What with all the community threads, I think it's about time we explain our usernames to everyone. Why are you called Elhoim or Talkie_Toaster? What username has the most subliminal messages in it? Which username is sponsored by Pepsi? In this thread we shall find answers to all these great questions.

Unfortunately there's no story behind my name. In fact, no thought went into it whatsoever. I was going to call myself Wicker Phallus but I changed my mind at the last minute, and now I just rummage through the default avatars to find something that meets my immature standards.

What's the deal with yours? :crazyeye:

Oh! I have an obscure background in my name! :)

My name is Eduardo ( Edward ), and a time ago ( 2 years I think ) I was the Master of a big RPG campaing, but after some months i run out of ideas... and just start to throw the players in Dungeons... and me and my players just hate Dungeons! ( there is no space to a good history and roleplay ) so after 6 games just in Dungeons they start to call me "Edungeon" ( EDUardo + duNGEON ) :P.

What can I say? I liked the nickname :) and never made a Dungeon adventure again =x

My is simple- first two letters from my surname + first two from my name.

Nothing exactly exciting or personal about mine I'm afraid :p
It's a character (fututistic toaster xD) from an 80s/90s (yes, it ran for 8 series) Sci-fi Sitcom called Red Dwarf.
Here is the scene that won my heart:
TOASTER: Howdy doodly do! How's it going? I'm Talkie -- Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?

LISTER: Look, I don't want any toast, and he (indicating KRYTEN) doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. NO TOAST.

TOASTER: How 'bout a muffin?

LISTER: OR muffins! OR muffins! We don't LIKE muffins ‘round here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns! And DEFINITELY. NO. SMEGGIN’. FLAPJACKS!

TOASTER: Aah, so you're a waffle man!

More here (http://www.geocities.com/danhiggins3/toastcontent/dwarftoast.html)

already answered to mine


the name itself comes from a song performed by Queen, Seven Seas of Rhye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Seas_Of_Rhye) and it's mentioned in another song by Queen, Lily of the Valley, and basically means a fantasy kingdom.

Why I chose it is the curious thing.
I was using other kind of nicknames, before summer of '00. But back then, I begun playing Ultima Online (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online) and had to create some player characters.
My main 2 were one with a fantasy name (being appropriate to the type of game), "Rhye", who was my good counterpart; the other was "Indiana Jones" and was a player killer (every good Ultima Online shard had plenty of ill-famed PKs with cool names...).
I ended up using more Rhye than Indy, so I was widely known as Rhye in UO, and when I registered in CFC in 2001 to post an Ultima Online scenario (http://rhye.civfanatics.net/index.php?nev=uo_awards.html), I was forced to register using the name I was known as, so that I could be recognizable by my guild-mates and shard-mates.

Ha, when I read that I thought
"WOW!! God AND good music taste"
:lol:

I started using the name Gunner back in 1996 (damn, I was 6 years old! :crazyeye:) when Command and Conquer would ask you for your name at the end of each mission. I figured Gunner was as good a name as any, and it has remained my nickname for all video games since.

Mine is just my name (Kai) and the first three letters of my surname as it wouldnt let me have kai, it was to short, or already taken or something....

@Talkie_Toaster, I already guessed that, partially cos I too am a red dwarf fan but mainly because your avatar looks like talkie (it is talkie right?

@Talkie_Toaster, I already guessed that, partially cos I too am a red dwarf fan but mainly because your avatar looks like talkie (it is talkie right?

YAYYYY!!!!!! *hug*

yup

Many is the name of the main character of a book I´m writing, and is an intended mispelling of the word Elohim (God/s in ancient hebrew).

Leo's short for my name (Leonard). The sd I added when I couldnt have Leo or Lev (Russian for Leo), and it stands for my church title (Orthodox).

Hitti-Litti is a name of song made by Martti Servo(that's why my custom user name is that), which is a song about Jari Litmanen.

Mi stands for my first name ( Hi, I'm Michael, call me Mick ;))
ts stands for my last name (I'm not gonna tell you thatt)
ho is the beginning of the nickname I gave to me first when long ago I begun/was playing Diablo II. My first character there was the Paladin (way the coolest ;)) and I thus called myself HolySoldat (yes, very imaginitive... ;)).

The ho actually is a little bit embarrasing, I know ;). I later found out via Google that it does seem to mean something (really don't know what) in Egyptian... ;)

mick

Oh geeze... Mine come from High School/College time... All of my friends had cool nicknames like "Hosier," "Lepper," "Pigeon," "Stubs," etc... I didn't have anything... Taking a line from the obscure (yet hilarious) movie "Down Periscope" I suggested a COOL nickname like "Nitro!" Well, no one ever called me Nitro, but when junk email started to be a problem in college, I set up a second account on hotmail to have an email address I could give to web sites for registration... I didn't want to use my name in the address and I didn't have a nickname, so I went with the Nitro thing as a little joke... My aim screenname is the same way... Since I guess "Nitro" is a popular name, I just added the shortened version of my first name (Jason) to the end of Nitro... Hense, NitroJay. Oddly enough, I don't even know what a Nitro is and hardly anyone calls me Jay... It's all very strange...

