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MangoBreeder posted 09-29-99 09:28 AM ET
I know where i got mine from and i might tell you if you ask, what about you lot how did you come up with your nicks?

walruskkkch posted 09-29-99 10:23 AM ET
I had a team of monkeys with typewriters working for millions of years, and this what they came up with.
OhWell posted 09-29-99 12:18 PM ET
Who's weird? I resemble that remark!
walruskkkch, I thought that a squirrel ran across your keyboard!
Wyarian Pryde posted 09-29-99 06:29 PM ET
Well, I was thinking up names for fantisy/sci-fi and that is what I came up with.
How did you get your name MangoBreeder?
- WVPryde -
Beta1 posted 09-29-99 07:08 PM ET
I'm the clone that came out of the 1st row of the second coluom of the multiwell plate - hence Beta-1
Actually its far more boring than that
Beta-1
HAs a brother called alpha-6
sir_penguin posted 09-29-99 07:14 PM ET
Liked penguins. Commercial on TV for BC Sympatico, with emails such as [email protected]. Thought it would be cool to be [email protected]. Hence sir_penguin or Sir Penguin. It evolved from there.
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sir_penguin posted 09-29-99 07:18 PM ET
Damn. Didn't work. Supposed to look like this:
SP
laurens posted 09-29-99 10:12 PM ET
from the brain. The neural networks are intriguing in their mechanismsm and speed of thoughts and processing.
Anyway, I used my real name.
MangoBreeder posted 09-30-99 03:50 AM ET
Wyarian Pryde: The story of my nick is very boring, here is how it goes, my surname is Mangion so at school everybody either Mango or the guy who crashes the network. i prefere the earlier one. So that was my nick for a long while on the web. Untill as part of my a_level biology extended study i had to grow several different types of mangos, and so the lesser inteligent of the people in my class, started calling me the mangoBreeder, it kinda stuck and i have been using it ever since
Alphaman( if you remeber him gave my an award for the most orignal nick on the web) which wa kinda kewl.
laurens: An intelligent but un imaginative answer your answer although true lack any emotion and not wit at all look at the kings of wit on this forum prizes go to:
Beta 1
mangoBreeder (can i nominate my self?)
Oh well
And if you remember him
BILLGATESMUSTDIE
they all used their brain too but to a greater extent than you
here is a monologue of what u though when regestering your nick.
laurens: ohh god i have to choose a nick
laurens: thinking thinking thinking hard
laurens: what can the answer be?
laurens: no no no no that must be wrong
laurens: sod it i'll just put my first name
god my postings are getteting longer and longer.
Beta1 posted 09-30-99 12:11 PM ET
"laurens: An intelligent but un imaginative answer your answer although true lack any emotion and not wit at all look at the kings of wit on this forum prizes go to:
Beta 1
mangoBreeder (can i nominate my self?)
Oh well"
Could you try that first sentence again with some punctuation?
Anyway I'm a scientist I'm not allowed to have emotions
Beta-1
ForcePacifist posted 09-30-99 12:26 PM ET
my name comes from my SMAC game style, im a builder- i believe peace is war, but i also beleive in a hefty bit'a'kit for when things get messy.
ala : listen mate, i really really really dont want any trouble. by the way, have i shown you my very large oaken club?, its got a plastic grip you know, i find i get fifty-maybe sixty times more use out of the plastic grip then i did the old canvass grips i used to use. >smiles charmingly<
of course, now ive used it for more then a day, id like to be called something else, like- theGreyArea, or Element459, or WorldsMostBrilliantMind-2, or, Spartacus, or
Borgie(not_trekie) or DontGetMeStarted.
i could go on.
i wont.
OhWell posted 09-30-99 01:24 PM ET
Thank you!
Raging Mouse posted 09-30-99 05:59 PM ET
Raging Mouse is a mutation of my real name, given to me in school. Mostly to tease me. Anyways, the nick popped into my brain as I sat there, and I kinda liked the unlikely image that forms.. boring, huh? Well, you asked.
OhWell posted 09-30-99 07:35 PM ET
Actually, I started out posting with my real name. Everyone else had cool handles so I was was trying to think up something. I tied a couple but didn't like then. I had always liked the long instrumental in that old Fleetwood Mac song "Oh Well". Also, when something goes wrong, I am apt to shake my head and mutter "oh well". So I picked "OhWell" as a handle.
