where does everyone get their names from? - pointless questi

[kingbee]

a lot of explaining needs to be done for some

[Supermodel]

My parents picked my name.

[Xvall]

Real Name? Or Che-Lives Name?
My Che-Lives name was from a book I wrote a long time ago..

[j]

Anyone guess where I get my name? Anyone care?

It's from my first name, Jason.

If your asking about my real name......its Lebanese. I get it from my father.

j

[Blasphemy]

i just read the word blasphemy in some book and i found out its meaning in the dictionary and decided it's cool. pretty stupid, right?

[death b4 dishonour]

i got my name from the japanese kamikaze pilots in WW2. death before dishonour was the code of the kamikazies.

[Grauniad]

There is a newspaper in the UK, The Guardian, years ago there were so many errors in it, not factual more on the lines of upside down articles missing paragraphs etc, that one satirical magazine, Private Eye, renamed it The Grauniad, on the grounds that it was only a matter of time before thet screwed up that too.

[Hayduke]

I think I got alot of explaination to do here.

I got it from a old movie were this guy that wore alot
of army things like I do.

And it developed when I was drunk.

[oconner]

mother's maiden name spelt wrong.

[kingbee]

grauniad- lol- i knew when i saw your name- private eye is class!
my name is from a lyric of a song i was obsessed with at the time by the stone roses- i was kingbeeinafrenzy on the old che lives but that was a mouthful and took 2 long. i have unfortunately found out there is a rapper called king bee somwhere

(Edited by kingbee at 10:29 pm on June 14, 2002)

[BOZG]

Mine is from the lyrics of a song.

(Edited by BornOfZapatasGuns at 12:41 am on June 15, 2002)

[Dhul Fiqar]

Dhul Fiqar or Zhul Fiqar (depends on where you're from) was the sword of Muhammad the Prophet (saws). He gave it to his cousin Ali, the fourth Caliph and by some accounts the last righteous Caliph of Islam.

In any case, he is much admired in Islam because he was a martyr along with his two sons, Hassan and Hussein, but that created a problem of who would take over the Caliphate of the Islamic Ummah. It led to a split that has lasts to this day between "Sunni" and "Shi'a" Islam.

To me, it represents honorable principles, history, righteousness, martyrdom and God (SWT).

--- G. Raven

[j]

Dhul Fiqar--Why do you have Marx's quote that religion "is the opiate of the people" if you are Muslim? I take Marx's quote to be quite anti-religion.

j

[Anonymous]

I also take my name from the lyrics of a song.

RHCP

[Moskitto]

Mine's the name of a Kayak spelt with 2 ts instead of 1. The "Kirton Moskito." However i'm not a kayak paddler anymore so it isn't really appropriate, well it sounds better than "Starlight" or "Delta."

[Dan Majerle]

Mine emanates form me wanting to pay homage to the retiring baskteball player Dan Majerle who has filled my short life with many memories. :)

[GWF]

I think no one know what this name is, It developt when I first heard of Che and stuff, and I needed a nickname with counterstrike, it was then "Guerrilla W.F." After the counterstrike period it was my tagname (for graffiwrites) it was reduced to GWF, but it means "Guerrilla Warfare"

[Maaja]

Maaja is my real name and also my Che-lives' name. I got it from my father.

[Son of Scargill]

"Son of" was a way of taking the piss out of each other at my workplace.If you look,sound or act like someone well known,then you are their "son".Because I'm always pushing for trade union recognition at work,I became Son of Scargill,in reference to Arthur Scargill,leader of the NUM,and Socialist Labour Party founder.

[Reuben]

Reuben is my real name

[RedCeltic]

RedCeltic is my real name.

Just kidding lol.. It's not well thought out actually. Just "Red" for socialism and "Celtic" for the Glasgow Celtic Football Club which I'm a fourth generation supporter of. My father's family came from Glasgow. There is a large fan base here in New York, and a few clubs for it's supporters.

[abstractmentality]

GWF - a few of my friends barely got me into Counterstrike, but i have only played a few times. any tips for a beginer?

i had to make up a name for AOL a long time ago, and that was the first thing that came to my mind.

