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Title: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: dsanchez on February 08, 2008, 06:15:32
I have been always curious about. In my case, my name is David Sánchez, and I have an email from University with dsanchez@...so that's the reason. Very creative, eh  :D

What about yours?
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: tigermilk on February 08, 2008, 07:02:11
Mine comes from the band: Belle And Sebastian

Their first album is called tigermilk and it's a wonderful record.

Plus, I like cats and milk, so it's the perfect name for me!  :P
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: lacrima mosa on February 08, 2008, 07:04:08
mine is from the german band lacrimosa... one of my favourites!!
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 11:31:42
mine comes from the Disney's animated movie 'The Aristocats'... one of the coolest cats was called "scatcat", who had a band of swinging jazz cats in the alley..  :smth023
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: sues777 on February 08, 2008, 13:19:09
A motor racing buddy of mine started calling me "sues" when I started racing and I have many fond memories of my time racing....and the 777?  Well, as the Pixies say, "if the devil is 6, then God is 7..." - I just like the number 7..
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Steve on February 08, 2008, 13:40:42
Well, it's just my name actually  :oops:

However, on many other sites, including the heartland forum I have to register as Pista because Steve is usually taken (dead common name huh?).

Pista (pronounced Pishta)is the Hungarian equivalent of Steve.
I even on dime have to modify that to pistabacsi (pronounced pishta bachi) which effectively means uncle steve.

:-D
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: robiola on February 08, 2008, 13:58:47
I don't like using my real name (Roberta), especially because I hate how people pronounced it when I lived in the States (Row-burr-dah, sounds a little like someone barfing), and I remembered that when I was a child my mom affectionally called me Robiola or Robiolina when we were joking around.
Only many years after my mom stopped calling me that did I find out that robiola is also a kind of soft cheese not unlike cream cheese.... But I was already fond of the nickname, so.... So I've named my curefans persona after a cheese apparently? Never actually thought of it that way. That's just plain embarrassing.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Cure Freak on February 08, 2008, 14:55:43
I was called a freak, once, for liking The Cure.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 15:36:36
Quote from: sues777 on February 08, 2008, 13:19:09
A motor racing buddy of mine started calling me "sues" when I started racing and I have many fond memories of my time racing....and the 777?  Well, as the Pixies say, "if the devil is 6, then God is 7..." - I just like the number 7..


hey @sues777... ur avatar is changed? or is everybody just messing with me !!?? *paranoia*... were u not a cat before? (please say yes)  :smth100
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: japanesebaby on February 08, 2008, 16:17:13
well, mine is boringly stolen from a certain song you might all know.
although at the time i picked it, i was very close to becoming 'the howling woman' at first. because i sort of thought that might describe me a lot better than some exotic babe-thing. :lol:
of course the cure folks always get my name - but a bit embarrassingly, some non-cure people seem to think it's something soft-porn related or some lolita thing or something...  :roll:
uuuh maybe i should have become the howling one so there would be no damn confusion!  :twisted:

Quote from: Steve on February 08, 2008, 13:40:42
I even on dime have to modify that to pistabacsi (pronounced pishta bachi) which effectively means uncle steve.

i was wondering what that stood for but always forgot to ask!  ;)

Quote from: robiola on February 08, 2008, 13:58:47
I don't like using my real name (Roberta), especially because I hate how people pronounced it when I lived in the States (Row-burr-dah, sounds a little like someone barfing), and I remembered that when I was a child my mom affectionally called me Robiola or Robiolina when we were joking around.
Only many years after my mom stopped calling me that did I find out that robiola is also a kind of soft cheese not unlike cream cheese.... But I was already fond of the nickname, so.... So I've named my curefans persona after a cheese apparently? Never actually thought of it that way. That's just plain embarrassing.

sorry about the cheese thing, obviously not the coolest discovery ever - but you made me laugh  :-D

Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 16:29:57
Quote from: japanesebaby on February 08, 2008, 16:17:13
well, mine is boringly stolen from a certain song you might all know.
although at the time i picked it, i was very close to becoming 'the howling woman' at first. because i sort of thought that might describe me a lot better than some exotic babe-thing. :lol:

this is funny..  :lol:  we need a howling woman!!!  :smth023

@robiola: I like ur nickname.. although the spell-check ones are always an option!!  :-D
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: japanesebaby on February 08, 2008, 16:37:24
Quote from: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 16:29:57
we need a howling woman!!!  :smth023

hehe i just made myself that then, officially (look to the left)  :lol:
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: robiola on February 08, 2008, 16:39:27
Quote from: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 16:29:57
@robiola: I like ur nickname.. although the spell-check ones are always an option!!  :-D
Yes, reboil, raviola... Always the food theme, eh? I guess it was just meant to be.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 16:43:39
Quote from: robiola on February 08, 2008, 16:39:27

Yes, reboil, raviola... Always the food theme, eh? I guess it was just meant to be.



heyy, there's always the other options... Ebola.. a virus.. or rebel...   :smth066

@JB... way cool!!!
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: iwannashagsimon on February 08, 2008, 18:30:00
I think the meaning of my name is selfexplanitory. ;)

Why did I choose it?? Um, it was created years ago in MSN Cure Chat.  Me and some girls were just goofing off making up names.  I thought of mine and one of them dared me to register it at MSN.  It was accepted and I though it was a slutty name but, it did let everyone know, without doubt, who my favorite member is. 

Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: drowning on February 08, 2008, 18:48:31
my nick is boring "drowning man" one of my fav. cure songs off all time.

and it´s how i felt somedays. drowning in a pool of emotions, feelings......
lost alone in a happy crowd.....



Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: j on February 08, 2008, 19:42:31
Let's see...my name is Jeff.  J id the first letter of my name.  Actually, J was my nickname that my high school hockey team gave me, and it stuck through college.  I got lucky in that respect.  Hockey players have this rather stupid way of nicknaming everyone, usually by adding y to the end.  Keith Jones= Jonesy.  SO I guess J is better than Jeffy.

Dime wouldn't let me use J as my username, so I used natas43.  Satan spelled backwards (and also a skateboarder from back in the day- Natas Kaupas- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natas_Kaupas ).  And 43 was my hockey number my entire career.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Steve on February 08, 2008, 20:07:37
I do hope ZZTOPSMYBUTTLOVERS posts.

You don't believe me? Check the members list.  ;)
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Tof on February 08, 2008, 21:19:34
Tof is because my name is Christophe and all my friend call me Tof !!!

Very creative too  :-D
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Janko on February 08, 2008, 21:48:01
MY REAL NAME IS JANKO
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Hero on February 08, 2008, 22:44:59
Hero is a character from Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' which i'm studying at school and i was doing homework when i registered :?
I usually go for Lufus which has seemed to have replaced my real name but i felt like a change.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: robiola on February 08, 2008, 22:48:26
Ha ha, JB!  :-D
From now on I shall call you the howling woman, I love it. Or maybe howler, for short
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: silversand on February 09, 2008, 00:09:14
I think japanesebaby is a nice nickname :)

Okay, it's obvious where i got my nickname from :)
It's from the song Before Three, because i love the line: ... "But winter moon
and silver sand, this perfect night in another land ...".
The only difference is that it's written in one word.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: sues777 on February 09, 2008, 00:55:06
Quote from: scatcat on February 08, 2008, 15:36:36
hey @sues777... ur avatar is changed? or is everybody just messing with me !!?? *paranoia*... were u not a cat before? (please say yes)  :smth100
It's ok scatcat - I changed my avatar...yes, I was a cat before ('twas my boy cat Leroy - my girl cat started feeling left out). 

Quote from: drowning on February 08, 2008, 18:48:31
my nick is boring "drowning man" one of my fav. cure songs off all time.

and it´s how i felt somedays. drowning in a pool of emotions, feelings......
lost alone in a happy crowd.....
Hey drowning - I don't think your nickname is boring at all and your reasons behind it certainly aren't boring!!  I actually considered "something-beginning-with-s" but feared it was a little long....
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Pita on February 09, 2008, 01:33:59
I'm with the "very creative group"... my name is Guadalupe, Pita is like "little Guadalupe" (Guadalupita)... my friends and family call me that way... so my nickname is my name  :lol:
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: j on February 09, 2008, 03:31:26
Quote from: Pita on February 09, 2008, 01:33:59
I'm with the "very creative group"... my name is Guadalupe, Pita is like "little Guadalupe" (Guadalupita)... my friends and family call me that way... so my nickname is my name  :lol:

No offense Pita, but my grandfather used to call me that when I was younger.  When I was about 12, I finally asked him why.  He explained what pita stands for: Pain In The Ass.

