What does your screen name mean?

[That fat kid]

It occured to me as I was sifting through people's posts that a lot of the handles are pretty esoteric. I was wondering if anyone had any good anecdotes about how they picked their names, or if they just wanted to clarify.

[asoir]

asoir = riosa backwards, my surname. im curious about yours however

[kovah]

kovah = havok backwards. Switched the C for the K because K is the first letter of my name.

[stoph]

christopher. no brainer there. oft in games, though, ill go by the name Mediumrawr, that being a play on words from my first tauren on WoW. Medium indicates the grade at which the meat is cooked, of which raw builds off of, but add the R at the end and we get a variant of ROAR. kinda clever, i thought..

[Rhynome]

Rhynome... I have absolutely no idea in hell.


I think I got there with Rhyme (as I liked the look of the letter combination); then I played about with it a bit in my head and found Rhynome. It wasn't exactly intentional, I didn't decide to chose Rhyme as a base, it's just the one that popped up in my head and then next Rhynome.

[Stark]

Stark...off of a TV series on Sci Fi channel named "Eureka." Was about a town full of scientists doing some really awesome stuff...The leader of the research facility is named Nathanial Stark...

I didn't get it from Tony Stark aka Ironman

[Duq]

Duq are the first three letters of my last name. When I was a wee boy I used it for highscores I got on arcade machines, and now I'm still stuck with it :)

[Hyskoa]

Previous made up nickname : Derazghul
Derazghulio
Mederaghas
Med&Lancaster
Medlanio
Mel..mel...melancholie
hey, that sounds like a word, let's go with that.

[enelrad]

enelrad=darlene turned backwards, thats my christian name.

[Evil_Sloth]

evil sloth = thols live

[Kian]

Kian, an Irish Gaelic version of my middle name, Kyle.

[Uziel]

Uziël was my account name for the PCgame Diablo
More or less a contraction of Duriël,lord of pain & Izual,arch-angel
have been using it for all my accounts ever since.
Other options were "Moons" which is my family name but that name is often already taken or "Moonster" a nickname i got from my friends

[WillN]

WillN- Will is my first name, and n is the first letter of my last name. Pretty simple...

[Goog]

Mine doesn't come from google, but rather the beetles song, "I am the Walrus."... Because I am the walrus.

[Snarfevs]

- Year 7
- Design Project
- Testing
- Project --> Wall, at speed
- Shatters
- Cry of elemental anguish - 'Snaaaaaaar!'
- Henceforth, hippy teacher referred to me as 'Snarfers'
- Over time the 'r' somehow turned into a 'v'

[wild thing]

Mine is not to be confused with Chocobos from Final Fantasy, or that bit about BirdieNumnum's from the Party.

I came up with it when I was playing pokemon. I liked giving them all nicknames for no reason other than when I had caught a whole bunch I could look through them all and hopefully get a laugh. I wanted to name one ChocoNumNum but it wouldn't fit, I thought it was a shame that I couldn't use it so when I was stumped about an AIM handle it came to mind.

And now you know. Hooray!

[Brendan N]

what is says :D

[Sepulverture]

Sepulchral - chral, + Overture - o = Sepul-verture. Was the name of a band that I formed with some highschool chums and played guitar in for a few years. More/less supposed to mean symphony from the grave, or symphony of the dead, or some other such thing (the overture isn't the symphony precisely, more the introduction to a symphony, but it sounded better than some of the alternatives we had that used the word symphony). After the we stopped jamming together the name just sort of stuck for me, since I was the most recognized member of the band, and now I use it in forums, games, and this and that.

[Mitze]

Mitze name of my cat now dead. Not that i ever liked him that much but i could never rememeber any of my other log on names. I really would like to change it.

[Sheavolution]

My first name is Shea, you can do much with the name Shea...examples; Sheasus, New-Shealand, Sheavrolet, Sheading, MilkSheake, etc. One day I made a list and just picked one :)

[Jason Rainville]

My real last name is Rainville.

After playing freelancer (in which one of the giant sleeper spaceships sponsored by germany was named "The Rhineland") I started merging the two names (and my two heritages, french and german) into one callsign on halo 1 and 2, msn and every single forum I visited - Rhineville. I've never called myself anything else online.

[JM]

All us super duper cool artists use only our first names :P

[sve]

Sve is the first syllable of Sveta, Svetlana. my first name...

[chaosrocks]

chaos rocks

multi[ple meanings
the stones of ideas that form from the chaotic tubulanc of the mind

and because chaoss ROCKS!

and well.. I dunno
has nothing to do with much I guess
but I ansswer to it
chaos chaosrocks capuletchaos roxie etc
been me for a couple years Im used to it

chaos

[GriNGo]

Gringo is my nickname since i was in grade school. Loco just means "crazy".

[guggemmaneuver]

That Fat Kid—> starting a thread like this without explaining your own handle? for shame. he's not even fat. seriously.

the so-called "guggenmaneuver" is an abbreviated hybridized-version of "guggenheimlichmaneuver," something that i came up for a grisly and yet, highly precarious routine that i unfortunately resorted to with great frequency in art school ... "Pulling a guggenmaneuver" if you will ... it refers to, in a general sense, the all-nighter, the last minute struggle to finish a project that you should have been working on for several weeks or several days ... and this stupid procrastination will likely end up causing some disastrous lack of sleep, shameful calling-out of work, hibernation for 24 hours or more, etc, etc. ... Probably even the evening before i would just goof around and waste a few hours, before really deciding to get started. Sometimes it worked out okay for me when the medium i was using was something that went pretty quick; other times it blew up in my face and i had to drop the class ... i.e. waiting until the night before to make a cast of a head in plaster for my sculpture class.

...here's the formula:...
+ 1 part guggenheim (reputable modern and very nice FLW architecture art museum in new york, also art patrons [professors, grads, clients, art directors, classmates] who are expecting the work)
+ 1 part heimlich (as in, lodged foodstuffs in the larynx hurtling out right onto the paper in a panicked deadline-driven fury...)
+ 1 part manuever (obviously continuation of heimlich, but really puts the idea of a burst of activity in a TOTAL FREAKED OUT PANIC into the mix.)

[Carnifex]

carnifex means "executioner". in highschool my mates used to tease me sometimes by taking the second case "carnifici" and shouting it out "carnifitzi" (since my last name is fitzinger). at some point they stopped using it,but the more i thought about it,the cooler it was. i mean,i get to be an executioner :)
have used it ever since,never could think of a cooler name,and it will definately stick with me a loooong time since coro shouted it out all over conceptart :D

[magicgoo]

I told the x rated version of my nick on IRC once. I'm wondering if, for the sake of the little dignity I have, I should repeat it here....

[Costau D]

My name atm is a bit pessimistic... this is relatively new, maybe I was drunk when I requested it? I dunno... but it means two-bit dead beat. Anyway, I threw the bottle out the door completely (I know I'm only 21, thing is I drank alone alot :P). I'm wanting to go back to my original nickname, which i used in games when I was in middle school and high school. They were relatively good times :D, trying to get that energy back.

Monkey Wrench

[Seedling]

My name is a reminder to myself of how far I have yet to go.

[fukifino]

Fuck if I know.

(I love these threads.)

[joelhinxman]

its a secret

[Brendan N]

I told the x rated version of my nick on IRC once. I'm wondering if, for the sake of the little dignity I have, I should repeat it here....

Tell tell!

besides, you wouldn't have mentioned if you didn't really want to tell us, so go ahead :P.