[WolfieSmith]

"Wolfie Smith" was a character in the 70's British TV sitcom "Citizen Smith" (its a nickname my friends and family gave me).

Wolfie (or "Foxie" as his girlfriend's mother called him) was a marxist and the leader of the "Tooting Popular Front".

His favorite slogans were "Power To The People" and "Freedom For Tooting". He liked to refer to "that glorious day" when he would put his enemies before a firing squad and go "bang, bang, bang..."

[Renard]

My name, it is French for "fox".

[James]

erm...well mine is my real name.

[GWF]

TO ABSTRACTMENTALITY

I haven't played much on counterstrike on the web (modem, you know...)

But I always pick the deagle and a shotgun, with 9 oppenents (realbots) go to the front door and shoot them all, shotgun empty, trow away, shoot with deagle, try to aim for the head (instand death). When the deagle is empty pick another gun, or pick shotgun up and go to a corner or something reload both and shoot again.

tip: try practicing on bots, there alot easier than the real hardcore gamers. but you 'll learn some tacticts, the course I allways do is assault, but when your plannig on going to internetgames or LAN, pick dust (in the old days was that used far most) Hope you have something on this.

[Mazdak]

Mazdak was a 6th century Persian theolgion(??) who believed in a classless society without religion, or nobility. He actually succeeede for a time until he was backstabbed by the Persian Emperor and murdered

[IzmSchism]

mine is from a reggae tune, as well Tricky said it in a Massive Attack tune.....I like the word Schism, kind of like how everything is so split, the duality of mans mind and nature and the cracks in the world.

[Dan Majerle]

Quote: from James on 4:07 pm on June 18, 2002
erm...well mine is my real name.


Pft, how unoriginal. "rolls eyes in disgust". lol ;)

[I Will Deny You]

My handle is an inside joke with my sister and younger brother. My real first name is half-homage to my great-grandmother (Jews do things like that) and half-tribute to the man who was mayor of the city where my parents met, when they met. Also, my Irish-sounding first name goes well with my Irish-sounding last name.

Lindsay

[ratm545]

yeah i got my name from personal favorite band rage against the machine. the 545 means nothing. not too original of a name. but they're the best band i've heard, so i had too

[abstractmentality]

GWF - thanx for the tips. i may have to practice on some none real opponents, because some of the guys at the computer cafe are, as you say, "hardcore gamers" and kill me before i have much of a chance to do anything.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Quote: from j on 2:39 am on June 16, 2002
Dhul Fiqar--Why do you have Marx's quote that religion "is the opiate of the people" if you are Muslim? I take Marx's quote to be quite anti-religion.

j


I'm not a practicing Muslim, but I believe in Islam. My spirituality is too complicated to go into here ;)

Anyway, I have the quote to make a point about out of context quoting. If you took the part about "Sigh of the oppressed creature, soul of soulless conditions and the heart of a heartless world" but leave out the opiate part it sounds like an endorsement. But if you take just the last part it sounds like an indictment.

My point is that Marx was a pluralistic, intelligent man that didn't see religion as either black or white. Religion is not either "evil and a useless crutch" or a "glorious thing and the only road to salvation."

I think it's a far more complicated issue than it's made out to be, and so is life in general.

--- G. Raven



(Edited by Dhul Fiqar at 5:09 pm on June 21, 2002)

[hXcPetey]

Quote: from BornOfZapatasGuns on 12:40 am on June 15, 2002
Mine is from the lyrics of a song.

(Edited by BornOfZapatasGuns at 12:41 am on June 15, 2002)


rage

good band
except the cd renagades

[hXcPetey]

hXc=hard X core

petey= well, my birth name is peter but a girl insisted on callin me petey so next thing you know thats my nick name, cheezy eh?

[El Brujo]

Warlock used to be my screen name when I played Doom 2 and Quake online back in the day, don't remember why I picked the name, I think it was because I was fond of shit like whitches (a warlock is the male counterpart of a which). Anyhow, "El Brujo" means "The Warlock" in spanish.

