Why did you chose your nick?

[Harry Seldon]

I had just finished reading the Foundation series and picked the main protaganist's name. It's misspelled because for some reason I couldn't get registered the first few times I tried and I thought that Hari Seldon may have already been taken.

[FrustratedPoet]

Mine fitted my personality very well at the time. It doesn't now, but there's no point in changing.

[Stuie]

I used to work in a Deli, and everyone but me had a nickname of some sort. So a co-worker decided I needed a nickname, and he picked "Stuie". Within in week everyone there was calling me Stuie.

Then one of my friends came in and heard everyone calling me Stuie, so he did too. Later I switched jobs, and this same friend ended up working with me (and calling me Stuie). So the name carried over to my new job.

Now, ten years later, I have finally left it all behind, and no one knows me as Stuie except online.

[Az]

Seemed like a cool nickname for an Israeli commie poster, at the time. My previous nick was a nick I used in RPG games, and is actually the misspelling of a region in Scotland. Picked it up as a name of a knight in some classic book I don't remember the name off. That knight wasn't much of a fighter, liked to drink, and was generally a humorous sidekick.

[General Ludd]

I was playing a character named Osweld the Brute in Asheron's Call when I decided to stick to a single user name in most places I went. Yes, at the time, I did not realise 'Osweld' was usually spelled with an A, but the E is just as well, since 'Oswald' isn't a very unique name.

I kind of wish I'd been using a more interesting name when I decided to stick to a single one, but oh well.

[Az]

I am very much looking forward to a nickname change by you, Osweld. It could be very interesting.

[Space05us]

space - the first name I ever used online, however although it isnt very common it also isnt very unique, so I added

05 - my high school graduation year
us - the country Im from

pretty dumb eh?

[General Ludd]

Our avatars go well together, Azazel.

[Az]

you graduate from highschool in 05', Space?! Your posts are very mature, and interesting. I'd never guess!

[Bosh]

its my name.

[Dinner]

Back in the late 1980's I used to both play D&D and log in to local BBSs since this was pre-World Wide Web. Oerdin way my favorite D&D character's name and I used it on several of the local BBSs here in San Diego.

It just seemed natural to carry over the same name from the BBSs to the internet.

[Az]

Originally posted by Osweld
Our avatars go well together, Azazel.

[Alinestra Covelia]

People have been calling me Allie Cove for years. I just thought I could extend that to something vaguely Roman - Alinestra Covelia.

[alva]

Al = Ala(i)n
va= Van

The last part of my name was dropped because it didn't sound right.

The 848 that used to be there was from registering at the EA site which wouldn't let me register alva, and among the numbers suggested was 848 which sounded better then 265 or 748.

Rather boring, isn't it.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
People have been calling me Allie Cove for years.

Is that because it's your name?