:D

[invinciblewombat]

a counterstrike handle from days of old, whenever i needed a handle for and online game i would pick a marsupial and a scary sounding adjective, i liked this one when i started using it and have stuck with it to this day

[tomwaits4noman]

mine is boring, a nick name I had in one job was lil tom, it stuck no one called me by my real first name bizarre thing is this happens in amost jobs I have had different friends call me different names,

Last nickname was lil tom because I was told I look like a little Tom Cruise... might have been a compliment but then T.C did the couch jumping and crazy talking...
SO I decided to have a user name with Tom in it but hate the "lil" part
5ft6 is not thats lil,

so I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits when I joined
but decided to make it a play on the phrase Time waits for no man... me trying to be clever and amuse myself with my wit...

[Orchid, the Wild]

I have two sisters, older and younger, and back in the day we somewhere along the way came up with these nicknames..

My older sister being Iris, the Impossible (because she is indecisive about everything) and my little sis is Petunia the Imaginative (she's very very creative)

And lastly I am Orchid, the Wild.. not wild in the sense that I am uncontrollable and unruly, but I was always the little bold kid that was always bringing home frogs and snakes, picking on the boys, climbing trees, playing in mud puddles, etc. Where the flower part of the names came in I don't quite remember.. maybe it was just because we're three pretty ladies.. hahah :D

[Earendil]

I'm a hopeless Middle-Earth historian.

This name is from my favorite story of The Silmarillion. It means "Lover of the Sea" (Romantique yes? ;)) and "Mariner"

Nobody pronounces it right though, so it's kinda useless.

[Grendel Grack]

I have a clown plecostomus (Peckoltia pulcher) named Grendel because he lives in a cave underneath a log and hates all other fish. That, and Beowulf is one of my all time favorite heroic poems. "Grack" was added for alliterative interest.

[Quicksilver]

My name is a reminder to myself of how far I have yet to go.
That's so cool, I love it. :)

I read in one of those zodiac books years ago and read that 'my' metal (I'm a Virgo) is Quicksilver.

My username everywhere else is CherryBlossom, but I think at the time of signing up I thought it sounded too cutesey and I wanted to be taken a bit more seriously as an artist or whatever. I latered considered changing it to "CheeB" (CherryBlossom condensed, and now the name of my website), but I learnt from some potty-mouthed Chinese members here (;P) that it is similar to a rude word in one of their dialects....so Quicksilver stays! Even though it doesn't particularly mean much to me. :^^;:

[Moai]

Moai is the Polynesian word for the giant statues on Rapa Nui, AKA Easter Island. I've always been into Moai and Tikis and such, and I'd painted a Moai for a friend just before joining this site. So, because it was fresh in my mind, and because my digital photo of it was easy to turn into an avatar, I became Moai.

[Dile_]

haha cool thread!

Dile comes from Dyle , which was what people called me for years in school .. I never liked my real name ( Dennis ) when I was younger... ( no idea how the name Dyle appeard , cause Dyle and Dennis isn't exactly similar )

And why am I calling myself Dile ? ugh, Dyle was busy here on CA :) so CA is the reason i call myself Dile all over the internet...

-Dennis, or Dile

[Puck]

Puck = middle name. From Shakespeares A Midsummer Night's Dream. The 'shrewd and knavish sprite' that turns bottom into an ass.

[algebra]

Shortened from "your algebra", the title of a song by the Shins that I was listening to at the time I made this account.

[Retroboy]

I like things with a Retro feeling, and im a boy so...

[bunny]

Watership Down, man, I remember watching it as a kid and being scared shitless.



http://kaedrin.com/images/screenshots/watership/wd_bloody.jpg

Also, I have the black rabbit of inle tattood on the back of my neck.

http://www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk/watershp/wdf14.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/va5majora/tattoo____yeah__ANOTHER_one__by_god.jpg

[Costau D]

Oh yeah watership down is a great movie. When i was little i saw it and it creeped me out as well, and I got a chance to see it on TV again and I was really surprised. Very nicely done movie.

[kool-ka-lang]

Kool ka lang: Filipino, or tagalog for any of these words:

Just chill man.
Chill
Just be cool
chill out.

literal meanings:
Kool: Cool (kinda obvious)
ka: you
lang: I don't really know what the precise translation for this is...it's kinda like "just". as in, "Could you JUST please chill?" or, "She's always JUST bringing attention to herself."

It used to be a show in the Philippines when I lived there, but I don't know if it's still going. Also, around the time I was thinking up of the name, a lot of people at my school were being retarded and fighting for no reason, so I really felt a sense of like..."DUDE, JUST CHILL."

[Justin.]

SUPER ROBOT KID FLEW INTO SPACE ONE TIME TO SAVE THE ERTH FROM A MEATY-OR AND HE BLEW IT UP GOOD THEN HE (ROBOT KID I MEAN) FLEW BACK INTO THE ERTHS ATMOSPHERE BUT THEN HIS ALERT WHEN OFF WHEN IT TURNED OUT IT WAS ONLY ROBOT BABE BUT ROBOT BABE WAS A USELESS HO-BOT AND HE DIDNT LIKE HER SO HE WENT TO THE NORTH POLE AND USE IT AS A SWORD WHILE FIGHTING YETIS. THEN HE GOT SLEEPY AND LAYED HIS HEAD DOWN IN THE CROTCH OF A TREE BUT IT GOT STUCK. HE STARTED YELLING HELP HELP ANYONE HELP THEN HE THOUGHT I HAVE SPIKES ON MY HEAD I CAN JUST BREAK THE TREE SO HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND BROKE THE TREE BUT HE GAVE HIMSELF WHIPLASH AND FILED AN INSURANCE CLAIM FOR IT AND IT RAISED HIS OIL PRESSURE SO MUCH HE HAD A BREAK DOWN. HE PULLED OUT HIS CIRCUITS AND AS THE YELLOW LEDS FADED FROM HIS EYE SENSORS HE YELLED THE MOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE NAME HE COULD THINK OF WHICH WAS justin oaksford.

I just added capital letters to it and viola.

[walnut]

I just took a name that wouldn't sound cool at any time of the day. And my last name's in it too. (It's De Waele, so there you go.)

[Slash]

I'm not sure anymore how i got my nick.. But the way i remember it it was back in the golden days of LANing, sometime in the last millennia. To access each others computers we had to type in "\\pc name". It seemed cool at the time to call my computer "Slash", because "\\Slash" sounds cool when spoken out. backslashbackslashslash.

I might also have gotten it from one of cyan's attacks in final fantasy 6.

Or maybe it was both.. anyways, it stuck on me now.




PS: i HATE slash of guns 'n roses, because he stole my nick! :P I hate when people ask me "oh, so you're a guns and roses fan?!"..

[stoph]

slash, are you a gunners fanboy or what?

back in the day, when Delta Force I and II were big on the agenda at LANs and online, i used to call myself D3M057AN, a bit of a 1337 version of DemoStan, a shortening of Demolishun Stan. yes, "demolision" was mispelt on purpose, but i was very much into WH40K Orks at the time (woulda been 13 or 14) and liked how they spelt stuff so yeh. thats another little bit of trivia from stoph's camp :)

[Slash]

HAET!



PS:
That fat kid, i think its time we heard yours. Everyone else is spilling their beans.

[fionkell]

smushed the nickname part of my real name, Fionnuala (nula) and the irish gaelic word for eagle (iolar) together and hey presto. eagles are cool. got a pair living in the trees near my house.

at the time there was - miraculously - a Fionuala in my class at school, so she was already 'Fin'. I got 'Nula'. Heh.

[Snarfevs]

It seemed cool at the time to call my computer "Slash", because "\\Slash" sounds cool when spoken out. backslashbackslashslash.

I guessed you were named after the Q3A bot, based on your current av.

[Volchiha]

Lots of different reasons I have this name. A friend of mine started calling me Volchiha rather often and it just stuck with me.

