The story behind your nickname...
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Topic: The story behind your nickname...
Posted By: Indigo
Subject: The story behind your nickname...
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:31
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This topic came up in another thread, and I thought that it could be interesting what your stories is behind your nicknames. So what´s yours?!
Here´s mine: Many years ago (10-12 years), I read a magazine about PC games, and there was a review of some kind of game, that was based upon you being a manager and creating a band, and get gigs, records deals and such. It didn´t get such good reviews so I never bought it. But in this game you were (of course) able to decide what the name of the band would be. And the reviewer in this magazine named the band "Indigo [something]". I thought the word Indigo sounded nice. So later that week a friend of mine introduced me to the chat system, IRC. And there, I needed a nickname. I thought of Indigo, and since then I´ve always used it. That was a long one, hehe. Now let´s hear yours! ------------- /Jonatan Tjäder Örebro, Sweden --> http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com" rel="nofollow - http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com <-- |
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Posted By: Nightfall
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:37
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I've been listening to Rock/Hard Rock/Heavy Metal for many many years (I'm 28 now so for at least 15 years).
Nightfall is a word I always liked. Plus it is my favourite album of a great band (Nightfall by Candlemass) and also the name of my favourite greek metal band. I've been using it for ages. ------------- Cheers, Alex http://www.nightfall.gr/gallery - My Gallery |
Posted By: kiklop
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:37
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I did choose kiklop as my nick name because it was very easy and fast to enter it on a keyboard :):)
Kiklop is also a croatian name for an ancient creature with only one eye (from ulysses). I don't know the english translation :) Happy shooting |
Posted By: indigo77
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:38
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indigo here too !..
back in 2000 i read an article about some new Microsoft technology replacing COM+ ... indigo technology. sounded good so adopted since then as my nickname.. by the way.. indigo is colouring substance produced in India : http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/bpc1911/indigofera.h tml :) |
Posted By: Nightfall
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:39
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Kiklop = Cyclops in english.
Comes from the greek word kiklopas (Κύκλωπας) which was a mythical creature that Ulysses encountered. ------------- Cheers, Alex http://www.nightfall.gr/gallery - My Gallery |
Posted By: kiklop
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:43
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Thank you Nightfall !! ------------- We may have http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/unawsered_forum_topics_date-range13.html - questions waiting for answers ! |
Posted By: brettania
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 12:47
| brettania came about when I was trying to get a web name. DPR would not allow my variant of Cameron (can't remember what I actually tried now) so I went to one of my middle names, Brett. I like Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches as played at the Proms in London each year, hence brettania, as in bretannia rules the waves (I was also in the Navy for four years). |
Posted By: Sanjuro
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 14:32
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I am a big fan of Kurosawa, the japanese film director and Sanjuro is the name of a samurai in a couple of movies.
By the way if you like movies and photo you have to see RAN or KAGEMUSHA. Rgds Sanjuro ------------- Rgds Sanjuro "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." --Pablo Picasso |
Posted By: natamambo
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 15:40
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Cam, I figured it was your kid's names (Brett & Tania), but I did also get the "rules the waves" bit.
I've been using my nickname on the web since it was Aarnet in the late 80's. It's is the island (ie local language) name for the island in Vanuatu where my mother was born. Malo is just off Santo, and even today still has no running water or electricity and somehow the contrast with this new fangled technology (this was nearly 20 years ago remember) seemed fitting. It is believed that Malo was the first island settled in Vanuatu, about 1400 years ago. Santo, the nearest large island, was the US base for the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942. ------------- A900; A700;17-35;28-70G;28-135;70-200GSSM;70-300GSSM;2XAPO(D)TC;85 1.4G;100 macro;5600HS(D) |
Posted By: ph0t0man
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 16:54
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Hmmm,
Well, my story isn't all that cool. I used to do a fair bit of online gaming (my first two years of college weren't a huge challenge). I guess that is why I use 0 in my name instead of o or O, its a little bit of gamer geek in me. Then, I just thought of it one day after I lost my log-in info for DPR and had to come up with a new nick. Pretty lame, but it works. |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 20:41
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What a great idea for an off-photo thread!
I'm cap! Short for Captain. If anyone has seen Captain Scarlet (the puppet TV series from, er, the 1970s I guess). Well, hopefully this will get some laughs. There is a character in that called "Captain Black", and he has short hair and has like 1-day unshaven facial stubble. Just like me. But also, and a bit more relevant, he is known as: Captain Black, evil misteron bastard! I have a bit of a ruthless reputation with my women, so that is why my work colleagues decided that I would become "captain black, evil misteron bastard" .... none of my doing, it was given to me. I love it. This was all about 7 year ago now. First time I ever when onto a forum on the internet, I just hit 'cap' as my tag. Then when I went digital in Jun-03 with the Canon EOS D30, I renamed myself "dcap". It was, d for digital, but as of last Friday I had a brain wave, its http://www.DynaxCap.com - www.DynaxCap.com ! dcap kiklop - that's a great reason, i bet you key it in one-handed too. ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: Sanjuro
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 21:58
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natamambo, one of my dreams is go to Vanuatu, you are the first person I chat or know or speak that is from there.
