Where do your name handles come from?

[Bandit72]

Some are a lot more obvious that others, but it'd be interesting to find out. Personal? Reference to something? Anything else?

Mine is pretty dull and comes from one-armed-bandit which is the industry sector in which I work in. The 72 is the year I was born. But we have a 70's foundation here in England which is a group of friends around the country who all have nicknames followed by the 70's year they were born. Not so long ago we all used to meet up in London and go out with bespoke shirts on.

[Larry B.]

Cool organization there!

Mine: when I was growing up and learning how to play drums, Larry Müllen Jr. (from U2) was my favorite drummer. Since I was a pretty big fan of his, my friends started calling me Larry (which is also shorter and easier to remember than my real name). When I started trying to play bass, my favorite bass player was Flea (whose real name is Michael Balzary). So, I decided that my pseudonym would be Larry Balzary and that Larry B. was short enough to use as a nick name.

It's been 13 years since the "Larry" thing, and some people still don't know my real name. I'm just "Larry". I kinda like that, since it allows me to keep my privacy.

[Warped]

It's so so so obvious....

[SR]

initials

[Pandemonium]

"Pandemonium" from one of my favorite Killing Joke tunes, plus it fits my overall personality and ... um.. presence on this board.

[Juana]

Juana.... I mean that one is pretty easy but I also had another one on Xiola that was burninlootinwail is basically Burning And Looting by Bob and the Wailers

[Artemis]

My handle comes from greek mythology.When I was in highschool, I really enjoyed rading the myths and 'Artemis' was one of my fave goddesses.

[lollapaloser]

Mine is my real name.

[wally]

my friend's dead cat.

[Pandemonium]

Truthfully, my handles come from years of eating junk food.

[crater]

I went to see Nels Cline play one night with Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff and this guy named Jhno that messed around on a laptop. The name of that group was Crater. They played well over an hour straight, no breaks, of what I imagine was mostly improvised music. I enjoyed it very much so I bought their CD. It has two tracks on it, one of which is 41:41 and the other 38:13 in length.

If you're interested, here are a few samples of what I heard that night
http://cycling74.com/download/mp3/crater/athotd2.mp3
http://cycling74.com/download/mp3/crater/athotd3.mp3
http://cycling74.com/download/mp3/crater/br2.mp3
http://cycling74.com/download/mp3/crater/br3.mp3

And that is where my username came from

[ant]

Short for Anthony and actually what most people call me in the real world. Never liked being called Tony.

[perkana]

It's so so so obvious....

[sinep]

"sinep" is my middle name.

[farrellgirl99]

i was 12

[Lokus]

In the early days of the Internet when I was about 15 I was mowing my lawn, saw a grasshopper and started thinking about locusts and how devastating they can be to farms but are also a somewhat frightening thing when a swarm of them comes around.

Later that day I signed up for something online and needed a nickname and my earlier thought inspired a variation on the spelling of locust..."Lokus" sounded more like an actual name.

[kv]

stupid...KV comes from kingsvikes which was my first email name...from the LA kings hockey team/and the Minn Vikings football team...since it was silly and i am not even a kings or hockey fan anymore i had sonny change it to k-v then kv here since we can have 2 letter user names weeee yawn boring

[intertwoven]

intertwoven (not interwoven) is just a random fake word that's fun to say that I happened to think of when I was registering on Xiola back in '04. I initially wanted to be somewhat anonymous, not "the SDW guy" (come on, royalty in the online Jane's community!! kiss the ring, bitch. what? no?); I don't think I use this username for anything other than Janes sites.

[kv]

i never once noticed the T and you are royalty to me bud

[Larry B.]

i never once noticed the T and you are royalty to me bud

same and same.

stupid...KV comes from kingsvikes which was my first email name...from the LA kings hockey team/and the Minn Vikings football team...since it was silly and i am not even a kings or hockey fan anymore i had sonny change it to k-v then kv here since we can have 2 letter user names

OK, this jerkoff has the stupidest reason. What prize does he get? I'm thinking a) a new nickname.

[kv]

i never once noticed the T and you are royalty to me bud

same and same.

stupid...KV comes from kingsvikes which was my first email name...from the LA kings hockey team/and the Minn Vikings football team...since it was silly and i am not even a kings or hockey fan anymore i had sonny change it to k-v then kv here since we can have 2 letter user names

OK, this jerkoff has the stupidest reason. What prize does he get? I'm thinking a) a new nickname.

ours are equal dumbness, you took you 2 fav pro musicians names and combined them...i took my 2 fav pro teams and did the same..i crown you with your new name:

Harry P.

[Larry B.]

i never once noticed the T and you are royalty to me bud

same and same.

stupid...KV comes from kingsvikes which was my first email name...from the LA kings hockey team/and the Minn Vikings football team...since it was silly and i am not even a kings or hockey fan anymore i had sonny change it to k-v then kv here since we can have 2 letter user names

OK, this jerkoff has the stupidest reason. What prize does he get? I'm thinking a) a new nickname.

ours are equal dumbness, you took you 2 fav pro musicians names and combined them...i took my 2 fav pro teams and did the same..

OK, let's compare:

Larry B.:

+

vs.

KV:

+

Yours is way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more mindfuckingly stupid.

Why not try something like... Cocktester. Or luvz_2_gargle_ballz.

[kv]

i enjoy sports and your two haven't done a thing i care about in a long long time so to each their own not gonna argue tastes with u2's biggest fan....but i still think both of our names are stupid

[Larry B.]

but i still think both of our names are stupid

I believe we can agree that most names here are stupid.

[kv]

no we can't