Volchiha = Wolf in russian, feminine form. (Volk being the masculine)

So aside from the mythological (both scandanavian and slavic) associations with wolves, I chose to use it in russian to sort of defy anyone thinking I'm african-ized. I also use it as my messenger handles and often some gaming nicknames =)

[timpaatkins]

Sepulchral - chral, + Overture - o = Sepul-verture. Was the name of a band that I formed with some highschool chums and played guitar in for a few years. More/less supposed to mean symphony from the grave, or symphony of the dead, or some other such thing (the overture isn't the symphony precisely, more the introduction to a symphony, but it sounded better than some of the alternatives we had that used the word symphony). After the we stopped jamming together the name just sort of stuck for me, since I was the most recognized member of the band, and now I use it in forums, games, and this and that.


Bah! Ive been calling you SEPULVULTURE now since i joined so I'm just gonna ignore that!

TImpa is my nickname (TImohty) and Atkins my last. Real imaginative like.

[k4pka]

Mine is just my surname, with a 4 instead of an A. Almost rocket science, but not quite.

[Chingwa]

Frog...

[CGMonkey]

well... cgmonkey was a well known mascot in the early age of cgtalk. i've tried to change since but to no avail. i'm sure you guys know what cg means so, if not use your imagination to randomly connect words to the letters C and G :]

[blacky]

I've been to the states for a year, and my hostbrother used to call me blacky because I would listen to Hip-Hop and Rap at the time.

He was like: "Turn that N-music off! Jeez, you've gotta be black!"
I would reply "Na, I'm on the swim team, dude."

By now my nickname sounds silly to me, so I added a seriouslooking avatar to kompensate for that. :)

[Momus]

I've been using this one since I was 17. Momus (as well spelled Momos) was, in the ancient Greek pantheon, the god of satire, mockery, fault-finding, ridicule, censure, writers, poets, and, I just found out recently, said to be an evil spirit of malicious blame and unfair criticism. I believe he was the son of Chronos and is depicted as lifting a mask off of his face.

This would all seem very appealing to a stupid teenager and fit anyone's internet persona really well. Maybe I'll change it to Philotes? 'Cause… 'cause I wanna be your friend? :*)

[Mitchell]

I told you this would be a popular thread. haha.

Skeiff, a CD was sitting on my desk of a band called "skeiff de barg" they aren't even that good. yeah that's how lazy I am to think of screen names..

[Diego]

Diego, my first name, as simple as that

[Farvus]

To be honest my nickname doesn't mean anything and the idea was completely spontaneous.
Five years ago I was creating a fanart gallery on some fantasy writer's official website and I needed some login name to register. I decided to come up with something in mood of fantasy stories.

[Infinit]

I got the meaning of my nick writen right under itself
I chose it to remind me that I will have to improve no matter how much I learn to be satisfied :P
I came up with it by searching for a unique nick for a while after useing "Eldanesh" which is the name of a half-god in WH 40k

in onlinegames (mostly CoD2) I use Infinit_MK which is my nick+my initials


+ 1 part heimlich (as in, lodged foodstuffs in the larynx hurtling out right onto the paper in a panicked deadline-driven fury...)


heimlich is a german word meaning "secretly"
the noun is "Heimlichkeit"

^^ just so you know

[Shadowwing]

Shadowwing is the name of a black dragon character that I created. Thought that it sounded cool at the time.

[Mr Man]

I havent a clue why im Mr Man..Probablly something to do with liking Mr Men books when I was younger..

If anything I should have called myself Parch, which was my nickname at school because my surname is Partridge..but Mr Man is comfortable so bleh :)

[CaptainInsano]

CaptainInsano... because CaptainAssFace was already taken :er:

[JAG.]

JAG = my initials.. im boring :[ - JAG

[Idiot Apathy]

It's a story I only tell over free beer.

[SprayNation]

Nickname given to me by a very talented musician in high school. He told me if I ever became a professional wrestler I would have to change my name to SprayNation. LOL, I just thought it was funny and it stuck. Oh, and my last name is Spray.

[stoph]

Bah! Ive been calling you SEPULVULTURE now since i joined so I'm just gonna ignore that!


EXACTLY! it just reads like that at first glance, and is too much of an effort for your brain to correct you!

and IA, here - :vodkamachine: closest i could muster

[Sepulverture]

Bah! Ive been calling you SEPULVULTURE now since i joined so I'm just gonna ignore that!

Forgiven. I'm nice like that.

[VirusArtist]

Virus - i was ill pretty often in school.. one day a teacher jokingly said to me "etienne, you are a walking virus"... that one stuck with me... artist- self explanatory ;)

[monstertree]

Hey, interesting thread.
I wanted to make a peronal website showing my art, and thought it'd be cool if the site was like a world in itself, a big tree where all the monsters live....called the monstertree. Freakin' stupid, I know.

[0shade0]

I used to just call me shade, sounded cool back when I was younger,still kinda like it, even though it is soo obvious and overused.
then at some point the username was taken. so I thought let's refine that name some more. after some fucking around with it I thought, hmm 'infinite shade' fits me. but it was too long, so I came up with the sentence: Between nothing lies everything. and everything is like infinite.
ok zero is like nothing
so there you go 0shade0 shade between nothing. but you can't have shade out of just nothing so hmm yes paradox :p
damn it's lame but I grew used to it.

edit: oh yeah my tag and dj name is Dovemans meaning 'deafman' in dutch but more in a proverb kinda way.
it reflects the people being deafened by sociaty
might use that name here too sooner or later.

[Slash]

Snarf, i took the name long before Q3 came out. Although i was ecstatic when i realized there was a chick with my name in the game! :D

[Blue]

My favorite color. :)

[Professor Az]

It's what I do, and where I live. :confident

[s.ketch]

i wanted two words that sounded funny together when i signed up for eatpoo.com. as i paired words up in my head i came up with BuckWeisel. I spelled weasel wrong though, i don't know why. The alternatives were SweaterPickles and MajorityCock. Now that ive had it for a few years ive decided that buckweasels are a race of intelligent 4' tall creatures that resemble weasels with antlers.

[JAG.]

SweaterPickles! :D - JAG

[Onir]

I got Onir a good few years ago when I was playing DAoC; I had a friar named Onirenidd (gotta love random name generators) and as I moved around to other games I just shortened it to Onir since it's a bit easier all around.

love these threads, always interesting hehe.

[rustikof]

art class in my sophomore year of high school, a guy and his friend that I looked like Anthony Micheal Hall (of Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club/etc), specifically from like the first movie he was in, National Lampoon's Vacation. The son's name is Rusty, thus, the first incarnation, Rusty was born.

The friend was really into Cold War army propaganda stuff, and would address people as Comrades, and so he called me "Comrade Rustikov", which then became "Rustikof".

The rest, as they say, is history.

Also, the name Rusty was already taken (by the rad artist guy on this site who i totally submit the name to as I am not as worthy as he is), so there ya go. RUSTY'S OF THE WORLD UNITE!

And my real name is Robin, hence, my picture.

[Irene Gallo]

Peace and bad wine.

[Seer]

Used "Spin" in 2000-2001 but changed it to "Seer" as I thought it fit my supernatural powers.

[Steph Laberis]

Crowned Laberis.

Trivia: Laberis is a shortened form of "Liberopoulos" and only 3 or 4 generations have the shortened name. I think the longer name comes from an island in Greece or some location, but don't quote me on that. Though if I find myself accidentally married someday, I'll prolly keep the name ;)

[JL.Alfaro]

I was drunk when I registered, and I thought...Im gonna pick a really cool or freaky name which will be amusing to me and ALL those who read it...something along the lines of blasphemy...
so the next day I came back to the forums and theres my nick...I exclaimed a loud Homer Simpson "DOH!!" when I saw my initials followed by my last name. been using it ever since.