When I was little I saw a documentary of Vanuatu and I got fascinated by the beauty of the place. Well, it is funny how things go around, someday I will go there. PD: another dream is go to Tokyo. Rgds Sanjuro ------------- Rgds Sanjuro "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." --Pablo Picasso |
Posted By: Farmer
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 23:03
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I became Farmer very early on, like Natamambo it was the early days of internet here in Australia ("Extro" accounts were rather easy to get a hold of) in late 1989. Carried over into Fidonet and then again the Web when it came to be. I remember when IRC was one network :-)
My surname is Brown, so Farmer came from Farmer Brown, which may not make much sense outside of Oz, NZ or the UK :-) ------------- Farmer 7D: 17-35|50 Macro|28-200|70-210|100-300|500 mirror http://www.the-farm.net/photo.htm - The Farm http://www.the-farm.net/feedback.htm - Contact Me |
Posted By: Camillo
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 09:12
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Hmm. My nick.... Sore point, really.
My nick is really "Ged", but the powers that be at this brilliant place have decreed that I cannot use it. Too short. Go figure. Any chance of the admins bypassing that rule for me? I chose "Ged" in the 80's, when I used to play those coin-operated video games. Once you got the high score, you had to enter your initials. "TCS" just didn't have the right ring to it. At the time, I was reading Ursula K. LeGuin's "Wizard of Earthsea", and the main character's name was Ged. It was kind of cool to have the whole top-10 list read "GED, GED, GED, ...". Ged also became my unix user name, and I was the first to use Ged on IRC. How do I know? Well, IRC was created in Finland, and I was among the first on the (only) ircnet at the time. Oh, and Camillo is my real name. No nick. ------------- http://www.iki.fi/ged/ - http://www.iki.fi/ged/ http://flickr.com/photos/ged/ - http://flickr.com/photos/ged/ Dynax 5D •Sigma AF 28-70 f/2.8 EX DF Asph •AF 70-210 f/4 •AF 35 f/2.0 |
Posted By: Frans
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 09:32
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Well obviously my nick here (fenijs) is my real name Frans E. Nijs. My nick has been Viper for a long while the biggest problem with it is that it's not so unique so I stopped using it for "serious" forums.
I came up with the nick Viper When I realized I wanted to be a fighter pilot. A lot of things in my life at that time where all geared towards reaching that goal and when I got my draft notice I had all the credentials to actually become one. Of course meeting my current wife and getting married some what changed my idea on how "great" it would be to become a fighter pilot since the life expectancy of a fighter pilot is below average ;). Anyways a few things that inspired me to go for this name was the dodge viper and the snake itself. thats about it! ------------- Dynax 7D - VC-7D - AF 28 F/2.8 - AF 50 F/1.7 - AF 135 F/2.8 - 3600HS (D) AF 17-35 F/2.8-4 (D) - AF 28-75 F/2.8 (D) - AF 35-70 F/4 - Sigma 170-500 F/5-6.3 APO |
Posted By: LTTay
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 17:36
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Hello everyone, I am new to Dyxum forums, and this is my first Post. I just wanted to introduce myself. My nickname was nothing creative, I just used the Initials from my First, Middle, and then the full Last name. I usually go by LT or LT7(as 7 is my favorite #), but since I had to use something longer here, I just used LTTay.
When I attended a Military Academy the Initials were appropriate, and so I kinda stuck with it. Just recently got my Maxxum 7D in August and am loving it. I've never owned the Maxxum series of cameras so I am building my lens collection now. Used to have the Minolta x-700, and so I have always been a Minolta Fan. ------------- A700 & VG. A700, 7D & VG,50/1.4, 50/1.7, 50/3.5 macro, Tam 17-50/2.8, 85/1.4, Tam 90/2.8 Macro, 70-210/4 Beercan, 80-200/2.8 APO "Black", the 300/2.8 HS APO G; and 5600 HS |
Posted By: kiklop
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 17:47
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Welcome to dyxum Lionel.
I hope you will find our site worth spending some time. Happy shooting ------------- We may have http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/unawsered_forum_topics_date-range13.html - questions waiting for answers ! |
Posted By: Indigo
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 22:16
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Welcome Lionel, to this great place! =)
And how fun that there are people answering my post! =) ------------- /Jonatan Tjäder Örebro, Sweden --> http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com" rel="nofollow - http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com <-- |
Posted By: LTTay
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 23:10
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Thank you for the Welcome, I am excited that I had been told about this site, and have since signed up. Now I can say that I have Pen-pals in Croatia, Sweden and all over the world. Cool!! :) I find the discussions here very informative, and I learn a lot from here too, since I'm pretty new to the KM 7D world. Look forward to posting more here. ------------- A700 & VG. A700, 7D & VG,50/1.4, 50/1.7, 50/3.5 macro, Tam 17-50/2.8, 85/1.4, Tam 90/2.8 Macro, 70-210/4 Beercan, 80-200/2.8 APO "Black", the 300/2.8 HS APO G; and 5600 HS |
Posted By: Sanjuro
Date Posted: 21 October 2005 at 08:36
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Camillo have you see the movie that it is just released in Sweden as DVD of Wizard of Earthsea? It is called like that too. Great books.
I wanna to see it. Rgds Sanjuro ------------- Rgds Sanjuro "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." --Pablo Picasso |
Posted By: jaquoval
Date Posted: 29 October 2005 at 00:32
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Worked a variety of 'official' jobs from wildlife tech to trail guide to auto mechanic to IT, and a wider variety of freelance stuff including horse training, computer repair and woodworking.
