 12-15-98).]

[Buzzer]

i think i figured my nick out in a cafe in a drunk mood...no story or anything...dammit i'm dull http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif my first chat session i started of as "hernandez" and then some guy was herassing me and i changed my nick to "taxidrvr" and i started taunting him with the words "you talkin' to me? you must be talkin' to me cause theirs no one else around" ..but that was all a loooong time a go.Hey whattayaknow! a story afterall http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Guest]

I made up my nickname from a story I was developing. In the story, Skythunder is the God of storms, and I happen to love storms.
So when a few of my friends read my story, they decided I was Skythunder. And the 1 stands for the one and only.

[Guest]

Private Ale was the title of a Green Day song from one of their earlier releases. For the uninformed, ale is defined as an alcoholic beverage brewed from an infusion of malt and flavored with hops, sugar, etc., being heavier and more alcoholic than beer. I don't know why I took the name exactly, but I kind of like it. Drink up.

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Al Sobrante
"Private Ale"

[Loser]

My nick is "Loser" because I am a complete loser.

BADGER: Nope, that "Hmmm..." had nothing to do with your story. Just felt like saying (typing) it.

[Guest]

My nick originated from a test I had when I first started out on GeoCities in early 1996. Since AOL didn't allow 'bad' words as nicks, I thought I'd try it with Geocities with pc_bomber. It worked, so I kept it just because it sounded pretty cool at the time. Then, around summer 1997 I shortened it to PCB. It now has three meanings: Personal Computer Bomber (although I am not one), Panama City Beach (my favorite place to pick up girls) http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif, and the last one, which I won't reveal, is my first/last initials with location. Well, I hope that explains the origin of my nick. Later all.

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[Guest]

I began using "slaybak" as a handle when i first got my TEN account bak in `96, "slayback" was allready taken so I just dropped the c, i think it looks better anyhow.
Slayback, the name i was going for orginaly is the name of a little known marvel comic character that mainly appeared in the short lived Deadpool serise.

My first handle, bak in the old Real BBS days, around in 91-92, was Amaga Red, a slight variation of the marvel comic character Omega Red. I used that name untill i switched to slaybak in 96, i use to keep up with marvel comics quite abit but not much anymore..

my nick on IRC is also Slaybak, and I use it for everything else with the exception of Everquest where i go by Zshar-Ashnhagog, kind of like Shub-Nigguroth from necronomic lore..

l8r

sb


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ºBY DEMONS BE DRIVENº

www.wildwookiescatsex.com (http://www.wildwookiescatsex.com)

[Guest]

"Tavern322" is just my screen name on AOL...yeah, it's really stupid, but back then I was naive and foolish and i thought the name was pretty cool.. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/blush.gif

anyway, tavern is Moe's tavern on the Simpsons, 322 is 3/22, my birthday, which is coming soon.

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La taberna

[TerminX]

My nick comes from the fact I like to terminate things and I like movies that are rated X http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif




-TerminX

[Guest]

My nick name comes from Unreal. I always used the rifle in Unreal deathmatchs, about 80% of the time I decapitate someone with my rifle, that is my favorite weapon. Usually when someone starfed, I hit them perfectly in the head with my rifle. I originally wanted to be called sniper but it was already taken. But originally, I got the name Rifleman when I made up a story in my mind, there was a "rifleman" that was on a horse, and he used to fight these punk guys on these motorcycles with rocket launchers and such, he always won and defended this small town from raiders and monsters after the asteriod caused a massive nuclear explosion (Apocolypse) and he defended his people well against all these nuclear mutunts and raiders. Because he was too good and always saved the day, that was why I named it after him.

[This message has been edited by Rifleman (edited 12-15-98).]

