How did you come up with your nickname?

[YMAA]

It's an acronym from a joke from high school. My friend had a small forum of about 10 people and when I registered I tried to think of a funny name. Being weird for a 17-year-old, I settled on Your Mother's An Astronaut (ended up being YourMothersAnAstronaut due to the size limit on names).

The acronym came about when I spoke one day in the Shoutbox (live chat area for Premium Members) on another forum I frequent. Since my name is so long it would mess up the layout of the shoutbox by moving the text further over to the right. Naturally everyone groaned. One of the admins couldn't take it anymore so he shortened my name to YMAA. Guess the name stuck.

(That being said, I use TheB3taMale for gaming >_>)

[chunkylover77]

From the Simpsons.

[randomplatypi]

Mine is pretty simple...I am do random things and the platypus is a fascinating animal.

[Big_Daddy]

6'5" 350# the daddy part is a little sappy.. Always looking out for others.. (don't have any kids yet)

[zlojack]

I came up with mine while living in Mexico. I was in Manzanillo, whose airport code is ZLO. My name is Jack.

[CyrusGNS]

My nickname comes from a character named Cyrus Spitama in the book Creation by Gore Vidal. I started using Cyrus as an alt in the late 90's playing a game called Delta Force. However Cyrus is always taken anywhere I go so I just added on the GNS which was my clans tag in df. I think the only time I managed to get the name Cyrus itself was playing Lineage II.

[BiFfMaN]

People used to call me Biff, the guy from Back to the future. Tall, Stocky and i can Mess up the punch line of a joke like no other..hahaha

When i was in the Military they even authorized to have it put on my name tape. So yah it stuck with me though the years.

Biffman is just gamer/chat/fourms handle.

[Garrett]

People used to call me Biff, the guy from Back to the future. Tall, Stocky and i can Mess up the punch line of a joke like no other..hahaha

When i was in the Military they even authorized to have it put on my name tape. So yah it stuck with me though the years.

Biffman is just gamer/chat/fourms handle.

My favorite movie lol.... so any pic of how you look?

[David_L6]

My name is David..... Maybe someone can guess the rest?

[-Acid-]

o.k my turn

Fav film is aliens

been using it since internet came about !!!
I,m on most forums as it so if you come across an user called Acid its prob me unless due to site nukes ect some one got it and i had to use -Acid-

[loonym]

In my younger days I had a reputation for what some people might consider outrageous or even dangerous behavior. Heavy drug use, heavier drinking, fighting, and run ins with the law too numerous to mention. Somehow through all this people started to get the notion that I might be a little unbalanced and unstable mentally. People took to calling me loony along with a bastardization of my last name.

[Bo_Fox]

Nice to meet you IFMU, bump!

Bo_Fox.. well, I do not want to exactly explain it yet!! Maybe at some point later on in my life!

In my avatar, the girl on the right is named "Bo", since she's just a tad bit masculine, and the one on the left is "Fox", just like Foxxy Cleopatra with an afro.

[OldChap]

Until I was 40 I was bulletproof or so it seemed...then along came surgery leaving a 10 inch scar down the centre of my stomach. I've never had good stomach muscles since nor, it seems, the stamina I enjoyed before. It left me feeling like an .......Old Chap.

You might see me elsewhere as grumpydaddy...this one is, according to my kids, just descriptive

My interest in computers is really only since end 2007 (I'd talk about the dos days but my memory isn't what it was) so when joining forums last year there was really no thought went into either name...I guess that shows too.

[Gamekiller]

I've had mine for many many years. When I was very young I was (I think I still am ) very skillful at games and I would beat them very quickly without effort. When trying to come up with a nickname I decided that beating games quickly could be loosely translated into killing them. Thus, I am, Gamekiller.
My nick gets taken from time to time somehow. =[ Happens more now that some horrible band named themselves Gamekiller...

[Chumbucket843]

i was watching spongebob while making some account and i have used it all over the internet. as for the digits they are my area code.

[kylepaddock]

its my name

[Plan.B]

my plan A never quite seems to work out properly, so I am always resorting to a plan B, hence the name

[shazza]

A good read.

Mine's simple - shazza is slang for "Sharon," and I worked for an Australian company for 30 years and lived in Australia for 3 ... so it just kinda stuck. It's my "gaming" persona

[PoppaGeek]

I was trying to come up with a name for a new email account and Poppageek just popped in my head. I guess it came from me having 3 daughters and many kids I sorta adopted as their parents were too busy for them. I played alot of Quake and UT and beat the kids hanging out at the house and the 20 somethings at work. When you walked into my house the living room and one bedroom were all computers. Got some real funny reactions from people. Some said they thought they had entered the Matrix. Living room was mostly game PCs for me and kids to game on the lan. Bedroom was a FreeBSD cluster running Distributed.net. Game PCs ran Seti. I wasn't the only one found my x-wife hard to live with so the kids lived with me.

