School holidays, I'm bored pt 1: "How did you pick your KB name?"

[Grahameeboy]

Mine is my UK nickname...don't wear socks out of work and my other name was "no socks, no cock"...

Mine should have a French thingy above the "e" as it is pronounced Grahemeeeeeeeeeeboy

[Edbear]

Well, the Missus has a house full of Teddy Bears, and with the name Edward...

I'm just her cuddliest bear...

[Jimmy B]

Jimmy B after my favourite drink.

Immortalised in the famous short rhyme....

"Jimmy B is good he's better than Jack, he'll hit you like a train if you mix him with Dak"

Ok so its not so famous but it is short and it kind of ryhmes.

[martybabe]

Haha, a bit of de ja vu going on here.

Mine is a genuine nickname taken from a 1970s UK tv show called just good friends. The bird on there called every one babe,I started to do the same because I can't remember names, people returned the greeting and before long martybabe was born.

[DarkLord]

Gazza is my nickname...and I'm a Star Wars fan. So, I stuck Jedi on the front and my year of birth on the end.

[Monamie]

My cage number plate in VNOMIS cos' my nickname for many years was `The Venomous One'. But it is soooo not true

So I wanted something `nicer' and being French thought of `My Friend' (in French `Mon Amie') because at the time I was recently separated and wanted to make alot of friends-which I have done
I do not type very well and when I typed in my name to be-I spelt it wrong and don't know how to fix it

Cajun Just fixed it

[martybabe]

My cage number plate in VNOMIS cos' my nickname for many years was `The Venomous One'. But it is soooo not true

So I wanted something `nicer' and being French thought of `My Friend' (in French `Mon Amie') because at the time I was recently separated and wanted to make alot of friends-which I have done
I do not type very well and when I typed in my name to be-I spelt it wrong and don't know how to fix it

haha, I always read as mon amie any way.must get some new glasses.

[insane1]

first time i showed up for a ride on a scooter someone said your insane for riding that with us has stuck ever since .

[Al]

Mine is the shortened version of my name, Alistair.... pretty boring and unimaginative, but used to be the umfaan (little boy in the Zulu language), still have that nickname with my mates!

[klingon]

When I first joined this forum I was a new pillion so I spent my time klinging on for dear life! Then as a newbie rider it was a very good description of my riding style.

Of course klingons are those wrinkly-browed beings from Star Trek so I also think of myself as a female one of them. Hence the wrinkly-browed doggie in my avatar (and if you want to see me wearing nothing but bunny ears, take a look at my profile pic )

[Katman]

Bum, thanx mate. now how do I clear it please.

You can't. It's there for all to witness your unbearable shame until a moderator takes pity on you. Repost? - How dare you!

[CookMySock]

people were saying it to me so often it just stuck.. Not because I did anything really stupid, but because I did lots of things that were regarded by some as extreme - flying, paragliding, diving, bomb making, and pretty much anything unique I could find. "you're daaaangerous barsted maaaaaan". I originally used it online as a gaming nick, where it was quite hilarious.

One thing people find about me, is they can't tell if I am joking or not because of the off-the-wall shit I joke about (is he serious or what?) so the DB handle has them wondering right from the beginning. Haha, I like it - keep wondering !

DB

[Skyryder]

When I was in the States there was an old Indian doing the naming thing for tourists etc. So I paid him I think it was about $20. He had this little brazier and he threw on some dried leafy material there was some smoke he muttered some incantation of some sort. I got this little certificate (bloodywell lost it) with my Indian name on it. This translated to Skyryder. Twenty bucks for the obvious like I spoke with an American 'twang.'

Skyryder

[Mikkel]

You'd have to ask my parents - they gave it to me...

(It's just a danish variation of Michael, just like Mike and Mickey.)

I do sometimes miss the late-night burble of a 14.4kbps modem finally getting past the busy signals and connecting to a local BBS.

Ah, the excitement of all those slowly-downloaded JPEGs of naked women, multiplayer Doom via modem, and the Anarchist's Cookbook textfiles.

And mum and dad picking up the phone in the kitchen and yelling at me because they got a data signal in their ear at precisely the same time I started yelling at them for killing my connection and condemning me to another half hour of auto-redial.

Good old days (yes, I was 'jrandom' then, too).

yeah bbs back in the day was awsome, i started on a 1200 baud modem, i over clocked to 2400 baud, on my good ol 386

took like 20+ mins to download that picture of Teri Hatcher in superman cape, that was the hit at the time

and playing the muds, and trying to hack the bbs to get myself few net

Thanks for sending me on a trip down memory lane...

I remember the 2400 baud modems as well. I frequented a few fora back in those days and remember the long wait for downloads. Images were killers and videos were nonexistent. Online gaming in the form of MUDs was a lot of fun - and I spent a huge amount of hours doing so. This was on Valhalla in Denmark (the original DIKU MUD for those who know what that is) - on a direct dial-up connection (think the danish equivalent of Amberley to Auckland). I think it supported all of 16 players due to a limited number of incoming lines. My parents weren't too pleased with me spending so much time gaming online and I usually waited until they'd gone to bed and then played through until 3:30 am... The first half of 1st year of Highschool passed in a zombie-like haze! I remember when the phone bill arrived - ~$1100 - fortunately I had the money, but there was a lot of explaining to do, the parents were impressed... in the bad way!
Then came the internet and with a huge selection of MUDs and the opportunity for local dial-up...

[marty]

Macfly was a name used for me in a past life, as it's close to my surname, however I quite like the notion of time travel, so I started using Marty. It's just stuck, and people use it as much as my my real name.