Quick Simple Explanation of just your ubuntuforums user name (no avatar or sig talk):

[RAV TUX]

Quick Simple Explanation of just your user name: (no avatar talk, no sig talk, and especially no silly forum psychology talk)

I'll start:

RAV as written in all caps could mean several things:

three-letter acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym) or abbreviation which may represent:
the Canada Line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line), formerly the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Line, a new automated light rapid transit line of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink)
RAV-FM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAV-FM), officially CFU758, a low-power radio station broadcasting from Thornhill, Ontario
Reliable AntiVirus (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reliable_AntiVirus&action=edit), a platform-independent security application developed by GeCAD Software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeCAD_Software) and later acquired by Microsoft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft)
the petitioner in the case of R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._V._v._City_of_St._Paul) 505 U.S. 377 (1992), an important United States Supreme Court case involving freedom of speech
the IATA airport code for Cravo Norte Airport in Cravo Norte, Arauca Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauca_Department), Colombia
the Toyota RAV4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4) or Toyota RAV4 EV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV), compact crossover SUVs manufactured by Toyota Motor Corporationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAV_%28disambiguation%29

also (or what it really means is):


The term Rav is also a generic term for a teacher or a personal spiritual guide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rav

I do a bit of teaching or sharing here but not much spiritual guidance but It was named after a custom Tux I once made...

and TUX is of course the Linux mascot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX

so basically my name means:

Teaching (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=teaching) Tux

or

Teaching (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=teaching) Linux mascot

[raul_]

Raúl
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Raúl is a Spanish name from French origin. The French Raoul is believed to come from the germanic name Rad-Wulf whose translation is supposed to be close to Wolf-Advisor or wolf's advice. Rodolf, Raymond and Roland share the same origin with Raúl.

"raul" is always taken so i have to add the "_"

I'm portuguese though. I don't agree that it is a spanish name, it's only more common in spain...beats me

[atihimself]

Atihimself, Ati as nickname I got somehow in junior high... or big ego of ATI gaphic cards

[jdhore]

jdhore...my name separated by the 1st initial of my first name, the 1st initial of my middle name and the 1st 4 letters of my last name

[23meg]

There's another huge thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89897) with the same purpose, where I explained mine as well.

[RAV TUX]

There's another huge thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89897) with the same purpose, where I explained mine as well.
OP over 2 years old and the spirit of the thread & OP are a bit different...time to freshen it up a little....but thanks for the link;)

also the title makes it impossible to search for.

[RAV TUX]

jdhore...my name separated by the 1st initial of my first name, the 1st initial of my middle name and the 1st 4 letters of my last name

Ok I have to say this is technically the most thought out "user name" I have heard of

[truthfatal]

Truthfatal: The "Truth" (note the capital "T") seems to have caused a lot of deaths since its inception. It's something I think of every time I see or hear of someone claiming to Know (again with the capital letter) the "Truth."

I prefer my truths with a small "t."

[23meg]

OP over 2 years old and the spirit of the thread & OP are a bit different...time to freshen it up a little....but thanks for the link;)

also the title makes it impossible to search for.It's from November 2005, which makes it just slightly older than one year old. I thought you'd merge the threads and edit the title accordingly as you usually do, but your call.

[slimdog360]

Ive got a dog named slim and the 360 because of that idiot rapper who thinks he is cool and everyone decides that the name slimdog is cool so I have to add something else.

ps: I got my dog (and named him of course) well before that wierdo became famous.

[kevinf311]

Nothing too exciting here:

kevinf311

kevin- my first name
f- the first initial of my last name
311- my all time favorite band

Here's a link (http://www.311.com/) to the bands website. My tastes have grown since I started listening to them, but they hold a special place in my heart and apparently user name :p

[RAV TUX]

Nothing too exciting here:

kevinf311

kevin- my first name
f- the first initial of my last name
311- my all time favorite band

Here's a link (http://www.311.com/) to the bands website. My tastes have grown since I started listening to them, but they hold a special place in my heart and apparently user name :p

do you know what 311 stands for...? I believe it is a code in the law enforcement that means skinny dipping or something of that nature.

I remember hearing that this is why the band choose the name.

[Soarer]

"Soarer" quite simply because I have driven a Toyota Soarer (aka Lexus SC400 in the USA) for the last 6 years or so. These are imported from Japan to the UK but never officially sold here, so are moderately rare. Owner's club is here (http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk) if you are interested.