[fool]

3/22? Hey wait a second that sounds familiar... oh yeah, because it's my birthday too. Weird. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif


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Fool
Random quote of the moment:
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." --Peter F. Drucker

[Joe Siegler]

I just don't know where my nickname comes from. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment
www.3drealms.com (http://www.3drealms.com)

[Delphi Dude]

I needed a user ID for GeoCities. Since they already used both my first and last name, I thought I'd use something descriptive. I'm male, and make a living as a Delphi programmer. So there it is...

[BADGER]

Hey Joe, I was going to post this if he didn't. He merely beat me to it. Hmm...Did he spell compliment wrong?

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BADGER
Not Building Software
members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm (http://members.xoom.com/badgerm/framed.htm)
Current favorite quote: Oh Behave!

[Joe Siegler]

Just wanted to compilemt Sinseaer here. This is one of the better threads that I've seen pop up here in awhile.

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment
www.3drealms.com (http://www.3drealms.com)

[Guest]

Hmm... my name is Wallace... tricky, huh? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

-Wallace

[Guest]

I can't remember why I picked my nick. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

J/K, of course. My sisters both play v-ball, my dad and I coach it, and it's basically the controlling factor in my immediate family's life. In other words, I love volleyball.

"Hmmm, I wonder if the NCAA volleyball finals are on today..." http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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Mr. V
Fav. quote: "Girls rule."

[Guest]

Some people just call me Chris. I tend to answer to that most of the time.

[Guest]

Does Keen ring a bell?

Love,

Commander

[Volt9000]

Originally when I made my first appearance on the Net, I was Viper. Big snore. There were about 5,000,000 other Vipers, so I changed to Ogopogo (some of you may remember him.) But then this Ogopogo fad caught on and before I knew it there were almost as many Ogopogos as Vipers! So I was experimenting on mIRC, and I thought Volt9000 had a nice ring to it (since I couldn't be 9000Volts.) I think Volt9000 sounds better anyways.

[Guest]

I chose my name based upon the silliest things...my cat (shadow) and the word jet combined nicely to form shadowjet, which happened to barely fit in the terminal velocity name for multiplayer. When I signed up for my first e-mail account, shadowjet was taken. I thought of some simple numbers, etc. and eventually liked the sound of "white". That was it. (4 years ago)

This was the beginning of a beautiful concept. I began to chat, e-mail people, get "in" and kept using shadowjet_white. Eventually, I was chatting on Yahoo everyday (quite a lamer eh? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif) and began to notice the abundance of "shadows"; people with "shadow" in their name. So I formed the League of Shadows. I recruited over 40 people in 2 years, designed a web page, held chat meetings (not well attended due to peoples schedules) and rallied all the "shadows" who were online into the fewest rooms possible. This really confused people because they could no longer refer to a person as just "shadow".

Though this was fun for a while, it began to suck away my time, I began to neglect it, and it was soon disbanded. Ho hum...

[Termite]

I got my nickname when I was in the 3rd grade. I used to chew my pencils and the teacher called me a termite. It's stuck ever since. I actually have it tattooed on my back in Old English lettering. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

-Termite

[Guest]

woh, thats cool, i use to chew my penciles in school too!!! Long live the pencile chewers http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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ºBY DEMONS BE DRIVENº

"the Aurora Borealis, here, at this time of year,.. Localized in your kitchen...?! ..Yes. Can I see? ..No."
-Simpsons

[illusion]

I was looking for a new name because my prior name was being used by someone that I didn't know.

My old one was RacerX. I coudln't think of one so I looked on the back of a game box for my old macintosh. It was a puzzle game and it had the word 'illusion' on it. So there you have it.




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-illusion
www.prey.net/ (http://www.prey.net/)

[Guest]

This is an old topic but here we go.
I call myself Mike the Spike just for the fact that if you touch me (or a spike) you're gonna get hurt,Mike is the translation of My Italien name Michele wich is Michael in English.
Good topic ; )

Mike the Spike

qoute:
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What the hell happend to me?

[Alex]

My old username was Tavern322 (check my post for this name up there somewhere).