I always say that I'd rather be able to do a dozen things well than be perfect at one. Jack-of-All kind of evolved into jakoval or jaquoval (have used both - on different forums). Less awkward to type than "masterofnone", anyway... ------------- Doug X700 7D α300 α500 |
Posted By: yeti
Date Posted: 29 October 2005 at 01:08
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Some guys that did some work for me about 25 years ago gave me the monicker 'yeti' and I've used it for email addresses with several different ISPs since then. I didn't use this on a recent registration with dpreview as the name was already taken.
Regards, Alan S |
Posted By: PhotoTraveler
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 02:42
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Well, as a rule I never use the same name twice on the internet. But I
decided to keep it the same going from DPR to here. Cause it's the same people. I basically had to come up with a new one, and decided to go clear and simple. Since I moved to California from Pennsylvania a bit over a year ago, I became a big explorer (always have been, but this is just more so). I also was finally able to get into photography more. College was in the way so much, and lack of money. So now If it's a 3 day weekend you can be sure I'm traveling around california with my cameras. I've hit 3 National Parks in 2 states in one day before. Put 10,000 miles on my car just doing that this year. And I didn't do nearly as much as I wanted. So PhotoTraveler fit. Which came in after the first few ideas were already taken. Getting my 7D was a fall out after a spring death valley trip. I had my x700 and my Canon S500. Wanted to take a ton of film shots but was rather limited, and only had limited space on the canon. So i didn't take as many shots as I wanted. I had it stuffed and shot 10 rolls of film (in about 1.5 days). If I hadn't held back it would have been many times more. Well after putting down 100 bucks just to develop the film. The idea of a DSLR got more interesting. I hadn't paid attention to them since I just remember them being, Expensive, Low res, Big Point And shoots, without the ability of film, and had to switch the AF lenses. Well, they had come a long way, so I went for it. Lack of ability is still there in DSLRs, (Really hate not being able to take long shots). So got the 7D, ended up here and at DPR. 6000 shots later I'm still spending money on the thing. Ugh. Need more travel and photo money. |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 22:07
well, the good ones anyway! ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
PhotoTraveler wrote:Posted By: craigchinohills
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 00:29
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I'd been using just my first name on some forums, then first/last name on some. I do some old west (the US version of "old") living history and the group I got into that from has a tradition/policy of using aliases, I had thought of several and settled on Chino Hills. That also happens to be where I live in California but has a rather western sound to it, there having been some movies or other characters named Chino and Hills isn't an unused last name. It allows my daughters to use names like Rose Hills - which in SoCal is a play on words as a rather well know cemetery is called Rose Hills as well. I'd picked up on another forum and there were already some Craigs so added the location/alias.
Chino Hills is east of Los Angeles just into San Bernardino County, a fairly new city, but adjacent to an older farming (dairies, corn and prisons) community of Chino, with roots in the early Spanish colonial ranchos - Rancho Santa Ana del Chino (which may mean Saint Ann of the curly hair??). We're basically right were Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties come together. |
Posted By: ferdq
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 19:26
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I wrote a few articles in the 70's for my high school's
alternate (underground) newspaper "The CroMagnon" under the pen name of Ferd Que. Schwartz. I don't remember where it came from, I just liked the sound of it. I've been Ferd Q to my friends ever since. |
Posted By: X-R-M
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 05:27
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X-R-M.
The name comes from Ricoh XR-M manual camera I got in 1990. Ricoh made very good cameras which accepted Pentax mount. Ricoh did not survive AF revolution and stopped making SLR cameras and withdrew from the US market (I see some Ricoh digital P/S , but not available in the US). I was very close to buy one of Minolta cameras, but decided to get Ricoh because it used AA batteries (I came to the US from country where I could not use my camera because I could not get one specific battery). My Ricoh came with Kiron 28-210/4.0-5.6 ,long, heavy zoom lens,brand I never heard of then.Now I know that they were very innovative and produced good quality lenses. As far as I know Kiron is now out of business. One day my Ricoh fell on the floor and did not give me correct exposure since then.Even after repair did not work correctly. After that I was limited to my Minolta 105 EX P/S which still works fine after 11 years!!! I came back to SLR since 2 years with Minolta 5 + 7 trying to get some good lenses and 7D or 5D. But I still have sentment to my old broken Ricoh XR-M, which I still keep. |
Posted By: Dynaxdude
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 11:48
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For most forums I use the nick Webalistic. When I got into the early internet thing long time ago I needed my own domain name of course! Well what to choose. Let's start a bit pretentious: webprofessor.com! oh darn... taken already.. webdoctor? nope. This went on for a while... At the time I was into my Parliament/Funkadelic period. So.. funkadelic.. groovalistic.. and Webalistic was hatched which is still my main site. I used that name also on generic forums but when registering for the Minolta Yahoo groups I decided I wanted something more in line of what represented what I'm about in the photographic area...
