What makes a good nickname?

pomaz59 · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by willow78

Perhaps it's my sense of irony - willows are tall, slender and flexible whereas I'm short, fat and stubborn.

yeah, but you have humour and most willows i know are just so damn bitter...

thanks for your story!

pomaz59 · 07-04-2011

great advices so far, thank you!
maybe i'll go up in the mountains for the weekend with nothing but a bag of mushrooms and see if i can come up with something nice

ps: sorry for the one-by-one replies, i don't know how you put multiple quotes into one message

B_subgirrl · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by willow78

But I cannot for the life of me think why I picked willow

I've always thought Willow suited you. You remind me a little of Willow from Buffy (in a good way!).

The reasons for my name are pretty obvious - I'm a sub and I'm female. I like my name to reflect who I am and to be something I'm comfortable with.

rembrandt1603 · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by pomaz59

my nickname sucks. i wasn't really giving it a thought the time i registered here on LPSG, just took some letters of cities/places i've visited (and liked) and added two random numbers to the whole thing.

now, i can say the number thing was quite stupid, because if i would read this in somebody's nick, i would think he is either 59 years old or he was born in 1959 or in general he wants to say something with it (but what???)

so i'm considering to change my nickname, but first i have to come up with something cool.

...so my questions:
What do you think, what makes a good nickname?
Should it have a meaning, a reference to something? Should it be only cool sounding? Should it imply something nasty?

and how did you come up with your nickname? is there a fun story behind it?

thoughts are welcome

Words or titles relating to your interests and/or professions in other languages are quite cool and offbeat. Like the Japanese, and all-too-relative sobriquet 'ChinChinGaAi'. Stuff like that.

Catchoftheday · 07-04-2011

No way - What makes a really rubish nickname

The multi-quote button is the one next to the quote one - you need to click it for every message you want to quote apart from the last one where you use the quote button

pomaz59 · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by Catchoftheday

The multi-quote button is the one next to the quote one - you need to click it for every message you want to quote apart from the last one where you use the quote button

geez.. i'm not much of a sherlock holmes, am i?

thanks!

willow78 · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by Catchoftheday

The multi-quote button is the one next to the quote one - you need to click it for every message you want to quote apart from the last one where you use the quote button

I always wondered how that worked

Thanks Catch - you have saved me a lot of future cutting/copying and pasting!

nudeyorker · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by pomaz59

geez.. i'm not much of a sherlock holmes, am i?

thanks!

In addition to multi-quoting there are a lot of nifty things to learn in... LPSG FAQ

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Originally Posted by willow78

I always wondered how that worked

Thanks Catch - you have saved me a lot of future cutting/copying and pasting!

Or if you have specific questions not addressed in the faq threads just contact a moderator.

D_Kitten_Kaboodle · 07-04-2011

my name is one I use in other areas as well... It doesn't really suit me for I am not "fancy" at all. More tongue in cheek than anything else.

I really like simple things.....but the fancy pants is more of an attitude than anything else.

I have seen some cool names here that were taken from song titles, band names (twisted a bit), and lyrics. What are your interests? You can take your initials and use them some way... just pen a few things down, brainstorm alone, no holds barred and dump your mind.... then see what you can come up with. I've seen some very creative uses of combining interests/locale with sexual terms. (I love nudeyorker's name....and several others.)

pomaz59 · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by nudeyorker

In addition to multi-quoting there are a lot of nifty things to learn in... LPSG FAQ

thanks for the advice! (see, i'm using multi-quote now

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Originally Posted by FancyPants

my name is one I use in other areas as well... It doesn't really suit me for I am not "fancy" at all. More tongue in cheek than anything else.

I really like simple things.....but the fancy pants is more of an attitude than anything else.

I have seen some cool names here that were taken from song titles, band names (twisted a bit), and lyrics. What are your interests? You can take your initials and use them some way... just pen a few things down, brainstorm alone, no holds barred and dump your mind.... then see what you can come up with. I've seen some very creative uses of combining interests/locale with sexual terms. (I love nudeyorker's name....and several others.)

thank you for your story and for your ideas as well, fancypants! braindstorming is a really good tip, i'll try that as a first step

ManofThunder · 07-04-2011

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Originally Posted by pomaz59

i like it, too! i think words like "thunder" or "fire" & co are kinda badass and therefore good for a nickname. especially if you have a story behind it, that a lady called you that way.. thats just even more badass :)

I'm not a bad-ass. I'm a good ass, mother-liker.

Magnus_Phallus · 07-05-2011

I was just trying to finally put
those Latin classes to some use.

That name was fitting for me and
seemed relevent to this site.

What makes a good nickname?

Originally Posted by willow78 Perhaps it's my sense of irony - willows are tall, slender and flexible whereas I'm short, fat and stubborn. yeah, but you have humour and most willows i know are just