It's easily the most interesting thing about me :)

[Iarwain ben-adar]

Iarwain ben-adar:


The name used among the Elves for the being known to the Hobbits as Tom Bombadil. It has the literal meaning 'oldest and fatherless'.

Not that i am the oldest of the family, or fatherless. Just like the name, and the character in the books :D


Iarwain

[beercz]

When I first set up a hotmail account years ago, I was drinking Czech beer at the time (the Internet name country code for the Czech republic is cz). The user name stuck and I have been using it ever since for a number of sites where a user name and password are required.

Still drink Czech beer every so often too! :-)

Cheers!

[Tux Aubrey]

Tux Aubrey is both my username and my Avatar - Tux as Capt. Jack Aubrey (of the "Master and Commander" books by Patrick O'Brian - among the best historical/adventure novels ever written). In one of the later novels, Jack commands a ship called the HMS Bellona. That ship brought an ancestor of mine to Australia in 1797. He (my ancestor, not the fictional Jack Aubrey) was responsible for the oldest surviving piece of public graffiti in this country - his initials carved into a rock on a headland in Sydney Harbour. My kids think that is very cool. Sorry, getting off topic.

[Erik Trybom]

I actually decided to use my own name for this forum. I'm not ashamed of anything I write here, and I'm not ashamed of running Ubuntu Linux - so why not let the world know it?

[xpod]

I had a pretty crazy first few months on a pc and by time i found ubuntu XPOD was just the way i was feeling at the time..

XP.O.D=XP overdose:D

We`ve kissed and made up now though and if it wasn`t for all the fun & games i had back then i might not be here now....good job XP:D

[sumadartson]

Read from right to left. Based on my extraordinary power to sometimes remember things.

[mike998]

My first name (mike) and the last 3 digits of my army number (998)...

[Oki]

When I first tried Ubuntu I didn’t get my Oki printer to work so I goggled it and www.ubuntuforums.org turned up. Never heard of the site(only used Norwegian Linux forums), and got pissed of when I had(being the X time that day) to enter a username to download the modified driver for my printer in one of the threads lol So I added “Oki” and password was “crap” – and my printer has worked ever since on Ubunut:-D

[Tomosaur]

My name is Tom, and I like dinosaurs. You can't get much simpler than that!

[PriceChild]

My surname is Price, and the rest is an "in joke" with an old friend from several years back.

[boomklever]

Boomklever is Dutch for nuthatch. I happen to like nuthatches. ;)

[JAPrufrock]

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a poem by T.S. Eliot, who also wrote The Wasteland).

Here are 2 stanzas:

For I have known them all already, known them all:--
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

[Super King]

My forum name is the name of Bender's "superhero" character in an episode of Futurama.

"Super King. The best one of the three."

[RChickenMan]

When I was in high school, we had a gym teacher who was both racist and talked like a chicken. Therefor, I made my instant messanger screen name RacistChickenMan. This is all fine and well for close friends, but for people I don't really know, well, it seems pretty offensive. I wanted to carry the same name over to forums, so I just abbreviated the offensive part and kept the rest of the name, hence RChickenMan

[~LoKe]

Loke is the Norwegian variation of the God Loki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki).


Loki Laufeyjarson is the mythical being of mischief in Norse mythology, a son of the giants Fárbauti and Laufey, and foster-brother of Odin. He is described as the "contriver of all fraud". He mixed freely with the gods for a long time, even becoming Odin's blood brother. Despite much research, "the figure of Loki remains obscure; there is no trace of a cult, and the name does not appear in place-names"[1]. In mythological terms, Loki is not a god, as he has no cult or followers (no evidence has ever been found or even referenced such), rather he is a mythological or mythical being. This is further supported by the fact that he was not a member of Vanir and is not always counted among the Æsir, the two groupings of gods. Sources inconsistently place him among the Æsir; however, this may only be due to his close relation with Odin and the amount of time that he spends among the Æsir (as opposed to his own kin).

Like Odin (though to a lesser extent), Loki bears many names : Lie-Smith, Sly-God, Shape-Changer, Sly-One, Lopt, Sky Traveller, Sky Walker, Wizard Of Lies, and Loftur among others.