Greatheart Silver posted 09-30-99 08:15 PM ET
Well, mr original nick was Big Mad Drongo which, if you read Terry Pratchett novels, you will know is the name of one of the three students mentioned at the High Energy Magic Building at Unseen University in 'Soul Music'
The reason I changed is because I tried to change my password and email address at the same time and somehow my password got lost and never sent to me...whoops! My new name is a character from an extract from a pulp I once read called, surprisingly enough, Greatheart Silver. Both highly unimaginative I know, but I like them so....yah boo sucks to you!!
Greatheart Silver posted 09-30-99 08:17 PM ET
P.S. sir_penguin...is that symbol a runic talisman created by combining the runes Ken and Ansur? Or did I get the second one wrong, I can never remember the names!
sir_penguin posted 09-30-99 10:05 PM ET
Naw, I made that up on the back of a napkin (talk about unoriginality). I was seeing if I could combine S and P into a nice-looking symbol, and that's what I came up with. I don't know about Ken and Ansur, but now you've piqued my interest. (Argh)
SP
sir_penguin posted 09-30-99 10:18 PM ET
My mother just so happens to have a book on runes, I've just looked in the appendix, and I think that the ones you mean are the ones that make the S sound and the one that makes up the W sound (or TH--they're similar, but not quite the same).
Oh, I've just found something else. The S shaped one is Sigel and is the rune of will. The P shaped one (makes W sound) is Wunjo, and is the rune of happy endings. The other one I thought you might mean is Thurisaz and implies the Hammer of Thor.
Makes sense?
Hm. Sir Penguin
LdZpln posted 10-01-99 02:38 PM ET
All my life there have been two great forces which carry me away. My wife and my favorite band in the world, Led Zeppelin. I didn't want to use my wife's name and have you all think I was a girl so....
LdZpln
Valtyr posted 10-01-99 03:54 PM ET
Argh! The other day I read about a guy called Valtyrson. And if there are people called Valtyrson there probably are people called Valtyr as well. And I thought my nick was unique. *sigh*
Koshko posted 10-02-99 12:58 AM ET
KOSHKO is my last name. Am I original or what?
Natguy posted 10-02-99 08:29 AM ET
Well, my first name is Nathan, so... "Natguy"
Would you believe that I once got first place in a district-wide literature thing for a poem I wrote? I think that the gene for creativity was deleted from my DNA shortly thereafter. (And I have to write a short story for English this weekend and have an all-day band contest today! Come back little gene come back!)
The DirectorGeneral posted 10-05-99 01:06 PM ET
I am the Director General for reasons that remain classified. I am also known by the following handles in some circles:
Advinius Longinus (my persona name for my historical reinactment group. as one might guess, I chose to portray a late period imperial Roman.)
Black Philodendron (some friends decided to hand out weird code names to everyone we knew. mine kinda stuck.)
The Goober (My girlfreind's pet name for me. I must love her, since I put up with it... )
The Great and mighty RA (A very long and odd story behind this one. As I no longer hang out with that peer group, this one has fallen into disuse.)
And so on. I guess I'm just one of those people that accumulates weird nicknames like some people collect lawn gnomes.
Valtyr posted 10-06-99 08:23 PM ET
Argh! Now I know I'm not unique. I was registering at the Ultima Ascension forums and I found out that somebody else was using "Valtyr". I mean, how many people read Old Norse literature?
FlRAXIS posted 10-06-99 08:45 PM ET
test:
quote:
hello
sir_penguin posted 10-06-99 09:48 PM ET
What kind of person spelll Firaxis with an L?
SP, not from Flraxis.
Lurker posted 10-07-99 11:41 AM ET
It is a well known fact that only FIRAXIANS are stupid enough to misspell their name as FlRAXIS so it must be genuine.
Spider posted 10-07-99 12:04 PM ET
DG, you missed one: Advinius Longinus Aurelius.
Spider
Yes, I've been looking at the CWAL HV archives....
White_Cat posted 10-07-99 03:33 PM ET
My nickname is based on the character "Speedy Cerviche" from the Samurai Pizza Cats anime cartoon. I had originally attempted to use "Extra-Topping Speedy" and "Winged Speedy", but this was the first nickname I tried that fit the 9-character limit on EFnet IRC.
- White Cat (Refer to me with an underscore, and you die )
"Look! Lurker is trolling again"
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Author	Topic: Where do you get your Weird Nicks from?
