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antik · Apprentice Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 212

I got it back in 1994 when first time used internet via uucp mail. First unix I see was SCO Open Desktop. Admin gave us opportunity to choose usernames and here I am :oops:

Real meaning:

My real name is : Andrei and surname is: Kolu
My friends call me Anti as short version of Andrei in estonian.
anti + first letter from my surname = antik

Must learn english harder :idea:

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puggy · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:01 am Post subject:

I was nicknamed this by my grandparents long years ago (Because it's similar to my real name I suppose) and then everyone just started calling me it. This is an on and offline nickname for me. Some people who I've known for years (or at least a decent long while) don't even know my real name. :-D

Puggy
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petardi · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

I have a very common name, so usernames based on it are usually taken. There was a joke about a guy named Petardi. I forgot the joke, but remember the name

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ormi · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:46 am Post subject:

I got my name in 1998 when I was robbed by a police in Estonia
(Tallinn). YES! It even happened in the police station! Two russian
talking policemen took all my money (~100$) when I and my friend (her
wallet was robbed few minutes before) went to make report of an offence.

I had so bad luck that my friend called me "Orm Onnekas". Short, Ormi.
Orm Onnekas is a friend of a viking (I don't know what it's in english,
but here is his picture) who always have bad luck.

Edit: Yep, that was it! Lucky Eddie! (-:

Woland · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:55 am Post subject:

puggy · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 10:00 am Post subject:

pYrania · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 10:07 am Post subject:

my nick is back from the days in 1994/6. really can't remember for sure. named by those cute little piranhas i got

my nick is, like puggy's, better known than my realname.
at school last year, even some teachers called me pYrania... :eek:

[OT]nowadays my programming 'teacher' just calles me: "geek."
guess because i programmed him some recursive algorythm some time ago, that he didn't understand after hardly trying for 2 hours.[/OT]
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Cossins · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:17 am Post subject:

I've done this once before...

I somehow aquired the name "Fætre" on my boarding school (it's danish male plural for "cousin") - Probably because I was someone else's cousin. Then I though of the nickname Cousins (for english-language forums), but changed it rather quickly to Cossins, only to distract the enemy...

- Simon

Xargon · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:53 pm Post subject:

About the same time (10+ yrs ago), I saw the name Xargon appear in both the "Hero Quest" board game and a "Jill of the Jungle" type game. I started using the game for role-playing, and then naturally progressed to a computer alias from there.
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pYrania · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:06 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject:

When I was working in our lab, instead of a PhD office, I used to call my friends "bloody bastard" with a somewhat British accent when they did something that I didn't like.
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OneOfOne · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:45 pm Post subject:

got mine from Startrek : Voyager.
alot of people don't know One Of One

peace

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject:

Hi,

NeddySeagoon is the name of a patriotic upper class English twit who will do anything for money. Not like me at all. Its from the Highly Esteamed 'Goon Show'.

For a longer explaination try
realplay http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/realplayer/dsatg2.rpm
at 7:30 PM British Summer Time on Mondays.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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skunk · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 550 Location: london, uk

well... i find skunks nice animals: no violence, just bad smell for keeping enemies away

there is also an amazing dutch product with the same name which i like too :wink:

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far · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:30 pm Post subject:

I had it as (a part of) my username at my university. It is an abbreviation of my real name (so is my avatar.) Also, some of my friends call me by it. It means "father" in Swedish.
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lisa · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:37 pm Post subject:

Guess.

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Lovechild · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:41 pm Post subject:

handsomepete · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

The deformed look-a-like of Krusty the Klown from the Simpsons (in the episode where Krusty fakes his death in a plane crash) is named Handsome Pete (he dances for nickels!). I don't feel that I have any similarities to that short weird looking accordian playing clown, but it's just so fun to type I had to stick with it.

stustill · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:01 pm Post subject:

Mine is simple, my name is Stuart Still, drop the art, and the space and you get stustill. I would use stu, but it tends to always be taken, and there aren't a huge number of Stuart Still's, so it is easy to get

Stu

my_nick · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 28 Location: Slovenia

i just wanted a nick that is just mine :lol:

Xargon · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject:

prolific · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 237

i was sitting in a chapters bookstore [canadian bookstore where they have nice cumfy sofas and allow you to read books, magazines, etc. for free]. I was reading some computer book and the author of the book had a company called "prolific"... I liked the name and so I started using it.. Dictionary.com defines it as

pizen · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:02 pm Post subject:

Thought this seemed familiar. We've done this before: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19837

antik · Apprentice Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 212

thesysadmin · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 50

thesysadmin

Played off of |the sys admin| (my other account here, doesn't work for some reason...). |the sys admin| is what I use at most places online.

|the sys admin|

I call myself that for a few reasons. 1) My future career choice is a System Administrator. 2) It sounds somewhat cool. 3) I fix most computer problems in my house/area so to my family I am the System Administrator.

I also think it just looks kinda cool.
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