Nickname Poll
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Topic: Nickname Poll
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Subject: Nickname Poll
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:53
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Pronunciation: prag'matik |
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:56
| Yours is quite clever, Me, I ought to think of one...... |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:57
Mine should be obvious. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:58
Velvetclown: A tune by Frank Zappa called " Clownz On Velvet " Lame eh   ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 10:02
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Citanul
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 10:04
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Spell mine backwards.
------------- Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 10:18
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Mine is derived from my real name MArkus T GRAhn (with an "E" thrown in). |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 10:19
All very clever guys.  Velvetclown you're the man. 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 10:21
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Mine is a nickname a friend gave me when we used to play football together (as in Ron "Chopper" Harris). I think he was being sarcastic as I rarely got near enough to anyone to foul them. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 11:28
I own a stuffed cat called Dale.  I've made three horror movies called Dalezilla I, II and III (currently working on Dalezilla IV). Dale is the main character in the movies. So that's where my nickname comes from  .
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Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 11:32
^ Sch-weet! 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 11:37
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ya preety lame
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Velvetclown wrote:Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 11:39
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mine is simple
boy+lover=loverboy |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 13:04
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Mine came partly from an Enchant song called "Progtology" but also from my wife. Example...."Hey Progtologist,turn off the music and come to dinner!!!!!"
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 13:12
French Git !!!!!!!  ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 13:12
Loverboy must be Gay 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 14:19
Yeah, mine came from the best band in the world, also the probably the
finest band in the avant-garde today (this REALLY means something to me) ------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: daghrastubfari
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 14:25
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Mine is from a line from a Mr. Bungle song: Stubb (A Dub) Dagh Rastubfara Do You know That you're a f**king Dog |
Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 15:56
| It means I'm a politician. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 15:59
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Everyone should know what my Nick-name means BlowJob-1 No, really: I just though about a "cool" stupid nick-name (Bj-1) and used it. And also because "Bj" is the first letters in my name. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 16:16
Mine is the title of a Van der Graaf Generator song, in which Peter
Hammill claims that Meurglys III (his guitar) is his only friend
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:06
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Mine came from a word which got me an immense score in a Scrabble game (I had a blank for the third 'y'). I only discovered that there was also a prog band of the same name after I joined this forum - I've now got a copy of their album, though I can't say it's made a huge impression on me. As for the meaning, look it up! (once an English teacher, always an English teacher). ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:10
So is your real name like Bjork? Or Bjohann?
My username is an accidental mispelling of the first track off of Camel's "Moonmadness." It was half-intentional, half-not. |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:15
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:21
mine was a character in a sci-fi book by iain m. banks called "Consider Phlebus" - the character horza was a shapeshifter - one of the last of his race - and the story is epic, i have read it twice  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:24
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Mine's taken from a rare-heard prog track included on an out-of-print LP by a virtually unknown English prog band who, in their prime, toured endlessly in the early '70s on the English college circuit without success before becoming disgusted and disillusioned with the whole shabby enterprise. They never made it Stateside. I'll have to go look it up again...I'll get back to you...
------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:28
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 20:54
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I'm named after the 'evil' characted from DT's Metropolis later I discovred that it's also an ELPowell song and a Queen song. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:02
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^ Metropolis, that's a great song.
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Posted By: Philrod
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:06
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Philippe Rodriguez to Philrod! Simple as that! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Philrod/?chartstyle=Geldropdown-small"> 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:12
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Cygnus X-2 is actually a low mass X-Ray Binary. ------------- 
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:22
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I'm a real history buff and into left-wing politics ... Leon Trotsky was a hero from the time I was 9 (see what happens when you put history books in the hands of little kids) ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 23:08
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quite obvious for me: I'm Jean (short for Jeanine; interestingly "Jeanine" is pronounced the French way, while "Jean" is pronounced the English way), and I'm bald. BaldJean is my nick on many forums. the same is true for my wife Friederike; for her "Friede" is short for "Friederike". coincidentially "Bald Friede" also means "Soon peace" in German. question to Syzygy: does your name refer to the astronomical or the linguistic meaning of "syzygy"? -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 23:32
| ^ Jeanine is such a beautiful name, by the way. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 02:00
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well mine came from watching conan o' Brien one day he just said " I am the King of Siam!" in his monolouge I thoght it was a cool thing to say |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 05:44
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I once owned a 1000cc Moto Guzzi (italian motorbike) and my nickname is derived from that.
------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 06:12
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Maidenrulez...well there is more to this nick than meets the eye... the M stands for Magma is a really neat band the A stands for Armadillos should not be kept in bed the I stands for Insanity is really unhealty for your reputation the D stands for Dinner is best served after breakfast the E stands for Eternity is a really daft thing the N stands for Nobody can expect the spanish inquisition the R stands for Rodney is a man that i have never known the U stands for Unbeliviable that i cant think of any good prog band on U the L stands for Lame nicks are best ended with an Z the E stands for Erection wich is a really daft thing the Z stands for ZZebra wich is a clever band name. and when i got the cabitols together it suddenly formed Maidenrulez...ah well a really strange coincidence
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 07:13
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My name was though of fast, PROGMAN just happened as I first discovered this site. PROG - PROGRESSIVE MAN - my gender
------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 07:57
The linguistic meaning - I only became aware of the astronomical meaning after I joined this forum. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:08
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Nutter Alert is track 3 from VdGG's Present Album released earlier this year. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 09:20
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To discover the meaning of my nickname, you have to see the movie called "Payback", with Mel Gibson starring as the main character (see avatar). ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 09:35
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fandango...3rd track on PoS: Remedy Lane...also sounds kind of cool... ...despite an assortment of PA retards dubbing me 'Fanny Dangler' ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 10:43
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This one is difficult for me. I could say my nickname came from the beautiful song carpet crawler, where I totally dug in and under. But no.... I already have imagined and posted in the past that my nickname came from the event that I dragged Dream Theaters Subaru out of the mud, and they where shouting "Pull me Unde"!"and I shouted bag "You should make a song named like that". But no.... I could say my nickname is a rebelious one indicating pop is superfacial and prog is going deeper than that. But no... I could say I am a great dictator with a big thumb putting everyone there....under. But no... I could say I a just a grey mouse hiding and being put down under. But ...hope not... The truth is it is just a preposition. But is it just a preposition? Or is it more than that and is it a challenging mystery what is behind this great word, which gives rise to emotions as darkness and sadness but also to relieve, escape and sacrificiation. Well, I almost covinced myself of the beauty of Under.
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 11:28
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Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 11:31
That was cool! I'm glad we have brainwashed you successfully, here at the PA forum.  (Volta owns Maiden) |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 17:23
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One fine day, in the late '60's / early '70's a prehistoric sampler and an analog synth went out for a walk in a park. He saw her, and she fancied him. Mr. Moog and miss Mellotron married, and they got a child, and that child got a child, and that child got a child. The latter was being called Moogtron III, because he was the 3rd generation Moogtron. And they all lived happily everafter...
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 17:42
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Well, Ed the Dead is my little Maiden Tribute... (Eddie - Maiden's 7th Member [7th Son
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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