For my new name, I wanted "Evergleam" which comes from an Everclear song...but it was already taken by some shmuck! Then I thought of Gleamer, which I think sounds better anyway.

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*gleam*

[Guest]

My names comes from wrestling. I use to hate the guy 'Macho Man Randy Savage', but lately he's been pretty cool, and since I was watching wrestling when I was filling out the membership form, I decided to use Savage http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Guest]

Lets just put it this way. Do you know who Piers Anthony is?

Kingomen,

[Guest]

Hmm, welp... Might as well put mine up here.

It all started back in the days of deathmatching in Descent and Duke Nukem 3D. I particularly enjoyed hunting people to the death. This was is an art that I still enjoy today in deathmatching. In which, that is the real originality of my name today.

Most people will think that I'm obsessed with dinosaurs or Jurassic Park. Although the velociraptor is my favorite dinosaur and Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies, the real reason for my name was the 'hunt' factor in deathmatch.

So, of course it (Raptor) was taken by 3 million people on AOL a couple years ago, so I added the '3434.' Since I've been all around the Internet, Raptor3434 is taken on virtually everything! Whether it be MSN web servers, UBB message boards, 6 different Internet Service Providers, to ICQ. The thing about my name is that it stays the same! If you see a Raptor3434, it's always me. Raptor3434 will probably always exist as long as I do.

So there you have it... latez all!

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Raptor3434@aol.com
ICQ #: 12088845
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members.aol.com/raptor3434/index.htm (http://members.aol.com/raptor3434/index.htm)
*Games, Sounds, Contests, Utilities, and More!

[Draco]

Draco: short for Draconian, meaning over the edge and evil. For the most part, that fits me quite well..

I used to be Draconis, from MW2, but there were so many people who used it too I gave it up. I was Draco (and still am) when I signed up at the forum but I used Lord Draco or LD for some other places. Now that you all know you must die... just kiddin'. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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<A HREF="http://
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http://www.come.to/Lord_Draco
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[This message has been edited by Draco (edited 01-10-99).]

[TZR250]

i own a lousy TZR250 combat model motorbike *1985 model* from Yamaha. that was 3 years ago. been using this nick at any chat or forums icq...etc etc.... im the one and only TZR250 http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Arkhangel]

Mine's the nick I use for Deathmatching. I dunno where I got it from. Could be because I'm pretty good at sniping at people from rooftops while gaming.

[Guest]

Was listening to Foo Fighters CD when first logging on to TEN back in early 96...

BTW I'm not a big fan of the group. People on IRC ask me "Hey did you go to the Foo Fighters concert last week ???" .. yeah...

But it would be stupid to change nicknames now. On the internet that's usually the only thing people recognize you by, so if you change it, it's like you're a stranger..

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<CyberCarrasco> My country is Brazil!!! You Country????

[Guest]

It started on one of my birthdays, I got a Gumby birthday card (Monty Python 'My Brain Hurts' Gumby not that weird clay thing) I tought it would be a good idea to scan the picture in and make a Quake player model skin with it. I liked the idea of playing as a Gumby and I kept going on about them, so eventually I just used the nickname Gumby.
I recently found that there are a HUGE amount of people calling themselves Gumby on the internet, so I might change it to I.B Gumby or J.Y Gumby or something.

[Guest]

Mine came from a movie that I found quite interesting. My other name that I use for deathmatching is ace potato. I like it because it sounds corny, I am the arch rival of my friend ace tomato, and it looks really cool in deathmatch play, exspecially in SW. when one of my friends would call himself "his nads" for the fun of it, then when he killed me, something like "ace potato got beaten like a red-headed step child by his nads". every body in the room would start to fall over laughing. its great.

