How did you choose your nicknames?

[pigpen]

Hi Fedora users,

I was wondering how you chose your nicknames. I see we have a large variety of nicks
in this forum: real names (rare), abbreviations, fancy names, cartoon characters, etc.

PS: I chose pigpen because my room at the dormitory was an utter mess and
I kind of related to a cartoon character raising dust clouds... :D

[Hrothgar]

Hrothgar, from Beowolf. I read the translation by Seamus Heaney (isbn#0393320979) fantastic read.

Now back to the mead-hall, it's tough but someones gotta' do it.

[bob]

I think we've done this before recently: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25727

[Shadow Skill]

Yup I asked this awhile back.

[imdeemvp]

Many players ONE MVP :D

Yes this was asked before.... :p

[blammo]

I chose this name because it's what I do to computers that don't work right!

[crackers]

Have you tried breath mints?

[07dcolem]

lol.....nothing sepcial here.....this is the username my school gave me and I seem to use it everywhere ever since!

[OmniUni]

I was doing latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes in english when I created my username.

[pigpen]

I think we've done this before recently: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25727
Oh sorry, I did a search for "/nicks?(names?)?/" - should have searched for "/handles?/", too. :(

Maybe we could extend the scope of this thread to include server names:
Following the "Peanuts" paradigm, I have a P200MMX named "Woodstock".
And it just occurred to me that I could name my next Linux server "Linus"! :D

[imdeemvp]

Its cool old bob is just drunk :p

[bob]

I'll drink to that!

[owakroeger]

Working for Xerox, everything gets shortened to anagrams, even knick names. First name Alfred, shortened to Al. Completely unfounded reputation for a strange sense of humor, Old Wierd Al, anagrammed to owa. Last name Kroeger.
Thus, owakroeger
owa

[Woad_Warrior]

well, i belong to a medieval recreation group, one of the activities i involve my self is the combat (hence warrior), and i occasionally run around in a kilt (therefore woad), and hell, road warrior was a cool flick. BTW Hrothgar, I brew my own mead. :)

[harlequin]

Harlequin has a couple of definitions: It's the chequred pattern that the sterotypical jesters wear associated with that is the clown or a joker definition. But how I came to use it was I was reading a book called Harlequin and needed a name for online games. (The book's about an English Archer on the quest for the Holy Grail, and harlequin is derived from hellaquin something to do with the devil's hounds or something like that -- it was over 2 years ago that I read the first book in the series)