MangoBreeder	posted 09-29-99 09:28 AM ET I know where i got mine from and i might tell you if you ask, what about you lot how did you come up with your nicks?
walruskkkch	posted 09-29-99 10:23 AM ET I had a team of monkeys with typewriters working for millions of years, and this what they came up with.
OhWell	posted 09-29-99 12:18 PM ET Who's weird? I resemble that remark! walruskkkch, I thought that a squirrel ran across your keyboard!
Wyarian Pryde	posted 09-29-99 06:29 PM ET Well, I was thinking up names for fantisy/sci-fi and that is what I came up with. How did you get your name MangoBreeder? - WVPryde -
Beta1	posted 09-29-99 07:08 PM ET I'm the clone that came out of the 1st row of the second coluom of the multiwell plate - hence Beta-1 Actually its far more boring than that Beta-1 HAs a brother called alpha-6
sir_penguin	posted 09-29-99 07:14 PM ET Liked penguins. Commercial on TV for BC Sympatico, with emails such as [email protected]. Thought it would be cool to be [email protected]. Hence sir_penguin or Sir Penguin. It evolved from there. / / / / \|\ \| \ \| \ \| \ \| / \| / \|/ \| \| \| \|
sir_penguin	posted 09-29-99 07:18 PM ET Damn. Didn't work. Supposed to look like this: SP
laurens	posted 09-29-99 10:12 PM ET from the brain. The neural networks are intriguing in their mechanismsm and speed of thoughts and processing. Anyway, I used my real name.
MangoBreeder	posted 09-30-99 03:50 AM ET Wyarian Pryde: The story of my nick is very boring, here is how it goes, my surname is Mangion so at school everybody either Mango or the guy who crashes the network. i prefere the earlier one. So that was my nick for a long while on the web. Untill as part of my a_level biology extended study i had to grow several different types of mangos, and so the lesser inteligent of the people in my class, started calling me the mangoBreeder, it kinda stuck and i have been using it ever since Alphaman( if you remeber him gave my an award for the most orignal nick on the web) which wa kinda kewl. laurens: An intelligent but un imaginative answer your answer although true lack any emotion and not wit at all look at the kings of wit on this forum prizes go to: Beta 1 mangoBreeder (can i nominate my self?) Oh well And if you remember him BILLGATESMUSTDIE they all used their brain too but to a greater extent than you here is a monologue of what u though when regestering your nick. laurens: ohh god i have to choose a nick laurens: thinking thinking thinking hard laurens: what can the answer be? laurens: no no no no that must be wrong laurens: sod it i'll just put my first name god my postings are getteting longer and longer.
Beta1	posted 09-30-99 12:11 PM ET "laurens: An intelligent but un imaginative answer your answer although true lack any emotion and not wit at all look at the kings of wit on this forum prizes go to: Beta 1 mangoBreeder (can i nominate my self?) Oh well" Could you try that first sentence again with some punctuation? Anyway I'm a scientist I'm not allowed to have emotions Beta-1
ForcePacifist	posted 09-30-99 12:26 PM ET my name comes from my SMAC game style, im a builder- i believe peace is war, but i also beleive in a hefty bit'a'kit for when things get messy. ala : listen mate, i really really really dont want any trouble. by the way, have i shown you my very large oaken club?, its got a plastic grip you know, i find i get fifty-maybe sixty times more use out of the plastic grip then i did the old canvass grips i used to use. >smiles charmingly< of course, now ive used it for more then a day, id like to be called something else, like- theGreyArea, or Element459, or WorldsMostBrilliantMind-2, or, Spartacus, or Borgie(not_trekie) or DontGetMeStarted. i could go on. i wont.
OhWell	posted 09-30-99 01:24 PM ET Thank you!
Raging Mouse	posted 09-30-99 05:59 PM ET Raging Mouse is a mutation of my real name, given to me in school. Mostly to tease me. Anyways, the nick popped into my brain as I sat there, and I kinda liked the unlikely image that forms.. boring, huh? Well, you asked.
OhWell	posted 09-30-99 07:35 PM ET Actually, I started out posting with my real name. Everyone else had cool handles so I was was trying to think up something. I tied a couple but didn't like then. I had always liked the long instrumental in that old Fleetwood Mac song "Oh Well". Also, when something goes wrong, I am apt to shake my head and mutter "oh well". So I picked "OhWell" as a handle.
