OT: How/why did you choose your handle name.

[SinfulWeeper]

Originally posted by: poopaskoopa
No particular reason. I was probably looking at a kitty litter box when I registered at AT.

LoL

 

[Soggysocks]

Evademan and SinfulWeeper look alike

Must be Seti twins

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: Smokeball
Smokeball: I can?t believe this nick. It was a split-second decision I made one fateful day, 01/03/2001 4:25 PM to be exact.

For the previous 14+ years, my primary hobby was skeet shooting. After years of practice and finally getting lasik surgery (by the same doctor who did Tiger Woods a year and a half later) I finally rose from the ranks of pretty good to a level where on any given day I could beat anyone in the world. Not bragging ? just a fact.

The best shooters like to shoot with very tight choke restrictions which is a little contrary to what most folks would think. The bigger the pattern the more likely you hit the target, for all you need is a ?visible piece? to score. But skeet shooting is a long tedious game where it has been said, ?Those targets are not hard to hit but they sure are easy to miss.?

A tight pattern when centered on a clay target will turn it into a big puff of black smoke in the sky. If you are a little off center, the target will still break but it won?t ?smoke?. When you see the target get one of the edges knocked off, it is sort of a wake-up call ? telling you that you had better get your mind back in the game before you end up missing.

As I became more proficient I usually ?smoked? most of my targets, if not all. My shooting buddies started calling me ?SMOKE?. Since it was a compliment usually used in a phrase, ?Good shot, you really smoked that one!? I was secretly pleased with the handle though I never let on that I really liked it.

Right at the top of my shooting career, the arthritis and degenerative disk disease I?d been fighting for years got the best of me. My last three tournaments (three day affairs) had me leading ?the shoot? without a missed target. Back spasms forced me to withdraw from each. So with great reluctance, ?I hung up my cleats?.

Long story, but like old-timers do, I like to linger in my past memories.

Anyway, after retiring from the ?skeet circuit? I started looking for something to pass my time. Being an active stock and commodity trader I had always had the very best computers that DELL could build. I decided to learn a little more about these machines I used in my everyday life. I found the AnandTech Forums.

I needed a nickname. So I tried to get ?SMOKE? but someone already had taken it. I started to use ?AAASMOKE? (my email address) combining my skeet shooting class ?AAA? and my nick but decided that may be a little too risky. (Ha, use a goggle search for aaasmoke and see what you get.) I tried various names incorporating ?smoke? but could find nothing that had not already been used, so in haste I chose ?Smokeball?.

Now it appears it may even be on my tombstone.

That's a great feeling when you're shooting and you hit it dead on and it just puffs into smoke in the air

Sorry to hear that you had to give up shooting I hope I can hunt and shoot until I'm gone!

 

[Wiz]

Zaph - hey, are you the man, the one, THE ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX???

Whoa, been a long time since I delved into the hitch hikers companion... THHGTTU

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

(my own paraphrase from memory):

"42: the answer to the greatest question in the universe"
"What's that"
"You know, the answer to the greatest question in the universe. The question upon which all of the universe is built"
"oh - that"
"Yes, the question that has plagued mankind for millenia"
"oh, yes: 'What is six times 8?'"
"Yes... that is what is fundamentally wrong with the universe, it was all cocked up from the beginning!"

Thanks to Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, the Vogons, Marvin, the Mice and of course Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001 ... RIP

 

[Robor]

I tried Rob and it was taken... So I spelled Rob then added the "or" so it reads the same in either direction. Why? I have no idea... ;-)

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I like fire.

Once I was making a bag of microwave popcorn and saw in big letters: "Warning! Do not overheat as kernels will scorch!" I thought to myself, "Self, that is an awesome word for a handle."

The SW is from the clan I was in for Descent3. The clan is since disbanded, but I still keep the prefix for various reasons.

SWScorch, I didn't know there was anyone else on the Team who played Descent3 besides myself and ViRGE. You and I should go 2-on-1 against ViRGE in Monsterball sometime... he's really good.

:evil: ~ *snicker*


As for me, I've always liked Mechwarrior2: Mercenaries (as well as the other MW2 games, and MW3 and MW4 flavors too). When playing MW2: Mercs, one must create a name for one's mercenary unit.

Ortho weedBgon gets rid of pesky weed infestations, right...? Well, mechBgon gets rid of... yeah. Pesky BattleMech infestations. And the first online BBS or forum I ever signed onto was the Mechwarrior3 forum at Delphi, on July 19 1999 as it turns out Therefore I picked my favorite Merc name.

Since it proved to be unique, I stuck with it. I think the people at BikeForums.net have interpreted it as referring to my old career as a bicycle mechanic... ehhh, close enough.

By the way, if anyone wants a bit of a laugh, Asus might just be able to provide it... right here

 

[Idoxash]

back in 1996 i was working on a project of my own that needed some story elements and such. So some of the things I thought of for the story and the project along with my first internet name became that of Idoxash.

Id oxa sh (you say this name like eye dO zash making sure the O is long sounded so it sounds like a "O")

Id= Immortal Darkness Dynasty or as IDD

oxa= Omega X Alpha or as in my first net name OmXA

sh= Soul Hacker

Anyways when I wanted a second name for my self I figure putting all the ones I like together would give me something kewl and who would have known by placeing these words together it would give me "Idoxash" somethign I've use for years and will always use cause to me it's special!