Jose Luis Alfaro =JLAlfaro
I've also been known as Al Pharaoh on other forums which is a play of sound and wording of my last name.

[Haymaker]

A few years ago during summer, the neighbourhood farmers were collecting the hay bales. My little neighbour and I walked behind the container, when suddenly some chains broke and the fence that holds the haybales fell down...and a split second later I was buried under a avalanche of roughly 50 haybales. The neighbour boy got lucky, he was lying between two fence poles that protected him from being crushed. He managed to free himself, while I was in my dying breath, choked by the pressure on my chest from the haybales. In all the chaos the farmers managed to lift the fence and dug me out. After I finally catched breath (I was white as a ghost, according to them), they brought me home. It took me a few days to recover and breath normally again.

So...my nick roughly comes from 'hay'. I just added ' maker' because 'Haydead' or 'Haychoked' sounds so morbid:P

[Horrorshow]

A reference from 'A Clockwork Orange.'

Not a literal one, though. The term 'horrorshow' is actually one that is used in a system of slang invented by Anthony Burgess for the novel. It's a pun of the Ruassian word "khorosho', which means 'well/good'. But I never really think of the name to hold the same meaning, but rather just as a name.

[YVerloc]

Adolf Verloc is the name of the anti-hero of Joseph Conrad's the Secret Agent. I picked it years ago as an antidote to the "Soul Reaver" and "Lord of the Underworld" type names that my workmates used as Duke Nukem 3d handles. Except at the time, I mistakenly thought the character's first name was Yusuf, not Adolf. One of these day's I'll get around to changing it. Maybe in honor of Duke Nukem Forever?

[Icon]

Icon originally started from Iconophobian - referring to phobia of images and art. I thought it would be ironic in a web site dedicated to art.

But when I attended to Montreal everyone would call me Icon. Layil even suggested the change.
When I came back I thought about it, and for some reason I felt really comfortable with Icon... so much in fact it's become my alias.
To me it means my inability to live without icons in my life, so much to the fact that I'd be willing to become one itself.

[proj235]

proj comes from the gibson novel virtual light. one of the characters, a spunky bike messanger named Chevette always says, "proj-on." I thought it sounded cool so I took it and ran.
I add the 235 on occasions where proj alone won't work, this comes from 2+3=5, the basis of discordian numerology.

[eskanto]

the name of character from a book: eskanto cut-thumb patron saint of bookbinders.:blah: i thought it had a nice ring to it

[Twiggy]

Cydonix doesn't realy have a meaning at all, but I can tell it's origins.

It comes from the name Cydonia, a region on Mars, where the Face of Mars and the Pymarids were discoverd. I kind of I liked the name, but realising it' was feminen (ending with "a") I thought Cydonio would be a much suitible for my sex. But then I decided I wanted a name with an "x" cuz I thought it would sound cool with an X in it. So in the end I changed the last letter to x, resulting to my current user name.

[ChaoticKnight]

ChaoticKnight:
A warrior loyal to noone, as far as anyone knows. The title of my character, "Eden the Chaotic Knight". Kinda personal in a way nowadays too.
This name stuck since I was 11 believe it or not. haha itll be a 10 year old handle in a year.
My others: CryHavoc (and unleash the dogs of war? duh)
UndeadElf (my preferences in races in Warcraft 3 :/)

[digital_zombie]

Pierced = because I am pierced, at one time I had 19, now I am down to 10 and Logic = because it made sense at the time ;)

[Ex Nihilo]

Latin term. It means "out of nothing". Also a song from the band Dark Tranquility, which was the reason I looked it up the in the first place. No reason behind why I chose it, I just thought it sounded cool.
Should have went with SirLurksalot.:)

[Mr. Visions]

...I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams... - Acts 2:17

Something about this scripture stood out to me, it tapped a vein that poured out inspiration for me and goals for my work. I dedicated my gift back to the ultimate Creator in hopes to one day be a prophecy fulfilled, a light in the darkness, a pair of eyes for those who want to see a story constantly unfolding ; a story showing us the ongoing battle between good and evil and the risks that come with it. And, hopefully in the end, the same message rings clear: God loves us.

As you can see, it's very personal, and I could keep going, but I feel that's enough.

- Visions

[davi]

david had too many repeating letters

[Piru]

Piru from Pieter Rubberecht, real name - gaming name = dwarfDurin.

[Darktwin]

I had this alias for awhile, back when chatting on AOL dial up was cool.
Twin = I'm an Identical twin to my brother Aaron, aka "Ashrumm"

Dark = Well, growing up we use to get into fights. These fights would always end in a stalemate or draw. Until I began cheating by using objects as weapons to break the deadlock. Of course I would be punished for trying to break the stalemate. Because of this I would get blamed for fights I didn't even start, because it was assumed that I was always the one to instigate. My refuge from these unfair situations was the dark places. Today I love the walking alone at night in the dark, its peaceful when the world around you is asleep shrouded in darkness.

[evildisco]

evildisco came up because that's how a while back static-x referred to their music. I liked the idea of evil disco. The alternative, discovolante comes from James Bond, Thunderball, it was the name of the boat of Largo and in italian it means flying saucer. I use both nicks equally profusely.

[Leftyy]

Leftyy:

It's because I'm left-handed.

Also, it's mostly because of Lefty Guns (Benjamin Ruggiero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ruggiero)'s nickname.) He was a mobster in the movie "Donnie Brasco" and one in real life as well. He was played by Al Pacino. Al Pacino was hot in The Godfather. There you go. My knowledge of/interest in the mafia is surprising considering my girlish/childish tendencies. I'm a girl.

On YouTube, I have the more clever nickname of LeftyHandedGuns. Heh. Self-promotion. Woot. I guess you could say that this username is a take on my YouTube username.

The extra Y represents my tendency to say things in a really funny way, elongating words. Also, it's a measure of my conformity. But not really.

Edit: That's eerie, I just received an e-mail from YouTube as I posted this.

[Ampersand]

Ampersand is my nickname almost everywhere else (except real life) - Amp, Ampy, Ampers. I like the punctuation mark (&) and have a penchant for hoarding under-used quirky words, so Ampersand was the perfect choice for me at the time. :^^:

[wiggum]

I have a book called "The Encyclopedia of Things That Never Where," I bought it about eight years ago. When I joined I just looked through it to find a cool name and Wendigo stuck out, apparently a Wendigo is a woodland monster that drives people crazy, it is also an Incredible Hulk villian.

[BobThompkins]

Thompkins came from Tompkins, from Mr Tompkins in Paperback and The New World of Mr Tompkins. It's a series of books about a middle aged guy who has dreams about physics. I accidentally added an h to it. Bob is the absolute coolest first name ever, so it became BobThompkins.

[Spiralfish]

I Love Biology...

A while ago, in soft limestone of mid Permian fossil deposits, Paleontologists found some shark teeth. Finding Shark teeth isnt anything new, in it's more of the more mundane finds in any oceanic deposit.

But there was something decidedly different about these teeth, for arranged in order of increasing size they formed a radiating spiral of 180 interlocking teeth.

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/evolution/evol-image/helicoprion-cast.jpg

The animal was an ancient shark that was christianed Helicoprion, and and the game of trying to figure out how this structure might have fit onto a shark began in earnest.

To this day, no one really knows as the soft cartlidge of the rest of the shark didnt preserve.

But here's my reconstruction:

http://www.helenzhu.com/Gallery/Artwork/Helico1.jpg

Helicoprion has become sort of a site mascot for me, so that's where "Spiral Fish" comes from.