[Lefty]

renegades is a great cd, petey. Im listening to it now. I got my name from my lefthandedness (given by my girlfriend, naturally) and my rather left-leaning politics.

[hXcPetey]

Quote: from Lefty on 6:02 am on June 22, 2002
renegades is a great cd, petey. Im listening to it now. I got my name from my lefthandedness (given by my girlfriend, naturally) and my rather left-leaning politics.
they promoted it on mtv which is in my mind at least selling out. plus, before they became so rappy they fit my tastebut then they went "housin." however There are 2 songs i like on the cd kick out the jams and maggies farm

[Mazdak]

Rap sux

[Nickademus]

Nickademus was a character in the movie "secret of NYMH" (yes its a cartoon). Nickademus was the wise old rat.....its also the name of my cat...i just couldn't think of anything else at the time...its pretty gender-netural so i used it to see how many people would figure i wa smale (turned out a lot)

[Kilian]

Its my real name and its scottish but im not scottish, im finnish

[Felicia]

My Nana Connell. :)

[Reuben]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 9:07 am on June 21, 2002

Quote: from j on 2:39 am on June 16, 2002
Dhul Fiqar--Why do you have Marx's quote that religion "is the opiate of the people" if you are Muslim? I take Marx's quote to be quite anti-religion.

j


I'm not a practicing Muslim, but I believe in Islam. My spirituality is too complicated to go into here ;)

Anyway, I have the quote to make a point about out of context quoting. If you took the part about "Sigh of the oppressed creature, soul of soulless conditions and the heart of a heartless world" but leave out the opiate part it sounds like an endorsement. But if you take just the last part it sounds like an indictment.

My point is that Marx was a pluralistic, intelligent man that didn't see religion as either black or white. Religion is not either "evil and a useless crutch" or a "glorious thing and the only road to salvation."

I think it's a far more complicated issue than it's made out to be, and so is life in general.

--- G. Raven



(Edited by Dhul Fiqar at 5:09 pm on June 21, 2002)


WHen he said it was the heart of a heartless world he was not endorsing religion. He was sayingf that in reality this world s no heart but it is seen fictiscuiously in that role which in fact does not exist .

[I Will Deny You]

My name is taken from a song that my little brother listens to. You see, my sister had come down from Brooklyn and she and I visited our younger brother (well, half-brother really) who is an Evangelical Christian. He has a CD, and I can't remember who it's by, but he played it for us because he thought it made him look cool. And the band who made the CD was actually Satanist-sounding. Neither my sister nor I had the heart to tell him that he was listening to a bunch of heathens, but we were laughing all day. Anyway, I couldn't get the song out of my head and the only line I remembered was "I will deny you, baby". So there you go.

Lindsay

[Michael De Panama]

My name is Michael. I'm from Panama.

[I Bow 4 Che]

hrmm well....I bow for Che...WHAT I DO!
to tell you this is not a normal name comign from me, most of my emails and sn's are much different (ie. blindelektra,evergleam-everweird,local_goddesz)

so yeah...a little blurb from "the one who bows for Che"

btw...cute story IWDY!

(Edited by I Bow 4 Che at 1:34 am on July 9, 2002)

[Avamatha]

Avamatha isn't my real name, actually it is Anna-Cecilia (just Anna, I never use Cecilia). It came from my mom's dream before she even became pregnant.

"Cecilia" is a song of Simon&Garfunkel, it was there where that one came from. (Funny, I love that song, and mom told me the history of my name lately)

The Name Avamatha... Well, there is this band, Blackmore's night, and they have a song, Catherine Howard's fate, and there is this part, inwich they say "of a letter", and I always heard it as "Avamatha".

That's all, folks. :)

[maria11r]

mine is dull and boring... but hey that's me.....

maria11r-

maria... for my name.. maria luisa, which i got from my grandmother who i never met

11- fav # .. i was born on 11/11 the day of the armistice

r... last name


although i like my name
maria-sea of bitterness...
luisa- hunter something like that

(Edited by maria11r at 2:58 am on July 12, 2002)

[RedCeltic]

Sometimes we all can be hunters of a sea of bitterness.

