post how you got yer username
 

I was just feeling really curious today, how do some of you get yer crazy screennames?

like cooksux? or grunger kittie? or skeleton crew? etc etc.

Mine's kinda obvious, so i don think it needs an explanation.

I was wondering when this thread would come around again ;)

Yeah, "Reznorite" is a term I use to describe Nine Inch Nails fans such as myself, and the 420...well, people should know that :D

Yeah I originally found this forum when searching for TMNT episodes, and so the file I stored and still store, my episodes in was called "Nturtle" as an abriviation so I just used that :P

I got my name because Slash is my favorite character and 89 I put on most username, illustrations, just about all my creations and it was the year I was born

hmmmm
 

Mine is spiritual in nature:

A 'heretic' is one who has views that are contrary to, or actively opposes, the 'mainstream' way of seeing and doing things. Particularly, in regards to religion. Don't take this as an anti-Christian thing, because within the context of the Biblical myth the figure Iesous Kristos was indeed a heretic in the truest sense of the word.

The number '888' is derived from the Greek system of Pagan gematria/numerology (of which the early Christians were obviously VERY dependent on). In this system, the Greek letters of the alphabet are assigned numerical equivalents. The Greek name Iesous, which we translate into English as 'Jesus', has a numerical equivalent that comes out to 888.

The number 888 has several philosophical importances. When one adds all the numerical equivalents of each letter of the Greek alphabet, the total is 888. In addition, 8 plus 8 plus 8 is 24, which is exactly the number of letters in the Greek alaphabet. In musical harmony, 888 is the string ratio of the whole tone (whereas 666 is the string ratio of a half-tone). In the ancient Hellenistic understanding, there were imagined to be 'seven heavens' in the universe which are transcended by the 'Ogdoad' (the eighth sphere) where Christ and Sophia (Wisdom) were said to reside.

So... I guess one translation of heretic888 is heretic-Jesus. I'm kind of into Gnostic Christianity, especially the Pauline strands....

Well... back in 1997, I was solely a horse woman... mucking out stalls and excercising horses 24-7. Since all the folks on this one listserve already grabbed up the orginal TMNT nicknames, I made up my own. I went by HorseTurtle, a mutant turtle who was skilled in the ways of the horse. :D

But in 2000, I left the equine bracket to get a better paying white-collar job. Hanging around all these computers and huge-A copy machines brought the geek back out of me. When I joined the Technodrome, I decided to go by HorseTechie. Lots of people still liked to call me HT, so the nick change was subtle.

Then after some RP discussion here, and a hybrid contest later, I decided to make my avatar for this nick an actual horse and turtle cross mutation, with cybernetic attachments! :roll:

Hannu Karpo is a kind of a Journalist in Finland, who inteviews people that have been screwed by the Officials and such. I first used nick "Karpo" while playing Counter-Strike with my friends, and I have started to use it elsewhere too.

The 007 part should be pretty obivous.

lol... this is just to get an explination of my nickname isn't it? :lol:

Anyways, I used to go by the name ilovekittiegirls on AIM and other message boards, then I was at HotTopic one day, and saw the oddest peiece of Hello Kitty merchandice ever, and had to have it... Hello PUNKER Kittie... yep a Punker Hello Kittie... needless to say, I bought it... At the time I was living with some friends, and we all have jokes about how I refuse to let grunge die, my friend sarah saw Punker Kittie and made a joke how I was like a Hello Grunger Kittie.... I dropped the hello part and made a new AIM name as a joke, and next thing you know I am attached to the damn name! :lol:

cqb101= Close Quarters Battle 101st Airborne Division


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well i originally went by dukesdaddy98 because duke is my dog, i'm his daddy, and he was born in 98 but after people started calling me duke i liked it better so i had krang change it

Mine's easy, Kali is a nick I'd been using off-line for at least a year before even getting on-line. It goes back to my researching Wicca/Paganism days. According to the name books I have it means "dark goddess", but that's just one definition.

Though I don't use them here, I have "last names" I use in places where just Kali would get lost in the shuffle. Most of the time it's Gargoyle, from back when I was big in the Gargoyles fandom, and one place it's Shedemon.

eh??
 

Wicca/Paganism???

Well.... as far as I know, Kali is the Hindu 'black goddess' of death and destruction and one of the many consorts/counterparts to the god Shiva (god of death and rebirth).

I don't know if Hinduism counts as the typical notion of 'Paganism', but...

Yes, I too have watched Indiana Jones and temple of Doom, And I think Kali is a hindi god.

Re: eh??
 