[Pobega]

From Wikipedia:
No page with that title exists.

You can create this page or request it.

* See all pages within Wikipedia that link to this page.
* See all pages that begin with this prefix.Go figure, because Pobega is my last name.

[Koori23]

My real name is Eric. My girlfriend (Marissa) is Japanese-American, we play poker a lot (Texas Hold'em).. She kept calling me "Koori". Had no idea what it meant until I bought a Japanese-English dictionary.... Koori means Ice in Japanese.. I'm what she calls an "ice cold player" because she couldn't put me on a poker hand.. 23 was my age at the time I came up with the username. I'm 25 now.

Koori is also a group of 'Indigenous Australians from south eastern Australia'.. I didn't know about that one.. But, I'm neither Australian nor indigenous... My intent was strictly the word for ice in japanese.

[kanha]

Kanha-The most famous hindu God Lord Krishna

[xenmax]

Mine is pretty lame actually. Wanted to come up with a cool name to use as kinda like a gaming alter ego and ended up with this. This was years ago and before i knew it, i had used it everywhere!!
Now i don't even remember the logic (if there was any!) behind it - max is straight forward, and xen is a play on spelling Zen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen - at the time i was playing Quake 3 a lot and Xaero who is the most difficult bot to beat in it is a Buddhist monk! Well, go figure!

[RandomJoe]

I'm just some Random Joe... ;)

The first forums I signed up for were bicycling forums, where I used RecumbentJoe because I only ride recumbent bicycles - no wedgies for me! :D But when I started signing up for other forums I didn't want to explain what a recumbent was... So I decided Random is probably just as accurate a description as any!

[Niko38752]

My name with some random numbers after it. Yeah, not very original, but gets the job done.

[futz]

futz f&ts v.i. To tinker experimentally; to change something just to see what it does.

[xmastree]

I'm sure we did this already... Oh well, here goes again.
Waaay back in 1980, my handle on CB was Christmas Tree (due to the number of lights on my car). When I first got online, to cut a long story short I had to choose a valid DOS filename for my username, so I chose xmastree.

[eriqk]

Erik was already taken, so I munged it a bit.

Groet, Erik

[fuscia]

rav, dude, no one does overboard quite like you do. you've gotta change your name to 'rabid tux'. rock on, bro!
:guitar:

[geek_Man]

I'm a geek and I'm a guy, plus I like the underscore, so you put that all together (and shake it up a bit) and you get "geek_Man".

[rnanaimo]

First letter of my real name and then the city I live in.

[gaspar]

No big deal, just my family name :)

[kevinf311]

do you know what 311 stands for...? I believe it is a code in the law enforcement that means skinny dipping or something of that nature.

I remember hearing that this is why the band choose the name.

Yeah, I've heard that 311 is the local police code for Indecent Exposure, which the bands original guitarist was arrested for way back in the day. I don't know if this is the definite truth, but I do know that that KKK crap isn't true (311-->3 x 11-->3 x K--> KKK). Complete rubbish.

[RAV TUX]

Yeah, I've heard that 311 is the local police code for Indecent Exposure, which the bands original guitarist was arrested for way back in the day. I don't know if this is the definite truth, but I do know that that KKK crap isn't true (311-->3 x 11-->3 x K--> KKK). Complete rubbish.
I have never heard of the kkk anology but I think that the indecent exposer story is true...he got in trouble for skinny dipping

[Guitar John]

Mine is almost self-explanitory. Borrowing a line from Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits:




You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

My name is John (not George), and there you have it.

:guitar: <<<<<This ain't me!

[Gerard Barberi]

Not very creative on my part. It's my real name. Can't remember why I put it though; I don't use it anywhere else.

[fuscia]

i was named after st. fuscia.

[rai4shu2]

Mine is totally random. I hate people knowing who I am or anything about me. (Getting a real kick out of these meaningful nicks.)

[manmower]

Manmower (http://www.last.fm/music/Motorpsycho/_/Manmower) is an excellent song by Motorpsycho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorpsycho). I don't know how well known they are in the rest of the world but here in Belgium they have quite a few fans.

Incidentally it seems I am listed as one of the top listeners for that particular track on last.fm, something which I had never noticed yet (I have a different moniker there).

[Dale61]

Mine's pretty boring - Dale is my first name, 61 is my year of birth.

