How did you come up with you GFY Nick (Handle)? - GoFuckYourself.com

ManuteBol · 04-14-2011, 07:07 AM

R.I.P. TexasDreams.

How did you come up with your nick?

04-14-2011, 07:10 AM

more to the point. .. . how did YOU? ;)

ManuteBol · 04-14-2011, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Altwebdesign

more to the point. .. . how did YOU? ;)

I am 7'7 and weighed 181 lbs when I created this nick in 2004.

My first name is manute and my last name is bol.

Barefootsies · 04-14-2011, 07:12 AM

Before GFY, I typically used one of two other nicks for all of my online stuff.

While I have been online since the beginning (bbs days), and in this industry since 1997, I did not really get involved on the industry boards until 2003. I simply lurked until around 2005 when I became more active, and then picked this handle based on the niche, and branding. No other reason.

Nicky · 04-14-2011, 07:24 AM

I used the name "Nickname" before but It got confusing so I switched to Nicky, don't know why I use either of em since my real name is Daniel lol. It's been too long to change now though.

Chosen · 04-14-2011, 07:25 AM

Why would you want to know?

Paul Markham · 04-14-2011, 07:27 AM

I had to think long and hard about it. Was I going to call myself Paul Markham, Markham Paul of just "A crap photographer whose made lots of money.

Charly was my first Nick that least a year. It was a stage name I had used in movies as an actor.

ManuteBol · 04-14-2011, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Chosen

Why would you want to know?

Because I am gfy lover and this type of stuff is fun and interests me.

Ross · 04-14-2011, 07:28 AM

Its my name, as much as I hate it, its what my momma gave me!

ManuteBol · 04-14-2011, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Charly was my first Nick that least a year. It was a stage name I had used in movies as an actor.

pics or it didn't happen ;)

fatfoo · 04-14-2011, 07:39 AM

A funny nickname... Perhaps nicknames used for Quake 2...

Vendzilla · 04-14-2011, 07:39 AM

While working for Coca Cola I developed a device that load tested vending machine circuit boards, I called it Vendzilla
It kinda stuck after that

DamianJ · 04-14-2011, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ManuteBol

pics or it didn't happen ;)

Oh god, don't ask him to post them again. EYE BLEACH.

barcodes · 04-14-2011, 07:41 AM

When I created my first aol account back in the days of dial up, I had problems finding a good screen name. I ended up with ilibarcodesili, aol used sans serif fonts and it looked like lllBARCODESlll. This sounds ridiculous now but back then I used to customize my aol profile, make it animate etc using aols butchered version of html. Everyone who did it had a cool, hackerish sounding name and that was mine. =D

I widdled it down to barcodes over time, I guess out of laziness? lol

04-14-2011, 07:41 AM

you're 7'7? good lord!!! youre about a foot taller than my brother and he's tall!

shade001 · 04-14-2011, 07:44 AM

It was the first one I used back in 2005.

Zuzana Designs · 04-14-2011, 07:44 AM

When I created my company I tried to think of something that was easy to remember and would stick in your head. Sarah Designs sounded silly. Z is a very unique letter that does not have that many common names starting with it that I could think of. Zoo something was what I was trying to use. I was working on cam and running a cam studio and had a model named Zuzana and fell in love with the name cause it had 2 z's in it.

TBS_Andreas · 04-14-2011, 08:02 AM

Easy. TBS stands for The Barcelona Summit and Andreas is my first name.

As you will all realize now: My nick is outdated, as The Barcelona Summit became The European Summit ... so my nick should read TES_Andreas now

Sid70 · 04-14-2011, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ManuteBol

R.I.P. TexasDreams.

How did you come up with your nick?

How did you come up with that roll eye ball avatr dude in it?

TeenCat · 04-14-2011, 08:05 AM

i am a nice girl ...

seeandsee · 04-14-2011, 08:07 AM

I drinked some german soda, and company name made that is pronounced 'seeandsee' (S&S) , so i found it interesting and used it for my first registarion with funny little avatar

jimmycooper · 04-14-2011, 08:27 AM

I'm a big fan of the The O.C.

fris · 04-14-2011, 08:39 AM

its my nickname in real life

thecooze · 04-14-2011, 08:46 AM

Cause my nick is dirty :# And I like dirty things....greasy stuff.....like GFY.

