Explain Your Nick...

flogen

There are plenty of strange or interesting nicks used here at boards.ie, and I think it would be nice to get the meanings or reasons behind some of them

So post here with the details of your chosen nick, be it boring or interesting or wierd or whatever.

Obviously, if some want to keep the mystery around their names, I can totally understand!! :P

Mine isn't much of a story. When I was younger I kept writing short stories that made no sense or were just strange (in a funny way.. or so i felt at the time). I wrote one called 'Flogen Has A Popen'. Shortly afterwards we got a net connection at home, and I was faced with the challenge of getting myself an e-mail addy and so on. I was still unsure about putting my real name up, so I decided to make one up. I put together the 3 last words of the title, and made my online 'persona' Flogen Hasapopen. I made a very basic website (made in Word ) and put my stories up on it.
After a while I got tired of the whole thing, and began to use my real name (for e-mail addys and blogs etc). I still use flogen for stuff like boards, mind you, but its no longer the alter ego I tried to make of it before...:D
(so young, and so foolish... )

flogen

RobertFoster

Robert Foster is the lead character in Beneath a Steel Sky, one of my favourite games - which you can download for free (and legally) from ScummVM.

pat kenny

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Farls

mines just short for my surname...a friend of mine (nellie) started calling me it back in third year at secondary school and its kinda stuck since and i quite like it.

Farlz

Big Ears

well with my nick being Big Ears , most would assume that I either got the name from the childrens programme Noddy (in which Big Ears is his friend) or I have big ears .

well in a way it is from the programme Noddy , but not souly on that basis .
My brother used the name Noddy in many games , so I just decided I would pick Big Ears (with him being Noddy's friend) for my boards name .

I had not used that name while playing games before then , but I did after I started using boards .

So thats my story .

Stephen

eh... its my name.

Giblet

Mine came back in the early days of "de net" around 1996 when I was playing a game called Scorched Earth. When prompted to enter a name, I randomly typed, "The Funking Giblet". I shortened it soon after for Quake, and have used it ever since. I pronounce it with a hard G, rather than the "jiblet" most people use.

Simi

Childhood nick name that has just stuck with me over the years. (Also short for my first name.)

bizmark

Bismarck ...

Bogger77

Cos I'm a bogger / biffo working in Dublin, born in 77.

Barry Aldwell

It's my real name. Yes, I am laziness personified

TheJaff

Mine is my favourite character from my favourite book, The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. For those of you who haven't read this book you should give it a go. Its a bit hard to follow at times but the storyline and imagination behind is just brilliant.

Sarky

ASS and POO were already taken.

GoneShootin

http://www.michaelrea.com/GoneShootin/BonScott78.mp3

tribble

I was looking through the list of avatars and said...

ooo, look there a...

Sarky

GoneShootin wrote:

http://www.michaelrea.com/GoneShootin/BonScott78.mp3

Ooh, good idea. /me pops in Powerage...

The Brigadier

Brigadier Leighbridge-Stewart in Dr. Who.........

mayordenis

well my name is denis and i should be a mayor just preparing really.

monument

RobertFoster wrote:

Robert Foster is the lead character in Beneath a Steel Sky, one of my favourite games - which you can download for free (and legally) from ScummVM.

Dam you! I’ve always wondered why your name sounded so familiar.

MrVestek

erm... he's the greek hero from the illad (had this way before it became all common cus of troy). erm, that's it really. I use another nick on irc tho, which is MrVestek. That has a more interesting story. See my name is steven kavanagh, and i shortned that to Steve-k many years ago before that eejit on the radio had even been heard of. Anyways, used that on irc for a while till i fancied a change and came up with Vestek, an anagram of Steve-k. Since then whenever i visit an online mate of mine from irc he always answers the door with 'ahh mr. vestek.. come in come in...' so it kinda just stuck after that. Interesting no? NO?!... ahh to hell with u all then :P

CuLT

I wanted something cool... cool and deadly... (for CS) and what's deadly? well a knife is pretty deadly...
But "Knife" was also sort of unimaginitive and lame, but Latin, now Latin was cool. So I found myself a Latin Dictionary to download, and i scrolled through and found "knife", which was listed as Cultellus.