I use the same username everywhere, bar one other message board.

[bam bam]

it's the sound of me blowing my brains out trying to get this bldy computer to work.

[jclmusic]

JCL is my initials and the name i do my music under. it was taken, so went for jclmusic. lol.

[.Danny]

RL nickname. The dot is there since just 'Danny' was of course taken. :)

[OrangeCrate]

The original "orange crate" was a tricked out custom painted '72 Dodge van. The current orange crate is a custom painted dark burnt orange Harley Fat Boy.

[urukrama]

Urukrama is the name I received at my ordination (in Hinduism). It is a Sanskrit name that literally means 'he whose steps are wide' and refers to Vamana, a manifestation of God in Hinduism. He subdued a wicked king Bali, who had conquered the 'three worlds': the earthly regions (bhur), the intermediate realm (bhuvah) and heaven (svar).

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamana):


Vamana in the disguise of a short Brahmin, carrying a wooden umbrella requested three steps of land for him to live in. Given a promise of three steps of land by King Bali against the warning given by his Guru Sukracharya, Vamana, The Supreme God grows so huge that he could cover from heaven to earth, earth to lower worlds in two simple steps. King Bali unable to fulfil the promise of three paces of Land to the Supreme God, offers his head for the third step. Thus Vamana places his third step on King Bali's head and gives him immortality for his benevolance.


Vamana taught King Bali that arrogance and pride should be abandoned if any advancement in life is to be made, and that wealth should never be taken for granted since it can so easily be taken away.

[Jussi01]

My name is Jussi...what more can I say...Oh yeah the 01... hmmmm... I think Jussi was taken...

[drfalkor]

drfalkor.. I am using "dr" because I know alot about symphtoms and doctor stuff.. falkor, because I took it from the Luckdragon from The neverending story movie :)

[geco]

Geco is the Italian word for Gecko, a lizard with very interesting characteristics... likr me!
It's somehow "symbolic". Isn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko

\\:D/

[Adamant1988]

My name is a play on the name "Atom Ant" (cartoon show, I watched), pronounced "Adam Ant" (My name is Adam) which is what my Noni (Italian for Grandmother) called me when I was young. When she passed away I started using it as my online handle.

[ButtonMasher]

I'm a big fan of 2-D fighting games (Street Fighter II, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, etc.). My friends called me a button masher because it looked like I was just hitting buttons randomly. But really I was trying to do super-secret-ultra-special-final-attacks!

[Sunflower1970]

Nothing too exciting here. Sunflower1970.
I wanted something different than what I normally use on forums, and I just happened to be eating a package of sunflower seeds while deciding to create an account on here...and one of my co workers always calls me Sunflower because all the seeds I eat. So..yeah...Then the 1970...My birth year.

[Brainfart]

On some other site, I was trying to think of something clever and failed. So I picked this as a reminder of my awe-inspiring creativeness.

[happy-and-lost]

Mine's a painfully rare but painfully beautiful old B-Side by my favourite band, Embrace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_%28UK_band%29)

[sapo]

http://patriciaepedro.com/pedro/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/sapo.png

[NewOldTimer]

New to linux and nearing 50 yrs old{but I tell everyone that I'm only in my second set of 20's}
And the guy's that I jam with are alway's saying "have you learned anything New? Old Timer"!!!

[GuitarHero]

I've used GuitarHero on the internet ever since homer simpson described his dream as being a guitar hero. Well that, and I'm a bit of a guitar nut.

[muguwmp67]

I misspelled 'mugwump' while I was signing up for the forum, and its too late to change it now.

Mugwump is a reference to the first computer game I ever programmed (well, actually copied from a magazine article, I did have to debug it though). It was in BASIC on an Apple ][.

It also refers to a creature created by William S. Burroughs (one of my favorites) I would describe it, but its kind of disgusting.

Those are my two reasons, but Wiki has a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwump_%28disambiguation%29) on several other meanings, most of which I like (except for the VD medicine).

[Parkotron]

My name is Tom, and I like dinosaurs. You can't get much simpler than that!

My first name is Parker and I like robots.

[AndyCooll]

AndyCooll was a nickname given to me by my church friends. Not really sure why and I certainly don't think it was for the obvious reasons, but everyone called me that). Anyway, when I was looking for an online name years ago I decided to use it. I now use it on all forums etc.