Rochard · 04-14-2011, 08:51 AM

My name is Richard, and I changed the "i" in Richard to "o" and came up with "Rochard", pronounced ROCKhard. It's because I'm "always hard at work", meaning I have a stiffy or I'm a hard worker - but usually both.

ottopottomouse · 04-14-2011, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sid70

How did you come up with that roll eye ball avatr dude in it?

Think it's camgirls

Horny Dude · 04-14-2011, 08:52 AM

Because I'm one Horny Dude!

sarettah · 04-14-2011, 09:00 AM

I've used sarettah since around 94 or 95. I needed a unique username for swbell I think it was and I had the word hatteras written on a nearby piece of paper so I typed it in backwards and have been using it since.

Little did I know that it is apparently a girls name in italian.

My real name is Russ

Wizzo · 04-14-2011, 09:01 AM

I built a site for a Playboy model back in 97, a bunch of us were in Vegas and she kept telling everyone what a wizard I was at building websites. We went to the Excalibur to shoot craps and there's a little wizard on the $100 chips named Wizzo, so she started calling me Wizzo along with everyone else and nicname just stuck.

spazlabz · 04-14-2011, 09:05 AM

I got the spaz nick because I ask a LOT of questions. sometimes one answer will lead to multiple questions and I tend to get excited about good things and upset about bad things... sometimes out of proportion. The labz was added when I started a video editing/trans-coding company years and years ago (now defunct). And I liked the sound of spazlabz

CurrentlySober · 04-14-2011, 09:06 AM

Got sober, but realised that its an ongoing process...

newB · 04-14-2011, 09:14 AM

I think mine is pretty self-explanatory.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManuteBol

I am 7'7 and weighed 181 lbs when I created this nick in 2004.

My first name is manute and my last name is bol.

You look pretty good for a dead guy, but I can see in your avatar that you're a little bleached and bloated - decomp will do that to you.

MikeFold · 04-14-2011, 09:20 AM

too many guys named mike on the old ynot board
since i owned centerfolds.com and gatefold.com, it was either Ron (Cybererotica) or RB (Maxcash) started calling me MikeFold to distinguish me from the other peeps named Mike.

Funny, I still get invoices to Mike Fold as though thats my real last name.

scuba steve · 04-14-2011, 09:21 AM

nick name in college

ManuteBol · 04-14-2011, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

My name is Richard, and I changed the "i" in Richard to "o" and came up with "Rochard", pronounced ROCKhard. It's because I'm "always hard at work", meaning I have a stiffy or I'm a hard worker - but usually both.

I used to give you shit because of your car and cause I thought you were kinda creepy, but now, seeing that you are a father and your intentions are good, I am a fan of Rochard.

Have a nice day.

CaptainHowdy · 04-14-2011, 09:55 AM

My imaginary friend's name ...

Klen · 04-14-2011, 10:00 AM

I actually had two nicks registered here,but forgot pass,which is why i have different nickname on several boards.I used this nick in games,and i think it came from words of dark templars in starcraft where they were saying something like "for tel kelar"so i came with klen telar and adjusted it to klentelaris.

Amputate Your Head · 04-14-2011, 10:05 AM

Got into an argument with a dude on an MSN chatboard way back when, and said, "I will amputate your fuckin' head dude..." and began thinking, that would grab attention when I needed it and it works well shortened (Amp).... thus the name.

It's not a very interesting story and doesn't have any deep esoteric meaning, but it's the truth.

barcodes · 04-14-2011, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Altwebdesign

more to the point. .. . how did YOU? ;)

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JFK · 04-14-2011, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Got into an argument with a dude on an MSN chatboard way back when, and said, "I will amputate your fuckin' head dude..." and began thinking, that would grab attention when I needed it and it works well shortened (Amp).... thus the name.

It's not a very interesting story and doesn't have any deep esoteric meaning, but it's the truth.

another myth shattered

Amputate Your Head · 04-14-2011, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by JFK

another myth shattered

Something to note though... I've given a different story every time one of these threads pops up.

