Forum Names

Geekyfanboy · January 18, 2007, 10:31:58 PM

I was looking over the members list of names and some of the names stuck me as kind of odd and then I thought I would ask where did your forum name come from?

Startrekfanatic5 is pretty much self explained. I'm a huge Star Trek fanatic and the reason I choose 5 is because it's my favorite number.

Next....

Bryancd · January 19, 2007, 04:51:51 AM

....it's my first name follwed by my middle initial and initial of my last name. :).

Rico · January 19, 2007, 05:17:09 AM

Mine is pretty simple - I think I have said before. My real name is Rick, but several years back some friends got to calling my Rico, due to my "smooth" Rico Suave type personality - LOL! So when I started the podcast I thought it would be fun to use Rico for it.

moyer777 · January 19, 2007, 08:40:16 AM

I actually remember being on a waiting list at my local ISP to get dial up 11 years ago or so. Yeah, our little town of Aberdeen was getting Internet access and I had a packard bell DX4 computer that our mother in law had bought at Walmart for us. get this...with a whopping 4 megs of ram! WOW! So, they called me and said that my name was next, come on down and sign up, pay your deposit and hook up your modem. So I did. They asked me for a username and password.... it was actually confusing at the time.. so....

I took my last name, and they suggested that I have letters and numbers in both my username and password.. so I thought of a Heavy Metal Christian Rock band that I really enjoyed... Stryper. The drummer had a big 777 on his drum chair during one of his concerts... it popped in my head, and TADA! My user name moyer777 was born. So there you go, not Rocket Science, just craziness and being spontaneous. :) and thus moyer777@techline.com was established, now after all of these years and hundreds of web pages, I have good spam blocker. :)
It wasn't till later that I got a few domains.

Jen · January 19, 2007, 10:59:56 AM

I'm like Rico...My forum name is a no-brainer (I wasn't feeling particularly clever when I chose my handle) I just decided on using my nickname. My real name is Jennifer. Acquaintances call me Jenny but my family and friends call me Jen. Hi friends!

keozen · January 19, 2007, 04:07:50 PM

Well, mine is a longer explination than that I guess.

About 5 years ago now I was wanting a new alias to use on the net & had recently been to Cyprus on holiday where they have a really nice local Beer called "Keo". I added to that the term Zen as I have read up a lot on the subject and find it interesting and Hey Presto I have a name on the net that only I use, any Keozen you see on the net is 99% sure to be me (I also own keozen.com etc now).

Rico · January 19, 2007, 04:29:59 PM

Nice to see you again Keozen!

jedijeff · January 19, 2007, 04:41:24 PM

Mine is Pretty explanatory as well, My Name is Jeff. I am a Star Wars( and Star Trek and Sci Fi fan) and and chose Jedi as I thought it was pretty cool. I first chose it when playing multiplayer X-Wing vs Tie Fighter game a few years back. It is pretty common username, so on some other forums or other websites, I some times use jedijeff-edm, which is the abbreivated form of the city I come from.

moyer777 - now that you mention 777 and Stryper, thats where I remember seeing it. I had long forgotten about them, but remember them being big for awhile in the 80's.

keozen · January 19, 2007, 04:56:22 PM

Quote from: Rico on January 19, 2007, 04:29:59 PM
Nice to see you again Keozen!

Thanks Rico!
I've had a lot of "Family Stuff" crop up recently so I've been away from the net in general. I should be back in force now tho ;)

moyer777 · January 19, 2007, 05:19:24 PM

Quote from: jedijeff on January 19, 2007, 04:41:24 PM
Mine is Pretty explanatory as well, My Name is Jeff. I am a Star Wars( and Star Trek and Sci Fi fan) and and chose Jedi as I thought it was pretty cool. I first chose it when playing multiplayer X-Wing vs Tie Fighter game a few years back. It is pretty common username, so on some other forums or other websites, I some times use jedijeff-edm, which is the abbreivated form of the city I come from.

