Does your Username have a story?

[blackbelt_jones]

I've never seen the 70's blaxpolitation-martial arts movie Black Belt Jones (http://www.papabyrd.com/bbj/), but I saw the hilariously bad trailer as part of the not great but enjoyable compliation-comedy-documentary It Came From Hollywood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084156/) in 1982. That was also the first time I had seen excerpts from Ed Wood's antimasterpiece "Plan Nine From Outer Space" The trailer features a scene of a woman grabbing some unfortunate bad guy by the gonads, while the voice over sells the slogan: the movie that grabs you and never lets you go! Twenty years later, I had taped the movie off HBO and it hit me that it would be a great username.

I had originally logged onto this site as Spiderbaby 1958 (after anoher olf cheesy movie), but when I had finally gotten my first old creaky Linux system online (Mandrake 8.1 with 40 big MB RAM!) I wanted to mark the occasion with a new username. Spiderbaby1958 was my windows name. So the date that Blackbelt joined this site (Linuxnewbie.org at the time) is the date that I first got my Linux Box online.

I started to use the name in other Linux forums, and soon, as I became more and more about Linux, Black Belt Jones became my favorite alter ego. Now it's my user account, my email, and my favorite nick for IRC chat. And there will be a website. It's probably a little premature for mechandizing. :)

[bsm2001]

Mine is my initials and the year I joined Linuxnewbie.org also
MDk 8.2

[gehidore]

Well, for those that remember one of the first lemmings games... the first version I played that had passwords for levels used the password "gehidore" for the 4th level (the level I never beat) so the password kinda stuck with me.

I used it as my password for everything for the next 2 years and then when making a hotmail account reversed them (by accident) and ended up with a username of gehidore and a password of lemming :/ been that way since. (well, not the password)

[BassDaddy777]

I play Bass in my church's Worship Team. While thinking of a new username, my 3 year old was determined to get into my lap and was going "Daddy... Daddy... Daddy".

BassDaddy777 lives!

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by BassDaddy777
I play Bass in my church's Worship Team. While thinking of a new username, my 3 year old was determined to get into my lap and was going "Daddy... Daddy... Daddy".

BassDaddy777 lives!

So far that's the only story i like better than my own.

[leonpmu]

Nope, mine is pathetically boring, but useful, because no-one else can have it.

It derives from my name, surname and location.

Leon P. MU (Mauritius)

Yeah, it's boring, so what???

[sharth]

Made it up at like 4am one day. :)

[ArtVandelay]

Mine is the fake name George, from
Seinfeld, gives himself for various lies
that he's living.

On my Linux boxes, I always make a user
called "dinger" after that Simpson's episode
where Mark McGuire asks everyone if they
wanted to see him hit dingers.

Ah, the weird logic of user names...

[Parcival]

My nickname Parcival was given to me by my frat at the university because I love to ponder on questions related to theology and philosophy.

Summed up in one sentence one can say that Parzival is the epic story of a far from perfect knight whose quest is to find the Holy Grail. As the quest goes on Parcival learns to improve on his mistakes and errors and finallly becomes the guardian of the Holy Grail and a member of King Arthur's Round Table.
In the Middle Ages various narrations of the Parzival story have been told throughout Europe mixing it with local lore. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parcival (summary here (http://www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/we_parzival.html)) has become the most famous to this day. There is also a full text English translation (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Graal/branch1.html) Chrétien de Troye's Parzival. In the 19th century Richard Wagner composed the famous opera Parzifal.

Hmm, I guess that makes quite a story for a nickname. :) No clue how interesting this must be to a bunch of geeks, though. :D

<EDIT> I hope those darn URLs work now :rolleyes: </EDIT>

[Sepero]

Originally posted by ArtVandelay
Mine is the fake name George, from
Seinfeld, gives himself for various lies
that he's living.I never noticed that before. Very funny. :p

I came up with my nick one day while day dreaming about being a hero. Take my initials("sep"), mix with "hero", and you've got sepero.

