Avatars &Nicknames

Mine's not prog or literary related - or even related to anything particularly clever or funny.

I've always kept a stock of handles, or nicks, all of which have associated Yahoo.co.uk addresses. My first one was CitrixEngineer, which I used from about 1997 onwards, but decided it wasn't 1337 enough for some of the tech forums I used to hang out on.

Inspiration struck after I came back from my first Citrix exam (after swearing I would never do any of the shoddy industry certifications as my degree and practical skills were evidence enough of my prowess); I had to do the exam to get a pay rise - so I sold out...

When I got back from sitting the exam, and people in my office found out that I'd passed, for some reason they all found it very funny to say that I was now officially certified, and the nickname stuck until I changed jobs (for my next pay rise!).

The 1 came from the fact that the handle certified had already been chosen on Yahoo!, and, not losing heart, I thought it would be quite 1337 to celebrate my first certification with the number in my new nick...

I just like the Cyclops avatar, despite Danbo's line of questioning about one-eyed things...

 

Only kidding; Certif1ed comes from a very, very rare and amazing prog album, with music that goes way beyond anything that's ever been heard on this planet before. The lyrics are based on an epic poem by an obscure Transylvanian author called Dzzerkl Vergotnegbotendruckersch%tz about a race of beings from the future who discover time travel and only discover on arrival that, due to evolutionary shrinkage, the entire population of 345,000,000,000,000,000,000 fit quite comfortably in the space previously occupied by a hydrogen atom.

The hydrogen atom, forced out of it's spatial location so abrubtly, promptly reacted by exploding. On this scale, of course, it was the equivalent of 5345897.34 Hiroshimas.

The avatar is, in fact, a picture of one of these tiny beings.

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"A Wizard A True Star" is my real name.

As for not having an avatar I'm too stupid to fugure out how to get it to be a pic of the cover of "A Wizard/A True Star"

Garion81 wrote: Arioch wrote: Garion81 wrote:   My Handle is from David Edding's THe Belgariad.  I started using it 10 years ago or so when I first logged on to a BBS and Aragorn was taken. Been using it in different forms ever since.  My avitar is something from the stock list. and all this time I thought it was taken from Kansas....you know Garion You Wayward Son....yuk,yuk,yuk Like that hasn't been used before!!   Has it Reed.

Hey, theyre only 2 months behind, I must be slipping!

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My nick is the title of a Voivod album (surprised?), I also use it on the VV-boards. My avatar doesn't have anything to do with it. Or with anything else. Although I believe poodles will turn against human civilization (being fed up with learning stupid tricks and getting ridiculous haircuts), they will reign planet Earth from the 22th century onwards and humanity will be their slave.

I used to call myself 'Kate Bush' in another forum I used to frequent but when I returned from a brilliant holiday to the lost city of Petra in Jordan a couple of years ago and I changed it to that and its kinda stuck with me now. (even though it sounds a bit like a swedish porn stars name  )

My avatar is from the Ozric Tentacles album 'The Hidden Step' they have some great album covers and I liked the cat

Reed Lover wrote: Petra wrote: (even though it sounds a bit like a swedish porn stars name  ) What and kate Bush doesn't?

Only in your dirty little mind Reed....

 

My avatar is a picture of my hero Joshua L. Chamberlian.  My sig is one of my favorite quotes from my favorite telivision show, The Shield.

No major surprises here...
My name is Angeliqué, and as for that menacing eye....
I love all things EVIL......

This IS a great thread. Now I wish I had been more creative, but I just wanted to get started quickly. I chose a default avatar and wil probably come up with something better down the road.

My nickname is just my name without the "d". My name is actually Raymond but I go by Ray. 7174 to me defines the heyday of prog rock, and rock for that matter. It also happens to be the pinnacle of Yes' brilliance, IMHO of course. 

I thought I would change my nickname to something more creative at some point in the future, but I am yet to find where you can modify your username.

 

I change all the time my avatar: it can be the cover of an album that I like.

greenback means a couples of things: US dollar, city name, street name, person name...

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