What does the nickname BBH mean? I know it ain't no business of mine, but I'm simply curious, since his real name is Matt Hall (how I found out? ICQ's white pages); if someone wants to hear my nickname's story, ask me and I'll tell you. Now, BBH, reveal us the secret ;)

-- Vaz (mrvaz@inwind.it), June 15, 2000

Answers

Bloody Big High-scores ?

Bam Bam High-scores ?

Big Big Hi.....bleh , the list is endless ?

ALEX !

p.s don`t mention secrets....just in case GB9 is reading :)

p.p.s. Ok, why ' Vaz ' ?

-- Alex Weir (alexweir@indigo.ie), June 15, 2000.

Wow, I've gone through two ICQ accounts (forgot the password to one, never use the other... probably forgot that password too), but you could've found out my name from pretty much anyone in #marp too. :) Either way, the subject line of this thread kinda concerned me when I first saw it since I thought I'd pissed someone off...

anyway. It's a long and silly story, but roughly a decade or so ago I was doodling on a book cover in school, and drew some simple little character that I really liked the look of. I have no artistic ability either, for the record. But I kept drawing that silly thing, and decided I needed a name for it. It's head resembled a bowling ball, thus Bowling Ball Head was born. Then a few months later, for some reason I was tired of entering my own initials into arcade games one day, so I just put in BBH since it's much quicker than MGH. From that day on, BBH just stuck. It became my alias when I started going on Bulletin Board Systems, and later the internet. And I have no intentions of "retiring" it any time soon...

Ok, now everyone else needs to reveal what their nicks mean :P

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), June 16, 2000.

I'm still trying to figure out why I chose mine...

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), June 16, 2000.

Heh! That is a good one! BBH! In early 80's arcade days! A friend of mine got pissed off on that day I beaten almost every games back then including Tempest! So I changed my init. to ETS! My friend was trying to figure out who was (person) ETS was until another friend told them that was me! So anyway, I had them guessing what ETS stand for a long time! Actually I retired that init. long time ago, only few people knew what that init. stand for and most of them gave up! Later....

-- Notman (notman99@yahoo.com), June 16, 2000.

My nickname comes consists of two parts.

Gameboy came from my Latin Teacher in Westminster High School(grades 10 - 12). He called me that for my ability to come up with unique games. The nickname stuck.

the number 9 comes from avoiding double nicks on the IRC channels.

You know... you load IRC - you find that the gameboy nick is already taken, so you have to take another nick... so I just threw in the number 9 permenantly, and that's what I use.

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), June 16, 2000.

Well, mine's not too hard to figure out. Look at the capital letters:

"Jedi Drunken Llama" = "J.D. Lowe"

A long time ago (insert Jedi joke here), me and my buddies were the outcasts of the school. So, since we had our own little group, we decided to come up with a name for our group. We became the "Just-Us Leak" (think "Justice League"), and we started coming up with superhero names for all of us. One of my friends was "Hades" another was "Virtual Killer", and mine was "Drunken Llama" (inspired by a sketch from Monty Python; think of the dangerous llama with John Cleese singing lead). I went home and told my mom how we all goofed around with our names. She happened to mention "Well, 'Drunken Llama', think of the initials; that could fit the JDL in your name if you just came up with something for the J.....hmmm..perhaps 'Jester', or 'Jedi'". Jedi seemed to pop out more, so it's stuck with me for the past 4-5 years!

Sincerely,

J.D. "Jedi Drunken Llama" Lowe

-- J.D. Lowe (jedidrunkenllama@hotmail.com), June 16, 2000.

Ok, it's my turn now, but beware: this is a stupid story. Until 1993 I used to enter my real initials (V.S), then I got bored with them and started looking for something more decent. I came up with nothing better than 'VXS', since it was very fast to enter. Summer 1993. Me and my friends used to play all the time Super Sidekicks 2 and that Gaelco rally game whose name I don't remember right now. Since they told me the initials I used sucked, they started to think another one for me. In the same period, one of them, without any reason (but the influence of alcohol), began to call me 'Vazco' instead of 'Vasco', so there's the great idea! Why not use 'VAZ' instead of 'VXS'? The choice was made and it remained the same (forever, I think) and it came up useful when I started playing with my first band in 1994, when we three introduced ourselves with our nicknames so, in case of a bad audience, nobody could ever find us out ;) Now you know all the story, you may have got bored but don't say I didn't warn you!

-- Vaz (mrvaz@inwind.it), June 16, 2000.