[Avamatha]

Quote: from Kilian on 5:26 am on July 3, 2002
Its my real name and its scottish but im not scottish, im finnish


You from finland? PERRRKELE! :D
Täällä on sitten muitakin! :)

[Carl]

my real names carl. My che lives names carl. My friends call me Carl. You can call me carl....peace out.

Power 2 the people.

[Brian]

I pulled my name out of my ass!

[komsomol]

Sorry, but I am a bit of a Buffy fanatic. Thats where I got my name, from a demon in the first season. I made the avatar myself :biggrin:

[Vladimir]

Well, nice names guys.

Mine is Irish = Irish !!
Guevara = Guevara
32 = 32 (will be soon!) counties of Ireland

[Sasafrás]

La is the feminine article in Spanish, the language I'm obsessed with and Rainbeaux is obviously an alternative for Rainbow. In the movie Cheech & Chong: Up in Smoke, one of the actresses was named Rainbeaux Smith and I've been using that name ever since I saw the movie.

[Brian]

Wanna get high?

[Shyne]

^ i quit, no thanks amigo

[Fires of History]

Mine is simply my view of history. I double majored in history, and to me history is very alive, here, now. History is still burning, just as you, me, all of us are very much a part of this unfolding story (which is a little reminder that anyone can effect the timeline, even though this idea is popularly doubted right now for some reason). The fires of history continue to be the reason why I even care to this day. Our history is the long story of bad decision making, selfish decision making, self-righteous decision making, and decision making- recently- with nothing but money in mind over any other concern; and, as such, it is a killing field of untold magnitude. For all of our achievements, history is still the story of death, oppression, and class war. The story, in short, of those with the means and ownership overrunning those without. These fires that have been burning forever are tempering something very special that has yet to come in humanity, as I hope that one day humanity can overcome it's domineering tendencies. My hope is that one day history will not be a story of war and death, but one of individual actualization and progress. History is the subject that led me to activism, and ultimately is the study that showed me how everything Marx said was exactly spot on. How many innocents have died in the fires of history? How many are still consumed by this fire to this day? I'd be an old, fuddy-duddy consevative now if I could have created the name "Clear Beautiful Waters of History." lol...

And, no, my name has nothing to do with the Billy Joel song.

[boadicea88]

Boadicea was the Celtic Queen of the Iceni people, and her name means 'victory'. She led a revolt against the Roman Governor of the Province of Brittainia because of the rape of her two young daughters by the Romans. I was born in 1988.

[Mazdak]

Ah Queen Boadicea. I had a feeling that was where you got the name. according to Tacitus, she managed to band together an army of 100,000 men but was still defeated by a roman army of 10,000!! It is probably an exaggeration but i could not find any other estimates...

[boadicea88]

Ah, well... nobody's perfect ;)

[Moskitto]

The Romans were way more organized than the Britons so managed to go straight through them.

[Mazdak]

Actually, the Britons send Cesar running back to Rome in around 44BC( i am probably wrong). the fact that the britons usd Chariots (which had become obsolete in 1200 BC) so well made the romans at first weak against them.

[Avamatha]

Quote: from boadicea88 on 6:06 am on July 19, 2002
Ah, well... nobody's perfect ;)


YOW!! What's wrong with your avatar, man?! I opened this page first, as I usually do, opening the last one first, and the first thing I saw was your... happy (??) avatar, that scared the hell out of me! :o

;)

[Anonymous]

My real name (joão) his an honor to my grand grand father that was comunist (by a mather of fact my intire name is an honor to someone!)~

My nick comes from my ideals! (A surprise to most of you no?!?!)

[Anonymous]

Boadicea88: the reasons that send boadicea to batlle agaonst the romans were more than the ones you told, first her father negotiated peace with romans, but the romans killed her father and took her house and lands, then her husband was too weak and couard and run, so she was revolted with everyone (expecialy the romans) and killed thousands and thousands of romans

[boadicea88]

OH! I didn't know that, it wasn't in my source. My avatar is 'disturbed'. I thought it was kind of cute, myself :)

(Edited by boadicea88 at 11:16 pm on July 25, 2002)

[mujer revolucionaria]

mine speaks for itself, if you speak Spanish....

mujer revolucionaria = revolutionary woman

[ComradeJunichi]

Comrade: aren't we all?

