Tell me about your nickname!

[Virus]

I got my nickname after becoming entrenched in the book, "The Hot Zone". The book is a true account of the Ebloa Virus's entrance into America. Unfortunately it happened very close to my home in Virginia. My wife used to work about 50 yards away from the Level 5 biohazard facility where the virus was contained and studied. I believe there are only 4-5 Level 5 biohazard facilities in the entire world, 3 of which are on U.S. soil. One of which is in Frederick Maryland on the Fort Detrick military base.

[X-Calibur]

In my young lad years I played electric guitar in a Metal band, I had the long hair and the bad attitute (!!!), I still have my shiny Gibson Flying V.... somewhere.

My amp was manufactured by Crate and it was of the Excalibur series... liked the name and the history of the Mighty Sword so it started from there, called my computer Excalibur, then in IRC, etc.

When I joined the newsgroup business (ACHO and Seti to name only two) it was also under Excalibur, but later on I changed it for X-Calibur, which I found looked better... it's now me since then.

[viperdog]

I worked for several years as an "air tech" with the Iowa Air National Guard. For those that don't know what "air tech" means, it means that I was a Federal civilian employee with the Dept of Defense. Like someone that works for the post office but I also had to have a tie to the military to hold my job. That tie was that I was required to wear a military uniform and hold a position in the Air Guard militarily ( weekend drills once a month and two weeks a year). So really I had a full time job & a part time one also.

We fly F-16's, but our unit is "the Vipers". My wife and I raised and showed Borzoi dogs ( Russian Wolfhounds ). Hense....ViperDog.

Since I'm a Gemini I like the two-sidedness..

[dnar]

Nothing real exciting I'm afraid.......

My Business name: DNA Research

[Medic193]

Well I wish mine was as exciting as some of yours. I'm a Paramedic and my medic number is 193. Wow!!!:) Maybe someone should write a book about mine.:rolleyes:

[papeniglio]

I've posted it on the old forum, but it's nice to repeat it (hey shoo don't yawn!!! ;)).
I like a lot Disney's toons, and there was a period in my life in which I was really unlucky, so I thought I was a reincarnation of Donald Duck (in italian paperino). Then I met my wife, and for her I was so sweet and peaceful as a rabbit (in italian coniglio) :o.
Hence pape-niglio....

GeeK!

[shubles]

tis ok pap
a woman never gets tired of hearing such sweet stories.

as for my nick...welll... errrr... wylie????
u started it.

but the shushan one.
that is easy

anyone seen brooke sheilds' tv show suddenly susan?
well the ???insertculture??? guy on there Louis had a great accent and called her shushan.
that stuck to me.
another of wylies doings
:D

i liked them both, but shubles became my fave very quickly

other take-offs of my nick have been:
*shue
*shoo
*the shuster
*shoe-shine
*shuzie

and im with you pap, i even get called poohs sometimes (as in disneys winnie the pooh) or even winnie the shit (by my brother) :rolleyes:

[wylie]

wylie is the name of a baby ewok in Return of the Jedi.
It was used as the name for the House Cat (R.I.P).
Needed a nick quick one night and it just stuck!


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"If history repeats itself I think we can expect the same thing again" - Terry Venables

[10:13]

I'm a big fan of the X-Files. If you know the X-Files, you'll understand where "10:13" comes from.:D

[Ridcully]

What nickname??? :rolleyes:

[Ciccio]

Mine comes from when I lived in Sicily. Down there if you don't like your given name you either call yourself Pippo or Ciccio.

Ciccio is also the shortened name for Francesco, who is my father-in-law.

And Ciccio can also be used in some circumstances as Ciccia, which means 'fat', so as I'm a lardy boy and don't want to use my given name, Ciccio it was :D

[Ridcully]

Wots this then? A Picard invasion? :D

[kirek]

Mine's pretty lame,
Ready?
I took My first name (Erik) and spelled it backwards (kire) and put the first letter of my last name on the end. (K)
hence kirek

:D

[phil]

Well, mine is pretty obvious :) ....my username for genome (TheOtherPhil) is down to another Phil at the ACHO newsgroup.....he was talking about me once and referred to me as "The Other Phil". I decided to use this as my user name at ACHO and everywhere else as the username "Phil" is usuallly taken. I used Phil here because I was the first to register it for once :)

[prokaryote]

Since I have an interest in biology, I thought an good nick would be something related. Since a prokaryotic cell is considered to be one of the earliest forms of life, I thought it a good match for the genome@home project (i.e. breaking new ground etc..)

