Nicknames , Who?

[Doorway]

Here's a little thread that might be interesting. Everybody has a nickname that they use in games , sites (like this one), messengers etc. . The question here is how or why do you use the nickname you use.
Mine started years ago when I had purchased my very first computer. Right away I was told "type nickname here" , so right away I just started looking around the room to type in anything I could think of. Believe it or not my first try was "Wrigley" because a pack of gum was on the table. I got the "nickname already taken , try again" LOL , so I typed in the very next thing I saw and yep, that's when >Doorway< was born. I've stuck with it since. Anyway , that's my story , what's yours?

[HUTCH SC95]

Mine was Easy....first 5 letters of my surname ,, SC is for saber corps and 95 is/was my squad #. Use a couple of others in the early days of cooping (Warlord, Jade Ring), but finally just settled on HUTCH SC95 and left it that way.

Good post Doorway,, should be intersting.

[W@tchtower*CFS*]

Im a Jimi Hendrix fan, when I started C4 in Oct 03 I was "voodoo", since there was a "voodoochild" already running around...after a couple of months I changed to "Watchtower" for the Dylan song(perfected by Hendrix) "All Along the Watchtower"....lol but all the Europeans asked me if I was a Jehovahs witness because their main publication is called the "Watchtower"...lol..anyways Im not Jehovahs Witness.....just Watchtower.....then I joined CFS in 12/03 I proudly added my *CFS* tags.

[Bluetiereign]

Bluetiereign - a homonym of Blue Terrain. I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

[Charger]

Pretty cool how you guys came up with your nicknames.

When I first started talking on the CB radio I was trying to come up with a handle and much like Doorway just looked around my surroundings and happen to look out my front window and seeing the car I owned at the time - 1984 Dodge "Charger" - well I think you can figure out the rest, I just carried the name over to the Internet.

[Doorway]

How cool is this , pretty interesting how my buddies came up with their nicknames. :)

[RAB]

I always played arcade games when I was younger. When you got a high score you put your initials in. So when I started playing C4 that was the first thing I thought of when it asked for a player name. By the time I thought about making a kewler nickname everybody already knew me as RAB so I figured I stick with it.

[W@tchtower*CFS*]

LOL RAB I always knew what the initials stood for, I can see you winning at Ms.Pac Man and inputing "RAB" as the top scorer....LOL!!!! Makes sense that you would use them!!!

Blue I always wondered, now I know....

This is pretty cool....

[RAB]

LOL Almost 40 views on this thread and only five responses. I guess there are allot of people that can't remember how they came up with their name.:spamafote:

[Doorway]

No doubt !! Come on people's , don't be shy , lets us know how you came up with your nickname. It wont hurt , really. :joystick.gif:

[Edward]

hey all long time no post lol been lurkin though

my nick for here on the forums lol my birth name but those who know my real nick in gm also know why rotflmaoh.

[HUTCH SC95]

but those who know my real nick in gm also know why rotflmaoh.



crap that leaves the door WIDE OPEN,,,,,,ok blue /and charger after you...LMAO

[Charger]

Something like "majorpothead" I think? :wink2:

[Joggl]

I guess the names look a little bit strange for you. But in germany you can find the name as often as "Bob" or "John".
"Joggl" is the short way of "Joachim". My sister called me when I was a baby and later I found a different way to write than others. Most times it´s written "Jockel" and this is also an acronym of "Jürgen" and "Jochen".

[JET-WTF]

Mine like RAB is my initials, then my squads tag -WTF. at some sites i go by Xx_JET_xX and others as just plain JET. mostly its JET-WTF.

[HUTCH SC95]

Something like "majorpothead" I think? :wink2:



I don't get it....LOL

[RAB]

I don't get it....LOL

Well maybe this pic I found of him will help.

http://www.cte-hq.com/Graphics/screen_shots/pothead.bmp

[A Recon Soldier]

I usually use Black Fox, or second is Vulpes Velox (which is latin for Swift Fox). I used to play a video game called Star Fox as a younger child, and when my parents bought their first computer I went nickolodeon.com (I feel like a dumb@$$ telling you this). I tried signing up with Star Fox. Taken. I got silly and put Invisible Fox. Taken. Red fox. Taken. Black Fox was availible and somehow it just stuck with me. Vulpes Velox was an endangered animal I read about, and used that sometimes as a subsitute for Black Fox.

