Names (schoolwork, no spam please)

[Aegis]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)

Aegis

2: Your country

Soviet Canuckistan, or Canada. Your choice.

3: Your age

20

4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education

Researcher/2nd year university student

5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?

Last I checked, it was latin for 'shield'. It's a fitting name for my personality, as I tend to be quite defensive of people I'm close to.

6: Do you have several names? If so, why?

Other names I use are: I_Sage and The Pantless Crusader. I_Sage came from SYM, incidently. As for the Pantless Crusader, well, that's something my friends have dubbed me on account of the fact I refuse to wear pants if I can get away with it.

7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?

It happens. The net was around publically for 5 years before I started using it, so it only makes sense that some of the more established sites have the name used up. For newer ones, typically it's not too much of an issue. Just resort to one of my fall backs.

8: Anything specific you'd like to add?

I'm fine and dandy on this one.

[The Z]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
The Z

2: Your country
Canada

3: Your age
18

4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
Grade 12, or Senior in the States

5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
My last name is pronounced like the letter 'zee', which is also pronounced 'zed', so The Z(ed). Usually I just use 'Zed' whenever I sign up for something new though.

6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
Nope.

7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
I'd find another name.

8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
I came up with my GB screen name when I was 14, which is the reason why it's 'The Z' and not 'Zed' (which I what I usually use now). The Z is really choppy.

[Kythras]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
Kythras, Blackjack
2: Your country
Australia
3: Your age
Guess
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
Still at high school
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
Well, Kythras, was when I needed to tihnk up a unique fantasyish name. I was reading some book at the time (Can't remember the name) and there were a bnuch of cool names in it.. I mixed and matched some of the prefixes and suffixes and cam up wit Kythras. I use it alot for names of characters in RPGs and for internet sites if "Blackjack" is taken (Which is usually is)

Blackjack came from the first music camp I ever attended. For Rec. on the first day we did bushwalking, some guy (An older student) said I looked like Jack Black (from Tenatious D, Shallow Hal, etc) he told all his friends, they told their's... by the end of the camp people were waving at me and yelling "Hi Jack" thinking it was my actual name... A month or so later, I needed a new name, to Jack Black became Blackjack...
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
People don't know my old ones and they give me new ones, Or I get sick of old ones and make new ones
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
Well, I have a few, so I wouldn't be at a loss
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
Nope... "Fight the Power!!!"

[Lestat]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]
1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
2: Your country
3: Your age
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
[/QUOTE]
1. Lestat
2. Belgium (base country), currently working in Liberia
3. 34
4. Administrator in overseas aid programmes; Masters
5. Main character of the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I got on game banshee through the VtM:B forum, so choosing the name of a vampire seemed like a good idea at the time + I like the character a lot .
6. At other places I've mainly used the username Corneel (which is basically a nickname that dates from my boy scouting years and is an abbreviated form of my last name, but is a Dutch/Flemish first name in its own right).
7. Take another nick. For Lestat: I can hardly claim a right on the name of a character invented by someone else. And for Corneel: I'll mess with the spelling.
8. Nope

[Phreddie]

1: Phreddie
2: USA
3: 15
4: Sophomore in high school (10th grade)
5: When my friends and i get together and start to think the most insightful things come out,look at my sig fro one of them its common sense but you nvr think about it, if u think about it to much it can be depressing, (think of us as neophilosophers but too lazy to right down/remember our thoughts) sometimes just random when creating a new profile on one game i got bord randomness occured and Phreddie was bored
6: Possibly soemwhere in the annals of my mind i have had countles gamertags in my old games ranging form darth yoda in sw to gnome in halo
7: Go to the bathroom, change spelling, go back to the bathroom, fall alseep in the afore mentioned room, go back try again, wash rinse repeat...
8: When posting with your sn are you a dif person. i.e. r u nice n real life but become a ciynical aragont **** when you log on; when you change names from normal you t online you do you change as well?

personally i dont change to much, i have alil more confidence here because im not talking directly to pl ovr fone or to face so its not as intimidating at times... have long history with low confidence/self esteem so boards kinda gimme a boost sometimes...

[Brynn]

1: Brynn
2: Hungary
3: 25
4: overhead-wire network designer / IT graduate
5: It's from a very old PC game called The Legend of Kyrandia. I like it b/c it sounds good and always used it in RPGs when I played a human Mage character (read : always )
6: I used Nalia on other sites for a while, but it's obvioulsy stolen so I didn't really like it. I used it b/c I didn't want Brynn to be used on sites/forums that don't mean too much to me.
7: I'd feel that something has been taken from me!
8: It's only for RPGs.