:confident

[Sir_E_Pent]

SinusAnimus = secret heart consciousness

[Kamikazebob]

Piru from Pieter Rubberecht, real name - gaming name = dwarfDurin.

If I had done that then...Eric Robertson, that would be.. Pervert in Japaneses... I think, phonetically anyway. :davi:

Kami ended up because I flew one too many scouts into the enemies base in tribes.

[Bubs]

Bubs is an easy name to remember.

[SalOnimaruRem]

Oni= Demon
same number of letters as my real name and easier and unmistakable to pronounce unlike my real name....and i like the sound of it and the meaning and plus it fits a part of me...

Rem= my last name

simple as that :)

[Borleyi]

Copadichromis borleyi is a species of fish that lives in lake Malawi in Africa.

I picked the name because I am a fish fanatic and have recently become interested in cichlids, especially those from the Great Rift lakes in Eastern Africa.

Info on the species (http://morefish.homestead.com/borleyi.html)

A male C. borleyi

http://dainichi.pl/dainichi/cichlid_page/COLOR%20new/KadangoBorleyiColorFX-Supre.jpg

[TheDirtSyndicate]

complete2
well... i used to say that my graphic design style was the combination of 2 different styles, high tek and grunge.
blah
dont really care now.
name means nothing at the moment... want to re-brand myself to "TheDirtSyndicate"
i already bought www.thedirtsyndicate.org
but dont go there... you might get SPAMMMMMMEED
the site is fucked up and needs to be re-done

[Blaz]

Well my forum nick is a long story actually.
But to make long story short Ill just say my nick is actually my name, since my name is Blaž Klarić. ;)

Woah!

[Homeless Foxman]

I'm not quite sure the original birth of my name, because it's stolen in a way, but not really stolen because it was with consent. My eldest brother came up with the name Homeless Goatman, which I don't remember at this point but he told me once. Then my other brother made his name Homeless Wolfman. Eventually I joined in with my name, and then my oldest brother thought it was cool that we had these similar names... so there you go.

Homeless Foxman! Hooray!

[PuppyKitten]

This is really going to surprise the pants off all of you, but... I like puppies. And I really like kittens.

Who knew? ;P

When I was little I loved Scottish folds cats because they looked like kittens with floppy puppy ears. I called them puppycats and puppykittens. Thus, a legend was born D:

[Dan!]

a bastardization of the word disciple

[Ryuartyi]

Ryuartyi (Re-u-tar-e) is the name of the guardian of my main character's dimension in my comic. It's the first name I've ever had solidified for my comic, and is the hardest to pronounce.

[Mon Chat]

... I have a fetish for the name boswell.

[Gundersen]

I always used "milly" or "millander" when i was kid playing or chatting online. But when i signed up here i decided to start useing my last name instead to seem more serious.. I felt i am in that age atm :P

[plantman]

Because plantman was the lamest superhero I could find in my deck of Marvel supervillian top-trumps.
6 years later I return to this forum and my login details still exist.
And Plantman still kicks the living shit out of any other muscle-bulging-crotchless superfuck in the stinking adolescent universe. Including Ironman.

[life on the sofa]

well basicly i have this sofa.....

[petitemistress]

mistress was how i retardedly thought ud translate "maitresse" meaning teacher in french, to english when i was 13 on IRC. petite is bcz i was 13; it was supposed to be the "little teacher" bcz im a total nerd and helped everyone out in school, but well. you can see how it came out. i now finally understand every other retard innuendo on IRC <.< ... when i learned english it gave me a laugh, and since i was used to it and so were my friends, i still use it!

[ROCKON]

Because I live by the philosophy " ROCK ON!"

[Sorknes]

Because.... it's my middle name?

[Master Chill]

Yeah, my turn I guess..

I'm kinda slow in all I do. Thinking, walking, drawing, waking up etc. Not that I'm lazy, I'm just slow. One time in class, I brought a pillow (because it was a video-class) to a 2-hours during class. People thought it was really chill to do so and one came to another. Shorly after, Master Chill was born ^^ It's now my nick on practically everything - from ingame till RL.

[Farvus]

Long time ago I used to be be fascinated with fantasy genre and as a pen&paper RPG game master I came up with different exotic names for my NPC characters. "Farvus" came from that I didn't really give it any meaning. Accidently I found out later that there is such word in Yiddish (far vos?) and it means "why" :P.

[`king]

Oooh. I used to have one that sounded like a yugioh card. Then another with quite a few Xx's in it, then i got rid of the x's (because as we all know, the number of x's in your name is directly proportinal to the size of your manhood.)
In the end I just picked my last name - and beacuse "king" is always taken I stuck a... whats it called, like a revered inverted comma? the tilde key thing. I sorta realised it makes me seem really up myself. Yeah., oh well.
j

[Choob]

Xeno., as in alien, you know all those xenophobes.

I've always felt somewhat out of sync with the rest of Scotland, their little troubles seem meaningless to me, hence Xeno..

The full stop because plain old Xeno was already taken.

:D

Might change name again though.

[Kagemusha22]

Err, yeah...

http://www.leninimports.com/kagemusha.jpg

[Hookswords]

I used to use BrokenSword for online gaming. It came from the character in Hero, but that was before it made it to the states. I thought it was a cool concept and would be relatively unknown for the time. I switched to HookSwords a while back. Swords have to be involved. They've always been a part of my life. I train in kung fu and my favorite weapon are Hook Swords. It also works as Hooks Words, because my brain digests words differently or quicker than some and things occur to me outside of normal use. I used to have a student that worked for me that was an international student from India. Her English was good when she got here and great when she was done. She would still tell me that sometimes when I talk she didnt understand what I was saying. That the words made sense but not in the order I used them. I simply told her that I abuse the English language. And I'm a smart ass.

[gnarl]

... I have a fetish for the name boswell.

Friends and I used to use "Boswell" as a code name for cocaine. "Let's go hang out with Boswell". :)

[Helltroll]

Helltroll, the central part of Emperor Helltroll Invictus, which is basically my intertubes screenname anywhere else (though the Invictus part was only recently added, Latin for "unconquerable")...Emperor Helltroll Invictus is also my pseudonym in my black metal band and solo project.

[sourgasm]

comes from a folder i used to keep on my domain.

sour.org/asm = sourgasm

i'll let you guess what was in the folder ;D

[HungryJoe]

Hungry Joe is a character in the excellent book by Joseph Heller, Catch-22.

[Jason Ross]

I was too lazy to think of a cool name.

[Sunseaker]

I like the sun, and the sea. Also perhaps Sunseeker yachts had something to do with it...

[waffleKoan]

Wikipedia: "A koan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Zen Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition." I put the waffle part in front to make it more irrational!

I wish I'd chosen something more metal, though :(

[Bill]

I got here before Bill Carman.

[Asatira]

Asatira: African (Swahili, I believe), means "legend." I picked it early in college because I was more of a writer at the time, and I wanted an alias to reflect the storytelling aspect of myself.

[whitepython]

whitepython because i love snakes

[Troubadour]

i like the way it sounds...

[Ninjerk]

I happened to be playing Halo at the time, and after one particularly successful Blood Gulch base rape and possible flag return I think someone compared me to a ninja (I would generally hit the caves and not kill anyone until I was beside or inside their base with an alien rifle and pistol/shotgun). Since people kept calling me a jerk, it seemed appropriate to be a ninja jerk, or Ninjerk.

[JJacks]

Jessica Jackson

[Kjesta]

My name doesn't really mean anything, I chose it after my old username (Dorinka) started popping up with various people all over the internet and I needed something new.

It does have pretty colours though! I chose it in the end because a lot of nice colours are in it. (Haha, synaesthesia here.)

