Howdja getcher nick?

[rastagard]

Well, here it is again, the question is self explanatory.

Although many of us have already answered this question , I guess we can do it again for the "new" UTC. ( I for one would really like to know the origin of Unite the Cows)


Ennyway, mine comes from the fact that I have had my hair in dreadlocks for about 17 -18 years and counting. That is the "rasta" part. The "gard" comes from my occupation as a professional gardener.

[Sockfulloflove]

my last name sounds like sockfulloflove. it's sort of my trademark now.

[Roadblock]

Back in the good old days of pre December 1998 when I could still work, (RB sighs) Me and some of the guys I worked with in the office were big WWF/WCW fans. We each gave each other names of wrestlers. Roadblock was this big ugly wrestler at WCW, and I guess it was a natural fit. :D Anytime I see some of those guys, they still call me Roadblock as well as everybody on the net now.

Oh, and I forgot. Unite told me once that the origin of Unite The Cows was pretty simple. He heard it once and thought it would be a cool name for a website. He had decided by then to start his own website, and P2P seemed to be a popular topic, as early as Nov-Dec of 2001. As soon as it became available, he grabbed it for his new website, and the rest as they say is history. Maybe he can elaborate if he sees this thread. ;)

[Carrie]

Im not telling my story.....some of the names would have to be changed and all that good jive so I will just say I got the nick name udder shaker from the UTC story and feenies-wife because feenie is my husband. *L*

[kittykat]

big cat lover here was always bringing strays home....so hense the name kittykat *L*

[Guitar4life]

hmm...thats a good question...i dont really know how i got mine.

for some reason i remember stealing it from someone else, but from who im not sure.

[Wolfie]

My first internship in college was working in a federal wolf re-introduction program.

[Fister]

Not this again...
lol

[nasrules]

Well, I needed an alias. And I didn't want to use my normal one for P2P. At the time I was very into hiphop, my favourite rapper was (and still is) Nas. IMO, Nas ruled! I think you can guess from there ;)

rastagard: I'm getting dreadlocks a week tomorrow, I'm 15. Any suggestions/advice/comments? I've had an Afro for the past 6 months as my hair is REALLY curly and I was going for the rock-star look. So I'm now past caring what people think of my hair!

[rastagard]

Originally posted by nasrules
rastagard: I'm getting dreadlocks a week tomorrow, I'm 15. Any suggestions/advice/comments? I've had an Afro for the past 6 months as my hair is REALLY curly and I was going for the rock-star look. So I'm now past caring what people think of my hair!


I'm not sure how you "get" dreadlocks these days. ( I just let mine grow out naturally, took about a year for all my hair to "lock") The only thing I really did to encourage the process along was going to bed with wet hair. I could always count on waking up with a coupla new dreads in the morning. LOL


I know they have all kinds of products on the market for dreads now, never used any so I couldn't recommend anything. Here's a site (http://www.hairpolice.com/) that has a lot of dread stuff, but again I can't tell ya if any of it is any good or not.


I wash my hair with Johnson's Baby Shampoo 5 times a week and use Neutrogena shampoo twice a week.


That's all. No fuss, no muss.




@ Fister, come on now. This time try to make up a better story than ya gave us last time. I mean we all know what yer nick really means...........................

[nasrules]

I know a guy who's had dreads all his life, he's reccomended someone to do them for me. I think they use some process of "backcombing", whatever that is.

I know some people swear by beeswax, and I know it's not petroleum-based wax (obviously), but I've had my fill of hair products to be honest.

Might have to get some extensions so they don't end up being 3 inches long and sticking straight out from my head :D

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

K well My nick isnt that special lol i got it from a freind. I was always a lil well erm different likeing the heaver music n such but most of u know i dont really look that mean n my freinds used to tease me by calling me princess n yeah. Then Something Corporate had a song called PunkRockPrincess and well the nick kinda stuck, couldnt really go anyplace without one of my friends singing it so yeah at the time i started signing up PunkRockPrincess was to big so there PunkPrincess lol whee!

[SkittlesGoddess]

My nick goes back to grade 8. We had just started learning about greek/roman mythology, and my circle of friends and I really took to it. So one day, at lunch, we all deemed ourselves to be the goddess of something, and seeing it was lunch, it all ended up being food related. I was the goddess of Skittles, aka Skittilia. I remembered this lil story, thought it'd make a cute name, and here I am!

[ToM]

Back in the day (18 years ago) my parents decided to name me tom. That was pretty nice of them :rolleyes:

[c0lin]

my name is .......(yep u guessed it) colin....lol ...:p :D

[Shades Coolray]

My nickname comes from a cartoon character I made back in my high school cartooning class (based on myself of course) Anyway, I didn't know what to name my character, but I finally decided on Shades Coolray since I always wore sunglasses.

[Raztro]

I have no idea really, just popped in my head and I was like that sounds cool.

[Yoda]

I dunno where I got my name from

[Raztro]

Originally posted by Yoda
I dunno where I got my name from

Pretty obvious, eh? :rolleyes:

[Memento_Mori]

You guys all have such original names :) I first heard my name from an anathema song. By defenition it is "A reminder of human failures and that we all must die some day" It was also a form of portrait in the late middle ages of dead loved ones, thus for the relation was formed. A little dreary yes but ive always enjoyed the darker side of things :)

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

very nice name, and your right there are alot of original ones

[Fister]

Originally posted by ToM
Back in the day (18 years ago) my parents decided to name me tom. That was pretty nice of them :rolleyes:

ROFL

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

Fister mabye u should keep how u got your nick a mystery

[fineitsky]

My caged muse came up with mine.