[dnar]

Originally posted by prokaryote

Since I have an interest in biology, I thought an good nick would be something related. Since a prokaryotic cell is considered to be one of the earliest forms of life, I thought it a good match for the genome@home project (i.e. breaking new ground etc..)



So you could say that Tril and yourself go back along way together. Old mates. :cool:

[prokaryote]

Hiya Rids!

A nickname is like a secret identity that everyone knows and so it's not so secret. Oh, and it's not really an identity either, usually just some collection or concatenation of words, mostly as a punchline to a joke that only the person with the nickname can hear... over and over and over again!

Hiya dnar,

Yeah, I guess you could say that, though it seemed like I was just sitting and staring at the sea floor for about 3 billion years before something interesting happened and trilly showed up. You know some people say watching paint dry is boring... ought to try watching silt turn into shale some time... watching paint dry is a proverbial party in comparison.

[dnar]

LOL! I'll have 200grams.









What ever it is your on! :D

[SkzDaLimit]

Lemme see.......SkzDaLimit is short for Skies the limit.

Back in the days of 10 character screen names on AOL, I had to find a way to shorten it, hence SkzDaLimit.

I am rarely on AOHell anymore, except to chat with my Mom and sister, and checking a few emails I get.

Funny afterthought, there is a rapper who has a song titled the same as my name, though not spelled the same. I get email all the time from people who think that I am that particular rapper for autograph and pic requests, questions about the song and other stuff.

I used to just delete the stuff, now I have some fun and answer them back, mostly making up a bunch of crap to make them happy. :D

[X-Calibur]

Originally posted by SkzDaLimit
Lemme see.......SkzDaLimit is short for Skies the limit.

Back in the days of 10 character screen names on AOL, I had to find a way to shorten it, hence SkzDaLimit.

I am rarely on AOHell anymore, except to chat with my Mom and sister, and checking a few emails I get.

Funny afterthought, there is a rapper who has a song titled the same as my name, though not spelled the same. I get email all the time from people who think that I am that particular rapper for autograph and pic requests, questions about the song and other stuff.

I used to just delete the stuff, now I have some fun and answer them back, mostly making up a bunch of crap to make them happy. :D

ROLFMAO... you should post these, I'd die to see some of that stuff......... LOL

[Rick_Deadly]

Just my gaming handle. Started using it with Duke Nukem 3D, and decided to hang onto it. When I first joined the ACHO forum, I didn't really expect to post more than one message, so I just used Rick_Deadly.

Started playing Diablo II expansion as the female assasin, and my wife picked out Rene_Deadly for me :) No shubles and siggy, it's not another girl. :)

And how many times do I have to tell you, I'm Pshyco, not Schitzo... haha hehe hoho... blubba blubba blubba...

Icky Icky Ptang!

[Nofinger]

When I was 14 years old I had a accident and got my left hand a little bit squashed.
in the hospital they managed to fix it all up but I lost 2/3 of my little finger.
So when i came out of the hospital my nickname became Nofinger
(I made it up myself :D) and I still use it for everything (email, forum, ......)

I always say
"if you can make a foul out of yourself, you'll can do everything"
:D :D :D

[Yo_Mama]

Mine comes from the multiplayer Quake & Quake II days. When you were killed they had great sayings like "... Sucks it down", or "... ate a big load". So when you add "Yo_Mama" you can turn your ignoble death into a final parting insult ;)

[Martyn]

Part time fossil hunter, got a nice little collection, but my pride and joy is the biggest damned trilobite I've ever seen, I got from Morrocco a few years back. Other hobby - computers = Byte, no mystery, just stuck em together. Changed the o for a zero, for a little extra security and = tril0Byte :)

[Dustin]

OK this is pretty lame... It was assinged to me when I was born. Told ya it was lame. :D

Any online fourms and that, it's never taken. So I've always just used my name.

[stall6g]

Well mine is a take off of one of my call signs while I was in the Regular Army in a Tank Battalion. My Battalion call sign was Stallion and the 6 represents the commander of any particular unit. the G represents Gunner. So Stallion 6 Golf was shortened to Stall6g meaning the battalion commander's gunner. Now I am just a weekend warrior as a lowly squad leader in an Infantry unit.

