Your Monicker - How Did You Come Up With It?

[CCoburn]

Maxmars


I actually never saw this as a name, but "Max" as short for 'maximum', thus: Mars, but no farther (or something like that).

[KKLoco]

To some people who knew me then I still am Andy Dickfingers. I had a logo drawn up for stickers. Looked like the andy cap hot fries guy running a spotlight and the hand you could see had dicks for fingers. I planned to slap them under the lid of every road case I loaded. These days I really only do corporate conventions and trade shows...however I am currently sitting backstage at a small concert on the F1 circuit here in Vegas. One of the rare times I work anything musical anymore.

I would love to see that artwork!

[KKLoco]

Ugh!  I didn't want to post in this thread because I really don't have a great deal of a story behind the name.

It's just a name I used from time to time in various games, etc.
That name was taken pre-21st century, during a role playing session...
No one ever 'gave' me that name or anything.

I kept using it out of silly sentimentality... nothing more interesting than that.

I think that’s great - as it’s the title of the thread.

There’s a big difference in creating your own monicker, and creating your own nickname. I, just so happened to use a nickname given to me, for my monicker.

What you did was probably smarter — as MANY people know my nickname. Thankfully, it was long enough ago they hopefully forgot.

Should I remove the part in my OP about ‘nicknames being given’? Do you think I turned people off (or confused them) by saying this, like you? I’d love as much participation as possible — so your advice is much appreciated! 

[KKLoco]

Insipired by Greasels , creatures created by Versalife in the Deus ex Universe.

Greasel | Deus Ex Wiki | Fandom

So a hybrid bird and dragon? 

Never heard this before.

[KKLoco]

Mine comes from the first initial and middle name that was on my original birth certificate and later was shortened to CCoburn. If I take my mothers' maiden name, it would be Cornelius Coburn Karolewski.

Holy shit, your name has 10 syllables.

I thought my sons’ was insane with the 9 I gave him. I gave him a made up name like my parents did with me, and the same initials, KKC. Very close to yours.

[KKLoco]

Maxmars


I actually never saw this as a name, but "Max" as short for 'maximum', thus: Mars, but no farther (or something like that).

I was envisioning an older, wiser version of this:

[Maxmars]

Should I remove the part in my OP about ‘nicknames being given’? Do you think I turned people off (or confused them) by saying this, like you? I’d love as much participation as possible — so your advice is much appreciated! 

I wouldn't want you to change anything.

There must be a million different ways to make a username... using a nickname is certainly one of them.

(But some people can be very territorial about their identities, I suppose they wouldn't be volunteering to discuss that anyway.)

[argentus]

M'Bride and me used to go to the Highland Games, and I would dabble with the Caber Toss, and also cast elemental silver in various clan emblems.   I did lost wax casting for several years, making rings, pins, pendants and other clan emblems.   I very much favor elemental silver -- Argentum -- and thus I tweaked it a bit  to be argentus.  Never capitalized, please.   Silver is so sweetly malleable and easy to work with.   Other elements smell hot and bad when you heat them, but not silver.   Hot silver smells a little like salt, which is to say a very slight odor, sort of crisp.   Cool silver has hardly any smell at all.  Other elements have a scent.

[ArMaP]

Holy shit, your name has 10 syllables.

I thought my sons’ was insane with the 9 I gave him. I gave him a made up name like my parents did with me, and the same initials, KKC. Very close to yours.

My full name (three first names and two surnames) has 12.

Long names are common in Portugal, my boss has two first names and five surnames (two from her husband) for a total of 20 syllables.

[KKLoco]

I wouldn't want you to change anything.

There must be a million different ways to make a username... using a nickname is certainly one of them.

(But some people can be very territorial about their identities, I suppose they wouldn't be volunteering to discuss that anyway.)

Well that makes a hell of a lot of sense, Max.

It is a little ironic for me, though. More backstory: I found ATS in 2007. I lurked for 4 years. Then, one day after moving to AZ (after another incredibly frustrating day of looking for a job), I joined in 2011. I made ONE single long winded post of stupidity. Then, went back into lurk mode until 2017. 

Do you know why I always lurked, and never participated? Because I thought ‘They’ were going to incriminate and ‘GET’ me! 

It’s all a big LOL now to me. I started a prescription of FUCKITOL from my doctor back in 2017. It’s worked like a charm ever since!