How did you choose your GDF Alias?

[cjoe]

There are some weird names that GDF members have, so tell everyone how you chose it.

Here's my story:

Once upon a time i was kneeboarding (like wakeboarding but on your knees) and my mate said i look like a caterpillar when i get up from a prone position. We then decided we should legally change my name to caterpillar joe so that when i graduated highschool the principal would have to read out my new legal stupid name. I have no idea where the joe part came from but for my GDF name i shortened it to cjoe.
I was going to originally be 'grinderfly' after an interesting piece of clipart art i did in one of my IT classes. It looked really cool but i cant find the GIF.

[Keyare]

That's cool, caterpillar joe.

Mine's pronounced "Kay are ee" and if you do a Google search, it's the only one on the planet. Just like my real name, I'm the only one on the planet.

Like a tweed fish in a blue sea.

[cjoe]

thanks for clarifying the pronouciation i was calling you Key-air. btw i pronounce mine 'seejoh'

[sailedship]

Since I am a R/H (Ron and Hermione) shipper, I basically believe in the epilouge of the HP series they'll end up together. Undeniably. I was initially going to make my username rhrshipper but I relized that ship has sailed.

RON+HERMIONE=FOREVER

Note: They are fictitious characters from they Harry Potter books. I am weird, I know...

[cjoe]

you're weird?, i just realised how stupid my story actually is!

[morea]

my GDF name is the Quenya translation of my actual name.

Quenya is the language of the elves in Lord of the Rings. It is learnable, like any "real" language. I can actually communicate with other people who know Quenya, even if they speak no English and I speak none of their native language.

Regardless, my name means "dark one". The translation is morea, pronounced "MORE-ay-uh".

There is a place in LOTR called moria (more-ee-uh), which is similar, but means (roughly)"dark place".

Stop laughing. It's not like I went out and learned Klingon. :p

[Jason Fraker]

Well, I was destracted when I set up my user name, and I typed my real name in the user name field and my user name in the real name field. I was destined to be BlueMonkey, which is what I'd call my freelance business if it ever happened, but I am known by my real name, Jason Fraker. Ugh, sometimes I'm such a moron!

[Drawing a Blank]

I used to use my real name (greglearn (all one word)), but decided to change it so people can't google my name and get a lot of posts about my rantings on client stupidity. Anyway I was trying to think of a name and I just wasn't coming up with anything. I noodled it in my melon for about a day and kept saying to myself "I'm drawing a blank on this one"(I was literally saying this in my mind). Since my strong point is Illustration I wanted somthing to reflect that, but just kept drawing a blank. So I said "I'm just drawing a blank" in my mind enough that it clicked that that was as good a name as any so I decided to use it as my screen name.

[chalsema]

Mine's boring: first initial and last name. That's how my school does our email and other school-related stuff.

[DeleteYourself]

Mine's a reference to an Atari Teenage Riot song. I thought it was clever.

[G-Man79]

My last name starts with a G, I am a man and I was born in 79. Perhaps I should have approached my alias in a more creative fashion. Oh well. Is it Firday yet?

[Mynock]

As some of you probably know or don't, the mynock (http://www.starwars.com/databank/creature/mynock/) is critter from episode 5. I chew on power cables. I inhabit the Hoth asteroid field

Leathery-winged manta-like flyers, mynocks are a common pest faced by spacers. The parasitic creatures attach themselves to hosts via their bristly suction cup-like mouth. Pilots need to examine their ships for mynock infestations as the creatures like to affix to starships and chew on their power cables. Mynocks travel in packs and typically grow to be 1.6 meters long with a wingspan of approximately 1.25 meters.
www.starwars.com (http://www.starwars.com)

Mynocks are vermin of the spaceways, able to drift through the hard vacuum of interplanetary space but lustfully attracted to the warmth and power of passing starships. Physically they consist of a limbless slug-like body about a metre long, with leathery delta wings. The head consists of little more than two rounded eyestalks and sucker of about twenty centimetres' diameter for attachment to starships or other sources of food.
www.theforce.net (http://www.theforce.net)

It was a screen name I chose a long time ago when I was in aol chatroom, text role playing I guess is what you call it.

P.S. I am also a LOTR nerd too.

[pixelmonkey]

his job is so easy even a monkey can do it!

do what?

work with those computer images and colored blocks. i think they are called pix isles or something.

damn monkey.


yep
chris<pixelmonkey>:D

[steve-o]

I added a dash and an "o" to the end of my real name.

[Broacher]

Broacher is Klingon for 'cling-on' and elvish for 'elvis'.

My name is Bob Roach and I like to broach ideas, concepts, inflated egos, popular myths and technical misconceptions... and I also like green eggs and ham.

[Vikia]

first name last initial

why complicate things?

[Neballer]

My name is Ben. When I worked at Super America during high school I made my name tag say Neb. There was actually a customer who thought it was my real name. After that my friends started to call me Neb. One of whom would always yell out "BIG BALLER NEBALLER!"

[keith1]

Mine is very complicated to explain. My name is really Keith and I choose keith as my alias since it was my name. Uncreative you say? I say genius. Everyone would think is just my alias when it is really my real name. Clever huh? Well where did the number 1 come in? This is where it gets very clever, it just happened by itself. I did not add a "1", the forum automatically added a "1" so there must have been a keith0 or plain keith. Strange isn't it? (twillight zone music starts up)

[Lonepine]

I'm really tall. In high school I played basketball. I was much taller than the other kids. The coach nick-named me Lonepine because I stood out so much among the other players in the middle of the b-ball court.

[Patrick Shannon]

*scritch scritch* <Homer Simpson> I.....don't.....know...!</Homer>

[danedawg99]

my GDF name is the Quenya translation of my actual name.

Quenya is the language of the elves in Lord of the Rings. It is learnable, like any "real" language. I can actually communicate with other people who know Quenya, even if they speak no English and I speak none of their native language.

Regardless, my name means "dark one". The translation is morea, pronounced "MORE-ay-uh".

There is a place in LOTR called moria (more-ee-uh), which is similar, but means (roughly)"dark place".

Stop laughing. It's not like I went out and learned Klingon. :p

that's funny, in high school I actually learned how to write notes in elven and dwarven script from the hobbit and LOTR. I don't think I can do it anymore, tho...


Anyways, Dane is my first name. Dawg was my nickname in high school. 99 is the year i gradumated said school.
:D

[D-Zine]

Everyone thinks (I think) that my name is D-Zine (pronounced design) BUT in fact, its not. It's D-Zine, pronounced as D-zeen.

I chose that name because at the time of signing on to GDF I was working through thoughts of starting a small child-parent publication / magazine. So I took design + magazine and made D-Zine :D I still have thoughts of doing the magazine, one day.

but anyways...that's how I got my name :)

[morea]

^ ironically, due to our ESP, I always read her name D-ZEEN. :D

[D-Zine]

Hahha!! :D

[morea]

Neuro's name is also the Quenya equivalent of his real name.