[Ravager]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..) - Ravager
2: Your country - UK
3: Your age - 20
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education - Student, University 2nd Year- Computing Degree
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"? - It was an impulse choice, to be honest. Now I'm more attached to it.
6: Do you have several names? If so, why? - N/A
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name? Well, I'd be disappointed that I'd have to think of something different and it'd be a bit more confusing to remember lots of different names, but I suppose I could cope...
8: Anything specific you'd like to add? - [QUOTE=Phreddie]personally i dont change to much, i have alil more confidence here because im not talking directly to pl ovr fone or to face so its not as intimidating at times... have long history with low confidence/self esteem so boards kinda gimme a boost sometimes...[/QUOTE] I would say that broadly applies to me too. Though some forums can be friendlier than others.

[Yeltsu]

Yes, that's something I've been thinking of. I belive that's the case with many people, and that's half the reason why i want to find out if names really mean something to us, because if you use internet to express yourself in ways that you cannot yet do in real life, then the identity connected to your name must be important to you.

Again, thanks alot for participating everybody

[yrthwyndandfyre]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..) yrthwyndandfyre
2: Your country: Canada
3: Your age: 47
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education: Senior Developer
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?: It's a triple-entendre, based on the work of Patricia McKillip, paganism, and rock music. Yes, I know that some people say that there is no such thing as a triple-entendre, and they are idiots.
6: Do you have several names? If so, why? Actually, I do. Mostly because it's hard to remember the passwords.
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name? I have my name precisely because nobody else would think of it. It belongs to ME. I'd fight, but I couldn't take it to court because I didn't register it as a trademark.

[Ideal Maxima]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
2: Your country
3: Your age
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?[/QUOTE]

1. Ideal Maxima
2. Bangladesh
3. 13
4. 8th Gr Honors Regents
5. No specific meaning, when my bro was making an xbox Live Gamertag, he just put in Maxima (it's his favorite car) and it was already taken. The system itself gave us suggestion on new usernames. One of them was Ideal Maxima, and since it sounded cool, i chose that one.
6. SaF1, XxOxSaF1xOxX, Lo0k 1tS SaF1 just other usernames I go by
7. Just use one of the other ones.
8. Nope

[VoodooDali]

1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
VoodooDali, Voo

2: Your country
USA

3: Your age
42 is the new 32

4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
Jack of all trades - BA

5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
Surrealistic voodoo doll?
I thought of it when trying to sign up for my first yahoo email account or something like that back in 1998, I think, and everything I thought of was taken. I was listening to the song "Voodoo Dolly" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, and I combined that with Dali (for the artist) and it has just stuck with me.

6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
No, this is the main one. Voo is just my shortened nick, and I am registered under that at some sites. Former names (a long time ago) "YippiePunk" and "unhinged"

7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
I would be very worried, because the handle is really unique, and I think it would only be done in a case of someone out to get me!
If this occurred, I would naturally create a Voodoo Doll which I would torture and the identity thief would be very very sorry indeed.

8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
Nope - the football game just started!

[Kipi]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]
1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
2: Your country
3: Your age
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
[/QUOTE]
1) Kipi
2) Finland
3) 19
4) First year in University studying IT
5) It was actually invented by my basketball coach at time when I was still playing. We used to have nicknames to make it faster and easier to communicate during games, as also to identify who we are meaning. It's just formed my first name, which I won't tell here
6) Yes: Dihur, Sailah, Dhur. These are the names I use when I'm playing Muds.
7) Would be furrious, but I think that won't happen since I've never seen anybody using this name anywhere.
8) Nope

[Cuchulain82]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
2: Your country
3: Your age
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?[/QUOTE]
(1) Cuchulain82
(2) 23
(3) USA
(4) Education sector; completed Undergraduate degree, persuing higher level degree
(5) Cuchulain is the hero of the Irish saga, the Ulster cycle. He's kind of like an Irish Achilles. I chose it years ago when I was identifying particularly strongly w/my Irish ancestors. Now I use the name because it is easy to remember.
(6) I basically just use this one.
(7) Well, I wouldn't sweat it too much, but I would worry that people would think it was me incorrectly.
(8) The blood-rage doesn't necessarily come with the name.

[Yeltsu]

*bump*

New question:

Please post the first reactions and thoughts (social background etc) you get when seeing these names:
1. Malsolle
2. Somnophore
3. Maxhavelaar
4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze
7. Mor

PS: will post mty results at the start of next week if you are still interested after all this time, just doing the finishing touches now.

[Siberys]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]
1: Name (handle, nickname, username etc..)
2: Your country
3: Your age
4: Your proffesion/how far you are in education
5: What does your name mean? does it have several meanings? Is there a story behind it? Or is it just "cool"?
6: Do you have several names? If so, why?
7: How would you react if you wanted to register an account somewhere, and found out that someone had had already taken "your" name?
8: Anything specific you'd like to add?
[/QUOTE]

1. Siberys
2. USA
3. 17
4. Student, going to Ivy Tech Computer College in half a year.
5. I have 2 names. One being Siberys, which derived from an Eberron item called Dragonshards. The other, Mythrignoc, which was inspired by a man "Myhrginoc" from the Diablo 2 Phrozenkeep site. I only have them as to be able to register cause I'm positive nobody has chosen Mythrignoc if they chose Siberys.
6. Two, Mythrignoc and Siberys. Explained above.
7. I'd be surprised if someone actually took the name Mythrignoc.
8. Nah, can't think of anything else.

