The origins of your alias/screen name

The origins of your alias/screen name

This topic is all about your aliases/sreen names and how you made them up. i'll start.

Xeridanus = X + Eridanus (which is a constellation)

now its your turn.

Olof Moleman is my real name, and my nicknames are Trilobite and Jaws, I couldn't think of anything better...

That is really interesting, are those names common where you come from?

If your nicknames are Trilobite and Jaws, how did you get those namse?

As for my real name, Olof is a Scandinavian name, I'm half swedish
And my last name, Moleman, is Dutch

And about my nicknames...
Jaws was the first nickname I had, I used to play Jazz Jackrabbit2 a lot with my brother, and he sorta forced me to be called Dodo (just for fun) until I came up with a new nickname. And his nickname at the time was Ninja Rabbit, when I came up with Jaws as a new nickname, sorta as revenge I tough that he should be called Dodo for once, and thus his nickname was born, Ninja Dodo (that's stil his nickname. And then I always used Jaws on the internet, until I found out that on some sites, that nickname was already taken, so on some sites I used olofmoleman, because there was almost no chance at all that that name would be taken already. Later when I joined a forum about fossils I called myself Trilobite (I like trilobites, and that name was also already used on some sites (although less then Jaws), so now I mostly call myself just olofmoleman on internet.


Edit: and Jaws is of course derived from the movie (when I first used that name I hadn't actually wached any Jaws movie.
and a Trilobite is a prehistoric arthopod that lived in the sea during the Paleozoic era.

Read: http://www.web-zealots.co.uk/me/strigor.htm

My usual alias: Dan van Ohllus
My real name: Daniel Ohlsson (Hey, Olof! I am a Swed too. )

So my alias is somewhat mixed with my real name and words from Latin and Germany.

My internet name is linked with my real name... Through the mists of time it changed; evolved, even. It has now reached the perfection only an acronym can have; RDZ is here. And yet, even it may one day be sundered by the weight of the wind - who knows what the future might bring?

My nickname is a child of a while, once used, left unchanged forever.

Raiju = japanese thunder demon, sits by the side of Raiden the demon lord (yeah this is not MK, its a real deity) and is responsible to survey the steps of Rai-taro (thunder holy kid) over the earth

it is said that when a thunder strokes a tree its Raiju sharpening its claws. cool isnt it?

@DvO i cant see the latin part of your nick, really....

Dan van OhllusHey, Olof! I am a Swed too.

Jag också!
Olof is half-swed.

My name isn't taken from something. I figured out a demonic name matching my avatar.

My nick here is just myfirst name My nickname on Battle.net is also easy to solve - XardasJac = Xardas, mage necromancer from game Gothic and Jac short for my first name.

Raiju@DvO i cant see the latin part of your nick, really....

Many Latin words and names ends with "-us", like Aquaticus for example.
(Latin was used in Rome in about thousand years ago, but can be found in the ?wordbook?)

Erhm im just not very good at making nick names so I just took it from an english metal band, lol. Raging Speedhorn.

Though most places I either call myself ZykloN or Animosity

I was searching for a name in the Warcraft manual and I saw "Admiral Daelin Proudmoore". I liked the name and that's why I'm now Daelin.

~Daelin

Rhymes with my last name.