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Title: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 04, 2009, 04:04:38 PM
Just curious the origins of given usernames.

for example - mine :P

neuspadrin -- really 2 different names: neus padrin

neus - randomly generated name of my panther from the original neverwinter nights.  just kinda stuck as a favorite of mine and started getting used.

padrin - randomly generated first name of my character from neverwinter nights who had said panther. didn't really care for the last name (and i can't remeber what i had it set to), but after that i just started using neus first name padrin last for various things.

so thats the meaning behind my username... what about you?
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: folder on April 04, 2009, 04:34:36 PM
folder comes from my other passion of origami. I have been folding for over 30 years and this along with sleight of hand card magic, and drawing comprises my most long term passions.

for an example of the type of origami I fold, go to a friends site
robert lang https://www.langorigami.com

david
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: mesocyclone on April 04, 2009, 04:58:03 PM
mesocyclone comes from my great passion for powerful storms and storm chasing.

In every convective storm, there's an updraft that feeds the storm with warm moist air. Is practically the "soul" of the storm.

Most of the tornadoes are generated from powerful storms called supercells. The supercells are huge, long-lived, beautiful and very strong storms. The main diference beetween supercells and other storms is that its updraft rotates. This rotating column of ascending air is called the mesocyclone.  ;)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 04, 2009, 05:16:20 PM
Quote from: neuspadrin on April 04, 2009, 04:04:38 PM
neus - randomly generated name of my panther from the original neverwinter nights.  just kinda stuck as a favorite of mine and started getting used.

Did you know Neus is the Dutch word for nose?
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 04, 2009, 05:24:14 PM
hahaha, no i did not.  i had a suspicion it was a word in some european language awhile ago, but never researched it.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: PG on April 04, 2009, 05:50:28 PM
PG is an acronym for PauliesGrandson. Paulie is a character in Mafia: City of Lost Heaven, my favourite game. I used PauliesGrandson on a Mafia fansite and couldn't think of another one for registering elsewhere ;D
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Oshyan on April 04, 2009, 06:10:03 PM
Ok, I'll come clean. My user name (JavaJones, no longer used here) is a sham. I'm neither a coffee drinker nor a Java coder (at least one of which people always assume).

It's actually a holdover from a rather long time ago, maybe 15+ years, when I was in Jr. High School. We had a little computer lab and we started playing multiplayer games, Marathon chief among them (man that was an awesome game). I started out with nicknames like "Predator" and "Reaper", even before that, I thought they sounded cool, but later realized they were ridiculously over-used. I needed something original. At the time I was an avid Far Side (comic) reader, and although it wasn't my favorite comic by any means, for some reason this one stuck in my head: http://www.home-barista.com/knockbox/carl-javahead-jones-and-his-chopped-espresso-machine-t6324.html

I liked the idea of being kind of clever and "pun-ey", so I modified it a bit and had java (coffee) and jones (not as a last name, but as-in slang for "craving something", in other words "coffee craving". The irony of course is that I wasn't a coffee drinker, even to this day (though I drink it occasionally, only with a good amount of sugar and cream ;D). This was before the Java coding language was really much of anything, I think, so I didn't get any questions about that at the time, but since then I certainly have.

Anyway it was at least original and it worked at the time. As I continued to use it, it became habit, and as the Internet became a major force, with 100's of sites to sign up to, it just stuck. I've found a few other people using it, and even a real coffee shop with the same name (no surprise there), but it's been relatively unique, which I like, while still having some kind of (theoretical) "cleverness" and meaning. Even if the meaning is false. ;)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: inkydigit on April 04, 2009, 06:57:59 PM
inkydigit - I am both a traditional printmaker and a digital artist, also a synonym for inky finger, like a fingerprint that is our ID!! my real name is Jason!
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: sjefen on April 04, 2009, 07:05:06 PM
Sometimes, i buy myself a Coca Cola that comes in those glass bottles and I always read inside the cork.
It always says the same thing. It's maybe only 5 or 6 things that goes over and over again, but I have this little idea
that maybe sometime, they will make new ones ::)

Anyway..... one time I got this one that said: "Jeg er sjefen!" and I thought: No... I am!
I have only seen this one 2 times in my whole life, so I guess it's a rare one.
When I then started signing up for forums around I just remembered that and sjefen it became :)

10 points to the one that can figure out what sjefen means ;)

- Terje
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 04, 2009, 07:09:52 PM
norwegian for boss/manager/etc...

google ftw ;)

Jeg er sjefen - i am the boss
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: sjefen on April 04, 2009, 07:20:46 PM
10 points to neuspadrin ;D

- Terje
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on April 04, 2009, 07:23:25 PM
some ppl might find it strange but I like the letter Z, so I tend to make aliases/names starting with the letter Z.

