I "received" mine when I was in the US Air Force. As shift supervisor I could cut back personnel when we had all the work done. One Friday night we had everything done and ZERO "other" stuff to do so one of the kids that worked for me said "hey, lets ask unclebob if we can go". which I did) He said the name just popped up in his head and no we weren't related. It stuck with me for the rest of my AF career, it even preceeded me to some bases. I still use it to this day. bob btw... I really am an uncle too :-)

Mine is boring, Ang short for Angela and 25 my two favorite #'s combined. However, I should point out that 'Ang' does not ryhme with 'sang' It is pronounced as the first half of Angie is pronounced and very few people can call me 'Angie' without it making me cringe. :)

I'm named after the techno duo orbital, I know sad, but their music is always inspiring to me and hopefully brings out the creative element in me.

My name came from a AD&D character which I took out of Tolkien's Lord of the Ring. It's elvish for "Lord of the Trees", what better name for a Half-elf ranger. :)

My real middle name is Running Wolf and my lucky number is 13. Running Wolf is to long, so I shortened it to Runwolf, and it's what my friends all call me.

I was nu-be, but after a year, it didn't fit so well, so I wanted to change it to 'gadfly'. Gadfly was taken, now what? I have a small poster on my desk, the Pakled Award for Smart People and Technical things (from the 'You can't do that on Star Trek' site, one of the funniest sites that's no longer around). So I went with that. We are not smart..;)

Mine's just boring - a way to advertise my business and website. I would use my old name tuckersaur but it would have no connection to my business. Tuckersaur comes from my last name and my love of dinosaurs. This is a cool thread - keep it up : )

runwolf: Are your parents Native American?

Back in the days of the 300 baud modems.... I logged on & was asked for a handle. Looking for inspiration, I gazed at my nearby bookshelf full of Sci-Fi classics and saw Rendezvous with Rama. So I chose "Rama". Unfortunately, that one seems to be taken quite a bit so I added my first name as well...

Interesting thread... :) So, I was totally Internet illitterate when the major Italian phone company asked me to do the "moderator" in the first Italian chat. I had to choose a nickname. "What's a nickname?" I asked. They answered me. Big choice. I had just published my then last novel and the main character was a really cool guy, a graffiti artist whose name was Crash. So I picked this one. After a while, I got a little messed up changing ISP, Crash was already taken everywhere, so I opted for Doubling my power and here I am. :) About PC names: my Old One is named Patti (she's transexual and I thought it was a perfect name for her/his state of mind). The new one (is arriving at last, people! no more week-renders!) will be called Inter (not after Inter-net, but after my beloved Italian soccer team). Stefano

Doublecrash here was me thinking you were a bad driver. This just goes to show you should never make assumptions. 8) Cat

My very uncreative username is my first two initials plus my last name. However, Strout is actually old English for bush or shrub. Turns out the Strout coat of arms is an evergreen tree with red fruit (pomegranites?) all over it. My full first name, Linda, is a Spanish word for pretty. So if you translate both my names to modern English, I am Pretty Bush. Lin

Hey, Lin! I'm 'pretty bushed' myself......gotto get to bed earlier.....oh groan! I just couldn't resist! ;^) The Bryster

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Thanks for letting us knw Lin, i've been all kind of problems figuring out how to pronounce Isstrout, :) this clears it all up. Cat

Mine is as it reads...and was created after a period in my life when I needed to start doing things for me..not for you (knot4u)

antevark... a few stories to that, several reasons i hav it... an old school nickname(gazelle, becuz i've always been pretty tall, and when we had to do stamina tests in Phys Ed, i'd lengthen my stride, making me look like i'm going very slow, but actually going quite fast) combined with a friends obsession at the time with aardvarks(don't ask) combined, TO MAKE...... aardezelle? gadevark? Sooo, I cheated a little. Aardvarks and antelopes.

;-) catlin We just can't help it, can we?

What a fun thread! I have a number of nicknames on the net. The one i use here is Tresamie. I chose it because I am a bit shy, but very friendly, and that's what it means in French (but I am American.) If you have a burning desire to know any of my other nicknames, you must ask me privately, LOL. :) Tresamie

LOl mine is the way my friends call me, my real nam is Pierre-Jean, as nobody could remember it they called me PJ.. in fact PG with a bad english accent.. so it as become Pidjy..

ho yes.. to prononce peed-gee! LOL

Fasinating.. simply fasinating.. this being the first time i'm posting in forum, ever. i thought i'll start here with something strange.. Dragonsbld, Short for Dragon's Blood, stems from 2 sources. Dragon's Blood, was oringnally the character nickname of a non-player character half demon, Kain Blackmoor, who was known for being drenched in the blood of dragons, from slaying them, and leaving without a word, so people gave him the nickname. Dragonsbld came about from my use of aol. back when it first started you were limited to the number of characters much more then they are now. so i had to shorten the nickname to Dragonsblod or dragonsbld.. and thus i've been dragonsbld since the begining of the internet...

cambert: I live by the River Cam, in Cambridge, and everything here is called Cam-something; it's the standard prefix for any Cambridge entity. The 'bert' bit is just to finish it off, really. No cheese connection, I'm afraid :-)

hmm..sounds like an English character from 'Dilbert'..;) This is all very interesting..