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-Mentel-
- mentel@netcom.ca -
-AMD rules-

[Guest]

I actually thought of giving myself the nickname 'The Mischievous Ninja'(in deference to my love of SHADOW WARRIOR)when I first registered here, but then on second thought I felt it was a bit long so I decided to use my real name... http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Guest]

I use the nickname SpeedyPlayer because my girlfriend called me that in one the letters she wrote me. So, I thought it would be cool to use these message boards!

[Guest]

Well..
the reason I use this nick is that I love those little quarrymen in the Settlers games
they are so cool...

[Guest]

My reason is that, well... my name is Mikael ,but all my friends call me Micke.
I've been thinking of changing the nickname here (I don't want the same as the real one), to Molo or Willie. What do you guys think?

And, Quarryman, cool idea! I also like those stone-digging figures!

[MrEricSir]

I had a friend in 6th grade who always called me "Mister Eric Sir" and after a while, I started calling myself MrEricSir.

[IgWannA]

it's pretty obvious 4 me.... i have an iguana and it's cool. thought i'd be more imaginative(?) so i'm now IgWannA (also like iggy pop)

IgWannA AKA Greg
<thegame.braveheart.com>
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"to twist your head round 720 degrees is one thing.... but to say you love a woman and 4 them to believe it is totally different"
hmmm?

[IgWannA]

it's pretty obvious 4 me.... i have an iguana and it's cool. thought i'd be more imaginative(?) so i'm now IgWannA (also like iggy pop)

IgWannA AKA Greg
<thegame.braveheart.com>
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"we're already dead... just, we're living a little longer than was planned"
hmmm?

[Darktalyn]

Whoa... I'm bringing this OLD thread up after awhile, huh? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

Anyway, as for my story, it all started back when I first began deathmatching in Descent. (Remember, Raptor3434? LOL seems like a long time ago, huh?)

I originally wanted my name to be RazorWing (because I wanted it to have something to do with flying a la Descent), but it juuuust wouldn't fit. So then I changed it to Talon. I kept this name for the looooooongest time when all of a sudden, I heard about Prey and how the main character was "Talon Brave"
So then I was like, "ah crap" and I wanted to change it. I felt being called Talon once Prey was out, would be like calling yourself Duke back in the Doom2 days and then having Duke3d come out. So I had to change it. (I guess I did it a bit prematurely huh? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif )
Anyway, I changed it to DarkTalon and wanted to change my AOL nick to this also, but it was taken! I couldn't believe it. Not wanting to give up my newly changed nick, I just changed the "o" to a "y" and then tried it. Still taken!! Damn those RPG peeps on AOL! Damn them!
Ready to give in, I added a "1" to the end and that's why my nick is DarkTalyn1. Of course, the one is only there some of the time, in deathmatches I often just go as DarkTalyn. Hm, that's it.

BTW Kingomen, you read Piers Anthony as well? Cool!

-D.T.

[Buzzer]

Hey i remember Raptor3434 ! Man was it that long ago allready? where does time go http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif.

[Stingray]

Now that I'm using my nickname on here, I can explain where it came from...

Long, long ago (about seven or so years) I needed a nickname for CB radio. It was something I was into at the time to talk to my friends at night.

Everyone on CB radio has a handle (as they call them there) and I needed one. I tried several nicknames, none of which I liked.

One day, I was strolling past some National Geographic magazines, when I saw some stingrays on the cover. I suddenly realized that that is quite a cool name for a nickname.

I've used it ever since. As anyone can tell you, I'm not about ready to change my nick either. I've seen other people change their nickname because they wanted a change. Personally, I don't have any plans for changing my nickname.

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Dopefish!

[Darktalyn]

No no no, I'm not talking about on this board or anything... I'm talking about back when Rap and I used to play Descent with eachother in summer '95 (or somewhere around there) It feels like a long time ago considering all the years full of deathmatches we've played against one another in numerous games.

-D.T.

