Personal Icon and Nickname meaning

Published on January 21, 2005 By Sleeping Dragon In WinCustomize Talk

Well I gotta tell ya, some of these personal icons are awesome. Jinn Fizz and Stupendous Man are two of my favorites. I'm interested in the meaning behind them. To some it just looks cool, to some there may be some history. Also, I think I know why BoXXi's is a box, but I don't know why he's BoXXi. What makes Corky_O Corky? Why does butch have a 123 and a motorcycle? What's a Jafo? Why did sbgFX kill the Spyder?

So if you got a minute, tell us why you chose your nickname and what, if anything, your icon represents.

I won't go first this time. Someone else.

Comments (Page 1)

DPG

on Jan 21, 2005

Very Boring...I've been using my initials since...well, forever and hoping the Dodgers do some winning this decade.

dan.wright

on Jan 22, 2005

I'd love to have a personal icon, but have no graphics skill. As for the nick ... I'm a Denver Bronco's fan and the 7 is for John Elway. Why am I missing an "o" in broncofan7. Well, was creating an email address at hotmail and in order to get that email I had to drop the o

CygnusXII

on Jan 22, 2005

Mine is from a song by Rush on the Hemispheres, album. Cygnus is also a Constellation called The Swan,
which contains a Black Hole CygnusX-1 take this and modify it to CygnusXII, the XII being my birthday.
My Icon is a picture of Bob JR Dobbs, of the Church of the SubGenius, and Devote of Slack.
http://www.subgenius.com/ Church of the SubGenius

RUSH Hemispheres Part IV

[Cygnus: Bringer Of Balance]

I have memory and awareness
But I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit
I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old
To the city of Immortals
Marble white and purest gold...

I see the gods in battle rage on high...
Thunderbolts across the sky...
I cannot move, I cannot hide...
I feel a silent scream begin inside...

Then all at once the chaos ceased
A stillness fell, a sudden peace
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was atonished
Dionysus thought me mad
But they heard my story further
And they wondered, and were sad

Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear
Its surface splintered
Into sorry Hemispheres

They sat a while in silence
Then they turned at last to me
'We will call you Cygnus
The god of Balance you shall be'
Sat 22 January 2005, 12:06 AM [Eastern Standard Time]

ama02

on Jan 22, 2005

Hi SD!

My nick is the result of being frustrated when I couldn't register here (2 1/2 years ago) with my regular nick (Fallstar) which seemed to be taken at the time.

I haven't seen anyone around here with the nick, so perhaps I can talk one of the admins into letting me change it? Anyhoo, my current nick is just my initials, the '02' was because '01' wouldn't take either.

My icon was thrown together in PSP in about 3 minutes or so...sort of looks like a Plumeria flower from my home state (Hawaii), so I kept it.

Jafo

on Jan 22, 2005

JAFO...

Just Another Fine Observer

[well....maybe not 'fine'.....think of another 'F' word]...

My 'icon' is a cartoon caricature I drew of an FormulaOne 'Observer'....[which is what I do at the GrandsPrix] and is tattooed on my shoulder...

Weaksid

on Jan 22, 2005

Weaksid

Weapon Expert Ass Kicking Shadow In Darkness

I came up with this name maybe like 10 or so years ago. My Friend and I created this group which wasn't much of anything at the beginning but now since we are older and I kept the group names and titles still together and use them. We are taking things to a new level. We are using things for buisness and the net. If you would type my Nick in a search engine, you would get alot of my stuff and some that the engine fines with the title weakside. The name just came to me while we were building a fort out of whole trees

My Avator? I was just messing around with things and I came up with that. I just never got around to change it to something new.

Corky_O

on Jan 22, 2005

Well, my mother (before she passed) called my father "Orc" - no reference to Tolkien's creatures mind you, but rather short for "Orcutt" which is our last name.