[kill_me{FWD}]

My first nickname in my first online game was
kill_me_shooter
as i thought this could help me getting a steeper learning courve.

As c4 does not admit more than 15 characters it changed soon to
kill_me{FWD}

Now it is
*[FWD]*KM
as i do not want anyone to feel insulted by my nickname or to think i would be suicidal.

[Santa AkA SoDam]

My first online game was C4 and when I first started playing on line it was at the time when suddam hussain was still the boss in Iraq and the US/UK assault had only just started.

I was a newbie (like we all were) and I died all the time no kills to my name and I had usually about 20 deaths lol

Because I was loosing badly all the time I thought I would call myself “So Dam Insane” it’s better than Griffon and I like to see suddam hussain lose all the time hehehe

Anyway time went by and I got better and then I was asked to join a new squad being formed called <CoN> but the tag would not fit after the name!! So I lost the insane bit and kept the So Dam!!

And from that day to this it has never changed lol

[Doorway]

Thats really interesting Santa AkA SoDam , I for 1 always wondered what your name came from. Now I Know !!
Cool sig also duder...:)

[Charger]

Awesome sig...

[Santa AkA SoDam]

Well thx guys!!
I guess I have a bit of explaining to do now lol
This sig was made by someone called wolf hound I don’t know him much but he used to play BHD with R~A~B.

Then R~A~B cast a magic spell and updated the sig for me.

I think is much better!! I just havent got round to updating my profile here!!
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m306/SoDam_2006/SoDamsig.gif

To explain Santa AkA So Dam!!
I tried but I could not create an account name here using just So Dam!! As an account name!!
I go by the Alias “Santa” during the Xmas month of December just for kicks!! So I used it to create an account name here, thats why Santa AkA So Dam!!

[RAB]

Well thx guys!!
I guess I have a bit of explaining to do now lol
This sig was made by someone called wolf hound I don’t know him much but he used to play BHD with R~A~B.

Then R~A~B cast a magic spell and made this sig for me.

I think is much better!! I just havent got round to updating my profile here!!
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m306/SoDam_2006/SoDamsig.gif


Sorry I can't take any credit for making the sig. All I did was add 10 frames to the end of the existing sig. Hardly enough to say that I made it.

[Santa AkA SoDam]

Sorry R~A~B fixed it now buddy!!

[HotShotFWP]

LOL very interesting revealations!!!!

OK My turn:

My fist C4 nick was E5B. I was a radio operator in the Marines, an a personal call sign consisted of one's pay grade and the 1st letter of one's Last name. So since I was enlisted my personal call sign was E5B. Enlisted=E, 5= Rank or pay grade E-5 or Sergeant, and B the 1st letter of my last name. I thought that really looked bad, so I thought to get a nick that sounds good and strikes people when they see it.

So I thought to use HotShot, so if I killed players and did some good flying players would ask: what are you a hotshot or something? hehe Also, since we use stingers, players may think oh he means Hot Shot cause the stingers are hot and blow you up. LMAO

Well, that's my story and I really was glad to hear the story of others. Especially RAB's, So Dam's, and Joggl's explanation, cause I always wondered how they came to use those nicks LOL!

Cya all around.:waving.gif:

[stinger101]

Not quite rookie enough to stick with Griffin, chose an intro level course on "stingers". Doesn't seem I'll ever reach the 200 level courses though...

[Phaser]

Hello Gentlemen...:waving.gif:
When I first started playing c4, I chose the name Widowmaker, because, being an Aviation Engineer, I have worked on the F-104 Starfighter in Germany. I found out, at that time, that the Starfighter was nicknamed 'The Widowmaker' because it was always killing its own pilots, it had an inherant design problem. It was designed to fly fast. but to land it, it had to fly slow, this caused a great deal of unstable air flow effects on the wings, and if the pilot was not very careful the aircraft would flip it nose up and do a backward summersault just at the crucial time of touchdown, the Starfighter was probably the hardest aircraft to land. My c4 experience was very limited at first (we've all been there!) and I just thought "I'm gonna die here" hence Widowmaker.
I later changed my name to Phaser, after a Sepecat Jaguar pilot I once flew with and admired, he was a bit of a cowboy and could break the sound barrier then slow down enough to let the sonic wave catch up to him. The only person I ever knew who could do that! He used to entertain us this way every time he did a landing circuit of the runway. Sadly he was KIA in the first Gulf War. But his memory lives on.