[ryche]

I got my name from Queensrÿche. They're a rock band that I used to listen to all the time so I got the name. Of course when I registered for this board, you couldn't have special characters, but now you can..doh!
http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[RugerMK1]

Prepare for the sequel to this thread!
It's at the 60 mark, so it should have a new thread started! Am I right? Do I need help?
Probably!
Isn't coffee great!?

[cheeseboy]

My name comes from the Latin "to cheese". Alternatively its because I like cheese and I'm a boy (der!).
You think coffee's good? JUST TRY DEVILS BREW.
The altimate in morning wake up, consiting of anything you can find, one wiff is guaranteed to wake even the heaviest of sleepers (tryed and tested at many parties) http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif

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-Cheeseboy
cheeseboy@stenson55.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.stenson55.freeserve.co.uk

[Guest]

I have a word from latin 'Urkelesque' meaning 'to be like Urkel'

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I charge $1500 for the night...

Quote: Gosh you're cute. Wanna buy a monkey?

[Scotty]

<MegaBoard poster>I'm bringing this thread back to the top! http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif </MegaBoard poster>

[Uncle Duke]

WTF? Where'd you dig this up?

[Guest]

uh....i just really like duke, and this is the web site of the company that created duke,and it was the first nickname that popped into my head

[JonnyC]

Q: How did you get your nickname?
A: I lost a bet.

Well, my real name is Jon, last name starts with a C, simple eh?

Notice how I put that "eh" in for authentic Canadian effect?

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If violence isn't the answer, I don't think I understand the question.

[Guest]

I got my lame ass name when I first slipped in the DW forums as a newbie. There were some weird people back then, and I wanted to remain as unoticed as possible. I also have no creativity or imagination, another reason I have this name. But when you think about it, not many people choose this name cause it's so boring. For some reason, this name stuck. Don't ask me why. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/blush.gif

I aslo use Eric in some places, cause it's, like my name. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Maffu]

My real name is Matthew, and there was this guy at school who couldn't pronounce it properly. He said Maffu... And I started using it as my build sig when I made Duke Maps... Now I use it everywhere, although lately it has become case sensitive "MAffU".

Over at Cyberdelia we have Sig Testing Grounds... That's where I try to make some cool sigs.

Here's one of my latest:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Galaxy/5598/phat_pics/SigAnim3.gif
The idea of Sig Testing originated in DW forums when we had HTML, that's why I never started one here... :P

[Goomba]

well, my freind started callin me shaggy, cuz i kinda look like him, but with longer hair http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif . And the name kinda stuck to me....

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(~Shaggy~)
Come get some.

[Pycine]

I got mine when I learned the word 'pinnacle'. Whenever I said it i would always screw up and pronounce (and spell) it 'pycinal' (pike-ine-el. (long i sound) saying pik-ine-el (short i) was too hard) So everybody (including my teachers) started calling me 'Pycine'. Pronounced: Pike-ine


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PYCINE
"Live by the BFG. Die by the BFG"

[Guest]

I kinda adopted my nick from my friend. He used to use my comp for irc and he kep leaving his nick on my comp so eventually i got tired of changing it and I just kept using it

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"And the earth broke open and thy lamer was cast into the pit of flames"

Daggar 3:16

[Guest]

Here's how mantis came to be.

I've been running cross-country track for the past 4 years in high school and a little before the beginning of freshman year, the team worked out at one of the college's swimming pool sometimes at night.

After the workout, we used to play some basketball in the deep part of the pool. Since, I'm a fairly small guy, I guess I looked kind of funny treading water and swimming around crazily for the ball and trying to shoot it. So, then in the locker room when some of the teammates were joking around with me, one of the seniors at the time said "Don't say that, he's the praying mantis."

I don't know how, but the name stuck. It's weird how it all started, but it caught onto everyone on the team, and most kids and some teahcers at school call me mantis. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

Anthony "Mantis" Miceli

[Guest]

Hmmmm.... Mine (Transpulse) is a weapon in Forsaken. Bounces off walls and lets you plan sneak attacks. hehehe Also my MSNIGZ (www.zone.com) nick. !Transpulse.