Also as a title for my website " Idoxash's UPlink To The Stars " seem dang kewl eh so It also became another name and I use it for one of my SETI accounts and Team as " StarUPlink "

--IDD--

 

[nickdakick]

<--- It's just me

ust kiddin... :beer:

 

[JSSheridan]

My favorite epic while I was in college was Babylon 5, which originally aired in the mid 90's. John 'Starkiller' Sheridan was a war hero, the commander and military governor of B5 for seasons 2-4 and was President of a great Alliance during and after season 5. He was probably the most important character in the story, though not the one I most identify with. Learn more about Babylon 5. Peace.

 

[dpopiz]

my friends and I started saying "yo, da pope is dope!" for some reason and then I said "I'm d'popiz." and then this hot girl said "whoa, that's so cool" it stuck
true story.

other handles I go by:
muteman
TheMut
S-MUT
yokohorror
SkittleTheFruityRapper
brass
waterbot

 

[AstIsis]

I love this thread. It is interesting to see how everyone came up with their nicks.


I have carried this one for some time now. I have always been interested in Egyptology and back in the day I needed to come up with a unique nick. My favorite Goddess is Isis but I figured that one would be to popular so I went with the redundancy of AstIsis or Ast_Isis. So far, the only place that I have had a problem is with hotmail...someone has astisis. :frown:

 

[IJump]

Back in 1994-98, I was in the Army. I completed airborne in December, 94. Then I got paid to jump out of airplane... I also got online in 1996, so I wanted to use something that was about me, after trying a few things, I came up with this. But, now it should be past tense, but I don't like the sound of IJumped.....

I have been called by several variations......
IFall (after falling off a skjateboard in an accident involving too much Rum)
JumpyPoo (don't ask)

My son uses IJumpJr in some of his online games.....

 

[Swanny]

Swanny is my nickname that was given to me my freshman year in high school. It's just sorta suck

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Swanny
It's just sorta suck

Hmm, if you're not happy with your username, you can always PM the AnandTech Moderator and have them change it.

 

[RustyNale]

I used to play Mech Warrior online, and actually used several nic's in the clan I was in...one day after coming back from vacation I jumped into a game and got my butt handed to me in a hurry. I said to myself "Man, I've gotten a little bit rusty". From there my mind jumped to the name of a local bar called the Rusty Nail and I liked the sound of it, but wanted to put a spin on it so... RustyNale was born. I've used that one ever since in everything I do online if possible.

 

[Assimilator1]

JSSheridan

<< another B5 fan

 

[networkman]

At the time, I was using a similar name on eBay so it just made sense to use a similar one here too. It's easier on the brain cells to remember as one gets older. Okay, so that's the simple version. The more detailed version is that some years back, I was running ALOT of different servers and network configs in my rented room(at a friend's house). I had Novell, NT, OS/2, Banyan, LANtastic & SCO all running on a variety of BNC, RJ45, twin-ax, etc. all just for the heck of it. A couple friends came over, saw the setup and one of 'em said "Dude, you're like some kind of networkman or something." And the name stuck.

Now when it comes to Counterstrike, I play as ImaTarget - that's pretty easy for others to remember too.

 

[ICXRa]

Now when it comes to Counterstrike, I play as ImaTarget

Good info to know. You can't miss me...pun intended, ICan'tAim!

 

[Soggysocks]

Quote:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From there my mind jumped to the name of a local bar called the Rusty Nail and I liked the sound of it, but wanted to put a spin on it so... RustyNale was born.<IMG src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border=0> I've used that one ever since in everything I do online if possible. <B>
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Rusty where you from? I used to frequent a local bar called the Rusty Nail </B>

 

[Ken g6]

My name is Ken, and I'm g6 here Which probably means I've found more primes than anyone else on our SoB team.

 

[RustyNale]

Central PA....Harrisburg is where the bar is.

 

[prvteye2003]

self explanatory

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Tarca

Originally posted by: amcdonald
You'll never decode my handle. (Hint: my first name is Alex)

Your name is Alex and you like to eat at the golden arches a lot...

lol, ya b/c he last could never be mcdonald....

as for me...im cheap

 

[BGod]

One long summer back in 1982 my parents sent me to a bible camp about 12 miles from town on Springbrook Dam. Needless to say the juniors and seniors in high school picked on us freshmen and sophomores. A group of particularily mean seniors (ones that had been sent to detention repeatidly by my father) decided that for the entire week that I was there that if I couldn't get it through a straw I couldn't have it. Plus the called me belly because I was a little puggy in the middle.

Once the week was over and because I was such a good sport about it, they decided to call me Billy instead of belly. You'd be surprised what you can get through a straw when you're hungry enough.

Next came a church youth trip to Minneapolis/St. Paul. As the bus was heading to the twin cities a bunch of us in the back figured out how to chain our boom boxes together so we could make it even louder. We were listening to Sammy Hagar, Van Halen, Ronnie James Dio, etc. One girl that wasn't partial to our music selections turned around and said to me, "You're pretty God free." So by the end of that trip it got changed to Godfrey.

If you put them both together Billy Godfrey, it's a little long for a UT player name so I shortened it up to just: &szlig;G&oslash;d

 

[JetsFanatic]

A sticker on my desk at work.

And I am a JETS fan