The two "l"'s is a modification I made early on because on one forum I went on, someone else had already used the singular form (the cheek!!!).

:cool:

[MeneM]

Hi,

Here is a copy from another post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2430682#post2430682) I made:

In my case MeneM came from my real name: Mark M*******. Initials: M and M. When you say that quickly, you get: MeneM.

Later on it made even more sense as my wife also has the initials M and M.

I'm almost afraid to admit it, but my two sons also both have the same initials: MM. Oh dear, I just realised: I'm burgerlijk!! (translation: middleclass,)

[neoaddict]

My original site was called NeoAddict. XD

But I sold it, so now I have LEETturtle and BrianPWNS. ^_^

[%hMa@?b<C]

my first name+ my date of birth (march 13)
on every forum, i am either that or "enigma-"

[floke]

Steve, after the original and little-known founder of the Beatles, a guy called Steve North. He lasted two days before being replaced by Ringo, but, since he looked exactly the same, was occasionally used to fill in for Ringo on live gigs. The only noticeable difference was that the drumming got better. The K comes from being the 11th letter of the alphabet, which, since 1+1=2, and since this is half the number of sides a square has, makes it the symbol of the Greek god Nsempharyea, who also invented the computer.

Steve.K is also my name, which is a fantastically helpful coincidence.

[super.rad]

Super Rad is a song by the aquabats, also my name on every forum. makes it easier to remember

[ComplexNumber]

Steve, after the original and little-known founder of the Beatles, a guy called Steve North. He lasted two days before being replaced by Ringo, but, since he looked exactly the same, was occasionally used to fill in for Ringo on live gigs. The only noticeable difference was that the drumming got better. The K comes from being the 11th letter of the alphabet, which, since 1+1=2, and since this is half the number of sides a square has, makes it the symbol of the Greek god Nsempharyea, who also invented the computer.

Steve.K is also my name, which is a fantastically helpful coincidence.
pete best was the guy immediately before ringo.

[bcasanov]

I just made up my username out of the blue.

[djsroknrol]

Simply put.....DJ's rock & roll...;)

[djsroknrol]

Steve, after the original and little-known founder of the Beatles, a guy called Steve North. He lasted two days before being replaced by Ringo, but, since he looked exactly the same, was occasionally used to fill in for Ringo on live gigs. The only noticeable difference was that the drumming got better. The K comes from being the 11th letter of the alphabet, which, since 1+1=2, and since this is half the number of sides a square has, makes it the symbol of the Greek god Nsempharyea, who also invented the computer.

Steve.K is also my name, which is a fantastically helpful coincidence.

Are you refering to Pete Best (http://www.petebest.com/)?

[KiwiNZ]

Mine is a combination

Kiwi = My Nations national symbol
NZ = Short for New Zealand
wiNZ = Kiwi's like to win and I like to win

Hence KiwiNZ

[UphillSkier]

UphillSkier because my friends keep saying I do everything the hard way.:)

[tagginannie]

Taggin because I love to make signature tags (siggies!}and Annie is my middle name. Though I have not made them in awhile been to busy.

[illu45]

First four letters of my name (Illusha) + my favourite number (45). Aside from illu45, I also use Fireball on some forums.

[RAV TUX]

First four letters of my name (Illusha) + my favourite number (45). Aside from illu45, I also use Fireball on some forums.

Illusha is a cool name!....what does it mean? and if you don't mind me asking, what is it's origin?

[Fenryr]

Same name I've used everywhere online since before there was a WWW...I was usin' 'Fenryr' back when I had a stack of old 286 machines in a back closet hooked up to a pirated T-1 line and running BBS on'em...


Be honest, all these nosy threads are just an excuse to get post counts up, right? *l*

[RAV TUX]

Mine is a combination

Kiwi = My Nations national symbol
NZ = Short for New Zealand
wiNZ = Kiwi's like to win and I like to win

Hence KiwiNZ

KiwiNZ, have you actually seen a Kiwi Bird in the wild?

[Fenryr]

Hey, RAV, what part of Oz you in? I'm a former American, no living with my Aussie wife in SA...

[RAV TUX]

Hey, RAV, what part of Oz you in? I'm a former American, no living with my Aussie wife in SA...

Actually I live "Inside the Beltway"(DC),....I put "Oz E. &~Linux Nirvana~Dev" in the location section because there is not a custom selection for which OS do you use....