He had started off using our business name, but when he ran a google search to find out where our business was coming up, he found some less-than-positive rants that he didn't want to have associated with our business, and quickly changed it. :p

[chalsema]

I always thought it was D-zeen too. :)

[VisualizeDesign]

Welp, my screen names are usually No_Mans_Stang (double meaning, I had souped up mustangs all of my life and guys would always pull up at red lights and ask me "is that your man's/bf's stang & cause I am no man's stang.lol) or SOM_of_a_Beach (cause my Transam WS6 is sunset orange metallic in color, which is a rare color and I live in miami where people talk with a thcik hispanic accent.)

So any ways, obvisouly I didnt think those would work here so, I chose VisulaizeDesign. Its the name I gave my corporation/email/domains, etcI really liked Image by Design, kinda like I create your company's whole image (full scale marketing, some p.r. and design stuff as well) and then design it. But the web site was taken so, I just picked VisualizeDesign cause my accountant was hounding me for a name. Cause I like to take time and sit their to visualize what ever i am doing before I do it.

I also think its kinda wrong but funny that the initials are VD.
Controversial - Contagious - Contemporary
Infect your audience today.

[shellebelle]

My 6-year-old little brother has a speech impediment--he had a tongue tie which prevented him from pronouncing syllables correctly (he goes to speech therapy now for help). He couldn't pronounce my full name, Michelle, so he'd just call me "shelle" or "b'shelle". Add "belle" to make it rhyme and there you go. It's become my nickname at my mom's house. It's pronounced "shell-bell."

Incidentally, my dog's name is Belle. But we usually call her Belzebub.

And I read D-Zine as "Dee-Zeen." Weird.

[morea]

I also think its kinda wrong but funny that the initials are VD.
Controversial - Contagious - Contemporary
Infect your audience today.

hell, way to spin it though!

[VisualizeDesign]

Thanks I came up with lit yeterday while posting in the lounge. :)

[MD]

Well I was going to use the Quenya translation of my actual name, but it was taken by Morea. So I chose Milwaukee Designer
"Milwaukee" originally an Algonquin term meaning "the good land." and
"Designer" my profession - how clever am i?
I later shortened it to MD because I could.

A few months back I had just donned a pirate avatar and was going to temporally change my nickname to a stupid pirate nickname - I clicked submit but the server was down because of the forum changeover. If I had been a few seconds faster my nickname would have permanently been "Booty Bandit"

[morea]

LOL - yipes! That would have been an "interesting" name to be stuck with! :p

[Tyger]

nick name given to me by my dad when i was a youngster...i just changed the "I" to "Y".

that's it! plus my character is very similar to a tiger. So it stuck.

[Russian girl]

I guess , i don't have to explain mine nickname:)

[keith1]

I guess , i don't have to explain mine nickname:)

I know you got your name because you're a girl that's from Holland, right? ;)

[cjoe]

There are some great stories, lol @ Broacher. Klingon indeed!

[keith1]

There are some great stories, lol @ Broacher. Klingon indeed!

I do an awesome Worf impression. "Alexander, we are Klingon, we do not behave in such ways"

[cjoe]

i have no idea what you're talking about, all i know is that klingons are some weird aliens from star trek.

i just thought it was amusing because broacher was joking around about using that elf language for a name. No offense to morea and neuro of course.

[keith1]

i have no idea what you're talking about, all i know is that klingons are some weird aliens from star trek.

i just thought it was amusing because broacher was joking around about using that elf language for a name. No offense to morea and neuro of course.


Well, it's a damn shame you don't know who Worf is, you're missing out ;) Congrats on your 100th post, I celebrated mine by changing the slogan under my avatar.

[cjoe]

cheers, i'm in the process of googling WORF. i might change my slogan as well.

[Broacher]

Okay, the weirder truth is in my actual name heritage. My mother's maiden name was 'Comar' which is Ukrainian for 'mosquitoe'. Hence, I am what you get when you cross a roach with a mosquitoe: a super pest that sucks your blood (until you turn on the light that is).

[cjoe]

that worf guy is ugly.

[cjoe]

Okay, the weirder truth is in my actual name heritage. My mother's maiden name was 'Comar' which is Ukrainian for 'mosquitoe'. Hence, I am what you get when you cross a roach with a mosquitoe: a super pest that sucks your blood (until you turn on the light that is).

lol. you're a crackup :)

[CtrlAltDel]

Hey...I work in Windows...







anyone else who does is familiar with that particular keyboard shortcut. :cool:

[morea]

hey, what's wrong with using an elven language for a nickname? It's much easier for folks to spell and remember than my regular name. Shorter too. And don't it look purty in elven script?

[Russian girl]

I know you got your name because you're a girl that's from Holland, right? ;)
Hahahahaha yeaaaaaaaaaahh..a russian girl who has lost her way here in holland's woods...

[cjoe]

nothing wrong with the elvin language, that script is really nice actually.

[morea]

presactly, lol ;)

[reuber1]

Mine was extremely complicated and to understand it's origin you are required to have undergone rigorous studies in quantum physics, genome engineering, and biomimicry. I begun with my last name, then I did something, then I added the number "1", and presto.

A lot of people mispronounce my last name upon reading it. Everyone thinks it's said like "Roober" or "Ruber" like "Goober" or "Uber"...it's actually "Raybur". It's a German name, a variant of Raeber. I honestly had zero ideas when coming up with a name.

[TheBluePanda]

For some reason I like Pandas. I think I like the word more than the actual animal.
I also like the color blue.

"BluePanda" was taken, so I chose "TheBluePanda"

I'm not the only person on the internet that goes by this alias, and I don't like that, so I'll probly change it when I find something more original.

In my former internet life, I went by the alias "KidTokyo", and was the only person to have that alias. But I'm not a kid anymore, and I'm not obsessed with Tokyo anymore, so it got old.

[morea]

bump for the new folks!

[jimintn]

I was gonna post here, but do I really need to?

[morea]

no, I don't think so... your name is J. Imintn, right? ;)

[angerisagift]

i am boring and i use lines/titles from songs for just about everything. in "Freedom" by Rage against the machine one of the lines is 'your anger is a gift' and i decided it would be cool.

[jimintn]

no, I don't think so... your name is J. Imintn, right? ;)

yes, it is. People confuse me with the baked goods at the end of the aisle all the time.

[EC]

EC is short for my business name. So I too can feel comfortable saying inappropriate things without google finding out. ;)

[colonel5]

At my job in college I had my personalized service quality card & I wasn't going to let the company come up with some dumb catch phrase on it, so I decided to make my own dumb one, and the best thing is that it doesn't even make sense, but they went ahead and had 2000 printed... mine read:

"this package was packed and shipped by a Colonel Rock Star" Ever since my friend has always called me colonel and it's a good way to hide my true identity as a convicted super hero

[GreenThumb]

I like gardening.

