Thread: Why is your Username/Nickname?

I just thought you were bragging!

i really should make up a better story!

I hope nobody minds me resurrecting an old thread as I thought it might be nice to see why others here use the forum name that they do!

Mine is the name of my restaurant equipment repair business which I named after my three children Joshua, Matthew, and Sandra!

Mine used to be my name (on lots of forums), but then one day I Googled myself and found all kinds of stuff about me on the internet - and realised what a privacy issue the net can be.

So I picked a new one, I was playing loads of World of Warcraft at the time, and there are lots of similar names on there, Ironforge, Steelgrille, Angerforge, Forgewright etc - so I picked something similar.

I also bought the domain www.steelforge.co.uk at the same time, but never used it for anything...

Nothing interesting to mine. Basically my family and friends call me E or Big E. Ernest is my middle name and I go by it.
Ernest

I don't spend nickels, I save them up and give them to my closest friends. For a brief period in history I was NickelNinja, but that site is gone now.

I do get called nickelking in real life, I got 3 valentines addressed to The Nickel King, and regularly sign my emails with "5¢"

My other oft used alias is JC Hammilton, the initials of my first and last name and my father's birth last name. That one used to be used only when I was doing non-acting work in the theater on technical things such as stage combat coreography. Somehow that one migrated online.

As theater crew I just went by Allen Derjac, an anagram of my first and last name.

Doc is the star of my street show called DR Trinidad's world famous Traveling medicine show. It is a typical old time medicine show found during the 1800's We do magic and sideshow stuff like the bed of nails. We also pitch Dr Trinidad;s muscle rejuvenating and hair restoring tonic. and we prove the worth of our product by shoving our hands into solid steal badger traps. I is a fun filled show of family entertainment. We also have the whats it the body of some poor creature never seen by the eye of man. It is truly a moving experience.

Ladies step right up and prepare to view a marvel now I know that there is not a ladies out there who is not sick and tired of trying to get grass stains out of the old mans pants well worries no more one treatment OF THE wondrous POTION AND THOSE STAINS JUST VANISH AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS FORMULA IS A wonderful STARCH, now I know that each of you ladies have something in your home just laying around on your couch limp as a noodle well one dose of this elixir we have Every thing working properly and starched as stiff as a bone. Why! I had a young bride offer me a car for A CASE OF THIS WONDERFUL STUFF

Doc is the star of my street show called DR Trinidad's world famous Traveling medicine show. It is a typical old time medicine show found during the 1800's We do magic and sideshow stuff like the bed of nails. We also pitch Dr Trinidad;s muscle rejuvenating and hair restoring tonic. and we prove the worth of our product by shoving our hands into solid steal badger traps. I is a fun filled show of family entertainment. We also have the whats it the body of some poor creature never seen by the eye of man. It is truly a moving experience.

Ladies step right up and prepare to view a marvel! Now I know that there is not a ladies out there who is not sick and tired of trying to get grass stains out of the old mans pants well worry no more one treatment OF THis wondrous POTION AND THOSE STAINS JUST VANISH, AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS FORMULA IS A wonderful STARCHas well , now I know that each of you ladies have something in your home just laying around on your couch limp as a noodle and worthless! well one dose of this elixir and we will have Every thing working properly and starched as stiff as a bone. Why! I had a young bride offer me a mattume car for A CASE OF THIS WONDERFUL STUFF. alright now please step forward madame I do love forward women!

Olav is my middle name and Vittfarne means wide traveled, and since I live in Mongolia and have been to Mozambique, among other places, I guess I can call me that.
It also have a nice medieval ring to it, Olav being an old Scandinavian name. Several Norwegian kings have had that name.
I have used Olav Vidstige since early 80's, but Vidstige is what Strider is called in the old translation of LOTR and when the films came out and Tolkien fever was rampant it was sort of dorky to keep it.

"Jockeys" (yes it's plural) was my fraternity name in school. I went for 5 years being called that, by profs, brothers, co-workers and girlfriends alike. I even called myself that in my head.

It's also sort of odd, so in most forums I don't need to add a number to use my normal name.

Cool thread...Stilley is my last name, the 30 was my old hockey number.


Brian