So, since I try to collect Minolta and other photographic gear and being european, Dynaxdude was born, which I use on all the photo related forums I participate in. Otherwise it would probably have become maxxumdude or alphadude. ;-) And thanks to a hint right here on this forum I claimed that domain as well :-) -------------  http://webalistic.com - picz - http://cams.webalistic.com - stuff |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 21:42
I'm glad you took the hint and registed it. I saw your 'tag' and figured 'fair dos' got to tell you first its still available. If you hadn't bitten, I would have registered it. Seems fitting that it goes to a good home. ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 23:12
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My name is no really a nickname but a shortcut, because I think the most of you can't pronounce my real name: Angeniet. That was my grandmothers name and she was called Anne, so I like this name for this forum! ------------- My lenses Minolta AF 28-135/4-4.5; AF 70-210/F4; AF 135/2.8; AF 200/2.8 are waiting for the cam! |
Posted By: PhotoTraveler
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 07:53
| you have the lenses and no camera :) differant |
Posted By: G4hout
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 23:45
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What a funny thread:)
I didn't look before at the open talk forum, only some other forums, but I think I will read here more often. I like Kiklop's reason the most:) Mine's simple: the G is from my first name Geertje, and 4hout is my lastname. Normally written as Vierhout but 4 is shorter :) (vier is Dutch for 4) regards, Geertje |
Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 18:25
Haha, I was going to buy the cam, but then I saw the Minolta AF 200/2.8 APO G on the D7D........ It was the last one of the collection, so I have a great lens yet and the cam will be here in about 2 weeks! I am looking forward to it! ------------- My lenses Minolta AF 28-135/4-4.5; AF 70-210/F4; AF 135/2.8; AF 200/2.8 are waiting for the cam! |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 19:05
7D or 5D? Which one are you going for ..... ? ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: kleptolux
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 19:32
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It is very nice to read the story behind each nickname.
My first nickname on the Internet (before the web) was jl which is the two letters of my first name Jean-Louis. Not very original but then fitting in the Unix tradition of having things with 2 letters and very fast to type. Increasingly webstites stopped allowing short nicknames and I had to create new ones like jl-photo (dpreview.com) that I did not really like or sometimes remember ... I needed a name that was longer, unique and that was related to photogrpahy. I made up kleptolux out off two Greek names: klepto: To steal a little Lux: Light Thus kleptolux means "to steal a small amount of light" which is my definition of photography. JL ------------- http://www.pbase.com/kleptolux - http://www.pbase.com/kleptolux/ "To love beauty is to see light." "To think of shadows is a serious thing." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
Posted By: kiklop
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 19:40
Wonderful !! ------------- We may have http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/unawsered_forum_topics_date-range13.html - questions waiting for answers ! |
Posted By: aarif
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 00:45
| my family name is arif and my name starts`with an a so aarif.....what a great story I have. |
Posted By: Nightfall
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 17:03
Great nick , just a small correction. Klepto is indeed greek, but lux is latin (and yes it means light) . The greek word for lux (light) is Phos (φως) (and that's where photo- comes from ) ------------- Cheers, Alex http://www.nightfall.gr/gallery - My Gallery |
Posted By: mikekiwi
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 20:22
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Way, way back in time you had those Atari-(like) gaming machines.. Space Invaders and so on... The high scores on those machines were mostly limited in characters (8 or so).
As my name in real life is Michael Kiewiet, I created a shortened version from it: MikeKiwi. A lot of people now do think I'm from New-Zealand (because of the kiwi-part of course), but unfortunately, I'm not.... Added to this: No, I wasn't very good in playing Space Invaders, but I needed to have a name available just in case I was the first one to play it after it was reset.... ;-) ------------- too much gear...but still not enough... |
Posted By: GormGrymme
Date Posted: 16 November 2005 at 00:24
| Gorm Grymme was the title character of a poem by Theodor Fontane I had to memorize in 7th grade. Shortly thereafter I started playing role-playing games (mostly Earthdawn and Shadowrun) and needed a name for my character, a Dwarf warrior. The name just sounded right, and I've been using it off and on ever since for just about anything requiring a nick. |
Posted By: Maggy
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 23:13
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Maggy is my real name, from Margaret. Friends from the UK call me Mags (sounds like Maegzzz, very sweet), Dutch people often call me Mag (pronounced just like big Mac), I don't like that.
I stopped using nicks in 1997, can't even remember a single nick I used before. |
Posted By: CTYankee
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 23:21
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CTYankee should be pretty self explanatory - I've lived in Connecticut all my life and like the expression "Connecticut Yankee". On Yahoo, I'm ctgardener. Wanted CTYankee or something like it, but all reasonable variations were already taken. We do some gardening, so ctgardener fit the bill. But here, I get to be a good ol' Connecticut Yankee :) Tried grabbing a domain name along those lines, too, but no luck, so ended up with "kingofthebeasts" which was originally intended as a tribute to a former cat ("the best cat ever" :) I may still put such a tribute up ... it's somewhere on my to-do list. So www.kingofthebeasts.com gets you to my smugmug page at kingofthebeasts.smugmug.com.
As for me, I'm just Dennis. I don't think I've ever really had a nickname. My three year old daughter refers to me by the name of some character from whatever book is in her mind at the moment, so I've been the "Big Bad Wolf", "Tigger", and about 100 other characters that I can't possibly remember. - Dennis ------------- CZ16-80 | 28-75D | 28/2 | 85/1.4 | 70-300G | 400G |
Posted By: CAClark
Date Posted: 24 November 2005 at 22:06
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Cool thread.
