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I'd like you to tell me how you came up with your In my case I use the not so original alias "West" or in the case it is taken I add the numbers 007. Let me explain how it all began. In 6th grade (around age 11) I was an avid Counter-strike 1.6 player. Me and my friends would go to internet cafes and play for an hour or two few times a week. I was using some random nickname every time we played but I had decided that I need a cool permanent one. One of my friends who was perhaps the best at CS had the nickname .Marlboro. I thought: "Hey, cigarettes are cool!" (I've never smoked though)and chose West. I've been using West ever since. I used the addition of numbers 007 in 2007 for the first time when I was registering for a browser game to play with my friends. My alias was taken but I still wanted to have it one way or another. I thought the game was stupid so I added the first numbers that popped into my head which were 007 as in James Bond. The browser game wasn't stupid, I got hooked and still play it until this day. Now, tell me your story.
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Claver is an old English word for "talks too much," which I do. Joe is the short form of my name of Josef, because seppe is stupid sounding in a German way. The Dipshit fucked around with this message at 19:05 on May 9, 2013 |
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May 9, 2013 17:20
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I called someone a retarded furry once.
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May 9, 2013 17:22
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I played the poo poo out of Paper Mario when I was a child. Tubba Blubba is a boss from that game.
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May 9, 2013 17:27
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I wanted something that would not be easily googleable for internet detective type bullshit when I was first registering. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52p9jc-gOo
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May 9, 2013 17:36
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The David Bowie song "Diamond Dogs." I've had people assume that it was due to an obscure Marvel Comics character, or a character from the tabletop RPG SLA Industries, but nope.
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May 9, 2013 17:38
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Mine is a Futurama reference. In the Episode "Jurrasic Bark" around the 8 minute mark the professor says "Beneath the fossil's crunchy mineral shell, there's still a creamy core of dog nougat."
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May 9, 2013 18:42
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I'm a systems administrator, and Charlottes Web. Only the spider knows I am not an average admin, management only realizes it when I bail.
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May 9, 2013 18:49
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I needed a username for something over 10 years ago so I fired up the John Peel band name generator. It gave me something like "fool cake sonata", so I just took cakefool and used it for everything. If I knew I'd be using it for so long I'd have given it more thought.
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May 9, 2013 18:58
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frequently reoccuring death e: or "YO BRO ANY CHRONIC????" 
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May 9, 2013 19:10
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From this video, circa 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
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May 9, 2013 19:14
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May 9, 2013 19:24
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I stole it from the name of my friend(s) college band. I have used it for a long time. It is also the name of a flower but I don't think that is the origin.
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May 9, 2013 19:25
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Mine's from the title of one of the best helldump threads of all time
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May 9, 2013 19:26
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I used to play Natural Selection all the time. I always played the alien team and I loved the basic creature that you start out as. It's basically a dog and you bite marines legs to kill them. So...I was an ankle biter...get it?
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May 9, 2013 19:32
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I read a fantasy anthology called Thieves World when I was about 14. I used Cythen until about seven or eight years ago, then I switched over to Pyrtanis. There is a Pyrtanis street in the book where most of the hard working stiffs live. It also doesn't hurt that google sometimes corrects it to Prytanis, which is some sort of ancient Athenian congress thing. fake edit: welp "pyrtanis" comes up with everything for me, including my friend's wow account 
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May 9, 2013 19:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyZ7oU0tUR8 All stems from this. We were picking random names for our Starcraft (1) LAN setup (in 2009), and I wound up picking Lord Palmerston due to above. Some time later I decided I liked Pitt The Elder as a name better; it also wasn't in use in many places. Also, he was a pretty good dude.
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May 9, 2013 19:38
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Named after my academic hero, Dr. M K Hubbert. 
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May 9, 2013 19:44
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Back in the 90's when my family had ordered internet for the first time, it came with an included local BBS that my middle school rival was always on. One day I saw him reading some computer hacker book, authored by "Knightmare." I came up with the clever plan to use Knightmare as my nickname to the BBS and grief him, etc. The name stuck, although someone always has it registered on every site/game I've tried registering too. I was surprised it was available here to be honest.
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May 9, 2013 19:54
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I didn't realize till recently that Declan MacManus is Elvis Costello's real name.
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May 9, 2013 20:07
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As a kid I used to yell out Yeet! when I did something awesome like score a goal or whatever. Kind of embarrassing now that I look back on it.