K = red
J = yellowish orange
E = green
S = yellow
T = dark blue
A = red

[donm]

my name means 'me too' in the swedish tongue; because I want to be an artist too.

[Kan Muftić]

If you want to find out about mine, follow the homepage link in my signature and go to videos/"Creature Quest" :)

[Jaytea]

Jaytea = jay tea = j t = JT, my initials \D

my old one, Shalite, was a fantasy roleplay character

[laxon]

I wrote a short story with a main character by the name of "Laxon" through a course of events after that the name stuck to me as well.

[Black Spot]

I'm a blind pirate.

[Lionsword]

I love big cats, tigers and lions being my favorite, and swords. Put 'em together, Tigersword just doesn't sound as good, so I went with Lionsword.

[Crass]

It just means I'm crass, but not really. I also happen to like Crass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCF460eTEv0)

[LuckyDevil]

Back in middleschool i knew i wanted to start my own little art company or game company and i drew a little devil guy as a mascot for it. I wanted to name it LuckyDevil Studios. Since then i have used it for all my forum names, but i have lost that little drawing a long time ago.

[Aaron Death]

Aaron's ma name, and Aaron Death? It just sounds cool~

[Grafguy]

Damn MasterChill, out of all the people out here, its you who had to resurrect this thread? :D

on topic: My nick GrafGuy, originates from when I was 10 or so and
a bit obsessed with street art.
I used to draw these dudes with spraypaints in their hands looking all cool,
and i called them grafitti guys - thus grafguy :)

[plunder bunny]

http://dentedcans.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/monkey-seq.png

*grins*

[ryan mcshane]

Ryan is my real name
Ryan translated into Russian is Panah
Pandah :)

[NanoBlack]

NanoBlack- I was inspired heavily by the Necris from the Unreal Tournament franchise.

Its a reminder of how I was first inspired to really focus on art, so every time I get demotivated I see my name and remember the amazing work produced by Epic. Yeah, sort of has a number of uses. I thought about it a lot :)

[Xeon_OND]

LOL, this thread is kinda ancient and it's resurrected. :D

Anyway, my ID "Xeon" is from Intel Pentium Xeon processor. Got this when I was a nerd in my teens. :D
"OND" stands for "One Nice Day". :D

[Ardescoere]

Mine is latin for creative fire... I don't remember for the life of me how I found the word but it was years ago. Normally for online stuff I go by that or if it's for like video games or something like that it's a random variety of letters which sound pretty!

[PieterV]

Useless rubber person

[bcarman]

I got here before Bill Carman.
Just saw your post Bill. If I were a hacker I'd steal Bill back from you. Maybe we should do this by age.

[Spirit]

Well, my name I use on most forums is Spirit, which is a shorter version of my character I play in Guild Wars, called Ancient Spirit.
I got Ancient Spirit from a series of books I own and have read, although in the books, it was originally 'World Spirit', but I felt like changing it :)

[Bentley]

My first name.

[Gavage]

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6120/atomicbombd.jpg

[Dagoelius]

amalgamation of my 3 favourite philosophers,
Leonardo Da Vinci
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Marcus Aurelius

[ExiledRed]

I'm from Liverpool, and I'm a Liverpool FC supporter (red)
I moved to canada in 1996 and have lived here ever since (exiled sounds better than expatriated)

[Portus]

It's self explanatory.

[shadesofsuns]

I like having inspiration from songs or movies. One song I really like is called Shades of Revolution but I didn't want the revolution part as my name. The sun part is actually a part of my last name. I added an S at the end so it would be easier to say.

[Falchion]

The falchion is a utility blade. Take from that what you will.

[Raoul Duke]

Raoul Duke was Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's alias. He did that to protect his reputation and identity while he was out raising hell. There is no point in raising hell if you have to take responsibility for it.

[Black Spot]

It's self explanatory.

You are one of the three musketeers?

[Armonah]

My screen name doesn't have any particular meaning, it just sounds nice.

[Auslander]

It's German for "foreigner", although I also understand it to mean "outsider" (may be its literal translation).

Outside is where I've spent this life, it's where my ashes will reside in a pauper's grave.

[RedHotHoshi]

Mine reads as Red Hot Star when you translate the word Hoshi, it's a joke I thought up a couple months ago, it sounds like it could be slightly sexual at first if you don't know what "hoshi" means and are a dirty minded teenager like most of the people I spend my time with. It also has a rather nice ring to it.

The joke, in case people don't know about stars, is that red stars are the coldest of stars, and so by comparison would not be called hot.

[Auslander]

The joke, in case people don't know about stars, is that red stars are the coldest of stars, and so by comparison would not be called hot.

Brown dwarves are cooler.

But don't mind me...I'm a walking repository of useless knowledge.

[ExiledRed]

Brown dwarves are cooler.

But don't mind me...I'm a walking repository of useless knowledge.

Brown Dwarves aren't technically stars.

But don't mind me either :)

[Prion]

A prion is basically an infectious protein/"Zombie Protein". I don't wanna nerd this place up with details.... I can assure you they're kewl.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm brains. :yum:

[Auslander]

Brown Dwarves aren't technically stars.

According to whose definition?

There's a lot to learn from a failed star...Jupiter is a star in the radio spectrum.

Saturn gazes on in envy, ignoring his glorious rings...

[Lumens]

I'm terrible with names i know.

[Portus]

You are one of the three musketeers?

No, not Porthos, it's really the latin word Portus which means Port (harbor) which is also the name of a famous wine.

[MatejaPetkovic]

well i used Dave Clarke for many years(one of my favorite Detroit Dj) and one day i wanted to put my name(and surname), so i did it.

M

[BRINKMAN!]

My current handle is just my last name. I also go by BRNK, which I think looks cooler ;).
The funniest nickname I've had though was my old music nom de plume, Mechapon, which is the name of the gigantic, robotic gorilla that is the 2nd level sub-boss in the game Stryder. I had a book as a kid of Genesis strategies and that name an image stuck with me.

[karma militia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS3gzHetA

To be honest, your name was one of the few that i've ever actually wondered about. And I am appeased.

But I'm afraid I'm going to have to refer to you as Mr Jackson from now on. Good day.

[Ivory_Oasis]

Ivory = Beautiful, rare, delicate, white (pure), strong and able to be used in a wide variety of ways (yet in all it's uses, always retaining its qualities listed before)....basically, what I hope my art to be.

Oasis = Unique, solitary, a haven from the normal harshness that exists all around us.
Basically, what I think represents myself.

My name always reminds me why I began doing art and where I am aiming as I move forward :)

[karma militia]

Ivory = Beautiful, rare, delicate, white (pure), strong and able to be used in a wide variety of ways (yet in all it's uses, always retaining its qualities listed before)....basically, what I hope my art to be.

Oasis = Unique, solitary, a haven from the normal harshness that exists all around us.
Basically, what I think represents myself.

My name always reminds me why I began doing art and where I am aiming as I move forward :)

Oh c'mon, Ivory means elephant horn, and Oasis means an exclusive and/or controlled [and therefor ideal] environment. It spells "ruthless blackmarket".


...sorry, used up my delegated delicate speech for tonight earlier.

[AsaB]

AsaB is short for my real first and middle name, that is, Ása Bryndís.
It's not really internet-friendly like that, so I usually shorten it a tad.

The meaning of those names however, is circa "A nordic armoured goddess" - and when it's combined with my last name, which means "a daughter of a warrior", it makes me sound far more hardcore than I am in real life :)

[nofu]

I used to get called all sorts of names when I was a preteen because I was tall, skinny and generally my legs are longer than common human proportions would have. Sticks was one of them. Over time it lost it's negative meaning and now my oldest and best friends call me that.