[vtwin_gary]

many moons ago when i first started chating online. (IRC) anyone remember that? my screen name was vTwin (Harley Davidson motor is a V-Twin) it hass always been my username & nick but as the internet became more popular it was harder to get such a simple name so i started adding "_Gary" (my real name is Frank) recently i thought i should change it to my company name until i read a few posts in this thread. i guess i'll keep it. oh by the way i was kidding about Frank

[Rocketpig]

Mine stems from high school. I used to draw superhero farm animals in a comic strip. They were all conspiring to run away from the evil Farmer John. Rather silly, but they're still pretty funny to this day.

Since I later found out that my principal character, Superchicken, was already taken in form of a cartoon (I've still never seen it), I resorted to my secondary character, Rocketpig.

And that's how I ended up registering www.rocketpig.net as my domain and named my business The Rocketpig Studio.

From there, I think you can all figure out how I came up with my screen name.

[YNOT]

Mine is really very simple, although many people still don't get it until I tell them...

YNOT...it's my name spelled backwards...Tony

Most people assume it just means 'why not?' which in a way I guess it could, but thats not how I originally intended it.

[Drorain]

mine is a character i developed...almost 10 years ago now...I use the name in many things, including online games like WoW or previously evercrack as well. Drorain is a cartoon depiction of me...oh I have blue hair in the cartoon as well

[The_Black_Knight]

Don't let my name fool you. You may think that it's pronounced "The Black Knight," but it's actually pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove."

I'm just a fan of Monty Python, and I saw that "The Black Knight" hadn't been taken by anyone, and decided to use it. I figured it would be easy for me to remember who I was if I used that name, plus I get to use the cool Black Knight avatar.

[kerrysmagicshirt]

Dunno if any of you will find my story either funny or interesting - but for me when i was young i found it hillarious.

My friend and i aged 17 where experimenting with weed and got real high. i had a shirt tied round my waist at the time till we got on the buss to go home.

while we were in the bus laughing at absolutly everything - for we were high - i noticed my shirt was gone and got a bit bummed by the fact.

Getting off the bus my friend noticed the shirt attached to the bus and we both thought it was astonishing that it had survived the 40 min journey. we took it from said bus and noticed it was perfect - not dirty, not torn nothing. from that moment on it bacame my magic shirt - more laughter ensued.

i started using it as an online alias from then on - i'm 25 now and each time i tell that story it seems less funny to the reciprient - you had to be there:D.

[EC]

I thought it was funny. I thought it might have something to do with the 2004 election (Kerry, remember that guy?) -- but this is much better.

[morea]

ooh, I'm going to remember it as a combination of BOTH! LOL!

[Rocketpig]

Now I have a mental image of a young John Kerry in an army hat and a "magic" tye-dyed shirt protesting the Vietnam war in between bong hits.

*giggles*

[Liam]

well, my ailias is just my real name, i use "liam" for everything like GDF that is supposed to be professional just purely for the fact i dont like to hide my name, im happy whith my name, and it is prelly original so not usually that hard to get on a busy forum even, i have a completely different alias for online games. known as "mufar" and thats kinda a hard one to explain, it started as an evil laugh sound, and then kinda barbarian style, and pretty random but still original. I wouldnt use that name on here tho, like i siad, i use that name strictly for "non-serious" stuff, like some online chats(non career/professional related) ,LegendOfMir and various other online games

[Liam]

oh I have blue hair in the cartoon as well

anime style? cool
i like anime, and manga.
:cool:

[vtwin_gary]

from that moment on it bacame my magic shirt

i've never had a magic shirt but i been on a "bus ride" or two

[jimintn]

was it a magic bus?

[JB]

Liam...I want to name my son Liam. I think it's an awesome name.

JB....those are my initials. My name is Jen B...something.

[Mynock]

It be a different story if you're GDF handle was BJ. Ok, I'm sorry, but someone had to go there and I didn't see Ulysses.

[D Lucks]

I was pondering the normal nothing on the way to work one day. My little brother, he's nine year younger then me, always called me D because when he was younger he couldn't say David. So, I was trying to think up something that could use the D. Well, running down the list of words deluxe popped up. Well de=D and luxe=Lucks. It's stuck ever since. Plus, I use it for all my on-line stuff, and I haven't had to put a number behind it!:D

[LeftBrain Artist]

Hmmmmmm. My alias is my real name. Serious. I've had a hell of a reputation to live up to though. Creating art with the left halves of brains is difficult at best. The finished artwork doesn't keep well in hot, humid climates - which is why I live in Wisconsin. The brushes are super hard to clean. Brains make a poor modeling compound for sculptures, they never want to stick to one another. And then there's the problem of getting them, a chore to say the least - even more so since my main source (we'll just call him J.D.) is gone. And then there's the problem of holding exhibts - the secrecy, the fights, the running from the police - its getting to be too much.

I've always been good at math and science - and am a pretty decent artist as a result of strength in those areas. I've known a lot of artist types, and can tell you they're out there. What gets me is a lot of them see being a basket case as a result of being a good artist - as if that entitles them to be a screwball.

[D Lucks]

I've always been good at math and science - and am a pretty decent artist as a result of strength in those areas. I've known a lot of artist types, and can tell you they're out there. What gets me is a lot of them see being a basket case as a result of being a good artist - as if that entitles them to be a screwball.
Hmm wondering about your logic on that one.... Math and Science are left side of the brain, which is more of an analitical, numbers, words, and etc... To where your right side is the more "artistic" side where it's dealing with the whole of an object, and mainly dealing with things in shape, color, and etc...:confused:

[Wicked-Elf]

mines... simple Wicked- I am definatly not a mean person. and Elf - I'm definatly not and elf... more like a giant. as for Keyare, he is more like the elf. and... i must agree, he is the only person like him on the planet.

[LeftBrain Artist]

Yo D Lucks.

I tend to do realistic drawing, painting, and sculpture - being highly analytical and strict adherence to an established process is the foundation of my methodology for creating artwork. A lot of people can't attribute success or failure to their art using objective terms, instead relying on a feeling, or intuition to determine whether or not their project has been a success. I did several times experiment with the aesthetics of mathmatics as applied to artwork with some success too. I alway thought right brain procedures tended deal more with emotions and intuition and the left side was traditionally associated with logic and reason. Since I primarily use logic and reason to determine how shapes and colors interact, instead of feeling or intuition, I always kinda thought I was using what's traditionally seen as being left brain procedures. Blah blah blah. Just thought the name sounded clever.