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[Goomba]

kool, Im a goth too. well, not toally but i love the gothic stuff, like jewelry and stuff http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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(~Shaggy~)
Come get some.

[Misel]

I have a bad hand-writing and my signature looks like MISEL and not like my real name and since a classmate realizeed that my nickname was Misel.

[Guest]

Mine, it comes from the Simpsons, in the 132th Episode Spectacular, where they looked back at the old Simpsons.

Troy said "As wacky as they were, there was no one wackier than Captain Wacky, later renamed Homer."

In a report on Homer (the greek) for school, I used the quotation and got caught http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif After that, it kind of stuck, and I like it, because it reflects my personality.

Of course, I've been everything from Ensign to Fleet Admiral Wacky, depending on how my teachers felt about me

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Visit my Duke Action Figures News site at http://members.tripod.com/~CaptainWacky1/intro.html

[Guest]

Don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, but Sinsear, did you know that sincere actually means "Without Wax"? I like to sign my letters like that, as it's more 'wacky' http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

It comes from 2 centuries ago, when the King's letters were signed and sealed with the King's Seal. These used a special kind of substance that was a royal wax, but consider above all other waxes. If some michievous malcreants tried to read the letters, they'd have to duplicate the seal so nobody would notice - and they'd use regualar everyday wax. Hence, the phrase Sincere (sans-cire) meant legitimate.

Without Wax,

Captain Wacky

(now THAT's informative!)

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Visit my Duke Action Figures News site at http://members.tripod.com/~CaptainWacky1/intro.html

[Joe Siegler]

The problem I have with "goth" is that all it seems to me is the bit from Saturday Night Live when they turn out to be total geeks.

It's one of the funniest social commentaries I've ever seen. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment
http://www.3drealms.com
http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/faq.html (For info on using this UBB)

[Stingray]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>It's one of the funniest social commentaries I've ever seen.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I laughed hysterically at that because I just happened to be watching it with several of my friends who were "goth" and in heavy metal and all that, and then they showed the guy on the skit in the yearbook as top Dungeons and Dragons player or something like that, and my friend was really into D&D at the time. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif

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Andre C. Viens
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2407/

[bmilder]

Ok, the search is messed up. I was looking for the locked "Joe Siegler- Does he have a brother" thread to reference in JR's topic and I stumbled upon this fossil. So why not post in it? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif Just for the record and everything.

I have the most unoriginal nickname. It's just my first initial and then my last name. Nothing cool or interesting, just my name. Blah. I started using it in about fifth grade or so because my dad's e-mail was "rmilder" and then I started signing up everywhere as "bmilder." Now it's too late to do anything about it. (Well, I theoretically could change my nick everywhere but I'm too lazy http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif)

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Ben
www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4689/ (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4689/)

[Guest]

I have many nicks, only one on this thread but u may know all of them that u might have seen before:
Lo Nukem-This is a 3dr ubb take a guess
Resurrection Joe-They call me Resurrection Joe cuz I stole it off of Rob zombie's cd

The other nicks r too personal (just remembered that) so these r all u guys get.

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[Scooter]

I use many nicknames, here are the Top 5:

1-Cuter: I like cuters http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

2-Scooter :: If you have the Mortal Kombat (tm) Annihilation Soundtrack, look song number 2.

3-The Fallen Angel Version 3.02 :I Like Hell demonds

4-sfz32: Military Rocket Launch Code

5-Luzbel: One of the Devil's name

[Da-Masta]

hm...
well, I use another nick when talkin to friends (school friends), but I use this one for deathmatch, and IRC and such.
I have no idea why I have this, I can't even remember when or why I picked this...and I don't consider myself the master of anything

I must've been drunk while picking out this name (but that's highly unlikely because I'm 13 years old http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif )

[Superczar]

I got my nick from the Black Sabbath album Sabotage, its one of the tracks off it.