999 comes from Leiji Matsumoto's, Galaxy Express 999 manga comic / anime, and not 999 flipped upside down.

zagadka is a Russian/polish word meaning enigma or riddle.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: jo on April 04, 2009, 08:07:17 PM
It's - wait for it - Jo :-). I use it because its my name...

Regards,

Jo
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: matrix2003 on April 04, 2009, 08:29:02 PM
Well in 1999 The Matrix movie made my head spin! I saw it like three times.   Then they filmed both sequels back to back and announced that both would be released in 2003.
All I could think about at the time was '2003' was going to be a 'Matrix' year.   :D

  -  Bill .
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Cyber-Angel on April 04, 2009, 09:19:42 PM
Let me tell you a story that's kind true, about a man who came to rock
24/7 around the clock!
This man started as a rock and roll kid till one day he got lost in soul; hip hop took
over his soul till one day he lost control.
Partied at the disco from nine to five rocked the mic to stay alive, took no shame, had no blame
stayed that way and almost went insane.
Got calls form every where to make people dance on and on till day light came, on and on and did the same.
That kid became a star but had no name, word is bond that man had been transformed Cyber-Angel had been born!

;D

Regards to you

Cyber-Angel     
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: PG on April 05, 2009, 07:50:13 AM
Quote from: jo on April 04, 2009, 08:07:17 PM
It's - wait for it - Jo :-). I use it because its my name...

Regards,

Jo

lol

Hey Oshyan, where'd you come up with this name?
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: matrix2003 on April 05, 2009, 08:04:24 AM
I believe you would have to ask his parents that one!  ;D
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: cyphyr on April 05, 2009, 10:32:35 AM
Well cyphyr kinda came up when I was looking for something that embodied the "code-ness" of being something of a computer nerd and things not always being what they seem. Aparently the trator in the Matrix movies (could'nt say which one) is called ciphir or something similar but thats just coincidental. I've used cyphyr for ages now, on forums and online games particularly "Entropia Universe" and its funny to see people running past saying what dose your avatar's name mean, the answer being, nothing in particular :)

richard aka cyphyr

ps I always thought the JavaJones name was exactly as you said, a coffee junkie coder, another illusion trashed  ::)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Arandil on April 05, 2009, 01:59:45 PM
My username is a Sindarin construction I came up with for a character I ran in First Age Middle Earth rpg some years back.   The character was a herald and his name means 'friend of the noble'.

GEEK OUT! *disco ball*  ;D

EDIT: Plus, no one else uses it.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Hetzen on April 05, 2009, 04:38:36 PM
Mine came from smoking spliffs and playing with WW2 German tanks. I also quite liked that hetzen in Google German is 'rush', where as zen equates tranquillity, which sort of contradicts, but doesn't.

I like to think I get peace of mind from getting stuck into things.

Plus no one else uses it. ;D
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 05, 2009, 05:01:50 PM
My name Mohawk came form a sympathy with ethnic minorities who were oppressed. I like dark skinned people and native Americans, not only because they were oppressed, but because they were portrayed as the cool guys. Dark African hunters, and honorable feathered Indian tribes.

And after reading some Old Shatterhand books, that only strengthened my admiration. I like how native Americans live as one with nature and respect all living things. It's a way of life I like to have myself.

So when I needed a Nickname, one that I thought was cool of course, Mohawk rang in the back of my mind as Indian tribe. But the forum I tried to sign in already had a member with that name, so i added an arbitrary number, and kept using this combination so I could never be confused...

After as couple of years using this Nickname, I decided to check if I was actually right in assuming it was a tribe name. I was right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_(disambiguation) There is a whole region that consists of landmarks like Mohawk river, Mohawk valley and Mohawk lake. It even is a complete language, which I don't speak of course  ;)

My avatar is actually a version of the Mohawk flag.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Inscrutable on April 07, 2009, 03:28:20 AM
That would be telling...
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Dark Fire on April 08, 2009, 11:23:45 AM
Dark Fire is just an unusual (so it's normally not already registered) but memorable (I hope) name. I came up with it years ago, when I was in my early teens - hence the slight weirdness - and I'm too lazy to change it now. The fact that I like rendering images of volcanoes in dark envorinments with TG2 is just a fortunate coincidence.  :P
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: otakar on April 09, 2009, 11:15:19 AM
Přemysl II. Otakar, also known as the Iron and Golden king was the most significant king of Bohemia (only later eclipsed by Charles IV). Years ago, I used to play a fantasy PBEM game called Eressea and I based my faction on the Premyslid clan, whose leader of course was named Otakar. And so I stuck with it, using this handle online to this day.