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]*bump*

New question:

Please post the first reactions and thoughts (social background etc) you get when seeing these names:
1. Malsolle
2. Somnophore
3. Maxhavelaar
4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze
7. Mor

PS: will post mty results at the start of next week if you are still interested after all this time, just doing the finishing touches now.[/QUOTE]

1. Not sure
2. Sophmore in high school or college.
3. For some reason, I get an axe weilding person saying "TO THE M@X!!!!!"
4. Deckard Cain off of Diablo 2
5. A falcon painted black
6. A lazy "snooze" person.
7. A character name off of Elder Scrolls 3.

[Vicsun]

I didn't get in on time to answer your first question so I hope the new one isn't somehow related.

That said:

1. Malsolle
-no reaction; run-of-the-mill internet nickname. Poster is probably female, but who knows.

2. Somnophore
-no initial reaction; after I googled it, I concluded this person is a Magic: The Gathering nerd.

3. Maxhavelaar
-tries really hard to be unique. Everyone tries to have a somewhat unique nickname, but Maxhavelaar has gone the extra mile.

4. Wisedragon
-Plays too many RPGs; is probably thirteen years old; thinks dragons are cool and identifies self in username. I'd wager wisedragon is one of those annoying people who always post "in character" pretending to be their username, even in serious topics. *flaps wings* *brethes fire*

5. Nightfalcon
-Plays too many RPGs, probably male and thirteen years old; thinks falcons and nights are cool and identifies himself with his username; only opens the curtains of his room when his mother yells at him. Annoying "in character" posts would be his specialty too, if he could figure out what the character of a night falcon is.

6. Z00ze
-People who replace numbers for letters are as a rule not exceptionally bright;I'd probably ignore every single post the user makes.

[Yeltsu]

just answer the prevous one if you want vicsun, or alternativly just tell me about your name if you feel like it

[dragon wench]

*bump*

New question:

Please post the first reactions and thoughts (social background etc) you get when seeing these names:
1. Malsolle
2. Somnophore
3. Maxhavelaar
4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze
7. Mor

PS: will post mty results at the start of next week if you are still interested after all this time, just doing the finishing touches now.

Malsolle: Sounds a like a feminised French or Spanish name. Mal, conjures "bad," while "Solle," suggests "Sol." The name appears to mean something like "Bad Sun."

Somnophore: Evokes the word "Insomnia." Or the French word for sleep, "Sommeil." Beyond that, I don't have much of a reaction.

Maxhavelaar: Sounds like a corporation

4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze

I concur with Vicsun on these names. I don't think any of them would attract my interest.

Mor: I draw a blank, or wonder if the person has trouble spelling "More," or "Moor."

[Lestat]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]*bump*

New question:

Please post the first reactions and thoughts (social background etc) you get when seeing these names:
1. Malsolle
2. Somnophore
3. Maxhavelaar
4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze
7. Mor

PS: will post mty results at the start of next week if you are still interested after all this time, just doing the finishing touches now.[/QUOTE]
1. Romanic language imitator, so probably a romantic (though I think the lingo now it would be "emo" I suppose).
2. Huh? sleep inducing??? Not a good idea.
3. Admires Multatuli (Dutch Writer) or "fair trade" . If he admired Multatuli, he would require some literary background and would have written Max Havelaar. So "fair trade" anti globalisation type of person. And probably Dutch(speaking). Uni, from middleclass parents.
EDIT: from reactions of other people I see this needs explanation. Max Havelaar is a "Fair trade" label for products (coffee mainly, I think) amongst others available in Oxfam World shops in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is named after the main character and titel of a novel by Multatuli which denounced some of the practices in the Dutch Indies (current Indonesia) especially of the coffee planters.
4. Call yourself Dragon if you wish, but never wise. You won't live up to it, because we all say stupid things. Unwise person.
5. *shrugs* yeah right. No idea.
6. 133780y.

Spoiler

leetboy

7. Neutral. Put something in because he needed a username.

[slade]

[QUOTE=Yeltsu]*bump*

New question:

Please post the first reactions and thoughts (social background etc) you get when seeing these names:
1. Malsolle
2. Somnophore
3. Maxhavelaar
4. Wisedragon
5. Nightfalcon
6. Z00ze
7. Mor
[/QUOTE]

1:I agree with DW sounds like badsun
2:no reaction
3:sounds like "must have laar"
4: there is only one tru dragon here DW
5:this could spin both ways, one could be like what viscun suggests other could be a cool guy..although the falcon part does sound a bit overused maybe......nighthawk would of been better but also un unique and less thought out as well*shrugs*
6:gamer
7:...un unique*shrugs*