
Originally Posted by
shazza
In middle of 2000, a friends mother of mine started calling me "shaz" or "shazza" and I enjoyed it (unaware that it's a nickname for Sharon). I joined here in November 2000, added the pokemaster prefix so I'm in tune with a Pokemon theme. As for 2000, well, it was the year 2000 and '2000' sounded awesome.
I changed it to shazza by 2002, and shazza has primarily been my online pseudonym (I've also had Geovicsha and jeeves), and sometimes shazza4life and shazzatpm. During like 2004-2006, many of my friends started calling me shazza or shaz, but this has generally stopped now.
...Riveting tale.