Why your name?

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Re: Why your name?

Post by iron_thunder » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:07 am

Ehh... Nothing exciting behind my name.

When Daniel and I started Sacred Embrace, I decided to get a really cheesy email address that just screamed "Metal" instead of my old address, which was the name of an old jazz standard. So I came up with "Iron Thunder," because it really doesn't mean much, you know those... stupid Power Metal phrases that sound catchy but don't have any meaning? Anyhow, that's it. It's my email address and I also use it on some forums.

Yep. Nothing interesting! (But some friends of my family, who know nothing about Metal, but love telling people about my website always get a kick out of my Iron Thunder name. I have NO idea why, but it's very funny...)

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Re: Why your name?

Post by HvyMtlClickWitch » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:23 am

iron_thunder wrote:(But some friends of my family, who know nothing about Metal, but love telling people about my website always get a kick out of my Iron Thunder name. I have NO idea why, but it's very funny...)
I am greatly amused by that. probably more than i should be!!

I remember my dad at last years xmas get together bragging to the family about how musically eclectic i am. He said all kinds of words i didn't even know he knew. Like "ska". It was great.
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Pikkusielu » Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:41 pm

Pikkusielu, in english 'mean soul' (by the dictionary, I'd translate it 'mean, vicious and antisocial little creature').

Maybe a year ago I needed to create a login name and Pikkusielu just came to my mind.

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Neorave » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:57 pm

BAH, this thread is still around!? Wow! Holy shit!
Somehow I still have an account...yay...?

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Pikkusielu » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:59 pm

Neorave wrote:BAH, this thread is still around!? Wow! Holy shit!
Yes, I saved it. Now all of you must worship me as a god... not!

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Elegies » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:13 pm

fifthtea_sausage wrote:Why did you pick your name?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean if it is in another language?
When/how did you come up with it?

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1. Why? Once, i needed a new irc-nick and so i chose this one
2. It has become part of my identity
3. elegy is the singular form, "A composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone." something sad, for me :D
4. I just wanted something sad with e in it :P
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Neorave » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:25 am

Pikkusielu wrote:
Neorave wrote:BAH, this thread is still around!? Wow! Holy shit!
Yes, I saved it. Now all of you must worship me as a god... not!
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Somehow I still have an account...yay...?

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Re: Why your name?

Post by StratoFactor » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:01 pm

I just happened to invent the name. At first I was thinking of something original but i found them boring... Then it hit me, StratoFuck er....

StratoFactor yes!(Is this going to connect me to the warez business? :shud:
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Sindar » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:58 pm

Sindar = Grey-elves of Beleriand

any questions??? :D

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Re: Why your name?

Post by StratoFactor » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:00 pm

Sindar wrote:Sindar = Grey-elves of Beleriand

any questions??? :D
1:WTF is Beleriand?
2:Grey elves? Nanittenda?(What)
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Re: Why your name?

Post by MetalManiac » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:08 pm

Why did you pick your name?
Because I like metal very much.

What does it mean to you?
Nothing. I could have invented something better, but it came into my mind first.

When/how did you come up with it?
I just wanted to post something and I had to make up a name soon.
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Re: Why your name?

Post by htcdude » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:03 am

StratoFactor wrote:
Sindar wrote:Sindar = Grey-elves of Beleriand

any questions??? :D
1:WTF is Beleriand?
2:Grey elves? Nanittenda?(What)
Beleriand's a place Tolkien's books, The Grey Elves are the people who live there.
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Warrior of Hell » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:27 am

i dont know why i call myself "Warrior of Hell" :lol:

it just came to my mind, when i first registered in other forums :D

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Re: Why your name?

Post by antonio » Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:24 am

cause it's my name, simple
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Sindar » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:50 am

htcdude wrote:
StratoFactor wrote:
Sindar wrote:Sindar = Grey-elves of Beleriand

any questions??? :D
1:WTF is Beleriand?
2:Grey elves? Nanittenda?(What)
Beleriand's a place Tolkien's books, The Grey Elves are the people who live there.
thx

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Miguel_Ricardo » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:23 am

Nice topic too, going up!

Because it's my first and second name, exactly as my father's name 8) , I just love it sounds pretty cool for an artist

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Jester » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:05 am

Jester is mine for a couple of reasons.

1st, my name is Jesse

2nd, I love playing practical jokes on people, friends, family, co-workers. I also like to make people laugh with all of my crude, insensitive jokes, and stories.

3rd, I took it from the movie "Top Gun". Jester was the call sign of one of the instructors. I liked it and it stuck.

Jester is my name in every forum I have ever been in.


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Re: Why your name?

Post by Heiserich » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:10 pm

Heiserich is a combination from "Geiserich" (you know, the Vandal-King who plundered Rome in 455 - I chose it as a nick in some LAN-Sessions, don't really know why... Guess, because it sounds so crappy :lol: ) and "heiser", the german word for hoarse. I modyfied my name spontaniously as I had a cold...

But it fits always, because I'm always hoarse *cough*, strained my voice too much on concerts, band-rehearsels, parties ... and still do. Perhaps I'm gonna be Lemmy II in a few years 8)
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Re: Why your name?