I am enjoying this thread a lot...
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: arisdemos on April 09, 2009, 06:09:47 PM
In the early part of the twentieth century a book was written called the Spartan, and it told the fictional story of a half Athenian and half Spartan man who became the hated sole survivor/coward of Thermopylae.  The only warrior of Leonides' 300 who came back home without his shield/honor.  I am of Greek heritage and During Viet Nam I sort of chose the same kind of role,... a live one.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: dandelO on April 09, 2009, 08:36:36 PM
Dandelo is a fictional character who makes a brief appearance in the final of 7 'Dark Tower' books by Stephen King.

A psychic vampire who drains your lifeforce by laughing you to death. The more you laugh, the more you're dying, without even knowing it. Dandelo lives on a lonely street called 'Oddlane', just off Tower Road.
Tower Road runs on 'The Path Of The Beam', which the hero, the gunslinger Roland of Gilead, a kind of knight in cowboy form, must travel to save the Tower, and so, the multiverse(the Tower is the nexus of all wheres and whens, and it is in grave danger).

Dandelo is an anagram of Oddlane(see above), so I use the capital 'O' instead of a capital 'D'.
Apparently, I've read, Dandelo is also the name of the scientist's cat in the movie The Fly.

I liked the name, is all! ;)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: efflux on April 11, 2009, 08:01:06 PM
First time I went on the net I had to think of user names, email address etc so I chose efflux. Now I'm stuck with that because I've used it everywhere. I also have a domain related to this name but not exactly the same (never used yet).

Trouble is, at most places, if you use your real name then it's likely you'll have to choose another name because your name is already taken unless you have a very unusual name.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Oshyan on April 11, 2009, 08:06:50 PM
Ironically I do have a very unique name, which is really never taken. But back when I was starting to use nicknames online, there was this persistent idea of not wanting to use your real name. Desire for anonymity, or just wanting to be cool, I dunno... ;)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: mesocyclone on April 11, 2009, 09:02:43 PM
Oh, sorry, I forgot it...
My real name is Jean  ::)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 11, 2009, 10:34:34 PM
thats a crazy name oshyan, what sort of origin is it?   you could probably easily get away using it as a screenname without people realizing most of the time, haha.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Oshyan on April 11, 2009, 10:42:06 PM
Just my parents being creative. It's like the constellation Orion, and my great-grandfather named Shya or something, and... I dunno, hehe.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 11, 2009, 10:54:34 PM
Ah, that would explain it not really existing as a name anywhere.  Thats pretty cool.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Oshyan on April 11, 2009, 10:58:51 PM
Yeah, except some city in Iran! http://www.maplandia.com/iran/esfahan/oshyan/

- Oshyan
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 12, 2009, 03:02:51 AM
If you have a heavy accent, it sounds like 'Ocean'... or "Oh! Sean!!"  :P ;D
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Oshyan on April 12, 2009, 04:54:35 AM
Actually it's pronounced "ocean". ;D

- Oshyan
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: PG on April 12, 2009, 06:48:49 AM
Really?? ;D I think 99.99999% of people hear thought it was "Osh-yan"
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: rcallicotte on April 12, 2009, 08:27:11 AM
Thanks for the info, Oshyan.  I have been saying it with the emphasis on the second syllable.  Now I know.  Cool.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: sjefen on April 12, 2009, 09:27:55 AM
Quote from: Oshyan on April 12, 2009, 04:54:35 AM
Actually it's pronounced "ocean". ;D

- Oshyan

Hehe. That is exactly how I read it from the first.
I've tried to figure out on my own how it's really pronounced, but I had to stick with ocean ;)
Anyway. I think it's a cool name.

- Terje
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: dandelO on April 12, 2009, 10:38:15 AM
I thought the ocean was blue, not Greene. Trick of the light maybe.  :D
Until now, I thought you were O-shy-an too.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: matrix2003 on April 12, 2009, 05:54:36 PM
I thought the ocean was blue, not Greene. Trick of the light maybe.


  "  well played  "     ;)     and a nod.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: efflux on April 12, 2009, 05:59:42 PM
I thought it was pronounced Osh-yan as well.