[alegar001]

Came up with a charactor for a certain game I play *cough* Dnd *cough* and wrote a small short story about him for myself, I then wrote a sequal to that one for school a few years later,and it just stuck. I pourred alot of my values and ideas of what a hero should be... all sacrificeing.


(hmm i still got to get back to that story, and finish that novel)

But that is me, your friendly barbarian. :cool: :D :D :cool:

[Sons_Of_Liberty]

Hmmm, mine kindof derived from Metal Gear, but not really....I was thinkin more of a name ya could easily remember....and, well, the Liberty part was what I was going for :D , awhile makes no sense :confused: , yeup, me for ya.....

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

Dont have to make Sense just gotta be originaln fun :) or in Fisters case a name lol

[nasrules]

Originally posted by ToM
Back in the day (18 years ago) my parents decided to name me tom. That was pretty nice of them

Unfortunately, I have the problem where SOMEBODY decided to use up the nick "Tom" before I could get there ;)

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Ehh...I really dont know

I just thought of it after looking at a Freddy Krueger Wall paper

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

Intresting

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by PuNkPrInCeSs
Intresting

Yup..Freddy Krueger kicks ass

Can't wait for the new Freddy vs. Jason movie

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

Yeah it looks like it's gonna be good, i'll go see it as soon as it's out

[Juggalo15]

Guess its my turn, mine I made a few years ago b/c I was into rap(i hate the old days) ICP was my fav group and anyone who knows then knows Juggalo is a term for a real big fan of em sometimes even a follower. Of course now I listen to metal(general), punk, hardcore, and a lil black metal (not much though) and I didn't change my name for the pure fact I didn't wanna go around tellin everyone who knew me I changed it. hmm..though sons of liberty isn't that from history when england brought forth the stamp act?

[ToM]

Originally posted by nasrules
Unfortunately, I have the problem where SOMEBODY decided to use up the nick "Tom" before I could get there ;)

Bah, we all know there's only ONE Tom on the internet ;)

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

dont u mean only one Tom that matters :)

[Potato]

Our Lady Peace has an album called "Happiness..." and track three on it is "Potato Girl"... Not my favorite on the album, but "Potato" is a better nick than "Blister".

[nasrules]

Originally posted by PuNkPrInCeSs
dont u mean only one Tom that matters :)

Yeah, me!

Although there's someone called ToM that matters too ;)

[Fister]

well i am posting a link to our sister site. In that thread there are a TON more explanations...

http://www.pctechtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4089&highlight=nick

[ABOU (old account)]

hey TOM how you get the name Tomster ??

mine was from when i was younger my hair was like a mop that much and there was a footballer whos hair was just like mine named Samassi Abou (played for westham) gradually it was shortened to just


ABOU

[Cassavus]

I got this name from.....somewhere. It's a Celtic name, Cassavus Vron. The name was created for a an identity I had planned on going by on the net, which would remain fairly mysterious. The question really is, does he, myself, really exist? :confused:

[multi]

multi ..AKA:multi inter user face
was a nick i originaly started using in the StreamCast musiccity morpheus forums
that were shut down in late dec2001

im known in most p2p forums as just multi now..

[Nilly_Chipples]

Ummmm I am lil and I am Amber.;)

[Wobbel]

Mine comes from a book by Jack Vance, and is a name an (ex)girlfriend gave me once after an uh, an uh, well let's say a "good night" ;)

[Imagenyuss]

well, considering I'm a genuis, it's rather self explanatory.
but seriously, I was on lycos one day, trying to get into a chat room. This was my first time into a chat room. I found out that a screen name was required so I went to the 'create' page and tried all sorts of things, all of which were taken. then I tried Imagenyuss. I had just tried Imagenuis, but it was taken. I spelt it incorrectly because I thought it'd be kinda funny if I said I was a genuis but couldn't even spell it. I'm a poor speller, btw.

well, that's that.
-micah

[method]

snowboarding/skateboarding move! - got shortended to 'meth' a few years ago and the name stuck. meth or method. :)

[Thedirtysailor]

My sordid, misspent and barely remembered youth is where this particular handle originated. It's a shortened, sterilized, version of the original. Some bar buddies decided that this would be an appropropriate moniker after they realized that at two o'clock in the morning I wasn't concerned with quality but quantity.( I know a lot of you can probably relate.. Male and Female). My apologies to those I've offended and those I will offend. The full version is The dirty f******sailor. "Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."-Andre Gide

[Roadblock]

That story reminds me of a lot of people I remember, including me. :(

It also reminds me of a country song:

"Why do the girls all get prettier at closing time?"

:D

[Thedirtysailor]

Yes, It is somewhat of a sad commentary, but the demon rum tends to push the baser instincts to the fore.....AAHH, who cares about that, as long as everybody had a good time and nobody got hurt."Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." - Don Marquis

[ChillyChill]

sshhhh don't tell any one ..but on a bet i mad snow angels in 2 feet of snow









NAKED!!!

[taddzilla]

The first part of my nick is my name Tadd (don't ask Mother must have had to many meds) the rest came from my college days in St. Augustine where I would destroy abandoned sand castles on the beach by foot, car, and bicycle.

:sumo:

[drwtwn312]

my nick is drw=drew(without the vowel0 + twn=town (without the vowel) and 3 is my favorite number and 12 is my jersey number....pretty dumb

[rastagard]

Originally posted by drwtwn312
my nick is drw=drew(without the vowel0 + twn=town (without the vowel) and 3 is my favorite number and 12 is my jersey number....pretty dumb


Well, the thing I like most about this thread is that it clears up a lot of mysteries. I really wondered about yer nick. I thought maybe it was DRwitwin312, LOL.


If nothing else I can now pronounce yer nick when I read it............