[karma militia]

AsaB is short for my real first and middle name, that is, Ása Bryndís.
It's not really internet-friendly like that, so I usually shorten it a tad.

The meaning of those names however, is circa "A nordic armoured goddess" - and when it's combined with my last name, which means "a daughter of a warrior", it makes me sound far more hardcore than I am in real life :)

oh, so you are a descendant of a viking line, by the sound of things. That's pretty cool :D

[Bourin]

http://www.estampemoderne.fr/data/item/6/i-688-1.jpg

This poster hangs in my favourite restaurant. Sometimes I go by Burin or Bourinn if Bourin is taken.
I am also a Francophile, I think

[Reymus]

Reymus was a shortened version of Raymond Murray that I liked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Murray

[OmenSpirits]

Omen

An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. Though the word "omen" is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either "good" or "bad".

Spirits

An incorporeal but ubiquitous, non-quantifiable substance or energy present individually in all living things. Unlike the concept of souls (often regarded as eternal and usually believed to pre-exist the body) a spirit develops and grows as an integral aspect of a living being.

[AsaB]

oh, so you are a descendant of a viking line, by the sound of things. That's pretty cool :D
Correct :) Most Icelandic names sound kinda metal when translated!

[bitjockey]

It's because I'm a programmer. I sit behind a desk and push around ones and zeroes all day.
So 'bit' = 0 or 1, the basic unit of binary code.
'jockey' = short for 'desk jockey'

[ExiledRed]

It's because I'm a programmer. I sit behind a desk and push around ones and zeroes all day.
So 'bit' = 0 or 1, the basic unit of binary code.
'jockey' = short for 'desk jockey'

out of a personal interest, how easy or hard do you find it switching from art to programming and back again?
Do you find that solving a code problem can take your creative energy away for a time? if so, do you find it harder to get into a programming frame of mind after working on a creative piece of art?

[d-woo]

Woo is my last name, D is the first letter of my first name. So d-woo, a number of people at school call me that :blahblah:

[tobbA]

I might've posted earlier... Anyway. tobbA is just Tobba with the capitalization backwards. I thought that looked cool when I was in second grade...

[bitjockey]

out of a personal interest, how easy or hard do you find it switching from art to programming and back again?
Do you find that solving a code problem can take your creative energy away for a time? if so, do you find it harder to get into a programming frame of mind after working on a creative piece of art?

After a workday full of logical, left-brained tasks it feel really relaxing to have something that's more intuitive to work on. I've usually got to do something else before I can get started though, to give my left-brain some time to wind down - eat supper, catch a half-hour of TV, etc - before I can really be productive.

On days that I end up working late to get a project finished on time I'm usually too mentally exhausted to do much more than simple studies. I usually give up and go play videogames or read my novel or something instead.

I don't usually try anything creative in the mornings before I get to work so I haven't had too much problems getting into 'programmer mode'.

[MacTire]

Mac-Tire: (there should be a fadha (Irish equivalent of the French accent egu) over the I) It's my favourite of the Irish words for "wolf". The literal translation is "son of the earth / land". It's an example of what is referred to as a "noa" name, a sort of code to describe something for fear that using it's real name would draw it's attention. A variant that I also use elsewhere is Madra-Aalta, which is another Irish word for wolf, a more direct one as it literally translates as "wild dog".

[Angel Intheuk]

Prion - That's the funniest profile gif I've seen :D

My name is self explanatory too, I like Angels and stuff and my name is Angela which derives from the french name Angele (Messenger from the gods - or so I read!)

oh...and I live in the UK

oh...and I am in the process of having angel wings tattooed as a backpiece, they're small at the moment, might post a pic if I ever get round to it, I would like them extending next year and need to design the next stage.

[witcrack]

It's actually derived from "biscuit cracker", cut off the first and last syllables, you get "cuit-crack" which is rather meaningless, so i played with it a bit more and i have "wit-crack" and later decided to drop the dash :teeth:

But no actually, the truth is I'm always fascinated by a jester character or a fool, but using "jester", "clown", "bozo" for a name would be too obvious (prob'ly many people already used that), and "joker"... well Mr. Heath Ledger has successfully made that as one of the most wanted name in the whole planet but i wanted a unique name, so it's a no. I like "fool" for it has a mysterious feel in it, but i saw someone already using it as a screen name. I almost went for "wit-cracker" after going through a few wikies but i didn't like how it sounds, it's like an occupation instead of a name. So "witcrack" it is. It sounds more like a one word of only two syllables, it's practical and easy to remember (esp. by me).

You know, ... i actually like the first reason better. Why didn't i think that way back then? :D

[Angel Intheuk]

Witcrack I always read it like 'whip crack' like your wit is so sharp it cracks! You chose good :)

[Bruce Pluto]

Howdy CA forum!

Guess I’ll throw my own explanation for why people see what they see ( & get what they get) when they read a post of mine. Not that it means anything, but here goes.

I actually enjoy these kind of threads, it helps me to feel that I’m getting a better understanding of people that are members of the board.

Anyway, I start, BRUCE PLUTO, my first icon name isn’t really from my first name. It comes from a slant of my last name; Broussard. Broussard is a very popular name in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. I’ve heard it used in the movies several times ( JFK & Runaway Jury) while actors portray events happening in this part of the country of US of A. The pronunciation down here is “ Bruce-sard” , that’s how it’s spoken.

Now the second part is really simple. Several years ago I enjoyed the emulated art of Frazetta. One person that at that time captured a lot of Frazetta’s style was someone named Donny Jupiter (aka Donald Marquez). I thought, “How cool to have a name that reflects not only ones interest in art but ones interest in the universe!” I decided to adapt into my own icon a reflection of the same interest……. Thus Bruce Pluto was created. Not that it means anything…..it’s just the reason for what is seen on my posts.

Guess that explains it.

BP, out

[witcrack]

Angel: Lol! I'm not going to stand next to anyone who have wit that sharp, esp. when it's cracking loud :D But thank you, i'm happy with the name myself :) Your extending tattoo plan sounds like fun too. You SHOULD take pictures of every single growth, it might serves good as an animated GIF avatar in the future :D

[AustenFM]

Some interesting stories behind the names, here's mine.

For years since high-school my screen name had always been "Fetus-Man" , then one night I was getting into anagrams and decided to see what happened to my screen name if i re-arranged the letters and guess what i got?

Austen FM

Austen is my real name, correctly spelled with the "E" instead of the traditional "I", and the leftover "FM" is from the first letter of the two words of my old screen name "fetus-man"

Crazy Shit, i was freaked out!

That was about the time I started lurking on concept art.

[myoneandonly]

HI GUYS. New here. Sliiiightly intimidated. :P

My username is derived solely from the fact that I am a hopeless romantic... emphasis on the hopeless. Still searching for my one and only. 9.9

I used to use the name "musicmaker" for a lot of stuff (despite the fact that I didn't actually make any music...) I always used to think that the name just sort of popped into my head. Then I watched the old Willy Wonka movie and got super-excited when he said "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

I would still be using "musicmaker" if it didn't make me feel pretentious. :/

[FourTonMantis]

wlYBPuHeZxw

[soulexposed]

Taken from one of my favorite Dream Theater songs::rocker:
"sometimes I feel I should face this alone.
my soul exposed,
it calms me to know that I won't"

[Bourin]

wlYBPuHeZxw

Hell yes, I always wanted to ask you if it was from that. Amon Tobin kicks all kinds of ass

[cgaddict]

cgaddict - Mine is pretty self explanatory - I'm addicted to computer graphics. Pray for me :D

[FourTonMantis]

Hell yes, I always wanted to ask you if it was from that. Amon Tobin kicks all kinds of ass

Agreed. Though I kind of burned myself out on his stuff...and IDM in general. Will always love that song though.

