Who RU?

[grobelaar]

Was wondering if everyone here was happy with their god given name, any nicknames they have and how they are labelled in general.

I personally hate my name – this is partly due to the fact that a certain Ian Beale, a character from a British Soap Opera has largely dragged it through the mud and proved what a complete bunch of shits us Ians must be… Its also such a weak sound. I heard once that there’s a thing in posh bits of the states, where people called Ian, pronounce their name like Iron. The computer game I’m working on means I’ve researched loads of Russian names – Russian names are cool – why can’t I have a name like Vadim… :)

What does everyone else think of their names… and has anyone actually changed or thought of changing their name… ???

PS: My surname is even stupider, but I won’t go into that…

[Sheridan]

my first name is Ian as well. when I was little kid I hated my name because it wasn't popular at all in the states, so I got made fun of a lot. but as I grew older and the name became more common I began to like it more and more. now I have no problem with it. and I actually like the way my full name sounds. I think it sounds rather strong. the one thing that bugs me is the stupid americans who still can't pronounce it.
people still pronounce it "I-an" as opposed to "E-an". as for that Iron pronunciation I have not heard about that. but there are people who do pronounce it as "I-an" on purpose. I went to school with a kid who did that. I used to laugh my ass off because his parents didn't know any better and he didn't know the correct pronunciation for his name. now my new boss at work he has a hard time saying my name. he calls me "E-yawn". but I haven't tried to correct to him.

[tsr_tomas]

i´m happy with my name... actully i was supose to be named Thomas.. but i changed it to Tomas coz it was shorter.

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by Sheridan
my first name is Ian as well. when I was little kid I hated my name because it wasn't popular at all in the states, so I got made fun of a lot. but as I grew older and the name became more common I began to like it more and more. now I have no problem with it. and I actually like the way my full name sounds. I think it sounds rather strong. the one thing that bugs me is the stupid americans who still can't pronounce it.
people still pronounce it "I-an" as opposed to "E-an". as for that Iron pronunciation I have not heard about that. but there are people who do pronounce it as "I-an" on purpose. I went to school with a kid who did that. I used to laugh my ass off because his parents didn't know any better and he didn't know the correct pronunciation for his name. now my new boss at work he has a hard time saying my name. he calls me "E-yawn". but I haven't tried to correct to him.

I-an, Iron I meant the same thing - it was some bunch of posh upper state new yorkers, perhaps with a bit of a drawl its sounds like Iron - I think they rather like it like that...

[JE:5]

My message board name gives a clue to my real name.

[Sheridan]

I never equated it to posh society. I usually chalked it up to dumb americans who see the name in a book or something and didn't know how to say it correctly. I will never forget my first day of seventh grade when I went to history class. my teacher is doing roll and calls me "I-an Sheridan". I say no ma'am, my name is pronounced "E-an". she asks, 'are you sure?'. a little taken a back I tell her I am positive.
fast forward now to my second day of class. my history teacher is doing roll she gets to my name and says it correctly. but then she begins to tell me how she did a little research on my name. she found that in scotland they pronounce it "E-an" and in england people say it "I-an". again completely dumbfounded I tell her that "in the entire world people proncounce it "E-an" and only in america do people say it "I-an". I hope that people have stopped calling their children "I-an".

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by JE:5
My message board name gives a clue to my real name.

your name is Jess.

[piscaries]

i never really gave much thought to my name. i do wonder sometimes if people with more common names get weirded out or always perk their ears when they hear their name being called out to someone else. i never hear my name except for when people are talking to me, and when i do hear my name in someone else's conversation it weirds me out.

[pille'ocheoni]

eh..........john sucks, and thats my name. i like my middle name a little better cause it sounds french. christoph........no er.........but yeah, ive always like irish names like dekland,liam,potato head....stuff like that......russian names are cool, like maxim,vadim,vladamir, etc.... i like some africian nmes too like buba,tillikilikiluiuioiio, and reioilodioooopooop...those are pretty cool also

[Weishaupt]

my real name is holger. somebody says me that my name comes from denmark and means "big house"...........................hm. ......i will ask ruben..........

[amble]

my real name is Jan and i never had much worries about it myself. but some people happen to stretch it as if there was an 'h' behind the 'a' and i hate that. i got angry about that few times in the past and asked people if they were not able to speak three fucking letters properly. now i don't care about it any more, whatever they speak it.
it's just my name.

[invisibleplanet]

my name is Cat
:)

[amble]

your name is stick out tongue?? pretty unusual that is.

"..don't touch this stick out tongue.."
"..sleep now stick out tongue.."
"..don't stick out your tongue stick out tongue.."

[aleks]

my name is aleksandar...

