Nicknames.
 

I sometimes wonder what is going through a person's head when they join a site and have to come up with a nickname...:D

I mean why such a name as biggaydog? Why not the name of a dog or a simple everyday name with a number or the name of a super hero...

The mind simply boggles.

So has there ever been a name that's got you pondering on a website?

Or do I just have a weird mindset? ;)

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Maybe he has a big dog thats gay :shrug: I like to think that when peeps think up their names there's a bit of their own persona in there somewhere :rolleyes: :D

And anyway, Incognitas ???????? :rolleyes: :p:

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Maybe some people just form a nickname by sticking a pin in the pages of a newspaper or book and then combine the first couple of words from the results.
Works for me.

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Maybe people prefer to hide their real name, which I have started to do now :)

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I frankly have no idea why or how I came up with Diamond :erm:

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Why's that Myrtle? :D

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that's two words I know in Spanish, now - vino & incognita :D

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lol well mine came from when I first got connected to the 'net many a year ago... I was thirteen and told to come up with name that no one would recognise me by, and it's kinda stuck....... :p:

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Well ive signed up to a few sites as MadGamer. This is simply because i love playing games.

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:confused:

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Thanks for the lesson, now less posting, more vino, and post again later :p: should be interesting ... :erm: not that your post's are dull .. :erm: :dig: I'll shut up now :tu:

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:D :D

Personally I'm a CCFC fan so I always follow my Sky Blue Heroes !

C'mon you blue boys !

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Anyone remember crabshagger :shocked: from a while back, what was he/she on, and how did he get it past the mods for as long as he/she did?

Just checked, still a member under that name :) no posts on CF, I must be thinking of ntlhellworld.co.uk

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I honestly can't remember why I picked what I did, particularly since I'm not that easily scared. LOL.

Maybe it was seeing all those other weird and wonderful 'handles' that inspired me.

Anyway, they used up all the really cool ones in The Matrix. :)

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Ahem!!

here


;)

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well looking at that list I think I'll stick to crazy, ;) :D

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:Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: It'll take a braver man than I to ask ;) :D

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No just a Georgette Heyer Regency novel fan....One of our best,wittiest romance authors.

She made Barbara Cartland sound like a Chav.... :D


Mind I think trollop has a certain ring to it... :D

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I used to like reading Georgette Heyer :blush:, as that list of slang showed, she could be quite risquÃÃâ€*’©, but sound relatively innocent - many phrases having several depths of meaning (and you know how I like any play on words ;) ).

But I always knew you had a touch of class, Incog :angel:

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So It's only me who wonders why some people pick such odd nicknames.I understand most of the choices usually.Homealone is pretty obvious after all..and all those combinations of Paul...but some really are puzzling..

:D

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:rofl:
I thought that's what it meant - but didn't like to post for fear of being wrong!

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Did you look at the Heyer term for crazy is ?;) it begins with d.

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Mine was given to me by my mates mrs after sleeping on his couch (when I had much longer hair btw) and she saw my hair first thing in the morning...

The nickname 'Tuftus' just stuck from that point on....

:D

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Now that one I like - wonder if I should change my name? :rofl:

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im sure we had a thread about this before......anyway back in my infant days of broadband i became a avid user of IRC which ofcourse requires a nick, i obviously found that i could not just use a default guest nick, so i was watching tv and daydreaming to find a nickname to use online......voila kronas was born!

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Raistlin was a character from a series of books I used to read when I was younger.

We share a lot of character traits.....

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Shows how much change a language goes through doesn't it?

Seen the term for stomach... :D

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I don't think I need to mention what dilligaf is again.

It is how I used to try (note the TRY) and view life. Of course I try harder to care more now :)

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Oh go on... ;)

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Or the one for Turkey.:naughty: :angel:
I vote Chim uses that.:cool:

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Gobble-cock eh? :rofl:
I'll have to ask Paul first!! :blush: :PP:
(About the name change - not what you were thinking!) :Sprint:

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You guys are mad, I have loads but I cannot use them as they are 2 naughty, plus Paul likes to call me satins wife hence 666!!!!!!!

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You do come across as nice material, all slinky and smooth.;)

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:rofl: you smoothie!!!

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letters I've written, never meaning to send? ;)

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Well I came up with greencreeper because I seemed to remember it being in a Stephen King book, though I'll be damned if I can find the book or the reference :(

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A rep point for the first reply stating where my nickname came from.

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Am I close? :disturbd:

........or could it be from the film ' Hackers'? :confused:

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hackers?

ik

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......btw.......this thread is replicating my first ever thread on this forum.........which, inexplicably, I can't find :confused: :mad:

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i posted hackers first and you know it!!!!!!!!!!!!! you with your fly editing........ I fart in your general direction :D

ik

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I was thinking cameras for some reason :erm:

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pmsl.......prove it! :PP:

........and your mother smelt of elderberries! :D :p:

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Maybe the mods deleted it because they don't like you. Like Nemmy for example....:D

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Sh*tstirrer! :D
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.........whatever...........keep thinking :p:

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Pft, always with the language isn't it! :p:

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I was going to quote the pmsl........prove it, but when I clicked the quote button it had another part to it, and your mother smelled of elderberries!

but you have not got an edit time :(

oh, why I oughta................... :ninja: :fit:

ik

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Ramrod, I am intrigued, I didn't know of this origin for my name, but it wasn't what influenced my choice, My name came from the movie - Hackers, so ikthius, you get the rep point

and ramrod - I saw the belated edit lol

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Rammy............


