Something that popped up in an IRC conversation once, ages ago. Can't for me life remember the context now, but I then adopted it as my nickname for places where Sebas was already taken, or I didn't want to use Sebas for some reason.

I used to do a bit of online gaming a couple of years ago and I always played as Zombie (because I like Zombies) on my own computer. But Zombie was ALWAYS taken when I played online, so I changed the spelling to "ZomBee" instead. (And I liked the idea of a Zombie Bee). The BOB ending is an acronym of my name that people started calling me by (since my name is so damn long).

them00ch (or m00ch) comes from the fact I used to be homeless for a couple of years. I spent some time on the streets, but I was lucky enough to have a few friends who would let me "mooch" off them occasionally, with a hot dinner here and there and a roof over my head for a night or two. Even though my life is back on track now I always feel like a bit of a mooch - but I will pay them back when I make my millions!

Collins dictionary definition of mooch:

mooch vb(Slang)
1. to loiter or walk aimlessly,
2. to cadge or scrounge.

One of my first computer games I spent way too much time on was Apeiron ( http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/apeironx/ ). A key element of the game were mushrooms and the default name in the highscore list was fungus_mungus which I seemed to like for some strange kind of reasons I'm not aware of anymore today. Since then I'm using fungus as a nick and because it is taken from time to time you'll find me as fungus_mungus in some places (e.g. on last.fm or imdb).

them00ch: reminds me of Minnie the Moocher

Very touching history you have them00ch.
And ZomBeeBob..i don't know why but i always thought your nickname has something to do with Zaphod BeebleBrox.HAHAha now i see i was totally wrong.

Well, about mine..if it's anyone interest..mine it's a boyfriend/girlfriend thing..my real name is Marcella but most of the people call me Bonni(childhood stuff) and
me and my ex-boyfriend just love the robbers from the first scene of Pulp Fiction..so he used to call me Honey "Bonni" and i used to call him Pumpkin.
PPKN from Pumpkin and HoneyB from Honey Bonni.
Well, the boyfriend's gone..but the nickname still here.lol

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First of all; @ZombeeBob.. great topic!

My nickname; Sebassie1
Well my real name is: Sebastiaan, with this name you can make a lot of variations... :-)
First of all, we have; Sebas.. Bastiaan.. Bas.. and of course for our Dutch fellows; Bassie.. from Bassie & Adriaan!
Come to think of it, i should post some shots of their movies.. ;-)

Well now; but never i was called Sebassie.. so that's why i came up with it myself! And the 1 stands for.. that i'm the first
with this nickname here (i think) :-p

I call myself Razzomega because it five year ago sounded like a cool nickname and then I have kept it. My real name is Rasmus (Razz) and then i put an omega after because I thought that omega was nice(I know it's silly :P)
You can also seperate the name into
Razz-Omega
Raz-Zo-Mega
and
Razzo-Mega :P! LOL!

@Zythux: Haha :-P That must have been a enormous shock for you!

My name comes from the character by the same name from a line of figures called "Tortured Souls", which was actually designed by Clive Barker. The toyline also came with a short story written by Barker, and Agonistes just happened to be my favorite character story wise and design wise, so I simply adopted that name. Here a picture of the figure and a link with some elaboration on the character in case someone's interested:
http://www.oafe.net/shocka/ts_1_agon.php

@ Razzomega: I knew about the first part of you nick, but I always thought that you were a huge fan of "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston. :-)

Am I glad I made this thread.. Hell Yeah :-)

My nickname (as does revani's) also comes from a game. In the Halo franchise, there is an ancient races, called the Forerunner.
I just thought it looked cool, so started using it online. Unfortionately the name is often taken, so i also use Gruntforerunner (a grunt is the most basic enemy in the halo games)

My nickname is the most boring you can imagine. My initials are F.J. and, as I was a big fan of Tintin as a child, I used the same trick than Hergé and just took my initials phonetically as a nickname ("J" in french is pronounced "jee" and "jee" can be written "ji").

Tof means cool/great or something in dutch. So toffetomas is cool tomas. I think it's a perfect name for the internet, where people pretend to be cool all the time. I choose the name cause it's an alliteration and its just the worst and most stupid name i could think of.

