Posted at January 23, 2008, 7:31 pm:
A lot of us [well, some of us] have names that differ to our actual names here on MoFo. The other day Toose gave us the meaning of his, and it got me wondering. Why the alias that we have? Why any other nicknames we may have been given, and why?
Here's my list of both Internet Aliases, and nicknames:
The Silver Bullet
This is my main one. My favorite film is Snatch and in that film you have two characters with "Bullet" in the name -- Bullet Tooth Tony and Boris the Bullet Dodger [Boris the Blade]. I decided that I'd nickname myself with this quirk -- and so I did. Now a lot more people actually call me SB or Silver Bullet than you'd think, especially teachers. Smashed [ http://www.smashed-theplay.com ] really confirmed it, because me and the director [a teacher, and one of my best friends] put Matt "The Silver Bullet" Clayfield in all the programs.
The ClayMan
This one's pretty old. I don't know why people still call me this [probably because my MSN adress is the_clayman@hotmail.com] but I still get it a bit. This one was sort of my choice too, I guess, though not as much. My first little short film I made with my friend and me made it under the banner of ClayMan Productions -- Clay from my last name and Man from his [Maney]. So yeah.
Felix
I get this one a bit still also, and I still call myself Felix on occasions. I'm a Catholic and to make my Grandma happy [it didn't both me much] I did my confirmation, which is sort of initiation into the Church. I chose the name of a Saint [as is customary] and as a joke, sort of, I chose Saint Felix. My alias for nearly a year was Felix.
MattL's
This is the only one I've never used on the Internet and I had no part in coming up with. When I was about ten I was in a friend's pool and the little girl was wanting to jump in, but she wanted someone to catch her and so they're all going "Matt'll catch you! Matt'll catch you!" and she jumped in and I caught her and she got out and wanted to jump in again and they're all going 'Matt'll catch you!! Matt'll catch you!!" and she said "I don't want Matt'll to catch me this time." This was then used by everyone and my Mum told the story to all. It developed the S I don't know how. But it did.
I'm spent.
What about you?
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