I think perhaps my name should be SadCat 'cos when it gets to this time of year I get very, very S.A.D. or seasonally affected disorder. I can't afford to get the mega bright light so I usually take some happy pills and pay regular visits to the sun bed. Sun beds are actually really good for this problem as I've found that a weekly 10-12 min session does raise my spirits. So if you have the same problem try the sun bed approach it might work for you. Cat

Thelema; allegdly latin for will,used by Rabalais and Crowley as an expression of True Will or Higher Purpose.There by Crowley's the Law of Thelema "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" in modern terms should read "Do what you were put on this planet to do".

No biggie here: I live on a sailboat and my first name is Ed.

Comes from my days of playing Quake and similar games. When a player gets "blowed up real good", there is an explosion of blood, guts and body parts flying in every direction. In game parlance, the body parts are "giblets" - or "gibs" for short.

I'll let you guess whether Mr-Gibs indicates my skill at reducing other players to gibs, or my lack of skill and resulting numerous messy deaths. ;)

I'm a Nuclear Security Specialist and one day my brother said, "Hey, Nukeboy!" and the name just stuck (kinda like the U235 on the bottom of my boot...)

LOL..........radioactive man. 8) Cat

Nukeboy, please... don't make Bryce images while you're on duty :) ;-) Stefano

Hey Nukeboy, could you get me a few kilograms of plutionium? :P

LOL........8)

We're having a special $500,000 per kilo (no Iraqi orders, please!) :-)

Geez, I sure hope Mister Ashcroft ain't reading this forum, otherwise some folks may just get some visitors courtesy of the US Government and the Dept. of Homeland Security. Sorry to sound like a spoil sport but with a war with Iraq just hours away, I find little humor in a thread about selling plutonium ... Dave

Man, if some US govt guys show up to check this thread here thinkin' we're really trading plutonium, you US people are really in bad hands :) [] And pay attention, because your nickname is... Atomic :) LOL! [] Not that we here in Italy are in much better shape, alas... Stefano

Black humor helps some of us cope. I have a few friends who definitely are or could possibly be headed into the thick of things. One of them is a woman who would be a civilian consultant. I am also located not too far away from military bases which would definitely be targets of any enemies with the means to attack them. Black humor is definitely not to everyone's taste, but please don't mistake it for not taking the situation seriously. Lin "Sometimes you have to laugh, because otherwise you would just cry."

Stefano, Here in the states, last week as a matter of fact, a man was arrested at a shopping mall in New York state after he put on a shirt he had just purchased. Know what the shirt said? "Give Peace a Chance" or something to that effect. but moving on ... thanks for reminding me of the "Atomic" connection, I hadn't even thought about it. grin Dave

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Thanks Lin. I had read several different versions and still only got half the story. ;) Moving along ... this name thread sure has gone a lot farther than I thought it would. Pretty cool to read the origins of folk's handles/on-line names. Dave

I just love this forum, and from what people say, all the nutters who contribute in their own special way. It really is a laugh a minute....LOL :) Keeps me sane anyways. Cheers Cat

antevark that is the biggest laugh I've had in ages, especially towards the end or was it the middle or both. I'm still grinning now and it hasen't even put me off visiting America although I'll have to watch I don't bring some inflamitory European clothing. We're famous for that kind of stuff this side of the pond. 8) Cat

I am not a nutter, I am a fruitcake and proud of it!

Or as a certain advertising jingle once said, "everyones a fruit and nutcase". Oh how I loved that as a kid, teenager, adult ..........nooooo I'm still a kid. 8) Cat

I use my name, notice the spelling ( Stephen ) hey, play a little guitar and everybody wants to call ya Stevie Ray...

I already have 3 black mercedes cars with darkened windows and people in black suits following me since I mentioned plutonium here. :P The US government reacts to everything on the net. I know someone who got massive hits from the US government on his site because he used the word "shield". Someone else got an e-mail from Microsoft because they thought his site was dealing with WindowsXP, while it was actually a fake company selling windows named XPwindows. Although he specifically told on on every page of his site that the site had nothing to do with Microsoft (it was just a source of inspiration, but it didn't directly relate to microsoft people or products) they still felt like contacting him about it. The reaction from Microsoft is now partially quoted on his site. Microsoft likes to think it is the government :) But seriously, if the US government was to contact me about this it wouldn't be a big problem. They'd only realize that they took a plane for nothing and that I am not a terrorist or somesuch. Those CIA-agents or whatever they are can get a free cup of coffee from me, but there simply isn't much more they could get. Now that I think of it, it would actually be a unique experience to see how those people work.

I thought you weren't supposed to see the CIA work? Someone once told me that any body who applies to run for US president gets a file at the FBI. Lin "Sometimes, you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!" (candy advertisement)

Lin how sweet you are. :) Are you a nutcase or a fruitcake? Cat

i'm sorry. i don't appreciate that. i prefer the term "headcase".