Greatheart Silver	posted 09-30-99 08:15 PM ET Well, mr original nick was Big Mad Drongo which, if you read Terry Pratchett novels, you will know is the name of one of the three students mentioned at the High Energy Magic Building at Unseen University in 'Soul Music' The reason I changed is because I tried to change my password and email address at the same time and somehow my password got lost and never sent to me...whoops! My new name is a character from an extract from a pulp I once read called, surprisingly enough, Greatheart Silver. Both highly unimaginative I know, but I like them so....yah boo sucks to you!!
Greatheart Silver	posted 09-30-99 08:17 PM ET P.S. sir_penguin...is that symbol a runic talisman created by combining the runes Ken and Ansur? Or did I get the second one wrong, I can never remember the names!
sir_penguin	posted 09-30-99 10:05 PM ET Naw, I made that up on the back of a napkin (talk about unoriginality). I was seeing if I could combine S and P into a nice-looking symbol, and that's what I came up with. I don't know about Ken and Ansur, but now you've piqued my interest. (Argh) SP
sir_penguin	posted 09-30-99 10:18 PM ET My mother just so happens to have a book on runes, I've just looked in the appendix, and I think that the ones you mean are the ones that make the S sound and the one that makes up the W sound (or TH--they're similar, but not quite the same). Oh, I've just found something else. The S shaped one is Sigel and is the rune of will. The P shaped one (makes W sound) is Wunjo, and is the rune of happy endings. The other one I thought you might mean is Thurisaz and implies the Hammer of Thor. Makes sense? Hm. Sir Penguin
LdZpln	posted 10-01-99 02:38 PM ET All my life there have been two great forces which carry me away. My wife and my favorite band in the world, Led Zeppelin. I didn't want to use my wife's name and have you all think I was a girl so.... LdZpln
Valtyr	posted 10-01-99 03:54 PM ET Argh! The other day I read about a guy called Valtyrson. And if there are people called Valtyrson there probably are people called Valtyr as well. And I thought my nick was unique. sigh
Koshko	posted 10-02-99 12:58 AM ET KOSHKO is my last name. Am I original or what?
Natguy	posted 10-02-99 08:29 AM ET Well, my first name is Nathan, so... "Natguy" Would you believe that I once got first place in a district-wide literature thing for a poem I wrote? I think that the gene for creativity was deleted from my DNA shortly thereafter. (And I have to write a short story for English this weekend and have an all-day band contest today! Come back little gene come back!)
The DirectorGeneral	posted 10-05-99 01:06 PM ET I am the Director General for reasons that remain classified. I am also known by the following handles in some circles: Advinius Longinus (my persona name for my historical reinactment group. as one might guess, I chose to portray a late period imperial Roman.) Black Philodendron (some friends decided to hand out weird code names to everyone we knew. mine kinda stuck.) The Goober (My girlfreind's pet name for me. I must love her, since I put up with it... ) The Great and mighty RA (A very long and odd story behind this one. As I no longer hang out with that peer group, this one has fallen into disuse.) And so on. I guess I'm just one of those people that accumulates weird nicknames like some people collect lawn gnomes.
Valtyr	posted 10-06-99 08:23 PM ET Argh! Now I know I'm not unique. I was registering at the Ultima Ascension forums and I found out that somebody else was using "Valtyr". I mean, how many people read Old Norse literature?
FlRAXIS	posted 10-06-99 08:45 PM ET test: quote: hello
sir_penguin	posted 10-06-99 09:48 PM ET What kind of person spelll Firaxis with an L? SP, not from Flraxis.
Lurker	posted 10-07-99 11:41 AM ET It is a well known fact that only FIRAXIANS are stupid enough to misspell their name as FlRAXIS so it must be genuine.
Spider	posted 10-07-99 12:04 PM ET DG, you missed one: Advinius Longinus Aurelius. Spider Yes, I've been looking at the CWAL HV archives....
White_Cat	posted 10-07-99 03:33 PM ET My nickname is based on the character "Speedy Cerviche" from the Samurai Pizza Cats anime cartoon. I had originally attempted to use "Extra-Topping Speedy" and "Winged Speedy", but this was the first nickname I tried that fit the 9-character limit on EFnet IRC. - White Cat (Refer to me with an underscore, and you die ) "Look! Lurker is trolling again"