Just what does your screen name mean?

[lowpoly]

my nickname may sound like rubbish and to tell you the truth it is *but* it was given to me by my first dial-up ISP back in 90s so it's actually the first username I ever used and I sticked with it

[wellington1869]

OK, Welly, I'll let you in on mine, but there is a little (or a lot) back story on mine first.  When I was a kid, my family was pretty poor, so we didn't watch much TV, but we listened to the radio, records, tapes (no 8-tracks), etc., so I became a big music junkie.  My parents listened to a lot of R&B (old school stuff like Donny Hathaway and EWF), jazz, and otherwise "black" music.  My mom grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights era, and her family was very progressive, and they lived with African-Americans in a time when that wasn't excepted in "white" culture.  When I was very little, I had an African American baby sitter(s) where my affection for "black" music (and culture, to a certain extent) grew.  As I got older in the mid-80s, Hip-Hop was starting to get popular.  Back then, sampling was very popular (Hell, that's essentially how Hip-Hop started), and I heard all the music that I listened to whn I was younger incorporated into this Hip-Hop music, and my love for Hip-Hop was born.

Fast forward to the early 90s, and I was the only white kid in school that had a real appreciation for the music and culture and didn't listen to rap because Snoop was "gangsta" (I am partial to East Coast Hip-Hop, anyway, since that's where it started).  I used to hang out with the other Hip-Hop junkies (Nice 'n' Smooth reference, if you didn't catch it), and we started rapping.  Part of being a rapper (MC), at least back then, was battling other MCs.  Since I am Italian (Sicilian, to be exact), the other cats I hung around with called me the "Italian Stallion" after Rocky Balboa, the boxer in the movie Rocky.  When I went to college in '96, I had to pick a name for my univeristy e-mail account.  They asked us for our requested name without any time to think about it, and the first thing I thought of was "Italian Stallion," but since I didn't want to type all that, I shortened it to "ItlnStln."  Since I am lazy, and I don't like to remember a plethora of user names, I just go by ItlnStln everywhere.

I was a Hip-Hop DJ for the college radio station as well, but I didn't go by ItlnStln as my handle anymore; I just went by Don-O as a tribute to old-school Hip-Hop monikers.  When I battled in college, I went by AKADemiqs (and that was well before the clothing company AKAdemics was started).

Ah, so the mystery is solved  Nice story.  My second guess was that you were a hip-hopping italian communist.

[wellington1869]

I am Data's daughter I'm afraid...

cool! or "Data with boobs" as we call her.

[wellington1869]

I worked as a 3d artist for several years. Low polygon modeling is building 3D objects with just a few triangles or polygons. I also have the domain lowpoly.com which has been a showcase site while I was active in 3d forums. I used that for my screen name as well. When I registered here I didn't expect to hang around and chose a random name, sofa king. Well, some day I googled that and realized it wasn't as subtle as I thought. As iMav said, he will change names on request.

itlnstln: I actually figured that one out.

lol I rather liked sofa king.  


Ah, whats in an (online) name anyway.
That which we call a geek,
By any other name would still... smell.
So Low-po would, were he not Low-po call'd
Retain the one version of that awesome keyboard
even without that title.
So Low-po, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Give that keyboard to me.

[bigpook]

Sounds a bit like Shakespeare wellington, well done.

and yes, I liked sofa king better too.

[wumpyr]

I just pick any of my old university server hostnames for names I need around the house (servers etc), at work and avatars etc.

[cchan]

come on now, he said if you felt strongly. sell it a bit more. request it like you mean it!

Give me a name change to cchan, NOW! I want to use my IRL persona on this forum!

[ch_123]

CrazyHeron was an old nickname/netname of mine in my early teenage years. When I started joining forums I decided to anonymize it a bit.. a bit like what Tales said about seperating your IRL and net identities. So I mashed it up into CH_123. The _123 has no significance, I just pulled it out of nowhere. I've used it ever since for the lack of anything better.

[iMav]

In that case, I'd like to request a name change to cchan, please.

Done.

[Ysaquerai]

Since i use net daily i like to have a handle that is my own and nobody else have.

For that a Name Generator works well. Since then when i register in a forum i don't have to think about someone getting my name. 100% of the time it's mine already.

[cchan]

Done.

Thanks. By the way, do you pronounce Herzog "Her-zog" or "Hert-zog"? I know of a few Herzogs at my school who don't pronounce their name in what I would assume to be the proper German way.

[itlnstln]

Thanks. By the way, do you pronounce Herzog "Her-zog" or "Hert-zog"? I know of a few Herzogs at my school who don't pronounce their name in what I would assume to be the proper German way.

Just call him "Whitey."  

Opening day was yesterday, and I am in a very baseball kind of mood.

[rnak92a]

My screen name comes from my old Prodigy network handle:  rnak92a.  Nothing exciting about it.  :ohwell:

[keyb_gr]

Mine is a reference to the days of DOS/Win9x boot disks. When you'd bypassed config.sys and autoexec.bat, zou'd have a US kezboard lazout onlz, which could be kinda annozing as z is not uncommonlz used (starting with config.szs), plus zou'd be hunting around for dashes and slashes. Then calling keyb.com with "keyb gr" would get you a regular German layout.

[iMav]

Thanks. By the way, do you pronounce Herzog "Her-zog" or "Hert-zog"? I know of a few Herzogs at my school who don't pronounce their name in what I would assume to be the proper German way.

My family pronounces it "her-zog".  (which, I assume, is NOT the proper way to pronounce "Duke" in german)  

[keyb_gr]

My family pronounces it "her-zog".  (which, I assume, is NOT the proper way to pronounce "Duke" in german)  

Your assumption is correct.

[cchan]

My family pronounces it "her-zog".  (which, I assume, is NOT the proper way to pronounce "Duke" in german)  

Yeah, that's how the Herzogs at my school pronounce it.

[bigpook]

I particularly liked this : Aguirre: The Wrath of God

The spaniards were pretty hardcore

[wellington1869]

I can't see Herzog without thinking of this guy:

- Ripster

he kinda looks like imav

[itlnstln]

As a baseball fan, I can't see Herzog without picturing this guy: http://www.freewebs.com/jakesautographsite/whitey%20herzog.jpg