The Origin of Your Screen Name

Striker · Gunner Posts: 727 **680 Gold** -

After reading a poll about the origin of Kristian95's screen name, I got to thinkin'. It would be neet to find out what the origin of people's screen name comes from. I don't actually remember where mine comes from. I think it had something to do with Voltron or Transformers. I've been using this screen name since the early days of BBSs. Shocked

Imagine, no internet! That was about fifteen years ago.

So where did your screen name come from?
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WaxonWaxov · Cutthroat Posts: 414 **2424 Gold** -

I think I've said this before.

Last summer I got into Star Wars Galaxies. The character I was making was going to be a Teras-Kasi Artist (Karate Man)

The random name generator made "Waxof" I immediately thought it would be funny to make a karate man named "Waxon Waxoff."

I changed the spelling of Waxoff to Waxov to make it a little more continental, and I've been Waxon Waxov ever since.
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TheDon · Rigger Posts: 1292 **16718 Gold** -

TheDon was given to me many years ago by some guys that I worked with shortly after "The Godfather" came out. I started using it on various message boards, IRC chats, etc. Seemed like a natural, so I've used it ever since.

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gordon_nicoles · Swabbie Posts: 78 **478 Gold** -

You guys are probably going to think I'm silly or whatever, but thats okay. My name comes from the last name of my favorite NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon, and the middle name of my baby girl (Nicole) with an 'S' added to the end of it. I'm not that creative and I thought it had a nice ring to it.
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Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2527 **33917 Gold** -

I think we've had a thread like this before, but I guess it doesn't hurt to say it again that I got my handle from my own last name (simply translated it). Not the most imaginative thing one could do, but I like wolves, so it's a rather natural choice...

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Cagekeeper · Swabbie Posts: 69 **1000 Gold** -

Mine actually comes from my wife. We had a lot of animals at our house: 2 horses, 2 birds (now gone), 2 rats (now gone), 1 rabbit (now gone), 4 dogs (1 now gone), 2 cats, and a Tenessee Fainting goat. She is known as the zookeeper. Well, these animals need there living quarters cleaned, fresh water, feed, poo removal, etc. That's my job so.....I'm Cagekeeper.

Falconer · Captain Posts: 1902 **2865 Gold** -

Hmm... wow... some interesting stories. Love Kristian's, but I still think he was born in '95. Wink

Now for mine... Mine experienced a bit of an evolution from when I first started using it.

There's this Dutch writer who wrote a book about a 15th century (if I remember correctly) minstrel who was actually an agent for his lord but used his singing to travel freely and spy on other lords. His name was Fulco.

Fulco is great when you're 7, but it's a bit childish and you outgrow it rapidly, trust me. Smile

Does anyone remember that 80's hit "Rock me Amadeus!" by Falco? Well, at the time I was active a bit on CB Radio (27MC for some of us, it's the frequency that truckers use, at least overhere) and Fulco didn't sound quite right. I think I was 15 or so at the time. Falco was cool (his other song 'Jeannie' still raises my skin) so a change was made quickly to Falco.

So far, so good. Then I got involved with the coolest thing you could do with your PC before the Internet was hot: Bulletin Board Systems. (for rhose who've never heard of 'm before, or 'think' they know what a BBS is: People dialed into a BBS, much like Internet, but it was only one computer on the other side of the line, though sometimes they talked to others, dialing in to them). A friend of mine was a sysop (system operator, much like your friendly local admins here) and he thought my name was lame. In hindsight, he was right. I had outgrown the Falco name too. He said I should come up with something cooler. Terminator, Rocky, Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen were all taken, so I chose to change the name to Falconer.

Kinda neat though. I love Falcons and I'll be participating in a Falconry day probably this summer. So, pretty fitting in the end.

Wow, long story and I've never told anyone before. Smile

PUNiSHER · Seaman Posts: 165 **374 Gold** -

Well, my screen name must be very simple though...

I read all the comics regarding the character named "The Punisher".
Later on, I just had to see the movie they made (the first one, with Dolph Lundgren), which made me a happy man.
Then, when I started gaming online, I used the name of a famous Japanese Samurai, named Musashi.

But as I started to get better and better at the online gaming, it was only fair to have a little more proud of my skills...
Cool

so I changed my name again to Punisher.
But ever since that name is often taken by someone else, I had to change it to "PUNiSHER" which is almost unique every time.

For your information, I bought the new movie edition as well... Laughing

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KingWilly · Rigger Posts: 1351 **9821 Gold** -

Nice story Falc.

Here goes another one then....

My real name being William, all my friends used to shorten my name to Willy or Will (as is the case with most names in Australia). Then one day a breakfast cereal commercial on TV for a wheat based cereal came out with a cartoon character named King Willy Wheaties.

Of course, after that everyone called me King Willy Wheaties and then eventually just King Willy. I guess it just stuck and here I am now on Cutlass Isle as KingWilly.

I also like the line from the Mel Brooks movie "History of the World" where he says "It's good to be the king", so it suited me well too. He also uses the line in "Robin Hood - Men in Tights", a favourite movie of mine too, Striker.
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SuperCutless · Swabbie Posts: 61 **190 Gold** -

Man I suck, I dont have good story about my name like everyone else does, I just tried to take a guess on something someone else wouldnt already have........I should have taken more time to come up with something that actually means something to me....
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Juan de San Diego · Seaman Posts: 165 **5156 Gold** -

Not too difficult.....guess!

Juan