Just checked this out, kinda neat
http://www.funderstanding.com/right_left_brain.cfm

[ArtisticJenn]

Actually... I use Artistic Jenn on about everything I do... My roommate from college, and very very close friend, suggested that name to me a few years ago. I am Jenn... I am Artistic... simple enough.

He always was the smarter one. ;)

[Neballer]

mines... simple Wicked- I am definatly not a mean person. and Elf - I'm definatly not and elf... more like a giant. as for Keyare, he is more like the elf. and... i must agree, he is the only person like him on the planet.
You don't happen to now Rick's Elf, do you?

[LeeIs]

Mine is real simple.

My nick name has always been Li or pronounced Lee. I've started using my handle at a hockey board I frequent and I have settled on LeeIs for it's similarity to my favourite team the Leafs.

LeeIs = Leafs visually.

LeeIs also explains my state of perpetual existance, I just am. or as popeye the sailor man put it "I yam what I yam."

[ChromeZephyr]

Chrome: I like cyberpunk, and play Shadowrun.

Zephyr: I just like the word.

Plus it's unlikely someone will already have it when I try to log onto something new.

[Zero_Hawk]

Well...

Zero: favorite video game character
Hawk: favorite animal

I usually have a number in there too, but not this time.

[LeftBrain Artist]

Chrome: I like cyberpunk, and play Shadowrun.


DAAANNG! There's a RPG from the past. They still printing stuff for that?

[ChromeZephyr]

DAAANNG! There's a RPG from the past. They still printing stuff for that?

Yeah, though it's not published by FASA. WizKids bought the rights, and license it through FanPro here in the US. They just published the 4th edition of the rules, the timeline has been advanced to the 2070s. I don't like the new rules, they changed a lot of what drew me to the game in the first place.

....

Wow, that was some hardcore geekery. *goes to get the mop and squeegee*

[Andreazza]

A couple years ago I was just trying to come up with a new screen name (my old name that I have had since I was 15 was "sunhugz"....i still have to keep that for some things so that I don't have to tell everyone that my name has changed (too much work)..SO...I picked something that was similar to my real name without being my name. It came out of an Art History book, so being an art major It felt appropriate. It's some italian name or something.

[Silence04]

the first week AIM came out i tried to create the name "Silence," and it was taken...
Silence01.... taken
Silence02.... Taken!
Silence03... TAKEN!!!!?!?! (WTF, this has only been out for a week!!!)

Silence04... kinda stuck.

[JPnyc]

My initials + the city I live in. I work here, they wouldn't let me use a cool name. :(

[Broacher]

You mean... those are 'aliases'?

Huh!

[urstwile]

I've always been a big fan of bears. I discovered that the latin root for bears was urs, so I decided to do a play on the word erstwhile and came up with urstwile, which in my mind means bear smarts. :rolleyes:

I know, weird, but I've been using it as a screen name for about 10 years.

[JPnyc]

The names I used on recreational forums (when I had time for em) were DUNSEL and BiPolar Bear

[urstwile]

Nice!

[JPnyc]

Oh, and BreakLikeTheWind, I used that too.

[urstwile]

Okay, that one...not so much. :D

[JPnyc]

Spinal Tap :D

[urstwile]

That's what it's from? Loved the movie, didn't remember that (I've only seen the movie once).

[JPnyc]

Yeah at the end when they had the fake Greatest Hits album commercial, that was one of the tune names that scrolled by.

[cornfed]

I had a black lab that my children named Cornbread. He grew to be so huge that my brother in law started calling him Cornfed. I didn't realize when I put it in the username field that it was going to be used publicly. Once that was the case, I just left it. Cornbread died new years eve of what we think was a heart attack due to an extreme fear of fireworks. He was 10.

[urstwile]

Oh poor doggie! My dog (now passed on as well, but due to old age) was terrified of fireworks as well.

[Ghastly]

G is my first initial and if you take away the 'h' and add an 'e' from the rest you have my second name...A surpervisor from 5 or 6 years back just taking the p*ss called me Ghastly; and I actually thought coming from him, that it was pretty clever

[Jeizzavelle]

Mine is from my D&D days. I was known as Andromeda or Jeizzavelle. Jeizz was my favorite!

[morea]

what race and class, Jeizz?

[Jeizzavelle]

Uh, (it was 10 years ago) I was elven? (half elf) I was a, geez, I think a mage? and I was awesome lookin. I remember that much.

[morea]

meh. I still play. LOL ;)

[Jeizzavelle]

I would love to play but I can't find anybody who does!

[doubting_thomas]

I chose mine because I'm a jaded guy named Thomas. The more I
see the more I seem to doubt. Sad really... :(

[morea]

you're in good company here, thomas. ;)

[twogun]

Mine's pronounced "Kay are ee" and if you do a Google search, it's the only one on the planet. .


mine is pronounced "toooooo gunnnnnnn" unlike you there are two of me on the planet although i have heard you have them in the US, so there maybe more, i would like to meet them oneday.

[TooTallVal80]

I created my username simply because I'm 5'10". And how I've had some many comments about my height. And "Val" is my nickname. And "80" is the year of my birth.

[EC]

Chrome: I like cyberpunk, and play Shadowrun.

Zephyr: I just like the word.

Plus it's unlikely someone will already have it when I try to log onto something new.

um, ow! http://i6.tinypic.com/13yp4xf.jpg

[CamarotaDesign]

my GDF name is the Quenya translation of my actual name.

There is a place in LOTR called moria (more-ee-uh), which is similar, but means (roughly)"dark place".


The Mines of Moria!!! very dark indeed! How I loved reading that part. I'm a huge LOTR fan. (dont know quenya, though maybe you can teach me?)

Read the triology + the Hobbit and Silmarilion. I must say the Silmarilion rivals my love for The Fellowship (my favorite of the books) Such epic stories, its like the genesis for Middle Earth. Awesome stuff!

[morea]

it took me about two years to teach myself Quenya... but a good start is the downloadable course from this website:

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

it's quite dry, but explains just about everything you could need to know about the language!

[JaCkinbOx]

I might've posted here before, but we'll pretend I didn't.

"JaCkinbOx" is a shortened version of jack-in-the-box. It's based off a character I designed many years ago that I've grown attached to. The "C" and the "O" are capitalized for style and balance; no other reason. The character today simply goes by JaCk, but my online alias remains the original.

That's the gist of its history.

[Gromit801]

What can I say? I'm an Aardman Animation and Nick Park fan. Gromit, the brighter of the the Wallace & Gromit duo.

[ekosix]

My story isn't humorous. So, just replace every 8th word with "poop" and it may actually seem entertaining.

I finished off a 6 year enlistment in the Army and came home to discover that all of my old friends were doing a lot of online gaming. It had gotten to the point that they went by their gaming nicknames when they hung out. They convinced me to come up with one.