[drwtwn312]

yeah i get a lot of questions about it, but it's all good i guess thats what you get by having a really weird nick

[jason_71654]

Well, the first screenname I created was about 8 years ago...(man, I'm old!) It was for e-mail, but I couldn't just use my own name because it was taken... This was the suggestion that the website prescribed for me. I took it, and it's been my screenname on every other website on which I have registered.

Not really an interesting story, but no one said that they had to be.

[Admiral Crunch]

For many a long year I was but a cap'n (whatever a cap'n is). I've made port call on every continent, and sailed through every ocean. Over a decade of meritorious service - and a mutiny - earned me a promotion - and my fleet.

[rastagard]

Originally posted by jason_71654
Well, the first screenname I created was about 8 years ago...(man, I'm old!) It was for e-mail, but I couldn't just use my own name because it was taken... This was the suggestion that the website prescribed for me. I took it, and it's been my screenname on every other website on which I have registered.

Not really an interesting story, but no one said that they had to be.


Welcome to the herd, jason. Actually, I find it kinda funny that you stuck with an e-mail issue nick! 'Specially for 8 years, good story!


And Admiral, I've followed yer career since boyhood. Welcome aboard.........

[hilo]

If you can guess how I got my nickname, you win a prize! ;)

[Thedirtysailor]

:bounce:UMMMMMMMM......Okay. Let's try the most obvious first, are you from Hilo or associated with that particular place for some reason?
:dontknow:

"Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey

[fluffyfluff1]

My guess......you're either bi-polar or work for HiLo autoparts. ;)

[hilo]

@ Thedirtysailor: No I'm not from Hilo

@ fluffyfluff1: No, I'm not bi-polar, and I don't work in an auto parts store!

Actually it's what I drive at my job.
;)

[philgorp]

an elevator?? :D

[taddzilla]

Fork lift

[philgorp]

at a viagra factory?

[Thedirtysailor]

:(

AAAHHHH!!!!!.............Krap, I guess this means nobody can win the prize now because you gave a hint!!!

"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli

;)

[tMoD]

Mine is an abbreviation of a deliberately lame synonym for my hotmail address.

[fluffyfluff1]

You drive a cherry picker or a crane? Maybe?

[maximus808]

Mine came from the movie Gladiator...Lots of Maximus's out there so i had to throw a number on it...808 looks just like my first name..BOB so i went with that.

[hilo]

taddzilla nailed it

[Nothingface5384]

well..for this name.. its just my favorite band paired up with my date of birth..as for my real nick name..that'd be a somewhat long story:type:

[rainbowdemon]

Mine is the title of a song from the early 70's. Done by a band called Uriah Heep. They were my favorite band in high school. I still like them.

[Pebcak]

Well, I have always been called Tigger since I was little becasuse he was my favorite...

However the "Tiggerfoot" came from joining AOL (Back when I was stupid) and the name Tigger was already used... So.. I thought about it and decided on Tiggerfoot because I never thought anyone would ever use this name... Sor far after 10 years I have only seen one other person with this name...

[rastagard]

Originally posted by Tiggerfoot
Sor far after 10 years I have only seen one other person with this name...

Ya sure that wasn't you too? I once ran into another rastagard, I tried my password and got access. What're the odds, not only someone else with the same name, but they used the same password too..............:squint:

[Pebcak]

I'm sure that it wasn't me "the one time" LOL I've been to web sites and have not remembered registering there... :)

The one guy had AOL after "I saw the light" and dumped it... Then I tried to get an AOL IM name a couple years later and it was already taken by someone else.

[Dwergs]

dwergs, in my nick the word comes from what me and my dad used to called those rags of cloth you wipe car windows with. - dew-rags.
(yes dew is condensation for those of you that will challenge me:P)
dew-rag became dwerg as i thought it was easier to say. then when i joined i couldn't think of a nick so dwerg pops into my head and bingo there ye go.

[{{BrainWashed}}]

ok how i got the name Brainwashed.. well it all goes back to july 26 1994 when i stepped off a bus and ontoo lil yellow footprints. and herd a voice yell all right you f#@ks get in my house and line up. at this time i knew i was in for one hell of a ride. next i gave up everything i had,, my hair my draws even gave up my first name and started talking in 3rd person. why cause they told me too.as my 13 weeks of life passed bye i realised i was no longer the turd i came as but a pollished one now. made to do what i was told to do and die when i was told too. after my span in the corp. i came back to the world and found out i was way far gone and had a hard time reprograming my mind to acept people again. still hate people withing arms reach.
civilians dont take to orders very well at all. but us that do know how brainwashing does the mind and body good. :blaster:

[maggot]

Brainwashed, you're beyond therapy, so just keep hatin' as hard as you can! lol

anyway, my surname begins with marg... and i never liked the letter r, so i became maggot. plus, no expense spent in the trouser department, so it's kind of descriptive as well. (here'e a tip - a convex mirror at knee level does wonders!)

[Me_Not_You]

I just really thought it was funny that I am Me_Not_You...if you had my like you would understand.:hammered:

[Icer]

Well, all this name stuff.
Icer, for clod bold and don't f* with me :)
Yea I know ooooh tuff, no I am not just kidding.

"Icer" to me has a kind of finality to it ya know?
Like cold stoped dead in your tracks and I have you now!
:)

Hey, love this site!
It's good that all can share in this stuggle of whatever we feel.
Life is hard and generaly sucks!

well, to all a good day!

Icer

[Project-Buckfast]

Mine is rather odd.. as youve probably noticed, here's the story...

I used to be a skateboarder until I saw the light... a shop used to sponser skaters and give them free boards, allow them in videos e.t.c A friend at the time was lucky enuff to be part of the shops team, and Ialways wanted to be a member aswell. It was called "project". At this time I had a thing for a wine called "Buckfast" we fell in luv and thats basically it.......