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Round and round spins a 45, is it vinyl or a bullet?
One would kill, one keeps alive, on your knees and suck it!

[Joe Siegler]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I got my nick from the Black Sabbath album Sabotage, its one of the tracks off it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

'cept it's spelled wrong. You do that intentionally?

It's a great instrumental.

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Joe Siegler
Visit my Black Sabbath Site (http://www.black-sabbath.com)

[Guest]

I got my name cuz I'm into music like: Metallica and KoRn and people think they are satanic, and I just thought Reaper would be an okay name. P.S. I'm not satanic.

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I have revived this thread from the dead, that okay with you?

[This message has been edited by The Reaper (edited 08-03-1999).]

[Loser]

My nick speaks for itself!

[Guest]

My nick name is a mistake. I made this character for my movie. His name was Ephilius. But I made a typo when registering and just never fixed it.

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The world is going to
come to end.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[HunterXray]

Well I don't really have a great story to tell about how I choose my nick, but here is how it got this way.

My nick used to be just Hunter. I choose it because I consider myself a hunter and I used to go hunting almost everyday when I was a teenager. Also when I play FPS's, I am always huntering for that person that is in the map but I can't seem to find, i.e. I don't camp very often.

Anyway after awhile the name started to seem kind of generic. So I though of Xrays helping the Hunter and added that.

I use it for everything and haven't seen another HunterXray anywhere. I play online games alot: Half-Life Team Fortress, Unreal, and Quake 2 MOD's. My favorite Q2 MOD is ACTION. So there's a very good chance that if you are being hunted in a game and the hunter is HunterXray, it's me! http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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"I'm Kickin my ass, do ya mind!"
HunterXray
HunterXray's Way Point Station (http://www.execpc.com/~megabyte)

[Guest]

I don't know why I chose this name. It's pretty stupid, but I stuck with it anyway. I'm not very creative in that aspect. Anyways, anywhere else on the internet, I'm usually known as lokust, except on multiplayer games, in which I'll usually be either Strider or Ah-Geez.

[Agent Q]

MIB....
oops you know too much already http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif
(I need to erase your memory now)


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[Jay'Z Nukem Zone]
ICQ UIN: 1296472
underworld.fortunecity.com/dukenukem/0 (http://underworld.fortunecity.com/dukenukem/0)
"DOOM: Where the sanest place... is behind a trigger."
trust~no~1

[Superczar]

I'll be damned, Joe was right, its not spelled the same way as on the album, on the album its Supertzar, oh fudge...

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Round and round spins a 45, is it vinyl or a bullet?
One would kill, one keeps alive, on your knees and suck it!

[Logic Bomb]

Ok my nick, origoannly Hawk, but it was taken almost everywhere so i changed it to KwaH which NO ONE had, but after get msg's adking if i am such and such from milasia or something over 10 times i decided a more english nick is required (for you idtios KwaH is hawk backwards)

So at last i wanted a new nick badly so i opened my trusty worms,virus, torjans, data didlers and other threats to your system book I looks at the glassary, found a bunch of cool things already used then say Logic Bomb,
(not exactly but close enough)
Logic Bomb - similar to a virus but does not replicate, lays dormant ontill certain events cause its malicious code to triger such as a certain date to occur.

Cool i thought so i grabbed the nick ever since and added the capitol B at the end of bomb as a sort of signature if there are others using the same nick.

- Logic BomB

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Dnf as forseen in the movie Tremors 2:
"ITS GOING TO BE BIG! BIIIIG!"
"Is it going to be TODAY!"

[Guest]

I got my nickname from X-Force the comic book. In one issue, "ouchmaker" is written on one of Cable's guns... http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif



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[Guest]

Well it goes like this:
i am personal friends with DarkTalyn and i was playing a joke on him by using a name very similar to his and having people think it was him. Lets just say i like to push his buttons some times just to spark a reaction, he knew it was all in fun so its all good. i havent changed it cause for one i dont know how, two im to lazy, and three this is what im known as.