Yes, I know that. Perhaps New Age would have been a much better term. While some of the books I got were Celtic oriented, most of them gave a broader, more general guide. There wasn't a defined pantheon, but instead you were allowed to pick and choose Higher Powers as needed. Very flexible.

hmmmm...
 

well, i don't know if i'd call Kali worship 'New Age'. its been done in several forms of Hinduism (such as Tantra) for centuries. its not like the Celtic/Wiccan forms which basicaly died out, and have been revived in the past few decades.... but i digress.

((by the way, Kali, read my integral theory thread. i wanna know whatchoo think. :P ))

My name:
Back about 1998/99, my best friend at the time was writing a Sailor Moon fanfic, featuring a few Sailor Senshi that she had made up. One of these was "Sailor Wind", whose real name was Kaze (Japanese for "wind"). Another was "Sailor Fire", AKA Kasai (which means "fire").
My friend had modeled Kaze after herself, and I found that Kasai reminded me of myself. Hence, we would jokingly refer to each other as "Kaze" and "Kasai" in notes, e-mail, etc.

As for the "chibi" part- When I signed up for AIM, I found the "Kasai" name was already taken. So I just added "Chibi" in front. ("Chibi" meaning "little" in Japanese). Now I use it everywhere for consistency's sake.

Shadow
 

I was searching the web one night and came across Kali's site. She has this whole other person when it comes to the internet. This whole alias thing seemed fun.

While searching ninja turtles i came across something i never knew...Shadow (the little girl in the comics) I never knew casey had a daughter...i never really had access to the comics growing up.

I always liked the idea of Shadow as a first name (before i knew she was tmnt related) and decided to go with that as an alias...but my own version of Shadow...that plays off the comics and the one in my head...and of course the real me.

So yeah. That's where I got shadow...the love of the name and the love of the turtles. I think if i ever have a little girl...i'll prob name her shadow.

Well I used Mouse while i was surfing the Transformers fandom for awhile...so i just brought to over to my TMNT fandom.

i also have been known as the Brat of Kansas Rebel Brat and simply Brat

and some people have even known me as GargressCrys :D

:D My username is my nickname at college and
all the way through high school because im
smaller then all my buddies. An i get looked
up to,let me phrase that i get looked down to.

P.S im not a drawf (just very very small for a 16 year old)

Counter-Strike is a great game but i prefer SOF2

Well, amazingly enough my handle isn't a typo. ;) Perseph from the Greek goddess Persephone (my favorite of all the Greek myths since I was a little girl) and Ohi from the Japanese word for queen. Nothing like a little culture clash. ;)

--Bevin

A "little" culture clash? That'sa lot! :lol:

My handle is my real name with 138 attached to it.

wow, dude, you are creative

Mine came from the name of the first PC CD-ROM game I ever bought, which in turn was one of the very first CD-ROM games ever made for the PC. I can no longer find that game, I don't have it, and I absolutely can not find any info on that game anywhere on the net. At least at places I have looked at.

Oh; and the 138 is from the Misfits song "We Are 138" which is actually a tribute the film THX-1138.

So where'd the missing 1 go? :D

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mz (my initials) insomniac (i used to be one) :D

Beats me, but that's what the song is called.

my name i got from a comic book charter i created

O i thought u got it from the movie

no but I know what movie your talking about
but it used to be major problems but as I grew up so did the charter
so I thought it was stupid to have that so I changed it

I got my name from Benvenuto Cellini, a Renaissance artist.

If I were the 5th Ninja Turtle, that would be my name.

That's how much I love the TMNT: When I create myself as the 5th Turtle! :D

:D well, my name is Svetlana so my nick is Lanagirl :oops: lol

My name came from ummmm, well, uhhhhh, well if you don;t know then shoot yourself.

Shell- turtle
Fox- Ninjara

Oooh, my turn! :)

Sparvid is something a friend called me when we were about 12-13. It was just something he said, and no one else. (from my real name Arvid). Then after a while when I started at a new school and so on, we didn't meet as much as earlier, so I kind off forgot it.

However, one day another friend was talking to me and said "Spa... Arvid", followed by "Sparvid!", so I told her that I actually had been called that many years earlier, so she and two other friends who were present at the time decided that they shold call me that from that day on...

And when I first started to post at some forums I chose this for a name, since this is a really unique name, and is always avaliable :)

Oh, and a fun fact: Somebody in an old forum I used to post at created a little comc strip some years ago, and he named it "Sparvid", without realizing that he got the name from seeing my posts! Cool, I thought, and didn't mind at all :D

Okay, think really hard. Where did Eye of Sarnath come from? A toughie, ain't it?

hehe, I would have went with Durer :).

My name is my initials and Trunks from DBZ. i made it up back when i was in to DBZ.

My other SN that I use on sites is FailedToFail, a lyric from Nirvana's You Know You're Right.

ok here goes

Thew comes from my name mattTHEW

and the big is just a joke because i am not that big, shortest junior in HS you will ever meet (maybe not the Shortest but not tall)