The shop closed down & I realized Buckfast tasted like an old thick syurp type medicine..............

[NitnayLion]

WOW LoL if I had the same story I would be known as
"project (Boonsfarm) tickel pink".
:squint:

[bluetailfly3]

hahaha..I haven't had boonesfarm since I was 15 or 16...errr 21..yeah that's it....hahahaha..Actually I probably would have been known as Southern Comfort.

[philgorp]

make mine MD-40 40 (mad dog)

[MrKip]

At school (and university for that matter) I was universially known as Kipper. For some reason everyone I know in the medical department started calling me Meeester Keep (in a cod Spanish accent). When on the internet there seemed to be a stunning amount of Kippers so I changed it to MrKip.

Coda:
Buckfast is the one alcoholic drink in the world I couldn't finish. It is truely rank. I heard somewhere though that you're supposed to add it to wine to enhance flavour? I could just be talking rubbish.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Mine originates from the Lord of the Dance. No, I do not like the show, quite the opposite, hence the parody. As I join forums and find these "Why'd you call yourself that?" threads, I get more insight about my choice.

This is from a PM I sent:

I believe in all honesty I chose an appropriate name for myself the longer I keep it. I find it accurate for me as it is humbing that I truly do not know everything that I speak of. It also shows my sarcastic side due to the play on words. Finally, it kinda does represent a self-proclaimed lordship over the knowledge or personality I display. It's growing on me, but I will never get to the point of letting it make me arrogant.

[mathmission]

I guess that I too will tell of my name. It actually has some deaper meaning. Many years ago, a friend and I were sitting in class together, just talking of life, and love, and yadda yadda. The teacher started talking about math (it was math class) and so we couldn't talk much. So, what we decided to do, as many kids at that age did, was to get a notebook, and write little notes back to one another. However, these were not simple little notes. For our age, we were quite serious children.

These notebooks became the Mathmissions, as we were in Math class when they were created. As each year came and went, we continued the tradition of having them, and for 8 years they existed all the way up until the end of Highschool.

The reason that I use the name is because of how I look at those books. They are a living text of my life throughout 8 years of my life. Any thought, concern, comment, anything I wanted to talk about, was in those books. I use the name because it is symbolic of my past, yet the name makes no reference to how I am now. Weird, huh?

[Fister]

My nick got me.

[Juggalo15]

Well my nick started around 8th or 7th grade. I was the biggest fan of a group called ICP. The nick Juggalo is basically what you would call any of the heavy followers but yea it would always be taken so I got 15 for my age and as I got older i have never really changed it. Not a lot behind it but I kinda like it.

[Monkee of Evil]

funny story...budy of mine got his hamster high and it chased his dog around the house so he called it the evil hamster of doom. So then a few days later he pops up with an AIM sn that said Evil Hamster. so i got on and registered Monkee of Evil....well, lets just say the monkee ate the damn hamster as far as comedic value went and the name stuck. :)

[Shades Coolray]

How did you guys get a hamster high?

[philgorp]

shotgun probly

[Monkee of Evil]

Originally posted by Shades Coolray
How did you guys get a hamster high?

we put it in one of those hamster tubes with one end closed off and blew smoke into it through the other....only did took 2 hits and that thing was higher than the beatles during the magical mystery tour.

[FrYGuY]

Um. I thought I posted in this thread already, but apparently not!

I got my nick from being completely sans creativity in the name departement (Or at least I was seriously blanking at the time...), so I stole^B^B^B^B^Bborrowed it from the Super Mario Brother baddie of the same name.

End of story.

[Shades Coolray]

Originally posted by Monkee of Evil
we put it in one of those hamster tubes with one end closed off and blew smoke into it through the other....only did took 2 hits and that thing was higher than the beatles during the magical mystery tour.

Dude, that's the funnniest thing I've read in awhile right there. I was rollin'. :rotfl:

[Xyc0]

I got mine from a slow evolution of old AOL screen names... ah back in the day when I actually thought AOL was cool. It started as CyberCat009, then CyberTiger009, then XyberTiger (I still used this one he he), Then one day I had to create a fake company name for school. Xyber Company. We (the company) decided to call it Xy. Co. for short. I sort of just kept it for my own nick. I do hope I don't have to spell out what it says for you all. XYC0

[Monkee of Evil]

Originally posted by Shades Coolray
Dude, that's the funnniest thing I've read in awhile right there. I was rollin'. :rotfl:

you should try it sometime, the actual thing is funniest. :)

[talowa]

When i was young(13), I had a operation and was dead for a while. I had a sort of vision then ,that really stayed with me. In the vision I was a small boy standing on a ridge overlooking a beautiful valley. I felt very scared , I turned around and a big bear was in my path. Terrorfid the bear and I merged together.
I know this sounds wierd , but its what I felt. After I was the bear and I felt strong and peaceful. In the vision my name was Talowa it means Calm water in Cherokee. To me its my spirit.
Peace

[taddzilla]

That is a very interesting story. It's nice to see posting Talowa. Welcome to UTC, and have a great time while you are here.

[philgorp]

welcome talowa!!

we are all cows here



heres a shot of the first cow i remember. my favorite
who did this???

[Afterburner]

Mine is pretty boring and unoriginal. When I decided to join this web site , I could'nt think of a user name . So I glanced up at my cassette collection on the wall and seen a ZZ Top album called Afterburner, so hence the user name it became.

[rastagard]

Originally posted by philgorp
welcome talowa!!

we are all cows here



heres a shot of the first cow i remember. my favorite
who did this???


If I'm not mistaken, it was timo............


Welcome to the herd, you guys!

