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Author Topic: What is the origin of your username?  (Read 7280 times)

Owlga

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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2013, 01:14:35 am »

A stupid pun based off my first name.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2013, 01:17:48 am »

This does seem to come up every couple months or so. Anyways:
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2013, 01:45:13 am »

I can't really remember where UrbanGiraffe came from, but it's inspired lots of puns and shitty plays on words, so it's pretty ok. My favorite is ur-banned-giraffe.

I think there are approximately 12 obscure bands named Urban Giraffe, so it's not quite unique enough. I'm considering switching to RudeBauble, but that's a bit too DF.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2013, 01:51:27 am »

I'm a misspelled monster.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2013, 01:57:58 am »

Means "red" in a long dead language.

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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2013, 02:01:06 am »

This one?  I more or less typed in random letters 'til I got a string I could work into something nice.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2013, 02:07:33 am »

My first City of Heroes character.  Dark Miasma / Dark Blast powers, and 'costume' made so he was basically a black silhouette with glowy eyes.  All the snappy generic comic-book type names like Wraith had all been snatched up, so I added Bio to the front.  His backstory (I can't remember if came before the name and inspired it, or after the name to justify it) involved a lab experiment that infused and twisted his human body with nether matter, making him effectively a biological wraith.

I kept it for other places because a) it was my main character and online identity for 8 years, and b) it's almost always available.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2013, 02:33:04 am »

An incredibly dumb (in retrospect) portmanteau of a trope name.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2013, 02:33:45 am »

It's a made up name my brother created for me to use in Everquest over 10 years ago.  I ended up using it on pretty much every forum I signed up on since.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #24 on: December 10, 2013, 02:44:17 am »

I wanted a name to fit the upper boards yet still sound sciency. I watched Back to the Future the day before. Rock Brown sounded stupid.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2013, 03:30:38 am »

Way back in WoW beta I needed a character name and I wanted something that sounded latin so I made some shit up and it has stuck with me. (With some variations.)

It was only later I checked and it actually was a latin word meaning suitable or something along those lines.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2013, 03:51:34 am »

A stupid pun based off my first name.
How often do you get called LOLga, anyway?
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2013, 03:54:42 am »

I say this mystery should prove trivial, old sport.

it's based off of a picture someone made years ago. i've been looking for it occasionally for avatar purposes
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2013, 04:01:32 am »

Mine is based on DF. I discovered that, while i loved magma and all, even more than that i loved steel and the mess it made when steel weapons were used. I loved hacking, stabbing, slashing, and bashing. Due to this steel became the magic problem solver to me.
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