[dnar]

Originally posted by stall6g

Well mine is a take off of one of my call signs while I was in the Regular Army in a Tank Battalion. My Battalion call sign was Stallion and the 6 represents the commander of any particular unit. the G represents Gunner. So Stallion 6 Golf was shortened to Stall6g meaning the battalion commander's gunner. Now I am just a weekend warrior as a lowly squad leader in an Infantry unit.



Right stal, tank experience huh? I think we found our tank gunner.....:)

[stall6g]

Didn't get to be the Commander's gunner for nothing. I could reach out and touch someone at 5000 meters with accuracy. Not talking about a gentle tap on the shoulder either.:D Targets here are a little farther but if we calibrate and zero in our comps the tops spots should be obtainable.;)

[wylie]

Lance Corporal Edwards. Formerly C Company 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. Any other military or ex here?

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"The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical" - Murray Walker

[fizler]

i got my nickname from my aim screen name "fizorest"while i was in high school in a computer class, i was attempting to come up with a new name, without any luck...a friend of mine called me fizorest so i just made that name.. it turned into fiz then fizler and about 100 different other names.. there you have it, the story of how fizler came about
peace out

[zhotfire]

My nick is an extension of my old gaming nick way back in the days when all you had was 3 characters for the high scores. Most people used their initials, but i used "ZOT". A friend of mine at the time drew a comic strip about a space crusading penguin. The sound effect for the spaceship's laser weapons was "ZOT!". Zhotfire(silent h) is just an extension of that i put together to try to stay unique and is used for everything except gaming. "T'Moth" is strictly for gaming and is an adaptation of my full name with regards to the rank of dragonslayer.
I too had an AOL account Skz, my fav nick was "abonebrain". I think people actually liked sending mail to abonebrain@aol.com! :D (i think the nick is available if anyone wants it!)

[X-Calibur]

So many soldiers in here..?

How many are active and former military guys....

Is this because Military Service is still mandatory where you guys come from?

I almost forgot it once existed as it was never ever implemented in Canada (of course I could be wrong, I'm just a lad after all..)

The only thing I know about war is Paintball.... and the NAM magazine I received at home... where'S Charlie,...?

Regards, and respect for those who made the sacrifice of their youth to their Nation and Liberty, I admire you.

[SkzDaLimit]

I am former military. USAF. I was a KC-135a boom operator stationed at K.I. Sawyer AFB in Marquette, Michigan. The base has since closed and is now an airport.

For those who would like to know what a boom operator does, I was the guy that sat in the back of the plane and did the aerial refueling. Basically, I was an attendant on a big flying gas station.

But I had fun and have been all over the world.

I also flew in the Libya bombing raid back in the 80's, refueling the F111's that went in to Tripoli.

[Virus]

Canadians don't need a military, we have your back;)

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Laura is my wife. Nora is my daughter. She's 15 and thinks distributed computing is for hopeless wonks. I tried to enlist support by creating a family "team." It worked. Now the girl will fire up G@H if she doesn't see it on the task bar. You won't find her posting here any time soon, though.

Daniel

[MaTriX]

DoH|MaTriX, my Unreal Tournament handle...

MaTriX, my daughter found it for me when we started playing online...

DoH, look there http://doh.wox.org

[pelligrini]

It's short for Pseudorhinelepis pelligrini of the family Loricariidae.

When I was looking for a unique nym years ago, my favorite catfish had just died so I thought I'd take it's name. It is a very rarely imported species. (If my wife knew that it cost 8 times the $30 I told her, she would have let me get it stuffed) My little bitty avatar doesn't do it justice.

[Alfred Das]

Nicks? I just use my real name, either in the seti newsgroups or the bulletin boards. Hmmm, not particularly interesting this reply. Let's see...
Ah. My girlfriend uses the nick "ladybadger". You see, "Das" - my name - is Dutch for a "badger", you know, the black white stripey animal.
Some people confuse her nick with "he-who-pesters-ladies", which makes for funny situations when she's mistakenly thought of as a bloke. :)

Cheers! From Mr. & Mrs. Badger.

[ohms18k]

A while back we installed our first email system Lotus cc-mail. A costumer now good friend wanted PM software on the computers to appease his quality people so he comes in and loads up this software and he ask me to check it out. I told him it’s not very secure, anyone can get the password. So he bets me to find his password. Before he gets back to work, my first internet email was to him using his password as my email name ohms18k been using it ever since.

