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Author Topic: What's the origin of your usernames?  (Read 16024 times)

Trapezohedron

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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #30 on: December 15, 2011, 09:48:37 pm »

I guess I knew a cool guy and his name was Aaron or something? Not to mention the Biblical guy, I always thought it was a little funny when Moses kept overshadpwing him. Though I don't actually know if that ever happened.

Aaron alone wasn't good enough so I was like "how2maeknameslonger I KNOW HONORIFICS", hence the sir part. Then the III came out of nowhere. Man what was I even thinking, I should go for a name change one of these days nah Toady has better things to do than change some dude's username.

My other, more common name, lrcp (may also include wjno), was gloriously produced from smacking the keyboard. That's totally a legitimate way to name stuff.

Mashing the keyboard to name yourself is totally legit. It is also the safest way to create a password, aside from using a CD-Key as your password, or writing and encrypting a word, making it into a nigh incomprehensible garbled mess.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #31 on: December 15, 2011, 10:11:21 pm »

My last name IRL. And while it does have easy google visibility, I figure it's fine so long as I avoid posting anything more embarrassing than admitting to cyberstalking someone's posts online. :P
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2011, 10:18:02 pm »

I don't really remember where I thought up my name from.

But here's a guess:

My first post was on the Aurora thread of this very forum. Thus, I was interested in Aurora at the time.
One of the things that came into my mind was "Terra, Terran" or something like that.
However, I decided I needed to corrupt it slightly, so it's at least partially original.
Hence, I turned from Terran to Tarran, which sounds 90% the same but has one letter changed.



Or, if you're in to silliness:

I modified my real name, Terra, by adding an A in place of the E and adding an N at the end. Hence, Tarran.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #33 on: December 15, 2011, 10:31:44 pm »

Mine's boring.
I have an orange bottle that I like to fill with orange soda.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #34 on: December 15, 2011, 10:31:58 pm »

I have dark views (Head on over to DF Fortress discussion and look at one of the many conversations between me and King DZA  :P), so I wanted something dark, but also more... creative. This was way back when I played Runescape, so I was deciding on a name that was not taken. Necro was taken, along with a whole bunch of others, then I thought to myself, I shall do what I do best: Slur words and dates into incomprehensible gibberish until I get a satisfying number. I don't even remember what it originally was, but it stuck. I was Necro9 10, so that's how you pronounce my name. Not 9-1-0, it is 9-10.

Necro Nine Ten. I respond to this name whenever someone calls it out in real life at this point  :P

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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #35 on: December 15, 2011, 10:58:32 pm »

It's how I always pronounced it.

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« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2011, 11:11:40 pm »

It's how I always pronounced it.
Same here.

Reudh, I've always pronounced your name "rude"; but "royth" is better.

As for my name, I just poked around with some Latin words, taking some and morphing them until one sounded decent. Lectorog came from lector (reader). I didn't know at the time, but Torog is a pretty cool god from D&D (basically your standard DF player), so that's a bonus.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2011, 11:29:40 pm »

Duh.








It's my real name
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #39 on: December 16, 2011, 12:13:03 am »

This is the name I signed up with when I joined Teen Second Life a few years back.  You had to come up with a first name, and pick from a list of last names, so I ended up as 'Derek Ristow'.  My avatar happens to be part of a much larger object I made in-game.  Oddly, on the rare occasions that someone else abbreviates it or actually pronounces it, they always seem to parse it as dere kristow, which has always kind of baffled me.  I've considered changing it due to how much it sounds like an actual name, but the facts that I suck at naming things and that people always mess it up have prevented me from bothering thus far.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #40 on: December 16, 2011, 12:15:41 am »

I feel bad now because I've been saying Necro Nine Hundred And Ten.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #41 on: December 16, 2011, 12:19:15 am »

I feel bad now because I've been saying Necro Nine Hundred And Ten.

Same here.

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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #42 on: December 16, 2011, 12:35:04 am »

I feel bad now because I've been saying Necro Nine Hundred And Ten.

Same here.

D:

At least you haven't been saying Necro Ninety-One Nought. D:
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #43 on: December 16, 2011, 12:45:45 am »

I used to play with Legos a lot.  I had one lego guy who was always the hero.  His clothes were blue, and I gave him a blue wizard hat and a blue lightsaber.  Then I realized I had to come up with a name.  I started with "Blue," and wondered how I could stylize it into something more interesting.  So I reversed it, "Eulb."  Which sounded dumb.  So I flipped the b into a d.  "Euld."

Blue blue.
 
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I pronounce it as "ee-old," which isn't grammatically correct.  A friend pronounced it as "you-uld," based on the pronunciation of eulogy.

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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #44 on: December 16, 2011, 12:52:00 am »

I thought it was Yoold.
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