Registered: Feb 2001
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I think that was back in early '90s, bunch of rappers of
"dance hall" Reggae started having names like "U-Roy" or something similar with "U-...".

At the same time, I was in this small town called Carbondale in southern Illinois, being a lazy student. One of my friends had full DJ equipment and doing "backyard DJ" over weekends and stuff. Since I had corrected so many Reggae records by that time(since there's not much to do in that small town), I asked him to let me be a Reggae DJ once(again, there was not much else to do).

My friend's name was Kouichi. For his DJ name, he retained the sound KOU as KO, and for ICHI, he used English translation, which is ONE. "KO-1", sort of like KRS-1. He was playing HipHop, so it was just cool.
He let me play the turntables, but he asked me to have a DJ name.

So, I came up with mine; Yuki is my name.

u-key

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Enumclaw, Wa
Posts: 268

Mine just goes with my name Devin Ray, and when i was registering for VC I was talking to someone on AOL whose name was Masta 4Real. So I just added the 4Real to my name.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Ocean Springs, MS USA
Posts: 16

Mine is just the standard first name last initial deal.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: East Coast, USA
Posts: 134

mine is my web site

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Atop a wandering buffalo hunting aardvaarks
Posts: 148

Gee! What a Neat Story This Is...

... Ever hang out at the Guardian Unlimited talkboards? No? Well...

There was this "pub" thread I started called The Fishmonger's Tavern. A creative title, a small bit of creative writing introducing the place, and some fun comments in the spirit of such a place.

Seems the headwaiter did double-duty as entertainment, waterskiing behind a motorboat in shark-infested waters. Seems a Great White jumped majestically, arced magnificently, and swallowed in one gulp the pub employee. (Admittedly, I didn't describe things this well, but I couldn't resist a good fish story )

Anyway, Colin the Fishscaler had to take over for the duration of the thread (about 2000 posts).

Unfortunately, Graun's (GU's nickname) talkboards were forced to shutdown and retool due to hackers, and when brought back up, I logged on as Fishscaler rather than use my real name.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 42

Now that I tried to remember how I came up with Sideway, I realized that I forgot. I first used it for a chatroom and just stuck with it.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Greenwood, IN
Posts: 125

My real name is Robert Talbert. When I was in high school (yes, they had public schools back then) I got a school jacket with my name stitched onto it. The lapel folded over and blocked the "Ro" and "Tal", and one of my friends walked up to me, looked at my jacket and said "Hey, Bert Bert." That nickname has stuck ever since.

Being a math prof, I can also use my name to demonstrate factoring:

Robert + Talbert = (Ro + Tal)*bert

Some fun eh?

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location:
Posts: 22

Nick

When I was around 14 I started having nightmares every night about myself dying in different ways. I don't know what caused this. I'm thinking maybe it was one of my shadey friends that brought over the Faces of Death video's. Anyway, after a year or two of this my mom bought me a book called "Control Your Dreams" by Jayne Gackenbach and Jane Bosveld. I became obsessed with the book and probably read it over 30 times. I had my first lucid dream 3 months later which ended the nightmares. It's progressed to learning and pioneering new induction methods and techniques. My ability to become lucid in a dream and remember the dream vividly has amazed even myself. It only seemed logical to pick it has a handle.

If you're intrested in this I suggest looking into it further at http://www.lucidity.com

If you read than and are very intrested and want a real primer then read this book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...2910260-2123116

You'll see that this goes from hobby to a new way of life.

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 211

Mine Is really easy to figure out. I was signing up and said, hey, I like Visors, Hey, I'm a Guy, DOH someone has Visor Guy, Let's try Visor Guy2. Sweet! But I have recently been signing up at places as, WhiteRabbit5. Cuz I like the Matrix and I love Rabbits and the number 5. Plus I don't have to explain it to Non-Tech people.

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Arizona
Posts: 43

This is a cool thread. It is interesting to hear the stories behind the names. My sig explains what my name means.