I was in tactical communications in the military, and the term "Echo Six" stood for having six bars of signal strength on our line-of-site encrypted network. We would reply to the opposite end that we had an "echo six" after we finished setting up. So that phrase basically meant everything was good to go, and we could move onto to pulling shifts and playing cards.

I just changed the echo to eko and have been using it for all of my usernames. I've even played around with using it to identify my free-lance work (if I ever have to time).

So...yeah the poop thing was a good suggestion.

[ecsyle]

Ecsyle is my gang name.

[Logo-Mechanix]

Hey come back here with those tacos!

[ecsyle]

hmm. maybe...

[balou]

balou is a play on my real world name. Plus I liked that bear in Jungle Book. Plus I liked I Love Lucy.

[ecsyle]

Hey come back here with those tacos!
Fine, tacos in reverse.

[senjula]

Senjula is a word I got out of a dream about 7 years ago now. For the longest time I was recording my dreams and doing some studies in Lucid dreaming. It got to the point that durring my sleep I would actually start writing in my bedside notebook and not be aware of it....Anyhoot in one dream sequence I was climbing a rocky hillside hiding out from some kind of future world army troops...I came to some vines drapping over a rock face, when I pulled them back I saw the word Senjula carved in the stone. Then when I woke up I had written it out about five times in my notebook durring the night. I researched the word for sometime after and realized it had no purpose or meaning anywhere so I gave it one.

[mac.FINN]

I'm a burger a MacDonalds... you want fries with me?

[April]

I'm a burger a MacDonalds... you want fries with me?
Can we get that super-sized?

[mac.FINN]

Every time I go to respond to that it comes out sounding very wrong, so I'm simply going to answer...

Yes.

[cornfed]

Well, Senjula, that is just cool. I love that story. I'm an intense dreamer, too. I have no idea how to interpret them, though. It sounds like you have done a lot of dream work. What a tough realm to tackle!

[senjula]

Well, Senjula, that is just cool. I love that story. I'm an intense dreamer, too. I have no idea how to interpret them, though. It sounds like you have done a lot of dream work. What a tough realm to tackle!

It Became an obssesion for about three years straight, when you start to focus on them it really does become an alternate reality in every sense. I eventually got to the point I was recalling 6-7 dream sequences a night in quite the detail. I also went into a creative overdrive at that point, drawing and writing short stories.

Senjula was one of seven words that I never found meanings for that I had recieved in similar fashions. Eventually I had to stop, people started thinking I was going over the deep end, especially when I was calling plane crashes a few hours before they would happen. I still have all my journals they would make quite the sci fi movie script. My dreams always involved end of world type scenarios and other planets...But reality took back over, now I am lucky if I recall a small glimpse of a dream once or twice a month....

[Ariel]

Very kewl posts! Mine not so much on the creative.

Ariel = The Little Mermaid (Disney) and the name of my teal mercedes. I don't usually post with an alias but thought - hey - why the frack not? (blatant Battlestar Galactica reference). I haven't been on a board since the demise of the BTVS (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) board a while ago and it's fun to get back in the swing of things. Yes, self-admitting Bronze Elder here. (Buffyspeak).

Oh...having boy/girl twins 3 1/2 years ago also put a bit of a damper on board postage. Girl's name is.........APRIL!!! (for real - as Mommy was born on April Fool's day and it STILL has to be about ME!!!!)

Happy to join y'all! :D

[Zendada]

Long long ago, in a galaxy far away...

Ok, to be honest, I watched Zardoz one evening with my female friend. We had imbibed, and before we coupled, I had a thought...

Yes. There is some crazy connection between zen and dada. She agreed.

The rest is history.

[nyc_skater]

Well, mine could have been any number of names, nyc_skater just happened to be the first that popped into my head. What's funny is i rarely skate any more, i've just done it for so long I think of myself and always will a skater.

I'm much more of a mountain biker/road cyclist now, maybe i could change my name? :o

[morea]

bikers rule! w00t!

:D

[nyc_skater]

bikers rule! w00t!

:D

NO, YOU RULE! :rolleyes:

[mac.FINN]

No you woot!

[morea]

well, I AM a biker. :p

When are you coming upstate to ride trails with me?

[nyc_skater]

well, I AM a biker. :p

When are you coming upstate to ride trails with me?

ooo ooo...where where?!?!

[captain spanky]

how did i choose my GDF alias?

.... can i take the fifth? :D

[colonel5]

well, when I was working in a shipping department a number of years back they decided that they wanted to give us cutesy little cards to put in the packages we shipped out as a way of bringing personal acountability into our department...

they had little fun phrases made up for each of us and I said "no, that's dumb, i'll make up my own" knowing I was going to do something even dumber... so When I submitted to the company's copywriter it said "This package was shipped to you by a RockStar, Colonel Brent"

So now I use colonel for a lot of my online stuff and actually a friend of mine actually calls me colonel.

[1ooScreamingTrees]

Screaming Trees is a band that lived in the shadow of the seattle blah 90s thing.

On another forum it was already taken, so I added a 100...then made it 1oo to emphasize a seperation between the two without a space!

[Epectasis]

Screaming Trees is a band that lived in the shadow of the seattle blah 90s thing.

On another forum it was already taken, so I added a 100...then made it 1oo to emphasize a seperation between the two without a space!

i actually know who they are..like the band...even if they were a blah 90's band...


Epectasis...well, that'd be the name of my company.

Epectasis is ancient greek for: "Creative activity".

Fits the bill i find :)

It used to actually be: Caelestis Epectasis. In this case, Caelestis is Latin for "heavenly, celestial...or even God" lol. Since i found that to be slightly too tacky, i ditched it...but it does have a nice ring to it though...Even though i know people would not bother pronouncing it properly and it might be too much of a linguistic leap...

As for the avatar...well you'd have to dig up some news on the board about this guy who walked around from house to house telling people they might have ticks and they had to get naked to get cleaned...pretty clever fellow :p

[colonel5]

Screaming Trees is a band that lived in the shadow of the seattle blah 90s thing.

On another forum it was already taken, so I added a 100...then made it 1oo to emphasize a seperation between the two without a space!


I like them too. Did you ever listen to the side project some of the band members were in with layne staley (Alice in Chains) & Mike McReady (Pearl Jam) called Mad Season? that was some good stuff

[1ooScreamingTrees]

Mad Season was pretty cool - I like pearl jam and aic a lot too...don't like Mad Season as much. The only supegroups I listen to on a regular basis are CSN&Y and Oysterhead.

Love soundgarden and rage - hate audioslave.

Love STP and can tolerate Guns'n'Roses, absolute loathe velvet revolver.

Mad season is definitely the best 'supergroup' to come out of that era.

I keep forgetting to listen to Unified Theory, the blind melon / pearl jam mesh.

[colonel5]

Mad Season was pretty cool - I like pearl jam and aic a lot too...don't like Mad Season as much. The only supegroups I listen to on a regular basis are CSN&Y and Oysterhead.

