Hi all
I was just wondering how everybody thought up your nickname to come on this forum.
We all have our own so i shall tell you how i got mine.I was searching google for Madrid and up came this site. It said sign up here and whilst thinking about it put in billy the man because that was the first name i could think of. Before i knew it i was signed up as billy the man which is not what i would have been liked to have been called but never mind. It taught me to read all the rules for any other forum im on.
If you go on other forums you would recognize me under a differant name

Hi billy the man! I'm MadridMan! :jump:

billy the man, you can always change your username - don'tcha know - by going into your "my profile" and changing it there. But, of course, if you change it now we may not recognize you.

Saludos, MadridMan

Ive made my choice i shall just have to live with it (maybe it will grow on me in time)

I just put my name as I was given it at birth, but no-one still calls me that, not even my mum, it just gets shortened to Sally. My Dad chose my name and i'm named after the salvation army (oh joy:()

Hi, I was nicknamed la duque when I got married and it stuck.
My given name is Lisa Aragon and my married apellido is Duque,
so la duque is my initials and last name, and since i'm the feminine part of this Duque union, the "la" sort of stuck .

Booklady signifies my gender and my profession as a librarian. Not very imaginative, I'm afraid.

Well, I was planning a trip to Madrid in July of 2001 when I found this website......ergo GoMadrid.

That first trip was the launchpad for our adventure of living in Madrid for three months in 2002.

I live in New York City. Most people have heard of it and know where it is.

Also I use it on other websites too.

Bill

Neil is my named when i was born, my father named me after the man on the moon Neil Amstrong and the three singers Neil, in which my dad loves their music, Neil Diamond, Neil Young and Neil Sedaka,

Strauss... the musician,
23 is my fav number...
so came out neilstrauss23. and recently i just known a writer name Neil Strauss...

oh my!!!

I'm a fan of the California football team. GO BEARS!

In my case it's a combination of where I come from and what I am.

NO&DO is an emblem from Sevilla that means "No me ha dejado", "Did not abandon me, did not betray me or did not desert, did not leave me"

Apparently King Alfonso X had some power dispute with his heir and some cities took sides on the revolting side but not Sevilla which stayed true to the King and sought refuge and protection there.

In order to understand it you'd have to know that the Spanish word for wool skein is "Madeja" which is simbolized by that peculiar number-eight-looking-thing symbol "&"

So, in Spanish "No&Do" reads "No madeja do" which sounds very close to the propper "No me ha dejado" with the meaning above.

Pretty easy, eh? It's everywhere in Sevilla.

And the Yankaluz is a combination of my own for Yankee and Andaluz. Yankee's still almost a synonym to an American from USA regardless of how deep in the woods of the south you might be from,,, ironic but true,,, so there you have it. No&Do Yankaluz (Sevillano Americano-Andaluz) o algo asi,,, hahaha.... but you can call me Tony for short, OK.

Tony.

FLIPPIN HECK i need a lie down after that answer

I took a cake decorating class with some friends and discovered edible cake 'sparkles'. Kind of like glitter that you can eat. Needless to say it went on everything I made...

So I am now sparkalina!

Maybe someone can answer me a question ... Why is it that forums / discussion boards use these nicknames .
I've met quite a few people from this message board when they've come to Madrid and have usually had a quick initial introduction .. names etc... And it confuses me ! I'm not sure which "real" names fit which message board nicknames !
Maybe i'm just getting old !

Steve .

a lot of it is to hide the identity of the person writing the post, we have a cricket forum going at home and the people write stuff just to cause an argument on the forum and then hide behind the nickname calling clubs/personal ,get everybody annoyed and then never post anymore topics, or relog in as another name and start all over again

I became the Admiral of the Sunken Fleet because I was sinking ships to build artificial reefs. So, I added a year when a lot of ships were sunk in the past, just to pay homage to those who had gone before me.

Well I guess steve robinson will not get confused if we ever meet. Vicki is the nickname for my given name Victoria. That is what all of my friends call me so I picked it for this forum. Terribly uncreative on my part.

Man, putting up a post just to start an argument? Those lads need to get some therapy, work out some issues, and grow up. Just a suggestion.

am i missing something?

admiral44, to whom are you referring???

I'm a bit confused too Admiral44 ?

I can't say I speak for admiral44, but I interpreted his post as a reply to billy the man's note about his cricket forum and the people who argue on that particular page.

ahhh!!! right now i understand
if that is the post then i fully agree with the admiral and a lot of it is the youngsters writing in (and its one of my pet hates) TEXT, and to generaly come on to stir up trouble and then hide behind the alias,
anyway back to the topic any more explanations for your nicknames i must admit there are some fascinating theorys of how people get their aliases brilliant keep them coming

Well, my nickname was given to me by my wife. She called me her big bear because of my bearhugs she used to love. I also enjoy astronomy and I thought that ursa major would match my nickname but it sounded too feminine, so I changed it to OsoMajor.

BTW, NO&DO...I really like your nickname. Regarding the use of the word Yankee to refer to Americans even Southerners. Yes, it's a reference to all Americans from outsiders, but as a native Texan, I can tell you right now that no Texan would ever call himself a Yankee!

Sorry, I was out of touch for a few days.

Yeah, I meant that people who start arguments for the fun of it are immature, silly, wasting our time. Sorry for the confusion. At present, I have not arguments with anyone (except myself).

Saludos!

Saludos a todos. Some interesting stories on nicknames and how you chose them. I liked Sparkalina the best, it made me laugh. As for me and my nickname, it is a combination of my ancestry. My parents moved to Canada from Spain many years ago and I was born and live in Canada although I also hold Spanish citizenship(very handy). So, I just combined them to create my alter-ego CAN SPAN. I think it is an alright nick though it reminds me of some sort of trucking or moving company.

,,,and I thought that it was a typo for being Hawaiian...