[sepia]

Originally posted by talowa
When i was young(13), I had a operation and was dead for a while. I had a sort of vision then ,that really stayed with me. In the vision I was a small boy standing on a ridge overlooking a beautiful valley. I felt very scared , I turned around and a big bear was in my path. Terrorfid the bear and I merged together.
I know this sounds wierd , but its what I felt. After I was the bear and I felt strong and peaceful. In the vision my name was Talowa it means Calm water in Cherokee. To me its my spirit.
Peace

That is an awesome story. Are you still afraid now of such things now? Or has the bear given you strength? Just curious as I was flatlined 2x, once that I actually remember stuff, and I have no fear of death now.

[Kikyo]

thats actually a really cool story talowa. so are you cherokee? if you dont mind me asking...i am 1/4 cherokee (ok, i miss it by a literal hair...almost 1/4 cherokee...) LOL

[tiremonkey2000]

:clap: Mine Is Kinda Simple I Have Been A Tire Teck For
22 Years Hence The Name Tiremonkey As For 2000
Thats When I Got My First Computer

[talowa]

sepia and Kikyo,
Sorry My kids Keep me really crazy, :gottogo: or I would have replyed quicker. I am part Ojibwa,and Winnibago, German ,French ,Irish and who nows whatelse maybe dungbeetle.


The bear vision is always with me , I feel I have to face my fears ,with compassion, love . A neverending lesson . The strenght to go ahead and leave some illusions behind. I have been reading a lot of posts from all of you . Your all good people, and I hope our friendships will grow. I am very poor at typing and I have a hard time explaining myself sometimes. But I love to express myself with music. I would love to share some really cool adventures Through music with all of you. But I could use some help figuring out how to send songs for you to keep and share. I have composed over 250 songs and played with some awsome artest. Rasta I have something good for you mon. I hope to talk with you all soon , Peace and ty for the warm greeting.

[philgorp]

you seem like good people talowa,,,,,, so far :D

i would like to hear your music. is it spirit?

[evilmegaman]

I got it from... huh huh huh.... hut hut... A kid with glasses! Who happens to be an okie

[Kikyo]

um,ok, but that still doesnt explain the story behind it....:dontknow:

[MuDsHaNeY]

it explains it plenty!

[Carrie]

I still don't know..but I like the nick:)

[Mel Smiley XXL]

I was watching a movie when I first used this name.:hit:

[taddzilla]

Interesting name Mel. Welcome to UTC, and have a good time in our pasture.

[Mel Smiley XXL]

Ahh, but does anyone know the movie this name came from? Hint , it had Markie Mark in it.


and don't Google it!

[Project-Buckfast]

LMAO!! I google'd it but ill not spoil it for anyone!;)

[Mel Smiley XXL]

That damn google! you just can't have a trivia contest anymore! lol

[Project-Buckfast]

LOL!! I had too! I probably wouldnt have though about it untill you says dont google it lol

[Trevor]

well my nick is my name so that's how i got it...i sometimes use RubberSoul after the beatles record but not this time

[Carrie]

ooooh! I love the Beatles!

[Trevor]

who doesn't tike them i got about 80 of there songs on my comp...greatest band ever i gotta say... I'm a fanat...also the rolling sotnes rule too... almost kicked a girl in my class when she didn't know who they were..it was very sad

[NitnayLion]

You meen to say Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings. LoL

[Trevor]

yeah i do...a much greater band before the wings...although the beatles could have survived without mccartney they couldn't at all with out lennon i can safely say that... Lennon was The greatest song writer of all time i can guarentee you

[Mel Smiley XXL]

I agree Lennon was great. One of the most powerful, intelligent, music writer ever.

Has anyone ever listened to the Decca sessions or the Lennon Lost tapes?

[Carrie]

Originally posted by Trevor
Lennon was The greatest song writer of all time i can guarentee you

No argument here, thats for sure. He was the greatest.

[Trevor]

i have listened to one of the lost tapes i think i dunno...not really lost anymore i geuss...

I wonder when buddy that killed him gets out of jail i assure you he won't have a pleasent life from then on

[HolyLiaison]

Well I got mine reading the Dictionary (Yeah I'm a loser like that).

Holy:
Regarded as deserving special respect or reverence.

Liaison:
A close relationship, connection, or link.

I liked the mix of the two words, so I combined them to make my own nickname. Been using it ever since I switched from my first nickname Ace9_98 in 1998, of course.

[Nilly_Chipples]

wOOt, I used to go by Ace1994 :D

[NitnayLion]

LiL amb you went from an Ace to a Queen. LoL

[Potato]

Originally posted by HolyLiaison
Well I got mine reading the Dictionary (Yeah I'm a loser like that).

Holy:
Regarded as deserving special respect or reverence.

Liaison:
A close relationship, connection, or link.

I liked the mix of the two words, so I combined them to make my own nickname. Been using it ever since I switched from my first nickname Ace9_98 in 1998, of course.
You're such a dip. :)

My name has more to do with a particular album than anything else, I like the album that this song "Potato Girl" is on, so for some reason I thought "potato" would be a good nick. I regret it in IRC quite often especially when people are talking about food... I get dinged. :p

[HolyLiaison]

Originally posted by Potato
You're such a dip. :)

My name has more to do with a particular album than anything else, I like the album that this song "Potato Girl" is on, so for some reason I thought "potato" would be a good nick. I regret it in IRC quite often especially when people are talking about food... I get dinged. :p


Thanks. :urock:

[Carrie]

Originally posted by Potato
when people are talking about food... I get dinged. :p

LMAO! That would suck.....

[MilesApart]

Well, I picked my named becuase I am main poster at methlabs and have been a moderator there for a while. Anyway, most of them were from the U.K. at the time. So, Miles Apart we are. No hidden meanings. And it does not come from a song sand by Yellowcard. I am usual just called Miles, to keep it simple.

