Often wanted to know, but always too sober to ask

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:48 pm

Where does everyone on here get their names from?

Obviously, some folk just use a derivation of their names, like the 1,051 registered Matthews. But there are some folk out there who have quite convoluted names, and I want to know why dammit. Darcle, TheHut, Toothless, Spyder, Mashman, Ernest W Quality, Vajinal Bob, UP, Matt Vinyl, Watergate, Demmerz, Dibble, Mr Cheese, Fader, Dunhamzzz, Ssgtnelly, King Conspiracy, TKA, Drop the lot, Firefox.... etc. ... (apologies to anyone I've forgotton).

To start the ball rolling, I called myself Cardinal Richelieu cos my name is Rich and I liked the Dogtanian cartoons. And I kid myself that I can speak French.

Hope I haven't shattered the illusions of anybody who thought they might be hobnobbing with a member of the French aristocracy!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:01 am

Vajinal Bob was Ernest W Quality's creation; no idea what 'inspired' him to come up with it. I think Ernest W Quality was a product of a silly name generator program that Ernest had written.

Demmerz · Post by **Demmerz** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:03 am

Dememrz is just a long-standing nickname of mine, from ages ago in my school years. A car crash of an attempt to informalise my surname but, nevertheless, it has stuck.

Matty · Post by **Matty** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:08 am

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:55 am

MJD is my initials

JustAnotherClone · Post by **JustAnotherClone** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:56 am

JustAnotherClone - What most fruit machines out nowadays are

Terry Tibbs · Post by **Terry Tibbs** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:10 am

my intials are D.R hence the name.

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:20 am

Its the first 3 letters of my christian name and first 3 letters of my surname. IT dept at my old company gave me it as a username and i just seem to use it loads now. Even tried to get them to use it as my username at my new companybut they wouldnt have it.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:49 am

not quite sure why i chose my unk... maybe from my days as a player when i thought too many of the same name on leaderboards would alert the authorities. on spelvin i used to be cilla black, terry nutkins, david icke etc. i have a pretty unexciting name, i'd like to be called Felix or Rudolph.

Terry Tibbs · Post by **Terry Tibbs** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:12 am

darcle wrote:Its the first 3 letters of my christian name and first 3 letters of my surname. IT dept at my old company gave me it as a username and i just seem to use it loads now. Even tried to get them to use it as my username at my new companybut they wouldnt have it.

Darren Clements?

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:18 am

Close. Got the christian name right, the surnames wrong. Its one of henry VIII's wives but spealt differently.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:31 am

cleaves then

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:43 am

correct

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:47 am

Matt Vinyl - This was arrived at via an old friend of mine at my previous job (5-6 years back). He was a spitting image of Billy Connoly, and was always pissed and smoking roll-ups. Anyway, I write / compose / produce music in my studio when I've some spare time (as well as trying to make ItBox games!), and played a few tracks to this guy...

..."eeehhh, DeeeJay Matt Vinyl in da placeeee!"

...Yep, he was shedded again, but the name has since stuck!

I've always thought it sounds like two tins of paint, but hey!

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:00 pm

I arrived at Nixxy via someone elses' inability to remember my actual name (Neil).

I'm a shop manager and we take on lots of temporary staff every Christmas, and as a result loads of new names to remember. One girl in particular was only with us for 6 weeks but every day she would scratch her head trying to remember the names of her colleagues.

Having called me Nigel, Nicholas, Niall, Nick, Nicky she eventually spluttered a right mess of a name out that was something like Nicksy. It was comical stuff at the time so I jokingly tried to set up an email account with the name Nicksy@.... blah blah - the name was already taken so I adjusted it to Nixxy.

Most people still just settle for 'OI' as usual though