[dr_te_z]

I'm from Holland. When a suspect or a criminal is mentioned in the news(paper) they never use their full name but only their initials and city (Bill Gates from Redmond would be called: B.G at R).
So whenever I commit a crime (and they catch me) I will be called like my username... :p

[Choozo]

Mine is sort of patched together from the short sentence "Choose Who" around the mid 90's when the 'commercialization' of Internet really took off.
The nick was 'born' when some friends told me I absolutely had to choose a nick, and get on IRC :D

[TheSpeedoBeast]

I swim competitively, and am a friggin' beast when I do! How much more of a story do you need than that!?

(note: some sarcasm, I am not *quite* that cocky in all actuality)

[StarKnight83]

mine i just came up w/ one day. Star, is b/c ive always wanted to be an astronaut and am into sci-fi. Knight for my whole bit about following chivalry (even if its dead) and 83 is the year i was born

[deathadder]

Mines not very interesting, I've got Welsh family and my name in welsh is Adda. I've always been called that by my mum instead of Adam, anyway one day my parents were watching a TV program about snakes and it meantioned a type of Adder, called Death Adder. They said its you, since then deathadder's been my name.

Told you its not interesting :)

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by ArtVandelay
Mine is the fake name George, from
Seinfeld, gives himself for various lies
that he's living.


Ah, the weird logic of user names...

I've actually used that one myself. Also the name of the judge who sentences Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer to a year in prisonin the last episode.

Sort of the male equivalent of Regina Philangey, The recurring alias of Pheobe on "Friends" .

Originally posted by TheSpeedoBeast
I swim competitively, and am a friggin' beast when I do! How much more of a story do you need than that!?

(note: some sarcasm, I am not *quite* that cocky in all actuality)

I'm glad you're not too "cocky", elsewise you might have a problem keeping it in the suit.:eek:

[Icarus]

/me thinks that blackbelt_jones has way too much free time on his hands lately ;)

Mine's simple, Mythology.
Icarus was the son of Daedalus who was an engineer and crafted them wings from wax and feathers so they could escape the Labrynth of Minos (which Daedalus build so he knew how to escape from it).

Icarus being young and reckless failed to listen to his father about the dangers of flying too high...the sun melted the wax holding the feathers in place and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.

[gehidore]

Originally posted by Icarus
/me thinks that blackbelt_jones has way too much free time on his hands lately ;)

Ditto.
Originally posted by Icarus
Icarus being young and reckless failed to listen to his father about the dangers of flying too high...the sun melted the wax holding the feathers in place and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.
Wow, average teen "listen to your parents" story ehh?

[Daedrus]

Old D&D character name that I created a long long time ago.

[hard candy]

From the book I was reading, http://www.night-flight.com/Vachss/hardcandy.html
a whole series of Burke novels. He also wrote Batman-The Ultimate Evil , http://www.night-flight.com/Vachss/Batman_UltEvil.html

Good writing IMHO.

List of books (http://www.night-flight.com/Vachss/vachssnovels.html)

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

My Name's Alex Cavnar, and I'm also known as alc6379. How hard is that to tell?

[Bizza]

My surname is hobbs, At primary school my nickname was hobbsy, then a couple years later it had evolved to hobnob. In England, HobNobs are a type of Biscuit, somehow the kids at school got into calling me biscuit.

It stuck at biscuit till I was about 13, then people started abreviating names - Harry was called Haz, Gary - gaz, So Biscuit became Biz, which developed into Bizza too.

Most of my friends and my Girlfriend call me Biz or Bizza, quite a lot of people don't know my real name at all.

So there you go, :)

[bigmac99]

my last name is McNeill, or if you are from the country, MacNeill. Bigmac was given to me 20+ years ago when a bunch of us kids in the neighborhood divided up into baseball teams for the summer. One of the kids painted nicknames on white tshirts (our "jerseys"), and they named me bigmac. Well, every site I went to on the internet had a bigmac, so I just added the 99 to it hoping they didn't have that many bigmac's on it.

Charles

[Choozo]

Originally posted by Icarus
/me thinks that blackbelt_jones has way too much free time on his hands lately ;) Funny, I've been thinking the very same the last few days :D

[fatTrav]

My name is Travis and I'm a bit on the large side (6'1 250). At the time I made this nick, my friends and I called each other "fat <firstname>" because we were all ex-football athletes. Don't know why but that's what we did.

