Where does your nickname come from?

Mine was created ~6 years ago. I was registering for a social networking site when it said something like, "Error! The nickname you picked is already in use." I then try to use "Error" as a nickname, but it turns out that it was also in use. Finally, I switched the o for a 0 and it worked.

I think it was when i was about 14/15 years old, just randomly picked a name for myself on msn and went with it.

For me it was waayy back when pro wrestling was actually fun to watch and i used to like this wrestler called "stone cold" steve austin with a badass attitude....neways i first used it for signing up for a hotmail account...

Some years ago I sold advertising for a few local publications and was called the "adman". After a big night at a New Years Eve bash I ended up with a shaved head and no eyebrowse and from then on it mutated to "madman".

Well, MFB sounds mysterious and all :P. That they're also my initials is just plain coincidence.
OK, my brother had a very small company using his initials at the time, which I found very cool. (I was 10 when I chose my nick) I also have a second nick for those irritating sites that require a username to be longer than 3 characters: chikazuku. I got that by just looking in a Dutch - Japanese dictionary and picking a random word.

Originally Posted by madman

Some years ago I sold advertising for a few local publications and was called the "adman". After a big night at a New Years Eve bash I ended up with a shaved head and no eyebrowse and from then on it mutated to "madman".

that's quite a story! :D

My name is a bit unoriginal, it comes from my last name xD. I have a better nick for games : Mosselman (this is dutch). The last name is because i live in a mossel village.

I think this nick wen I was intresting aquarium tailandukas-fish whit -asThis was about 3 years ago.

mine is from 2001, there is a song called Stranded, it's one of my favorite songs of all time that's why I chose it

mine's somewhat dork... it comes from my real name. Also use another one which was one used by closer friends as my nick... 'psych', somewhat moded from sick (please dont ask why lol)

I like basketball and the NBA, and loved Allen Iverson (a basketball player in the NBA obviously) and so i just randomly linked it with my name (jack). It was originally iverson_jack455 (jack45 for jackass - something different) but that's too long to type so i just shorten it to iversonjack

My name comes from my real name's monogram: SJ, and from años, which is a spanish word, and it means: birthday

(However, I can't speak in spanish, just for fun :P)

i rented the game worms armageddon for n64. there was already a team someone made there, so i used it. one of the guys names was Sgt.Lambo. so i used it.

A friend of mine for some reason started calling me booboo. Not that I screwed up or anything LOL!

My name in rl > 明隆 > Akitaka > Aki > 4ki

...Because someone always takes the former. A lot of people mistake the pronunciation (forky, heh), but that's to be expected. Sometimes, I go by robomop, just because it sounds oh-so retro-future.

Lambo: great game. I remember sgt.lambo :-)

Lite:
I was just drinking coke so yeah....

Serrias (other commonly used name by me):
The video game company sierra That i changed around to make it differnt

The old WWII movies, teh POW's used Kilr0y to f#ck w/ the Man (Jerry, charlie, Uncle Sam), it just seemed right. My other car is teh Sandcrawler, after the Jawa's ride, cuz i drove the 5ton north so often 111

Thought I bump up this thread Got my nickname from this song:

I created this alias in August 2007 in a rush to upload my first Line Rider video on YouTube. I created it at the time because I wanted something that sounded awesome and sounded like I was awesome, and something that my friends could recognize me as well with, since my name is the first two letters of the alias.

No joke, my name is actually J.K., yes it's an abbreviation for something that I would not like to reveal at the time. All I'll say for now is it's short for a hard to pronounce Chinese name (for English speakers anyway). So I shortened to J.K. a few years after I moved to Canada so save people the hassle.

I have used the JkPwNsTeR in most of the accounts I have, whether it be for e-mail, games, forums, and online communities such as YouTube where it originated from.

It currently has 987 results from Google.

It has had its troubles, even recently my "friends" started to joke that it sounded like "JKPornStar". Yeah. I know.

JkPornStar... Now I know how to make fun of you

In terms of my nickname, it's just an alias, it has nothing to do with me whatsoever. Funny thing, originally, I made up the name Mason Barry, and the E-Mail mbarry631@hotmail.com, to fill out one of those surveys to get a free iPod, since I saw news coverage of it, and evidently, you really do get free iPods, but I learned later on that you have to bug so many friends to get you referrals, it's just too much work. Now, I just use the E-Mail to sign up for forums, newsletters etc., and keep my personal E-Mail for friends, relatives etc. In terms of gaming, I use Winnerhl as my nickname. Funny story comes with this one too. When I was about 7 years old, I started playing Descent and my little brain thought "What a good idea it would be to make it look like I won the game every time, even if I lost?", and I came up with Winnerhl (H.L. being my real initials), and I just stuck with it ever since.