where did you get your nickname?

[corporate_gamer]

got caught playing football manager at work, joke made, turned into msn screen-name, turned into my xbox-live profile, turned into my causual internet forum user-name... or it could be a extremely subtle commentary on the commercialisation of the game industry visa vi generic 1st person shooters and their dull sequels... nah its the first one.

 

[Dommyboy]

Well mine is quite crazy. My name is Dominic, so I got the nickname Dom for some crazy reason and than I use Dommyboy or Dommyboi online.

 

[Archetype]

I got mine from one of the songs created by one of my favourite music artists on Newgrounds, Helix6.

 

[rottenbutter]

When I first signed up for XBL, I had trouble picking a gamer tag. So, I was scrolling through the list of names that hadn't been taken yet, and my mom sees "rotten milk" and says "rotten butter"(because back then i used to say butter a lot). I tried it, and it worked. Now I use it all the time, because no one in there right mind would come up with this for there user name.

 

[Mister Ash]

i get called Mister Ash at work alot, i believe a friend of mine from another forum gave it to me originally (but i forget, it got lost in the mists of time), and someone at work did the same thing (and they didn't know) so it's stuck IRL now aswell,

other names Katatonik on WoW, shortend to Kata or Kat, from a band that i tried to get together but kinda failed.

 

[Skarvey]

my profile name stems from the fact that I like ska music and my last name is Harvey. Ska+Harvey=Skarvey
my friends call me Jimmy Sex or Sex Harvey because I often greet my friends by saying "Sex" instead of "Hello" and its actually a really good ice breaker if you ever want to try that.

 

[neoman10]

made mine up in 6th grade and kept it ever since

 

[AuntyEthel]

In Bizarre mag, they have really dodgy phonelines in the back. The one that caught my eye was:

Let Aunty Ethel strap you down for severe punishment.

So, my name is way more evil than most. Mwah hahaha!

 

[Jaythulhu]

Well, my name is Jay, and I've been a lovecraft fan since I was quite young. After running my 3rd mythos game, I was nicknamed. Been Jaythulhu ever since. Boring story, but it is what the topic asked for...

 

[haveyouseen_mywallet]

tombstone, great movie

 

[slayermaster]

i had this like stuffed animal my grandma got me and it was called a mogu and when i played a mage in wow and named him mogu i met with these 5 guys and where now best friends and they call me mogu, lol
-side note, i quit wow 7 months ago

 

[Smells Like Muff]

A very long story...

 

[The Lyre]

Cain is the traiditional English rendering of Qayin.

Cain is always taken, so I go with the Hebrew.

Why Cain? First person to witness death in the Bible, after he murders his brother - the very first person to actually see death, the destruction of human life, around the time I first used Qayin I'd been thinking about that concept for a few days.

 

[kateatsmouse]

Uh, my IRL nickname is Kat. Which sounds like Cat. and Cats eat mice. Or at least mine does. So I link the two and.... Kateatsmouse. I use it for 99.9% of everything I'm allowed to sign up for. It's a good time.

 

[motokemu]

Ha! I'm not as clever to come up w/something cool so Motokemu is half of my japanese name combined w/my name backwards.

In real life they call me Ms.Meko but not its Mrs.Meko

 

[chomesuke]

It's from a manga me and my friends read. And in that mange there is a really ''cute'' demon. Called chomesuke(evidently it's a real cute name in japanese).
And since I am the biggest and strongest in ouor little ''group''. So they started to call me that.
So that's the reason for my name.

 

[Daye.04]

Let's get this back up again =P
My nickname is from a year ago, I think ... Me and my froend was being bored at school. So we were drawing my name. You know .. To make a definition of it =P

So my name is like Norwegian words for "loch" and "pile" .. Kinda.
So we drew a loch and a pile next to each other. Then we kept drawing them more and more until the unrecognizable. The loch then became a "D", and the pile an eye. Then it was Deye.

I then typed it on the calculator, using the few letters that was possible. First I didn't know it was possible to write an "e", hence the "A" instead of the first "e". But at the end, I found the "e". And so it became "DAYe".

I then left the calculator lying. And after we've been working a bit, it showed "DAYe.104". I then thought that it was a bit much with "three" emphasis's like "daye - one oh - four", so I cut the "1". And there you have it =P

Uninteresting, I know. But this thread is kind of for the backstory of your username/nick =P

 

[TMAN10112]

Most of my family started calling me "T" or "T-Bone" so a few years ago I decided on TMAN as a username, threw in a few random numbers, and I have been going by some form of it ever since.

 

[ChickDangerous]

I started gaming in the 80's on an Amiga. I liked Rick Dangerous. I'm a girl.