Scott McD · 04-14-2011, 10:59 AM

It's my name. The McD being McDonald. Which is funny since that's where half of the board works... ;-)

Scott McD · 04-14-2011, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Something to note though... I've given a different story every time one of these threads pops up.

Yes. You said it was a teacher who said it before.

I remembered in one of the threads and you denied it!

Amputate Your Head · 04-14-2011, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott McD

Yes. You said it was a teacher who said it before.

I remembered in one of the threads and you denied it!

I don't think i've ever given the same story twice, lol

Bama · 04-14-2011, 11:35 AM

I'm from AlaBAMA

O MARINA · 04-14-2011, 12:09 PM

you should change your nick to "O MANUTE "

SDA CASH - Banned for Life AGAIN · 04-14-2011, 12:37 PM

2003 my first nic was " eddieinaz "

2008 "sundevilangels"
which was banned due to all the hate towards my work after defending myself against
all the false claims only made by rival shooters or, companies trying to ruin my rep to only keep me shooting for them.

2011 "SDA CASH" current and hopefully last.

grumpy · 04-14-2011, 12:46 PM

cuz i just am

Loki · 04-14-2011, 01:01 PM

My nickname has been "Loki" since I was about 5 if I recall right, a family friend dubbed me that after the Norse god Loki It's a good and bad thing depending on how you look at it lol

my first nick on GFY was VDC-Loki which was for "V1rtualDesires Cash" the first incarnation of my program which then became Plane***ash.

I finally got the VDC- dropped on most boards and now am just Loki

-Loki-

u-Bob · 04-14-2011, 01:04 PM

cuz "Paul Markham" was already taken....

04-14-2011, 07:07 AM	#1
ManuteBol Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 640	How did you come up with you GFY Nick (Handle)? R.I.P. TexasDreams. How did you come up with your nick?

04-14-2011, 07:12 AM	#4
Barefootsies Choice is an Illusion Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Land of Obama Posts: 42,635	Before GFY, I typically used one of two other nicks for all of my online stuff. While I have been online since the beginning (bbs days), and in this industry since 1997, I did not really get involved on the industry boards until 2003. I simply lurked until around 2005 when I became more active, and then picked this handle based on the niche, and branding. No other reason. __________________ Should You Email Your Members? Link1 \| Link2 \| Link3 Enough Said. "Would you rather live like a king for a year or like a prince forever?"

04-14-2011, 07:24 AM	#5
Nicky Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 30,070	I used the name "Nickname" before but It got confusing so I switched to Nicky, don't know why I use either of em since my real name is Daniel lol. It's been too long to change now though. __________________ gfynicky @ gmail.com

04-14-2011, 07:27 AM	#7
Paul Markham Too old to care Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws. Posts: 52,943	I had to think long and hard about it. Was I going to call myself Paul Markham, Markham Paul of just "A crap photographer whose made lots of money. Charly was my first Nick that least a year. It was a stage name I had used in movies as an actor. __________________ Blowout deal. 880 videos, 2,400 image sets, plus many RAW videos. $500. PM me for a deal. Skype Paulmarkham70

04-14-2011, 07:39 AM	#11
fatfoo ICQ:649699063 Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 27,763	A funny nickname... Perhaps nicknames used for Quake 2... __________________ Send me an email: [email protected]

04-14-2011, 07:10 AM	#2
Altwebdesign Guest Posts: n/a	more to the point. .. . how did YOU? ;)

04-14-2011, 07:25 AM	#6
Chosen VIPPay.com \| AdultWebSponsors.com Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 63,151	Why would you want to know?

04-14-2011, 07:28 AM	#9
Ross Ik ben een aap Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Traffic Force Towers, Canada! Posts: 18,874	Its my name, as much as I hate it, its what my momma gave me!