Love soundgarden and rage - hate audioslave.

Love STP and can tolerate Guns'n'Roses, absolute loathe velvet revolver.

Mad season is definitely the best 'supergroup' to come out of that era.

I keep forgetting to listen to Unified Theory, the blind melon / pearl jam mesh.

I agree on the audioslave comment, I haven't even listened to Velvet Revolver but I do love STP & AIC (more so for Jerry Cantrell than Layne)

What about Temple of the Dog (Pearl Jam/Soundgarden though I think that's when Pearl Jam was known as Mookie Blaylock)

[Red Kittie Kat]

I am Red Kittie Kat all over the net and when I joined some different forums I wanted something a little different .... I am Red Kittie Kat due to my hair color .... so thinking of a different nic I went with Crimson Blonde..... sounded more exciting than strawberry blonde...... but then I missed being called Kittie so I switched all my Crimson Blondes to Crimson Kittie. Then I got bored with them and went back to Red Kittie Kat. And now you know the rest of the story.

So whether you see me as Red Kittie Kat, Crimson Blonde or Crimson Kittie ... they are all me :D

[AlexNJ210]

Well most of my name is pretty self explanitory but the numbers actually refer to an important date for me. The day i met my gf. Pretty simple.

yea yea im boring i know.

[morea]

awwwwwwww!

[Ovaltine]

I love Chocolate, so my hubby suggested using Ovaltine as my alias because I drink it every morning instead of coffee for breakfast. Plus, I like the way the word sounds.

[mac.FINN]

Vould Herr Doctor perhaps care for a brandy before bed?

No.

Ovaltine?

[mac.FINN]

^^If anyone get's that reference I'll be impressed :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

From Young Frankenstien I believe ;)

[dots]

A drowing starts with a dot & it is filled with dots

This was my very first lesson in art when i was 6 years old, it did not sound interesting then till my first subject in Graphic Design school 14 years later, then i thought its an interesting fact.

simple hah!

[panzer]

lol some of these are cool mine is not really but here goes

we used to a teacher at school Mr clarke in corpus christe b/head he would always play this trick on you he would grab you by the elbow joint and squeez it gave you an electric jolt anyways he called me mort (som tv prog or summat) then i got a hi score at the space arcade 11k so my mates would "mort 11 thou" :P then i wanted to pick a good germanish name for hidden and dangerous so i picked panzer+mort = tank of death then coming on this site i shortened it to panzer

not brill but

[dariobt]

mines easy, it's my real name. :)

[mac.FINN]

From Young Frankenstien I believe ;)

I'm impressed!

[morea]

roll, roll... roll in zee hay! :p

[cmont]

C is my first initial... Chris
and Mont is the first 4 letters of my last name...
I originally was going to just use this forum for a quick answer to a question I had related to work. If I would have thought I was going to stick around for a while I would have probably chosen something else. Something spiffy like Spiffy... or StringMaster

[morea]

LMAO @ stringmaster!

[mac.FINN]

Weird... I know a Chris Mont****! Except we call him Paco....well I call him Paco.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I'm impressed!


It's one of my all time favorite movies :D



Put zeee candle ........... beckkk!

[mac.FINN]

What great knockers!

oh zank you herr doctor.

[Red Kittie Kat]

All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!



:D

[cmont]

Weird... I know a Chris Mont****! Except we call him Paco....well I call him Paco.

I bet he has the same last name as me... oddly enough its french and you are in Toronto...

[cmont]

LMAO @ stringmaster!

Too bad I can't change my name... -= /

[Red Kittie Kat]

Chris .... honey you are looking a little green around the gills ..... you feeling ok?


:D

[cmont]

Yes, hehe I figured Id jazz things up a bit... in other words I was sick of putting PDF's together for output in InDesign so I played with my avatar. Now I can truley be a string thieving mongral! hehehehehehe

[mac.FINN]

I bet he has the same last name as me... oddly enough its french and you are in Toronto...

LOL! Yeah, Toronto's a real haven for French Canadians (sarcasm) There's probably more Cantanese here than there is French. However, I knew him from Ottawa... so yeah could be.

ps. stay away from my string ... I'm watching you.:p

[Red Kittie Kat]

You remind me of that snake in Conan the barbarian when he turns from human to snake :D

[cmont]

hehe sweet...

[cmont]

LOL! Yeah, Toronto's a real haven for French Canadians (sarcasm) There's probably more Cantanese here than there is French. However, I knew him from Ottawa... so yeah could be.

ps. stay away from my string ... I'm watching you.:p

By Toronto I mean Upstate new york. And by French I ment... um... human. Yea.. that's it yea...

::steals loose piece of string hanging from macs jacket and runs:: YOINK!!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Look........ I am a Kat........ if anyone should be after that string it should be ME!






:D :D

[cmont]

Gotta be quick! Im always on my toes! Specially when string is involved!

[Red Kittie Kat]

well I have claws..... so beware





:D :D

[cmont]

I have talons! So RAR!

[morea]

I have... uh...

hmm.

ooh, I DO collect swords... does that count?

[Red Kittie Kat]

Well of course morea :D


........ but my claws are quicker cmont darlin :D

[Jeizzavelle]

I have... uh...

hmm.

ooh, I DO collect swords... does that count?
YEAH! Me, too. I count! :D

[cmont]

Yea im slow... sigh... to be the last one picked all the time...

I want a katana! It would make cutting my large bits of string into smaller bits of string so much more pleasant!

[Red Kittie Kat]

lol :D

[Jeizzavelle]

I want a katana! It would make cutting my large bits of string into smaller bits of string so much more pleasant!
Personally, I'd use a battle axe.

[morea]

^ good call.

My katana is pretty dull. I may as well use a butter knife. :)

[cmont]

mmmm... butter

[Red Kittie Kat]

mmmmm ...... butterrrrrr :D


Nothing like real--- genuine, honest to goodness butter :D

[cmont]

Personally, I'd use a battle axe.

I would use my battle axe but I've misplaced it in someone's back...
Piece of advice... don't loose track of your kills.

[morea]

yeah... whipped butter.

*drooooolllllllll*

[Craig B]

yummmm ..... whipping.

[mac.FINN]

I also have misplaced my battle axe... she keeps running off. She's old, but she's fast.

[Red Kittie Kat]

:eek:

Oh my :D

[morea]

*looks for riding crop*

[Red Kittie Kat]

mmmmm cat-o-nine tails :D

[morea]

I have nine cats of one tail. Maybe I could duct tape them together. Or merge them like a transformer...

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmaoooooo :D

[mac.FINN]

eep

[Jeizzavelle]

I only have seven. I'll have to borrow 2. But I like the whole whipping concept.

[mac.FINN]

ahem... may I interject with a...

Bow-chicha bow-wow!