[Ruben A]

"In the person of Christ you will find out for example in Genesis 49:3 where the name Ruben is mentioned, Ruben means ‘behold the son’. Jesus is the Son to whom we are to look. That is in Hebrews chapter 12:2. The infirmity of Ruben is that he is unstable as water, but Jesus bore that infirmity. On the cross he bore the suffering of the infirmity of Ruben. Then Jesus becomes the intercessor and he intercedes for us that we would grow up into him that we would not be children tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.

Then our inheritance is life in Ruben and Jesus becomes our life and that is in the book of Colossians."

Why should I change my name?? :)

[Atarythm]

my name is Christophe... and my nickname used to be "la truite" which means the trout... But I really don't now why, and nobody knows why...

[aleks]

here you can check out what your name means. www.behindthename.com ...

[Weishaupt]

cool aleks!!!!!!!!!!

[phil]

well, i had a very hard time at school. i didnt really have any friends, i used to spend play time picking up things i found from the field, like the little metal bits that use to be on shoes. My surname didnt help. Barrymore.

[deccard]

franklin is the name of the game.

it means freeman.

is also the petform of frank which has the meaning ...frank.

just pure motherfranklin shit as always.

[invisibleplanet]

my name is Cat
;)

[Weishaupt]

a cool side, aleks....................
but....what about last names??? that could be interesting!

[Atarythm]

Originally posted by invisibleplanet
my name is Cat
;)

Your name changes pretty fast... ;)

[Weishaupt]

@atarythm

check your emails

[pille'ocheoni]

barrymore!lol

[r_v]

my name is harvey, hence the username: r_v (sounds a bit like harvey phonically but its quicker to type).

i used to get a bit of stick in school for having a slightly unusual name so i didn't like my name much when i was younger. but now i really like it.

its strange actually; harvey is a fairly well known name yet i've never in my life met another harvey.

according to behindthename.com, it means:

From a surname which was derived from the Breton first name Haerviu, which meant "battle worthy" from Breton haer "battle" and viu "worthy". The first name was introduced to England by Breton settlers after the Norman Conquest

[Atarythm]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
@atarythm

check your emails

Done, you have a pm

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by invisibleplanet
my name is Cat
;)

slimshady...?!?

[bob]

My name is thomas which a quite like, don't why i use bob but i like the sound of it and the shortness. SOme people call me tom which I'm not as keen on as my real name...not sure why they do as I have never used it (lazy probably ) but at the end of the day I'm not that bothered

[jukka]

my name is, hard to guess,jukka.
i like that name.and it is funny that a lot of people (not to say most people i met) asked me if it is my realy name...sometimes they even know me for half a year or so and they are still thinking it is a nickname.
also funny are the names on some letters/post i get.....jukks...jakka etc.

and i hated it that my neighbour allways said jubka....aaaarrrrrr

[carbonizedeyesockets]

how the hell do you think i used to feel at school with a name like carbonized????

[Mui]

My name is daniel, pretty bloody plain and boring, I hate going to the supermarket because every third person is called daniel and people will call 'daniel' and then about 7 people go 'what?' I always wanted to have a name like 'jack hammer' or 'max power' or 'john steel'......that would be cool. My middle name is james, so a lot of people call me dj......but most call me mui cuz my last name is muir...

[aleks]

Originally posted by jukka
and i hated it that my neighbour allways said jubka....aaaarrrrrr

hahaha...jubka, sag mal hast du abgenommen? lol lol lol

[MUX]

well my name is Stef , short for stefan
my last name is Stivala ( boot/shoe in italian ) so i guess somebody in my family was a shoemaker ( or maybe he polished rich mans boots )

Mux is my outside nickname, and comes from the name of my freelance design alias 'mux667'
mux is read Mush here and that means Negative or not
667 comes from me dabbling in some evil shit when i was young, i once got called 'the nieghbor of these beast' for a very evil doing and i kinda liked it and kept it

[marcel]

well, my real name is hans-jürgen. i was the king at my school with that one

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by marcel
well, my real name is hans-jürgen. i was the king at my school with that one

you kidding??

[marcel]

Originally posted by Weishaupt


you kidding??

that from the man who sent me the cd... remember my adress? its late eh?....

my real name is of course arthur

[DsD]

hm. my name is kind of strange for german people...
i have my standard sentence "Danial like daniel just with a instead of the e" but most people have theire problems with it ;)
my nickname are my initials(?) and that means that my family name has two parts... thats realy shit cause it`s a long name ;)
translated into english it means "herren of Darband" ;)

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by marcel


that from the man who sent me the cd... remember my adress? its late eh?....

my real name is of course arthur

puuuhh

im glad to hear............hans-jürgen is really heftisch.............one of my freind called wilhelm-peter........that is crap!!!!

hehehe..............and my seond name is horst..............holger horst hilgers :-///....................

jeaa......mc triple h from the hänchen-KZ.
shit mann................

[aleks]

i´ve written a poem about the name horst ... MUHAHAHA, cannot remember it, because it´s almsot ten years ago, only the first line ... heißen sollte man so nicht...

