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So whatchya think makes a good nickname?

I was just thinking about all the other online nicknames (aside from nizo) that I have used in the past:

Chat related:
incognizo: a play on my nickname and incognito, usually used when I wanted to be incognito
WeedWacker: my first chat nickname, used on the way old forum chat from UKY I think.

Mud related:
Dopey: picked when I was testing a bug in abermud, and then I just stuck with it
Wormtongue: used to be unique, but probably much more popular now after the LOTR movies
Toadie: nickname used to terrorize various lpmuds with a buddy of mine (don't ask)

mtrek and netrek related:
quicksilver
WeenieToaster: my friend would play WeenieRoaster for tag team goodness
DethByUngaBunga: a play on the popular joke
EatingTorps: amusing when I would kill people and the message would be broadcast "xyz was kill 1.0 for EatingTorps" Yeah I was easily amused

So what other "secret identities" have you used in the past?

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  • On nirvananet
  • You know, this posting of yours is now a "Rosetta Stone" for anyone trying to dredge up your online history. I hope WeenieToaster didn't post anything you're too embarrassed about.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      Yeah I thought about that before posting, but pretty much every stupid thing I have ever posted I either posted under my real name or this nickname. Plus I couldn't find anything about any of the other ones on google, so I figure this isn't a biggie :-)

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by plover ( 150551 ) *
        Well, I figure that I've been posting on here for a long time, and don't feel the need to have a potential employer (or my current employer) tie me to these tracks. I'm John, I'm in Minneapolis, I'm a 40+ year old computer geek; that narrows me down to one out of a thousand. I'm sure some of my previous postings would offer up more detail, but what the hell.

        Anyway, I was going to be "xyzzy" when I signed up, but the nick was already taken, as was "plugh". "Plover" was the only remaining voice command i

      • This is why I said nothing about any covert things I or other members of my immediate family may have done ... ... oops.

  • I've primarily been Yaztromo now since 1987, when I was asked for an alias by a Pyroto BBS system, didn't know what to choose, and so picked up a random book off my bookshelf, flipped to a random page, and selected the first name that I saw, with the intention of changing it later.

    Later never came.

    Sometimes I use "Yaztromo_X" in cases where someone has had the audacity to register the name before me on a given site (which is very rare). For a time when "Yaztromo" was under attack on the Pyroto, I had a p

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by tqft ( 619476 )
      Like you I have been tqft for a very long time.

      Not even hard to tie it back to my real identity - I don't even try.

      I may have another id (have had it about as long as this id) - used for "educational" purposes but if you can track that to me I would deny everything once I found out how you did it.
  • Wick Saal (from my Canadian legal name initials of W.C.S. A.-A.-L.), Will in Seattle (mostly on blogs), Waffleck (Initial plus first part of last name), things like that.

    Grenouille, from a SF/fantasy series of stories I first told to my youngest sister as bedtime stories that were broadcast on public radio and other media.

    Not very exciting but there you go.

  • Nicknames (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 )
    Tethys. I liked it so much, I ended up changing my name to it, so it's hardly a secret identity. Other than that, I use the name of a character I played in an AD&D game.
    • I thought you were named for the Vietnamese New Year! Funny how those assumptions subtly skew a sense of online identity...
  • I pretty much have been HokieSeas anywhere where its a viable community.

    On the muds I played through college I was always LordAtog. I dont remember what any of my secondary character names were, but I am sure they were probably based on Magic The Gathering cards at that time.
  • The only other handle I've ever used was sureft [slashdot.org]. Its a made up word that I coined for a wedding poem. The bride and groom were dear friends and roomates at the time, and she was an English major. Since I wield English the way a yokel cop wields a tazer, it was sometimes painful for her to endure. So for the poem I not only made up the word "sureft" but I also ended the thing with a preposition;-)

    I stopped using it here because I lost my password, and the e-mail its tied to was an account that has been

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      Speaking of you, have you seen my 3d animation from class yet? Or is it too hugemongous* for most people here to tolerate downloading? I should probably upload a smaller version.....

      *My favorite pretend word
      • Speaking of you, have you seen my 3d animation from class yet?

        Of course! Well, because I watched it before replying;-) I like it. I would offer a thought on the theme though, perhaps having the object floating be made of various rectangles, and after the Ka-BOOM have the rectangles come to rest as stonehenge;-)

  • This was my first online presence. Professionally, I was spending a lot of time working on fungi at the time, so The Fun Guy was kind of obvious.

    Most other online accounts use various combinations of my names and/or initials. The username for my only other semi-anonymous online "persona" is an obscure unit of measure for absorbed radiation dose, which reflects my current line of work.

    If I get a promotion, I'll set up an account under the name Edwin I. Strator.
  • via-strass or via_strass alternates with weierstrass pretty much randomly
    i once started a blog called 'pronounced via-strass' under my original nick (the name of the german mathematician is actually more like "via shtrarse")
    i kept the name because i liked it so much when i realized its the word for 'road' in two different languages (via: latin and strasse or strass: german)
  • I've used "Winston" (from Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty Four, after reading the book when I was 15) as an online handle for pretty much everything - MUDs, IRC, web boards etc. I only didn't use it for Slashdot because someone else already had taken that name.

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