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Discussion in 'General' started by BRAWL, 8 Feb 2011.

  1. KD88

    KD88 Minimodder

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    KD88 Kart Dad as my daughter used to race karts and 88 was the race number she used throughout her career.
    My avatar is an original caricature of her racing when she was 14.
     
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  2. Ending Credits

    Ending Credits Bunned

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    I always read yours as The Vile Elephant. I think it's because the internet has taught me to ignore superfluous characters. :D

    Edit: Oh, and add missing ones too.
     
  3. dave_beast

    dave_beast Enthusiast

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    Beast as I play ice hockey and a friend called me beast after the X-Men dude, the name stuck and it's my hotmail addy too. Steam is DB006 as it's Dave Beast 006 and 006 as i'm not quite James Bond yet ;)
     
  4. Blanx3_Bytex

    Blanx3_Bytex What's a Dremel?

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    My name came about because I was so awful at Quake3 (around 2008, I wasn't playing it with the oldtimers :). Due to my inability to kill anyone I kind of made a joke to my friends that I was firing blanks in my gun and I kinda Jazzed it up a bit with the x.

    The x3 is the number of cores I was running at the time on my 955 and the Bytex just sounded cool, so I just put it all together and its stuck.
     
  5. benjjamin

    benjjamin needs MORE POWER!

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    Mine came about when i was younger and one of my mates kept on saying "ben's jamming" and after a bit it just morphed into benjjamin and stuck ever since . thats about it realy nowt exciting :)
     
  6. Combinho

    Combinho Ten kinds of awesome

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    Mine's a variation on my surname. I used to gett called it as I was rubbish at football and people thought it ironic to Brazilianise (yes, that is a word) my surname. Although people seem to still mispronounce it. Hint: it rhymes with Ronaldinho, Robinho etc.
     
  7. mrlongbeard

    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    It's mostly easy to guess why my online name is what it is.


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    :p
     
  8. roblikesbeer

    roblikesbeer Bindi's sex slave.

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    *stands up*

    My name is Rob and I like beer.

    *sits down*
     
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  9. PhoenixTank

    PhoenixTank From The Ashes

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    My alias was Tank in CSS, back in the day. I also used Phoenix in a few games.
    When signing up for places that had both taken, (most) I combine them.

    Nothing fancy, nor the best result, but it'll do.
    I've seen a few posers stealing my genius, though :miffed:
     
  10. Ficky Pucker

    Ficky Pucker I

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    it was the best name i could think of at the time.
     
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  11. Byron C

    Byron C Multimodder

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    Way back in the days of BBSs and my early forays into IRC, I used to be ParanoiA. A few friends and I formed a vague sort of hacking/phreaking group type thing, despite not having the cojones to actually do anything illegal, so I thought ParanoiA seemed appropriate. I added the capital "A" at the end because I thought looked cool and "edgy".

    Then I stopped being a teenager and grew up.

    BLC is just my initials - nothing to do with sandwiches involving variations of bacon, lettuce and anything that starts with a "C". I first used it in a college assigment when we had to write a program and brand it with fake software company logos. It kinda stuck with me since then. Most places won't allow "BLC" as it's too short, so I also use "blcollier" and "BLC07" (change digits according to year of signup).
     
  12. memeroot

    memeroot aged and experianced

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    meme - a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)

    root - the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. It can be likened to the root of a tree — the starting point where all branches originate.

    so the starting point of all successful ideas....

    I suppose rootmeme would make more sense but would be a bit obvious.

    (sounds a bit egomanical now I think about it :-(
     
  13. antiHero

    antiHero ReliXmas time!

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    Mine is a reference to an interview with one of my favourite artists (T.Raumschmiere) and has stuck with me ever since.
    On Steam i use Bastiroid as my name is Sebastian "Basti" and Asteroids is one of my favourite games
     
  14. G0UDG

    G0UDG helping others costs nothing

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    As my main hobby is Amateur radio I tend to use my radio callsign as my username on here -.. . --. ----- ..- -.. --.
     
  15. Jake123456

    Jake123456 Surprise!

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    The first step on the road to recovery is admitting it! Congratulations!

    And for obvious reasons...My names Jake....and I like numbers.
     
  16. lcdguy

    lcdguy Minimodder

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  17. Throbbi

    Throbbi What's a Dremel?

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    I've been reading that as all one word as if it was a painkiller like codeine lol Had no idea its was intended as Doc.Odine :duh: Being a massive final fantasy nut i probably should've seen it
     
  18. Sloth

    Sloth #yolo #swag

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    Riiiiight. We all know you're just a big 3OH!3 fan.
     
  19. Byron C

    Byron C Multimodder

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    *looks at pic*...*looks at username*...*looks back at pic*...*facepalm*.

    Same here. Doctor Odine never even crossed my mind...!
     
  20. Grimloon

    Grimloon What's a Dremel?

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    A combination of comments from friends when I needed a new tag (someone had nicked my previous one). I'm not exactly known for being cheerful and my brain works a little oddly at times so it stuck.
     

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