[Guest]

My name is Jim. My friends used to call me Earth Worm Jim, and another was Jimage. Put them together and you get Ewjimage. I capatalized the EWJ so I could use that as a smaller name when I'm lazy. EWJimage is pronounced oo-jim-oj. Doesn't make much sense but I like it. I remember hellspawn used to mock it but I haven't seen any posts from him in quite a while!

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"Where's the any key?"
-EWJimage

[Guest]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>(for you idtios KwaH is hawk backwards)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So that's what it is! But what's an idtios? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

[Joe Siegler]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I'll be damned, Joe was right, its not spelled the same way as on the album, on the album its Supertzar<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know my Black Sabbath. I should, considering how involved with them I am. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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Joe Siegler
3D Realms Entertainment (http://www.3drealms.com)
Click here for info on how to use this UBB (http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/faq.html)

[Wooloomooloo]

I got mine from the Quake I manual. There's an enemy called Rotfish...

[Guest]

my nick...lets see...

Moo - i like it (who knows why)
Keen - i like commander keen (you know why)
also, my last name is Kuehn (pronounced KEEN)
http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif
works fine.duzn it? http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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M o o ~ C K ~ 1
http://www.angelfire.com/id/moo7
"My dog ate my sourcecode."--Fnord!

[Guest]

I like my name because I enjoy it when peoples brains go screwy. Its also very hard to pronounce. http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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- admin@flxcorp.net
- flxcorp.net
-swim, swim, mmmm... (http://www.canoe.ca/SunSwimSuit/home.html)

[Guest]

when i started joining irc chats and forums, i tried several nicks, neither was very original, nor unique. then i remebered a guy i once knew named or nicknamed Monbaz, i "adopted" the name, adjusted it so it wil look like english. to my surprise i found that the nickname has never been used before.
one of the nicest theories i heard bout it was that i was influenced by BUZZ Aldrin the second man on the MOON http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

nothing in the same solar system

Moonbuzz

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Please…Don't Kill Me! I Beg You! Don't Shoot! (Bang!):

Our wines leave you nothing to hope for
(misunderstandabilationist)

[bonch]

Hey, Joe, why is it on the album Sabotage, the album title is spelled differently on the side than on the cover? The title on the mirror is spelled with one 'b', but on the side of the cassette there are two. Guess it was a typo.

P.S. I'm a BIG Sabbath fan.

[Guest]

Who isn't a Black Sabbath/Ozzy fan? I doubt anyone on this forum isn't.

I hold my lighter high for the gods of great music http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Guest]

+ I have a back diesease that curves my back into twisted shapes. It so happened to curve in a backwards S and rapidly make me into a huntchback. The doctors in a mad rush put me into a brace, which tried to limit my back movements, which it did not. I got the name BraceBoy from this.

+ I had to go into sugury to correctly fix my spine (now half of it is metal http://3drealms.3dportal.com/ubb/images/icons/grin.gif) I was confused about the whole thing that I changed my name to Neo_Cubist (which I think means, everything is square).

+ The back pains felt like burning riding up and down my entire back (this is after the surgury) and for the next month. I then used the name Spinal_Fire (which I put it as, my back is on fire)

+ After the pain stopped and everything was technacly fine (I might have to get the other half of my back done) I named myself to Spinal_Job (Spinal for my spine and Job for my sugury). I have been using this name alot and theres only one Spinal_Job on the net, me.

[Biscuit]

I don't remember how I got my name, except for some guy called me Biscuit and called himself Triscuit..........hmm.........

-Biscuit
Keyboard error, press F1 to resume
"What?!??! How am I supposed to press F1 if my keyboard is screwed up!??!?!? YEESH!!!!! *kicks his computer*