I defy anyone to guess the origins of my nickname :D Cheers! |
Posted By: aarif
Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 18:02
| How about Charles Arthur Clark |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 26 November 2005 at 11:49
CA = California Clark = You are a superman fan? ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: tmulli
Date Posted: 22 December 2005 at 04:35
Mine is about as exciting as Aarif. Just made up from my name. |
Posted By: kleptolux
Date Posted: 22 December 2005 at 06:49
Alex, Thanks for the correction. Reminds me I should have taken Greek instead of Latin in high school. JL ------------- http://www.pbase.com/kleptolux - http://www.pbase.com/kleptolux/ "To love beauty is to see light." "To think of shadows is a serious thing." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
Posted By: dstar
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 09:55
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Nick name my hockey team
Dallas Star/I play hockey before and my kids too.Just easy Dstar ------------- dstar |
Posted By: jdrandall
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 13:24
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When I registered, I thought about using the nickname I use on the Pokerstars website which is "DumbnUgly" but I felt that this was a more civilized forum and that name would not be appropriate.
When someone on Pokerstars asks why I use that nickname, I tell them I once looked up my family tree and found that half of my ancesters were dumb and the other half were ugly. Hence the nickname. Not really of course. Love this forum. John ------------- If dogs don't go to heaven....when I die, I want to go where they go----Author unknown |
Posted By: omerbey
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 20:02
| omer is my name and bey is "mr. prefix" in turkish. we put it after our forenames not before our surnames. it just makes sense :) |
Posted By: johninhove
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 23:12
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hi guys,
getting on bit age wise,nickname reminds me of my first name and where i live. allthe best john ------------- john |
Posted By: 2manycamera
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 14:53
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I think my screen name is obvious, it's what my wife says everytime I'm looking at ebay or the back section of any photo magazine: "too many cameras!" This from a woman that has Barbie dolls in every room of our house. ------------- 7D a68 a99 a6600 a7Rii 16/2.8 24/2.8 28/2 35/2 50/1.4 100/2 200/2.8 24-70CZ 1.8/135 80-200/2.8 24-105 28-135 300/4 16-50DT 70-300G Tam 90/2.8, E55-210 E2/12 Sig E1.4/16,30 & 56, FE15/4.5V |
Posted By: nikant
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 19:34
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hey all.. (special greetings to indigo77 and nightfall ;-))
well my nickname is boring.. Ni-Kant from the initials of my real name.. given by our *nix sysadmin back to college days.. I can't tell you my other nicknames.. I'll have to kill you afterwards.. :P ------------- http://www.nikoskantarakias.com - Nikos Kantarakias, Photography |
Posted By: Threeracers
Date Posted: 23 January 2006 at 10:37
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I am the father of triplets and they all help me with my other hobby; racing motor cars.
Mark |
Posted By: goodwrench
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 00:15
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Well I got my nickname form being able to fix stuff. I was fixing my bike and my friends bikes when I was 8 or 9. When I was 12 I wanted to build a Go Kart, my parents both being acedemics thought I was crazy but said I could go for it. So I hunted around and found a frame for sale I bought that for $75 that I made from my paper route, next I found someone selling a rotortiller with a 5 horse power engine sutiable for a go cart so I bought that for $150, then I mail orderd the rest of the parts I needed-my parents thought I was crazy. The whole thing worked and I built 3 in total. Then came the shop classes, I fixed just about anything with a motor, dirt bikes, lawn mowers, weed wackers and just about everyones cars in school, including the teachers. Soon people started calling me Goodwrench Garth, then just Goodwrench. I became a mechanic, got my journyman papers at 22 and bought my shop when I was 25 and here I am.
Goodwrench Garth PS My latest thing is fixing lenses and cameras. My tinkering mind just cant leave it alone. |
Posted By: mikethelaserman
Date Posted: 01 February 2006 at 14:55
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During the day, I play about with a 60W CO2 laser (strong smell of burning). One of my customers always calls out "Watch out - it's the laser man coming!" when he sees me, so hence the nickname.
My name on Yahoo Groups is "dynaxmike" - amazed that no-one got that before me. |
Posted By: CTYankee
Date Posted: 01 February 2006 at 15:04
Well, someone with this in his sig: 7D,9xi,600si,5,28/2,35/2,50/1.4,50/1.7,100/2, 24-105/28-135/35-105/70-210/4, 100-300APO-D, 300/4 HS G, 5600 Sigma 14/3.5, 28/1.8, 24-70/2.8,50/2.8,28-200 ought to be called 2manylenses !!! (Of course, you've only got me beat by 5 or 6 ;) - Dennis ------------- CZ16-80 | 28-75D | 28/2 | 85/1.4 | 70-300G | 400G |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 02 February 2006 at 00:10
So will I go from WaaaaaaaayTooMayPrime to JustThreePlusOnePlusOnePrime :> ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: sandboa
Date Posted: 03 February 2006 at 18:46
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This turned out to be an interesting topic. Some of you are very creative folks indeed.
My nickname came about from an interest I had a few years back in a group of snakes called sandboas. I found that when registering names online, sandboa is usually available (go figure!). For a while I was obsessed enough with these snakes that I created a website all about them. So if you are dying to know what a sandboa really is - http://www.kingsnake.com/sandboa/ - The Sandboa Page I know, I know,...too much spare time! I have sometimes used the scientific name for this subfamily of snakes - Erycinae - as a nickname, but I got tired of people assuming my name is Eric. ;-) Chris ------------- ___-_________ Chris Harrison |
Posted By: Indigo
Date Posted: 03 February 2006 at 23:36
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Checked out the website, beautiful animals indeed. "The Rough-scaled Sand Boa" is my favorite =) ------------- /Jonatan Tjäder Örebro, Sweden --> http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com" rel="nofollow - http://jonatan.sallyproductions.com <-- |
Posted By: brashquido
Date Posted: 09 February 2006 at 01:42
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My came about when trying to register an account with the MSN gamin zone to play Age Of Empires many years ago. My name was taken, and brashquido was offered as an alternative. Considering my name is Dominic, I found the link to brashquido to be so obscure that I decided to take it on as my online name. ------------- http://domandnat.com - My photos from around the globe | a700 | KM 11-18 | KM 18-200 | Min 50 f/1.7 | beercan | Min 100-400 |
Posted By: Hogweed
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 23:36
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Here's my story.