The name has stuck on BBs only because no one ever has this name and my more favorite name of "travism" is sometimes taken.

[elstupidos]

I got my name the day I married

[hard candy]

I'm also known as alc6379.

So do the numbers adding up to 25 reflect your age? Or the cash in your wallet?
If the latter, I would be Hard Candy $1.37.:D

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by Icarus
/me thinks that blackbelt_jones has way too much free time on his hands lately ;)


It's not that. It's just that I'm really really excited because I'm approaching my 500th post!!

Hmmm. Come to think of it, you may have a point there.

[gehidore]

Originally posted by blackbelt_jones
It's not that. It's just that I'm really really excited because I'm approaching my 500th post!!
So you don't have too much time, but you are in a hurry to hit 500, heh.

[hard candy]

Do like I do, start a humor thread and post jokes one at a time. Or post inane responses like this to other people's posts. Out of my 4855, probably 55 were of some use to anyone. I'll soon hit 5000 by the weekend if I keep this up. :D

[gehidore]

Originally posted by hard candy
Do like I do, start a humor thread and post jokes one at a time. Or post inane responses like this to other people's posts. Out of my 4855, probably 55 were of some use to anyone. I'll soon hit 5000 by the weekend if I keep this up. :D
:rolleyes:

I started going back every month and deleting my posts that weren't usefull.

[hard candy]

I started going back every month and deleting my posts that weren't usefull.

That would take me a while, think I should do that? I might could make an extra day or two each month. :)

Is there a 12-post group? (like the 12-step groups) If there is it probably stays away from computers.

(Alright, another post on the way to 5000)

[gehidore]

Originally posted by hard candy
That would take me a while, think I should do that? I might could make an extra day or two each month. :)

Is there a 12-post group? (like the 12-step groups) If there is it probably stays away from computers.

(Alright, another post on the way to 5000)
heh, I had to stop when I went from 2.5k to 1.1k and people started wondering if I really was a "mod"...

Looks like I should start again ;)

[bs_texas]

After the next big war, when there is no more electricity, all this computer mumbo jumbo will all be BS.

Oh, and those are my initials. ;) And the 2003 is just when I joined up.

[happybunny]

mine's pretty lame too, but it has stuck.

I joined this board not knowing if I would stay, so I just made something up...but I kept it 'cause i stayed.

Turns out it is a pretty popular name and a whole product line of drinks.

So, no, there is no interesting story behind my name.

[GigaShadow]

My nick comes from Lexxus 9...I enjoy SciFi and the character was somewhat deranged and interesting...the name just sounded right!! :D

http://www.wordwrights.co.uk/lexx/giga.html


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[WayStar]

My username is pretty mundane as well.

First name is Waylena, nickname is Way. Astronomy is my first and oldest passion in life, hence the Star portion of the name.

-Waylena

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by hard candy
Out of my 4855, probably 55 were of some use to anyone.

And this was clearly not one of them.
:)

[tlyons]

I'll give $100,000* to the first person who guesses the meaning of my username.

- Todd.

* I'm lying about the money.
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[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by WayStar
My username is pretty mundane as well.


Nice avatar, though. I mean:Hello, Waylena!:D

/me checks her profile

Oh my god, and she likes cats (I have five)! And she's a planatarium show producer! (sigh) So which is it, Waylena, married or gay?

/me sings:
Waylena! Say it loud and there's music playing...

(Sorry. I really need to get out more...)


Seriously, though, when you go through life with a handle like Waylena, who needs an exotic username?



Originally posted by tlyons
I'll give $100,000* to the first person who guesses the meaning of my username.

- Todd

I was going to say "Tired of Dungeons and Dragons", but Todd is your real name, isn't ?

* I'm lying about the money.


You b*st*rd!

Originally posted by deathadder
Mines not very interesting, I've got Welsh family and my name in welsh is Adda. I've always been called that by my mum instead of Adam, anyway one day my parents were watching a TV program about snakes and it meantioned a type of Adder, called Death Adder. They said its you, since then deathadder's been my name.

Told you its not interesting :)

Actually, it's not bad. And the name itself is incredibly cool!

[hard candy]

I'll give $100,000* to the first person who guesses the meaning of my username.

