I chose Ricker, as that is what everybody at work used to call me. Don't know why did.
How or why did you choose your username?
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I'm in a wheelchair and when my best friend and I drink at bars he would randomly push me into girls standing in circles. We call it swervin n pervin. Didn't want pervin on my name here so just stuck with swervin. Though my xbox screen name is swervinnpervin
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The origin of my username is not terribly exciting. My name, in a stunning display of imaginative thinking forms the first part. 3001 came from my purchase of the complete 2001 series of books, around 10 years ago. Which was around the same time I was setting up my account on ebay. I tried for stephen2001 first, but no joy, in the end I had to go all the way through the series (2010, 2061 & 3001) to the final book before I struck lucky. I've used online ever since.
See, I wasn't lying when I said it wasn't terribly exciting.
Great thread idea Tridon.
See, I wasn't lying when I said it wasn't terribly exciting.
Great thread idea Tridon.
so METALPAUL1000
my name is Paul
I like heavy METAL
my favorite movie bad is the T1000
nice thread
my name is Paul
I like heavy METAL
my favorite movie bad is the T1000
nice thread
A sad story of a kid desperate to be different :movie:
As a child, I hated my given name, 'Julian'. When a change of environment came along (the church youth club asked me to retire as DJ
because my tastes had gone decidedly non-disco 
), I decided to have a cooler name... 
'J'.
Trouble was, no-one could get their head around a single-letter nickname.
So one Xmas, a friend sent me a card, and spelt my nickname with an 'e' (Jae) instead of a 'y' (Jay) like everyone else had started doing. Teenage desperation for anything different kicked in
, and I jumped on it.
A few years later I found my distaste for my proper name had faded to the right level of indifference. But everyone knew me as Jae (and still do). So I had an accepted nickname at last, but it really didn't matter anymore.
It's my preference for all forums. Otherwise I use Rafellin, the name of the vampire lead from my novel 'A Place in the Dark'.
As a child, I hated my given name, 'Julian'. When a change of environment came along (the church youth club asked me to retire as DJ
because my tastes had gone decidedly non-disco ), I decided to have a cooler name... 'J'.
Trouble was, no-one could get their head around a single-letter nickname.
So one Xmas, a friend sent me a card, and spelt my nickname with an 'e' (Jae) instead of a 'y' (Jay) like everyone else had started doing. Teenage desperation for anything different kicked in
, and I jumped on it. A few years later I found my distaste for my proper name had faded to the right level of indifference. But everyone knew me as Jae (and still do). So I had an accepted nickname at last, but it really didn't matter anymore.
It's my preference for all forums. Otherwise I use Rafellin, the name of the vampire lead from my novel 'A Place in the Dark'.
hah this is a cool thread, neat to see how people's names came to be
My nickname does not have a particularly cool story haha I'm a big LotR fan and like the NazguL a lot, and 66 is the number of my favourite hockey player Mario Lemieux
voila, NazguL66 haha
My nickname does not have a particularly cool story haha I'm a big LotR fan and like the NazguL a lot, and 66 is the number of my favourite hockey player Mario Lemieux
voila, NazguL66 haha
Mine is pretty simple: last name (Hirata) + first name (Fabio) .YAY, COOL!
I decided to stick to a simpler nickname 'cause I couldn't come up with anything I found extremely cool and original. Although in the old days I was known as God of Heavy Metal (c'mon, everybody has their teenage years glory, lol)! So I try to use this for as many internet accounts as I can (except for my Instagram and Facebook accounts, for which the name was already taken), so sometimes I use fabhirata instead.
I decided to stick to a simpler nickname 'cause I couldn't come up with anything I found extremely cool and original. Although in the old days I was known as God of Heavy Metal (c'mon, everybody has their teenage years glory, lol)! So I try to use this for as many internet accounts as I can (except for my Instagram and Facebook accounts, for which the name was already taken), so sometimes I use fabhirata instead.
Very cool back story to your username Ken. I'm having a lot of fun reading everyone else's too!
These two recent photos of myself may explain my nickname though...
Me before a haircut:
Me after a haircut:
Haha but seriously, my story is pretty boring, and I still don't quite know why they went with the nickname 'Noodles' for me. But anyway... at my first job there were two Nick's (one being myself and the other was a girl) and one Mick. I worked in a warehouse where from time-to-time, for whatever reason, we'd each get shouted by certain other co-workers from the other end of the warehouse... because the three of us had similar sounding names, it was always confusing as to who was actually being called, so one day someone just randomly started calling me Noodles, and it basically stuck. What's daft about it though (and I pointed this out to them countless times) is that Nick and Mick are obviously just short for Nicky/Nicola and Michael, so why didn't they just call us by our real names? I swear I was the only one with a brain at that place.
These two recent photos of myself may explain my nickname though...
Me before a haircut:
Me after a haircut:
Haha but seriously, my story is pretty boring, and I still don't quite know why they went with the nickname 'Noodles' for me. But anyway... at my first job there were two Nick's (one being myself and the other was a girl) and one Mick. I worked in a warehouse where from time-to-time, for whatever reason, we'd each get shouted by certain other co-workers from the other end of the warehouse... because the three of us had similar sounding names, it was always confusing as to who was actually being called, so one day someone just randomly started calling me Noodles, and it basically stuck. What's daft about it though (and I pointed this out to them countless times) is that Nick and Mick are obviously just short for Nicky/Nicola and Michael, so why didn't they just call us by our real names? I swear I was the only one with a brain at that place.
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Mine is quite easy, its same as my email address. When i finished school I needed an email address and didn't want a silly name. Your had to have a combination of letters and numbers so I choose my initials JB, age 16 and the year 2009.
A sad story of a kid desperate to be different :movie:
As a child, I hated my given name, 'Julian'. When a change of environment came along (the church youth club asked me to retire as DJ
'J'.
Trouble was, no-one could get their head around a single-letter nickname.
So one Xmas, a friend sent me a card, and spelt my nickname with an 'e' (Jae) instead of a 'y' (Jay) like everyone else had started doing. Teenage desperation for anything different kicked in
A few years later I found my distaste for my proper name had faded to the right level of indifference. But everyone knew me as Jae (and still do). So I had an accepted nickname at last, but it really didn't matter anymore.
It's my preference for all forums. Otherwise I use Rafellin, the name of the vampire lead from my novel 'A Place in the Dark'.
Cool nick, Jude could be cool nick too. (Hey Jude)
Mine's simple Robert De-Niro in Taxi Driver in my top 3 movies of all time & still an amazing performance by him
Mine is nothing exciting, just my first and last names shortened.
Your name is Signature Illusionists?!
Mine is nothing exciting, just my first and last names shortened.
I just realised that if I did the same, mine would be Nike
I just realised that if I did the same, mine would be Nike
That would be a pretty cool user name!
