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Explain your name

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:05
by Almiche V
I've recently moved and am now bed bound due to knackeredness. Censequontly it's time to post. 8)

So why and how did people decide on their screen names? Mine derives from an anagram of my fore and middle names.

If a similar topic has been posted before - I don't care as I'm tired :wink:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:07
by hallucienate
hal Lucien ate

but you guys already knew that.

And yes, I think we've may've touched on this before.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:10
by markfiend
@ Almiche V: Aha! I was wondering about yours...

As for me, well, my first name is Mark, and a few years ago (before they started charging money :evil:) I had an email address with another.com that was mark@fiend.co.uk. So I signed up to a few messageboards as markfiend and it kind of stuck.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:10
by Almiche V
This can be for the newbies then. :innocent:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:15
by randdebiel²
randdebiel means retard in dutch...
on the first forum I ever signed in I wanted to cover up my back because my first posts were quite nasty (it was on a sports forum btw...)
it kinda stuck....I've changed to a lot of variations on "rand" afterwards...like randgeval, randdinges, randje, rand or rand corp....
when I arrived here I thought getting back to my "roots" :lol: hence the ²

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:24
by Karst
http://www.randdebiel.com/

No affiliation I presume (access denied for me!)

:cool:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:25
by randdebiel²
none :lol:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:26
by randdebiel²
none :lol:cool pic though :o

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:26
by randdebiel²
btw I'm off to a psychic tv gig tonight in antwerp :banana:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:38
by Thea
half is from someone i love dearly and miss daily
the other half is from someone who i hope i never have the misfortune to encounter again. i just changed the o's to 0's to be t3h ub3r-1337

d00meh is "d00mie" with a Sheffield accent, and if you can't imagine how i arrived at d00mie from d00mw0lf, you must be special in a "poiny hat" kind of a way.

Professor Von Darkness (the other part of my "Professor d00mw0lf Von Darkness" pseudonym) was given to me by Jaimz Riot during a debate on the robin black messageboard - because i knew far too much about fields of the nephilim.... i think i was supposed to be giving lessons in gothology or summat....

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:39
by lazarus corporation
mines just part of my global corporate branding. ;)

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:46
by Loki
Back on topic ...

John, ergo Johnny Boy, invented by my mother as father was also John and it was designed to avoid confusion when I lived at home (ie we both answered her or both ignored her) but then I realised there was a already another 'Boy' on here and everyone abbreviated me to JB anyway. Riverting stuff, I know. :innocent:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:50
by sisxbeforedawn
when's the flat warming party? :wink:

my name, a bit obvious really

sis - sisters, well it is a SoM forum and sixbeforedawn - my fave Rosetta Stone song :D

oh and the fact I'd been drinking ;D

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 15:57
by hallucienate
JB wrote:Back on topic ...

John, ergo Johnny Boy, invented by my mother as father was also John and it was designed to avoid confusion when I lived at home (ie we both answered her or both ignored her) but then I realised there was a already another 'Boy' on here and everyone abbreviated me to JB anyway. Riverting stuff, I know. :innocent:
yes, but there is also another JB on here :roll: :roll:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:05
by markfiend
hallucienate wrote:
JB wrote:Back on topic ...

John, ergo Johnny Boy, invented by my mother as father was also John and it was designed to avoid confusion when I lived at home (ie we both answered her or both ignored her) but then I realised there was a already another 'Boy' on here and everyone abbreviated me to JB anyway. Riverting stuff, I know. :innocent:
yes, but there is also another JB on here :roll: :roll:
Two others: Jenzi-Benzi and James Blast.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:08
by Loki
hallucienate wrote: yes, but there is also another JB on here :roll: :roll:
Who wasn't on here when I changed my ID ...where you Red Sunsets? :innocent:

Maybe I'll change my ID to a squiggle ..? Worked for Prince. Badly. :lol:

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:29
by Quiff Boy
i used to have a quiff.

i look quite young for my age.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:32
by pikkrong
Hope I'm not irritating my old mates too much repeating again the story how I became pikkrong in AudioGalaxy because I didn't want to be Indrek333 (or francois777) or UnderTheGun69 or NoLoveLost96 or LongTrain696. So I just translated long train into Estonian and I didn't need any numbers :)

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:41
by Petseri
randdebiel² wrote:randdebiel means retard in dutch...
on the first forum I ever signed in I wanted to cover up my back because my first posts were quite nasty (it was on a sports forum btw...)
it kinda stuck....I've changed to a lot of variations on "rand" afterwards...like randgeval, randdinges, randje, rand or rand corp....
when I arrived here I thought getting back to my "roots" :lol: hence the ²
Does this make you the randiest member of HL? :innocent:

Martin

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 16:49
by Petseri
Petseri = central place of the Setu. Clear, yes?

Martin

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 17:00
by rian
Rian comes from my own company name "RIAN Dataservice"

Rian stands for RIchard ANdersson.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 17:03
by CtrlAltDelete
Well, I can tell you my choice of name came about because of the witty implications of the Crtl-Alt-Delete computer command, and had nothing at all to do with not being able to come up with something terribly clever during registration.

That, and Quiff Boy was already in use.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 17:05
by christophe
randdebiel² wrote:btw I'm off to a psychic tv gig tonight in antwerp :banana:
where? :?
how?
who?

damn :(

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 17:24
by emilystrange
Its an alter ego thing.
www.emilystrange.com

Posted: 06 Oct 2004, 17:25
by pikkrong
Petseri wrote:Petseri = central place of the Setu. Clear, yes?

Martin
absolutely :wink: