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Ms Monny
05-05-2011, 10:02pm
I have been wondering for quite a while as to how alot of people on here came about to thinking up their forum name!! Obviously some have used their real names (mine, for example, is what an old boss called me) but there are some weird and wonderful names out there.... :crzy:

what do they mean and where did they come from???? :umm:

do tell, we are all wanting to know!! ;)

mudman
05-05-2011, 10:18pm
mine is made up of the first 3 characters of my surname and i am a man

Tikira
05-05-2011, 10:27pm
We are named after our two dogs. Tip & Kira

Di

mrDooba
05-05-2011, 10:34pm
Another one named after their dog. It's one of his many nicknames.

NikonNellie
05-05-2011, 10:51pm
Mine is pretty obvious - I use a Nikon camera and my name is Narelle but often get called Nellie.

Boofhead
05-05-2011, 11:31pm
For 16 years I shared my life with the best dog in the world and I honour him with my forum name. A couple of years down the track and I miss him as much as ever. That is my boy in my avatar. :)

Kym
05-05-2011, 11:36pm
I had a handle in the past, but changed it to my first name because i don't need anonymity on AP ;)

Chilli
06-05-2011, 12:41am
mine is my dear cats name who died 10 months ago, she was 18, she was a hot chilli pepper.

ricktas
06-05-2011, 6:05am
Mine is boring, name and location.

jasnat
06-05-2011, 7:00am
My name (Jason) and my wife's (Natalie) smashed together

mitch2147
06-05-2011, 7:54am
Mine is similar to Rick, name and location. Difference is the postcode for my home town as location.

Arthur Dunger
06-05-2011, 8:00am
Mine is a character Paul Hogan used to play on his TV shows, it just appealed to me.

Derek-C
06-05-2011, 8:02am
Derek was taken so added the first letter of my second name.

Derek

rookie
06-05-2011, 8:12am
Because I am

farmer_rob
06-05-2011, 8:13am
I have a farm - hence farmer - and part of my first name. (I also currently have a paying job in the real world, but this changes from time to time, so changing to pump_rob or GIS_rob seems pointless :confused013.)

lay-z
06-05-2011, 8:17am
This one's carried back to the ol' days when IRC chat rooms were the place to be, so it's kind of stuck :p

Rattus79
06-05-2011, 9:22am
ditto on mine for the IRC thing.

Mine was originally a nickname given to me owing some to "the Ferals" and some to the fact i kinda look like a rat.

Nonas
06-05-2011, 9:29am
:oWhat my grandkids call me - although there was a bit of a problem with the way I spelt it to start with.

Darey
06-05-2011, 9:35am
My surname is Dare so my nickname was and still is Darey.

dragons girl
06-05-2011, 10:05am
Well mine is simple Dragons girl I follow st george and i am female . RED and WHITE flows through my veins !!:HardcoreCC:

Ms Monny
06-05-2011, 10:09am
This is so interesting to read!! Thanks for telling - it is intriguing how people come up with their names! :th3:

William
06-05-2011, 10:23am
Mines boring also :( William it is, Most call me Bill tho:D

kiwi
06-05-2011, 10:29am
I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

Ms Monny
06-05-2011, 10:32am
:lol:

Art Vandelay
06-05-2011, 10:43am
Mine came about from a fictitious character in the old Seinfeld series. I like things a little bit quirky.

andylo
06-05-2011, 11:21am
First name + surname, boring as... :o

Keith
06-05-2011, 12:46pm
Mine is even more boring. And kiwi - that does explain a few things !:lol:

Mat
06-05-2011, 1:17pm
Well Mathew with only 1 't' so Mat and not Matt

gcflora
06-05-2011, 1:19pm
I am interested in (and work with) flora. GC is for Gold Coast ;)

fillum
06-05-2011, 1:30pm
Wanted something a bit like my name and a bit photographic. Some of my family had old cameras that used "fillum" so I took that. (It's a lot like film apparently :D).


Cheers.

ving
06-05-2011, 1:54pm
there is a long long story behind mine.... (well not that long really). it started with online gaming. this is an abbreviation of the name that i used (MOOving Target). there is of course more to it but there you go.

Outoflipsync
06-05-2011, 2:26pm
Mine came from the gaming world as well. It's the name from my first toon I made on World of Warcraft.. I use it for pretty much everything online now.

Kerro
06-05-2011, 2:30pm
Mine is boring too. Kerro short for Kerrigan, my christian name.

dbax
06-05-2011, 3:01pm
I tried to fly when I was 4....failed


Cracked me up :lol::lol:

First initial of my first name and part of my surname....... yawn boring I know, but easy to remember and type :D

ksolomon
06-05-2011, 3:04pm
Mine is very boring first initial of my first name Kassy and my full surname. Nice to know where all have come from :)

Question to powers that be - if we want a more creative one how do we change this?

Kym
06-05-2011, 3:05pm
I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

Well, I flew when I was four, with my parents on an aircraft. ;)

Hint to UnZid members... There are flying machines :th3:

yummymummy
06-05-2011, 4:27pm
:confused013 I have 6 kids lol :)

para
06-05-2011, 4:38pm
My short for "Parachute" as in parachute regiment plus has been my nick name back home for years

AmyK
06-05-2011, 5:16pm
Mine is just my name, and the first letter of my middle name :) Works pretty well because my fiance's surname starts with 'K' so once we're married, I'll still be Amy K!

kiwi
06-05-2011, 5:33pm
Well, I flew when I was four, with my parents on an aircraft. ;)

Hint to UnZid members... There are flying machines :th3:

There wasn't a scheduled airnz flight from my window to the ground in those days Kym

brownie
06-05-2011, 5:49pm
Kodak box Brownie was the first camera I used.

Mark L
06-05-2011, 9:07pm
God, I feel a little boring after reading this.
Do you really need to know my surname, it starts with L.

Ms Monny
06-05-2011, 9:17pm
MarkL - no, you don't need to devulge your surname if you don't want to!! ;)

Kiwi - I knew you meant 'out the window' when talking about flying!! hahaha

para - I hope the name back home doesn't involve alcohol!! :D

yummymummy - after 6 kids :eek: I would put that as my name too! Actually, hows this for a name for you - 'superwoman'!!!!!

ving - finally I find out what yours means! Yay! Very inventive ;)

jasnat - hmmm, smashed together? Literally???? hahaha

fillum - when I saw yours I instantly thought of the eastern states and how they pronounce words differently ..... my ex's mother in Victoria always said film as fillum! And tissues were said as the brand name ie "Pass the Kleenex"!! Oh, and the vaccum cleaner was a Hoover!! LOL!!!

Lance B
06-05-2011, 9:57pm
I'm as boring as bat sh!t, this is my real name. :D

Ms Monny
06-05-2011, 9:58pm
:D You could have lied and said you were using your neighbours name!! ha ha ha

Lance B
06-05-2011, 10:00pm
:D You could have lied and said you were using your neighbours name!! ha ha ha

Yes, but it's still boring! :D

Ms Monny
06-05-2011, 10:13pm
Mine sounds like I am an old spinster!! Don't know how many other people use 'Ms' in their names?!?!?! Actually, spinsters wouldn't use Monny .... hmm, a bit of a contast there.... I just didn't like 'Miss' as that made me sound like I was only 5 yrs old!! :D

Boring isn't that bad - easy to remember and you don't have to think twice about how you want to spell the darn thing! ;)

Jacs14
06-05-2011, 10:19pm
what a great thread, I agree very interesting .... another boring one here ... Jacs14 ... Jacs is my nickname from way back - Jacqui shortened, 14 my birthday.
the only thing that has become a bit of a joke is I have often been mixed up with Jules - 41Jas, which is a complement to me, but not so kind to Jules :lol: so would be interested in what you could do to change it *admins* ?????
If I was to change it then would change to KelSa {which is what I will use if ever I get to a point of being good enough to add name to shots etc} KelSa comes from mashing my kids Kelly and Sam together

tcdev
06-05-2011, 10:55pm
Pretty boring here too. Years ago I started up a one-man software/electronic design company named 'Technetium Development' ('technetium' sounded technical) and I started using 'tcdev' as an abbreviation (technetium is atomic element #43 and its symbol is 'tc'). The company is long gone but I still use the nick 'tcdev' for pretty much all my online presence, most of which involves nerdy geeky stuff (unlike photography which is hip and cool!) :p

Ratmick
06-05-2011, 11:31pm
Old enough to be also be an IRC user, first group I joined was one that was populated by keepers of domesticated rattus rattus. There was already a Mick, and a Mike and I had two rats...so Ratmick was my boring solution (plus I'm in IT and hence have no imagination).

This is my daughter Emma with one of my girls in 2000:

71960

Funny enough the name has followed me over 15 years, and it's now to be found on Honda and Kawasaki motorcycle web forums globally, photography sites globally, RC racing forums globally and an Aussie caravanner forum (and I haven't even got a van).

The rat on a skateboard avatar comes from a greeting card, and I thought it was apt given how short in the leg I am. The owner of the original artwork is unknown but I salute him now. Salute and kudos, whoever you are!

(Rat)Mick

OzzieTraveller
07-05-2011, 7:06am
Hey Kiwi...

I tried to fly when I was 4....failed

glad you've succeeded in other areas :cool: :cool:

Regards, Phil

geoffsta
07-05-2011, 8:06am
Mine is simple.. The forum wouldn't let me just use my first name, or it would add a insignificant number to the end. So I just added the first three letters of my surname.
It's just who I am. I've got nothing to hide, and I like to know that when someone wants to reply to something I've added, that they can call me by my real name. :confused013

Dylan & Marianne
07-05-2011, 8:46am
mine is because I like repeating what has been said before

nah not really, dylan toh = dtoh

I @ M
07-05-2011, 9:15am
I @ M = Images At Marlo, I had never been part of a forum before this one and it was never meant to be an "anonymous" user name but it was the first thing that came to mind.

triptych
07-05-2011, 10:11am
Well mine is from the old IRC days too... triptych = 3 panel artwork and I cant remember why I chose it, but it has stuck with me for years!

ricstew
07-05-2011, 10:45am
cool thread.....mine is actually my hubbies which makes no sense I know. Way back when we first got the internet we had to choose a name for email and this is what he came up with. That email is long gone but I still use the name on everything cause otherwise I forget what to log on with!

Ms Monny
07-05-2011, 11:00am
ricstew - I have been thinking alot about your name!! That sounds creepy, I know, and I am not creepy :o Was wondering why you had a 'guy' sounding name!! :D

ricstew
07-05-2011, 11:12am
Hehehe Ms Monny......I am a not so little grey haired granny aged person with the memory span of a gnat! The avatar is my youngest daughter with my spoiled house cat!

Ms Monny
07-05-2011, 11:31am
Ah!! And I thought that was you in the avatar! :D

Simbas
07-05-2011, 11:52am
Sim - short for simon
Bas - short for Basile
Plus it sounded a bit like Sinbad, one of my favourite cartoons way back when!

Namus
07-05-2011, 1:39pm
Real name = Nam; one of the school nicknames was 'Namus'. Yay for interesting back-stories :rolleyes: :p

Ionica
07-05-2011, 2:15pm
The first ( and only ) Internet forum I've joined, so unsure what to use. Took the name of the region of Italy I come from. My avatar is a photo of one of the many ancient and interesting hill towns which abound in the area.

kiwi
07-05-2011, 2:26pm
I have two feet

Dave Clifford
07-05-2011, 3:58pm
GOYB is for 'Get Off Your Butt' and my name is Dave.

Ms Monny
07-05-2011, 9:15pm
:lol: GOYB!! I love it! Thats what I should use....my hubby would be impressed if I did!

Kiwi - so glad that you do! :D

Roo
07-05-2011, 11:57pm
its my Nickname nothing special.

canonboy
08-05-2011, 12:04am
All my gear is Canon & I think I'm still a boy.:th3:

ving
08-05-2011, 1:12am
My short for "Parachute" as in parachute regiment plus has been my nick name back home for yearsnothing to do with MC Hammer pants then?


:confused013 I have 6 kids lol :)and you taste good? :p

Patagonia
08-05-2011, 5:39am
mine is in honour of the most amazing place on earth and not to forget at some point in my life I will settle somewhere there.

regards

yummymummy
08-05-2011, 12:54pm
yummymummy - after 6 kids :eek: I would put that as my name too! Actually, hows this for a name for you - 'superwoman'!!!!!


LOL I dunno about superwoman.. but yeah, 6 kids :) 5 boys and one little girl :)

Doninoz
08-05-2011, 12:57pm
One of my international mates coined my alias and it stuck...I'm Don in Australia (OZ) so doninoz!

kiwi
08-05-2011, 1:17pm
I'm a NZ citizen

geoffsta
08-05-2011, 3:42pm
I'm a NZ citizen
That's not our fault, is it? :confused013 :lol:

brindyman
08-05-2011, 3:48pm
got mine in school...someone gave it to me...no idea what it means or why but there you go......the silly stuff that goes on in the school playground right?

yeeoff
08-05-2011, 4:03pm
My first name is Geoff and I worked with a Sweedish guy for years who always pronounced my name as Yeeoff.

seastorm
08-05-2011, 4:08pm
I needed something for my email with only 8 characters, so seastorm it was :)

Mr Lensbaby
08-05-2011, 6:07pm
because i like them

Ms Monny
08-05-2011, 6:27pm
That's not our fault, is it? :confused013 :lol:

:lol: classic!!

Ms Monny
08-05-2011, 6:38pm
because i like them

and it sounds :cool:!!

I checked out a site for Lensbaby - wow! I really like! I have a Holga toy camera and I like the effects from that....fun, hip and unpredictable!! :D

hawko02
08-05-2011, 6:41pm
Well.. All our kids were known as Hawko all through school and still in the real world ( 4 of them) They have hot mail addresses with hawko in them etc.. so when I ventured online with ebay and live mail and now ausphotography i figured my husband must be 01 so I made myself 02 and the kids can do what they want but we are still 1&2...

chamellieon
08-05-2011, 7:28pm
well mine has quite an in-depth history. I'll give you the breakdown.
cha-mellie-on
in highschool (quite a few years ago now) i called myself a chameleon... we all know what those lovely creatures are. Anyway, this was based around the fact that I had friends from all different circles, but could change my discourse and behaviour to fit in with each whenever I met up with them. Chameleon was way too common on forums, so I modified the bits - cha-mel-eon became cha-mellie-on (as my real name is mel). Here, I had created a unique username for everything on the internet, and haven't had a problem getting first priority email addresses ever since! So it's stuck, but recently (and a choice based around maturity) has seen me change my photographic-operative name to Mel Sinclair photography.

Speedway
08-05-2011, 7:50pm
Mine is simple, after over 30 years involved in speedway racing it was an easy to remember username when I got my first windows computer back in 1997 and I've just stuck with it. My avatar is the first Hot Rod I built from the ground up in 1983.
Keith.

Ms Monny
08-05-2011, 7:53pm
Some of my friends said the same about me being a chameleon....I too had friends in different circles! Never thought of that for a name though! :th3: I like the change to the name too.

Stingray
08-05-2011, 8:00pm
This one's carried back to the ol' days when IRC chat rooms were the place to be, so it's kind of stuck :p

Mines the same .. I have been (and still am ...lol) Stingray on Irc since about 95/96 or so and its stuck...

:)

fjoe45
09-05-2011, 7:38am
I own an old FJ45 Landcruiser and my name is joe.

Ms Monny
09-05-2011, 9:06am
Ok, WHAT IS 'IRC'??? There are a few of you that have 'used' it but what do you do with it?? Is it a game online??

WhoDo
09-05-2011, 9:17am
An interesting read, Ms Monny. At the risk of sounding ancient, mine goes back to Bulletin Board days on dial up modem at 1200 bps when I got involved (through an IT acquaintance) in an early online game called Trade Wars. I was always a bit of a doer, as opposed to a talker, and when a piece of graffiti extolling the Hoodoo Guru's caught my eye I modified it to better explain my personal motivation and perhaps exposes even the tiniest smidgeon of my own self image.

In those days using your real name online was only asking to be spammed or worse, so everyone used a "handle". I have kept mine through IRC chat rooms, baseball umpire forums, graphic arts forums, Linux developer forums and a whole host of other environments that now include AP and Pentax forums. It has become a part of my psyche in philosophical terms because in the world of Linux software development, those "who do" are forever being set upon by those "who want" something done! I always preferred to be one of the former rather than the latter; I figured that I could learn to "do" what I needed so why couldn't they?

A long-ish story, and no doubt a boring one, but from what I've read here I'm guessing my nick was probably one of the more enigmatic around AP. So now you know! :D

Ms Monny
09-05-2011, 9:20am
Well, thanks WhoDo! No, not boring at all, actually enlightening!! I think it is a very POSITIVE name, just like GOYBDave (Get Off Your Butt Dave)!! :D

WhoDo
09-05-2011, 9:26am
Ok, WHAT IS 'IRC'??? There are a few of you that have 'used' it but what do you do with it?? Is it a game online??

Internet Relay Chat, an Internet-based, text only communications facility from the early days of the 'net before Worldwide Web (www) graphics. Probably best known among geeks from IT and University who used the Internet for cool stuff before Bill Gates even invented it and called it the Information Superhighway! :)

Ms Monny
09-05-2011, 9:32am
Ok! Thanks for that info! I think that it was way before me too!! We only got the computer in 2000 when my hubby decided to start his own business (he still has the business too :D).

Bennymiata
10-05-2011, 10:44am
Benny comes from an old school nickname (even one of my headmasters used to call me Benny), and I love Mazda MX-5's, which are called Miatas in the US, and I thought the 2 names put together has a certain "ring" to it.
On the MX-5 Forum I'm just plain Benny - and use the same avatar as I use here.

Adrian Fischer
10-05-2011, 11:35am
Ummm...go on, have a guess...

Doninoz
10-05-2011, 2:48pm
:lol::lol:Ha Ha (laughking so loodly I kep strikin de wong keys...)I tink dis is a clasik too. no offence to our NZ cousins!:lol::lol:

ving
10-05-2011, 3:05pm
Ummm...go on, have a guess...
your name is ardian and you like fisching? :p

wheellathe
10-05-2011, 4:16pm
I am a wheellathe operator . The lathe is a Hegenscheidt which I suppose makes me a Hegenscheidter, but I think wheellathe sounds better.

Lance B
10-05-2011, 4:17pm
I have two feet

Who's a big boy then. :D

Ms Monny
10-05-2011, 4:29pm
Ummm...go on, have a guess...

hmm, a name of a Superhero??? no, no, wait, I think I know....no, sorry, nothing comes to mind! What does it mean??? :lol:

kiwi
10-05-2011, 6:30pm
Who's a big boy then. :D

They call me tripod

41jas
10-05-2011, 7:22pm
This photo says it all.
Though it's normally cleaner than this. We picked up these hitch hikers after a trip towards Broken Hill last year. Grasshoppers......1000's of them!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3312/5706625996_67673080c3_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41jas/5706625996/)
bugs'r'us (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41jas/5706625996/) by 41JAS (http://www.flickr.com/people/41jas/), on Flickr

41jas
10-05-2011, 7:23pm
We were actually at a car wash when I took this.

Bennymiata
11-05-2011, 12:14pm
We were actually at a car wash when I took this.

It obviously didn't do much good!

Those grasshoppers are a real pain.
Many years ago, I drove through a plague of them and had to remove my radiator to pick them all out with tweezers, as no high pressure cleaner would make a dent in them!

mistletoe
11-05-2011, 12:19pm
mine's the name of my first pet cat. I use the handle on other forums so....

Ms Monny
11-05-2011, 3:47pm
41jas - love the number plate and the car isn't that shabby either (envious! ;)). Whats the 41 stand for??

wheellathe - much easier to say too!! ;)

Ms Monny
11-05-2011, 3:48pm
They call me tripod

:lol: :lol: :lol:

41jas
11-05-2011, 4:00pm
41jas - love the number plate and the car isn't that shabby either (envious! ;)). Whats the 41 stand for??

When we went to buy the plates I was acually after 33JAS due to the time I had a Skyline R33. Cos that was taken and I wasn't going to pay $2,300 for a fancy number plate, I had a choice of 4 left with JAS. Ivan thought the 41 would be good because he's getting it for(4) me(number one) so there is how we became 41JAS. You have to understand Ivan's way of thinking but very clever Plus 4 is my favourite number. Ivan always said it's for (4) my one (1) and only JAS.... Julie-Anne Smith (JAS)
A boss at work parked beside me one day when I noticed she had 42JAS. She even said there wasn't much to choose from. LOL Funny story I reckon.
I did have a number plate 444FUN, lol, sold that with the 4x4 we had.

41jas
11-05-2011, 4:03pm
It obviously didn't do much good!

That's before we washed. and boy was it hard work getting that clean. and your right. We had to do some serious picking to get those buggers out from around the lights and off the radiator.

Ms Monny
11-05-2011, 4:06pm
I love this story, Julie-Anne! I was actually hoping it wasnt your age because what happens when you turn 42?? Don't understand people who do that. Our numberplate is our car (SVZ) plus the year it is made but I didn't like 007 (can't have 07 as it is the old style numberplates - S series) as people would think it is a Bond thingy, so 700 it became. Still not too sure but can't do much about it!! Would loooove to have 'Monika' but that was taken. I joked with my hubby that I will hunt her down, knock her on the head and then I can have the numberplates!! :D ;)

ozcopilot
11-05-2011, 4:07pm
My partner is OzzieTraveller, and I'm his navigator, hence, ozcopilot.

41jas
11-05-2011, 4:10pm
I love this story, Julie-Anne! I was actually hoping it wasnt your age because what happens when you turn 42?? Don't understand people who do that. Our numberplate is our car (SVZ) plus the year it is made but I didn't like 007 (can't have 07 as it is the old style numberplates - S series) as people would think it is a Bond thingy, so 700 it became. Still not too sure but can't do much about it!! Would loooove to have 'Monika' but that was taken. I joked with my hubby that I will hunt her down, knock her on the head and then I can have the numberplates!! :D ;)

I think I acually got them when I was 39 and people that didn't know me thought I was like 25...I'm 45 now and I still get people saying they thought I was 38. BONUS!!!!

WhoDo
11-05-2011, 6:28pm
My partner is OzzieTraveller, and I'm his navigator, hence, ozcopilot.

Great to have you aboard, Mrs Phil! :th3: :cool:

Indigo
12-05-2011, 12:50am
Mine is from where I live , in the Indigo Valley, it is very easy to remember :D

Ms Monny
13-05-2011, 5:54pm
Mine is from where I live , in the Indigo Valley, it is very easy to remember :D

I thought it had something to do with your favourite colour!! :D Cool name for a Valley!

sunny6teen
13-05-2011, 6:15pm
moreamodelprofessionalthanaprofessionalmodel was my first choice but I kept falling asleep during the login procedure.

Ms Monny
13-05-2011, 6:29pm
moreamodelprofessionalthanaprofessionalmodel was my first choice but I kept falling asleep during the login procedure.

:lol: :lol: you could have shortened it to.....MAMPTAPM???? Everyone one does this nowadays! LOL ;)

bushbikie
13-05-2011, 11:30pm
Grew up in the bush and loved riding bikes.

bobt
14-05-2011, 6:22pm
[QUOTE]

fastr1red
14-05-2011, 10:02pm
I had a fast RED R1 in 1998 (Yamaha) now it's white/grey 2009 model. Still just as fast but I wasn't going to change my name cos lots know me as that.
(Have a couple of other bikes still)

Marion
23-05-2011, 2:43pm
Marion........ plain and simple boring real name :)

mitgonk
23-05-2011, 3:23pm
I usually just go with gonK.. but had to go with mitgonk for one reason or another when I signed up here!

Nothing fancy, just a rearrangement of the first and last letters of my name- Tim Kong (well it's actually Timothy W K Kong....)

WhiteFire
23-05-2011, 5:31pm
If I ever start a business, it will be White Fire Photography. White Fire is the meaning of my christian name.

Matix
23-05-2011, 9:27pm
Matix is a derivitive of Dogmatix, the little dog in the Asterix and Obelix series of French comic books. My kids loved me reading from them when little, as they grew up we had a little white dog in the family which had the same name, and when I started using a computer BBS a long time ago and then the Net, 'Matix' was the name that stuck. Hard to change it now, it is everywhere...

http://photos.photo-matix.com.au/img/v22/p99667692-3.jpg

Phil

Boo53
23-05-2011, 10:00pm
I've used a variety of nicknames on the net over the years, pretty much all relating to my work, so now that I'm trying to retire I thought I go back to an old High School nickname.

With a surname of Rapley, when the class read To Kill a Mockingbird I was always going to get Boo as a nickname

mongo
23-05-2011, 11:07pm
Mine is a real nickname I have had for several decades.

Mongo is a mythical simple/basic ( OK , he is plain primitive !) creature. He gets up to mischief , says and does whatever he wants to and is allowed to get away with it – some even think him a likeable rogue.
I could never get away with anything Mongo gets away with. So, when I want to get away with it , I just say Mongo did it and all is forgiven. BTW, this does not work on the tax man when I try to tell them its not my bill - its Mongo’s .

mechawombat
24-05-2011, 5:58am
My name stems from my name and then nickname. My name in native tongue means Wombat, and as a little one my mum used to call me wombat as crawled along I looked like one. however when I sign up on the web, wombat is always taken.
So I decided to add Mecha to the beginning after watching mecha-Godzilla vs Godzilla and that has stuck ever since

Cage
24-05-2011, 10:17am
My nic also comes from the old IRC days when I used the nic 'TheBiker'.

At the time my bike was my only means of transport and one of the other chatters said I was a 'true blue biker'.
The others picked up on it and it stuck. It got shortened to trublubiker and I've used it ever since.

whytebate
24-05-2011, 11:48am
my original surname & my married surname together make Whytebate. When we took our Dog to puppy preschool originally they wrote him a "graduation" certificate & made it out to Max WhyteBate. It kinda stuck form there.

darkbhudda
25-05-2011, 12:16pm
When creating an email address many moons ago I had to think of a name. My nickname is Buddha - though now most people call me DB. I'd flipped one of the Buddhist teachings of "Life is suffering" on its head and gone with a "Life is joy" as my life's motto instead so that made me some kind of evil version of Buddha.

Evil Buddha didn't do it for me. Too limiting in scope. Thus Dark Buddha.

A name dripping with personality and potential. A name that would make brooders such as Raven Darkheart and Obsidian Corvus sound like the Wiggles. A name that will be known throughout the ages as a touch stone for philosophical thought. A name of depth. A name of whimsy. A name to be feared by my enemies. A name to strike terror into the populace. A name that will ... *ahem*

I then went and spelled Buddha wrong when creating the email address.

Ms Monny
25-05-2011, 1:09pm
These certainly are interesting ways of coming up with names!!! It's great to know a little bit more about the people on here ;)

ashey
25-05-2011, 3:35pm
Mine is the nickname all the guys at school gave me, my surname is Ashcroft.

charton
25-05-2011, 7:33pm
Mine is made up from the property name of my parents (many moons ago), also first 4 letters of mum's name and 3 from dad's.

Wilky
28-05-2011, 8:27pm
Wilky, Surname is Wilkin so it starts from that. Old man was called Wilky, elder brother and younger brother both called Wilky, a funny story to go with it. Took the ol man and mum on a steam train ride once. Now we mum who was Di, my wife who is Di and elder brothers partner at time was also Di. We went to a vineyard (in Tassy) where the owner met us so I jumped at the opportunity to introduce us with "(mum and dad first) This is Wilky and Di, and this is Wilky and Di, and I am Wilky and this is Di.

The guy cracked up laughing and about an hour later he came back and called us all by our name, laughed again and said we were the only group he could remember. Was a great day.

Mr Lensbaby
29-05-2011, 8:13am
Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

Xenedis
29-05-2011, 8:49am
I am a dyslexic former game show hostess.

And no, you cannot buy a vowel.

It's pronounced "Zen-eh-dis".

Like the names of a few others here, mine goes back to the good old days of IRC in 1996.

If you type "Xenedis" into Google, most of the results relate to me (my photography, more specifically).

Interestingly, guitarist Phil Xenedis also comes up in the search results. I have been a musician for over 25 years (guitar is one of the instruments I play), but other than that, there is no relation.

ricktas
29-05-2011, 8:55am
Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

Perhaps you may enlighten us by actually showing us some of your photography?

Ms Monny
29-05-2011, 10:04am
Wilky, Surname is Wilkin so it starts from that. Old man was called Wilky, elder brother and younger brother both called Wilky, a funny story to go with it. Took the ol man and mum on a steam train ride once. Now we mum who was Di, my wife who is Di and elder brothers partner at time was also Di. We went to a vineyard (in Tassy) where the owner met us so I jumped at the opportunity to introduce us with "(mum and dad first) This is Wilky and Di, and this is Wilky and Di, and I am Wilky and this is Di.

The guy cracked up laughing and about an hour later he came back and called us all by our name, laughed again and said we were the only group he could remember. Was a great day.

I love it!! What a great story! Hi Wilky :)

Ms Monny
29-05-2011, 10:06am
Love my Lensbaby it brings out the best in my D700;)

Yes, please, do show us some images!! :th3:

DylMah
31-05-2011, 8:57am
Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

Ms Monny
31-05-2011, 9:05am
Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

unique! I guess is is said like the tea Dilmah!? We were going to name our business from our kids - Tomax Plumbing - but it didn't really have a good ring to it, unfortunately!!!

DylMah
31-05-2011, 9:06am
unique! I guess is is said like the tea Dilmah!? We were going to name our business from our kids - Tomax Plumbing - but it didn't really have a good ring to it, unfortunately!!!

Yes, said like the tea. I also meant to add that I am a huge tea drinker, and Dilmah is my tea of choice.

Mark L
31-05-2011, 9:24pm
Mine is a name I use on few forums, and is the first three letters of both my kids names combined.

Ah, so it's not what your kids say to you? :):)

Keith Young
31-05-2011, 10:40pm
Mine is even more boring. And kiwi - that does explain a few things !:lol:

Keiths of the world unite we have no imagination! :scrtch:

Keith
01-06-2011, 3:25pm
Keiths of the world unite we have no imagination! :scrtch:

Amen to that !!

Geoff79
01-06-2011, 3:47pm
Mine is a bit crazy. It's actually my name, and the year I was born (because someone had already stolen... uh, I mean taken the name "Geoff").

Craziness, right? ;)

ApolloLXII
01-06-2011, 3:56pm
I was enthralled with the Apollo space program as a child and just added the year I was born to the end of it.

Sezzy
05-06-2011, 12:21pm
My name came from my real name...Sarah, which is very rarely used unless in a formal setting (or I'm in trouble! :rolleyes:). My brother used to call me Sarsparilla and Sars (which was okay until 2003 hit), but now Sezzy or Sez is what I'm normally called...it's kind of stuck.

Ms Monny
07-06-2011, 3:32pm
Mine is a bit crazy. It's actually my name, and the year I was born (because someone had already stolen... uh, I mean taken the name "Geoff").

Craziness, right? ;)

:eek: OMG! That is just totally way out there! :lol:

Ms Monny
14-11-2012, 11:29am
Well, it has been over a year and we have had many a newbie coming into AP....and once again I look at their name and wonder how they came up with their name???? :scrtch:

Please do tell .... :D

Cage
14-11-2012, 12:00pm
I used to chat in one of the old Bigpond chat rooms in the 90's, and in conversation I mentioned that my motorbike was my only means of transport.

I posted a pic and somebody commented that I looked like a true blue biker, and that was what the other chatters called me.

It got shortened to trublubiker and here I am.

dredi1975
14-11-2012, 1:43pm
Mine is my uni nick name plus the year I was born
Cheers
Maciek aka dredi1975

shelly1170
15-11-2012, 7:37pm
Not very original I'm afraid. My proper, grown-up name is Michelle but only my Mum and Brother call me that.

Shelly is what the rest of my friends/family call me and I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

bobt
15-11-2012, 7:45pm
I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

I don't think I'll use that system ... I'd have to put "BC" after mine .....

Happy birthday - seeing that it's November ....... if you need candles for your cake I have a lot to spare.

Mathy
16-11-2012, 2:10am
Mine is Mathy because I have a maths degree (with Hons) and 2/3rds of a PhD, I love numbers, my favourite is Pi, cheers Deb

Wayne63
16-11-2012, 6:13am
Mine is the same as Geoff79, It's my name, and the year I was born

xxdrakexx
16-11-2012, 8:08am
mine is a little hard to explane lol

Tikira
16-11-2012, 8:19am
Happy birthday for November Shelly- it is a good month- mine is this month too:party6:

Wayne63. - my Wayne is born in '63 too, but as family historians we live more in 1863 than 1963 :efelant:

Jim- that sounds really intriguing, you have my imagination working overtime.

I am enjoying this thread, as it is something I often wonder about too

Di

Wayne63
16-11-2012, 8:43am
Happy birthday for November Shelly- it is a good month- mine is this month too:party6:

Wayne63. - my Wayne is born in '63 too, but as family historians we live more in 1863 than 1963 :efelant:

Jim- that sounds really intriguing, you have my imagination working overtime.

I am enjoying this thread, as it is something I often wonder about too

Di



Must of been a good year :lol2:

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 8:58am
Now, come on Jim, fess up! I thought it had something to do with a duck and lots of kisses....now the mind is wandering!! :lol:


mine is a little hard to explane lol

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I admire anyone that are good with numbers!! :)


Mine is Mathy because I have a maths degree (with Hons) and 2/3rds of a PhD, I love numbers, my favourite is Pi, cheers Deb

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Happy Birthday for this month!! :party5:


Not very original I'm afraid. My proper, grown-up name is Michelle but only my Mum and Brother call me that.

Shelly is what the rest of my friends/family call me and I was born in November 1970, hence 1170.

ameerat42
16-11-2012, 9:58am
I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 10:43am
I'll give you a lolly if you tell!!! :D


I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

xxdrakexx
16-11-2012, 11:36am
well ok then lol its another name some people know me as 'drake' the xx is something my step sister teached me that if you put xx in front and behind the name it is more likely that no one els has that name on a website/ forum so there i eplaned it lol wear did you get the duck idear from lol

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 12:04pm
ha ha! Oh, now that sounds very innocent! A drake is a duck (I think! :rolleyes:) and, well, I just thought you loved ducks! :lol:

xxdrakexx
16-11-2012, 12:12pm
ha ha! Oh, now that sounds very innocent! A drake is a duck (I think! :rolleyes:) and, well, I just thought you loved ducks! :lol:


have you seen me upload a duck photo yet :lol:

PhotoPaul
16-11-2012, 1:53pm
My name is Paul and I am really just a photo. :eek:

In reality, I signed up late at night and couldn't think of anything interesting to use...

MattNQ
16-11-2012, 3:08pm
Also in the boring column - I'm Matt & I live in .......drum roll.......NQ (North Queensland)
I once got creative on a different forum after a few rums and reading a very very strange scifi novel... Sounded cool at first, but once the novelty wore off it just sounded silly, so now I just use boring plain names

Xenedis
16-11-2012, 4:15pm
Must of been a good year :lol2:

(re 1963)

John F. Kennedy might disagree.

geoffsta
16-11-2012, 4:30pm
Thats the year that I tried to burn my parents house down. The building was also a nursing home. I was only 1, and matches were my new found toy... Great year that. :action:

ktoopi
16-11-2012, 4:49pm
wear did you get the duck idear from lol

A male duck is called a drake!:D

My online name came from trying to find a version of my own name that wasn't taken!! Every version of my name is taken so it morphed into ktoopi! That's what happens when you have a very common name!!:)

Quacked
16-11-2012, 6:52pm
Mine is a gaming handle that I have used for a number of years. Years ago at a LAN I sneezed and it came out sounding like Donald Duck. A friend asked me if I just quacked at them. Apparently I had, so the name stuck.

It toggles between Quacks and Quacked, depending on forum/game.

outstar79
16-11-2012, 8:58pm
outstar79, part of a Japanese Animation I used to watch in high school called Outlaw Star and 79 for year of birth. :p

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 9:35pm
ummm, so what is your name? I can't make out a common name from ktoopi!!!! :confused013



My online name came from trying to find a version of my own name that wasn't taken!! Every version of my name is taken so it morphed into ktoopi! That's what happens when you have a very common name!!:)

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Welllllll, the truth comes out now!! Pyro in training???? :eek:


Thats the year that I tried to burn my parents house down. The building was also a nursing home. I was only 1, and matches were my new found toy... Great year that. :action:

Mark L
16-11-2012, 9:35pm
I'm not tellin'.
Nup! I'm not!

(Pout! Pout!)

Go on M:)u can do it
Jimmy the xxduckxx did!

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 9:36pm
Hey, I don't know you from a bar of soap, so I really had noooo idea what you did with ducks, esp when you put kisses in the duck name!!! :D :lol:


have you seen me upload a duck photo yet :lol:

Dylan & Marianne
16-11-2012, 9:42pm
lol I'm afraid mine wasn't very inventive :P

Mark L
16-11-2012, 9:48pm
lol I'm afraid mine wasn't very inventive :P
Better than dtog.
I go away now.:)

Ms Monny
16-11-2012, 9:53pm
:lol: Oh, Mark, you are funny! Ohhh, Mark is your name, isn't it? I mean with a forum name like "Mark L" I can only presume such a thing!! :D ;)

geoffsta
16-11-2012, 9:58pm
Welllllll, the truth comes out now!! Pyro in training???? :eek:

Yep..... 36 years in the fire brigade, and 6 years of that as a captain. I feel I learnt a couple of very important lessons that day. 1. Not to play with matches.. 2. How much a smack hurts.

One Click
16-11-2012, 10:08pm
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd270/iaandam/Smile/112282245ylsXZNlQdigitalcameralarge.gif

Get It?

Mark L
17-11-2012, 8:01pm
:lol: Oh, Mark, you are funny! Ohhh, Mark is your name, isn't it? I mean with a forum name like "Mark L" I can only presume such a thing!! :D ;)

Post #42 (great number)


God, I feel a little boring after reading this.
Do you really need to know my surname, it starts with L.
Mark it is.





http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd270/iaandam/Smile/112282245ylsXZNlQdigitalcameralarge.gif

Get It?


Nope?

shelly1170
17-11-2012, 8:25pm
Awwww...thanks for the birthday wishes! My birthday was the 11th and celebrated with hubby at a fancy rooftop restaurant here in Bangkok. Ate and drank too much!

Ms Monny
17-11-2012, 8:55pm
Whoops!!!! Sorry Mark L, I didn't remember what other posts were made during last year!! :o We will just keep it at "L" for now, hey?? Maybe next year you can divulge more info! :D

ameerat42
18-11-2012, 8:55am
MarL, until next year, just use an "L".

What a Lark!
LAm.

xxdrakexx
18-11-2012, 10:35am
A male duck is called a drake!:D



oh yeah now i rember lol

Cecile
18-11-2012, 10:39am
Cecile, my real first name.

zeroharm
19-11-2012, 6:56pm
Nothing exciting for me.. It is the job I am in!! Mining, and Safety

geoffsta
19-11-2012, 7:43pm
What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

Ms Monny
19-11-2012, 8:12pm
Nothing exciting for me.. It is the job I am in!! Mining, and Safety

Well, on the contrary, I think that is pretty cool to come up with that name!! :th3:

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What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

Hmmm, Ms Monny is pretty close to my name....that is what a few people actually call me (my old boss and the friend I worked with)!! I don't mind the odd names - makes me ponder as to why they chose it; but I do like to see a name SOMEWHERE in the signature, so I can say "Thanks *NAME*". :D

Mark L
19-11-2012, 8:38pm
What I find when a persons "Handle" is close to their actual name is; It sounds more personal when you can say "Nice shot *NAME*" (If you know what I mean)
You tend to also have a greater connection to the person and I feel their image when you use their actual name. That's how I feel anyway.

That hits the Mark with me.:)

William
20-11-2012, 12:20pm
William, Also called Bill :lol2:

fotog
20-11-2012, 12:40pm
Pretty obvious but I was surprised it wasn't already taken.

WhoDo
20-11-2012, 5:31pm
Pretty obvious but I was surprised it wasn't already taken.

Just as well you didn't go with fauxtog though! :p

Ms Monny
21-11-2012, 9:31am
Just as well you didn't go with fauxtog though! :p

:lol: thats funny Waz! I haven't heard of photographers being named that....but there are plenty out there!!! :D

41jas
21-11-2012, 6:50pm
William, Also called Bill :lol2:

Or Willy...by me ;) :D

disco2td5
24-11-2012, 2:51am
Mines a bit boring its my forum name from the Australian land rover owner forum.
Disco =discovery, 2= version 2, td5= turbo diesel 5 cylinder. The land rover site was the first forum I went on and have used the name on all other forums.

Alexam
24-11-2012, 3:40am
Mine is the first 5 letters of my surname (Alexander) followed by the first letter of my Christian name (Malcolm).

I also used it for my photography name of Alexam Images.

Malcolm

Brandy
03-12-2012, 11:09am
My name occurred because of computer spell check. Our property is called Bransty, and the computer decided it liked Brandy better, and I didn't see it until it was saved. I never bothered to change it.

FallingHorse
03-12-2012, 12:04pm
I had a serious horse riding accident years ago. When I got out of hospital and went home my housemates dog greeted me. Her name was Little Foot. I said "How Little Foot, Me Falling Horse". A play on Indian names but it kind of stuck :2smile:

Papou
03-12-2012, 6:23pm
My granchildren call me Papou "grandad" so papou it is:)..

MissionMan
03-12-2012, 7:49pm
MissionMan I got from my mates who said I was always on a mission.

Mark L
12-03-2013, 10:46pm
So what's your story extraball.
Bet you weren't born in Tassie. :D

Mathy
13-03-2013, 1:54am
I'm a mathematician (by qualification) and I've used the nic Mathy on all the forums I belongs to :D

Miyuki
13-03-2013, 10:59pm
My real name...it's Japanese name, so it was available. Easy :D

Funny thing is that there's a forum post called 'hilarious photos of Miyuki' in the not-for-critique section. I'm looking into posting a funny photo of myself ;)

*~Min~*
14-03-2013, 9:59am
Mine is just my nickname since I was a toddler basically. My real name is Mirjana - a Croatian name where the "r" is rolled slightly and the "j" is pronounced with the "y" sound. Very confusing to those reading it, and almost impossible to pronounce (as I came to realise in any roll call haha). So Min it is!