I might be crucified for this, but it has to be asked

How and where did you get your nick/signature/avatar?

Brian
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Heheheh mine's even more funny. A bunch of sycophantic kids in high school started calling me Raven, as they thought I was very mysterious, and also the secret leader of the Music Hall Army.

Raven

In high school our music department did a bunch of fundraising, some of which was in the form of running bingo nights at Mayfair Bingo in Oakville.

Whilst I was working at one of these nights, I was wandering around holding a bundle of tickets to be sold (like you do) and as I was walking, I was kinda swinging the bundle up and down in my hand to pass the time.

A friend of mine at the time later told me that it looked as if I was trying to wield a raw fish as a deadly weapon.

The fish eventually became a haddock.

I eventually became Haddock-Boy.

The end.

I use a couple of different nicks online.

sawah comes from my Star Trek rpg days. Some of the people there got on a baby-talk kick, so Sarah turned into sawah.

k4tj3 sorta also comes from the RPGs. One of my best friends there, who is an Australian but 100% Dutch, started calling me Kitten in dutch, which is Katje. Eventually, when I started to use Katje online for different nicks and such for websites, it was always taken, so I translated the a and e into l33t sp33k, and got k4tj3.

my last name is "mack" and one time in junior high a teacher asked what we wanted to name our kids. i said "fleetwood" as a joke and the whole class laughed, from there people called me fleetwood or fleet. when hotmail came out, i got fleet @hotmail.com before you had to have 73 numbers following any word, but that account got absolutely flooded with spam so i stopped using it like 6 years ago, like we're talking 400 a day, so i just switched it to fleetmack.....which in turn is my username for everything and my website's domain name, not to mention my nickname.

avatar: i've always like the "WE LIKE THE MOON!" spongemonkeys...and on that same note...i guess those quiznos commercials ruled

sig: it's from a white zombie song (thunderkiss '65) ... i thought it was great. it really shows that i'm motivated and also that i have a sense of humor, and also that i love sex :) on top of that it shows my musical preference. it says a lot for such a small amount of words.

My avatar's more than 6k. You can do it, you just have to upload it somewhere and then link it from there.

If you don't have any place, you can e-mail it to me, and I'll upload it for you and give you the url so you can link to it.

I was always trying to think up a cool sounding handle, that wasn't taken yet.

Then I dropped that idea, and mid-game decided to go with the first silly thing that popped into my head. Most players laughed at the sudden silliness of it. :D

SIG - Excercise to the reader. :P

Mine stands for "the World War 1 Flying Ace" - I like flight simulators and WW1 aviation.

Nickname and signature come from my BattleTech campaign. My unit was the 41st Corsairs Regimental Combat Team. The commanding officer was the (As far as anyone knows) only functional AI. Since the rank for an RCT commander is Field Marshal, which shortens to FM, that's where that part comes from.

And if you're wondering, yes, he is a Phoenix Hawk IIC now. Started as a Star League-era Phoenix Hawk LAM, went theough several modifications, then finally got uploaded to his new body.

nick: it came from me always saying I was just me....however everyone and there brother seems to use it so I added my birth month and date to it.

Avatar: downlowded off of someother web site because Homer rocks

sig: An old Irish toast my Grandmother would say before we ate at family get togethers

My box at work is a 350mhz, 256mb ram. It handles firefox, minor photoshopping, and many putty windows. The only reason i had to kill my 136 day uptime was becuase of a power issue in the building. The only reason I had to kill the next 140 day uptime was because I was moved to another office <insert Milton jokes here>

Oh, it's running win2k.

Like you had to -try- to make linux run that long without reboots. :P

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I'm just poking fun. :-).

Not to be an ass, but is that a pun, or just a rhyme?

"It was a pun!"
<looks around>"A pun?"
"Yeah." <laughs to himself>
'No it isn't."
"NO! Not a pun! It was a......oh. What's the thing what's spelled the same backwards as forwards?"
"A palindrome?"
"Yeah! It was a palindrome."
"It was not a palindrome! The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob!"

a cookie for the first one to get the specific reference.

you got the easy part right. :wink:

Ik denk het Nederlands enkel een meer prettier taal is.

CMack is a shortened form of Crazy Mack.

It originates from a novel I intend to write someday. The nickname of the main character is Crazy Mack - given to him because he was too often willing to do something risky in battle.

I first started using it in Counter Strike because it fit my fighting style. When-ever a rush is called, I'm almost always the one leading the charge. And if I'm the last player left, I'm most likely to take on the rest of the opposing team kamikaze style - sometimes with great success I might add.

The made up the signature based on the saying, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, would it make a sound?"

As far as the avatar, I only began using it on Steph's site. Given that I had been unemployed since last July, the picture of the homeless person holding a sign saying "Will code HTML for food" seemed to be a good fit for me. The question is now, since I just recently accepted a Programmer II, should I change my avatar or leave it as is?