[CeeCee]

I just used my favorite puppy's name. CeeCee. She is a 155 lb Saint/rott mix. She likes to go everywhere with us!

She rules the house.

[Samakimoto Graphics]

Mine is two KiSwahili (Swahili) words joined into one....

Samaki - meaning "fish" and Moto- meaning "hot" = Hotfish ;)

And no I'm not a samurai, Ned, but I've got minimum Tae-kwon-do skills Haiiiiiiiyaaaaa! *stands up and chops the air to the constanation of cube mate*

[confucious626]

When I was taking Philosophy 101, I had to write a paper on confucious. When I joined a forum, confucious is what I had stuck on my brain. Since confucious is not always available, I had to add my area code 626 at the end. So on all the forums I join, I use confucious626. The avatar I use is just the first gif I ever created.

By the way, this is my first post.

[snagma]

Took my nickname, mixed it with my surname, jumbled the letters and came up with SNAGMA! How very un-creative.

[DreDre05]

My friends have called me DreDre since forever, 05 is my grad year and i am still proud i finished.

my name is so uncool compared to everyone elses.

[logomantis]

The Mantis has always intriqued me and logos are my favorite form of art.

[yarusskii]

mine says "i'm russian" in Russian :)

[dark magus]

Mine is a Miles Davis album.

[shayeGC13]

shayeGC13 is three facts about me
1. Shaye
1. My name

2. GC (Gold Coast)
2. City i live in (abreviated)

3. 13
3. My age

[urstwile]

Nice Shaye. :) Welcome to the forum.

[Red Kittie Kat]

that makes perfect sense Shaye!! Welcome Aboard :D

[reuber1]

We have a new 13yr guru. Watch out Prince!

[Neballer]

do you do buttons shaye? :D

[max_nhk]

Max is what people call me, NHK is the short form of my chinese name.

My sig is what I had muttered out when I first got drunk. I got super sociable then.

[Jackimalyn]

My friends called me Jackimalyn. They meshed "Jackie" and "Jaclyn" into a ridiculous non-name. But thats me, Jackimalyn. Ill answer to all three.

[mac.FINN]

I always thought it was like Saximaphone, or Tubamaba... Jacimalyn.

[Satchel]

Wow, I never responded to this question... or I'm high and missed my post as I scrolled through?!

Satchel: I got into the comic strip get fuzzy - I used to look foward to my lunch breaks so I could read the newest one. Satchel is the dog, satchel pooch to be precise. Then I started using it for my screen name on SoCom2 and it kind of evolved to LickMySatchel (which I used for my team-killing name) I didn't think that was appropriate so I just cut it back down to plain old Satchel.

And there you have it.

[capezio]

I was thinking of a suitable name when I first needed an internet name about 8 years ago and at the time I was screwing "Capezio" taps on my daughters tap shoes. It seems to have stuck

[Six]

At least the inmates around here let me think I am. "Six" is the suffix on military call signs, indicating the commanding officer of that unit. I figured that sounded better than "Boss" or maybe "Jerk".

Six

[frankster]

Clinically insane grandmother bought a rubber chicken for me for my 14th birthday!!?! Said chicken was named Frank. Best mate decided to torture Frank and over the course of several weeks covered him in glue and feathers, fake blood, beheaded him and eventually stick him the the ceiling of our garage. In the process of rescuing Frank I fell from a chair that was on top of a table and broke my wrist. On arriving at Uni and finding I was in a 7 room flat with one other person by the same name, my mate volunteered the name of the chicken as a temporary substitute for my name and the other flat mates liked it and stuck with it. Very odd sequence of events. another common variation seems to be frankster gangster or frankius Maximus (it's my freinds that are odd, not me!) Makes for a nice login name though

[Red Kittie Kat]

That's a great story :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

I'm a virgo (ya think?), and nightingales are birds that tend to sing at night. I don't necessarily only sing at night, but I do sing and I'm more of a night person.

[Riya]

It's my name, really. Or part of it anyway. My name is Maria, but it's not pronounced like the Spainish name (mah REE ah). Maria is actually the old Celtic spelling of the name Mariah (Mah RYE ah) (yes, like Mariah Carey, no, I don't sing, and no, I don't know why those are the two most often asked questions when I talk about my name). It is from the song "They Call the Wind Maria".

When my nieces and nephews first started talking, they dropped the first syllable and just called me Ria. It caught on and all of my friends and family started using it.

I added the y in Junior High as part of a joke that I don't even remember anymore. Something about being able to tell a cheesey fanatasy story by the number of characters with y's in thier name. And it just kinda stuck.

For the longest time, Riya was a unique name. The only thing that came up in a google search was references to the middle-eastern city Riyadh, and they were all in Arabic. I meant to go out and register the domain name riya.com before someone else jumped on it, but I didn't and that site REALLY SCARES ME, so now I need to find a new name.

[Botchup]

I did a few comic strips of "Botchup The Magician" and his various mishaps in his job, when I was in year 6 in 1989.

It eventually evolved to "Botchup The Magnificent" and to this day, when I found this forum and needed a handle, this is what 'popped' in there. I just shortened it to the name, but feel free to use my proper title. ;)

And also everyone talks about danger in the world; wars, riots, natural disasters, death, but when you go down the ranking of disasters notch by notch... you'll eventually get to... the Botchup.

Fear me! I could be right around your corner! ;)

Who would have thought, a character I created would come back to haunt me in my career as an adult. It's uncanny! And yes I've had a few Botchups in my time...

[obesebee]

Mine's based on a cartoon I did years ago, it involved a fat bumble bee flattening a flower, not very funny, I know, but I like the way it sounds.

[Creative_Mess]

Hey guys/gals
my name came easy to me, lately I have had huge creative blocks more so than i have ever had the past 6-8 years of doing this, and work has been nothing short of a mess hense the name creative mess! I am hoping to change that though! I am new to this forum and i really like what i have read of here! hopefully with the help from some of you i can straighten up this mess!!!

David

[Virgo Nightingale]

But would you feel compelled to change your name once the mess was straightened?;)

[rainbow2bryte]

mine was from when i created my first email address in college.
(yeah, never worked on computers too much, good ole ruby tape and masking etc... not to mention good 'ole pencil and paper days...)

i had 'rainbow' hair at the time. was my grand finally (sp?) of un-natural hair colors.

my HTML instructor advised me to be 'rainbow bright'.
it was taken so we tried for rainbow2bryte and there you have it.

it's kind of sissy sounding, but it's what i'm kinda known by so...
whatever.

:)

[Creative_Mess]

Well it all depends, I would like to change it but at the same time, its kinda growing on me! Well see after the mess gets straightend out!

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

ummmmmmmmmm.....i am a graphic designer! WITH SOME FUNK!....ummmmm yeah! Thats it!

