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[Ozy_y2k]

Yes but Giskard wins FOREVER because he has an honest-to-Spinal Tap UMLAUT in his name.

[misery_of_pain]

Many moons ago, in Yahoo GOTH CHAT!!! I started talking to f******l. My username at the time was angel_****_***** (omg it was lame) so I said to f******l, "I need a new name". He said "misery of pain" and I said... "ok". The end

Don't ask me what it means because I really have no idea. f******l doesn't know either... But I liked it and it's stuck ever since. Altho, now I'm starting to use my secret agent name, Siobhan (my real middle name, for those of you at the back, it's pronounced Shee-vorn) Misery.

*name's censored to avoid embarrassment

[oliverkeers13]

OK. Now while you may be able to guess where the oliverkeers bit of my handle comes from fairly easily (if you can't, then how are you even able to read this?) But the 13 is a bit more cryptic.

It all started a few years ago...
I was trying to sign up to some site or other, and I didn't have an email address at the time (I hardly ever went online back then). They required email confirmation etc. but would only send the email once. I entered various combinations of oliverkeers, oliver_keers, and oliver-keers. Unfortunately, I managed to screw them all up. However, as I was 13 at the time (and 13 is the coolest number) i suffixed it to my email address. I use the same username on every site I register for. Why? It's hard enough to remember 50 passwords, several pin numbers, and where I live, so why confuse matters. Anyway, I sort of like it. It's enigmatic and provides me with anonymity

[Atrophied]

Now, should I cross-post, or just link to my original post... Hmm, decisions, decisions... Cross post it is!

Atrophied (pronounced at-roh-fid).
Cunningly stolen from an XBox LIVE user, 'cause I thought it sounded cool for a self confessed gaming geek like myself. A very cunning stunt indeed . It means the wasting away of muscles due to lack of use. (Such as Uma Thurman at the start of Kill Bill). Basically playing on my ability to sit in front of a screen for (lots and lots of) hours at a time without my eyes bugging out.

/me has been known to go for a 30+hr stint of XBox at one time.

Speaking of video games... the best melee weapon in any game EVER was the DAMN AXE in Quake -- Ka-DUNK --

[cyberinsekt]

Cyberinsekt has been my primary online name for several years now.

I used to be a regular in several of the more... unruly Usenet newsgroups. These were places where bad behaviour was positively encouraged. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and all that malarkey. Finally, I tired of it, and decided to leave it all behind me. In the process, of course, I'd also have to leave my tarnished old screen name behind, the one that had seen me good for more years online than I care to mention.

Being a long-time fan of The Fall, the choice of a new name seemed obvious. Their album, The Unutterable had recently been released, and it seemed that nobody else had cottoned on to the fact that the track Cyber Insekt had the makings of a great moniker. From then on, I've crawled the online infoweb with pride.

[sequoya]

Contrary to popular belief, I didn't name myself after the founder of the Cherokee alphabet, the tree that was named after him or even Agent Sequoia from the first Aware ARG.

I actually got the name because four or five years ago I was in desperate need of inspiration for a forum name for a games website, and at the time I happened to be reading The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester (an author who I love, although my favourite of his is actually The Stars My Destination), the main character of which is called Sequoya Guess (who was in turn named after the Cherokee inventor dude). I liked the sound of the name, and it's stuck ever since.

[Incitatus]

[konamouse]

[u05mpb]

Well when I started uni (wow - that was like, 6 years ago! Doesn't feel that long!), my uni email address was a randomly generated u05mpbSPLATabdn.ac.uk.

I just kinda adopted the u05mpb part becuase everytime I tried to register for anything it said the username I had chosen was already taken, but u05mpb is never already taken

[sequoya]

[Puppy_Zwolle]

I'm using this handle for some 5 years now. Previous names were something like DMP (dead meat puppy) Puppy_Emimf (eat me I'm food) You get the picture.
(In those days I ones scored a 20-3 solo victory against 5 player-team in Quake II. Still proud of that.)

Puppy-The one part that always stayed the same in all my gaming and online use. It lulls most into believing I'm nice. I am, really.

Zwolle- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwolle the place where I live at the moment.

I actually got mail delivery refusal from a friend when I just moved to Zwolle. Reason? He knew nobody in Zwolle that owned a dog.

[Sporky]

Heh, my username is.....well, it doesn't really mean anything.

I find the word 'spork' amusing, and my little sister's nickname is Sporky. I didn't want to sign up here with the name I usually do on forums (it seemed out of place for some reason) so I was an unoriginal little sod and stole my sis's name

[lordscrubb]

Well my nick comes from a lovely little story

Long Long Ago In a Galaxy Far Far away(well it was only an hour from me but anyway moving on)

I was on Holiday with my brother two friends and my girlfriend.After our evening meal, a few hands of poker and copious amounts of alcohol I felt the need for a walk to relieve a particular urge , to assist with that urge I politely invited my girlfriend to accompany myself on the aforemetioned walk. To my dismay everybody accepted and came along. Unpreturbed by this I continued a bit further than the rest of the group with my girlfriend and proceded to love her very much. From that point on I have had to live with my nickname being Scrubba as in I will do it anywhere even in the Scrub (My mother even uses this name although she thinks I got it for other reasons)

During the past 10 years I have tried to do numerous stupid things to try to shake the nick name but to no avail.

When I signed up here I needed a nick and in a piss poor attempt to add some dignity to my RL nick name I added the lord bit.

As a post script to my little story I did marry my girlfriend and she is constantly running around the house yelling...........DAMN AXE(I am trying to break the world record for the most overused joke in one thread)

[Kjartan]

I've been forced to abandon a handfull of usernames created with musical references describing my taste of the hour (or semi-decade as the case may be) first I was known as the £îZÅrd KìNg in the gloriouis BBS days.

Then one fateful day all of these darned computers got hooked up*, and folks like me ran into other folks like me using the same handle and dang near every other folk like me turned out to be a raving jackinape.

So, in order to protect my good name (or actually, in order to surrender my bad name), I moved on to a slightly more hippy handle St_Stephen, which worked wonderfully for a handful of years until I came to the glorious revelation that if I actually went to bed before 5 am, I could go to class and do well. This stroke of brilliance led me to visiting my irc hangouts at a more reasonable time, say 1 or 2 am. Where I met my mortal enemy St_Stephen. Thus began a battle of handle theivery and camping the likes of which has never been bragged of before.

Alas, I was eventually vanquished when I abandoned the internet for a year. (No way in hell was I using dial up after my connection at uiuc).

So, when I finally slunk back into the internets with my tail between my legs (and a nice phat cable pipe), I needed a new nickname.

Thus I chose Kjartan after the well-known and much belovèd Kjartan son of Olaf the Peacock from the ever-popular icelandic saga of the people of Laxdaela, wherein a Mr. Thorgils Hallason gets hit in the foot with a DAMN AXE.

I'm so sorry... but it's true





* Am I the only person in the galaxy from back in the day that still thinks <g> is much cooler than ? Does anyone else remember that?

[Nightmare Tony]

And as a wierd coincidence, my handle also comes from the same genesis as Imbri's. Got a haunted house and our name mascot is the Night Mare, so it is called Nightmare Park. Another fun Xanth reader, and it seemed the good idea at the time.

Anyhoo, picture of my very own Night Mare at www.nightmarepark.com....

Imbri, thanks for reminding me where it all came from. Been so busy, I doth forget...