Cakchiquel is spoken by some of the indegenous people in Gautemala. The indegenous people of Guatemala are of Mayan decent, and they still speak their languages (there are hundreds of them). Spanish is a second language to many of them. I spent some time in Guatemala, and many months with those who spoke Cakchiquel. I learned a little of it, but by far the best word I learned was utz. I has many meanings but they are all positive.

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Utz -- (Pronounced 'ootz', it means good, happy, etc. in the Mayan language of Cakchiquel)

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 54

Ah...its my first name, Josh. and the ie is for joshie and the CA if for San Diego Calif.

Really hard to guess that one huh!

Registered: Jun 2000
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 17

Superfly == it sounds cool! And the fork on my mountain bike is a Marzocchi Superfly.

AEPi == I'm a brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity.

Registered: Jun 2000
Location: South Lake, FL
Posts: 103

quote:

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Originally posted by utz
I spent some time in Guatemala, and many months with those who spoke Cakchiquel

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Registered: Dec 2000
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I've been using my screen name for four or five years now. It fit me well as an undergrad, and I've never had to fight anybody else for it. I'm a female graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, hence the name Ladychem.

Cheers!

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Arizona
Posts: 43

Sakaric Tat! Its nice to know there are other Chapines on VC (I consider myself at least a little Chapin) What part of Guatemala are you from? I spent most of my time in Solola, Chimaltenango, and Sant Lucia.

utz.

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Utz -- (Pronounced 'ootz', it means good, happy, etc. in the Mayan language of Cakchiquel)

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Alive and well on VisorCentral.com
Posts: 861

Mine is actually a type of anagram - doesn't look that way does it..

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: at work...
Posts: 736

My screen name is

Really
Obvious &
Boring

The only account name I've used that's even vaguely interesting is "Erehwon", which was the name
of my country when I used to play Empire with my buddies.

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
Posts: 1435

These are neat stories. This one's longish but maybe not so interesting.
I didn't want to use my real name as my Visor user name. I go with the idea that "It works better if it has an identity." Though calling my car "old heap" has likely done some psychologic damage.
I was going to use the name of some comic or TV hero sidekick, but couldn't come up with one I liked.
It randomly occured to me that a handheld computer is like an extension of the brain -- it holds the stuff you need to know but don't always have immediately available or memorized.
Alongside that, I have always thought of the skull as the most important bone -- it protects your brain, without which you're pretty much just an oxygen/nitrogen processing plant. It's also a minor obsession, as I have a collection of skulls (not real ones).
Around the same time that I got my VDX, I got a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Handheld computer to remember stuff, collection of skulls, Hamlet holds the skull of Yorick in his hand when he's remembering about him, put six and three together ...

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: brooklyn
Posts: 268

well, anyone (except my family) who's known me longer than a year dispenses with matt or matthew and goes to matty. and i was on this board pretty early, so i got it. sometimes i use mattydee (d for daniels, you know)

elsewhere, i too use various shakespeare characters... malvolio, nickyb (for bottom the weaver), whatever... (as a teacher of shakespeare, i try to match the name to the site's purpose, so on my own site, i'm malvolio, the steward, when i'm just there to have fun, i'm nickyb, you get the picture.)

when i first got on the web, i was using variations of trep (teerep, tyrrep, t_rep) because my theatre company is called tyrannosaurus rep. i'm a fan of dinosaurs, and a practitioner of that dinosaur of entertainment, theatre, so they just seemed to fit.

reading these threads i'm startin to think of quitting sowing my wild oats around the web, and settling down with one name. it has to be perfect tho'... more thought. more thought!

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Mine is shortcutkid. When I did a stint in a Technical Support role, I would continually be talking to my co-workers and offering them tips to do things quicker and with fewer keystrokes or keystroke combinations (shortcuts). Well, the person that I sat next to thought of me as her little brother (probably has something to do with my jester-like activities) so, she gave me the nickname of ShortCutKid. I liked it, so I kept it and have used it for close to 4 years now.