Explain Your Nick...

ArphaRima

I chose fluffer because fluffer is a name that is never taken. That way fluffer is my nick in almost everything. Its short, easily recognisable, and has multiple meanings.

Anyone who understands what a fluffer does in the porn industry will know why it is never taken.

Sleipnir

fluffer wrote:

Anyone who understands what a fluffer does in the porn industry will know why it is never taken.

Hmmm not an answer to your girlfriend's parent's question
"So what do you do for a living?"

dudara

There's a cave on our farm that supposedly the giant Dudara used to live in. The river that bounds our land flows through a little gorge where there are weird dents on the rock. These are called the "Fiacla" (teeth), and are apparently where Dudara fell over once when crossing the river.

The only thing with "Dudara" is that people automatically assume i'm male.

BTW it's pronounced doo-dara

I also got in a fight with my dad when he was setting up an email account because he wanted to use dudara as well, but hey, it was already taken.

The Corinthian

koneko wrote:

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

All right... there's an element of that too...

delly

Del is common for Dereck, which I am.
delly is just an extra bit added on for good measure.

Commonly mistaken as a bird tho'

ixoy

ixoy is an abbreviated form of ixianboy, a nick I used on IRC for an age (and still used elsewhere). Ixianboy is of course Ixian boy, or a boy from Ix - the planet that is the last outpost of advanced technology in the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune series.

Interestingly (or not), Ixoy when written in Greek and associated with certain symbology, translates as Jesus Christ, God's Son and Savior. So yeah, I'm actually the Son of God, come pack to judge ye and I find you all very very sinful and condemn ye to Hell!

ferdi

ferdinand is my first name...

Mossy Monk

a statue of a monk covered in moss that i saw on some digging up the past tv programme

smoke.me.a.kipper

my favourite Red Dwarf episode.

fractal

A fractal is a sort of mathmatically generated image.. Relatively simple&straighforward to look at on the outside but more complicated the closer you look...

I guess I kinda like to semi-think of myself that way.. Also think fractal is short sweet and memorable. Also (to my surprise) seems fairly unique accross IRC channels/boards/free e-mail sites..

fjon

fluffer wrote:

Anyone who understands what a fluffer does in the porn industry will know why it is never taken.

Yes, I can well believe that!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fluffer&f=1

bringitdown

bringitdown - part of a line from Aenima by Tool

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

spoon

When i was first getting an email account about 8 years ago, i decided to put in something semi funny, so i put it as mr_boom_bastic, but soon enough all my friends started calling me mr_spoon_spastic, so that one caught on, and then i shortened it to spoon.

Jim

spoon wrote:

When i was first getting an email account about 8 years ago, i decided to put in something semi funny, so i put it as mr_boom_bastic, but soon enough all my friends started calling me mr_spoon_spastic, so that one caught on, and then i shortened it to spoon.

And rightfully so, you spoon!

LoneGunM@n

I've been a fan of the X-Files since it started & always thought the Lonegunmen were the best characters in it, so when I was registering on the original X-Files chatroom, I used it!

When I joined boards first I chose PhatFiesta, 'cause I drive a Fiesta [no sh!t sherlock :rolleyes:], but got fed up with that and reverted to my first online username [with a twist] ... boring

bender

bender - from the futurama...

mycroft

Mycroft comes from Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' older, smarter, and lazier brother.

climaxer

Have a bit of a durty mind myself.....oh and I'm a very lucky too....

fragile

NIN - The Fragile

I was listening to it when I was choosing a username

Woden

star trek fan from younger, favourite character is data, nothing like a bit of god worship.

so when i went and got myself the interweb at home a few years ago and so it was born

Dataisgod

tba

Hello Kitty wrote:

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

is that kitty farting pink bubbles? :eek:

Stark

Huge fan of farscape. Picked a character at random and based by nickname on that. Stark is ambiguos enough that it doesn't have to be a purely Farscape thing.

L5

There was a rather interesting character by the name of l4, or L4 im not sure on boards about a year ago. He seemed to wind a lot of people up and started a lot of rows. I presume he got banned, i decided to take his name up a level!

Ste-

ixoy wrote:

So yeah, I'm actually the Son of God, come pack to judge ye and I find you all very very sinful and condemn ye to Hell!

You should be crucified for that spelling mistake.

HerrLipp

Character from the League Of Gentlemen.

jill_valentine

Well... I love Horror >

> I like computer games >

> I like strong heroines who don't resemble bloody Lara Croft. >

> I like the Horror Computer Game starring a strong heroine, Resident Evil >

Et Voila, Jill Valentine. Also its sounds pleasantly pornish... I use it or something similar in nearly every forum or chatroom I use, though waaaay back in the old Bronze chatroom on the official Buffy site, I was <Shame-con> Kate Lockley.

The Roach

I've actually just set this up, but it's a nickname a few mates and myself came up with about 2 years ago.

