Online name origins

[Sample00]

I am pretty sure that this has been discussed before, but I thought I would bring it up again.
How did you come up with your online name?
For me, Sample00, each letter represents the first letter of each person...and er dog's name, in our household. The 00 at the end was the number I always wanted to wear in hockey!

[AaronSJ]

My name is Aaron and I'm originally from Saint John. Then the Baby Flames left town, so I did too.

[RedMan12]

Red - Calgary Flames team colour
Redman - one of my favourite hippity hopitty icons and I lived in New Jersey for 5 years where he is from.
12 - Jarome Iginla. Everyone's favourite overpaid bum that only plays for his contract.

[Bobblehead]

Just though it would be a different nickname. I don't own, and have never owned a Bobblehead, and my name isn't Bob. I have another nck I use most other places, but this one is for here only.

[HelloHockeyFans]

My name is dedicated to the late, great Ed Whalen who always began his Flames broadcasts on channel 2&7 back in the day with, "Hello hockey fans!".

[kermitology]

When I was in grade 11 my friends commented to me that I was always wearing green, some article of green every single day, so they nicknamed me Kermit. Then one day I wanted to play some online game and I had to come up with a username.. and since kermit would have been obviously taken I came up with kermitology.. the study of Kermit the Frog. I've been that ever since.. cause it's something that wouldn't really be common.

[habernac]

Reggie came up with it, it's my nickname on every board I frequent now.

[ken0042]

Mine really isn't that cool. First thing I had to sign up for online I tried "Ken" which is my first name. It suggested Ken17. I tried Ken42- because as everybody knows 42 is the Ultimate Answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

That came back as being used, so I tried Ken042. Next I tried ken0042 and that worked.

[troutman]

troutman

Half Man/ Half Fish

Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. [Norman Maclean]


Lower case, like e. e. cummings

This is a cutthroat trout, native to Alberta:

[Reggie Dunlop]

Because Hugh G. Rection was already taken.

[Calgary Flames]

I dunno.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Maritime = I'm from Nova Scotia

Q-Scout = I used to give scouting reports of Flames prospects in the QMJHL

before that my nic was: jonpatterson = my name

on other boards I use "the Greatest" = in highschool I was arguing with the editors of the school paper that I didn't have time to write an article for each issue. After much hounding, I told them the only way I would write an article was if it was about how great I truely am. I thought this would make them leave me alone, here they went for it, and the article was entitiled "the Greatest". When I started posting on the internet shortly thereafter I couldn't think of a nic, so I opted to use "the Greatest" on a temp basis... if you go to the link in my signature you'll see it's still in use today, lol

[Engine09]

Abbreviation of my last name.

[NSFL]

Not So Funny Lady. People don't laugh at me jokes.

[Eastern Girl]

I tried a lot of other nicks but they were taken. I am pretty sure that I settled on EG because that's what my friends from out West used to call me.... I hate it. I wish I had just used my name. I doubt Elle is being used on this board.

[HalifaxDrunk]

Ummmmmm....*Hic* Where am I?

Pass me a beer?

[Calgary Flames]

Originally Posted by NSFL

Not So Funny Lady. People don't laugh at me jokes.

lol

[RedMan12]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

Ummmmmm....*Hic* Where am I?

Pass me a beer?

some names don't need an explanation.

Cheers!

[FurnaceFace]

Used it for online stuff for years. Comes from a band back in the day.
http://tunevault.com/artist/show.asp?ID=45

It's also oddly appropriate for a Flames site.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Jeff Shantz is a stud who never should have been traded.
There is a much more involved story to it, but suffice it to say that someone has to spearhead the campaing to Bring Back Shantz and it might as well be me.