Why did you chose your nick?

[Pekka]

korn, sorry. It's four hundred and sixty nine to me.

[Japher]

I always though he wanted to have oral sex with the band

[Ben Kenobi]

My best friend and I have nicknames of Yoda and obiwan respectively.

He's really quite tall, so you can figure out why he called me obiwan.

I wanted to have obiwan but that was taken, so I picked Ben Kenobi, which I think works much better than my old nick of obiwan18.

[Japher]

What about Old Ben, Old Ben Kenobi, Uncle Ben, Only Hope

I think Ben fits as you are, IMO, the resident christian religous council on the OT (kind of like Ben was). Which, by the way, is much appreciated...

[Ben Kenobi]

I thought you were going to say Crazy Ben who lives in a cave.

[Main_Brain]

Its the Way i am.

[Chemical Ollie]

My name is Ollie and I am a Chemist. And it sounds like some bad guy from recent events.

My former nick Olaf Hårfagre was something I had used on discussion boards the last 5 years to show my Viking background. I also used it in highschool because of my poodel haircut. It's also a nick I sometimes used in computer games. But eventually I grew bored of it.

[centrifuge]

I'm a chemist as well

...plus sometimes I feel kind of dizzy

probably all of these @#%& ing chemicals that I work with.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Why did you chose your nick?

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I thought that Hari Seldon may have already been taken.

You can change your nick, you know.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by alva

I wanted a name that would be ironic.

Ironically you didn't succeed.

I didn't?

[Harry Seldon]

You can change your nick, you know.

Eh. I've already used it elsewhere and in some ways it fits.

[self biased]

i was originially edgecrusher on the old alpha.owo boards and carried the name over here, i went through a personal crisis of sorts and ended up changing it to another derivative of a fear factory song: self bias resistor. i dunno... i think it speaks to the very soul of what we all are: self biased. because if you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will.

[Spiffor]

When I begun playing LAN with my friends, I had to take a nickname that was as ludicrous as my friends' ones. "Spiff", from "Spaceman Spiff" in the Calvin & Hobbes comics, was most appropriate, as it didn't sound either too English nor too French. Besides, it had the added value of having 5 letters, i.e the max tolerated by Chrono Trigger.
Although "Spiff" remains my handle for everything offline, and with my friends, I became "Spiffor" on the internet because I can't stand having a figure behind my name. AFAIK, there is no other Spiffor on the internet

[Shi Huangdi]

I really can't remember why I picked Shi Huangdi, except that I remember I didn't like my old username anymore. Inertia is really the only reason I have kept with it.

[Verres]

It the same name I use for everything else; it was the name of a governor of Sicily some time in Ancient Rome. He spent all the time having drunken parties, had no navy to defend against pirates (who practically burned the place down) and committed fraud on a larger scale than most modern politicians. Instead of waiting to be prosecuted, he fled to the south coast of France, complete with all the money/riches he had acquired.

So now you know