[actionjetzon]

:D , nein wirklich nicht! hahahaha 8-() :-p

[Weishaupt]

pah!

[$eye]

MUX: man, no shit you in Malta right?

[dirtyho]

My name is Michael Kelvin Ho. I didn't use to like the Kelvin bit because people took the piss. But now I appreciate it because my grandfather gave me it. He also gave me my chinese name, and he called me Kelvin because it's phonetically similar to my chinese name (which means "reputation of the Ho family" - a bit of a burden ;) )

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

My name is Jamie, and I'm a post-a-holic

I really hate people that are ignorant enough to assume I was christened James and call me that. I have always been Jamie, and have photocopied my birth certificate once just to be pedantic and show people!!

[invisibleplanet]

Originally posted by dirtyho
My name is Michael Kelvin Ho. I didn't use to like the Kelvin bit because people took the piss. But now I appreciate it because my grandfather gave me it. He also gave me my chinese name, and he called me Kelvin because it's phonetically similar to my chinese name (which means "reputation of the Ho family" - a bit of a burden ;) )

Kelvin was the name of a famous physicist! i only knew of one other Kelvin, and he was really proud of his name - it's such an unusual, and rare name - be proud!

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Kelvin was actually his title, Lord Kelvin. He is actually a relation of mine, not seen him for a while though...

http://octopus.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/kelvin.html

[ischo]

my real name's tobias christian, and i f*#kin hated that.
then i went to the states to a german school and there were
about 5 other tobiases in my class, and i absolutely didn't wanna
be nr.6, so i switched to ischo, whichis a nick my parents gave me.
don't ask why, i juz dunno.
and now i'm called toschi pretty often, cuz of my laptop-insanity....

[marcel]

Originally posted by aleks
i´ve written a poem about the name horst ... ... heißen sollte man so nicht...

hahaha,
and i remember a helge schneider film: na horst blöder vogel. nein bist kein blöder vogel....na bit du fein, bit du fein, bit du fein....

[Weishaupt]

ihr seid scheiße!



:-)

[phono]

hey, buddies don't think so much about how good or bad is your name! :)
all names are beautiful!

maxim.

[aleks]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
ihr seid scheiße!

haha... die pferd heißt horst!!!

[Weishaupt]

anybody ask me years ago...what for a dj name u have?..........i say "Holger Hilgers".............i never thougt about it till this time......
this person say :What??Holger Hilgers?? That sounds like a roofer(dachdecker)............ ....i was pist!!!!:-/

[actionjetzon]

Why not "THE HORST"? ...hours of rhythm struggled techno lol

[Weishaupt]

hehehehehehee

[pille'ocheoni]

ich liebe no-future

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
anybody ask me years ago...what for a dj name u have?..........i say "Holger Hilgers".............i never thougt about it till this time......
this person say :What??Holger Hilgers?? That sounds like a roofer(dachdecker)............ ....i was pist!!!!:-/

no no, you should go by 'my friend holger'.
so on a saturday night when your playing and people are talking about where they are going that night they will say 'we are going to tresor to see my friend holger'. it will add a nice friendly tone than the old 'we are going to see dj big ego' .

[jess-ssej]

@sheridan ...yes! great idea...in minneapolis, we have a dj called My Friend Horsey...almost the same, don't quite know about the horsey bit..maybe he has a horse face.

Jessica Laural Portz

JESSICA f English
Pronounced: JES-i-ka
This name was first used in this form by Shakespeare in his play 'The Merchant of Venice', where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. Shakespeare probably based it on the biblical name Iscah meaning "YAHWEH beholds" in Hebrew, a minor character in Genesis.

[pille'ocheoni]

awesome detail there

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by Sheridan


no no, you should go by 'my friend holger'.
so on a saturday night when your playing and people are talking about where they are going that night they will say 'we are going to tresor to see my friend holger'. it will add a nice friendly tone than the old 'we are going to see dj big ego' .

great idea:-)

[wheezer]

my real name is heinz-jürgen hinkel. I do webdesign.

http://members.tripod.com/heinzjuergenhinkel

[pille'ocheoni]

trippy

[spencer]

I wasnt sure if I liked my name when I was young. But as I got older I really appreciated my folks giving me this name. I dont think its very popular and I like that.:D

[enigmatic]

My FULL name is

Oluwafolakemi Damilola Toluwalashe Ruth Delphine Gabrielle

:D hehe

im an A2 student studying chemistry biology and history and woohoo will be going to university in September to study meidicine

[invisibleplanet]

i know u, Oluwafolakemi Damilola Toluwalashe Ruth Delphine Gabrielle
hehe nice to read u here :)

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by wheezer
my real name is heinz-jürgen hinkel. I do webdesign.

http://members.tripod.com/heinzjuergenhinkel

That is easilest the funniest thing I've seen all week - cheers...