[Project-Buckfast]

Welcome aboard Miles!!

[MilesApart]

Thanks, been kinda board with Methlabs not having enough post for me too work on. Til PG2 comes out I will kind of be floating around. When PG2 comes out, whoaa, I'm going to have alot to talk about. Anyway, thanks for the welcome again. Visit Methlabs sometime.

[sepia]

Hmmmmm, seems like I've done this once before. Okay, sepia is short for my msn and yahoo nic. I was new to using computers and setting up an email account. I was, at first, dumb enough to do my name and zip code. I cancelled that one and went for a different name. I couldn't get the ones I was thinking of, so I happened to look across the room and noticed the picture I was working on at the time--it was stippling on top of an india ink wash, but I was using the color sepia, not black.
I have about 4 other nics I use on yahoo from the time I used to go to chat rooms, but don't use them in too many of the forums. I prefer to just go ahead and let everyone know it's me when I go somewhere.

So, Sepia is just short for my email and messaging nic. Also, it's the color of my skin during the summer--I get extremely dark because of my heritage And, because of its use, I now get called that by a lot of people I know.


***By the way, I agree on the comments about Lennon--check my sig......

[Moneoa]

All the forums had told me the clever names had been taken and rather than be completely silly and use one of them with jibberish and or numbers at the end, I came up with it on the Fly

Moneoa...see rolls off the tounge

[sepia]

Originally posted by Moneoa
All the forums had told me the clever names had been taken and rather than be completely silly and use one of them with jibberish and or numbers at the end, I came up with it on the Fly

Moneoa...see rolls off the tounge

I was looking at that--thought maybe it was short for moneyola or something. Cool name.

And welcome to UTC. If you have any questions, just PM one of the staff--I'm usually around at night, but sometimes pop in during the day. :bigwave:

[sepia]

Originally posted by MilesApart
Thanks, been kinda board with Methlabs not having enough post for me too work on. Til PG2 comes out I will kind of be floating around. When PG2 comes out, whoaa, I'm going to have alot to talk about. Anyway, thanks for the welcome again. Visit Methlabs sometime.

I wouldn't even function without PG, thank you for making that service available. I can't wait to see PG2.

[Carrie]

Bump:thumbsup:

With all the new members.....there have been a few I seen ...and had me wondering....like for example....diverdown.....:nana:

[Project-Buckfast]

2 identicial bumps!! I call it SPAM !!:ban: hehe

[NealT]

error...error...error...

probably be explained as a software glitch...

[Carrie]

Originally posted by Project-Buckfast
2 identicial bumps!! I call it SPAM !!:ban: hehe

I think I became schitzo for a minute. I posted once for me and once for me....

[the great one]

How did I get my nick?I guess I have an overinflated ego!:big:

[Nilly_Chipples]

well that's always nice....:thumbsup: :bigwave:

[Carrie]

Over Inflated Egos are way better than an under inflated penis....:color:

[indo]

I used to be a hardcore stoner through my teen years. Indo (ya know, a common name for good bud, depending on where in the country you are) was really simple and easy to give out to friends (especially friends that indulged in similar extracaricular activities).

Oh yea, it was easy for me to remember at the time. :smk: :imslow:
:bang: It's I - N - D - O you stoner! :saywha: :hmmm: :smoker: :hammer:

I have sense outgrown my illeagal drug use, mostly anyway, and I just can't get rid of my nick... maybe I should sell it on E-Bay and buy a longer one with the cash.

One thing that sucks though - every damn spam e-mail address generating program in the world has me on thier list in a few seconds I'm sure.

[Carrie]

Originally posted by indo
I used to be a hardcore stoner through my teen years. Indo (ya know, a common name for good bud, depending on where in the country you are) was really simple and easy to give out to friends (especially friends that indulged in similar extracaricular activities).

Oh yea, it was easy for me to remember at the time. :smk: :imslow:
:bang: It's I - N - D - O you stoner! :saywha: :hmmm: :smoker: :hammer:

I have sense outgrown my illeagal drug use, mostly anyway, and I just can't get rid of my nick... maybe I should sell it on E-Bay and buy a longer one with the cash.

One thing that sucks though - every damn spam e-mail address generating program in the world has me on thier list in a few seconds I'm sure.


:funny: :banana:

[philgorp]

:thumbsup:

you call it maize(i mean indo) but we call it skunk :rofl:

[Nilly_Chipples]

Originally posted by indo

I have sense outgrown my illeagal drug use, mostly anyway, and I just can't get rid of my nick... maybe I should sell it on E-Bay and buy a longer one with the cash.

One thing that sucks though - every damn spam e-mail address generating program in the world has me on thier list in a few seconds I'm sure.



:hmmm: :saywha: :funny: :word:

[bmh67wa]

What's that funny smell in here?

[pegasus]

When the Gorgon Medusa was decapitated by the hero Perseus, Pegasus and his brother, Chrysoar, were born from the mix of seafoam and blood. Ridden by Perseus, he carried the hero over the sea and aided in the defeat of Cetus, the Sea-dragon, and the rescue of the Princess Andromeda.

After this adventure, the young colt was gathered by Athena (Minerva) and carried to Mt. Helicon where she entrusted the Muses with his care. In his excitement young Pegasus struck the ground with his hooves and cause the springs of Aganippe and Hippocrene to gush forth their bounty of inspiration. Urania, the Muse of Astronomy and Universal Love (also an aspect of Aphrodite) showed the most interest in his rearing. Prophesying of his future heroic deeds and eventual celestial honor she grieved the most when Bellerophon, at Athena's beckoning, came to take Pegasus away from Mt. Helicon.