Well, it's my time! The fact is: almost nobody knows me by the name "fearuin". Most of my friends call me "frost" which became very popular after the movie "Blade". In fact, it became soooo popular that I couldn't register on any server, game, etc with that name, even changing it a bit or a lot. I used for some time "Han_Xue" which means something similar in chinese, but it was just too weird, and people usually thought I was chinese, so I decided to create a fantasy name.

Then it came the date where I have just ended reading "The Lord of the Rings" and the "Silmarillion", so I messed up with Tolkien's elven grammatic, and "builded" the name "fearuin". Fëa means "strong spirit", or "strong destiny" and "ruin" something like "red flame". So, altogether, "strong spirit of the red flame". It sounded very cool, so I chose it. I've used it since then, but as long as it is a bit difficult to pronounce on Spanish (and specially to remember, most people misunderstands it with fariwey, I don't know why; this man it's a known underground tuning runner here in Spain, or that is what I've heard), friends still know me as "frost", only people in the Internet call me fearuin.

BTW, I do not post regularly (well, I don't post at all, since I've discovered civFanatics ;)) on the Apolyton page, but there I'm registered as "frost". It was the only server I could have used that name since years ago.

ts stands for my last name (I'm not gonna tell you thatt)

Another one afraid of the teenagers rapists ;)

No, not at all, not my age either, I just do not feel comfortable with posting my name on the internet, as well as it isn't just Smith or Muller, but much much much more rare. It has to do something with privacy, you know.

mick

I understand ;) i was just kidding. No one knows my full name either ( i think! o_O )

I understand ;) i was just kidding. No one knows my full name either ( i think! o_O )
Or do they...?

*creepy music*

Oh crap... Putting my name on here made google link to it! Ha!

*hides plane tickets*

Yes, of course :mischief:

Mine's in my email anyway :p

Andrew Bailey, Pleased to meet you *shakes hand*

Yeah, mine is my MSN too.

*hides plane tickets*

Yes, of course

I actually laughed out loud at that one...

It not our side of the ocean, it our side of our ocean

There's not much to it. Just my name and DOB.

Poster's note: I began using this before I found out that the Internet is for clever people. There should have been a memo.

I made this as an AIM name when I was 12, and I've been using it for just about everything else since. Most people just call me BigGamer, and I got the nickname Biggie a few years ago. :)

That reminds me, if anyone wants to call me kai then I would profere that to kairob, :p

´kay kai ;)

a name i used in a story i wrote once. i use it for everything online. always orginal, so far...

I'm concerned about giving my name on the Internet, but, as I have checked on Google, if I give you only my first surname (all Spanish have two surnames) you'll find nearly 54,000 pages about persons with the same name, so I guess there's no risk: I am Pablo Vázquez. Nice to meet you!

really two surnames? that different...

Spanish and Portuguese usually keep their mother's and father's surnames. Like if my dad's name is a b c and my mom's is d e f, my name will be x f c. (Which incidentally is often the mother's name after marriage too, as she keeps her father's name ( f ) and gains her husband's father's name ( c )!

Owen Hanner, lookyou.

really two surnames? that different...

And I think that just 1 Surname that is strange! :lol:

Probably the chances of people with the same names increase substantially...

Bob III is basicly just a spoof on Louis. I liked it, and will be using it for most Civ related stuff.

My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson, friends, a career. And in one moment, it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it; they want it; and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real. I know they are... They... have to be. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_(TV_series)#Opening_sequence)

My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson, friends, a career. And in one moment, it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it; they want it; and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real. I know they are... They... have to be. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_(TV_series)#Opening_sequence)

You should have gotten on a better network than UPN.

Spanish and Portuguese usually keep their mother's and father's surnames. Like if my dad's name is a b c and my mom's is d e f, my name will be x f c. (Which incidentally is often the mother's name after marriage too, as she keeps her father's name ( f ) and gains her husband's father's name ( c )!

This is a common misunderstanding. Latin people actually do this sort of naming, but in Spain it works different: if my dad's name is a b c, and my mom's name is d e f, my name will be x b e. It is possible to your parents to register your name as x e b, but they have to do it intentionally, or the Civil Register will use the x b e method. It's not my case, but it is quite common to have more than one name. Prestigious families also mantain composite names (old b e surname combinations, transferred as a single b or e), so you may be named as "x y b1-e1 b2-e2"! I know very few people with that sort of name, but it's seen from time to time (and I won't enter into nobles' names, that would be even more messy...)

And, in Spain, any person mantains their own names after marriage. The family will be entitled from this point as " b e family".
The Spanish naming method comes from the Roman habit of using the first surname of the father as the name for all the family. The arabs introduced the second surname, as they use father and mother's surnames. It persisted in Spain through all history, since the end of Medieval Age, but, for some reason, (which I don't know) this changed in Latin America.

strange, now that someone asks....
i dont remember at all.... and dont use this nick anywhere else...

I just used the first one that came into my head, and it's served me well. :)