04-14-2011, 07:39 AM	#12
Vendzilla Biker Gnome Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cell#324 Posts: 23,200	While working for Coca Cola I developed a device that load tested vending machine circuit boards, I called it Vendzilla It kinda stuck after that __________________ Webair died? Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants think about that

04-14-2011, 07:41 AM	#14
barcodes Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 2,040	When I created my first aol account back in the days of dial up, I had problems finding a good screen name. I ended up with ilibarcodesili, aol used sans serif fonts and it looked like lllBARCODESlll. This sounds ridiculous now but back then I used to customize my aol profile, make it animate etc using aols butchered version of html. Everyone who did it had a cool, hackerish sounding name and that was mine. =D I widdled it down to barcodes over time, I guess out of laziness? lol

04-14-2011, 07:44 AM	#16
shade001 Confirmed User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 396	It was the first one I used back in 2005.

04-14-2011, 07:44 AM	#17
Zuzana Designs All Your Design Needs Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: [email protected] Posts: 20,860	When I created my company I tried to think of something that was easy to remember and would stick in your head. Sarah Designs sounded silly. Z is a very unique letter that does not have that many common names starting with it that I could think of. Zoo something was what I was trying to use. I was working on cam and running a cam studio and had a model named Zuzana and fell in love with the name cause it had 2 z's in it. __________________ Website Design - Consulting - Development sarah [at] zuzanadesigns.com - See Our Work Last edited by Zuzana Designs; 04-14-2011 at 07:46 AM..

04-14-2011, 08:02 AM	#18
TBS_Andreas Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,163	Easy. TBS stands for The Barcelona Summit and Andreas is my first name. As you will all realize now: My nick is outdated, as The Barcelona Summit became The European Summit ... so my nick should read TES_Andreas now __________________ * 16-19 September 2024, ViennaHouse Diplomat Hotel & Conference Center, Prague, Czech Republic

04-14-2011, 08:05 AM	#20
TeenCat Too lazy to set a koala Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: CZ/EU forever! Posts: 16,139	i am a nice girl ... __________________ 6bot / Coming again very soon! Svit Zlin Radio 24/7!

04-14-2011, 08:07 AM	#21
seeandsee Check SIG! Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Europe (Skype: gojkoas) Posts: 50,945	I drinked some german soda, and company name made that is pronounced 'seeandsee' (S&S) , so i found it interesting and used it for my first registarion with funny little avatar __________________ BUY MY SIG - 50$/Year Contact here

04-14-2011, 08:27 AM	#22
jimmycooper Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2010 Location: Manhattan Posts: 4,016	I'm a big fan of the The O.C. __________________

04-14-2011, 08:39 AM	#23
fris Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 55,372	its my nickname in real life __________________ Since 1999: 69 Adult Industry awards for Best Hosting Company and professional excellence. WP Stuff

04-14-2011, 08:46 AM	#24
thecooze Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Westlake, CA Posts: 255	Cause my nick is dirty :# And I like dirty things....greasy stuff.....like GFY. __________________

04-14-2011, 08:51 AM	#25
Rochard Jägermeister Test Pilot Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NORCAL Posts: 74,321	My name is Richard, and I changed the "i" in Richard to "o" and came up with "Rochard", pronounced ROCKhard. It's because I'm "always hard at work", meaning I have a stiffy or I'm a hard worker - but usually both. __________________ “The choice is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy.” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders YNOT MAIL \| THE BEST ADULT MAILING SOLUTION

04-14-2011, 08:52 AM	#27
Horny Dude Earn enough to buy coffee Industry Role: Join Date: May 2002 Location: San Diego, Ca. Posts: 4,913	Because I'm one Horny Dude! __________________

04-14-2011, 09:00 AM	#28
sarettah see you later, I'm gone Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 14,127	I've used sarettah since around 94 or 95. I needed a unique username for swbell I think it was and I had the word hatteras written on a nearby piece of paper so I typed it in backwards and have been using it since. Little did I know that it is apparently a girls name in italian. My real name is Russ __________________ All cookies cleared!

04-14-2011, 09:01 AM	#29
Wizzo 2011 GFY Hall of Fame! Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Back in Texas! Posts: 15,224	I built a site for a Playboy model back in 97, a bunch of us were in Vegas and she kept telling everyone what a wizard I was at building websites. We went to the Excalibur to shoot craps and there's a little wizard on the $100 chips named Wizzo, so she started calling me Wizzo along with everyone else and nicname just stuck. __________________ Looking for Opportunity!