I used Cultellus for a few years, but was informed by PHB that he thought it was too long, and I started getting called "Culty". To nip that in the bud I changed my nick to Cult. Then for variety to CuLT.
After about a year of nobody making the connection between Cultellus of boards.ie and CuLT of IRC, I had my boards.ie nick changed .

embee

Mine is just a long version of the initials "MB", which are not my initials.

They stand for something, but I'm not saying what.

billy the squid

Was trying to sign up for a yahoo messenger account in 2000 and all the names i wanted were taken.

Out of frustration I typed billy_the_squid_2000 into yahoo and it was availible. Up ontil recently I had different usernames for different things namely yahoo msn boards.ie ebay and the like. Im currently changing them all to billy the squid.

As for the name I got on boards when i signed up it was fcddunne. f for my first name c for my middle name and dunne was my sirname. i made a typo and put two d's in it it should have been fcdunne. I spent many hours trying to log into boards untill i figured it out eventually

tba

I was and am in a hurry, so I'll tell you later

CuLT

/me high-fives tba.

tba

/me reciprocates in manly fashion

acous

acoustic. the science of sound!

Agent Smith

matrix carature,

nothing else really

Suaimhneach

Same story. Lookin for an email name. I like it.

MadsL

I was posting first in IOFFL and frustrated at trying to get Broadband. MadsL (I'm Mad as hell...and not going to take it anymore...) + a pun on ADSL.

...I'll get me coat...

Amz

My friends all call me Amz/Amzie.
That and Ammo sounded too skangery.

littleninja

My nick came about about 7 years ago intitially, I was working at stables and the lads were going "wait for little ninja*, she's only got little legs" and that made me laugh.

Three years later, my boss at the time started calling me ninja (possibly because I was so quiet at the time and could sneak around a lot without geing heard).

A year after that, I discovered the Internet and just put little in front of ninja and the rest, as the say is history :rolleyes:

*not ACTUALLY my name - fairly obviously!!!

BlitzKrieg

Well my dad is a historian and he specifies in military history so he would rub alot of military terms and names into my head. When i was really young he called me sergeant ME 109 after the German plane and as i got older he would still bug me about numerous military nicknames he had for me (funnily they were all German military vehicles such as King Tiger, Tirptiz and Bismarck (god bless u bizmark it is a beutiful ship)

anyway personnally i hated most of the nicknames except Bismarck and Blitzkrieg. But i never used them online, instead I went by the name of FireGate which changed to FireBlade. this was based off a fanfiction of Aliens i wrote which followed a man with half human dna half alien dna (GOD DAM U FOX U STOLE MY IDEA!), I was 11 or 12 at the time and the story in alot of ways was immature (simply put it was the Hulk except he turned into alien instead of a green pussy which i thought was cooler)


at about 15 i scrapped Fireblade and the fanfiction because a) I had decided my future was in films or games and Fireblade lacked originality, snap or appeal I learned there was a motorbike called Fireblade and i was sick of people asking me did i own one or liked them whenever i was online...


So i went through many a great name while searching for a replacement. From crappy humour names 'Shaving Ryans Privates' to unusual names based of my earlier failed websites 'S3' I finally settled after playing CS one night on BlitzKrieg. playing for an american clan called RK i ended up in a argument over my tactics that got me kicked out. (NO I DID NOT CAMP) I tended not to play *with the team* and instead purposely tried to get behind the enemy as fast as possible and break them up. When i explained these were Blitzkrieg tactics they declared me a nazi and had me booted from the team. So i took BlitzKrieg as my name because it was how i played alot of FPS i tended to do alot more speed tactics rather then steady assaults (should see me as a scout or spy in tfc) I gave the K in krieg a capitol because at the same time i revived my fanfic, removed the aliens element and started to rework on it as a personal film project with a central character with a split personality which was symbolized by the names Blitz and Krieg. the project is now 2 films long (in script) numerous spin offs etc and is among my life goals. Even the character has been split into two distinct characters...so i guess i have an interest in seeing 2 different views...meh



and thats my lengthy origin story...who wants to make my biography?