After the many long years of heroic deeds Pegasus had accomplished in the companionship of Bellerophon, and the hero's thankless death, Urania was enraptured by Pegasus' triumphant arrival to Mt. Olympus.

(The tragic ending of the tale of Bellerophon would seem to be a shrewd illustration of the folly of assuming that something or someone is subject to our will and cannot function successfully without us. The Greeks may have also attempted to tell us that simply being a member of the human race does not, in itself, warrant our acceptance into the transcendental realms. The simple fact that it was the Horse and not the Man must surely convey something of the status of man in the universal scheme of things.)

(The Pegasus Syndrome, as exemplified in the legends of Perseus and Bellerophon, is concerned with the innate ability possessed by some people to negotiate difficulties by rising above them, on the one hand, and the danger of overreaching themselves, on the other. Pegasus, by birth, is the child of Medusa and Neptune, symbols of 'wisdom' and 'emotion,' respectively, which shows the dichotomy of his nature. As in the story, Bellerophon attempted to fly to Olympus (overreach his potential). He believed that Pegasus was subject to his will. However, it was Pegasus who made it to Olympus, while Bellerophon was tossed back to earth, lame and reproached by others. It is unwise to take any situation for granted as the 'lesser' person (or, in this case, beast) may be the very one to teach us the much-needed lesson in humility. Pegasus is also indicative of a specific mission in life which the inquirer will always find the time and energy to pursue, although the path may be sewn with difficulties (the Chimaera) and limitations (Bellerophon's doubt or arrogance). So, the Pegasus Syndrome is the seeming ability to "fly over any situation," though the reverse may be a lesson in humility, being "taken down a peg," as it were.)

Pegasus went on to become the occasional mount of the goddess Eos (Aurora) on her mission to bring forth the Dawn. At other times he was ridden by Apollo (Phoebus) as he brought the sun across the sky. And, even more importantly, Pegasus served as Zeus' Lightning Bearer, when Pegasus' own hooves could be heard thundering across the skies in a storm.

As a tribute to his exceptional life and heroic deeds, Zeus honored Pegasus with a constellation in the sky. According to an amalgam of several other myths stemming from Cheiron's progeny, there is a formidable afterlife for Pegasus involving a wife, Euippe (or Ocyrrhoe), and two children, Celeris and Melanippe. In poetry, the phrase "My Pegasus will not go this morning" means the author's brain will not work (lacks inspiration), and "I am mounting my Pegasus" means he's going to write (he's becoming inspired), and "I am on my Pegasus" means he's engaged in writing.

Ancient astrologers believed that all the stars of Pegasus protected horsemen in battle. In the so-called Lost Zodiac, those persons born between March 13 and April 1 are said to be born under the sign of Pegasus. Because of horseshoes the hoof-marks which horses leave behind look like crescent moons, horses in Greece were sacred to the Moon, which, as it lights up the darkness of the night, governs the world of imagination, instinct and intuition to which the horse also belongs. The moon was also thought to be the source of all moisture, and it was believed to be the moon-shaped hooves of Pegasus, that, when they struck the flowering earth, had caused the Muses' fountain of poetic inspiration to start flowing. The moonlit realm of the imagination, of visions, dreams and intuition, is where those born under the sign of the winged stallion, Pegasus, feel most confident and at home.

Horses are a potent symbol from almost every world religion and mythology. Many of its myths express the horse's innate clairvoyance and ability to perceive the magic within humans. Some view the horse as the symbol of strength, virility and lust. According to popular belief it loses its sexual powers when its mane is cut, and is the only animal which shows sorrow because it weeps for its dead master (though this is later belief is not exclusive to the Horse-Human relationship). Also, it is a symbol for loyalty and devotion, such as the faith it has with it's master. It also represents the warrior spirit, bravery and courage.

Wings are a symbol that denotes "flight" and often represent prayer and contemplation, especially in the sense of feathered bird-like wings. A spiritual or religious symbol they represent the soul's ability to transcend the weight of earthly burdens and rise above such concerns into the air, even to Heaven itself, to the presence of God. In Christian symbolism, through demonization, there are also the accursed wings of such infernal creatures as vampires, basilisks, dragons and others. These are the leathery wings of skin, like those of a bat, whose appearance adds to the attributes of evil inherent in the beast. "Skin" being a symbol of the carnal nature of man, therefore sinful, is connected to the to the idea of the perversion of the intellectual faculties toward evil purposes. Azrael, the Angel of Death, is often depicted with leathery wings, (i.e., the satyr-like devil, Satan [the former Angel of Light, Lucifer] the Destroyer). These are the typical wings of the Hellhorse or the Chimaera.

TheWinged Horse or Pegasus symbolizes heightened power of the natural forces - the innate capacity for spiritualization and for inverting evil into good. As a Christian and religious symbol, Pegasus was adopted from the attribution as the mount of Apollo, the God of pure light, beauty and truth to be included in the symbolic fauna of Christ.

Winged horses, in general, symbolize the transport of the soul of the deceased Christian to Heaven, and figuratively, like Apollo the Sun-god, represents Christ lifted up and, like the sun, 'Full of Glory,' and as the Revealer of Mysteries and the causer of refreshing (as in the passage: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles..." - Isaiah 40:31).

Also, during the Apocalypse, Pegasus has been compared to the "white horse" whom the conqueror rides in the book of Revelation in the Bible. Aside from being a general symbol of creative inspiration and poetry, the flying horse is an expression for speed, power and swift transport.

