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Started by Haids1987, July 04, 2010, 02:54:36 AM

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tessspoon

Made mine up when I was twelve or so. Was trying to think of a username for Neopets, and my mom had left a wooden spoon on the office desk (something to do with my sister's girl scouts project), so  I just added spoon to my name (which is just Tess, not short for anything) :P

Haids1987

Wow, guys, cool stories. :)  I'm really digging reading about them!
STATUS:
-Drinking water
-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
Erica Reed is Katie Hallahan.
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koko_99_2001

Mine came from my email address. I got the Koko from "The Cat Who..." series by Lilian Jackson Braun. The _99_2001 came from needing random numbers when I initially set up my email in 2000 XD
<3 Happily married to FataliOmega since July 11, 2009 <3

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Catherine DaCosta

GwydionAE

For once, mine is pretty obvious!  The "AE" gets tacked on when "Gwydion" is taken, no real reason for it - I'd just seen TitanAE and swiped it for a name I knew wouldn't be taken.

I chose Gwydion, however, as my first email account.  I wanted to "surprise" a friend of mine by sending her puzzles to figure out my "true identity!".  I chose "gwydion-3" as I loved KQ6/Alexander at the time - and I'd just bought her a copy - but I thought a direct reference would be too obvious.  So "Gwydion" for his other name and "3" referencing which game he first appeared in.

...of course she knew all along it was me and never bothered with the puzzles.  Never even played the game. :P  But I loved the name, so it stuck.

And it makes me feel quite appropriate to be a "Wizard's Slave", lol.
Finally a place where no one will ask me what my screenname means or how to pronounce it!

Delling

I named my laptop Ygg, which is a name of Odin, because I was really into Norse mythology at the time....

Then, I joined the forums but being called "Ygg"(which literally means "the terrible one" and had figuratively come to mean my laptop that had video card issues and turned itself off a lot and was just in general terrible (I mean boxbot-terrible, not Odin-wielding-Gungnir-terrible)) did not appeal to me. I considered using a different name of Odin (Havi, which means "bright one" for instance... or Baleyg or Bileyg or Gangleri or Gagnrad or...) but ultimately went with Delling, the Norse god of the dawn, more or less completely unrelated to Odin... and yet my avatar still ended up as an image of Odin. ::)
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

B'rrr

Quote from: Delling on July 06, 2010, 11:17:32 AM
I named my laptop Ygg

You mean just as your computer name or you are actually referring to your laptop as Ygg when you speak to people?

> Hey can I use your computer for a moment?
- Sure, use Ygg, he is still on.
~Mary Jane supporter~
~Legend~

I_am_so_nifty

My mother named all of our computers after surnames of our ancestors. She's really into genealogy. Right now I'm on Gilmore.
This is Nifty, Royal Heir.

I'm like, an adult now or something? Sounds fake, but okay.

Delling

Quote from: B'rrr on July 06, 2010, 11:45:37 AM
Quote from: Delling on July 06, 2010, 11:17:32 AM
I named my laptop Ygg

You mean just as your computer name or you are actually referring to your laptop as Ygg when you speak to people?

> Hey can I use your computer for a moment?
- Sure, use Ygg, he is still on.

Both, but then my family is quite nerdy.
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

B'rrr

Yea, I would be suprised by it, but I have 2 friends who do the same. One named a server after me and the other a printer  :-\
~Mary Jane supporter~
~Legend~

Haids1987

My computer has a name, Little Sonic. :yes:  My car has a name too--Josie.
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-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
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Tolin

My name, Tolin, comes from my early high school days where I came up with a pen
name to write under.  It's the last name of that pen name, which is Davin Albreicht Tolin.

I rarely use the whole thing any more, and I keep it mostly out of honor for the high school
teacher who helped me come up with some of it.  He died about 5 months after that...

Other than that, I've had various names but I've since stuck with Tolin or direct variations
of that for the aforementioned reasons.
Nathan Benner, TSL Q.A. Tester

kindofdoon

Quote from: Haids1987 on July 06, 2010, 03:19:24 PM
My computer has a name, Little Sonic.

I am curious: what's the origin of that name?

Daniel Dichter, Production/PR
daniel.dichter@postudios.com

Haids1987

My old computer was really laggy and slow, so I named him Sonic.  When I got my tiny new slimline computer, the name Sonic carried over. :yes:
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Perpetually. ;D
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daventry

Kings Quest 6 was my First Ever Game and then when the Internet came, i called myself Daventry on Many Forum Boards  ;D ;D ;D

Haids1987

STATUS:
-Drinking water
-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
Erica Reed is Katie Hallahan.
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icarus

I choose the name Icarus because it´s very close to how my life passes me. Several times I died by a crash. After the crash I always revive.

furthermore I love old fairytails.
I am the lord of the underworld
member of APRETT
(Association of Patient's Rights to Eat Tasty Things)

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This is Bunny.
Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world
domination

Ravager

I'm always lazy when it comes to find usernames. I take them from movies, tv, games a come across. "Ravager" is named after a halberd I picked up in "Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal". I usually don't like using halberds in CRPGs, but this one was must use!
IRENICUS: Once my thirst for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. And... I... Will... HAVE IT!!

Bad Asp

#37
Me next!

My username "Bad Asp", comes from winning a contest Telltale had for "Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People", in which you had to come up with a tagline for a game Strong Bad played in Episode 1 called "Snake Boxer 5".  My tagline was "get ready to kick some asp"!  My username comes from both Strong Bad's name and the tagline I submitted.

Also, my name "David D." appears in the very first episode as an Easter egg.  I'm the "Assistant Tongue Forker"!  Not bad, huh?

wilco64256

Mine comes courtesy of the space janitor himself.
Weldon Hathaway

Haids1987

Sweet, Strong Bad!  He was my avi for a little bit, but then the C&D happened and I had to show my support. ;)
STATUS:
-Drinking water
-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
Erica Reed is Katie Hallahan.
Leader of the "I <3 Doon" Fanclub