Post by stratohawk » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:27 pm

fifthtea_sausage wrote:Why did you pick your name?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean if it is in another language?
When/how did you come up with it?
1.)well, I thought it's quite a nice combination of "stratovarius", my fav band (of course :D ) and "hawk", my long-time nickname in some star-wars-roleplay.
2.)nothing too special, but I kinda identify myself with that hawk-character. :wink:
3.)nothing to explain about that, I guess...
4.)Hawk came to existence in that star-wars-roleplay in 1999, but I used the name already some time before. And I registered as stratohawk in the first stratovarius-forum, too bad it was erased...

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Dave » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:13 pm

-Why did you pick your name?
Why not? :P

well, it's my real name.. and i was too lazy too think of another nick..
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Re: Why your name?

Post by elvenrhapsody » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:34 pm

"it's complicated"

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Dragon » Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:14 am

its been my nickname since i was about 8, hehe, what lovely friends i have.
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Re: Why your name?

Post by htcdude » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:22 pm

Why did you pick your name?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean if it is in another language?
When/how did you come up with it?

1) Couldn't think of anything else.
2) Not much.
3) Absolutely everything...i dunno.
4) HTC is the church i go to (Hayes Town Chapel) and i'm a dude 8)
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Re: Why your name?

Post by nepi » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:26 am

Why did you pick your name?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean if it is in another language?
When/how did you come up with it?

1. It is something like my second name - my friends says nepi to me (most of them I know from the scouts).
2. Nepomuk is my real name in the scout and the short form is nepi. The idea came out in 1996 in a 2week-camp (yeah, I remember well) as Captain Jack entered the charts with its own song and it was so similar, I just replaced Jack with nepi... That's the story (don't laugh!)
3. nothing, it's the same in every language
4. It was once in 1996.... -> check #3

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Re: Why your name?

Post by Syren.S » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:09 pm

i have answered this question several times in different places, so i will just do a quick copy-paste
well, my formal name should be Syringa Oblata - the biological name
Syren is the danish/swedish version
you may also find me using the nick "april-lilac", as that's the english version

no special reason for picking up that plant. i was born in april, the time lilac blooms, that's all.

sometimes i add an "S" to the end to make it like "Syren.S" [is Syren has been registered]
that S stands for many different things, depends on where do i use it. accidentally all my "idols" name start with an S...[what a mystery!>_<]


so i have nothing to do with that Seren mermaid, but i live in DK so i don't mind if any of you prefer to link me with their national symbol.
hope that explains all.
and...what does that name mean to me...nothing...everything...i've been using it so long and i don't know. all the other 'formal' nicknames i use are in chinese.
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Paola » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:16 am

In my cause is easy because is my name... :D ( but I don't know, why don't thought my other name?? :? )
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Kain´s seventh son » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:37 am

There is a long story that I must sometime write up, 'couse it will make a desent fantasy novel's starter ;) I will tell the stories that have come to this nic only if someone really want's to hear :D

But for how it came up... well it was some forum several years ago (come to think of it, it was Severance - Blade Of Darkness developpers Rebel Act Studios forum :D ) it was the first forum I ever joined, and I was heartbroken when it went down :cry: got emotional I think... but that time I spent about half an hour trying to figure out SOMETING that you don't come by every day... then it struck me! I remembered a damn cool stryline of Legacy Of Kain (games, and sometimes they don't climb above avarage in gameplay nor teknics, but it's the storyline that really sucks you in 8) ), the tale about a vampire lord and in sequels, his six sons... I came up with the idea of becoming the seventh son of the allmighty lord... the nic has written it's own story eventually as I said, but won't bore you with it unless you really want ;)

And as I use this nic in every forum I use, and even as my MSN name, it has become my second personality, literally even ;) couldn't change it to anything else, just couldn't work for me and it wouldn't be the same thing anymore :)

and... I think this one is all the same in every damn language ;) though all comparisons to bible's character of same name I ask you to leave to their own right, I got nothing to do with "brother slayer"

and for the last question, look for the first part ;)
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Cacho.K. » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:27 am

Why did you pick your name?

Because, my family and friends call me Cacho, the K. is 'cause l like Kotipelto and...yes.

What does it mean to you?

I don't know, cool. :D

What does it mean if it is in another language?

I don't have idea. :roll:

When/how did you come up with it?

Well, my family started to call me that way and l don't know why. :roll: :D
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Re: Why your name?

Post by TrialByFire » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:30 am

Why did you pick your name?

I am a big fan of thrash metal and Testament is one of my favorite bands. Nothing gets me going more than thrash metal and so it was only fitting to pick a name that burns all over the place.

What does it mean to you?
It all depends on what mood I am in and who I am posting to.

What does it mean if it is in another language?

How the fuck should I know

When/how did you come up with it?

I came up with it because I have a firey temper. Trial By Fire is my personal favorite song from Testament, which whoops ass all across the metal world. Just like I do !!!!! :evil:
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Re: Why your name?

Post by Ahlimatainen » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:10 pm

Becouse Jani Liimatainen is a fucking awsome guitar player... though i didn't spell it right. one to many beers i guess

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