I use Oz Enterprise; named after the OZ equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OZ_equation).

Oz E. is short for Oz Enterprise other wise known simply as Oz...a Linux distro that I have developed along with Linux Nirvana...

http://OzEnterprise.com
http://LinuxNirvana.com

(see my sig) ;)

[suterb42]

last name + first initial + The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything ;-)

[steveneddy]

It's my, uh, name.

Well - not my actual name in full, but a stage name that I went by when I was "in the business".

My friends have called me steveneddy for so long that it's not funny.

I have been steveneddy online for so long that I couldn't be anything else.

You can even search for steveneddy on Google and there are pages and pages of my posts and other crap.

StevenEddy - glad to meecha

[Motoxrdude]

moto i love to dirtbike xr i have a xr250 dude i am a dude

[RedNikon]

Red - Well it's a color, it can mean many things from love to caution.
Nikon - Well it is an optic and imaging company from Japan.

Taking inspiration from the movie Hackers, where a character used the handle 'Lord Nikon'

Thus I decided to use Red Nikon, as my handle.

[the.dark.lord]

addiction to fantasy novels -> "the.dark.lord"

[king0lag]

King of Lag, there is none higher. Rockin' Quake 1 on a 14.4 when cable modems were already standard.

However some games/apps/etc don't allow spaces and kingoflag could be "King o' Flag" (like for CTF mods on games), so I just did King0Lag... which makes people think I have "zero lag"...

oh well it's better than my grade school screen name... "The Foo Master" ha!

[xyz]

I find it ludicrous, irrational, impossible in real life. I like things that can't be explained.

[Stew2]

Stew and Stew1 were already taken :D

[puppy]

Oh I've been using this nick since I joined a Medal of Honor gaming clan many moons ago called "The Dogs of War", and all the fierce names (like Cerberus, Bulldog etc) had gone, so I was stuck with this one :( Used it on just about every forum since...

[RAV TUX]

addiction to fantasy novels -> "the.dark.lord"
I knew that sounded similar. ;)

[shen-an-doah]

Way way back in the mists of time, I was doing a piece of artwork and I wanted something to write on it that seemed kinda ethereal and mysterious. I had the Pitchshifter album PSI nearby, so I used the title of the last track "Shen-an-doah".

I then came to make a site for my artwork and decided to use it as part of the web address. I've been using it as a username ever since. If you stick "shen-an-doah" (with quotes) into Google 6 of the first 10 results (including the top result) are me. Pretty much all the results are either me, the Pitchshifter song, or intructions on how to play the traditional folk song...

[RAV TUX]

Way way back in the mists of time, I was doing a piece of artwork and I wanted something to write on it that seemed kinda ethereal and mysterious. I had the Pitchshifter album PSI nearby, so I used the title of the last track "Shen-an-doah".

I then came to make a site for my artwork and decided to use it as part of the web address. I've been using it as a username ever since. If you stick "shen-an-doah" (with quotes) into Google 6 of the first 10 results (including the top result) are me. Pretty much all the results are either me, the Pitchshifter song, or intructions on how to play the traditional folk song...

I like the name, some of my best memories are white water canoeing on the Shenandoah River.

[Erdaron]

Illusha is a cool name!....what does it mean? and if you don't mind me asking, what is it's origin?

In Russian, "Illusha" is an endearing form of the name "Ilya," which according to Wikipedia is the Russified version of "Elijah." I had personally always thought the name is pre-Christian, because it is the name of an old folk hero.

Anyway, my own handle is a name of a character I made up for a fantasy world I created when I was in high school. I was planning on writing stories based on this world, though never got beyond a few sketches. His full name was Erdaron, the First-Born Mage of the Dark Flame, because I was an angsty teenager obsessed with Tolkien's writing. I liked the name, and it's my most frequently used nick.

Apparently, "Erdaron" is also some sort of entity in EVE online, but it has nothing to do with me.

[euler_fan]

I study math . . . Euler was a big shot mathematician I happen to be a fan of . . . I think that sums it up :)

[smartboyathome]

I got my name because I think I am smart, and work at home, so the name stuck.

[kiv]

"kiv" is from my surname.

[RAV TUX]

"kiv" is from my name "Josef Nankivell" - Josef Nan-KIV-ell

get called kivster and nanky also. haha.

