Chemical Smoo

I am not sure this has be asked before, but I am sure it has... anyway, thought I would ask for the story behind your screen name. Why did you choose it? Some great story or just something you came up with without much thought.

Discuss.

rsmash

originally was "Smash". I was around 13 or 14 at the time, before I got my first internet connection (was using the BBS before)

And there was that IRC channel (music making related) with another "smash" hanging there.. So I changed for RealSmash and that lasted quite a while

Anyway, now I mostly use rsmash, the word Real being kinda dated now, in the same way as Terminator2000 would be.

My initials are RS of course. Even my friends call me RS sometimes.

Ahh I should find a new nick. But there are so much things I've done with that nick written on!

JJRousseau

Great topic. I have wondered about many of the names I see. I found TFP searching google for a specific philosophy topic. After reading a bit, I joined up and chose the name of a great philosopher. (Lao Tzu is too hard to pronounce)

Coppertop

This pretty much 'splains it:

bbbbbb555

my name started a long time on aim. i had the name racerxbob when i had aol, but then my parents cancelled that and i had to get a new name for aim. after trying tons of things i just ended up with bbbbbb555. my name starts with a B, and i like the number 5.

FngKestrel

Used to be Kestrel, based on the bird of prey. I like things that fly. Kestrel wasn't taken very often on boards, but often enough to be annoying. I ended up on yahoo with the username Kestrel with like a bunch of underscores in front AND behind the name.

Some time later, Coppertop and I were trying to think of clan names for Team Fortress (way back when) and Coppertop threw out the acronym FNG. I liked the acronym enough to put it at the front of Kestrel.

After adding that to my name, the best compliment I ever got in Team Fortress was some guy on the opposite team saying, "Dude, you don't play like an FNG."

ShaniFaye

Shani is short for Shannon and my middle name and name I go by online is Faye (although its really spelled Fey but most people I've found say that as Fi so I spelled it the traditional way so there would be no question)

ShaniFaye is what my family called me when I was little

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Sticky

Some time ago I had to build a website for a class. I did not know what to put up on the site so I made up Sticky The Stickman (or Sticky Stickman or Sticky) and the whole story behind him. Unfortunately all that I have left of the site is the following which I have in my profile.

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Sticky The Stickman

Averett

My old stompin grounds... Good times had there, good times...

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

bendsley

Mine on here is basically my name. First Initial, Last name. A nickname that my friends call me, bendsley.

If I play online games, I use "cathederal" ( I know its not spelled like the church) or "corge"

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"You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."

tecoyah

Many years ago...I lived in Yosemite National Park. Much of the Employee Housing is named after Miwok Indian terms. After almost ten years there, and numerous positions, I was given a house to live in on the Ahwanee Meadow....the street name was Tecoyah Rd.....I found the translation of this term appealing (Valley of waving grasses) and decided to use it as my generic internet persona....as an added plus, it is unlikely to be taken when getting into new sites/mail centers.

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Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

monkeydriven

Pearl Jam's song 'God's Dice' includes the lyric "Monkeydriven, call this a living, hahaha"....hence Monkeydriven...

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Eweser

I usually use AllSt896 because I was an All State softball player my senior year in high school, 1996, but when I came here I decided to create a new one. You always see User/Password and since I raise sheep I thought a play on User would be neat.

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"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

paddyjoe

Patrick Joseph=paddyjoe

Daoust

The great Toronto Maple Leaf Dan Daoust. We share a first name... and a love for the boys in Blue....

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victorjara

The Chilean revolutionary guitar player / folk singer who had his hands broken and was murdered by the Pinochet fascists in front of thousands of other prisoners in the 1973 coup.

Rdr4evr

Rdr4evr = Raiders forever.........meaning Oakland Raiders (they are a NFL team for those that don't watch football)

1slOwCD8

Mine's fairly simple. I drive a pretty much stock Honda Accord. Its fairly slow, and CD is the name for the generation of my Accord.

KMA-628

KMA-628 is the old FCC callsign for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Similarly, KMA-367 is LAPD.



Not really used much these days, but if you drive around in L.A. and see "Los Angeles" on the top of a license plate frame and "KMA-628" on the bottom of the license plate frame, the person driving the car was usually a cop.

I took mine off my car in 1990 when criminals learned what it meant and started shooting at cars with KMA-628 or KMA-367.

Clark

I used to have a radio show (colloge) where I used the name Clark.

So I still use it.

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Dyslexic please excuse the spelling.

five

5 is my fav. #. A lot of things in my life have had something to do with 5 and I really like my sister and her fav. # is 5 too!

Love you Jen!

CityOfAngels

I consider this site to be my getaway from everyone who knows me personally, so I don't use the same screenname I use for, say, AIM or other things where people who know me personally can get ahold of me. I do this so no one can do a google search for my AIM name and find out whether or not I had sex the other night.