moyer777 - now that you mention 777 and Stryper, thats where I remember seeing it. I had long forgotten about them, but remember them being big for awhile in the 80's.

yeah, they got back together, they have a couple new CD's out. I actually got to see them in Vegas a few years ago at the House of Blues, the next day I got to go to Star Trek the Experience. It was a great few days. I like the new CD, it really rocks. It's called Reborn. Pretty crankin' stuff.

jedijeff · January 19, 2007, 05:49:30 PM

Quote from: moyer777 on January 19, 2007, 05:19:24 PM
Quote from: jedijeff on January 19, 2007, 04:41:24 PM
Mine is Pretty explanatory as well, My Name is Jeff. I am a Star Wars( and Star Trek and Sci Fi fan) and and chose Jedi as I thought it was pretty cool. I first chose it when playing multiplayer X-Wing vs Tie Fighter game a few years back. It is pretty common username, so on some other forums or other websites, I some times use jedijeff-edm, which is the abbreivated form of the city I come from.

moyer777 - now that you mention 777 and Stryper, thats where I remember seeing it. I had long forgotten about them, but remember them being big for awhile in the 80's.

yeah, they got back together, they have a couple new CD's out. I actually got to see them in Vegas a few years ago at the House of Blues, the next day I got to go to Star Trek the Experience. It was a great few days. I like the new CD, it really rocks. It's called Reborn. Pretty crankin' stuff.

Thats cool, seems like a lot of Bands from the 80's are getting back together, Kind of a Reanassaince for them. Does Stryper still plays a harder edge rock?

Elizur · January 19, 2007, 05:57:50 PM

Stryper! good grief I remember those guys! Them and Dokken they were really Rockin'

I have three or four handles that I use.

Most of them are names I found in the Bible.

Enoch is my favorite handle. If it is taken, I go to Elizur, Azariah or Antioch.

When I joined this board, my main character in World of Warcraft was Elizur, although now currently it is actually Azariah. My guildies call me 'Azzy.'

moyer777 · January 19, 2007, 06:22:33 PM

yeah, they still rock pretty heavy. Check out their website..

http://www.stryper.com

I almost named my oldest son Ezra. But my mom had a fit. :)

He ended up being Nathan.

PepperDude · January 19, 2007, 07:10:27 PM

I started using the handle PepperDude when I began playing Battlefield 1942 (one of the greatest games of all time). :metallica: As I got really good at the game, I decided to come up with a permanent nickname.

At the time I worked at an elementary school. I enjoyed working with the kids and one of them would sometimes wear a blue fraternity-like jacket with the word "Pepper" embroidered on the upper left part of the front of the jacket. I thought the jacket looked very cool.

When I started my little handle brainstorming, the first thing that popped to my mind were the white, embroidered, cursive letters that spelled the word "Pepper" against a blue background. Blue was my favorite color, the cursive letters looked cool, and I liked the sound of the word. Then I added the word "Dude" and PepperDude became my permanent online handle. . .

. . .And PepperDude became well-known in my favorite BF1942 server. . .

Chrystabel · January 20, 2007, 10:39:05 PM

I have been using two names since high school. The first is Genessa, which I created in middle school from the first book in the Bible. I always thought that I would name my kid this...then I grew up and decided not to have children! LOL! So, I took the name for my main WOW character...a level 60 pally on Uther. My guildies call me Gen in real life.

I've used Chrystabel more regularly since my college days in the late 80s when I was in the SCA. The name comes from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Christabel." I changed the i to a y and became Chrystabel of Kent. After my SCA days, I became Chrystabel Thorne online. Today I go by Chrystabel or Chrys. I like it much better than Amy and would change my name if it wouldn't profoundly disappoint my mother. Alas, I'll just have to stick with it as a nickname online. Oh, and Chrystabel was my first WOW character on my husband's account...a NE warrior that I think got up to level 24. I don't remember. I quit playing several months ago due to a lack of time. All this talk about Gen and Chrys and the expansion are making me rethink my decision! LOL!