discussion Whats in a name?

[Guest]

Mine is just most of my name. I visited a forum several years ago and chose Downspout Warrior for my name. Why? It just came to me. The mind is a curious thing. The name calls up the image of some fierce fully armed but quite small fighters having their barracks in rainwater hardware. No, I have never visited a psychiatrist.

 

[Guest]

I use the name of my national dish. Same on virtually all forums I inhabit.

 

[Guest]

I was reading Seventh Son from the Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card at the time I joined the forum and my first name is Adrian. Alvin had an supernatural knack for making things, I have to work at it.

 

[Guest]

mine is too rude to be posted on a forum. so i will just keep you all guessing

Great Andrew! If you hadn't said anything, I never would have thought twice about your nick, but now you made me guess - not a pretty picture!

Good thing you didn't say how it ended up in there, cos I sure wouldn't want to know ;-)

/Daniel

 

[MORIARTY1177]

I've totally missed this thread until now and I'm loving reading the background to your names. My surname is Holmes and the number is a significant birthday (to me anyway)..............can ya see what I've done there?!?

 

[colin m]

Colin M is my name. I wish I thought a bit harder and longer before signing up, then maybe I would have an interesting handle as well ! Merlin might have been good - not the wizard, the engine.....

 

[Guest]

m1ks came about through a need for a quick simple short and snappy easy to remember email address, the first online one created. Even back then it was nonsense like

'you can't have the username Michael as it is already taken, you can have this alternative, michael 5341531534534215345343501322.0.053453453011501242002101204514001, would you like to accept, if yes, click this button' etc

On reflection it was probably a good thing as an unbelievable number of people misspell Michael as Micheal, the only ones in my experience who don't seem to are named thus or have a family member who is.

Mike was gone, as was Mike.S Mikes Mick.s Micks (I hate the name shortened Mick, my parents always called me Mike but running out of ideas...)

I tried Mik.s Miks and finally M1ks, it accepted that and as it's my main email I stuck with the same name for forums etc.

I get a good few misinterpretation of this too oddly, though not for email, usually on forums and Mk1s probably people thinking it Mk, (Mark) 1 - S?

 

[Guest]

My name is Malcolm and I was in the REME for 11 years. Simples.

 

[Guest]

Tommy1drop I got this because of the amount I drink when out and about....if at all:wink:

Tom

 

[Ian M]

I think I posted at the start of this, but mine is just my name.

Ian M

 

[Dave W]

I use the name of my national dish. Same on virtually all forums I inhabit.

Shouldn't your name be 'Pasty' Then?.

 

[homechild]

Mine comes from when I was in high school. I was the only white kid in school that liked rap/hip-hop music and a black friend jokingly called me homechild because I was "too white to be called homeboy" and it kind of stuck.

 

[Guest]

I believe I neglected to explain the background of my screen name in my earlier post. In the old days of online FPS-gaming, I sort of adopted the Gome Pyle name on account of my abilities in these games. I think it was either Half-life or the first Battlefield games that revealed that I probably wouldn't have made a very good soldier. I always seemed to get shot before I was even able to distinguish friend-or-foe. This led me to change my tactics to; shoot first-ask later, which then tended to give me a very high count of blue-on-blue fire exchange - not so good for the team ;-) Luckily for me, instead of beating me black and blue with towel and soap-bar flails, my friends settled for the Gomer Pyle-tag on my profile and I have used that for most online registrations since.

/Daniel

 

[Andy2035]

Hmm, I thought I had posted in here, ah well, mine is my name Andy and in the 2035 is, if I would have made it, I would have been 69yrs old...

 

[Guest]

Well the Bucks in mine means Buckinghamshire, as i live in High Wycombe.

The Waffen part has a little bit of a back story. A friend of a friend was a sniper in the US Marines back in the first Gulf War, he was was born in Germany to an American Army family and was stationed in Germany before the wall came down.

He now works in IT with a very good friend of mine and when i was in the States a few years back i got to meet him.

When we would all go out for a drink etc, In certain situations i seemed to have the correct item, phone number, right amount of change, tool for the job. He would say to me that i was always "armed" for any situation. If someone needed a penknife, i had one on a keyring etc. So he nick named me "Waffen", German for "armed".

 

[ojays]

My real name is Graham, but back in my Mod days in the 60's there were 3 of us called Graham so we chose nicknames for each other.

Mine has stuck since then, only my mother calls me by real name!

Ojays came from my business name OJS Paint & Body.

My E-mail was ojayspbody, clients used to refer to me as Ojays when recommending my services!

I also happen to like The Ojays music from the 70's by coincidence!

Gregg (Graham)

 

[Guest]

Mine's kinda obvious if you're into cars at all. But if you're not, it's a version of the Mini, one of those with the square-ish front, not the rounded sort.

It's also sort of apt as I like normal things, but with a bit of a slant to them. Aircraft with lumps and bumps grafted on, etc, that sort of thing