What's in a name?

Leupold

Referring to the charter and keeping in mind the T4BB show, Joe Duffy and the News of the world today--
From the Charter--
"* In relation to airsoft; Do not use terms such as Airgun, Pellet gun or anything which refers to a firearm. They are not the same thing. Repeat offense will result in a temporary ban. Continued use may result in longer bans or outright permanent bans."

Here are some of the names chosen by posters on this board-


My own id is the same as a maker of binoculars and scopes so it is also marginal.

Gatling

that would mean a permanent ban for me, Gatling is a common surname

Hivemind187

OP ... whats your point?

Miscreant

Hivemind187 wrote: »

OP ... whats your point?

Perhaps he should have put some of these in his post: :D:D

Cheeky monkey

It's just a name it doesn't really mean anything I doubt many people put a huge amount of thought into choosing their name

Genghiz Cohen

Maybe people chose their name THEN got into airsoft.....

Weapon, gun, bullet & terrorist!!!!

Judge dredd

I know i didn't. I needed a name and spotted the (cough)tape (VHS,i was young and dumb:D.)so used that,my first choice (OddBall) was already taken.I don't actually walk around saying;"I AM THE LAW" or drive a bigass bike(i dress as RoboCop),just as i assume Gatling doesn't go about dressed as Jesse Ventura with a cannon in his hands shouting,"I don't have time to bleed."(at least i don't think he does;) ).

bullets

My Handle goes back 10 years where I got it in work from bringing
some empty shells into work to show some interested workmates and
having a love for guns.

I also fire Real steel and posted on the shooting board before I ever
heard of airsoft.

It was my handle well before I started posting on the Airsoft Board
or shooting board. I am also into trad goth music from the 80's and
still used the Handle bullets even though it has nothing to do with music.

~B

o1s1n

Judge dredd wrote: »

I know i didn't. I needed a name and spotted the (cough)tape (VHS,i was young and dumb:D.)so used that,my first choice (OddBall) was already taken.I don't actually walk around saying;"I AM THE LAW" or drive a bigass bike(i dress as RoboCop),just as i assume Gatling doesn't go about dressed as Jesse Ventura with a cannon in his hands shouting,"I don't have time to bleed."(at least i don't think he does;) ).

Awh darn, I thought you were a big 2000AD fan or something

Mweelrea

i think the charter means more about comments not names ie: "just bought a new airgun" should read "just bought a new airsoft gun"

Alvin T. Grey

Used to write comedy. Maybe I will again someday. Alvin was a charactor I came up with. I use it because it's guarenteed not to be already taken. And TBH, I can't be arsed coming up with another one.

Miscreant

For some reason people don't like being called Miscreant so it is almost never taken. I use it as an online gaming handle too.

Fiach Dubh

I've been using Fiach (Raven) for years now on many a forum and in a lot of games. Goes back to my flightsim days.

o1s1n

Mweelrea wrote: »

i think the charter means more about comments not names ie: "just bought a new airgun" should read "just bought a new airsoft gun"

That's it yeah. I didn't write that piece into the charter with handles in mind. (Never even considered it to be honest)
You can't regulate them specifically, as boards.ie has over 1000 other forums. So like bullets said, their username could relate to another one. As he for example posts over in shooting.

Anyway, I'm going to edit out those usernames for obvious reasons. Seeing as this thread has gone the way of "discuss your handle", lets keep it at that.

Gatling

no dont even go there ,im waiting to get a Custer style us Cavalry uniform and i know where to get a hand cranked Gatling gun , every variation of my real name was taken ,and various handles were also taken

Judge dredd

o1s1n wrote: »

Awh darn, I thought you were a big 2000AD fan or something

Actually i am,But that film is a pile of s**t.come to think of it i could have called myself Zenith or Middenface McNulty or Joe Pineapples.Feeling kinda stupid now for going down the obvious route and calling myself Judge Dredd.