Are those Canadian or real dollars? :D
"The Linux Youth Of Nova Scotia"

[deathadder]

Originally posted by tlyons
I'll give $100,000* to the first person who guesses the meaning of my username.

- Todd.

* I'm lying about the money.
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I'm guessing your real name is Todd Lyons, tlyons :)

Originally posted by blackbelt_jones
Actually, it's not bad. And the name itself is incredibly cool!

Thanks :cool:

[deathadder]

Originally posted by hard candy
"The Linux Youth Of Nova Scotia"

Ok thats 'got' to be the reason behind the user name

[Sepero]

Originally posted by bs_2003
Oh, and those are my initials. ;) And the 2003 is just when I joined up. Anyone else notice, he actually joined in 2002? Perhaps I'm just the first to say anything about it. :)


And blackbelt_jones, stop scareing the fems away from our forums! Get back into your cubbyhole.

[Calipso]

Twisted Metal anyone??

Actually this name was a bit of a mistake on my part.....originally i wanted to take a name of a character in the game Interstate 76....i thought it was Calipso, but later on realized that it was actually Calisto(i think :)). Unfortunatelly i was already using the name Calipso all over the place so I just stuck with it. Later on someone pointed out that the name was used in Twisted Metal(which i enjoyed but didnt realize thats where teh name is from).

[cybertron]

Well, I thought I was being all creative when I came up with my name because I didn't think I had seen it anywhere, and then I discovered that it was the name of a planet in the Transformers cartoon that I used to watch when I was a little kid. I'm guessing that's where I actually got it and unfortunately it's fairly widely used by other people too so it's hard to get e-mail accounts and such with it.

So mine was a failed attempt at creativity:)

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by Sepero

And blackbelt_jones, stop scareing the fems away from our forums! Get back into your cubbyhole.

Hey **** you! Mind your own ****ing business! And don't worry. Women find me charming, cause I'm so ****ing smooth...

[IsaacKuo]

My e-mail address was a failed attempt at UNcreativity.

One day I was trying to show someone that any name you can come up with has already been used on Yahoo. So, I decided to try to sign up for a Yahoo e-mail account with "mechdan" as an example. (Mech-Dan is the presumable name of an obscure Capcom videogame character in Gouki's ending story in Marvel vs Streetfighter.)

Much to my surprise...Yahoo let me have the screen name! *Shrug* I decided to keep the account, and it ended up becoming my general purpose e-mail account, as well as ICQ. I have since found that "mechdan" is actually really really really uncommon--almost to the point of uniqueness. I can't say the same for my prefered screen name (my own real name).

[WayStar]

blackbelt_jones, you flatter me so!

I am in fact married, for 1.5 years now. Hubby is also a computer and astronomy geek.


As for being scared off, not a chance. I'm 34 years old. I was playing D&D back in the '80s. If my friends back then didn't scare me...

-Waylena

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by WayStar
blackbelt_jones, you flatter me so!

I am in fact married, for 1.5 years now. Hubby is also a computer and astronomy geek.


As for being scared off, not a chance. I'm 34 years old. I was playing D&D back in the '80s. If my friends back then didn't scare me...

-Waylena

Well, that's good news, since it had to be one or the other, and more married women get divorced than gay women turn straight. Best wishes to you, and also to the lucky bastard.

Note to geeky computer guys: Here's a surprising fact about women. Tell a woman that she's beautiful and if you really mean it (they can usually tell), many of them actually like it! Don't make the same mistake I did, and not figure this out until you're past 40!

[bs_texas]

Originally posted by Sepero
Anyone else notice, he actually joined in 2002? Perhaps I'm just the first to say anything about it. :)

:eek:
You're right.. I remember now. It was Oct 2002.
I was looking to the future and thought 2003 would lead me into my new linux journey... or something.. I was probably drunk that day...

The bs part is still valid. ;)

[tlyons]

Originally posted by blackbelt_jones
I was going to say "Tired of Dungeons and Dragons", but Todd is your real name, isn't ?

<snip>

You b*st*rd!


Yeah, I got old and boring, and decided it was time to hang up the BBS nickname and go with my real name.