My real first name is Ryan but there is another Ryan on this forum.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: dandelO on April 12, 2009, 07:08:31 PM
True statistic: 9 out of 10 TG users are called Frank, Martin or Ryan.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on April 12, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
ive noticed that... its scary :P
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: PG on April 13, 2009, 05:22:39 AM
Quote from: dandelO on April 12, 2009, 07:08:31 PM
True statistic: 9 out of 10 TG users are called Frank, Martin or Ryan.

and that's at a ratio of 11 men to 1 woman ;D
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: JimAward on May 07, 2009, 12:10:18 PM
JimAward is a re-ordering of the characters of my surname Mijwaard (which is Dutch). 
I don't know if there is a Jim Award prize thing somewhere, but this name sounds funny to me.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Dune on May 07, 2009, 01:08:33 PM
Dune because I was doing a dune render at the time I first entered this forum, so nothing fancy about it. I do like dunes, but did't like the book 'Dune'.

---Dune

ps. When I first mentioned this to my wife she thought I'd called myself June, and thought it a bit scary. We talked it over and she doesn't consider me a weirdo anymore  ;) 
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: neuspadrin on May 07, 2009, 01:19:54 PM
Quote from: Dune on May 07, 2009, 01:08:33 PM
ps. When I first mentioned this to my wife she thought I'd called myself June, and thought it a bit scary. We talked it over and she doesn't consider me a weirdo anymore  ;) 

Well, if you told your wife you were "doing" June when you signed up for the forum, and her name wasn't June... now that would be interesting ;)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: GioMez on May 08, 2009, 08:47:50 AM
GioMez? Very simple: the first three letters from my name (Giovanni) and the first three of my surname (Mezzadri... which literally translated should mean... "sharecroppers" ;D)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: domdib on May 09, 2009, 05:14:29 PM
Domdib? Snap, GioMez! Dominic Dibble  ;)

@Mohawk - if you're interested in Native American/Indian culture, have you read "Neither Wolf nor Dog" by Kent Nerburn? If not, I'd thoroughly recommend it.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: littlecannon on May 13, 2009, 02:13:35 PM
Little cannon would be my kung fu name.... if I had one ;D. I have been practising Taijiquan and Baguazhang for nearly 20 years and have a deep love for them, hence my Kung Fu themed name. My real name is Simon.
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: tumasch on May 15, 2009, 04:36:49 AM
My turn then, I guess...

The nickname 'tumasch' is nothing that spectacular. It's actually another form of my proper name Thomas. This form comes from the Engadin valley in the canton of Grisons (here in Switzerland) I fell in love with a few years back. I love the landscape there, the people, the language, and the culture. I even started to learn the language which has become quite rare and exotic in a way. But I'm prone to learning quite exotic foreign languages (not including English, of course ;D).

And this is what it roughly looks like: http://www.alpen-panoramen.de/photo/486.jpg

EDIT: Plus, no one else uses it. ;)
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: schmeerlap on May 30, 2009, 07:47:10 AM
Sorry, missed this topic.
Schmeerlap is what my mum sometimes calls me. Some of you from Germany may know that this is not a term of endearment. An example of its use may be when an irritated mother finds her son's face (and everything else within range) smeared with chocolate. As in "Du bist ein schmeerlap"! ("You are a messy so-and-so"!)

John
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: Mohawk20 on May 30, 2009, 02:25:02 PM
Quote from: schmeerlap on May 30, 2009, 07:47:10 AM
Sorry, missed this topic.
Schmeerlap is what my mum sometimes calls me. Some of you from Germany may know that this is not a term of endearment. An example of its use may be when an irritated mother finds her son's face (and everything else within range) smeared with chocolate. As in "Du bist ein schmeerlap"! ("You are a messy so-and-so"!)

John

Actually it's a Dutch word as well. And if you translate it it becomes all clear what the meaning is: Schmeer lap = Grease rag. It's the piece of old cloth you use to wipe your hands off when you're working on your car or motorcycle or stuff like that. Just a rag that's smeared with grease. And that's why his mother calls him that when he's all dirty... (and I say 'is' on purpose of course  :P ;)).
Title: Re: What's your name?
Post by: bobbystahr on July 31, 2017, 10:33:56 PM
In the '60's last century I did art on leather clothing with a wood burner and acrylics. As signing my name with a burner was ugly and stars appeared in many if not all my work those days the women I was arting for, Juice and TieDie, suggested  I make a sigil of a B and a star.
They then advertised art by Bobby * and the die was cast. I spell it bobbystahr as it seemed pretentious as I'm a musician as well, without the 'h'.