Masada

mine is from Honda engines, im a honda nut.,

Mweelrea

Mweelrea is Connacht's talllest mountain and is situated in Co.Mayo,climbed it last summer so the name was stuck in my head

o1s1n

Judge dredd wrote: »

Actually i am,But that film is a pile of s**t.come to think of it i could have called myself Zenith or Middenface McNulty or Joe Pineapples.Feeling kinda stupid now for going down the obvious route and calling myself Judge Dredd.

Middenface McNulty would have been a good one actually. Although you would have had to type in an extremely illegible headache inducing Scottish accent. Which would have gotten old very fast.

NakedDex

Dex comes from Dexter which has always been my nickname. Everyone just started calling me Dex in college. Noone actually uses my real name anymore, even my girlfriend calls me Dex and my mum has even been known to call me it when I'm home. The naked part comes from the time I streaked down Tullow St in Carlow on a skateboard during Rag Week in IT Carlow.



Ah treasured memories

Gatling

Judge dredd wrote: »

I,just as i assume Gatling doesn't go about dressed as Jesse Ventura with a cannon in his hands shouting,"I don't have time to bleed."(at least i don't think he does;) ).

actuly i shout i dont have time to sleep

Foxy-07

can you changer name for obvious reasons the new year coming:mad:

[--SC(+)PE--]

My handle goes back to the good old days of Counter-strike beta 6.5 and mainly Day of Defeat "beta" 1.3, Almost always sniped in DOD for like 6-7 years until DODS came out and ruined the game . Oh well airsoft is better anyway

andros

andros is island in Greek archipelago, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andros

There is also Island Andros in Cribbean and Bahamas and character from Power Rangers: In Space. lol

Hivemind187

andros wrote: »

andros is island in Greek archipelago, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andros

There is also Island Andros in Cribbean and Bahamas and character from Power Rangers: In Space. lol

And was the principal bad guy in StarFox (the mode 3 space fighter shoot 'em up on the venerable Super Nintendo) if I'm not very much mistaken.

andros

Hivemind187 wrote: »

And was the principal bad guy in StarFox (the mode 3 space fighter shoot 'em up on the venerable Super Nintendo) if I'm not very much mistaken.

I know there was some guy name Sir Edmund Andros Governor of New England.

Fallschirmjager

[--SC(+)PE--] wrote: »

My handle goes back to the good old days of Counter-strike beta 6.5 and mainly Day of Defeat "beta" 1.3, Almost always sniped in DOD for like 6-7 years until DODS came out and ruined the game . Oh well airsoft is better anyway

dod...where my name came from....i really miss dod...in fact i went to fire it up at the weekend and had a terabyte of new video drivers to dload. hate that

Tigger

Dash was gone
tigger was gone
so i use rbd is my initialls like

Masada

how come this thread didnt get closed yet for being nothing to do with airsoft.,lol good to find out where peoples usernames come from though.,

Cuddlesworth

Just one of about 8 internet handles I use. All of them came from being drunk in CS.

zero19

vtec wrote: »

mine is from Honda engines, im a honda nut.,

Civics FTW! lol my name is just something i always used in online games (zero) , no idea why lol

Shiva

When i was a wee nipper I read a book called Created: The Destroyer.

The protagonist was supposedly the reincarnation of a Hindu god called Shiva.
When I first went online with IOL way back 12 or more years ago I used that as my nickname, and I've been using it ever since.

Actually...I found this recently - my own little piece of Internet fame. Reading that made me smile...I used to stay up till all hours of the morning playing Quake with some of the guys who set up boards.ie, although I drifted away from the scene awhile before Boards came along.

Ahhh...the old days. I remember meeting Gandalf at one of the first Irish mega-LAN parties in Temple Bar.

Mweelrea

wow never knew we had the legendry game Quake to thank for boards.ie!:D

zero19

That's feckin mad that is!

