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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Nobody wins in a quick-draw contest.
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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-- 1f u c4n r34d t41s u r34lly n33d t0 g3t l41d.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Nobody wins in a quick-draw contest.
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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"Men who experience an erection for more than four hours should seek immediate medical attention."
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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-- 1f u c4n r34d t41s u r34lly n33d t0 g3t l41d.
ROFL...
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"Men who experience an erection for more than four hours should seek immediate medical attention."
Levitra Commercial :P
MOMO--Watch the movie "Wasabi", and you'll know where mine came from.
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"You must BE the crap." Joshua to Biff
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.
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