Annika Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I'm curious how you got to choose your nick, does it have a special meaning to you? I came up with mine because I'm a Voyager fan B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exterus Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 "Exterus" is an alternate spelling of the latin word externus which means: foreign, outsider, external. I started to use it when I was 14-15 years old and felt like an outsider due to the hard time I had at school. After a few years I was so used to it that I never felt like going through the hassle of changing my online handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magestorm Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Well, My full online name is Magestorm Allgoode. Mage, because I know too bloody much for my own good. Storm for the fact when someone pushes my buttons too much, I tend to get really torqued off. But usually, everything's all good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateya Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I like your avatar Exterus (heh, Londo:))) My nick is phonetic - as close as it gets to my real name. I know - nothing sci-fi related or deeply symbolic; how lame is that? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remedyu Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 My name means nothing, I needed a name for the forum. And this came up from an email I had, BAM. there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exterus Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I like your avatar Exterus (heh' date=' Londo:))) My nick is phonetic - as close as it gets to my real name. I know - nothing sci-fi related or deeply symbolic; how lame is that? ;)[/quote'] Thanks. Londo Mollari is one of the greatest science fiction character ever. Oh, and I wish my nickname wasn't so "symbolic". When you're fourteen and filled to the brim with hormones and angst, symbolism is awesome. But when you're in your twenties, it isn't that cool anymore. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 humm dosen't take much t to think my one out.... yep after bones for tos!!! i just liked the sound of it..... i added a 2097 (as in wipeout)... jus because bones was already taken when i mad my first email acount some many years ago...... stuck ever since... ah the good ol' days.... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenriswolf Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Fenris, comes from Norse mythology and is the wolf that will devour their world come Ragnarok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 have a look in my signature - i got a whole topic on my name :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Mine has something to do with young men killing each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mrthumps Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 When I first joined all my other usual ones were taken so thinking fast I looked at my cat and used his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragon666 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 My name comes from a character Aragorn in a book from J.R.R. Tolkein- The Lord of the Rings,but i have removed a letter R from it just because it sounds better to me! The number 666 represents the evil side of me; it dosen't mean i worship satan because i dont! Aragon is also a name of region and former kingdom of northeast Spain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Top Gun. I remember when I got the internet, man well over a decade ago (around 94 or 95). And I noticed instead of obviously using your real name or whatnot, people used "handles" (as they were called back in the day) or "nicknames" (aol later coined screen names). Since fighter pilots also use handles (also known as callsigns) I immediately thought of the army/nave/air force (though I'm not a military fan). Eventually Top Gun popped into my head. Most of the screen names were cheesey (Iceman?...). I chose Maverick cause it was so, unique. You never hear people called Maverick. I over the years just shortened it to Mav cause people would obviously shorten my name when referencing me "yea mav gave me that linux tutorial" (for example). So it stuck. Ironically alot of people think I got it from other places, like the Mel Gibson poker movie Maverick (good movie btw), or the Mega Men X games where some of the enemy bosses are Maverick(s). Or that I was a fan of the Mavericks basketball team in the NBA. Nope, Top Gun. Used the same name for, goin on over eight years now, close to nine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceedj Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 ceedj - given to me by friends and family, because apparently "CJ" (which itself is shortend from Christopher James, but that wouldn't fit on my Drivers License, so now all my legal docs say CJ) was one syllable too many. :stare: So they shortened it. The spelling is a phonetic translation. ceed-j (just the first part of the j sound). -ceedj "Phonetically Correct" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Well, if you need to know... Mine got nothing to do with, there can only be one, Highlander. It from my surename Korkeamaa and those of you who know finnish this is obvious, but just in case it's roughly translated to english as highland. Since there are hundreds of others that uses highlander, hiland, etc. I had to settle for the modified, there can only be one, Hilander72. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Wasn't there another 'what does your nickname mean' topic a while ago? Anyways, the one I use I used as an -alternate- when I started using a program called Direct Connect. I was a newbie, so I used this one with the intent of changing it to my 'normal' one after a while... Turns out I got well known on the hubs I was on, and so I kept using it there and elsewhere. Ironically, it's been over a year since I last used Direct Connect... but I use Gorun Nova everywhere I go. It's also esoteric enough that I've never needed to append a number to it! As for the meaning of 'Gorun Nova', it's the name of the Sword of Light wielded by Gourrey Gabriev in an anime series called Slayers (picked because I was connecting to an anime DC hub at the time). (Almost) totally arbitrary, but it stuck. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dregoth Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Mine comes from my early AD&D years when I DMed a game called Dark Sun and this was one of the big bad wolves in the game :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenriswolf Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I remember Dregoth, the undead Sorcerer King. He was pretty nifty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pella Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Pella comes from the greek name pela, which means 'of the sea'. I liked it's sound but it looked odd with one L so Idecided to add another one, making it sound more like Bella. I chose the name because like most TG girls I wanted the femmine version of male name, but in my case this would have been Petra. Unfortunately this reminded me too much of a Dog on 'Blue Peter', so I went with something similar. Unlike Indiana Jones, I did not want to named after a dog!!!!! I count myself lucky, if I had been born a genetic girl my dad would have called me 'Shirley' (he had a crush on Shirley Bassy -Singer of Goldfinger, apparently) I think I came out of the womb as a boy just to avoid the humiliation of it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quosego Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Wasn't there another 'what does your nickname mean' topic a while ago? Yeah... this is my second "what does your nickname mean" thread too :p Quos Ego is latin for I'll get them. I once looked in an very old dictionairy and i found these two words, ever since i've used them as my nickname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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