What Does Your Name Mean?

alan_vzla · December 15, 2008, 04:59:04 PM

First of all: this is a quite interesting topic!

The origin of my name is very simple
Alan_vzla
Alan: My name, it's a common name on english speaking countries, but here it's fairly uncommon. My parents decided to name me like this because when my mom was pregnant, they were watching the news and there was one regarding the peruvian president in that time, which happened to be reelected on the last elections, Alan García... anyway, they liked the sound of it and decided to name me like that.

_: no explanation... only to separate

vzla: it's the most common abbreviation of Venezuela, where I was born and actually live... we're actually living a bad political moment, but if you have a chance to visit us, do it, you will see what a beautiful country this is.

That's my name on most of the sites I'm registered, but you will also find me under the name of alanvzla, al_4ever, al4ev and others...

kj3400 · December 15, 2008, 06:15:28 PM

First time here (I think...)
Hmm...my name. Well the letters kj are my initials, and the 3400....Well if I told you the real secret, I'd have to kill you.

SimGoober · December 15, 2008, 07:26:39 PM

Well, I suppose I should add my own boring story...

Several years ago I signed into SimTrop for the first time. Before this I had always used a variation of my real name (initials and such) on any site I registered on. But on that sight it seemed everyone had a different name, and I figured I should follow suit. But I felt like such a Goober making up some glorious name for myself..... So SimGoober came to be.

Here in Virginia, a Goober is an old nick name for peanuts, something we grow a lot of. So I used to make subtle jokes about nuts, which mostly I got blank stares from. Then there is of course the very last lot I uploaded to the STEX....

Elektra · December 24, 2008, 12:44:05 PM

Just my alter-ego.

Pat · December 25, 2008, 09:14:49 AM

LoL goober I remember when you uploaded goober nuts lol it was great!!!! I love that lot today and chuckle every time it grows in my cities!!!

Elektra hmmm alter ego eeh!!! hmmm there is a cure for that one

Elektra · December 26, 2008, 06:03:48 AM

Yeah I think its some of Simgoober's Fukitol growing in my city.

simsamerica · January 26, 2009, 05:38:10 AM

Well simsamerica is simple, two reasons I guess,simsamerica doesnt mean I like the game sims but I like simulations, actually primarily NASCAR sims, and the america comes from that I like american games and Im american.

LE0 · January 26, 2009, 05:54:19 AM

it means my name is Leo

and its spelled with number 0 at the end, not letter O.
why is to make it slightly more unique.

Terring7 · January 26, 2009, 06:57:38 AM

Terring was a character from the book "The Valley of the Roses". Just ignore the number because it was an accident

knuckleball · February 26, 2009, 06:30:19 AM

It just sort of popped in there! I thought knuckleball sounded like a fun name so I went with it.

simsamerica · March 01, 2009, 04:31:23 PM

SG, although I currently live in VA aswell, im not a VA native and where Im from I think goober kinda means problem so youd be SimProblem

, to note, im from the Planet Mars

this is what happened when our kind went to the sun, no im from Alabama, but my kind have headed toward the sun (the Saturn 5 resides in Alabama).

antimonycat · March 16, 2009, 11:42:32 PM

Antimony is a chemical element that I liked the name of. A cat is a small feline, often popular as a domestic pet

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delta9 · April 02, 2009, 08:31:27 PM

Well, oddly enough I feel kind of vulnerable disclosing this here, just because I've never seen it come up and I'm afraid the greats, the people I idolize here, the people whose work has inspired me to contribute to this wonderful community, will look down upon it. But I suppose that's not fair to impose that upon myself, the fear of judgement by others, just as it would be unfair to judge me for it...

Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-THC) is the chief psychoactive ingredient in cannabis and cannabis products. That's what my name comes from. For the sake of honesty, most of the time that I am playing SC4, or perusing SC4D, or doing any recreational activity, I am also smoking or have just smoked a bowl of, you guessed it, high-potency bud.

The name came about when I was still in high school. That should pretty much explain it all. It started as Delta 9 and by the time I got here, it had gradually been shortened to lowercase with no spaces, because I kept getting confused between different sites, because some would allow spaces, some wouldnt, etc... Going back about ten years, when I was 11 or 12, I started using the moniker dftonz645 on GameFAQs.com. The Deftones were my favorite band (and still hold a dear place in my heart for their first 3 albums) and 645 was the second half of my school ID #. This was shortened to Dft on the Pearl Drummers Forum. When the GameFAQs board I frequented split off into an independent board in lieu of moderation changes, my new name was Delta 9, because well, I smoked a lot of pot and liked to advertise it, like a dumbass late-teenager would. However, the name has stuck since then, because I really have no reason to change it, and because it carries many special memories to me on that board I created it on, just because of the closeness of that board and that it was during an important part of my life. Amazing how one could say that about a message board, huh?

So there's mine. Hopefully I'm not typecast as a dirty stupid pothead from now on! Because I am only one of those three things

io_bg · April 03, 2009, 06:08:42 AM

And mine: io is from my name - Ioan, and bg is the abbreviation of the country where I live - Bulgaria (it's in Eastern Europe, on the Balkans, for those who don't know).

sebes · April 04, 2009, 04:40:00 AM

Quote from: delta9 on April 02, 2009, 08:31:27 PM
I'm afraid the greats, the people I idolize here, the people whose work has inspired me to contribute to this wonderful community, will look down upon it.

Believe me.... they won't... they might even invite you at their next meeting

TheTeaCat · April 04, 2009, 06:27:05 AM

Quote from: sebes on April 04, 2009, 04:40:00 AM
Believe me.... they won't... they might even invite you at their next meeting

I'll make the Tea

mike3775 · April 29, 2009, 10:02:14 AM

Mine came from AOL

Back when I bought my first ever PC in 1996(a gateway that came with a HUGE 5 gig HD lol), I signed up for AOL, since I had one of those disc's that said 1 month free if you sign up. I filled it out with my name, address, birthday, etc and when it came to picking a screen name, I picked one that had already been taken(it was pro wrestling related because I like Pro Wrestling) and one of the suggestions that it stated was mike3775. Basically all it is is my first name, and my birthdate. Ever since, I use the same screen name everywhere

choco · April 29, 2009, 12:19:48 PM

ok, i'll bite.

i have to skip the gory details, as its totally not appropriate.....here, nor anywhere....

lets just say, following a night of alcohol-fueled debauchery, i awoke to a new nickname of 'Daryl Dawkins'......they tell me that the name was inspired by his most famous dunk, from which i shortened to my current screenname.

.....

doesn't sound so interesting when i put it like that....

pagenotfound · July 06, 2009, 04:57:52 PM

if you click on this link you will soon find out

http://www-ia.hiof.no/~linettev/html4U/form.htm

sithlrd98 · July 07, 2009, 08:04:17 PM

Well, I guess I should post here, nothing really exciting....sithlord goes back to the Compuserve days, I am a pretty big fan of bad guys , who are sometimes misunderstood

Because at a later date , AOL absorbed Compuserve , and by that time I had gone to another ISP , when I decided to go to AOL , sithlord was already taken , so I decided to shorten it to sithlrd , which also was taken so I just added the year I got married 98 , and it has gone with me since. However , I really think its time for a change , just not sure what it should be!

Jayson