lilo moo

well back in the day (the day being sometime last year, around the time of that lilo & stitch movie being released), myself and my good friend were full of beans and high on the joys of life. now even though we were good friends, we were also new friends and i had just met her little sister. one day my good friend told me that her little sister thought i looked just like lilo. considering the strange proportions of that child, i didn't know if that was a good thing. but what the hey, it was cute. i put it down to lilo & i both having dark hair and eyes.

now that i had a nickname, we had to think of one for my good friend. amazingly enough, the girl always smelled delicious, and one day i realised she smelled of coconut! (i just love that smell...and taste) and that's how my good friend came to be called coco. as it happened, her real name starts with a 'c' and mine with an 'l'.

i can't seem to remember the details of how we got the second parts of our nicknames (we generally don't use the 2nd parts when addressing each other). maybe we were a little hyper and decided to make animal noises, or maybe there was no specific reason at all. moo & baa were the names (noises?) of choice, and that's how it all came to be.

Ste-

It's short for my first name. And no there isn't a - in my name it's just Ste was taken.
T'was also my nickname in school so there you go.

Jim

Jim.

He eats menu's.

And how!

Sarky

Yes, how, exactly?

RE*AC*TOR

The year is 1981. Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter as President of the United States of America. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., whose family had connections with the vice president. Two police officers and James Brady are also wounded. Pope John Paul II is shot at and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience. (Two days after Christmas in 1983, Pope John Paul went to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin). In France, socialist François Mitterrand becomes president of the Republic. Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales. Neil Young releases what, by his standards would be considered a below par album - RE*AC*TOR, by most other peoples standards the greatest album of their lives. A tribute to mashed potatoes and steak - would go on to inspire a generation of grungers.

Dave

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Sarky

And all across America, people were doing a dance called the Funky Grampa?

Micheal Wittman

Well it says it all here really...

http://achtungpanzer.com/gen3.htm

There's a couple of pages here on how a lone leutenant became the greatest tank ace in History.

The following guy is pretty interesting as well....

http://achtungpanzer.com/gen9.htm

Hans Rudel was a rampent nazi but an incredible stuka ace.
Just read how may tanks planes and even battleships the guy blew up in his little plane.

Hello Kitty

I just like the name and the character is very cute!

Sarky

This one is Cuter...

Micheal Wittman

Funny reply sarky :P

Hello Kitty

Thats hello-kitty's evil twin!!!

Dr. Loon

I'm a Doctor, and a lunatic.

Sleipnir

Eight-legged horse. Pretty obvious really.

The Corinthian

Take your pick...

Co·rin·thi·an (ko-rïn-thé-ën)

1. A native or inhabitant of Corinth. Of or pertaining to ancient Corinth or its people or culture.
2. Architecture. Of or relating to the Corinthian order, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans. "This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks". - Parker.
3. (adj.) Elegantly or elaborately ornate.
4. Given to licentious and profligate luxury. A luxury-loving person; a bon vivant. "Debauched in character or practice; impure." - Milton.

Jim

From [url=www.dictionary.com[/url]Dictionary.com[/url]

No entry found for jimeatsmenu.
Did you mean gamesmen?

koneko

I always thought you got that from The Sandman (Neil Gaiman).

"...the darkness, and the fear of darkness, in every human heart. A black mirror made to reflect everything about itself humanity will not confront."

SouperComputer

boring one here too, sorry to disappoint

it was a nickname in work.