where does your user name come from?

#1 · 10-09-2003 7:59pm #1

Maybe this thread's been done before but, I'm new so I don't know any better ok?
Anyway where does your user name come from?
Mine's from a song by Ben Folds Five called;
"One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces".

Antisocialiser · 10-09-2003 8:19pm

mine is from a local bands song called antisocialising and the name was originally my counterstrike name :P

sunbeam · 10-09-2003 8:24pm

Mine is the first thing that came to mind that wasn't already taken when I signed up. Didn't think I'd last this long here....

Caffine · 10-09-2003 8:40pm

mines an old name from a game i used to paly, ofc me being the dumbass i am i spelled it wrong, but its been a few years and im stuck with it now

cartman · 10-09-2003 8:40pm

mine comes from a festively plump guy in southpark..Goes by the name of cartman,
he kicks ass

cartman

Tusky · 10-09-2003 9:04pm

Tusky...Tusk.... like a BIG STRONG FIERCE SCARY TUSK ! that would keel you without a second thought.... + a y

Raz · 10-09-2003 9:17pm

Anyone remember Motor Mouth?? Saturday morning 'going live type' programme? 'Bout 12 or 13 years ago?
Remember those little video games where the person played with their phone buttons?
Remember Joe Razz?
Friend of mine in primary school thought I looked like him (and I liked to jump and climb about the place too!) It's stuck from then. I've used variation called KakaRaz from my Dragonball Z phase

and Joe-Raz or Joe_Raz for different things.
You wouldn't think there was so much behind those 3 little letters.
I've only ever used one other nick. Psycho9 (Psycho was taken so I put in a number like all noobs do

) I thought it was cool

Funky · 10-09-2003 9:22pm

well i thought in my 11 year old days hey , FunkyChicken , thats a funny internet alias , till i realised it was a dance and so i shortened it to Funky or FunkyC

Repli · 10-09-2003 9:22pm

I remember playing some fighting game and 1 of the guys was called Replicon.. I gues this is just a shortened version

LoneGunM@n · 10-09-2003 9:23pm

I used to be on http://www.maxed-ie.net all the time & I drive a Fiesta, so I used PhatFiesta there & now everywhere!!

DMT · 10-09-2003 9:36pm

Donkey Muscle Tonic

Creamy Goodness · 10-09-2003 9:37pm

Neil Cremins my name hence Cr3m0

CuLT · 10-09-2003 9:44pm

It's all in the profile...

Kalina · 10-09-2003 10:10pm

It's a character name in an Elyne Mitchell novel. Simple.

Barry Aldwell · 10-09-2003 10:44pm

Though this fact may shock you to the point of death, I can exclusively reveal that my username is in fact

*CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC*

MY REAL NAME!

jesus_thats_gre · 10-09-2003 11:05pm

I wanna change mine, sorta missing a few chars

Gordon · 10-09-2003 11:12pm

Would those chars be en?

My nick comes from this guy I know, he's fantastic.

clansman · 10-09-2003 11:38pm

the iron maiden song...

suppafly · 10-09-2003 11:48pm

Mine comes from JoeCartoon.com . The cartoon with the beer flies in it. I think Joe cartoon is the funniest is ever!

mr_angry · 11-09-2003 12:02am

Mine comes from just being generally angry. Not all the time, but I seem to come out with unusually psychotic statements now and again. In between, I'm a pacifist though.

For example, one time myself and my friends were sitting in the DKIT canteen. For the past few days, people had been stealing our seats while we were up getting food, but on this particular day, we'd been lucky. Anyway, nobody had talked for about 10 minutes - we'd all been busy eating. It began to become obvious though, and one of my mates said "What's everyone been thinking about for the last 10 minutes?". The other guys said something fairly normal, but when it came to me, I said "I wonder how threatening it would be to go up to someone who'd stolen your chair, wielding a plastic fork, and say 'Its a good job they don't give us metal cutlery in the canteen', in a very sinister way". People seemed to be very worried about that, for some reason. It was just an idle daydream...

Anyway, that's where mr_angry came from. The 4 was just because mr_angry was already taken. It was probably me, and I'd just forgotten I'd registered already. Still, made me angry. Grrr...

passive · 11-09-2003 12:06am

the placebo song "passive agressive". it was my display name during a whiny/angry at the world time...then i moved on to just whiny so i ditched the "agresssive". and here ya go

Ro: maaan! · 11-09-2003 12:20am

I'm thinking the missing digits are "a" and "t". I think everyone should have a guess...

My name's Ronan. If you write it into a phone, predictive text makes Roman of it. Then it's a simple process of seperating it into two words, throwing in an extra "a" or two in the second word, and jazzing it up with a ":" and a "!". Sounds rather good on me...

blondie83 · 11-09-2003 12:23am

Mine came from the colour of my hair, although I suppose you already all guessed that one!:D

mr_angry · 11-09-2003 12:42am

the placebo song "passive agressive". it was my display name during a whiny/angry at the world time...then i moved on to just whiny so i ditched the "agresssive". and here ya go

Wow, so there are other Placebo fans in Ireland? And I thought we were a dying breed...

feylya · 11-09-2003 12:56am

Star Wars book. Borsk Fey'Lya, a Bothan senator. Apparently. Very hairy, sneaky, backstabbing soab.

skittishkitten · 11-09-2003 1:04am

My Yahoo ID ...... I've had it for along time

Cabaal · 11-09-2003 1:08am

I've used a number of nicks in my time, but Cabaal comes for the name of the Nod computer in C&C Tiberian Sun.