As an animal totem, Pegasus symbolizes the immortality of the soul, and serves as the carrier and protector of the spirit in its journeys to the astral plane (especially to the Moon - the emotional plane). Pegasus is closely linked to the Greek gods Poseidon (Neptune) [emotion ], his father; Athena (Minerva) [heavenly wisdom ], his protectress; Zeus (Jupiter) [guidance & creativity ] as his Thunder-bearer; and the Muse Urania [heavenly love ], his nursemaid, and the Muses [inspiration, memory and the arts ] in general; the heroes Perseus [intellect ] and Bellerophon [impudence ]; and the monsters Medusa [mortal wisdom ] and Chimaera [complex evil ].

These are more or less the reasons for which I chose the nick "Pegasus"


If you feel like researching the facts/myths/fables etc about "Pegasus" a bit more, then the following sites are a good place to start


http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pegasus.html


http://majigen.altervista.org/FLpegasus.html


http://www.dibonsmith.com/peg_con.htm


http://lair2000.net/Pegasus_Roost/Pegasus_Roost.html


http://www.thanasis.com/pegasus.htm


http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~west~greece~Medusa.html


http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/pegasus-p.html


http://www.loggia.com/myth/pegasus.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus


http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/PegasusDreaming

http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/pegasus.html


http://www.mythicalrealm.com/creatures/pegasus.html


http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/pegasus.htm

[seikooc]

Damn Pegasus!! :sleep:
All I did was look at a box of cookies in the mirror:smk: seikooc/cookies

[Carrie]

Extremely Interesting pegasus!


Nice nick seikooc...but why were you looking at a box of cookies in a mirror? :shrug:

[seikooc]

I was snacking on some cookies as I was surfing around and I had just finished checking out that google mirror;you know the one where you spell google backwards in the search box and press that I feel lucky button..........First thing I saw was the cookie box out of the corner of my eye........weird huh!? :nuts:

[sepia]

That was a fascinating read Pegasus, thank you. I thought I was the only one in here that knew way too much about the Pantheons.
I think I tried explaing the Wheel of the Year to somone once and it was kinda lost.

Thank you again, I really enjouyed your post.

and yours also seicook

[Carrie]

Originally posted by sepia

I think I tried explaing the Wheel of the Year to somone once and it was kinda lost.



Hmm, I think you tried to explain that to me once...and I was lost..... :shrug:

[Rockjaw]

My explanation was lost in the rollback so I will re-post.

Somewhere between age 5 and 10, I became obsessed with jawbreakers. I always had my own stash so my freinds started calling me Rockjaw. As I got older I lost the nickname in the real world but I still use it online.

[Cassavus]

I know I posted about this...but never went into details. Anyway I got this name from a site called kabalarians.com. The problem was, how I found names before was on their old site. It was through cultures that I found this name. So when I wanted to look for a new name, I had to use their old site by going to the Internet Time Machine website. Their I was able to view their site from a year or two before, and find a name I wanted. Now, their site requires registration to view names by culture. So you can say I beat the system. Took me days to find a name I liked. Finally stuck with this one.

[Carrie]

Kick ass Cass! I love it when I can slide in under the gun like that LOL

RockJaw, I had a friend growing up that was just like that. Gobstoppers were her "breaker of choice". She outgrew the jawbreakers and moved onto suckers, and she is still addicted to those to this day!

[mathmission]

I just thought that I would go ahead and post here to get this thread going again. We've got some new members that I would really enjoy hearing from in terms of the origin of their names. Fire away, my friends.

[comrvf]

ok its a word thing com =computers=r= are=v=very=f=fun=comrvf

[mathmission]

Hey, I like that!

[comrvf]

ive been useing it for years on yahoo chat when it was good before bots

[mathmission]

Yeah, I've had this handle for years and years

[comrvf]

i think when you get a good one its akeeper

[mathmission]

Yeah, I agree. I've had this handle, Mathmission, for nearly 10 years now. Maybe a little longer than that even

[riscy]

very sad really - a true techy story.

My first pooter was not Windoze (spit), but an Acorn RISCOS (Reduced Instruction System Computer) - nothing like Windoze (spit) and way better - even than a Mac.

I still have the original pooter and use it regularly, nearly 15 years on - how many PCs can you say that about??

Hence the nick - in homage (RIP) to the best OS ever, - FACT!

Sorry for the length (as the...) ask MM if you need an explanation of that ;)

[mathmission]

good one! The story of mine is somewhere back in this thread, but I can go ahead and make another post about it. About 9 years ago, I was in school with a good friend of mine. 8th grade, I believe. Anyway, to pass notes back and forth to each other, we used a notebook. But in order to make sure that we would not get caught, we wrote the word MATH on the front of it (we were in Math Class) anyway, it became something that we did throughout all of high school, and now have several books detailing my entire high school experience. We called these books, Mathmissions.

[comrvf]

nice math

[mathmission]

Thanks. It's not a real good story but hey, it's something. I wish I had a more ellaborate story to tell, but that's really all it was. Had the same nick for years and years.

[Carrie]

In 1976 I was born and named after the song "hey Carrie Ann".

recently I changed from Feenies-Wife to Carrie. Boring I know.

[mathmission]

I was always wondering why you changed? Feel free to ignore the question if you wish.

[Calyxa]

Oh wow, hey Feenie's Wife. Now i want to change. I been thinking about making a change but i've no idea what i'd change to. Dreamcatcher gave me my nic :) long ago when i joined pctt.

[Thus--Spoke]

comes from the name i used to use on Audiogalaxy
thus-spoke-zarathustra
i was reading the book at the time i made it

just shortened it here

[MikeHunt]

Porkys much?

actually before Porkys, we used to use a bunch of weird names to abuse waitresses and PA announcers.

like:

Dinah Kanser
Dick Hertz
Seymour Butts

was amusing in back in the day..when more people had a sense of humour