Junichi: It's a nickname I've had since 6th grade. My real name is Joon, but in school I was being a moron and told everyone my name was Junichi Sans Komoko. And said stuff like I'm Japanese but I was adopted and my parents were murdered by the "Black Lotus Clan". So they found out, but they called me Junichi ever since then.

[stick person]

because a stick person is representative of humanity

because a stick person is anonymous and ubiquitous

and because of an inside joke that isn't worth explaining

[bluerev002]

it was the first thing that came to mind really

[suffianr]

My real name is Suffian, r is me dad's initial. Suffian (pronounced Suf-yan) is Arabic, and depending on what you're looking for, means either asceticism (as in Sufism) or sandstoms. Go figure. :)

[Marxist1848]

Marxist...self explanitory and 1848 is the year commie manifesto was writin'.

[anti machine]

Well, pretty self-explanatory here.

I thought the manifesto was written in 44???

[MJM]

MJM is for mary(the virgin), jesus and mary magdelene.












































Nah not really, MJM is my intials.

[Felicia]

Quote: from MJM on 8:11 pm on Sep. 3, 2002
MJM is for mary(the virgin), jesus and mary magdelene.
Nah not really, MJM is my intials.

I thought you were serious there :)

[Chasovoy]

Chasovoy was the nickname of a Russian KA-52 pilot I once saw in this game KA-52 Team Alligator...

[IHP]

no more need be said

[John Difool]

John Difool is the main character of the comic series l'incal ( http://www.humano.com/catalogue/fiche_cata...age=fiche_tome) (http://www.humano.com/catalogue/fiche_catal.php?id=34624&page=fiche_tome)) and a complete antihero ..

:)

[El Che]

El Che- In referance too one che guevarra who died in bolivia fighting for what he believed in.

[munkey soup]

The band in which I play bass.

[Sammi]

The Idea for my Moniker came to me in a dream..

[RedLight]

Few days ago I had a dream that I was opening new mail account and named it redlight.

[PunkRawker677]

Mine is quite cryptic. Ya see, this is how it goes. I like Punk Rawk. I listen to Punk Rawk. I go to Punk Rawk shows. I play at Punk Rawk shows. Therefore, i proclaim myself PunkRawker677.. The 677 is an old joke between me and a friend back in junior high.

[Libertad]

Libertad means Freedom in Spanish.

[CPK]

CPK stands for my initials.

[Goldfinger]

I first thought of registering as Democracy When, but the memership was closed. Meanwhile, while waiting for it to open, I came up with this parody of Apocalypse Now.

[anonymous]

all the names i wanted were taken, then i thot of this one coz it seemed kinda unusual and it sounded cool.

[Mazdak]

anonymous, dont think it is taht unusual, almost every forum i visit has at least one of these "anonymous" members who uses that name, dont ask me why.

[canikickit]

I don't like my name. I've been in a druken stuper since I joined, and having only come out of it find this strange Che-Lives in my favourites. Now I'm called can I kick it and I've posted over ten thousand posts? I gotta go to work.

- Micheal Douglas.

[Nishoba]

I got my name from a Collectable Card Game (which I don't play anymore), that's about it

[Felicia]

A dang soap opera

[Jaha]

Jaha is of the well-protected language of Guarani.

it means "let's go". thought it had a positive ring to it.

Guarani is an indiginous language in south america. when spain took over, the king declared that this particular language should survive. paraguay has kept the language alive to this day.

recently, it became a written language.

[Smoking Frog II]

Smoking Frog was a mayan emperor. Pretty cool, huh?