Not much of a story to mine, and it's a very lame one at that. When I started getting on IRC many years ago and had to choose a nick, I didn't have enough imagination to come up with one, so I just used my first name ("Ben Jos"). Now, since IRC doesn't allow spaces, I used an underscore: "Ben_Jos", but I noticed that everyone just called me "Ben" (which I hate), so I changed it to "BenJos". Didn't help much. Lots of people still call me "Ben". Ah well...

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), June 16, 2000.

I trust my nick "cubeman" needs no explanation.

-- Mark Longridge (cubeman@iname.com), June 16, 2000.

err....my initials / nick-name / is ' AL '. Amazingly, thats because it`s short for Alex :)

Paul Simon kindly even put it into words for me :)

AL.....( the person formerly known as ' ALEX ' )

-- Alex Weir (alexweir@indigo.ie), June 16, 2000.

hmmm, my bubble bobble inps pretty explain my nick :)

-- bubble (bubble@mail.pt), June 16, 2000.

My real name.period.

but I drunk much ,nick change to "DANGEROUS-REPLAYER".

2AM or after at office,"HARD-WORKER".not fake nick.

-- Hisa-Chan (weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp), June 22, 2000.

I suppose either of my nicks need no explanation as well.

MCP -> hmmm, that's a toughy... :)

Sniper75 -> If you don't know me or my past, it's a former occupation with the 75th Ranger Regiment (US Army). Nuff said. :)

Ron

-- Ron Corcoran (sniper75@earthlink.net), July 25, 2000.

okie my turn...

well on valentines day 1986 i was born. my mom called me david. her last name was oliver. thats how i got my name. nuff said

oh and i played a lot of dodonpachi (it's MY game - do = my initials)

-- david oliver (davedude1414@yahoo.com), August 29, 2000.

First of all:

jdllama slaps david-14 around with a large trout

That's for saying the d word ;)

Second, this thread, while mostly pointless, has been at least slightly helpful with deciphering peoples names. Now, if we can just find out why QRS calls himself that name, then I can die a happy llama :)

Third: I know, I already described my nickname, but I need to put some finishing touches to it. "J.D. Lowe" = "Jeffrey Lowe" (like I'd say my whole real name on a message board; that would get me f****d in a split second :) ). My father named me after himself, so you can tack on a "Jr." to my name when you want to :) The bad thing about being named after your father is that it gets confusing when phone calls come in asking for "Jeff". So, to clarify things, I told him that he can stick with Jeffrey, or Jeff, or whatever he wants; then I can stick with J.D.

And now you know the rest of the story. Good day!

Sincerely,

J.D. Lowe Jr. ;)

-- J.D. Lowe (jedidrunkenllama@hotmail.com), August 30, 2000.

I will not reveal what QRS stands for :) 4nuff said folks *grin*

but I can tell you my real name..Anders Hans Svensson

Cheers

QRS

-- QRS (qrs@telia.com), August 30, 2000.

We have QRS's real name documented! Quick, send the black helicopters, we'll capture him, give him the truth serum, and find out why his name is QRS!

My guess is that the letters QRS were the first ones that he could comprehend. Either that, or it's a well translated vulgarity:

ARSE

ARS

QRS

It all makes sense, doesn't it? :)

Sincerely,

J.D. "Goof off" Lowe

-- J.D. Lowe (jedidrunkenllama@hotmail.com), September 05, 2000.

Anders Svensson, easy to locate, like John Smith...

o,p,Q,R,S,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,E,d,v,

-- Tommi, Finland (tiihoto@hotmail.com), September 05, 2000.

Hahah ok.. sorry to say that neither of those explanations of QRS is right JD and Tommi..

Regards

QRS

-- QRS (qrs@telia.com), September 05, 2000.

Meanwhile, my nickname is from...

...oh wait, I'm not supposed to reveal it to you heathen.

Ashuime "Make Aaron Pieper Stop Playing Magical Drop NOW!" Rainflower

-- Ashuime Rainflower (peng@demongate.ath.cx), October 24, 2000.

Just testing, something wrong with my alfabets..

xyzoC%C$C6, CCC

-- TJT (tiihoto@hotmail.com), October 24, 2000.

It's gone worse. At my original message skandinavian alphabets were ok, now they seem to have changed, and in previous message they were really messed.

Why, what's changed?

Mika HC$kkinen?

-- TJT (tiihoto@hotmail.com), October 24, 2000.

ahhh. Ok. it's nice see these secrets. my nickname is knows for all Queen's fans. I just like the album INNUENDO, because it's the last album with Freddie Mercury alive. It's a nice album.....

And my RSM is my name. RAFAEL DA SILVA MALAQUIAS. nice too meet you! hihihi.

:)

-- INNUENDO-RSM (cihadade@bol.com.br), February 18, 2001.