How did you arrive at selecting your "nick?"

[Platypus]

If I said it here, I'd be banned.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya

 

[p0ntif]

well I used Scarecrow for the longest time . . . still known as that name in certain undernet channels, but it gets taken to often now . . . so this was my fallback name. I liked the way it sounded. And I've always had a thing for catholic practices/mythology even though I'm not catholic, nor do i desire to be. So here I am

 

[tokamak]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
Greatest comic book character ever: Deadpool

agree.

as for me, I used to play the original Outpost a lot on my old mac. it had this building called a 'tokamak' in it and i always wondered what that was. one day i got real bored and looked it up. seemed pretty cool and i like the word, so i started using it.

 

[Geekbabe]

Hmmm... lemmie think about it for a minute.....



What was the question again ?

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: Cougar
It came to me in a vision.

The Lord spoke saying:

"Thou shall go forth to all the land and spread your wisdom and you shall be called Cougar"

LOL, you weren't chewing on a peyote button at the time were you ?

 

[broon]

Rush fan (the band not the man). It's from a song.

 

My mother and father picked it for me.

 

[Linflas]

Mine is a character name from DungeonMaster which I used to play on an Atari St.

 

[Kadarin]

Character (demon) from some scifi book, with my age tacked on at the end since there's already an "astaroth" who posts here.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

there's a sculpture at my school that in an "altered" state looked like it was dancing. I said peacocks then, but they're some generic bird, not necessarily peacocks. Happened about a week before I registered here

 

[Alex]

i suppose only appopin, kuk, jaybee and camisaamerela will get this one...

it means 'lil chicken' or 'lil hen' in portuguese (there's no direct translation thus no sex attributed to it...but im a guy, for the record)

old cs nickname after the spray paint of the chicken that there is...

pretty dumb but it stuck

 

[wolf550e]

Originally posted by: tennesota
What is nichevo?

means "nothing" in Russian.

my first name, translated to English, is "Wolf" and I have an Intel Pentium III 550E @ 733.

 

[Kinger]

A buddy on my basketball team called me "Kinger" back in 8th grade and it kinda stuck with me. Six years later only my family and close friends know my real name...everyone else knows me as "Kinger".

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Because a long time ago, I put on the wrong trousers.

 

[Daxxax]

My first name is Dax, but someone already had it, so I just added the rest. My UT, RTCW, Quake handle is DaxX.

 

[iamwiz82]

My nick is a pun on my last name. I normally go by Wiz, but that was already taken(bastard ) and so i opted for this. I'm still known as Wiz on heatware and when i used to play FPS online. I was good at Delta Force

 

[Rainsford]

Sanger Rainsford is a character from the short story by Richard Connell, "The Most Dangerous Game". He's this guy that gets trapped on an island with a Russian General that likes to hunt people, and he hunts Rainsford. But Rainsford turns the tables on the General and ends up killing him. I liked the story and Rainsford seemed like a cool guy, so I started using it as a screen name.

 

[Praetor]

Well now, sit down so ol' uncle Praetor can tell you the story of how he came to be.

I was actually thinking of going by Praetorite Vong after the Yuzzhan Vong from the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series of books. There, they are the elite warrior cast, sometimes doing jobs that appear to bring shame to them but greater glory to the Yuzzhan Vong.

But then I thought it was too long. So I went with Praetor, thinking that it meant emperor (from ST: TNG's Romulans), but turned out to not quite mean that. (link) I like it though.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Snow white and the 7 dwarfs, one of them became a man because of her.

 

[Koing]

mines apart of my real name. "HeangKoing Chea". I use Koing as its easier for people to say and its shorter then saying "HeangKoing". Also no one has it so I can use it.

 

[Michael1897]

Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
Snow white and the 7 dwarfs, one of them became a man because of her.

bwhahaa

My middle name that all my family calls me, me and my dad share first names, and my fraternities founding year.

 

[Jarwa]

A manager from Office Max told me to come to this forum for some technical advice. I needed a nic, and whatever fantasy book I was reading at the time had some names in it, so I just used one of those. How lame, huh? And I never got the technical advice that I needed. To this day, I still have the same problem. *sigh*

 

[Fausto]

I'm a cyclist, and a bit of a fan of cycling history as well. Fausto Coppi was one of the first great italian cycling champions, and led a rather interesting life to boot.

Fausto

 

[TuffGirl]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
Because a long time ago, I put on the wrong trousers.

Teehee. He's the coolest character of all the Wallace & Grommit movies. "You mean he's not a chicken!" LOL