About two years ago I took up running to join a friend who told me that he had entered the Bristol Half Marathon. After running round the block (2.5 miles) I needed to put in more training but found it rather lonely on my own. After looking on the internet for a local running club I came across the 'Hogweed Trotters' who got their name from the Hogweed plants that grow in the local countryside where we run. It is mainly through them that my interest in photography has been renewed. I have become the unofficial photographer for the club and with the help of another member, we recently produced a 'calendar boys' 2006 club calendar. It's the ladies turn next year, not sure if I will be asked to do that one! |
Posted By: 2manycamera
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 01:01
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Hey Dennis;
I didn't list the other stuff, there really are too many cameras and far too many lenses to go with them. There's the whole Minolta MF system, Vectis system, 'Blad system and my wife's OM set-up, plus etc, etc. I'm taking to heart the advice I once received: "Never sell a good lens, you will regret it." Words to live by, eh Chris? ------------- 7D a68 a99 a6600 a7Rii 16/2.8 24/2.8 28/2 35/2 50/1.4 100/2 200/2.8 24-70CZ 1.8/135 80-200/2.8 24-105 28-135 300/4 16-50DT 70-300G Tam 90/2.8, E55-210 E2/12 Sig E1.4/16,30 & 56, FE15/4.5V |
Posted By: dCap
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 13:29
Never ever ever ever ever sell a great lens. Never ever sell a good lens. You will miss them, you will regret it, you will only end up buying them back in a few years .... yeah I know!!! The fact that I have the 50/1.4 NewRS on my shopping list is crazy! I had this lens a year ago. Really what can I possibly be missing in: 24/2.8 + 50/3.5 + 100/2.8 + 300/2.8. I can over everything that I cover with those. Sure I'll regret selling the 28/2. A 50 macro is more use to me than a 1.4, I want the 1.4 becuase I'll miss the 1.4 of the 35/1.4 .... etc. My Dynax 5D was my present once I sell all my lenses. Okay, so the deal had to be done on the 5D before they ran out of stock. So I have the present before the sale. I even get the 17-35/2.8-4 (D) back as part of my 5D kit deal. Had that a year ago. Made me go back and look at last years images. Nice lens!! But the whole point of the 5D was small with 24/2.8 ... again I break my own rule, and sell another good lens. Still - at least they will go to good homes. ------------- I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - Don McLean |
Posted By: Jovi
Date Posted: 05 March 2006 at 13:02
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Well, my real name is Jovi (for family and friends) It is a short name of tipical Spanish/Valenciano name: Jose Vicente; Jose Vicente Simply, right? |
Posted By: jeditim
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 16:30
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For any Star Wars fan it is easy to see who I am.
When I first had an opportunity to get an email address several years ago I needed to get a name. I couldn't think of anything and I didn't want to use my real name in the address. My wife said I should use something I am passionate about and would describe me...hence...jeditim. This is my email address and almost always my screen name. Tim...May the force be with you, always. ------------- Maxxum 7D and 7 (can't remember last time used); Minolta Lenses 24-105mm f:3.5-4.5 (D), 50mm f:1.4, 85MM f:1.4, 100 f:2.8 Macro(D), 100-400 f:4.5-6.7 APO Minolta Flash: 5600 HS (D) |
Posted By: funster
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 22:25
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In my teenage years (it's quite a while now) I listenend a lot to Queen music keeping my parents in permanent annoyance - rock has to be played LOUD.
There was this song on the "Sheer Heart Attack"-album called "Tenement Funster". I liked the attitude of this song written and performed by Roger Taylor. Many years later I needed a nick - why not keeping the good times rolling? Cheers, Sven ------------- Have a look @ http://www.funsterfoto.de - funsterfoto.de || http://funsterfoto.de/coppermine/cpmfetch/rss_lastadded.php - Feed me! |
Posted By: catlady
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 22:33
| 7 felines at present. 'Nuff said? |
Posted By: bracket
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 12:38
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My nickname principally has two origins:
1. the band http://www.bracketmusic.com - bracket , which I used to like a lot. 2. in quantum physics (part of my research field) one uses the so called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra-ket_notation - "bra-ket notation" . it has actually nothing to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracketing - bracketing in the photographical sense. cheers, Georg ------------- My photos: http://georgp.zenfolio.com" rel="nofollow - georgp.zenfolio.com |
Posted By: maxxum
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 21:00
| Any guesses? |
Posted By: Turerkan
Date Posted: 20 March 2006 at 10:07
| my name is turerkan, but this is not an ordinary name (something my dad Made Up) it feels very unique and special to me. And even turkish people i meet on the internet (yeah, im from turkey, hello ömer bey!) doesnt recognise this is a name:D |
Posted By: alijan
Date Posted: 04 April 2006 at 17:52
| I use the name my Turkish friends gave me as they find it difficult to pronounce my real name (Graham). It's supposed to be spelt 'Alican' but so often that name is already used as a nick, so I use the phonetic spelling. |
Posted By: cigar
Date Posted: 11 April 2006 at 22:57
I smoked cigars for over 50 years, but after a bout with bronchitis I gave them up 6 month's ago, but I guess I'm stuck with the name to remind me of happier days.