Also it has something to do with spirits or something and its also a group/collection but I believe that Cabaal is spelled differently.

Right bed for me...

Redshift · 11-09-2003 1:14am

Well I'm into astronomy and Redshift is a term for a technique used for measuring the speed at which other stars are moving away from us blah blah blah;)

Mercury_Tilt · 11-09-2003 1:17am

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ColinM · 11-09-2003 2:31am

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
i used to make bombs for the provos.

I was quite good at it.

thus my name.

I had often wondered about your name actually, but I don't know you so I didn't think it would be right to ask.

I suppose I assumed it meant nothing really, but it struck me as a quite "poetic" sounding phrase. Well now I know - cheers!

ixoy · 11-09-2003 2:52am

Mine is ixoy, coming from ixianboy, a nick I've used for many years. Ixianboy is, essentialy, an Ixian boy, or someone from Ix. Ix was a planet in all the Dune books. Can I sleep now... I've been drinking...

Mossy Monk · 11-09-2003 4:02am

Mossy Monk came about one night when i was watchin tv and i saw a statue of a monk covered in what looked like moss. so there

sod · 11-09-2003 8:37am

my initials, the folks should've called me Gary or Ger.

Sleipnir · 11-09-2003 8:48am

pretty obvious really (?)

Kananga[kunang´gu] Pronunciation Key, formerly Luluabourg[lOOlwabOOr´] Pronunciation Key, city (1984 pop. 298,693), capital of Kasai-Occidental prov., S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the Lulua River. It is the commercial and transportation center of a region where cotton is grown and diamonds are mined. The city was founded in 1884 by the German explorer Hermann von Wissmann. In 1895, Batetela troops stationed there revolted after their chief was executed by authorities of the Belgian-run Independent State of the Congo. At first successful, the mutineers were finally defeated in 1901. Kananga grew rapidly in the early 20th cent. with the coming of the railroad. Many Luba people settled there and became economically dominant over the indigenous Lulua people. After the Congo achieved independence (1960), there were violent clashes between the Luba and Lulua, and many Luba fled to the short-lived (1960–61) Mining State of South Kasai. In 1961–62, the city was held by rebel troops from Equateur prov.

Can you see the link?
If you do please tell me.

Mercury_Tilt · 11-09-2003 9:19am

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Shinji · 11-09-2003 9:24am

Cor, you learn new things every day. Before opening this thread...

1) I did not know that merc played CS

2) I had somehow never copped that Funky is the same bloke as FunkyChicken from all those years ago (assuming that he actually is).

My education continues apace!

Er, anyway - mine comes from an anime character, unsurprisingly enough. It was relatively unique when I started using it (about 1995-ish), but since then the series has been released in the USA and Europe and the net is flooded with Shinjis

Mac daddy · 11-09-2003 10:05am

i have a whole load of bitches from there mac daddy

loismustdie · 11-09-2003 10:18am

family guy - a programme something like the simpsons
lois = marge
stewie = maggie

stewie on lois qoute - "it's not so much that i want to kill her, but i don't want her to be alive anymore"*

stewie meets death (da grim reaper) - "i'm your biggest fan. email me - loismustdie, all one word, at yahoo.com"*

* qoutes are doubtfully direct

LegacyUser · 11-09-2003 10:23am

just a nic thats guaranteed not to be registered on any site anywhere on the web

aodh_rua · 11-09-2003 10:25am

Aodh_Rua = Red Hugh - a late 16th early 17th century O'Donnell chieftain who along with Hugh O'Neill were the last gaelic chieftains defeated by the English, but who almost succeeded in defeating them first.

(I'm an O'Donnell too ya see)

Wook · 11-09-2003 10:32am

1:'Wook' as in the woman's loud scream when i walk into a bar.
2:'Wook' as in the noise of me slapping her ass
3:'Wook' as in ,'you are 'wooked'.
4:etc

Imposter · 11-09-2003 10:41am

From my quake days in college.

I thought the other guys playing might think it was someone who was good having a laugh and leave me alone. But no.
..it was a good plan while in my head at least!

irishman_abroad · 11-09-2003 10:43am

I was in Oz back in 2000 when I signed up to yahoo and it stuck

dudara · 11-09-2003 10:45am

dudara, name of a giant in irish legend, allegedly lived in a cave on my family's farm. Been using this name ever since I started surfing yonks ago. It's very unique.

if you ever see dudara anywhere else, it's most likely me.

TUTS · 11-09-2003 10:47am

TuTs : Comes from my surname, every fella i know with the surname Tuohy is called TuTs. (In the West anyway)!:D

fisty · 11-09-2003 10:48am

i fist dead people.
formerly Fisty-McFist shortened to save bandwidth.

dudara · 11-09-2003 10:51am

fisting frenzy!!

Kappar · 11-09-2003 11:19am

I was looking around the room for a name and seen a pair of Kappa shoes and said i'll use that but i was gone <shock and aww>

so i added the first letter of my name after it and BINGO

P.S I didn't first use it on boards so i don't know if there is a kappa