Subject: Curious about nick origins
Date: Mon Jan 26 15:29:11 2009
User: hotnurse
Message:I've been at this site for about 5 yrs now and have often wondered (pondered is the word for Snowy) about the reason, behind the various nicks used here. This seems like a fun, non-politigeous (new word for political/religious)thread.
Ok, who wants to start??? KMc
Date: Mon Jan 26 15:46:32 2009
User: Joe_The_Plumber
Message:How about Songcutter, or, hey, you, hotnurse? I always thought a nurse was suppose to control fevers.
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:00:45 2009
User: hotnurse
Message:Honestly Joe, when I first started playing games here and not going to the db or chat, I thought I was pretty *hot* at solving games. Until..........I ran in to the likes of Micky, mabb, cubicsprock(hey where is he anyway), kenwa, Peter, Eds, WRAC, Elguapo, Jeffmo, Laffman, Mastermind to name only a few. I've thought about changing nicks but I would hate to lose all my stats. Obviously, my nick is NOT from my reality identity.
Ok, come on you guys, tell us your nick story. KMc
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:02:15 2009
User: xeena
Message:There were no "x" names. seriously.
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:10:03 2009
User: Ponychick
Message:I'm thinking no explanation needed.......
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:32:45 2009
User: Kaos
Message:Have you seen my office?
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:40:42 2009
User: webbwoman
Message:All my life, whenever things got tough in my world, I'd put both hands on hips, feet slightly apart and became "Webbwoman..dun dun DUHH!!" and able to take on the world. The name just stuck.
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:42:59 2009
User: Ann13
Message:The story behind my name is not exciting. Ann is my name. 13 is my favorite number, and not the number of children I have.
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:56:05 2009
User: Katzby
Message:I wanted something related to cats (remember Krazy Kat?) and something that would be connected to my name, and then thought of a great pun on "Gatsby," from Fitzgerald's novel.
Date: Mon Jan 26 16:58:05 2009
User: EddieHighHorse
Message:One night while reading discussion I noticed a certain poster was calling people names who disagreed with their point of view. (Gee, I wonder who that could be?) So I called this person on that. And I was promptly told: "Get off your high horse, Ed". (I was posting with a nick with "Ed" in it.) I started think, boy, that would make a great name. So EddieHighHorse was born....and a little later, HighHorseEddie.
Date: Mon Jan 26 19:13:01 2009
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:I assumed that everyone was using their real names.
What an eye opener.
Date: Mon Jan 26 19:13:57 2009
User: smake
Message:My nick came from one of my more egregious typos. *sigh*
Date: Mon Jan 26 19:33:40 2009
User: Snowguy
Message:(I remember it well, smake! In fact, I may have been the one to encourage you to grab that name...)
By the way, I first came in in the mid-90's as "Lege" (for a reason I won't go into here at this time.) Then, I departed for a few weeks. Coming back in, I thought I needed a new name.
I has nothing AT ALL to do with cocaine-type "snow"!
But, it was snowing outside. We had a really nice blanket of snow covering everything.
Ergo: Snowguy
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:03:17 2009
User: smake
Message:Yeah, Snowy, I recall that you were very helpful in getting me my nick, lol!
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:10:32 2009
User: The_Longhorn
Message:):o I graduated from the University of Texas.
):o Moo.
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:37:09 2009
User: dede
Message:well mine is so boring my name is Denise as you know hottie ..... Something like "crazeechickfromoz"... would have been better ...... maybe i will change ......
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:46:55 2009
User: hotnurse
Message:dede, you are *far* from boring! ;) KMc
this is fun, I wanna hear more...............
Date: Mon Jan 26 21:06:13 2009
User: Katzby
Message:Never change, dearest dede! What would any of us do without you??
.hug dede
.kiss dede
Date: Mon Jan 26 21:37:57 2009
User: dede
Message:thanks kat and hottie,
.e it is people like you lovely ladies that make me want to come visit ....
Date: Mon Jan 26 21:49:23 2009
User: StarGazer
Message:I love a cold dark night when the stars shine so brightly. To sit our and just gaze at the stars....
So StarGazer just seemed a good choice.
and SG well 'cuz Snowy Sg let me keep the SG. For now anyway.
~wink~ to Snowy
SG
Date: Mon Jan 26 21:50:35 2009
User: Imhungry
Message:I like to eat but I often forget to.
Date: Mon Jan 26 21:54:45 2009
User: lilshedvl
Message:lilshedvl was my altar ego on my porn site.
Ok not really. To be honest, I really have no idea how my name came about. I know it was back in my hellion days, I have been called a devil more than once, I am short and a chick. So I guess that is how I got it. I have had this nick for about 18 years.
Before I was lilshedvl I was banshee.
XOXO Lils
Date: Tue Jan 27 09:28:29 2009
User: joeygray
Message:I'm curious about the 18 years, lil. Seventeen years ago last month (Dec 91) was the invention of the world wide web, and at that time it was an unknown technology pretty much confined to techno-geeks in Europe. It wasn't until the release of the Mosaic browser two years later that the web began to explode; that's when I used it for the first time and I can remember how incredilby much smaller it was then, than it is today. So what did you use your nick for 18 years ago?
Date: Tue Jan 27 09:57:41 2009
User: retiredk9ed
Message:I retired from a police department and was a dog handler for 13 years. Ed is the easy part. Maybe I should now change the nick to include social security somehow. Well I have until June to decide as thats when the first check comes.
Date: Tue Jan 27 10:10:05 2009
User: calicokid
Message:My name comes from my favorite fish to catch...Calico Bass. A fish that lives from the Central Coast of California down most of Baja California...
I've got tons of names, but this is my favorite!
Link: Calicokid holdin' a Calico Bass
Date: Tue Jan 27 10:10:39 2009
User: calicokid
Message:That link is broken...
Date: Tue Jan 27 10:27:56 2009
User: GoodOlMike
Message:There's a trip down memory lane, joey :-) I took the name GoodOlMike around the time that Mosaic came out. There was a really cool chat program called World's Chat, not web but internet connected, that I spent way too much time on.
At that time the internet and the web were mostly geeks with nicks like longdong. What women were around all wanted to be foxylady :-) I though those names sounded pretty silly and wildly misleading. So I chose a simple, non-threatening name.
Date: Tue Jan 27 10:45:09 2009
User: BuzzClik
Message:Back in the early days of the net, I was playing hearts on a simple applet driven game. It was painfully slow but still really cool. They required a name of 8 characters or less. I tried out various names, but they were all pretty lame. Empty chairs were filled by "robots" on that site, so I took a robot-inspired name. There was a cartoon robot (on the Jetson's -- Rosie's boyfriend, as I recall) who would always preface his remarks with a monotonic "buzzzz click!". I assumed the name BuzzClik. I liked it, and it was pretty unique, so it stuck.
Date: Tue Jan 27 11:29:08 2009
User: hotnurse
Message:Calico, nice pic! Now that's what I call a big fish. KMc
Date: Tue Jan 27 16:55:25 2009
User: bil
Message:my real name was taken
Date: Wed Jan 28 00:03:18 2009
User: TNmountainman
Message:We just thought you were Bhantanese.
Date: Wed Jan 28 00:04:49 2009
User: TNmountainman
Message:....And as pony sez, for me I'm thinking it's obvious.
Date: Wed Jan 28 02:00:11 2009
User: lilshedvl
Message:Joey,
It was the phone sex line.
And I said about 18 years. I graduated in 91 and that is when I started using my nick, for logins at work and passwords.
Lils
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