How did you come by your alias?

POSTED BY: JOHNNYREB
UPDATED: Friday, September 5, 2003 22:38
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JOHNNYREB

Saturday, July 5, 2003 4:43 PM

It's none of my business to know what your real names are. That would defeat the purpose of an alias. [smile]

I'm just curious though, how did you come by your alias? There has to be a story there. I call myself JOHNNYREB because that was a euphemisim during the American Civil War for a rebel soldier. For instance, "Sir, there's a colomn of Johnny Rebs right up the road."

When I first started visiting this site, someone had written a blistering criticism of Firefly which slammed the "Confederate mythos." I took exception and decided to post. The name I chose for my self? Johnny Reb.

Viva Firefly

HOTFORKAYLEE

Saturday, July 5, 2003 5:07 PM

Huh, I never really thought about it. I don't think my nick really means anything, or does it?

That is a good question though JohnnyReb. Mine is obvious and a few people here just use their name or a slight variation of it. There are some though that would have to be an interesting story.

Quote:
"You know, Vir, you have what the Earthers call a 'negative personality'."
"No I don't."
"There, you see?"

EMBASSY

Saturday, July 5, 2003 5:08 PM

Mine is just a riff on my initials. MBC = Embassy.

Keep Flying

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Saturday, July 5, 2003 8:22 PM

Mine is a play on, of course, Captain Tightpants as well as the song "Baggy Trousers" by Madness, which we in that states know as the old "Colgate Pump" toothpaste commercial.

"Even mums and dads agree what makes it good is MFP!"

History repeats the old conceits

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, July 5, 2003 8:35 PM

Well I use this just about everywhere, it’s my working with my bad memory; one alias, variations on a single password. My name is indeed Chris, and people have often called me a cynic, so quite a while ago when I was trying to come up with a name that wouldn’t be “such and such98724” I put the two together.

Then I have to explain to people that I’m not really a cynic, just someone with cynical tendencies at times, and it’s a whole mess. I’m used to it though, so I keep using it.

GAMBIT3

Saturday, July 5, 2003 9:00 PM

Ok, here's MY story...

A long time ago, in a city not so far away, I was a college student who discovered IRC, back in the days where then were only two networks (EFnet and Undernet), and they were still called "channels" instead of "rooms", and Private Messages instead of Instant Messages... and you had to have at least a primer in Unix to be able to chat on IRC. This was a tad bit before Mirc would burst into the scene... Netscape was a few months away, and we were all dazzled by Mosaic and it's grey backgrounds...

Well, into this setting I logged in to IRC, and after a while of messing around with nicknames, finally settled into using "Wedge." This, from the character "Wedge Antilles" from the Star Wars universe. Well, that lasted about 2 months before "other" Wedge's started showing up online... and so we'd have arguments about who could use the name.. most I'd win.. some I didn't... but I eventually got tired of going through that every time I got on IRC so I decided to abandon my beloved "Wedge" and search for another nickname.

At that time I was involved in real life with a girl who used the nickname of Rogue on IRC. Hence, following the storyline of the X-Men universe now, I started using Gambit.

As you can probably guess, the same arguments again popped up as to who was the rightful "owner" of that nickname. I decided to try and avoid the arguments and just use Gambit1 as my nickname. But even *that* sometimes caused conflicts. So, I thought about using Gambit2. But, with my brilliant and forward-thinking mind (or was it just the Force?), I foresaw that eventually the IRC world would get too crowded for even a Gambit, Gambit1, and Gambit2. I then proceeded to stave the inevitable by a bit longer and switched to Gambit3, and that's something I've been using ever since.

And that, boys and girls, is how my nickname came to be.

__________________________
Kaylee, will you marry me?

HIMBERRY

Saturday, July 5, 2003 9:55 PM

oookay,
i don't want to bore you all with linguistic stuff, so i try behave and don't start to blether :o)
searching for an aol-name and starting to study german and english at the university of münster happened at the same time. i guess everyone knows the situation when you just have to come up with a nickname as quick as possible to continue installing some software,
and so i thought of what i learned that day: morphemes. nice little units, those morphemes, and as every other student of literature i certainly do have a favourite kind of morphemes: "unikale morpheme" - and well, to cut it short, the german "him" in "himbeere" is that special kind of bound morpheme, but "himbeere" was already taken. "himberry" was not, so i picked that one, totally impressed by myself for mixing my german bound morpheme with an english wordending ;-D
and that's it now, i am himberry everywhere.

CALHOUN

Saturday, July 5, 2003 10:26 PM

I'm an avid Sci Fi fan and read lots of books. Well one of my favourite characters is Captain MacKensie Calhoun of the starship Excalibur. No long story to bore you with.. I just stole it!

SIRENKAIN

Saturday, July 5, 2003 11:21 PM

Mine comes from a a fan fic that I was working on for (and I can feel my geekness when I say this) Battle Star Galactica. I wanted Sheba to have a sister that stayed on the Pegasus named Siren. Kain being her farher was added to her name. I then dropped that idea but always kept a Siren Kain in whatever I was working on. Then I further decided to make her my online alter ego. Mainly because it is original, making any Siren Kain you run across in cyberspace me.

Morbid and creep-ifying I got no problem with.

TALRIUS

Sunday, July 6, 2003 12:58 AM

How did I choose the name Talrius? Well, at the time I got my internet subscription I was writing a fantasy short story for an english class, so I just took my protagonist's name. Not much of a real story there.

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