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Your nickname

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:37 pm
by thiscatis
What's the story behind your nickname?

thiscatis.. this cat is a landmine (song from 65daysofstatic, atticus,the nickname I mostly use was already taken)

Atticus
- Clothing Label started by Mark Hoppus to promote local & upcoming punk,punkrock,emo,screamo bands.
- Roman writer, best friend of Cicero (one of my favourite authors when I was still in High School (latin class)
- Attica (beautiful region in Greece)

and yours?

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:42 pm
by Oren
It's my real name :P , good enough? :wink:

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:49 pm
by daedalus__
Daedalus

Mason, Inventor, Intellectual, Killer.

He is a fictional character from Greek mythology. He built a dancing-ground for Ariadne and the labyrinth for Kind Minos. He fashioned wings from wax, wood, and feathers to aid his son Icarus and himself in escaping a tower after they were imprisoned there by King Minos.

Icarus died because he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted. Daedalus traveled to the land of Camicus and stayed in the court of it's King, Minos eventually traveled there and found him and was killed by the King's daughters.

It's a long story, Google it.

He was killed his sister's nephew out of jealousy for the boys skill, which he feared would surpass his own.

Daedalus is also the name of the AI that helps you in Deus Ex. There are also references to the name in Macross, Star Trek, and Stargate.

I chose the name because it sounds cool and I like the story of Daedalus.

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:57 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I think Minotaur would've been better :wink: . Which reminds me, have you ever seen the painting Icarus by Bruegel? Or read the poem 'Musee des Beaux Arts' by WH Auden. Very nice.

The painting
The painting and the poem

Anyhow, my handle comes from the name of my business, Everah Media Services Company. It has a meaning, but I think I might keep that to myself at the moment.

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:09 pm
by alvinphp
my name is painfully boring and obvious.

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:14 pm
by Jenk
Jenk.. originally jeNK .. one hand over eyes, other proding keyboard 5 times. Literal outcome: jeNK

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:17 pm
by Luke
Mine comes from the fact that I am a goat, but I know martial arts and I live in space.

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:21 pm
by panic!
I like American Nightmare (now called Give up the Ghost) they were on an atticus compilation I think...

ps my nickname is Tim, my middle name, even my parents call me Tim...weird

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:26 pm
by themurph
My dog (black lab) is named murph.. I somehow got in the habit of referring to him as "The Murph" :)

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:08 pm
by klarinetking
klarinetking: Wrong spelling of 'clarinet', which I study in Uni, and King, 'cause I'm a king ;)

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:55 pm
by alex.barylski
I've always used really stupid, at times offensive names...

About 5-6 years back I learned that a non-offensive name would work better in getting replies and respect...and Hockey was a name which was never taken already, still today even I can usually get away with Hockey...

Besides, I"m Canadian and a Hockey fan...

The additional positive is that I've actually scored contracts with Hockey fans based on the name... :P

My tip of the day for freelancers' :P

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:01 pm
by feyd
A previous thread on this subject.

viewtopic.php?t=26270

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:10 pm
by zyklon
a while ago i started off as ultrakilla(i have know idea why), i got in trouble with the name entered it into a matrix name gen and here you go!

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:22 pm
by Luke
Hockey wrote:Hockey was a name which was never taken already, still today even I can usually get away with Hockey...
I just assumed that was your last name...

[offtopic]<<And the new avatar for this week![/offtopic]

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:37 pm
by neophyte
Daedalus- wrote:Daedalus

Mason, Inventor, Intellectual, Killer.
Right arm of the almost as legendary SDF-1

(You'd have to be a total dork to get that reference.)

Oh yeah my name NEOPHYTE: a recent convert to a belief; a proselyte or a beginner or novice.

I started learning PHP and posting here at about the same time. I was new to PHP and new to programming in general. Don't believe me read my first post! :D