So I was a Poppa to many kids and a geek. People either liked it or thought it funny and I have used it for a long time now. Had a domain for several years and an Ebay store. Email and IM and other accounts.

[INFRNL]

I didn't realize we even had this thread, but it kind of cool to see where everyone came or got their names from.

as for me its kind of a long story; so I will try to shorten it a bit:

About 10 yrs ago a buddy and I were really into going to the mountains and 4 wheeling (trucks). I had a 79 F150 4x4. W e stripped it down to the frame, completely dissassembled the entire truck, took off all factory brackets and custom fabbed new brackets and rebuilt the truck from the ground up. went all out on it. in the end put a 15" or so lift on it, 44" tall tires, made it a 3/4 ton, etc. So I wanted to get personalized plates for it. couldnt think of anything really and wanted something cool that would fit the truck and myself.

So INFRNL (Infernal) came to mind. Infernal has quite a few different definitions but overall fits my lifstyle and who I am from the past and all the stupid things I have done. So I got my personal plates.

I joined the AMD forums a while back; I believe when they came out with the socket A chips...could have been earlier, can't recall. Anyways needed a user name so I decided to use the name from my plates; makes it simple; I cannot recall any other users using the name, maybe similar or fully spelled out, but not like I have it. So I have been using ever since.

I have used it for some e-mail addys as well, but in the past few years I have changed my e-mail addy to LucienTech cause I was going to start a small business which was computer/electronic oriented.

LucienTech comes from my sons middle name and abb for Technology...similar to Lucent Technologies, but different. I only use LucienTech for ebay and my email. INFRNL is my forum name only, besides my plates of course.

and there you have it. its a lot more complex than this, but this is the short version.

[Rise]

I started on prodigy a while back with my 28.8 but nothing from there ever stuck...

My current name, Rise came from the need for a "handle" (must have just finished watching Hackers or something ) and during 10th grade global studies my friend "dosa" (means master in korean) was wearing a Rise Above skating shirt and i thought it sounded cool, so Rise it was.

From then on, I... obtained the name Rise on AOL and had it up until a few years ago where it got repo'd I even had Rise on battlenet for a while until i stopped playing starcraft/diablo 2 for long enough where it disappeared (I had Ri$e as well) and was taken by someone else. Nowadays its much tougher to get, but i still get lucky sometimes - just got it last night at the 2+2 forums

lastly, i'm also well known as SC2GGRise on youtube where I do english commentaries of korean pro starcraft and so that has become fairly popular in the starcraft community so i'm guessing that will stick in that universe for when starcraft 2 and diablo 3 come out.

other gaming/forum names: deadshot (cs), wacky_4_cracky (sc), officespacer (wopr)

btw, thanks for the thread necro, this is a fun one and a good read!

[Kondik]

A long time ago I bought an PC [ They were called PC100 and PC133 , can't remember the producer , maybe SYS ] board, can't remember what number but it was in the era of K5 75 ~ 133.
My PC was lying on the side so you could look directly on the tiny fans spinning, liked that. And one day a screwdriver rolled down from my desk
and landed directly on the opened PC , Short Cricuiting something and BANG , few Capacitors blew off [ Condensator caled here ]

And then While playing with an older 486 type board I managed to repeat it by a mistake and there it was... my Nickname was born.

[labs23]

Mine's from my initials, and 23 is my favorite number, from a great basketball icon. Of course you don't need to guess who he is.

[v0dka]

I think it was something close to 15 years ago when I was trying to come up with a good name. Looking at some amazing vodka bottles I got then (huge 5 litre Smirnoff bottles that were way old) I got my inspiration. Being 15 years old you want something "cool" right? The name stuck till today, but in quite a few different variations.

[Particle]

Particle. Hmm.

Back in the day when ICQ was the new, cool thing since it was the first time the concept of instant messaging had ever been implemented, I went by "Laser". At the time, my brother thought that was lame and continually gave me crap about how unimaginative it was. Eventually, I decided I was bored of it as well and thought for something similarly cool (I was fascinated by lasers at the time) and took a sidestep to the concept of a particle beam. Hence, "Particle" was initiated into service. I've stuck with it ever since then.

No, I didn't name myself after the They Might Be Giants song, "Particle Man" even though it was one of my favorite songs at the time.