What's behind your nicknames?

[bacterio]

bacterio : one of the protagonist of "mortadelo & filemon", he seems to be russian and a bit crazy hehehh


http://www.mortadeloyfilemon.com/personajes/protas.asp

[Hippo]

Mine is a Nickname I've had since a kid, it comes from my surname (last name) and not from my size

[Mixeur]

[debs3759]

[vinicio]

My name

[gshv]

First letter of my first name and three letters of my last name.

Gennadiy

[Marcin]

Marcin = name (same as Martin in other countries LOL)
Majewski = surname

It wasn't difficult to guess

[jd]

Strange you ask about this name, GlinGlin ! It's actualy a cheer that we revived from an old Clan name! Here's some of it's history:

The Knights of Glin have a landholding in Western Limerick Co, Ireland, on the south shore of the Shannon River. The family name "Fitzgerald" (Fils du Gerald, i.e Son of Gerald") is of Norman origin.

In the early 1600's under Elizabeth I, England set about enforcing loyalty in the western parts of Ireland. When one of her ships came up to the Knight of Glin's castle on the Shannon, a fierce battle ensued. The ship's captain managed to capture one of the Knight's sons and sent the Knight a message that he should surrender or else the son would be put in one of the ship's cannons and fired against the castle wall. The Knight reportedly sent the reply, "Fire away, there's plenty more where he came from!"

Apparently the Knights eventually swore loyalty to the English crown and became Protestants; none of the surrounding peasants followed suit, they remained Roman Catholic - a division which remains to this day in the town of Glin.

The "old castle" of Glin - the scene of the above battle - is a ruin. The tower still stands in Glin with a historic plaque in place. After the destruction of the old castle, the Knights built the "New Castle" - a beautiful Georgian Mansion - on the banks of the Shannon about a mile west of the old site. The current Knight still lives there (as well as in Dublin and London).


...so as we can see, some names/expressions do live on ...forever!



Glin

[mtx500]

mtx500 was my second computer, the Memotech MTX 500. 'Memotech' is also in the name of my email address and my website. I still have this computer, although heavily modified. For some infos about this computer, see e.g. http://www.mtxworld.dk/.

[samnmax]

When I was a child and played Sam & Max: Hit the road, I liked the way they named the executable: samnmax.exe
That's it. I like it, it's almost a palindrome.