He asks me how did I get it. I told him to take the mouse and highlight the password field and theirs your password. He bought new PM software.

[Hemi]

My first true "love" is for American muscle cars, and Chryslers in particular. Mopar (Chrysler) developed an engine in the 50's nicknamed the Hemi because of its hemispherical combustion chambers. The Hemi was re-released in the 60's during the muscle car era, and is known as one of the most powerful V8's ever to come out of Detroit.

Word on the street is that Chrysler is coming out with a new version of the Hemi for use in their production cars in 2004. A 5.7L, 353HP version is supposed to debut in the Dodge Ram next year.

Since I love Mopars, I took Hemi as my first gaming handle way back when, and I've always used it. It's always available everywhere I go, so that's convenient.

(My avatar is a pic of a newly released (from Chrysler) 426ci Hemi engine assembly that's currently available)

[siggy]

Mine is a shortened version of my last name Sigvaldsen. Seems anyone not from Norway can pronounce it. There were 2 other Ann's in my office so someone started calling my Siggy and it stuck.

[pelligrini]

Originally posted by Hemi
The Hemi was re-released in the 60's during the muscle car era, and is known as one of the most powerful V8's ever to come out of Detroit.
(My avatar is a pic of a newly released (from Chrysler) 426ci Hemi engine assembly that's currently available)
I like your nick, and your true "love".
Someday.. I will have.. a '69 Dodge Daytona, or a '70 Plymoth Superbird (must be hemi powered) ;)

I hope the can find a bodystyle that can do that powerplant justice. I believe they all stopped making "automobiles" in '72 and started producing "just cars" since.

[MikeTimbers]

My real name is Mik eTimbers so I just joined them together.

<no offense meant to anyone with a nickname>

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, when I first discovered Space Invaders, Galaxian and Missile Command I needed a three letter nickname and as a fan of BC chose Zot.

When I first went on-line on Usenet, I set my nickname to Zot and thought I was pretty cool. Then I became a regular on rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan where the majority view is that nicknames are pretty sad and so they all use their real names. Zot had to go and I "came out". Now I just use my real name
everywhere.

</no offense meant to anyone with a nickname>

Mik.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I needed a three letter nickname and as a fan of BC chose Zot.

I'm sure sombody has told you by now, but if not: We see your former nickname anywhere students congregate around here.
(The University of California at Irvine's mascot is an anteater.)

Now the real question is: did UCI get that sound from BC, or did BC get that sound from UCI?

BTW, do you still get BC? It disappeared a few years ago -- reportedly :rolleyes: because of its religious themes.

[MikeTimbers]

No, no-one has ever told me that.

I started using ZOT in about '80 when the UK really didn't know much about BC.

Don't see BC much here but I have it on my Yahoo homepage so I check it every morning.

[verT]

About my nick eh? Pretty boring, My name is Trevor, most of my close friends call me Trev spell it backwards you get verT. Not very interesting.....:rolleyes:

[labmansid]

I work in a medical lab
I am a man
My name is Sid

[pelligrini]

Glad you cleared that up..

I was reading it as lab man's id ;)

[dnar]

Ditto! :D

[labmansid]

Originally posted by pelligrini
Glad you cleared that up..

I was reading it as lab man's id ;)

Hmmm, vellly intellesting! Tell me about your relationship with your mother. :D :D

[Chas]

Mine's bloody boring , but might as well add it Chas short for
Charles, or Charlie , my middle name, refuse to use my first name !!!

[Yo_Mama]

Hey Sid, I got it, even if nobody else did ;) It doesn't hurt that you could call me Labmanscott, tho :) Are you a MT or MLT, or is it a research type lab?

Originally posted by labmansid
I work in a medical lab
I am a man
My name is Sid

[wylie]

Originally posted by Chas
Mine's bloody boring , but might as well add it Chas short for
Charles, or Charlie , my middle name, refuse to use my first name !!!
C'mon man thats just askin' for it!!!!
Whats your first name??? :D

[Chas]

Sorry mate

Only under extreme pain ,will i reveal the dreaded name , that has haunted me thru these past many years........ :D

[Dave S]

Originally posted by Chas
Sorry mate

Only under extreme pain ,will i reveal the dreaded name , that has haunted me thru these past many years........ :D
OK Sue….oh sh#t sorry mate :p [or is it Veronica] lol;)