Anyways, my all-time favorite song is "Under the Bridge" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Whenever I think of that song, the first verse pops up in my head:
"Sometimes I feel
Like I don’t have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The City of Angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry"
The reason why this stands out to me is because whenever I'm extremely depressed, or even angry, I'll take a walk outside for a few hours. While I'm walking, I'm usually feeling extremely lonely, just thinking to myself about failed love, my living conditions, and about my regrets. I often think, "Hey, at least I still live in L.A. At least I can walk these streets as long as I want; these streets never fall out of love with me; they never make me feel like I'm an outcast in my own home; and they never constantly remind me of my own past. I can feel comfortable being alone with my only friend: L.A.

So, given that "Los Angeles" means "The Angels," and that most people translate it into "City of Angels," I chose "CityOfAngels" to be my screenname, because it is my only safe refuge away from my own anger and sadness.

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The words "love" and "life" go together. It is almost as if they are one. You must love to live, and you must live to love, or you have never lived nor loved at all.

Slavakion

Mine came from back in the day when Black and White (the game) was all the rage. I needed an evil sounding name, and Slavakion popped out. For any who are curious, it's Slah-vay-key-on NOT Slah-vah-key-on.

JumpinJesus

when I registered, I thought about using the nickname that I was given in the Air Force that stuck with me for 5 years. But, as I was registering, I was listening to the Dead Milkmen's "Stuart" and just as I was selecting my nickname, the line, "Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives..in a hole..in the ground! Why the hell you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway??"

That line always makes me laugh, so I chose JumpinJesus instead of Sluggo.

And now you know, and now I slink away.

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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

:::OshnSoul:::

there is another thread on here about this.

I chose my screenname because I have a strong connection to and passion for the ocean.

Stiltzkin

Well... I've only ever used this nickname on this forum. Stiltzkin simply because I had finished up Final Fantasy 9 and thought Stiltzkin was the most awesome moogle I had ever seen. Plus I am a general moogle fan. Since I am a moogle ^^



And no, my nickname has nothing to do with the fable of Rumplestiltskin or whatever. I don't know if the character in the game was named after that story though, but I didn't pick this nickname directly off of that story. For those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about, <a href=http://www.ifyoulovetoread.com/book/chtwo_storiesfullrump.htm>link</a>.

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The most important thing in this world is love.

fatbob

fatbob was the name of my old favourite snowboard...plus my real name and nickname are always taken so i just use this...nb: i'm neither fat nor called bob in real life!

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Ishmal

my screenname is my nickname in real life. my mate heard "Ishmal" in a movie some-where (possibly while stoned)... he decided to call someone that, thinkin it was cool... i was the next person who walked into the room... and that was a year or two ago.

if anyone can tell me the movie it mite'a been i'd be greatful.

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bundy

i was electrocuted by the state of Florida a few decades back... and survived on the internet, just like some really crap b-grade horror movie.

no, thats a lie.

i was called bundy after Bundaberg Rum back when i used to work in a bar a number of years ago.

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Ohayo!!!

yahway96

mine comes from a strange ritual passing it to the left hand side... That got me knicknamed Yahwah because I looked like jesus. Not wanting to offend anyone I changed it to yahway for a screen name. The 96 part doent realy have a reason or meaning except that it is better than 69.

Glava

Moby Dick?

todd

my name = Todd.

I just wish 'todd' would be available other places, like on AIM =p. I've had todd on my buddy list for years and not once seen it online...

Bacchanal

Clutch has a song called Bacchanal, and I always liked the song. When I looked up what it meant I got:

At the time I was drinking and partying quite a bit, so I figured it fit.

heyal256

My screen name is quite simple, hey, my nickname (al) and a number just because I needed it to be unique, so hey al 256 or heyal256. I figured that it was cool that if anybody needed to find me they would shout hey al.

optik_nerve

Mines from a Skinny Puppy song. I changed the spelling though.

Zephyr66

Zephyr has always been my online name, the greek god of wind incase you didn't already know, and the 66 came from 666 like the iron maiden song
"six! six! six! the number of the beast! hell and fire was born to be released!"

djohnson

Well....its easy. First name is dave and last name is??? You guess. LOL

muckluck

well, Krusty said the word muckluck on an episode of The Simpsons. He called it a word that sounds "dirty".

K-Wise

When I first started posting on message boards years ago, probably 98 or 99, it was on ezboards designed specifically for people to post up rap lyrics of theirs. My emcee/stage name is Knowledge The Wise 1. This is the name I used on the one board, in particular, that I had taken for my little online haven. Other board members began nicknaming me over time since Knowledge The Wise 1 is so long and all...they would either call me Knowledge or Wise at first. Then they started calling me KTWO, Special K, and one guy called me K-Wise...that one kinda stuck a lot. I liked it so I made it a regular alias of mine when referring to myself. This board didn't allow me to have a name as long as Knowledge The Wise 1 so I just went by the next shortest thing which was K-Wise. Thats the legend.

Asta!!

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Chemical Smoo

Great info so far, keep em coming!