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What's in a Name?
Or in other words, why do you use the name you do? Where did it come from and does it hold any special significance?
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"One of the major tactical blunders when involved in any conflict is to have supply lines dependent on crossing bridges. That's just asking for trouble."
Way to start us off with an example Burn!! <applause>
Anthos = From Greek derivative of the word flower or flowering (my last name = Flowers). I was a bio major at the time I came up with this and we happened to be studying a creature called anthozoa, which means flowering animal. So, there ya go.
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Rolls make good sandwiches.
And it sounds neat.
I have an unhealthy obsession with dragons... well all things draconic really.
And I'm from the KC area... And Shadows just seemed cool.
Oh and my "Old School" gaming name, BitchMonkey, that came about from when I worked at CompUSA. Tiberian Sun had just been released and everyone was staying at work late to play it. I was the lowly Mac guy, so in an effort to "be a part of the team" I begged.. erm.. asked if there was an available spot for me. Long story short I made a few really good kills in the opening moments of my first game. One of my bosses shouted "OK which little bitch monkey just did that?" It was me.. I admitted it. And the next game (and since) That was my name.
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Originally posted by Anthos
Way to start us off with an example Burn!! <applause>
Anthos = From Greek derivative of the word flower or flowering (my last name = Flowers). I was a bio major at the time I came up with this and we happened to be studying a creature called anthozoa, which means flowering animal. So, there ya go.
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"One of the major tactical blunders when involved in any conflict is to have supply lines dependent on crossing bridges. That's just asking for trouble."
My name comes from other peoples mistakes.
I attended the first FRAG (better known now as QuakeCon) at the infomart in Dallas Texas. I wasn't sure that I was going to make it so I did not pre-register and walked into a 600 person LAN hoping for a seat. I got lucky and was able to register. When it came time for the Quake 1 DM tourney to start (yes kiddies, Quake 1) I ran up to put my name in. The guy asked me what may name was and I replied "mooreman." He said, "warman?" I repeated "mooreman", but he still couldn't hear me over the noise of all the excitement. He told me to tell the girl next to me who was doing tourney registration as well. She asked, "what is your name". To which I replied "mooreman." She said "warman, what a cool name." I was by myself surrounded by strangers and decided to leave it at that. Later, when they called "warman to the front" (the tourney was held on their computers), I thought to myself: you know that is such a better name than mooreman. Sometimes, to have fun, I will introduce myself as mooreman, to which 9 out of 10 people will hear it as warman.
quote:Hahaha...that's awesome.
Originally posted by WaRMaN
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I played CS and other games at a freinds house years ago right after CS went retail. We were trying to find unique names for the CLQ since that was the only way we could compare who was improving the most since we were sharing his computer. I think it was subliminal from Jay from clerks but whatever.
I now go by 'cat poop waffles for justice' in NS which I play a lot at the HK & CoFR servers, which was a random late night game name with the for justice added in from that all your base video. honestly I have found that really odd names are the best, since you are well remembered and admins recognize you after a few rounds. I usually randomly change my name from day to day in CS since I have a short attention span while server hopping, but I keep one name when I play BF1942.
Ancient Chinese Secret... :P
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Levitra Commercial :P
*holds up a box of Calgon*
Ancient Chinese secret huh?
Ha ha ha ha
--OK bad joke outta my system--
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ROFL...
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Levitra Commercial :P
MOMO--Watch the movie "Wasabi", and you'll know where mine came from.
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DarkPhan, short for Dark Phantasmo, was computer generated by a BBS that a friend and I wrote back in the late 80's (boy, I think I just dated my self there) ... been using it ever since...
Uh.... it sounded... cool....
I suck
Mine is simple. During high school, a friend's nickname for me was Voge the Rogue. Pretty much the only thing that could come close to ryhming with my last name.
Put a K in front of Rogue and been using Krogue ever since. Actually used that as my nickname even before the computer gaming scene took over my life.
I used a couple of names before (g-man and slayer) and since I seen there were already player using those names when I started playing online, I came up with DeathsDoor. That name came from the fact that even though I put up a good game, I die a lot! So I used that as the basis for my name...
pc_g0d: The 1337 haxor way to say pc god and it wasn't taken when I was trying to make up a hotmail email address about 8 years ago since I was the resident geek on campus.
Mine is even easier to understand everyone elses.
At the time I created Mojo_Jojo, I was not yet married to my wonderful, beautiful, fabulous wife Dori. Back then, she had bleached her hair blonde and at times she would have blonde moments.
At the time, I was a bachelor who loved to come home from work and watch cartoons in the evening instead of the news or anything serious. One of the cartoons that I watched most often due to it's time slot on my TV was the Power Puff Girls.
Since Bubbles is one of the characters on that show, and since my then girlfriend would at times act like Bubbles, I decided that the only other character that would fit me and not be freeky (just imagine what would have happened if I had chose "The Professor" as my handle while dating Bubbles) I didn't want to use some of the other characters so Mojo_Jojo became my handle.
The reason for the underscore is due to my hotmail account. mojo_jojo301@hotmail.com was you can't have spaces in e-mail accounts.
A long time ago, back before we got MM in our year, Dilbert was dealing with the year 2000 and their system administrator who worked in the pc support area was called Mordac. I thought that it was a cool name and this name was actually my very first handle. But I lost interest with this and moved on.
Now, i am only known as Mojo_Jojo.
Maybe I'll change it this year to be the "Bastard Operator from Hell" BOFH for short.
Later,
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phannum@mwgl.org
www.mojogamingpc.com
Hey... one of my MIRC handles is The_Professor...
Damn....
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when i first got into gaming around cs beta 5.5 my friend and i made it up and it just stuck. its still my handle when i am playing serious, but when im not serious i usually play under a few diff. handles, like dicktits, faggotbear, or something off the wall.
And we know where all those names came from... ROFL...
My name's Aline, I like it a lot but I have no idea about where it comes from and what it means. Does anybody know that?
---------------------------- haha....
get it a line... :P Yeah I know really cheesy...
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Actually, Squirre1, you're not far off. Aline is just an alternate spelling of the word align, which means, in one instance, to arrange in a line or so as to be parallel.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Nobody wins in a quick-draw contest.
Hrmmm, I feel smarter now... "That is from the pronunciation Meal-lay-wa-kay", says alice cooper...
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Well lets see now.. I have 2 names which I go by. First one being MeGaZiPP which I picked when I first started using the internet with AOL back around 3.0. I just could not find a name that someone didnt already have. So with my trusty laptop and parallel zip drive I just settled on that.
I always wanted to have a custom Harley and name it the Blue Raven since I was in my early 20's. So with that I decided on Raven for a game name while keeping my other one as just a internet name. With so many others out thier that had my name, I decided to add Sir to it following a first completion of Diablo 2.
But now I just want to use my MeGaZiPP again...heh
And what do ya know... I am what I once was....
The allmighty MeGaZiPP.
Sir Raven is no more.
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