04-14-2011, 09:05 AM	#30
spazlabz Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Kentucky Posts: 6,548	I got the spaz nick because I ask a LOT of questions. sometimes one answer will lead to multiple questions and I tend to get excited about good things and upset about bad things... sometimes out of proportion. The labz was added when I started a video editing/trans-coding company years and years ago (now defunct). And I liked the sound of spazlabz

04-14-2011, 09:06 AM	#31
CurrentlySober Too lazy to wipe my ass Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: A Public Bathroom Posts: 38,688	Got sober, but realised that its an ongoing process... __________________ My AI Handywork... My Dream Gal... XXX 👁️ 👍️ 💩

04-14-2011, 09:20 AM	#33
MikeFold Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: semi-retired Posts: 465	too many guys named mike on the old ynot board since i owned centerfolds.com and gatefold.com, it was either Ron (Cybererotica) or RB (Maxcash) started calling me MikeFold to distinguish me from the other peeps named Mike. Funny, I still get invoices to Mike Fold as though thats my real last name. __________________ nothing to promote

04-14-2011, 09:21 AM	#34
scuba steve Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: i'm in miami bitch Posts: 1,888	nick name in college __________________

04-14-2011, 09:55 AM	#36
CaptainHowdy Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Happy in the dark. Posts: 93,682	My imaginary friend's name ... __________________ Vacares - Web Hosting, Domains, O365, Security & More - Paxum and BTC Accepted Windows VPS now available Great for TSS, Nifty Stats, remote work, virtual assistants, etc.

04-14-2011, 10:00 AM	#37
Klen Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Little Vienna Posts: 32,235	I actually had two nicks registered here,but forgot pass,which is why i have different nickname on several boards.I used this nick in games,and i think it came from words of dark templars in starcraft where they were saying something like "for tel kelar"so i came with klen telar and adjusted it to klentelaris.

04-14-2011, 10:05 AM	#38
Amputate Your Head There can be only one Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 39,075	Got into an argument with a dude on an MSN chatboard way back when, and said, "I will amputate your fuckin' head dude..." and began thinking, that would grab attention when I needed it and it works well shortened (Amp).... thus the name. It's not a very interesting story and doesn't have any deep esoteric meaning, but it's the truth. __________________ SIG TOO BIG

04-14-2011, 10:59 AM	#42
Scott McD Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 67,795	It's my name. The McD being McDonald. Which is funny since that's where half of the board works... ;-) __________________ I Buy My High Quality Traffic Here, You Should Too!

04-14-2011, 11:35 AM	#45
Bama Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Redmond, WA Posts: 2,727	I'm from AlaBAMA

04-14-2011, 12:09 PM	#46
O MARINA I'm clockin' ya, Versace shade watchin' ya Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: internet Posts: 13,795	you should change your nick to "O MANUTE "

04-14-2011, 12:37 PM	#47
SDA CASH - Banned for Life AGAIN So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Scottsdale Arizona Posts: 1,100	2003 my first nic was " eddieinaz " 2008 "sundevilangels" which was banned due to all the hate towards my work after defending myself against all the false claims only made by rival shooters or, companies trying to ruin my rep to only keep me shooting for them. 2011 "SDA CASH" current and hopefully last.

04-14-2011, 12:46 PM	#48
grumpy Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 9,870	cuz i just am __________________ Don't let greediness blur your vision \| You gotta let some shit slide icq - 441-456-888

04-14-2011, 01:01 PM	#49
Loki Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 4,420	My nickname has been "Loki" since I was about 5 if I recall right, a family friend dubbed me that after the Norse god Loki It's a good and bad thing depending on how you look at it lol my first nick on GFY was VDC-Loki which was for "V1rtualDesires Cash" the first incarnation of my program which then became Plane*ash. I finally got the VDC- dropped on most boards and now am just Loki -Loki- __________________ MAKE MONEY WITH 3D TOONS!** Need hosting? LokiCa$h Uses Amerinoc and love them! Skype: LokiPorn Or Email 3dloki\|at\|gmail.com