Nankivell is Cornish meaning "Valley of the horse" & I happen to like horses.. have rode all my liffe.. and now im off topic..

Silly question, where are the cornish people from?

[shen-an-doah]

Silly question, where are the cornish people from?

Cornwall.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cornwall&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=50.53438,-4.954834&spn=1.595598,2.488403&z=8&iwloc=addr

[RAV TUX]

Cornwall.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cornwall&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=50.53438,-4.954834&spn=1.595598,2.488403&z=8&iwloc=addr

Do they speak their own language?

[shen-an-doah]

Do they speak their own language?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language

[icecruncher]

was sitting in a restaurant with my sisters, while i was thinking of a new nick, my sister go annoyed and told me to stop crunching ice. that being a frequent habit. lol

[lisati]

Boomklever is Dutch for nuthatch. I happen to like nuthatches. ;)

I have gone with the Samoan name Lisati ("Richard", after my grandfather's nickname in the Dutch underground during WWII ) because I married a NZ-born Samoan.

[David Ostrom]

This is the name I was given. I don't like the idea of using made up user ID's when possible.:)
David

[Darkcloud]

my hair caused it my nickname

[argie]

argie:

The initials of my name, RG, Roshan George : )

[bonzodog]

Bonzodog comes from the Bonzodog DooDah band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo_Dah_Band). I have used this nick since I was on CB radio in the 1980's, and merely kept on using it when I started on the net.

[red_Marvin]

red_Marvin ...Marvin from the depressed android in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, red is from ...dunno, I think it has to do with red LED displays and it being my favourite colour of the time maybe.

Now I prefer using insomninja though, which is just a word play on insomnia (I'm not very good at falling asleep when I should), and ninja, -this is what I use on IRC.

[mrazster]

My surname with some letters added...got it from google when I signed up for a gmail account when it was released thought it sounded cool and my old one was getting kind of weary and old....so I went with it.

[yabbadabbadont]

Fred Flintstone with a darker, more cynical attitude. :twisted:

[aussiedini]

Incredible amount of thought here. My name is Dean and I am from Australia.....damn I wish I had been more cryptic now.

[RAV TUX]

Fred Flintstone with a darker, more cynical attitude. :twisted:

Awesome user name!

[RAV TUX]

Incredible amount of thought here. My name is Dean and I am from Australia.....damn I wish I had been more cryptic now.LOL

evil aussiedini?

[RAV TUX]

My surname with some letters added...got it from google when I signed up for a gmail account when it was released thought it sounded cool and my old one was getting kind of weary and old....so I went with it.Sounds like a Rock Stars name:)

[Aurora Borealis]

I love the Northern Lights, which is what Aurora Borealis is. It reminds me of the first time I saw them, with a meteor shower that night. I was tempted to bang on the doors of all my neighbors so they wouldn't miss the ribbons of color dancing through the sky with shooting stars bursting through, but I wasn't sure which of my neighbors would appreciate their sleep more than something as spectacular as that, so I refrained. It was just me and the friend I was with at that time watching.

[RAV TUX]

I love the Northern Lights, which is what Aurora Borealis is. It reminds me of the first time I saw them, with a meteor shower that night. I was tempted to bang on the doors of all my neighbors so they wouldn't miss the ribbons of color dancing through the sky with shooting stars bursting through, but I wasn't sure which of my neighbors would appreciate their sleep more than something as spectacular as that, so I refrained. It was just me and the friend I was with at that time watching.

I first saw the Aurora Borealis when I lived in Junea, Alaska....there is nothing as spectacular as the Aurora Borealis, nothing compares.

[BoneSaw]

my original sn was wecutourvisions (from the misfits song cough/cool) i was on another forum, and decided bonesaw sounded cool, so i had it changed and it stuck ever since.

[Frak]

Wrong spelling of a fraque grenade. Which is a wrong spelling in itself, proving I can't spell :P

[markusf21]

I found one that is usually not taken and have stuck with it for years
started at 21 and i am now 27

[Depressed Man]

Orginally it was suppose to be Laughing Man. But that name is pretty popular so I took a spin off of it, Depressed.

[RAV TUX]

Orginally it was suppose to be Laughing Man. But that name is pretty popular so I took a spin off of it, Depressed.it sound so sad:(