"where did you get your name?" Topic

My usual name is Mack (instead of Malcolm) and I've been using that since High School. When I first started actually registering with forums, Mack was too short (only 4 letters vice minimim 6) and usually already taken so added a bit to get Mackster.

Then, as I forgot my login passwords way back when I'd have to start a new account and just added "The" to the front so people would know it was me and ended up with TheMackster. (wonder how many Mackster accounts are still floating around as I come across some of my old posts when googling sometimes?)

I killed a man for it …

This was the title of my occasional contributions to the fanzine Alarums & Excursions.
"Thistle" because I'm Scottish and "do" because as far as my contributions go "Thistle do for now" I like puns.

same as saber six, old call sign.

regards

jim

Well.. I make a lot of terrain..?

The rest, of course, is elementary..

Take a wild guess…

I needed a name and I'd just read a book called The Ascent of Science and thought Ascent sounded good.

Also I work with aircraft so it seemed to fit.

I live in an area called `Littleover'.

Its a Geordie celebratory agreement. I amnt a geordie like, tha. Howay, I gang fre yarkshur like. But I do love Narthumbeland.
Hadawayan

From my birth certificate (with a minor alteration,
deleting the '-win' and the middle name…)

It is the company nickname and the name of my tank from when I had the priveledge of commanding a tank company in the US Army.

Something my old granny said all the time (her frae Lewis).

Named after an old Shadowrun character, who was named after a crap Shadowrun gun…

Badly spelled Latin for 'by Gildas' or 'Gildas made me' (should be fecit). As a 'Dark Ages' nut at the time it seemed appropriate to sign my work as one of Britain's earliest historians had done.

well I am a Cardinal at some places and a Hawkwood at some others..so here I am both

I used to team play the original Unreal Tournament game in a league and that was my screen name. The origins of that? Lost/buried in time….

Never quite got this internet thing of having a pretend name.

I got mine from my parents.

At work we used to have 2 Martins in the same team at one time. At just over 6 foot and 250+ pounds I ended up as Big Martin whilst the other guy (5'6" ish and about half my weight) was obviously Little Martin.
The Martin bit as a first name comes from a German POW my dad was friendly with just after WW2 (we held onto some of them for a bit) called Kurt Martin Kreuziger. Apologies to any Kurts out there but I'm glad he went for Martin for my name.

Too short for my weight plus my middle name (Walter) which some of my family insist on calling me.

My initals are RAF

I got my name at summer camp, many years ago. It stuck. :D

Emperor Perverticus was just too……….. pretentious

It's an old Yahoo chatroom name. I used to change my name in there the way that other people would change their socks. I've also been known as;

GoofyBastid,
The alleged perpetrator,
Little pookie-oopums,
SwinkyTheCuteLittleVampire,
…and a whole slew of others that I just can't remember at this point.

Originally I created the name back in 1996/97 as plain old Alien Surfer (which looking around the web has since been take and copyrighted by others some years later!) – then one day for some reason I changed it to my current name, and can't change it back cos Plnykes got drunk and stole the old one, then forgot the password ;-p (or something like that)

aliensurfer as a name was created as the web was getting more and more popular, and in the anonymity of the web, who could tell if an alien entity was surfing it? :-)

It started when I won a free domain name registration at an IT trade show. I was on the spot to register a name then and there, so tapped into D&D for some inspiration. I never did anything with the domain, but have used it as my anonymous handle since.

First initial, last name. I'm the same me here as I am in real life.

I wanted a good Bible reference that would fit on a license plate and was a little different from the norm. It's pronounced "Cee kee first," a homonym on "Seek ye first" (as in Matthew 6:33), and I seem to be the only one on the Net with that name. I never did get the license plate, though.

Between two jobs and family, this is what I feel like.

My real name, with a new ending some friends picked when I painted too many gauls.

Jadie was the name of my great grandfather who served in WWI for the U.S. It's an old family name and is now my middle name. Years ago I was signing up for e-mail addresses and jadie was always taken. My given names are pretty average and are always taken. So, as my middle name is a bit more unusual I tried to pick that. Still unavailable. I added "nyc" for my home town. I thought it was easier to remember than a string of numbers.

Well…

Alan Saunders is a lousy typist.

Track 7 song title from the album S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things. Released in 1968.

Third spear carrier is about the lowest billing you can get in theatre and it's the level of role I always end up with. I have more enthusiasm than talent which also sums up my gaming, painting, model making etc etc

It's my old college e-mail address.

Forest

Read about Union general George H. Thomas,and was inspired some. One of his nicknames.

I found it in the dictionary and it fits my gaming style and preferences. Plus, no one else had it yet.

I stole mine from a hobo I stabbed while down by the river.

I was shopping for ork bits for my army when I came across this site and for some reason during the register process a scene from UltraMan popped into my head.
And Bob's your uncle.

kawasaki

---Take a wild guess…---

You're Japanese!

Cheers,

Pro…

According to my bio: "C.L.D. – That's me!"

Since it is on the internet, it must be true.

Procopius was the leader of the Hussites who repulsed the 2nd papal crusade against them. Gotta be a good guy to whap the papists!

Cheers,

Pro …

Bluebottle is a character from the old BBC radio program "The Goon Show"

Mine is the name of my comic book which I wrote and drew back in the late 80's. Plus it's Tarzan backwards…

My ancestry, on my mothers side, is German and I am interested in the Baltic crusades (Teutonic Knights)…and I'm from Texas. :D

And yes, my icon IS Nazrat.

A Synflood is an old type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack, I work in Network Security and at the time I registered here on TMP I was also registering on various Hacker sites. I have created various ghost communication accounts to support the nic synflood also. I like to keep my various accounts nics to a minimum.

Mom & Dad aussi.

At the time I generated my nick, I was floor supervisor in a mental hospital, night shift. "Doctor Bedlam" just sprang to mind. It also wound up being my email address.

I later discovered it was also the name of a comic book supervillain, which some would regard as entirely appropriate for me.

I am Mexican…and like to wargame with 10mm miniatures.

I used to have one as a pet.