[deimos]

deimos is old greek and means something like fear or panic

[Rapparee2]

My name is a Irish freebooter or mercanary Title bestowed on great redels such as Yooung Ned of the Hill

[buteo]

Buteo is the name that I picked because its short and simple and because i couldnt be anymore creative at that time...

its the scientific name for the Hawk family of birds...

and I honor the hawk for its farsightedness and ability to see the big picture.... something I want to do more of.

[MorningDew11]

They are two songs by The Grateful Dead..

[Frosty]

I have no idea.

But i hate it now (not uncommon for me when it comes to forum names)

Possible to cha?nge

[eleventeen crayon]

well i always thought the number eleven should be eleventeen..and then i thought...oh hey i like crayons. so it just fit. a little random, but it works ;)

[thursday]

a) Thursday is my favourate day of the week

B) It also comes from the classic book "The Man Who Was Thursday"

[MegatroN]

Megatron...come on now, do I really need to explain?

Chief antagonist on the oldskool cartoon Transformers, and the leader of the Decepticon armies. A cartoon celebrity.

[timbaly]

Quote: from MegatroN on 1:39 am on Nov. 30, 2002
Megatron...come on now, do I really need to explain?

Chief antagonist on the oldskool cartoon Transformers, and the leader of the Decepticon armies. A cartoon celebrity.

He was also the T-Rex and leader of the Predicons in Beast Wars which was intertwined with transformers.

My first name was semaj which is my name, James backwards, but i listed my e-mail adress as my secondary name which i rarely use. When I relized my mistake I tried to retreive the password but I forgot the password to my screen name. So I registered again but I couldn't think of a name but out of the blue i started thinking about drums. I thought of a timbali drum but I spelled it wrong and now I'm stuck with this.

[Man of the Cause]

Isn't it obvious?

[chamo]

i was happy when i made mine up

[LiZ]

< -1st explanation: one version from my real name..
-2nd: Life In Zeal, it´s how I feel now in this part of life.

[MegatroN]

Quote: from timbaly on 12:27 am on Dec. 1, 2002. He was also the T-Rex and leader of the Predicons in Beast Wars which was intertwined with transformers.


Eh...let's not mention THAT Megatron. Transformers was forever desecrated when Megatron became a T-Rex, Dragon, and [now] a tank.

[Comrade Daniel]

I just puted Comrade before my real name

[PlasticJesus]

Plastic Jesus comes from a song.

[Ari HR]

Well... Ari is short of Andrija (my real name), and HR means Hrvatska Republika (Croatia).

[socialist ballistix]

i got mine from a kind of pen name thing. I write alot. I dont write to other peopl. I write to myself. And the pen name for the other self that writes to me is socialistik ballistix, so i changed it around a bit for this wonderful website here.
hehheh... wonderful website

[eyesclosed]

most people in the world have a one track mind and arent open to changing there ways or ideas, i like looking at every aspect even if i disagree, it gives me a better understanding........most people dont they stay with their eyes and ears or actually their mind closed......

[canikickit]

Objectivity is impossible. But a noble thing to attempt.

[T H mjd]

my name as in "mike" would b from my grandad and cousin and on here it stands for Tactical Honor mikejohndiiorio (i no i have a funny surname :cool: )

[legot]

i was starting a game,used a random name generator go legot and just use it for everything now

[Larissa]

Lara is the main character of a russian novel.

[Smoking Frog II]

Quote: from T H mjd on 10:32 pm on Jan. 15, 2003
my name as in "mike" would b from my grandad and cousin and on here it stands for Tactical Honor mikejohndiiorio (i no i have a funny surname :cool: )


American Spelling Wanker! You bastard Mike! You Bastard!
It's Honour.

[praxis1966]

Praxis is defined by webster as "a customary mode of behavior." Many socialist thinkers have used the term to describe the way the proletariat educates itself to the ways and means of capitalism (most notably Marx, Gramsci and Friere). 1966 is the year of the foundation of The Black Panther Party. (By the way, when he was doing an NPR interview, I actually got to speak to Bobby Seale on the phone.)

(Edited by praxis1966 at 6:39 am on Jan. 30, 2003)


(Edited by praxis1966 at 6:45 am on Jan. 30, 2003)