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

**PrincessBandit** · 21st January 2008, 13:02

I'm sure this has been up before, but tried a search and didn't find anything so here goes......

after seeing Mark's "what do you look like" thread I was interested in how people came up with their aka on kb. Some I guess are obvious e.g. my brother is a katana aficionado hence his choice of moniker. Me, well I too wanted something related to my bike but most of the bandit ideas were already taken so I went with Princess- because (i) i can behave like one at times and (ii) it is more fitting than other choices such as Bum-.......
How about you?

**Coyote** · 21st January 2008, 13:15

Coyote's are cool

As for my previous alias, 'alarumba', that was a name I used on the internets since noone else used it and I didn't need to remember a name with a series of numbers at the end, like 'well_hung2836'. I used it not knowing how small KB was at the time (friend told me to sign up, I did, then looked around) and would've used something cooler like Coyote, Reaper or Phoenix if I had known.

**Trouss** · 21st January 2008, 13:21

Trouss has been my nickame since I was a little apprentice drinker. . . One of mates picked it as I didn't have a nickname at the time, everyone else did. . . Gambling, Fatty, Big Lou, Damla, the list goes on.

It just stuck, and has been with me ever since. There are people around that only know me as Trouss.

**onearmedbandit** · 21st January 2008, 13:23

I'm addicted to gambling...

**scumdog** · 21st January 2008, 13:25

And I'm a low-life menacing bastard not to be trifled with...

**Ixion** · 21st January 2008, 13:30

A respectful memorial of my illustrious and canonical namesake, not knowing which the more to praise and feebly emulate, his scholarship, erudition, enthusiasm or Christianity.

**Maffoo** · 21st January 2008, 13:35

its my nick on all the forums im on
its a bastardization of my real name (matthew)
a girl i used to know used to call me maffoo when she was drunk... it stuck

**imdying** · 21st January 2008, 13:46

Inoperable brain tumour.

**Bass** · 21st January 2008, 13:48

I play in a band - figure it out

**Ixion** · 21st January 2008, 13:50

You're a fish ?? So, you play scales , I guess ?

**nodrog:Me** · 21st January 2008, 13:57

its my real name, my parents are cunts

**Str8 Jacket** · 21st January 2008, 13:58

I'm mentally unstable.....

**koba** · 21st January 2008, 14:16

koba was a georgian folk hero (the country, not the US state) who was a wee bit like robin hood, stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
Joseph Dzugashvilli took it as his communist psuedonym early on in the fight against the russian government/monarchy. Later in his career he added "Stalin", meaning "man of steel". He eventually dropped the koba altogether.
In this transition I finad an amazing metaphor on human nature and development, Idealistic working for good at the beginning, working hard to rise to the top of a ladder and ending life a bitter, untrustworthy and corrupt old man.

I would like to belive by keeping examples of such possible life paths close at hand I may be able to avoid becoming the almost inevitable stereotype of a "grumpy old man"!

However I believe I know a disproportionate ammount of older ladise and gent who aren't grumpy.

Oh, and "koba" is easy to type and remember.

**007XX** · 21st January 2008, 14:24

My husband (then partner) gave me a personalised plate with 007XX on it for my birthday a couple of years ago.

His last name being Bond, and XX being the chromosome sequence for a girl, he declared me his girl on that day

A lot of people think it is something quite raunchy, but it is just very romantic.