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May 9, 2013 20:44
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I used to use AKA: Pseudonym but SA doesn't accept the colon. I saw an ad for some schlocky 70s action movie here the hero was introduced as "AKA: Brickhammer" or some sort of thing like that. I imagined "AKA: Pseudonym" being said with the same ridiculous intonation and it seemed funny, though it could only possibly be funny to me.
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May 9, 2013 20:50
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Mine is a big dumb reference to a half-baked hypothesis for why various types of memes gravitate to areas with similar memes and propagate around their own ilk, and how those memes tend to form superficially apparent dynamic clusters that resemble physical systems rather than simply genetic/environmental systems. So it's a kind of application of memetics beyond memetics. It's not metamemetics because that already means a thing.
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May 9, 2013 20:52
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Warcraft II Grom Hellscream SLICE AND DICE.... That is all 
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May 9, 2013 20:58
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One day in high school I was hanging out at the computer drinking a Bacardi Razz (which was really cool to drink back when it wasn't legal for me to drink) and I thought it sounded cool. I've used it for various forums names since 2002 or so. I think this is the only forum where I still actively post with this username. Most of the time if I register at a new site, it's already taken. I didn't even particularly like Bacardi Razz back then. And now I only drink beer so my username is pretty irrelevant. jackyl posted:I wanted something that would not be easily googleable for internet detective type bullshit when I was first registering. razz fucked around with this message at 21:06 on May 9, 2013 |
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May 9, 2013 21:02
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I once met a dog who loved the poo poo out of waffles.
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May 9, 2013 21:27
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I took mine from a Rolling Stones song.
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I used to play Impossible Creatures a lot, and the Chamale is a whale-sized chameleon that swims. I still use the name online, but I was a little poo poo as a teenager so I might want to change it at some point. BANS CURE GIP would make a good name, I think.
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May 9, 2013 21:28
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Something like ten years ago I joined a lovely RP forum with the username "Olaf da fool" or something like that, but one guy would just not spell it right, and kept calling me Ofaloaf instead. I liked that name, though, so I ended up using it everywhere else.
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May 9, 2013 21:53
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From a namechange thread! I had this cat avatar, hence the name. I like it.
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May 9, 2013 22:05
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It's the title of my favorite song. http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ube.vo5P8PSpbdM
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Paramemetic posted:Mine is a big dumb reference to a half-baked hypothesis for why various types of memes gravitate to areas with similar memes and propagate around their own ilk, and how those memes tend to form superficially apparent dynamic clusters that resemble physical systems rather than simply genetic/environmental systems. So it's a kind of application of memetics beyond memetics. It's not metamemetics because that already means a thing.  I've read your username a million times before and I only just now realized that its 'Paramemetic' and not 'Parametric.' Metamucil is a foul, orange-flavored fiber supplement that my dad has had every morning for probably the past ~20 years.
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May 9, 2013 22:12
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I saw Fight Club in college, and adopted the "I am Jack's..." phrase for a number of different too-long internet handles. It eventually evolved into IMJack.
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May 9, 2013 22:15
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A song called Polythene Pam by The Beatles.quote:Well you should see Polythene Pam
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May 9, 2013 22:19
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It came to me in a dream.
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May 9, 2013 22:23
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My name is Joe and I liked pokemon when I was 11.
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May 9, 2013 22:25
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Phantom's a nickname that I've had since I was in middle school that the kids at my lunchtable gave me. I was pale, into parapsychology and ghost-hunting    , and had a weird habit of appearing and disappearing unexpectedly. Like, I walked quietly and would awkwardly forget the hellos and goodbyes that well-adjusted folks usually do.  And Watson's my last name.
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May 9, 2013 22:26
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 Hawkeye's "Nightblade" incarnation from my favourite game when I was ~14, Seiken Densetsu 3.
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Halloween Jack posted:The David Bowie song "Diamond Dogs." I've had people assume that it was due to an obscure Marvel Comics character, or a character from the tabletop RPG SLA Industries, but nope. Do you live on top of Manhattan Chase?  Mine is from the David Bowie song "Suffragette City".
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My dog is an adopted Puerto Rican street dog, otherwise known as a sato. Also I'm a big Legend of Korra fan, and Sato is the last name of one of the characters. I liked the coincidence.
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