Topic: Our Names... What's in a nick? (Read 27609 times)

saltydog · « **Reply #50 on:** December 05, 2007, 16:35:39 »

Wow, that looks like a very nice bike..

What engine does it have, a Goldwing..?

RJK · « **Reply #51 on:** December 06, 2007, 00:18:18 »

Same engine as the older Goldwing had the 1520 cc. The new Goldwing is 1800 cc. I don't know why Honda discontinued the Valkyrie. In 2004 they changed it and made it the Valkyrie Rune which was very futuristic looking but didn't sell very well so instead of just going back to the old style Honda stopped building them altogether.

NathanC · « **Reply #52 on:** July 14, 2008, 17:41:28 »

I thought it would be an interesting topic to see why our usernames are what they are.

NathanC - I've been using the name "Nathan" for a while now

C is the first letter of my surname, Clark

TerryRussell · « **Reply #53 on:** July 14, 2008, 18:04:21 »

I think mine might be easy to figure out the reason.

It's my real name, with the space removed between forename and surname. I know, "no imagination".

I toyed with "Supreme Marmite Sucker of the Universe", but went for "TerryRussell" as being the equivalent.

Bottman · « **Reply #54 on:** July 14, 2008, 18:05:19 »

My nickname is pretty simple: as I used to wear those shoes all the time, my friends at the university were calling me "Bottman", because these typical Swedish shoes were named "Botten" here. So I was christened like "Batman", but "Bottman"...

After a few years of studying, some people would like to ask me about my real name, because they have only known my nick...

NathanC · « **Reply #55 on:** July 14, 2008, 18:11:18 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on July 14, 2008, 18:04:21

"Supreme Marmite Sucker of the Universe"

Hmmm, i think i prefer that one

Minime · « **Reply #56 on:** July 14, 2008, 18:30:57 »

I don't really know why I chose Minime, I just thought it sounded funny

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #57 on:** July 14, 2008, 18:32:54 »

Here's an interesting one, IRI5HJ4CK means "Irish Jack", the first website i registered with wanted a secure username (so nobody could hack into my profile) and it said it wanted letters an numbers, and i decided to add caps on it to make it even harder for people to try and hack into my profile (if someone tried) so i thought to myself "what should i do?" and i came up with the idea of "Irish Jack" but then relised it had to have no spaces, so i decided to make it "IRI5HJ4CK" the 5 being s and the 4 being the a, to suit the rules of the site i was registering on. And ever since then, i have used that name, not so much for security now but just for general use, as i like it, lots of people that don't know me on MP (which dosen't happen often as i'm always on MP, its usually the new ones) call me "Irish", or "Towing Service" since i added the Towing Service bit to my name as i've always done towing, think back to the days of Marseille and you will remember.

Jack.

Quaysider · « **Reply #58 on:** July 14, 2008, 19:55:07 »

As my website is called Quaysides, it makes me a Quaysider

Shipaddict · « **Reply #59 on:** July 14, 2008, 20:53:13 »

Um, i'm "addicted" to ships, so:

ShipAddict

Jackobaker53 · « **Reply #60 on:** July 14, 2008, 22:44:17 »

For those of you who havent already guessed, Jack is my first name, o is added to jack. That turns the word into jacko, baker is my surname,so we gettin to something here,add them together, you get jackobaker

. And no im not 53 years old, it was the first thing that popped into my mind, i should have called myself jackobaker13, but that sounds bad. I have a lot of people on all games that call me jacob, which makes me sound like someone from the bible, please read the K after the C

Kenter-Colja · « **Reply #61 on:** July 14, 2008, 22:52:07 »

Nice topic

I had an bad sailing experience in the Nederlands last year when going on a school trip.
I capsized with some mates

and some friendly dutchmen pulled me out of the water.
My teacher called me Kenter-Colja after that

"Kentern" is the german word for "capsize" and Colja is my real forename.

trains · « **Reply #62 on:** July 15, 2008, 00:13:13 »

i like trains

even my avatar is a train

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #63 on:** July 15, 2008, 00:57:39 »

I have merged this new topic about our nicknames with the one that was allready present. I have also merged the titles.

Regards,
Fred

sadsid (â€ 2016) · « **Reply #64 on:** July 15, 2008, 05:42:16 »

Mine is taken from the ice age movies love sid the sloth hence Sadsid

Eric

maritiem · « **Reply #65 on:** July 15, 2008, 12:41:01 »

i used my nickname from my school cause my school started with maritieme academie (maritime academy)
so thats why i called myself maritiem.

maritiem

Surfin-Bird · « **Reply #66 on:** July 15, 2008, 13:09:37 »

Almost everyone knows Thrasmen`s well know Surfin Bird song. That is nice song, so i put that for my name. And at sea, can surf!

Water Weasel · « **Reply #67 on:** July 15, 2008, 16:24:25 »

Well let's see....It was around 30 years ago (gee I sure feel old, a few months shy of 50) I was working on a construction job. We were putting in grounding cables for some shortning tanks (this was a cake mix plant for Proctor & Gamble next to their Pringle Potato Chip plant) and we were being rushed to get it done. One of the guys said I was running around like a weasel and the name stuck. I haven't used the nickname since leaving the constrution trade in '91, but a few people still call me Weasel. I just added the water part for SS and there ya go.

PS: The picture I use is really a mink, I couldn't find a good weasel pic. I added the water reflection in Photoshop Elements.

WW
aka Tim

Captain Best · « **Reply #68 on:** July 15, 2008, 18:42:28 »

Quote from: sadsid on July 15, 2008, 05:42:16

Mine is taken from the ice age movies love sid the sloth hence Sadsid
Eric

i love the Sid. he's such as fun. lol

Wokkel · « **Reply #69 on:** July 15, 2008, 18:52:00 »

Well "they" (my so called friends) called me Wokkel because well ehhh I kinda loved to eat them while we where playing network games in "the old days" ;-)

Captain Best · « **Reply #70 on:** July 15, 2008, 20:11:59 »

HAHA. My Name Is Steffen RenÃ¨. And then they call me Steffen BearnÃ¨asaus. i dont know. but haha. i dont care

Aad The Pirate · « **Reply #71 on:** July 15, 2008, 20:29:51 »

Ahoy to all Ship(sim)mates,
My first name is Aad, the short form is Aadje (like in short and shorty) piraatje is short for Piraat (that's dutch for Pirate) so the rime was swiftly made and
aadje piraatje was born. And just 'cause I'm a lazy typer I lost the space between tose two seperate words and that's why.
BTW, the big white beard is NOT for real

beechjetkid17 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 15, 2008, 20:39:24 »

well my nickname came to me about 5 years ago...

my dad is a pilot and he flies a Raytheon Beechjet 400A.
He thought itd be funny if my email address had something to do with the beechjet.
since im a kid(well teenager

) beechjetkid just sorta fit

and my favorite number is 17...

Thats how my nickname came to me

Goldens2 · « **Reply #73 on:** July 16, 2008, 00:29:51 »

2 Golden Retrievers.

serkan · « **Reply #74 on:** July 16, 2008, 19:20:49 »

This is my real name , serkan

serkan akdeniz

Author Topic: Our Names... What's in a nick? (Read 27609 times)

NathanC

TerryRussell

NathanC