Seeing how I probably have one of the least inspiring or clever nick-name on MAACA,
I was just wondering how people came-up with their nick-name.

I know Sparky was his by lightning as a child  (... which explains alot .. .

MEDVET is Mery-Ellen's initials with the tag "VET" ,which is what she does for a living...

Mr.MikeMan is reasonably self-explanatory...

HAL-9000 has some omnipotent Space Odessey feel to it

But what about names like "Ethous" , "Vengeance", "Frosken", "Necro-Nemesis",
and lord-forbid... "MonkeyBug"  or "Meat Popsicle"

What are people "really" hiding behing their nick-names ?
(...sorry, slow day at work... )

Steph  (aka. Robo-Master )

I'm a big fan of Marvel comic books and one of my favorite series was Ghost Rider.  Not the old 80's version but the second set that came out in the 90's.

There was a character in the comic who was one of my favorite characters. So I used his name - Vengeance

Ethous is a mythical charecter in greek methology but known as ethousius I believe.
Love history.
Been a long I have had this nic for a long time.
Other nic I have had Ecliptica loved still and do use it in allot of online games like uo and eq well not anymore.
Ecliptica is a star, then I had Aries god of war natrully,My Ultimate  fav is Achilles that is the one nic i miss using and may actually start using it one day again but allot of people use it so will see.
Then theres my real life nic of Aims
wonder how i got that one.

I started using jokker back in the the early 90's when I was big into the BBS world.  Joker was usually the choice for whatever game (LORD, TW2002, BRE, Solar Realms, Falcon's Eye).  Eventually it was cool to start adding extra letters and stuff so I changed it to Jokker.  It also kinda reflected my personality as a fairly humourous person, not in a prank way but more in a always making people laugh way.  Years ago it was Jokker Wyyld but then I shorted it to just Jokker.

newf - I'm from Newfoundland

112  - In my final year of university I spent 48 hours - straight - trying to debug a project I had to submit.  Turns out I had a bitshift incorrect creating an FTP packet that was 112 bytes shy of what it needed to be.  Such a dumb mistake, I keep the 112 at the end of my alias so I never forget to double and triple check the small things my code.  

112 -  For the non-tech people... I screwed up in school and the result was 112 in my face over and over again for 48 hours straight.

Sorry guys, not much thought went into mine. Needed a nick name and I looked up and the first thing I saw was my Laser Printer, model HP5P, so I used that.  

Ok, i guess this thread has been started specifically for me !

Mine came from the Cthulhu Mythos, created by H.P. Lovecraft in his novels.

I used to play the R.P.G. bsed on it (Call of Cthulhu) when i was 16. I got pretty much addicted to it for a few years, to a point where we were playing at least once or twice a week. YES, i was a geek...

I added a "t" at the end to make it unique, as there is literally thousands of "Azatoth" on the web, very popular nick (surprising isnt it).

To learn more on the subject, lots of explanations over there --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azathoth

Well mine is simple...

Like Jokker, I used to BBS alot in the very early 90s, which I always used the nick 'thefrog', as I was, most of the time, the only 'frog' on the BBS.  Then other people started to use it, so I talked to a Norwegian penpal and asked him how do you say "the frog" in Norwegian...and now you know how to say 'the frog' in Norwegian  

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and lord-forbid... "MonkeyBug"  or "Meat Popsicle"

Mine is actually quite simple.

Its a quote from the film 'The Fifth Element'  I enjoyed the movie and was looking for a unique nick where I didn't have to append any number after it and one that has a low probability of being duplicated.  So Meat Popsicle was born.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/quotes

Police: Are you classified as human?
Korben Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Sparky...  yes, I was struck by lightning, albeit indirectly. I was playing ball with some friends and it started raining hard. I was the last to leave and I was walking along the large steel fence near the dugout and lightning struck the fence with me five feet away, so I got a good chunk of it. I woke up some time later (watch was fried, dunno how long...) with burn marks on my clothes, pain in my mouth (fillings popped), and the headaches of all headaches that made my nose bleed like crazy. I crawled home and was examined by a doc later who said I was OK, other than needing new fillings and suffering from some memory loss. To this day I forget simple things like where I left my keys or dumb things like that.

Some people also call me "Lucky" due to me being Irish and all the accidents I have gone through and still live, other than the lightning incident:

- hit twice by cars (one was a getaway car from a store robbery...)
- mugged twice (1st was with a baseball bat, and second time it was bare fists with 8 guys in a Jamaican gang... managed to get a few down! They actually gave up because they thought I was insane, I was still going after them even busted wide open (they were harassing "roughly" a couple of girls near my home and I didn't take it...) )
- stabbed in the ribs with a barbeque fork (long story... involves a girl again... the guy looked worse off than me in the end)
- my world famous diving incident at 9 years old which resulted in 2 years of plastic, dental surgery and a steel plate in my head... that hurt.

I guess it is why to this day I don't scare easily. God can't kill me... I will go when I am damn good and ready!!!

I was looking at registering che_guevara@hotmail.com but low and behold it was already taken (maybe he never was shot in the mountains of Bolivia!)

Anyway, the email became cheg_uevara and thus was born the nick Cheg. Been using it in newsgroups and other sites since 2002...it was cghost before that.

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Sorry guys, not much thought went into mine. Needed a nick name and I looked up and the first thing I saw was my Laser Printer, model HP5P, so I used that.  

ROTFL !

That's the best one yet !  

Steph