Na Na N' Na Na <insert smiley blowing a raspberry here> :D

ik

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hoggyspuds......the learned will know....

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PMSL :D

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Well I'm learned (no laughing at the back) but haven't a clue. A reference from a weird book?

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Well I am Nick. Another Nick nicked the nick Nick, so I nicked the nick Nikko.

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no one will ever guess why I picked ikthius, so much so that I know NO ONE will ever get it, so therefore, anyone who tries gets a pip (not saying which colour :D ), but only if they quote this post.

ik

EDIT: looks like i might spread it a bit this time, like a proverbial hoe

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You said a mouth full :erm:

Well my nick was from doing an experiment in science about a year ago, I thought it sounded cool and a few of my mates did to so I thought I would use it :D

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You failed your Pilot's exam?

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And the spelling part of his english exam? :)

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i know this has it's uses sometimes

am i right or something very similar???

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I feel it may have something to do with the Tyselorrd game, wasn't ikthius Rygor father to Lord Coranos Rygor?

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So the upshot is that some of us take our time and think about our nicknames to such an extent that we like to play it like Rumplstiltskin and make others guess... :p:

Where as the less complicated just go with a name from another site,or some variation of their own name...

I'm still wanting to know why biggaydog because that doesn't fit with the last two options...I refuse to believe that someone thought long and hard about that one...although I could be wrong. :shrug:

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Didn't a zoo have problems with gay penguins? They introduced a load of female penguins to straighten them out. Didn't work though - the males just ignored them :D

LittleGayPenguin :erm:

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I have often wanted to change by nickname - but I can't really come up with anything suitable. I guess it only shows that I have a severe lack of imagination.

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:Yikes: The young apprentice wizard I hope and not the ego maniac who reduced the world to ashes in his fight to become the greatest god.

My nick comes from the lack of imagination and thought camp :)

As for Biggaydog, perhaps the user has a dog named Clifford, I'm sure that he's referred to somewhere as a gay dog as well as a red one.

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Well from what I see in your avatar, signature and the little message under your name from time-to-time you don't lack an imagination, yours is almost as bad as mine, look at my avatar and message under my name for pitty sake! :D

EDIT: And I've just had a change of location :disturbd:

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Paulie, is what i`ve been called by family and friends for what seems like forever, so it`s an easy one for me. Same nick on a bunch of forums.

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satans wife ;) :D :D :D :D

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Get back to work you lazy pig!!!!

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Now now, let's not break into a fight :D

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he is supposed to be at work, gees thats what planners do now!!!! nowt!!!!!!

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I thad to happen sometime .... a Domestic on the site :D

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no it isnt!!!!! HE is using the works pc for going on unathorised sites!!!!

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Why don't you ring his boss up? :disturbd: :p:

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Erm he is the boss!!!!! So I canrt, but nice try though

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I'll make sure I don't get a job for what company he works for then :D

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Nah he is pretty reasonable and easy going, and I am just a push over!!!!!

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You haven't heard his language on TeamSpeak of a night time then have you? oops:

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Yeah what a Jack ass, I can even beat him he is rubbish!!!!

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:LOL:

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Mine was really well thought out. I wanted a Hotmail address that didnt include my name so I thought of a unique name salubriouscreature. As I registered here I wasnt thinking too much of my identity nor that I would stick around so filled in my username as Salu, short for salubrious.

My real name is Tim...

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what a name that long???

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enjoy pain do you ;) , anyway i am having my dinner ;) , so there :D :D :D

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I contradicted buxom woman once - just the once ;):)

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there is deffo a message there :disturbd: :D :D :D :D :D

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yeah Paul keep your big gob shut!!!!!!! And I ill take you on mohaa and win and u know that!!!! like I used to beat your ass at unreal !!!!

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anytime bring it on :disturbd: :D :D :D :D

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:grind: :afire: :2up: :2up: You will regret you ever said that prepare to meet your maker

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:bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry:

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Give in Paul you wimp!!!!!!

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OK :luv: :wavey: :nworthy: ;) :) :)

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:mad: :mad: :grind: :devsmoke: :afire: :upyours: :2up:

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:sick:

Far too lovey....

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Mod'ies, there's a fight going on! :D

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I can't find it either, and I posted on it...

anyway - I came up with mine when I got fed up trying to register on a forum and all the ones I wanted were gone.
I sat there and came up with "so what", then decided it seemed better as <insert dodgy eastern european accent here> "zovat" - It was free, and it stuck...

<edit for dodgy typing ;) >

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I never knew this, I will need to look into this.

Actually I just made it up, I wanted something like a greek name, like ikarus, but it was taken, then I thought of ikthius.

sometimes, I say that my name is Ian Kyle Thius. :D

ik

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I thought of using Adonis but I didn't want to make all the guys jealous.:cool:

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there was not a fight going on!!!!! Paul was in a nark, and besides I did not remove his entrails and then that would be afight alright!!!!!

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If it comes to that - take pictures :):D

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Why so you can sell it to bravo!!!!!! or even fightnight!!!

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That's the idea :) - don't worry I'll give you a cut.:D

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Nah I wont want the money as I will be loaded, so you can keep it and I will give you a cut for selling it to bravo as that channel is class!!!!!!!!!