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Posted By: Sorppa
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 14:15
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"Sörppa" (with two dots above the "o") is my wife's nickname for me. She comes from Finland and "Sörppa" is spelled in Finnish. (The double "pp" indicates a long consonant. This may be a little hard to understand, but one can think of it as making a small stop at the "pp" before continuing with the next letter.)
I like the nickname and have started using it at Internet forums. Often you can't use the letter "ö" (an "o" with two dots above) as a user name at international sites, so then I use "Sorppa" instead. ------------- Sörppa - Minolta user since 1986 A850 | M 28/2 | M 50/1.4 | M 100/2.8 Macro | SAL 18-250/3.5-6.3 | Tamron 500/8 Mirror Adaptall-2 | Metz 54 MZ-4i flash |
Posted By: brettania
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 14:23
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Sorppa -- but what does it mean? ------------- http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/posting-images-and-links-faqs_topic28010.html - Posting Images and Links | http://tinyurl.com/oz62mfp - Posts awaiting answers |
Posted By: Sorppa
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 14:45
Well, it doesn't mean anything. My wife has just played with the sound of my first name, which is "Sören" ("Soren" with two dots above the "o"), and come up with this. As you can see, she has kept the beginning of the name and changed the ending. The name "Sören" is a Danish form of the latin name Severinus, which is related to the English word "severe". In Danish the name is actually spelled Srren (the "o" has a line going through it), but since I am Swedish it is spelled "Sören" (with two dots above the "o"). ------------- Sörppa - Minolta user since 1986 A850 | M 28/2 | M 50/1.4 | M 100/2.8 Macro | SAL 18-250/3.5-6.3 | Tamron 500/8 Mirror Adaptall-2 | Metz 54 MZ-4i flash |
Posted By: HotDuck
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 18:57
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Man, am I slow. Just saw this thread months after it was started. Anyways, HotDuck from my love of the fiery and sometimes tempermental Italian Ducati sportbikes. I've owned several over the years and HotDuck was my screen name early on and something I've always used since.
Thomas |
Posted By: Mink
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 20:57
Thomas - I thought Ducatis were called 'Dukes'? Around here they are anyway. But whatever they are called, as a Ducati owner, I very much doubt you are "slow" :-) |
Posted By: HotDuck
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 21:55
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Mink - Ducati bikes are actually referred to as Ducs by their owners but may be called Dukes in your part of the world.
Thomas |
Posted By: mcgravy
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 15:53
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As my last name is McKenzie, some of my friends when I worked at the Med Center called me McGravy due to the sometimes easy nature of my work. It just kinda stuck. ------------- Ken |
Posted By: GreatBlueWhale
Date Posted: 25 May 2006 at 03:34
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On a warm spring day back in my college days, a group of classmates and me went out to enjoy the day on the local river. The river's source was high in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, and the water was quite cold. We climbed onto innertubes and floated down the river. In a short while, we had to stop and pull a couple of guys out and carry them to shore. They had all but passed out from the cold.
A few of us climbed back in (the stupid things you do when you're young)and went on downriver to the spot we usually ended our tubing trips. When we left the frigid water, all of us had pretty much turned blue. Now I've always been a large guy, so when my buddies saw me climbing out, GreatBlueWhale immediately became my nickname, and it stuck the rest of my college days. It's served me well on the Internet. ------------- Trying to take better photographs in Louisville, Kentucky. |
Posted By: brettania
Date Posted: 25 May 2006 at 04:24
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Nice little story GBW.
As a kid I was called Psycho because of my glasses at one school, and Fritz when I got a crewcut in the mid-1950s and was at another school. When I was in the navy I had a nickname of "The Armpit with Eyes" (beard and glasses). ------------- http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/posting-images-and-links-faqs_topic28010.html - Posting Images and Links | http://tinyurl.com/oz62mfp - Posts awaiting answers |
Posted By: keith_h
Date Posted: 31 May 2006 at 04:14
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Laziness and lack of imagination in my case. Plus, all the good ones are gone. I blame Dynaxdude. :D ------------- http://gallery.heinrich.id.au - My gallery http://gallery.heinrich.id.au/gear - A700 x2, A99, other stuff |
Posted By: LondonDragon
Date Posted: 08 June 2006 at 22:37
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Pretty simple! I am portuguese and follow FC Porto the football/soccer team and their mascot is a dragon, I live in London so the Dragon from London lol ;) ------------- 
Minolta 18-70mm Di Macro Minolta 50mm f1.7 Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 II Macro Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro Di Sigma 135-400mm f4.5-5.6 APO |
Posted By: my-spot
Date Posted: 23 June 2006 at 15:27
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Hmmm...
www.my-spot.com? ------------- Frank Home Page: http://www.my-spot.com" rel="nofollow - www.my-spot.com http://www.my-spot.com/RHC/" rel="nofollow - RAWHide Raw Image Converter |
Posted By: Revolver
Date Posted: 05 September 2006 at 12:01
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Old name I use almost everywhere when it comes to computer nicknames.
