Where'd you get your Username from?

Pyr0 · 22-08-2007 4:52pm

Ah I can only ruin the last part B-k ! But I'll keep it to myself

Could think of a name for online gaming, so my dad did it for me

Pyro.

Starmix · 22-08-2007 4:56pm

I was eating a packet of Haribo Starmix when I signed up !

That simple!

Terry · 22-08-2007 4:58pm

From Theodoric, which was the direct source of Derek and Dietrich, but gave rise to Terry through the Norman French name Thierri (also the source of the modern French Thierry).

Or I was named after my cousin.

Pighead · 22-08-2007 4:59pm

Terry wrote:

From Theodoric, which was the direct source of Derek and Dietrich, but gave rise to Terry through the Norman French name Thierri (also the source of the modern French Thierry).

Or I was named after my cousin.

Where did julep come from then? By the way, is it just Pighead or have you become much mellower and carefree since the namechange?

Crumble Froo · 22-08-2007 5:04pm

it's short for naroclepticinsomniac, but boards wouldnt let me use a name that long *glares at boards*.

story behind *that* name is i suffered for years with insomnia, and if i got 1-3 hrs sleep a night, i was doing well. consequently, id often nod off during class. after one particularly amusing incident involving nodding off during a lecture and a friend christened me narcoleptic insomniac, which is kinda cool cos it's often shortened to N I ie ni, which are the first two letters of my name anyway, so thats also purdy kewl.

Karl Hungus · 22-08-2007 5:06pm

Karl Hungus was the name that the main German nihilist, Uli Kunkle (Played by the amazing Peter Stormare) used in the porno film Maude showed The Dude in The Big Lebowski.

I'm a big fan of the film.

Zapp Brannigan · 22-08-2007 5:06pm

From Futurama, easy.

redfacedbear · 22-08-2007 5:09pm

A semi-literal translation of my name as gaeilge

AlmightyCushion · 22-08-2007 5:15pm

All right, it all started back in my second year of college. One of our subjects was web design and half way through the year the lecturer gave us a project to design a web site. The website could be on anything you like as long as it met certain criteria such as minimum number of pages, minimum number of photoshoped images and the like.

It wasn't long before people had their ideas. Most were based on things that interested that particular person but I was still at a loss at to what to do my website on and the time was ticking.

Then we stumbled on to the scientology website and found the personality test stored within. For a laugh a few of us decided to complete it. It returned some shíte about how we were clinically depressed and borderline psychopathic, sociopathic serial killers. We ignored the nonsense this test spouted at us and laughed heartily at it while we slaughtered a small group of orphans.

After feeding the remains to the people who looked on in despair at our depraved act, it hit me (no not my conscience). "I've got it, I've got the idea for my website" I screamed with glee as I wiped the orphans blood off my brow. "What is it?" a friend of mine asked inquisitively as he forced a shovel-load of organs and intestines down the throat of some pour innocent bystander. I told him I was going to make my own cult based loosely on scientology and make a website about that. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. Naturally being of sound mind my friend disagreed, but that didn't stifle my plan in the slightest.

I realised that this cult would need a God, but not some brilliant and all powerful creature but some thing that would never you would never associate with power. After much thought I decided that a golden almighty cushion that hailed from the planet Eularia should be the God of this cult.

Not long after that I signed up for boards and stuck for a name I went with TheAlmightyCushion but it was three characters too long so I got rid of the 'the' at the beginning at that as they say is that.

J.S. Pill · 22-08-2007 5:16pm

A wordplay on 19th century Liberal philosopher J.S. Mill. The 'Pill' part alludes to my penchant for mind benders - aren't I the f**king clever inter-lectual type b*stard

chopperbyrne · 22-08-2007 5:18pm

Chopper is my nickname.

Byrne is my surname.

Put them together and you have my username.

6th · 22-08-2007 5:21pm

Pighead wrote:

Where did julep come from then? By the way, is it just Pighead or have you become much mellower and carefree since the namechange?

I noticed that too. A change truly is as good as a rest.

singlehoh · 22-08-2007 5:24pm

I am single and hard of hearing ( hoh in short ) so I picked my username as singlehoh

Steez · 22-08-2007 5:29pm

"You know my Steez"
It's from a Gangstarr tune

Terry · 22-08-2007 5:36pm

julep?

No idea what you're talking about.*

As for me becoming more mellow, I'm probably a bit more lenient with the ban stick, but don't ****ing push me, bitch.

*it was written on a piece of paper beside me when I signed up.
"Terry" had already been taken, but one of the nice admin folk decided to give me usage of this particular moniker as the previous owner had never posted.
In saying that, it was probably me who signed up with that name and never posted, then forgot all about it.

biko · 22-08-2007 5:42pm

Steve Bantu Biko

bronte · 22-08-2007 5:42pm

I'm fond of the writings of Emily Bronte, hence the old username there.

sioda · 22-08-2007 5:43pm

My name in Irish simple

Zzippy · 22-08-2007 5:47pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

Karl Hungus was the name that the main German nihilist, Uli Kunkle (Played by the amazing Peter Stormare) used in the porno film Maude showed The Dude in The Big Lebowski.

I'm a big fan of the film.

Which one, the porno or The Big Lebowski???

OP, I was obviously in a totally uninspired and unimaginative mood, and I like ice cream in a cone, with a flake

Holsten · 22-08-2007 5:50pm

Holsten beer, there was a Holsten glass infront of me when I registered.

22-08-2007 5:56pm

My favourite numbers. I like 0 and 1 so much, I used them twice.

admiralofthefleet · 22-08-2007 5:57pm

chopperbyrne wrote:

Chopper is my nickname.

Byrne is my surname.

Put them together and you have my username.

you wouldnt be chopper the dj that plays with mick fitz by any chance?

chopperbyrne · 22-08-2007 5:59pm

No, that's not me.

Karl Hungus · 22-08-2007 6:02pm

AlmightyCushion wrote:

All right, it all started back in my second year of college. One of our subjects was web design and half way through the year the lecturer gave us a project to design a web site. The website could be on anything you like as long as it met certain criteria such as minimum number of pages, minimum number of photoshoped images and the like.

It wasn't long before people had their ideas. Most were based on things that interested that particular person but I was still at a loss at to what to do my website on and the time was ticking.

Then we stumbled on to the scientology website and found the personality test stored within. For a laugh a few of us decided to complete it. It returned some shíte about how we were clinically depressed and borderline psychopathic, sociopathic serial killers. We ignored the nonsense this test spouted at us and laughed heartily at it while we slaughtered a small group of orphans.

After feeding the remains to the people who looked on in despair at our depraved act, it hit me (no not my conscience). "I've got it, I've got the idea for my website" I screamed with glee as I wiped the orphans blood off my brow. "What is it?" a friend of mine asked inquisitively as he forced a shovel-load of organs and intestines down the throat of some pour innocent bystander. I told him I was going to make my own cult based loosely on scientology and make a website about that. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. Naturally being of sound mind my friend disagreed, but that didn't stifle my plan in the slightest.

I realised that this cult would need a God, but not some brilliant and all powerful creature but some thing that would never you would never associate with power. After much thought I decided that a golden almighty cushion that hailed from the planet Eularia should be the God of this cult.

Not long after that I signed up for boards and stuck for a name I went with TheAlmightyCushion but it was three characters too long so I got rid of the 'the' at the beginning at that as they say is that.

tl;dr