Sorry about the money thing, but I was just following your leads. ;)

- T.

[tlyons]

Originally posted by hard candy
"The Linux Youth Of Nova Scotia"

I like that! It makes me wish I'd actually lived in the maritimes. Unfortunately, I've never been to the East coast.

- T.

P.S. Canadian money is real money. It just has more aesthetic value than monetary value. :)

- T.

This message has been corrected for spelling, and sanitized for your protection.

[DrLZRDMN]

A lon time ago I started to use aim (not aol). I had wanted lizardman which was taken. I shose the suplemented lizard00man. Someone once comented that it looked like lizard-doo man. It was also too long. I decided to make it DrLZRDMN thinking that Dr would be the new popular username prefix. To this day Ive seen about five. I think I should change it because its old and someone might think Im an actual doctor. For context, I had an Iguana at the time.

[dannybunkins]

dannybunkins is one of the nicknames that my brother used to refer to me as in the e-mails that he used to send to me until I changed my username to dannybunkins on everything that i use

[chzlchp]

My online tag-'chzlchp'-is a phonetic variation of my website name 'chiselchip', which alludes to the hours I spend building cabinets in my workshop, when not out in the weather surveying for construction sites.

And I thought nobody would ever ask...!

[twilli227]

When I have to fill in my name on a form, they usually cut out part of my middle name. William becomes Willi. I added my first initial, twilli, but that is usually taken, so I just added some numbers.

[ruwach]

mine is a hebrew word meaning "life, wind. or spirit"
taken from Genesis
God took the man whom He had formed and breathed into his nostrils the "ruwach" of life.

[Chess007]

I have this user name because I have been playing chess since I was 7 and am quite fond of the game. ( 1.Nf3 = my favorite opening)

I'm qaz123tfg on http://www.itsyourturn.com if anyone wants a game.

The '007' part is from the James Bond movies. He's cool, and good with the ladies, basically my opposite (hehe) . So, put the chess and the 007 together and volia my s/n.

I have to second the statement that the 'Batman Ultimate Evil' book is very good. More people should be made aware of what's going on in Thailand and other countries. Those 'sex tours' need to stop. Those involved need to die...violently. :)

[madcompnerd]

Mine, typically seen as MA_D (MAD is always taken) comes from the acronym:
Mutually Assured Destruction.
It's a reference to the film War Games, and cold war diplomatic policy!

[soulestream]

Old D&D character name that I created a long long time ago.



ditto


actually two names combined



soule

[Exodus2001]

Exodus 2001 was the name of my Battlebot that competed in seasons 2,3,4, and 5. I was on Team Whyachi also. We won the Heavy Weight devision in season 3 with Son of Whyachi, we had a toy out and everything. The cool thing is I got to meet Traci Bingham, Hedi Mark, and Carmen Electra.:D

[Arjay]

My first 2 initials R & J = Arjay

Didn't take much thought to come up with that one.

Cheers :)

[CoffeeMan]

I drink coffee, and I am the man.

[bs_texas]

Originally posted by CoffeeMan
I drink coffee, and I am the man.
That's pretty lame....

(Edit: I'm completely joking with that... in case there was any concern.)

(hehe... from a guy with bs in his user name... ;) )

[tuxnewb]

Well as you can probably tell tux newb is my linux screen name based mainly cause i love the tux penguin and well i am kinda still a newb at using the OS.

My other SN's include Ruffyen and Tenshi.

Ruffyen is ruff a play on the word rough and yen as the japanese currancy for money because im part japanese.

Tenshi is just a really cool name i found on the net that means angel in japanese. I started using it then my grandmother told me what it meant. Thought it was neat :)

and there you have it.

[eyceguy]

mine is a combination of two different names that describe me quite well.

eyce is a misspelling on Ice. It makes sense cause i was born on christmas in Illinois during one of the worst snow storms to ever hit the chicago area. Also i tend to enjoy the winter months better and for some reason my hands are alway freezing cold even during summer.

the 'guy' part is twofold. one its the second half of shyguy the little guys with the mask on super mario 2 and i am/ will always be quite a bit shyand second well..... im a guy

hence eyceguy

[aNoob]

Well, was a noob when joined, a noob now , hence my username