Beside movies I like music too, so:

mike (Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater's drummer)
bozzio (Terry Bozzio - Zappa's Drummer)

My nickname is the product of a certain obsession with the TV series "Hogan's Heroes" or "Ein Käfig voller Helden" in German.
I absolutely love Werner Klemperer's character "Oberst Klink". One cannot help loving his humour and tantrums.

Nice to see all these stories behind the names you guys use. I'd never figure them out x3 I have a rather silly nickname, I guess =P

I used to play Ragnarok Online a long long time ago. You can capture some of the monsters in the game as pets, and there was one thing called Munak I captured and didn't know how to name it. It has it's own story - something like a boy and a girl who were brutally murdered and kept mourning their love everlasting or anything like that. It had that red robe and that floating style and the whole melancholy thing, and I thought of things that stand between and the red, and sunset is that part of the day that's not day nor night, it's just something in between...so I named her Sunset Walker. And I'm kinda something that's always somewhere between too, so when I stopped playing I kept the name for me.

Too much writing for that xD

Are you related to Sam Mendes ^_^ ?

A few years back we had to make up a company name for ourselves during my studies and then design a logo for it. I came up with I.c.e Motion coz I like well water and Ice is frozen water.. motion has to do with animation and the whole is a way of saying "I see emotion" which I think is important in media and entertainment.. to touch the viewer and evoke an emotion.

I've used it ever since, mainly for my own photography website and as a nickname all over the place.

One day, 15 years ago, the beautiful spotty, slow, awkward big boy that I was, has been named as a "dinosaure" by a friend of mine (not my friend anymore now...). As my last name is "Papet", I tried to transform this new developing patronyme to a nice personnal nickname, with a royal and haughty "Le" ("the") in the front, and it gave "Le-Pap-osaure", and my life became amazing and unique since this day.
Of course I used this nickname for every avatars I played, and as my entire life amounts to a geek's nirvana, now everybody knows me as LePaposaure, alias Papo for my close and lazy friends.

well my name is Anestis, but because it's Greek the pronunciation is spelled as anEstie. I'm lucky enough having a name that very few people have and never had a problem like my nickname being taken.

btw, @agonistes : your name in Greek means fighters or warriors. plural yes. i always thought you got it from some ancient history books or something. just wanted to let you know since we all reveal the hidden messages of our nicks.

Great stories are revealed behind nicknames!
I enjoyed reading you all.

Palahniuk is from Chuck Palahniuk: the american novelist behind Invisible Monsters, Choke, Survivor and, of course, Fight Club.
When I saw Fight Club alone in a huge empty theater on the 24th december 1999, my knees were shaking. What is that! Who wrote this!

007: mmmh, well… I was a huge Bond fan at seven years old. At the time I considered The Spy Who Loved Me the best movie ever! It was in 1977.
And Barbara Bach was a very disturbing "alien" to me.

A few years ago I was broke. I decided to sell stuff quickly on eBay. I was in a hurry when I registered and I made up this weird combination. That's it!

Haha, nice to read all this.

I wanted to make an Palindrome (as "Red rum, sir, is murder") as a variation on my own name (Sara), but got stuck with 'Taartstaart' :P, it's virtually unused, sounds funny (a bit Dutch though) and is a bit crazy.

"Taart" is Dutch for pie and "Staart" is something like a (pony)tail. Crazy combination, but because I can't make up anything else and this one is never in use, I 'adopted it' :P (Anyone who has a spare nickname / knows something better... shoot :P, because my name doesn't really lend itself for abbreviations, I don't have a real 'nickname' ;))


Also I have had names like "QuisaMagistra" and "Raven". (Before the Emo-thing came up ;))

I use the online nickname MichaelAngelo, michaelangelo or michael-angelo for several years now. There are actually three reasons why I picked that name;

1. My first name is Michael so, yeah.
2. Ever since I was young, I am a big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, espess of Michaelangelo :)
3. I draw. A lot. I could post some drawings here, but best you check out freewebs.com/michaelraymakers. So the connection with Italian artist Michelangelo I like to use as well ;)