Thanks for bringing back fond memories of a great man in my youth!! :smth023
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Pita on February 09, 2008, 16:29:08
Quote from: j on February 09, 2008, 03:31:26
No offense Pita, but my grandfather used to call me that when I was younger.  When I was about 12, I finally asked him why.  He explained what pita stands for: Pain In The Ass.

Thanks for bringing back fond memories of a great man in my youth!! :smth023

:smth044 If my friends knew that they'd say that it's a perfect nickname for me
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: crowbi_wan on February 09, 2008, 17:29:29
Several years ago on Compuserve, AOL, and a few other networks I used to sign off with goofy names that incorporated my last name.  A few favorites...The Pilsbury Crowboy, Shaquielle Cro'Neil, The Marlborcrow Man, Crowhammed Ali, and Crowbi-wan Kenobi.  Crowbi-wan just stuck when I opened an e-mail account on Yahoo some time ago.  People have been calling me Crowbi for years now.  And actually, it sort of makes sense.  Take my last name, Crow, and add the first letter of my first name, B, and there you go  ;)     
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Carnage Visor on February 10, 2008, 00:40:03
i am called Carnage Visor because:

1. I love the word CARNAGE...makes me think of corpses and destruction.
2. I love the 30 minute song by The Cure with the same name. It really moves me, and I think it's mysterious and lull enough to kind of numb the mind and make you daydream. Put it on in the room, it's just kind of there, you know? It's the theme song to my depression, my thoughts, my dreams. And it has no words, but still speaks to me.

I decided it sounded like a catchy name, one people could remember, contains no symbols or numbers, and displays well on a forum.

I love your last name, crowbi-wan. Crow is an awesome last name! :smth020
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 10, 2008, 01:34:20
Quote from: j on February 09, 2008, 03:31:26

No offense Pita, but my grandfather used to call me that when I was younger.  When I was about 12, I finally asked him why.  He explained what pita stands for: Pain In The Ass.


:smth043 :smth046  guess what I'll be calling my son now?  :smth047
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on February 10, 2008, 16:18:53
@iwannashagsimon... have u seen Simon's blonde hair now??   ;)
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: crowbi_wan on February 10, 2008, 16:43:58
Quote from: Carnage Visor on February 10, 2008, 00:40:03
I love your last name, crowbi-wan. Crow is an awesome last name! :smth020

Thanks.  I like my last name as well  ;)  Like a lot of immigrants, my German ancestors shortened their last name when they came to America.  Not sure what the original name was, but I was led to believe it began with Krau. 
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: iwannashagsimon on February 10, 2008, 23:50:48
Quote from: scatcat on February 10, 2008, 16:18:53
@iwannashagsimon... have u seen Simon's blonde hair now??   ;)

Yeah.  The first thing I thought was:  BUDGIE!!!




Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Sussex on February 11, 2008, 11:41:03


Quote from: iwannashagsimon on February 10, 2008, 23:50:48
Quote from: scatcat on February 10, 2008, 16:18:53
@iwannashagsimon... have u seen Simon's blonde hair now??   ;)

Yeah.  The first thing I thought was:  BUDGIE!!!


..how bout 'iwannashagblondesimon'  :-D

For my own nickname, as you guys know thats where our beloved band originated.
At the first stage, i thought i wanna pick some flamboyant nick but after all i couldn't think of any.

So I'm thinking it is good to pick some simple and The Cure related nick. Then when i remember reading The Cure wikipedia, SUSSEX just pop up in my mind. Then i just love the nick!

But somehow here in my country, not many people take the name as a name of a place but in an instance they usually lead the name to such pornography thing,just because the word 'sex'. What a mind setting! :smth011

p/s : David, this is really a great threat!



Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Carnage Visor on February 12, 2008, 00:03:39
Oh Sussex, I agree! :eek:

People can be so crass* sometimes (for instance, laughing everytime they hear the words "teabag", "lubricant", or answer every question with: "Your mom!")...

I dig your nickname, it's short and sweet! "Sussex", never once thought of it as being provocative. People should really learn their geography!  :-D

Is it not pronounced "Su-six?" That surely would avoid further confusion... :)


*Crass is also an awesome punk rock band. Just thought I'd mention.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: japanesebaby on February 12, 2008, 00:25:59
Quote from: robiola on February 08, 2008, 22:48:26
Ha ha, JB!  :-D
From now on I shall call you the howling woman, I love it. Or maybe howler, for short

hehe that's ok, just don't start calling me a banshee, ok?  ;)
i've sort of gotten fond of my "new name" too now. besides i absolutely love the new live version of 'the walk'  :smth020 :smth023


Quote from: crowbi_wan on February 10, 2008, 16:43:58
my German ancestors shortened their last name when they came to America.  Not sure what the original name was, but I was led to believe it began with Krau. 

hmmm.... KRAUT, maybe? ;)


Quote from: iwannashagsimon on February 10, 2008, 23:50:48
Quote from: scatcat on February 10, 2008, 16:18:53
@iwannashagsimon... have u seen Simon's blonde hair now??   ;)

Yeah.  The first thing I thought was:  BUDGIE!!!

although budgie's a complete sissy compared to simon hahaha :-D

Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Sussex on February 12, 2008, 01:51:38
Quote from: Carnage Visor on February 12, 2008, 00:03:39
Oh Sussex, I agree! :eek:

People can be so crass* sometimes (for instance, laughing everytime they hear the words "teabag", "lubricant", or answer every question with: "Your mom!")...

I dig your nickname, it's short and sweet! "Sussex", never once thought of it as being provocative. People should really learn their geography!  :-D

Is it not pronounced "Su-six?" That surely would avoid further confusion... :)


*Crass is also an awesome punk rock band. Just thought I'd mention.

Haha..you're right CV. People should learn more bout their Geography. Actually i love when people think pro actively about my nickname. What I know is that, it is something to do with The Cure!  :!:



Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: gioez on February 12, 2008, 11:01:18
My nick originates from a strange manner of speaking the initials of my complete name... JDS... it sounds like "JAYDS" or "JAIZ", and then "JOEZ" (in italian we write "gioez". Well, this nick was created by my school-friends, isn't my idea!  ;)
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: gioez on February 12, 2008, 11:05:25
Quote from: robiola on February 08, 2008, 13:58:47
I don't like using my real name (Roberta), especially because I hate how people pronounced it when I lived in the States (Row-burr-dah, sounds a little like someone barfing), and I remembered that when I was a child my mom affectionally called me Robiola or Robiolina when we were joking around.
Only many years after my mom stopped calling me that did I find out that robiola is also a kind of soft cheese not unlike cream cheese.... But I was already fond of the nickname, so.... So I've named my curefans persona after a cheese apparently? Never actually thought of it that way. That's just plain embarrassing.

You know... I love "Robiola" cheese!  :-D
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: robiola on February 12, 2008, 11:21:18
Quote from: gioez on February 12, 2008, 11:05:25
Quote from: robiola on February 08, 2008, 13:58:47
I don't like using my real name (Roberta), especially because I hate how people pronounced it when I lived in the States (Row-burr-dah, sounds a little like someone barfing), and I remembered that when I was a child my mom affectionally called me Robiola or Robiolina when we were joking around.
Only many years after my mom stopped calling me that did I find out that robiola is also a kind of soft cheese not unlike cream cheese.... But I was already fond of the nickname, so.... So I've named my curefans persona after a cheese apparently? Never actually thought of it that way. That's just plain embarrassing.

You know... I love "Robiola" cheese!  :-D

Well, thank goodness. I'd hate to be known as "the woman who goes by the name of that
revolting cheese". Now I can just be "the fool who named herself after a cheese", it's much better. :roll:
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Carnage Visor on February 12, 2008, 23:45:28
Quote from: robiola on February 12, 2008, 11:21:18
Well, thank goodness. I'd hate to be known as "the woman who goes by the name of that
revolting cheese". Now I can just be "the fool who named herself after a cheese", it's much better. :roll:

I'm not a cheese person, so I never would have known you were named for a type of cheese...