[AlexEh]

My name (Dylan Ashby) + (Lain)= Dy.laneA

?

[DBZMerciter2005]

It's a strange story, really. DBZ is obvious, but Merciter less so.

Merciter is the merging of my two favorite Sailor Moon characters (and my single favorite OTP of all time), Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter. Pronounced Merk-iter (because I enjoy screwing English over) it's been my internet alias for forever.

2005 is when I graduated high school, first went to Japan, and it's a cool number because it has a 2, 5, and 00s in it.

[Echøplex]

I believe an echoplex is a device for tape delay effects, used with guitars and such.

But other than a snazzy device for instruments such as guitars, it's also the name of a song from a Nine Inch Nails album (but neither the album or the song are my favorite from NIN). Most of my screen names have been taken from songs of my favorite bands, for I love music almost as much as I love making artwork. However, I possess no talent in making music. :'C

Art and music, can't live without them~

[JayBL]

JayBL stands for my name, Julie Bernadette Larsen :)

[Truepinkas]

...because I am not the Falsepinkas...

[Jacob Kobryn]

Um... It's my name. :P Well technically my name is Jacob Kobrin, not Kobryn, and most people call me Jake, not Jacob, but I'd rather my name be presented as such.

[LeeAnn]

Same is here. Am Ann Lee in real life ))

[crossmirage]

My namesake, from Five Star Stories. (http://www.gearsonline.net/fss/mh/cross/cross.php)

[Jessie Della]

It's my first and middle name

[BlightedArt]

Teen angst that became a username I guess.

[sanakris]

Just like almost everybody else around here mine has part of my name in it.

Sanakris is an anagram of my name. Which is Krisana (im a girl) And added an extra 'a' because I don't like being called ana.

It was either sanakris or anasirk which is just plain ridiculous

[GrayMind]

Well, the color gray is dull and boring, and i'm a very creative person. So I guess it's supposed to be ironic... although it really just sounds cool.

[Jacob Kobryn]

I love the "color" gray... But it's not really a "color" is it?

[Pinback]

My name comes from a character in Dan O bannon's classic sci-fi movie, Dark Star.

[AmontilladoAg]

The "Amontillado" comes from Poe's classic tale "The Cask of Amontillado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amontillado)". "Ag" is short for "Aggie", because I went to Texas A&M University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University), home of the Fightin' Texas Aggies. Whoop! :D

[thrila]

From Ali's Thriller in Manila.

I used to be thrilafrommanila on here and other sites, but then people liked to point out that I am not from Manila (my mom is; I was born here). So I just shortened it down to thrila.

I use it for everythinggggggggg.

[Anne Tang]

Mine is just too common.

I choose Anne as my English name since I learnt English and Tang is my Chinese family name.

I do want to give a detailed explanation about my English name.

A: Ambition

N: Naivety

N: Navigation

E: Enlightenment

Enlightenment + Navigation + Naivety ( peace of mind ) = Ambition ( make my dream come true )

[Sickbrush]

for me it's just.. uhm... sick..brush..

although i did have the username Starspire back in the day - Star[craft] Spire[them zergs should know]. used it up until i saw that WOW TCG had a hero named Hekto Starspire. which pissed me off.

[Theking78]

Mine is an homage to my favorite writer, Stephen "The King" King, plus my year of birth at the end :)

[brianvds]

Simply short for my real name, Brian van der Spuy. Been using it on the web for ages. I find people have less trouble pronouncing my first name than my surname... ;-)

[Whipsmart]

Some friends and I were discussing what each other's pornstar names would be and somehow I got stuck with Whipsmart. It's just kind of stuck with me ever since.

[Klaasillu]

I have always been called Klaas by my art-related friends. The reasons as to why they'd call me such name are beyond me, to be honest. Klaas was too common and didn't really had any personal touch to it; so I was forced to come up with a variation of it.

Klaas + Illu(stration) = Klaasillu

That is how it born. Nowadays, the more I read "Klaasillu", the more I remember of a young rebel penguin stealing his grandfather's trousers for some obnoxious vivid reason.

[velderia]

It's a shorten and then lengthen version of my name. Go figure.

[sanya]

Sanya is my name. :(

[Broken Lawnmower]

My username's an acronym. Can't remember what it stands for though

[TheComicFilmBoy]

Well, the name's Kasey, and I tend to be a little krazy, so there ya go.

[Deon]

I totally forgot what mine means... oh wait! its my name!! handy that... :)

[Two Listen]

When I got engaged to my wife a couple years ago, we had established very early on that we didn't want to simply use my last name - nor did we want to combine our existing names, or simply use her family's last name either. We did not feel that either of us were our former families, and it is - and always has been, in our nature to create whenever possible.

We viewed our marriage and life together as an opportunity to come up with something different than the tradition, and so we began thinking of various last names. We'd looked through all the lists and things of that nature looking for your typical badassery, but it was hard to narrow it down. We decided to start by trying to find something starting with the letter "L" not only because we liked how it'd flow with our first names thereafter, but also because we were at the time relative fans of Death Note and L is totally a badass.

After a week or two of looking through your typical names - we also decided upon the restriction that it had to be incredibly uncommon, it couldn't be a name you'd see everywhere because let's face it that's just stupid. What's the point in choosing a completely different last name if you're going to wind up going with "Smith" or "Brown"?

Now, at this point in our lives we were 900 miles away from one another, and spent all day of almost every day we could with our headsets on, and just spent every day talking. One night as we were talking I was thinking on names again, and I considered the name "Listen".

I'd wanted to create every aspect of our lives, and create them in such a manner as to always work towards ensuring our happiness. Given our last name being official after we were wed, "Listen" seemed somewhat appropriate. I wanted it to be the case, when every time I signed a receipt, or received a piece of mail, or a paycheck, or sent an email, or anything of the sort - that I was always reminded to "listen" - to my wife, to my heart, to all of the things that really matter, and to never lose sight of this idea. Also I like word play and the fact that my last name is now also a word is totally awesome.

She really liked the idea and so it was decided that we'd wind up changing our last name to "Listen", and this happened last year when we got married.

We came up with the idea and had it pretty well set in stone about a year prior to our wedding, though, and at that time I wanted to come up with a new screen name for online communities and usage. As always, I didn't ever want to get caught up in what was the "feeling" of whatever I was doing, be it shooting someone in the face, or posting on some forums, I always wanted to remember her and what my priorities should be.

As I said - I like word play, and the number 2 has been my favorite number for as long as I can remember. I decided to put the two together as "Two Listen", not only using the second half as my last name - but also to remind myself further that whatever I do - even here, where she is not posting herself - that it's not just me I'm working for. There's two of us and that I must always keep that in mind. That every painting, every study, every bit of advice or word of wisdom doesn't come from me, it comes from who I am as a result of her, and should be done in a manner worthy of her.

I've stuck with "Two Listen" for a long while now.

[Sulphur]

I was stuck for names on Pokemon D/P and went through the table of elements for cool ideas.
Thought Sulphur was an awesome name for a Venasaur.
Got WoW and went back to my Pokemon game to see if there were any good names I'd used. Sulphur seemed most badass for my male tauren.
Got really into WoW and Sulphur ended up feeling like my real name
Now I use it for everything


I honestly don't think that could have been nerdier. :perv:

[ryukin]

ryukin here!
What an interesting thread!
It's nice to see the thought process that goes behind a person's screen name.

As for myself, well ... I like goldfish, especially the ryukin variety ...
so yeah ... :bashful:
It doesn't get much simpler than that!

[Anne Tang]

Curious about the ryukin goldfish. I have never kept one of my own.