[Chas]

Damn, Damn, and more Damn,

The secret is out i shall never be able to darken the door of the retired lumberjacks and checked shirt lovers club again........sob sob ..... :D

[pelligrini]

Originally posted by Chas
Damn, Damn, and more Damn,

The secret is out i shall never be able to darken the door of the retired lumberjacks and checked shirt lovers club again........sob sob ..... :D

This the same group the Monty Python got the lumberjack song from? ;)

[wylie]

Originally posted by Chas
Sorry mate

Only under extreme pain ,will i reveal the dreaded name , that has haunted me thru these past many years........ :D

My grandfather tried to bribe my father into naming me after him.....

My grandfather was named "Cyril."

Cant be THAT bad!!

[MechCD]

Lets see here. mecHCD, MECHwarrior 2 on a CD. I was signin' up for AOL (forgive me) way back when the internet was new, and i couldn't figure out a nickname. So i though, This here Mechwarrior 2 cd is nifty, I'lll be MechCD. Anyone here still play mechwarrior 2? not 3 or 4, cuz they aren't as much fun.

I am NOT on AOL anymore :)
My other nicknames were

Royboy
Royboy001 - my dad usees this one now
Win95
win98
00-Will
009

You'll see me on Battle.net with MechCD in starcraft, and in Diablo 1 as a level 29 warrior. Kubliak is my level 18 Rogue. If I ever get a legal copy of Diablo II, you'll see MechCD (again) as a level 15 paladin, and Blodgen as a level 5 barbarian

[Chas]

Originally posted by pelligrini


This the same group the Monty Python got the lumberjack song from? ;)

The very same......

[Chas]

Originally posted by wylie


My grandfather tried to bribe my father into naming me after him.....

My grandfather was named "Cyril."

Cant be THAT bad!!

Funnily enough it was my Grandfathers name too but it's worse then Cyril........

[wylie]

Aloysius??
Cecil??
Throckmorton??
dnar???
let me know if we're getting close here....
:D

[Chas]

Interesting choices
but no worse still........

and even if you got it i wouldn't let ya know


Sorry.....;)

[Dave S]

Just my name:rolleyes:...if u hadn’t guessed;) did use to go under maniac:eek: [games nic]

[labmansid]

Originally posted by Yo_Mama
Hey Sid, I got it, even if nobody else did ;) It doesn't hurt that you could call me Labmanscott, tho :) Are you a MT or MLT, or is it a research type lab?



Yo_Mama (I just love saying that!) , I am a MT(ASCP). For the last five years I have been working in a large Clinic here in town, which is sort of a branch of a large hospital in another town about 80 miles away.

[Yo_Mama]

Cool, I'm a labguy in the USAF. I'm eligible to take the MT, just haven't got around to it. ;) I work in a clinic also, much better than working in a full fledged hospital!

Originally posted by labmansid


Yo_Mama (I just love saying that!) , I am a MT(ASCP). For the last five years I have been working in a large Clinic here in town, which is sort of a branch of a large hospital in another town about 80 miles away.

[esizemore]

Nothing special - first initial from middle name (e) and last name (sizemore). It was my first network login and I have used it ever since.

4 years active military 101st Airborne and 2 years weekend warrior. I spent six months as part of a peacekeeping force in Egypt in 86-87

[zhotfire]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
No, no-one has ever told me that.

I started using ZOT in about '80 when the UK really didn't know much about BC.

Don't see BC much here but I have it on my Yahoo homepage so I check it every morning.
Mike, it makes me wonder how many other people were using the nick "ZOT" back in the 80s... and for completely different reasons too.... bizarre.... :eek:

[shubles]

Originally posted by wylie


My grandfather tried to bribe my father into naming me after him.....

My grandfather was named "Cyril."

Cant be THAT bad!!

u do realize that from now on you WILL be known as Cyril????
:D

[siggy]

Wylie, you are a veteran member now. Still resisting the avatar?

[wylie]

so far so good!
:)

[siggy]

Maybe you can go post your mug. Then I can still put a face with the name, without an avatar.

[wylie]

sure why not.....
do we get to see siggys features as well???

[siggy]

Nope, going to keep you guessing there.

[dnar]

I have a new one.

[D]drug references
[N]udity
[A]dult themes
[R]estricted to adults 18 years and over

[pelligrini]

I thought that what it always was.