Somehow, when I was born the nickname "Corky" was decided upon (probably the practical progression from "Orc"). Early years in school proved to be a great playground for making fun of names and "Corky Orcutt" must have been - Ohhhh - in the top 5. Ah, the dramatic learning moments of younger years.

So, when asked to provide a nickname during registration, I (obviously not in a "creative moment") decided to go with my true nickname - "Corky_O", which includes the web and dos safe underscore.

The icon is a dreamcather to represent the "O" (Orcutt) and of course "Corky" in text.

Great thread as always, SD. I truly enjoy learning more about the members of this fun community.

Erk.

on Jan 22, 2005

Mine's a play on a comment my Ma made to me when I was a kid. I'd get Xmas and birthday presents ~and due to my inquisitive nature at the time, I'd take the gift's straight to my room and pull them apart, to see how they worked.

...Trouble was, at that age, I had no idea how to put things back together again. One year I was given a rather expensive (at the time) robot, which was mechanised and had flashing lights, and made sounds etc.

..yep ...straight to the room again to pull it apart. At the time, I had a bunch of mates over. When Ma walked in and saw the new robot in a thousand tiny pieces on the floor, she sighed and said: "I wish you'd wreck less Eric, and concentrate more on figuring out how to put things back together"

My mates immediately picked up on the word's "wreck less Eric" ...and the name has been a nick ever since. Had it over thirty years or more

Turns out it was great experience ...because now I CAN put things together, and am a "jack of all trades" with skills in many different area's. Needed in my current position of backpacker hostel operator/manager

Hus

on Jan 22, 2005

Let's see...back in um...1996 or 1997, I got a new Pentium II 133 and one of those AOL 2.5 disks...and needed a cool screenname. So "Hustler" was the best I could come up with at the time, because I was real big on pool [might of made it to the pros, if I didn't quit]. When I learned how to use PC's a bit more, I gave up AOL and shortened it to "Hus", and have been that way for almost 8-9 years now. The user-pic, is kinda self-explanatory...

tjesterb

on Jan 22, 2005

The nick I originally wanted to use was "Jester" which is an anagram of the first three leters of my two sons' names. (No, it had nothing to do with TopGun, either

)
Of course that name was already taken, along with just about any variant made by sticking numbers on the end. Anyway, I stuck my initials on the front and back, and got Tjesterb. The wolf avatar was pretty much made in ten minutes from a picture of a wolf I had on my PC. Tweaked a little in Photoshop, not that you can tell in the postage stamp size you see here on the boards. I also have a tattoo of a wolf in a similar pose, on my arm.

Stupendous Man

on Jan 22, 2005

Wow, glad you like the icon, Dragon. There's no mystery or history to it. My all-time favorite comic strip was/is Calvin & Hobbes of which Stupendous Man was my favorite of Calvin's alter egos. So I googled, found an image I liked, down-sized it, and voila!, I am Stupendous Man!

(I sure do miss Calvin & Hobbes)

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Jafo

on Jan 22, 2005

tjesterb ....... t...jester...b all this time and I never once noticed that....

....and I call myself a 'JAFO', too....

ama02

on Jan 22, 2005

"(I sure do miss Calvin & Hobbes)"

Me too

Scarebear

on Jan 22, 2005

I used to have long hair and ride a motorcycle to college. I never did put my hair up though and it was always quite messed up by the time I took my helmet off. Some of my class mates said I looked like Scarebear (a cartoon character from a short lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon) and I've had the nickname since ('91).

My personal icon is simply the design I use on my own website

Sleeping Dragon

on Jan 22, 2005

wreck less. That's funny.

In Japanese, a reclining dragon (garyou) is kind of like a person waiting to burst out. A man of potential or a good man hidden among the masses. I don't think I'm a good man, really, but one that can always improve. A person who has not reached their full potential but striving for the mark. It kind of fits my personality, I think.

Just thought the icon I was working on looked cool, so I made it my personal one. Then I realized in February 05 that it was a terrible subconscious mimicry of DanilloOc's, so I changed it to it's current state.

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