Comments on: #oneaday, Day 281: Call Me "Beast Man"

By: zegolf

zegolf — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:05:28 +0000

Like A.J., my online alias (zegolf) was an amalgam of names used almost 20 years ago when my family finally cracked down and signed up for (gasp) dial-up AOL. It's just sort of stuck. I had friends in college that didn't even realize that "zegolf" wasn't my real name. Ah...the good old days. My nickname in the latter years of college was "Old Balls" because I stuck around so long in my fraternity, I was older than most of the guys and...because I have balls. I even have a shirt with "Old Balls" on the back. Try wearing that one in public. The only other nickname I have now is something that my family calls me, "Junior," which is ironic, considering I'm not a junior at all. It's a mix of our central-Pennsylvania red-neck and Indiana Jones (we named the DOG Indiana).

By: A.J.

A.J. — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:46:56 +0000

My name is a nickname. My actual name, Armand, was sort of treated as a nickname when I was doing theater in college. Sometimes I have weird identity crises wherein I ponder that I don't "have" a name, but just a nickname. Then I remember that I never really liked the name Armand and that A.J. in infinitely cooler. Ajguy just came about as me needing an AOL screename. I'm A.J. and a guy, so it came about kinda naturally. There's also the various variants of AJ. Age, eggs (only one person calls me that), aj, and ace (Which only the kids from kindergaten called me. It's fun, cause when I run in to them these days, they'll still call me ace).

By: feenwager

feenwager — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:08:18 +0000

I do frequently get called JP in real life, not so much the other two.

My nickname I usually get at work is Big J. We have a lot of J names there and well…I'm the biggest.

By: angryjedi

angryjedi — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:15:37 +0000

In reply to feenwager. Feenwager I knew. Konrad Beezo I can't remember if I knew, but that's cool. JP I had kind of figured out. :) Do people actually call you those things anywhere other than online? I have never used Helmu and Beast Man online, actually, but people do call me them to my face.

By: angryjedi

angryjedi — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:14:48 +0000

In reply to Don Woods. Then by all means, "Don", feel free to share. :)

By: feenwager

feenwager — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:43:10 +0000

Fine. I'll play.

Feenwager: means absolutely nothing. It literally spewed from random whacks on a keyboard when I needed a name for a fictitious baseball team for a game of Tony LaRussa baseball I was playing with my roommates.

Konrad Beezo: Is the name of an evil clown from Dean Koontz' Life Expectancy, one of my favorite books. It's a cool sounding name, and it's an EVIL CLOWN. As if there were any other kind.

JP: My initials. Duh.

By: Don Woods

Don Woods — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:36:00 +0000

I'm pretty sure that you forgot to mention couple other nicknames in that post. I understand why you chose to leave them out.