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

I also actually misspelled it and haven't tried to figure out if I could change it....the "s" is suppose to be a "z"....either way right!

[Derfie]

Several years ago I was reading a novel, and the main character's name was Derfel. At the same time I bought a cute little hand trained budgie/parakeet (He thinks he's a big bird stuck in a little bird's body.) I named him Derfel, needless to say between the 2 of us, we shortened it to "Derfie". Derfie has picked up quite the vocabulary over the years, he's one tough little guy.:D

[galvetraz302]

Uhhh from galveston, galveston is an island, want to get off, got off galveston seclusion, seclusion prision, prision alcatraz, alcatraz galveston, alcatraz galveston, galveston alcatraz = galvetraz. wow!

[Ned]

My name was picked out of a baby book.

No, actually, it was my radio alias, which was bestowed on me for my close resemblance to Ned from Southpark. "Uh oh, Jimbo!"

[deviled egg]

i went to asu (sundevils) and growing up the nickname my brother and sister gave me was egg. i had a personalized license plate on my car that said dvldegg, until it was viscously ripped off my car one night outside of a red lobster in arizona. all the thief left was a footprint on my bumper.... bastard.

[Red Kittie Kat]

people will just steal anything :confused:

[deviled egg]

yup if someone wants it that badly, they will figure out a way to get it.... bastards

[mamos]

mamos stands for Middle Aged Man On Skatebord

mamos

[morea]

cute. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

that's funny Mamos :D

[mamos]

Thank you

mamos

[MikeTheVike]

When I was a young boy, I would go almost every weekend to the library and rent the "How to Draw..." series of books by Lee J. Ames. I literally had notebooks full of drawings from his books. One of the characters in the book was called Mike The Vike. I thought it was so cool that his name was Mike, since my name was Mike, and I've pretty much been using the name MikeTheVike since I could use the internet, haha

[bluboobear]

I'm willingly stuck with this user name. It all began when I had to use Yahoo Messenger. I didn't sign up for months b/c I wanted a cool name. My friends told me to just sign up, then I can change my name later on. Then I used this name for other forums so I could remember.

It's very uncreative: my dog's name is boo-boo bear, but that was taken. Years ago I had a cool name, blu3_skyz, but forgot my password. So I just combined the two.

[Ned]

I think bluboobear is VERY cool. :D

[miss.bone]

Well, I was destracted when I set up my user name, and I typed my real name in the user name field and my user name in the real name field. I was destined to be BlueMonkey, which is what I'd call my freelance business if it ever happened, but I am known by my real name, Jason Fraker. Ugh, sometimes I'm such a moron!

That was too funny:D

[miss.bone]

Miss Bone is my actual name. All of my professors in school called me this, then my friends started so it stuck. It's just Bone- like wishbone, funny bone, tail bone. There's no French pronounciation like Bonet. Yup...It's just Bone. I love it now but Junior high was hell! LOL

[fredrich]

Based on my name, which is Fredrik. In Norwegian you can split it in two, and the separate words you get have a meaning. Fred means peace, and rik means rich.

[budafist]

Peace and rich? That's not bad.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Peace and rich? That's not bad.
If only the whole world was peaceful and rich. But then, that just wouldn't be human nature....

[fredrich]

I only live up to one of the two so far, and that's not rich. ;)

[SpugNothuson]

The meaing behind SpugNothuson.

Spug: For anyone old enough to remember Byker Grove, probably only on in the UK, the original series had a young, extremely annoying ginger girl in it called Spuggy. As my beard is Ginger it made complete sense to my workmate to refer to me as Spuggy, this was eventual shortened to Spug.

Nothuson: As an avid MMO gamer, I've played many many games, the one thing that I used to strive for was a name that meant something to me, yet hadn't already be used by every geek and his dog. Whilst flicking through many, many dictionaries and translation websites I came across Nothus (extra points for anyone who can find its meaning). I existed as Nothus for many years in many guises, this was later expanded to Star Wars Galaxies where for a change in the MMO world you could have a forname and a surname. Not wanting to tarnish the creation of Nothus and saw this as a progression into the next form of his online existance I took the surname Nothuson (obviously meaning the Son of Nothus).

I have existed as SpugNothuson for around 5 years now, and in some places the name is FEARED! :eek:

Link to REAL NAME (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25345&page=6) thread

[frankster]

Does that mean we have to say your name in a geordie accent?

Spoog?

[SpugNothuson]

Oh Lordy no!

No Geordie accents please. The first person to sing "Fog on the Tyne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsli7ijYDE)" will get a large version of the snarl in their inbox!

[Typically]

hmmm well my name came from a night of drinking and partying. i was rambling to my friend about something random and spurted out typically talking. for some reason i remembered it the next day. from that i got typically typing which became my portfolio site. shortened it up to typically when i got xbox live and have been using it for about 3 years now i guess. so typical =]

[hewligan]

many dictionaries and translation websites I came across Nothus (extra points for anyone who can find its meaning)

So are you a bastard or a sea-slug?

[artistsdad]

Hmmm, short story is, she's the artist, I'm her dad.

Long story is, my teen-age daughter is artistic, I'm her father. She has been drawing ever since she could hold something in her grubby little paw and make a mark. She had gravitated to working on the computer quite a bit (somewhere I've got some drawings she did in Paint when she was in 3rd or 4th grade). I joined this forum just to see what she might have in store for her if she goes into some form of this biz. It's been quite entertaining/informative/confusing...

[digizan]

I've been using my alias for a l-o-n-g time.

I fell hopelessly in love with computers when I got my first one circa 1992 (an old 286 that ran on DOS). Throughout the 90's I had lots of Iranian friends and picked up a little Farsi (Persian).

When got started with the internet stuff I needed an alias to use. The "digi" part is a reference to my love for computers and the Farsi word for woman is "zan", hence digi + zan = digizan. It got shortened to Digi by friends over at the About.com GD forum.

Digi

[Rain]

I go by the name 'Rain' both here as my post name and in the real world. I changed it about 20 years ago when I realized that NO non-french person could possibly pronounce my name. Even though they are both pronounced the same, the French spelling is Reine (meaning Queen, and don't forget to roll the 'rrrrr'). I'd be waiting to be called etc and would not reply to very odd versions of pronouncing my name, so I now spell it phonetically. To tell you the truth I'd rather be a weather report than a stuffed shirt. Now the problem I get, is if the person sending me stuff via e-mail or snail mail or just reads my name they just asaume that I'm a Mister - wrongo. I'm the XX chromosone, female.
As to how I got stuck with the name 'Reine' in the first place? Well I was named after a great aunt who had lots and lots of money and no kids. My mother thought that if she named the first granddaughter in the family after her she would be in the old ladies will (Inever met the woman). All to no avail, my great aunt left all her money and her very large estate to her large collection of cats. I wish I would have been able to know her, she sounds like a great lady.