Comes from the old Metal Gear Solid game and the character Revolver Ocelot, who I thought was cool. Hence, Revolver. ------------- KM Dynax 7D+VC-7D,Minolta AF 50 / 1.7, Minolta-AF 17-35 F2.8-4 D,Minolta AF DT 18-70 F3.5-5.6 D,Tamron-SP AF 28-75 f 2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF),Minolta AF 75-300 / 4.5-5.6 (D) |
Posted By: craiginscotland
Date Posted: 06 September 2006 at 00:20
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erm... my name is craig and, well, you get idea.
------------- http://www.pbase.com/craiginscotland - http://www.pbase.com/craiginscotland |
Posted By: H20boy
Date Posted: 06 September 2006 at 01:12
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I design water distribution systems, wastewater collection systems, and drinking water and sewage treatment plants. Aahhhhh, water. ------------- Matt - TX l Maxxum-m42 adapter - that's it :( l My http://matt.zenfolio.com - Galleries |
Posted By: caporip
Date Posted: 07 September 2006 at 23:33
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Caporip is the alter ego of the hero in a book called Extro by Alfred Bester i liked the name (and the book) and thought it was a good nickname for the net.
Richard |
Posted By: MiPr
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 08:53
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My nick comes from the time when I was studying and had to find some login name for Unix workstation - first syllable of the forename and first of the surname didn't sound bad, but then I decided to remove one sound from the end to make it shorter :) ------------- I'm noise-blind. And noise-about-noise-deaf too ... | BTW, topic87334.html - Dyxum Weekly Exhibitions don't grow on trees ... |
Posted By: Rno.
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 08:48
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That's easy.
Rno is phonetic for my first name: Arno |
Posted By: Tue Romanow
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 09:59
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Mine is pure lack of imagination! That's my name. Tue Romanow. ------------- There's no such thing as too many lenses. |
Posted By: nbearoz
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 10:23
| The "n" is for Neil, the "bear" is for the bushy grey beard and the "oz" is for Oz as in Australia! :-) |
Posted By: dogears
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 11:11
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on the belief that I have a fairly good hearing and i'm a dog person :P
i've been using this handle/nick for a long time already and it started with audio forums/chatrooms - so if you see it somewhere, most probably it's me =) >8o< woof! ------------- http://shutteredlight.blogspot.com - woof! |
Posted By: Michael Johansson
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 13:29
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My nick is a shortening for my real name. Only because this forum doesn´t alow longer nicks than I have used her. Otherwise my nick would have been Michael Johansson. ------------- a7RII ~ S1.8/14mm ~ S1.8/20mm ~ S4/24-105mm ~ V1.4/35mm ~ CZ1.8/55mm ~ V2/65mm ~ S2.8/90mmMacro ~ S1.8/135mm ~ 5600HS(D) ~ HVL43AM ~ Ring+Macro TwinFlash |
Posted By: polossatik
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 02:34
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I used to use "orka" in the 90's on BBS's and IRC later on on the wobbelywideweb this was to common (= already often taken). Hence i found out around '99 that that polossatik was supposed to be "an Aleut name for Orca, and that it means "the feared one"...
http://www.dolphintrainer.com/killer_reputation.htm (you got in 2000 about 4 or 5 hit's in google) now you get a bit more hits (8 pages or so) :+ most of the time me making stupid remarks here an there. But some also comments that this is not true and that polosatik (or polossatik) is from Russian origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Killer_Whale#Polossatik.3F http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2004/12/31/132156/37 however seen i'm no Orka specialist i don't know and frankly i don't care ... it's just bloddy uncummon name and i even get only 1 or 2 spam's in my mail on a month... cheerio ------------- 7D / A580 and assorted lenses from 8mm fish to 1000mm / Minolta 7s Rangefinder / |
Posted By: Dumont
Date Posted: 16 October 2006 at 05:39
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My nickname is from the town I currently live in (since 1998), I don't have any personal nicknames so I had to pick something... it's pretty anonymous (which I think is good as you never know who is reading or what you will end up writing) and has a french ring to it (isn't there a famous photographer named Dumont?)
Of course it reveals nothing about me, Croatian decent - father's side - my real last name Rerecich, hello Kiklop! (gotta look up where that nickname comes from, just found this thread so got some readin ta do) nor from my adopted country, Brazil, my mom and my wife are from there (I lived there for about 14 years). Brgds Darren ------------- https://www.flickr.com/photos/148586121@N05/ - My Flickr http://www.pbase.com/dumont - My Pbase |
Posted By: walti
Date Posted: 16 October 2006 at 23:03
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My nick comes from the nick of a Swiss skier of the late seventies, a girlfriend
of the times used it on me instead of my real name, that is Walter. I used it in these years as my first email address (1982!) and keep it until today Nothing amazing, really :) Regs, ------------- Walti. |
Posted By: Saleen219
Date Posted: 16 October 2006 at 23:19
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Mine is from when I used to be on the mIRC chat rooms a lot. I -loved- Saleen mustangs.
Saleen219 <-- the 219 is my street addy. No drawn out love story happy ending stuff. Just the facts. ------------- http://www.djkennedy.com |
Posted By: wass
Date Posted: 17 October 2006 at 07:36
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As we all know, a child growing up and learning the language, sometimes has a hard time in the pronunciation department.
When I was little, riding in the car when it was cold, I would say "lick the fan on wass". This translates to "click the fan on fast". Wass stuck, along with snerbs (don't ask, I've no idea). Today it should be "cantspell" to warn of my inability to spell. |