We were discussing possible super-hero names for ourselves while drunk one night, and somehow I ended up becoming The Roach. The Roach has powers similar to a cockroach. Mainly that means that I would be able to withstand the radiation from a nuclear blast and the following fallout, but I would be killed in the blast so that woudn't help me much!
We also came up with a background story (we were really drunk that night!) I was bitten by a cockroach, but unfortunately it wasn't radioactive (what were the odds of that! )or genetically mutated, so I get no cool exo-skeleton or increased strength etc. All I get is the ability to live in areas that nobody else can after Armageddon. Oh well. :rolleyes:

echomadman

mines an anagram of my name

Badly Drunk Boy

When I was registering I was listening to Badly Drawn Boy while drinking a bit of alcohol....

CuLT

echomadman wrote:

mines an anagram of my name

Adam Mechon !!! (I know, I know, lazy guess)

Anagrams are fun, it would make a nice thread, but everyone would end up knowing each others names, and not everyone likes that idea.

Ste-

CuLT wrote:

Adam Mechon !!! (I know, I know, lazy guess)

Anagrams are fun, it would make a nice thread, but everyone would end up knowing each others names, and not everyone likes that idea.

If they don't like it they don't play.
Good idea tho CuLT.

Macseamusa

i used to be called seamuse, and then one day a freind just called me macseamusa..not very interesting


man i leave this place for 3 weeks, i come back and it has turned all 'hip' and cool, trying to hide the fact that we are all geeks here.

Hagar

If you have even seen the cartoon strip for Hagar and got to know me in the real world, the resemblence is uncanny.

Flashling

Well. I kindahaveatendancytobenaked.
And I was caught on camera. It naturally spread around..... and it rhymes with my name. Meh, if anyone asks, I tell them its because of my super speed.
damn camera phones.

CuLT

Flashling wrote:

Well. I kindahaveatendancytobenaked.
And I was caught on camera. It naturally spread around..... and it rhymes with my name. Meh, if anyone asks, I tell them its because of my super speed.
damn camera phones.

Naked eh?

/me adds to Buddy list.

tba

camera phone eh?

do you know how to add attachments?

I'm from the planet earth,I'm a man and I like it here.

Earthhorse

I'm from the planet earth, I'm a man and I like a horse...no wait, that's not right...

Johnny_the_fox

my name comes from the Thin Lizzy Album - Johnny the Fox

Guy:Incognito

I was getting really inventive when i was thinking of a nick at the signup. That lasted about 7 seconds and I gave up and just used my real name. I use Redneck for Cs & Dod. I was going to change my nick to that but my real name has kind of grown on me over the last 23 odd years.

Guy:Incognito

tba wrote:

do you know how to add attachments?

an email will do just as well

DriftingRain

~DriftingRain~

I think this was a thread a long time ago....Anyhow.....I live next to a big ol lake and when it stormes at my house I can usually see rain comming at me from across the lake....Hince DriftingRain.....And for those that know me....I also have this lil knick about water!

~DR~

RuggieBear

Stekelly wrote:

I was getting really inventive when i was thinking of a nick at the signup. That lasted about 7 seconds and I gave up and just used my real name.

Ditto....

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Mercury_Tilt

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T.G Catter

taken from the irish channel TG4.

_blank_

fragile wrote:

NIN - The Fragile

I was listening to it when I was choosing a username

Pretty much the same story here, but with more.

I signed up for boards under this current nick when I was between jobs back in February, and as I was sitting here chatting to a friend of mine over MSN messenger, he told me he was using boards.ie at the same time, so I signed up just to troll him :eek: , and I was listening to a bit of the oul Wolfe Tones at the time, so in need of a name, I used the first name I heard.

Anyway, I disocvered the Soccer Forum, and decided to stay around. I was cacking it for ages that I was going to get kicked off boards for trolling, but anyway, I wasn't, and I'm still here.

Just for the record, my real name isn't Sean, and I'm not some kind of mad IRA head, I just liked the alliteration.

Now I use the name for anything on the net that requires a username, as it never seems to be taken

Cabaal

Its simple the name if the Nod computer system in Command&Conquer Tiberian Sun, I was stuck for a nick and kept finding that my first choice of nick that I had already been using for over a year was hard to reg on somesites as it was already taken (including boards.ie)

rainbow kirby

Super Smash Bros Melee, Event Match 6: Kirbys on Parade.
"look out, a rainbow of Kirbys is after you!"
I was playing SSBM for about 6 hours the day I signed up under this username. It was about 2 days after I got my GC... yeah I'm a nerd.

Sleepy

During a pretty heavy bout of insomnia, I changed my sin.ie username to Sleep Comes Tomorrow after the David Kitt song because every night I'd be the last one posting. When I tried to register it on boards.ie it was too long so I just went with what a lot of the boarders there called me...

gobby

Its just another version of my (real) nickname, Gob. That started as a slag when I was quite young and it has stuck eversince. I find that most of the time I will introduce myself as Gob before my real name.

Why Gob though...? Well, its related to my real name. (Gobalicious :eek:)