I always assumed it was like "Rob" for Robert Smith and "iola" for something else...never really thought of it. I think you all have great names, unlike some names I've seen on other forums like "Pink&^%*IS(((MY###FAVORITE!!!~@$COLOR(#(#"
with all those internet lingo symbols thrown in there (I'm of this new internet generation and I still do not understand it!)

Roberta is a nice name, don't be shy!  :)
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: melly on February 15, 2008, 09:51:58
melly..well, obviously it hasn't got any "Cure" connotations, but it's my real nick name, all our friends call me melly,and their kids. My partner started calling me this many years ago, from the word "melee", you know, a small fracas, a bit if a rumble happenin'.... he would tell you it comes from smelly, which isn't very nice, is it?!   :shock:    haha... kind of carries on from when I was a teenager, being tall with long legs, my Dad used to call me Nol...Noise On Legs....
so, nothing exoctic or secretive, just melly...and it sounds odd when people call me by my real name, Heather!!
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: psichonaut on February 16, 2008, 00:40:23
my nickname came out when i submitted my membership in Heartland....i was thinking about something like "argonaut", as the ancient greek-sailors and i got lightened by one of my favourite Nephilim songs....PSYCHONAUT....i only was wrong writing it...psichonaut....and from that era my nick on every site is this
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: joqua on February 18, 2008, 04:25:52
Joqua is what my dad used to call me when i was younger.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: rubcure on February 22, 2008, 04:59:19
Well; mine (rubcure) part of my name Rubén and Cure; very creative isn´t?  :roll:   :-D
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: christen-in-blood on February 29, 2008, 07:40:29
i chose 'christen-in-blood' because it comes from one of The Cure's greatest songs, Faith.
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: erpomata on April 01, 2008, 12:12:13
mine is hard to explain...i tried with lacrimamosa and yves28 and steve, but i'm not sure they understood  :-D
erpomata is a character in an italian cultmovie, mostly in roma, called "febbre da cavallo". er is the roman form for the italian article il, pomata is that particular medicine cream, for muscles or so... the character has greasy hair with gel, so they call him er pomata, the cream, or something similar...puff pant! hard to say! in roma it's absolutely normal to have a nickname! but i don't have greasy hair...actually i have little over my head  :-D i like that movie 
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Lady on April 02, 2008, 18:48:57
"Lady" is a simple word, but it's very used in the songs (how many songs you can find with the word "lady" in the text? "Foxy lady" by Hendrix or "lady writer" by dire straits and many more!! ;)) and it makes me think of someone "special", as the "first lady".
I'm Lady Vox in a u2fans forum!! :-D

Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: ~*CherryRed*~ on April 02, 2008, 23:49:37
There are some GREAT nicknames/ID's in here... I have to give kudos to scatcat and Carnage Visor for their ones! (I'm so pissed I didn't think of carnage visor first!! hehehe)

Well as for mine, I have a pair of Doc Marten cherryred boots, that I wear constantly (except for in bed... oh, well when I'm compus-mentus enough to take them off!!!)... so there you have it!
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/CherryRedBoots/cherryredboots.jpg)
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: ~*CherryRed*~ on April 02, 2008, 23:52:11
I came across this photo just now... and thought I would share it! (due to the t-shirt and the Docs!)
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/CherryRedBoots/ColesBeachOct2007.jpg)

*not sure how to make this smaller... sorry it's HUGE!
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: Sussex on April 07, 2008, 11:44:55


Love it! Nice shirt though! (I have that one too and definitely nice boots.

:smth023



Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: scatcat on April 07, 2008, 15:58:47
I want that skirt ~*CherryRed*~ ...   BTW.. luv the boots!! great photo!
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: ~*CherryRed*~ on April 09, 2008, 07:11:20
Aw shucks!!!!! Cheers scatcat & Sussex...    :smth006
Title: Re: What means your nickname? Why did choose it?
Post by: rubcure on April 09, 2008, 07:47:15
Nice boots ~*CherryRed*~!! and nice color!!  :smth023