Masada

jeez tony, that was 1997, back then i was 11 goin around on me BMX and hadnt even heard of this "internet" you speak of.,lol

zero19

Was 11 as well lol

Foxy-07

i was only 8 back then

Mweelrea

vtec wrote: »

jeez tony, that was 1997, back then i was 11 goin around on me BMX and hadnt even heard of this "internet" you speak of.,lol

lol shiva hope that does'nt make you feel too old!:D

ambro25

Mweelrea wrote: »

lol shiva hope that does'nt make you feel too old!:D

There's a few nippers around these parts who are still smarting from getting their @rses handed back to them on a plate by the ZeDers, so I wouldn't worry too much about us 'feeling too old'

(in 1997... I was 25 and already reformed from my previous life of debauchery )

Tigger

Shiva wrote: »

When i was a wee nipper I read a book called Created: The Destroyer.

The protagonist was supposedly the reincarnation of a Hindu god called Shiva.
When I first went online with IOL way back 12 or more years ago I used that as my nickname, and I've been using it ever since.

Actually...I found this recently - my own little piece of Internet fame. Reading that made me smile...I used to stay up till all hours of the morning playing Quake with some of the guys who set up boards.ie, although I drifted away from the scene awhile before Boards came along.

Ahhh...the old days. I remember meeting Gandalf at one of the first Irish mega-LAN parties in Temple Bar.

you must know xOn then
lol

NakedDex

Jaysus, I remember lan quake back in those days but I never went online with it. Clearly I missed out. I still have my TInet startup floppy discs at home that I got with the express intention of using the online quake features but I never did get around to it. I miss quake.

bullets

Im going WAY off topic here but Sorry I cant resist :mad::rolleyes::):D

Memories galore!!!!

I played one of the dooms with dial up and a 9600bps modem with a buddy down the street. Also Command and Conquer via dial up having to watch every minute you were on the phone line and then having your mother pick up the phone down stairs to make a call and have the connection terminated.

Games came on 5.25 inch discs and 3.5 inch ones were precious
and if you had a 720kb one you could punch a hole on one side of the
plastic and format it as a 1.44MB (Hacking F19 stealth fighter)

Downloading an A4 colour pic of Wendy James from Transvision Vamp
taking over half an hour!!!!!

Waiting on Porn pics to down load bit by bit a line at a time.....
and then failing!!!

Also back in the day where everything was posted in plain text.
and in no more than 80 characters wide.

ASCII art.

Typing ATDT and the telephone number and sometimes
having someone answer a phone instead of connecting to a POP.

Here in Limerick having to connect to UL as it was the only POP.

NO graphical interfaces/GUI's or Browsers like Mosaic they came later
only a command tool!!!!!

Rot13 for rude words.

Acronyms as characters were precious

The joy of having ONLY people that knew something about computers
being on the web and being able to freely access information without
having to pay for it or getting spammed.

Communicating with Americans and them being astonished that
there are people actually on the Internet outside of the USA.

Instead of where are you from getting asked what state are you from syndrome (and they still have not learned)

~B

Evolute

I got the name Evolute when i was playing a game called nightmist and i though hmmm cool name thought Evolution and it was taken so i used Evolute

H.O.T.A.S.

H.O.T.A.S. (Hands On Throttle And Stick) goes back to the old Aeronautical engineering days in college. Also used it for BF2 and the likes

Hivemind187

Hivemind187

Puirile self indulgent egotism combined with too much sci-fi.

... And I sometimes feel like I have a head full of bees.

Mweelrea

bullets wrote: »

Communicating with Americans and them being astonished that
there are people actually on the Internet outside of the USA.

Theres still a large amount of americans who cant believe it!:D

Spetzcong

Hivemind187 wrote: »

... And I sometimes feel like I have a head full of bees.

That'll be the long hair, I had similar troubles when I used to have dreadlocks, wash, rinse and repeat... always repeat

Hivemind187

Spetzcong wrote: »

That'll be the long hair, I had similar troubles when I used to have dreadlocks, wash, rinse and repeat... always repeat

Empire Records 1998 ... great film.