How did you get your online nickname?

[VladTepes]

With the revelation in another thread that @Blubber is not blubbery I figured it would be fun for us to share our stories about how we came to get our forum nicknames.



For my part - years ago I used to have  website about VladTepes (Vlad the Impaler) (1431-1476)  as it was an area of interest. That was in the days before EVERYTHING was on line in heaps of detail. So that became my go to nickname for forums.

One forum I was on, someone lodged a complaint that I had the user name of someone who had been a mass murderer (too soon, apparently  ) so I had to come up with an alternative.
As I have been into Land Rovers for years (I'm on my fifth, I think) I used LandyVlad instead.   

The more forums I joined, the more I found that VladTepes had already been taken as a user name, so it became LandyVlad.

When I re-started this gsx1400 forum I could obviously pick whatever I wanted, for some reason that was VladTepes but in most other places (including YouTube) I am LandyVlad

Almost everyone on some of those forums calls me 'Landy' rather than LandyVlad or Michael.







OK so share your story !

[KiwiCol]

I'm a Kiwi n my name is Col, so . . .

[gsxbarmy]

With a surname of Hawke, on all other forums I frequent, I go by the handle of hawkeye. When I joined the previous (now defunct) org that name had already been used by a non-contributor, so bring passionate about the 14, originally I tried to use gsxnutter but that too had 'gone' and so gsxbarmy was 'created'.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

My name is Eric and I own a GSX1400K3.

Not very imaginative I know, but easy to remember....

[Hooli]

Mine started as Hooli-goon, a trouble making idiot & then the end fell off.

[Kiwifruit]

It seemed appropriate, living in the Bay of Plenty, the 'Kiwifruit' capital of NZ.

[Batkwaka]

From the "Fred Gassit" comic episode entitled "Fred the Rookie Cop". Fred meets up wth Batman who promptly states "Let's go for a fat on the Batkwaka". Later in life I purchased a new Black ZZR1100 which I placed a Batman sticker on and dubbed the "Batkwaka". I no longer have the ZZR but I kept the pseudonym.

[grog]

Mine was from my Dad, maybe 50 yrs ago. My name is Greg, he just converted it. Ive always liked beer, not hard to figure. Funnily enough, he never called me Greg. Either Gregory or Grog.

[grog]

Batty, yours a classic story. 👍

[Eric GSX1400K3]

From the "Fred Gassit" comic episode entitled "Fred the Rookie Cop". Fred meets up wth Batman who promptly states "Let's go for a fat on the Batkwaka". Later in life I purchased a new Black ZZR1100 which I placed a Batman sticker on and dubbed the "Batkwaka". I no longer have the ZZR but I kept the pseudonym.

I used to read AMCN religiously, Fred gassit was always first.  LEAVE A GAP YA CAHN!!! is my favourite

[1AW022]

Pretty much everywhere else on the web I am "dattoman" ... or a derivative of
Here... its my Rego

[Mick_J]

During my time in the RAF most people had nicknames but I managed to get through my whole career without anything sticking except MJGT (To my face) for a short while.  MJ are my initials which at the time we all used our initials and GT came from me having a Suzuki GT250 which I used to get out and about quite a lot having girl friends in more than one village so became Mick J on his Grand Tour (of villages).  I use the same user name on all forums and my email, reminds me of my youff.

[Notty]

I was a linesman repairing phones and lines - on building sites they regularly would knock the wires down from the pole to the portacabin . My colleagues used to climb both ends and put a new cable up which to me seemed pointless as by next week wires will be down again. So I used to tie a knot in the wires on the floor, connect them together and just climb up the one end hence more time in the cafe !! got called notty for the next 40 years, some people never knew my real name !!

[Tally]

I got mine from a mate who couldn't pronounce my surname properly (Taylor). We were six at the time and it's stuck ever since

[mlivkovich]

First 2 letters of my name + my surname = nickname