my previous nickname, aC, is too short to register on most things. My then flatmate decided I should use adrock during a bbq back in '06. I still have friends who call me either.
My name here: 3011 is my birthday and my usual suffix for stuff online. What the hell a “Pliqu” is, I have absolutely no idea. A while ago the word somehow came up in a conversation with a friend, and apparently he used it too for a password somewhere etc. Neither of us knew where it came from and why we both know and use it… My Steam name, Gnome Compsci: refers to Gnome Chompski from Half-Life 2 (and other valve games) and the fact that I study Comp(uter) Sci(ence). I was surprised no one else (I could find on google) used this yet.
Well my name was Margo Baggins, then someone spelt it wrong in a post and it became Margon. My mates all call me Margo, always have done, I used to produce music under Margo Baggins. Strangely none of it has anything to do with girls or hobbits. Someone once called me Margo the clown when I was younger and it kind of stuck.
My Mummy met my Daddy and fell in love and had a child called Lance. I thought why change what isn't broken and stuck with that.
When I first joined the web and signed up for a hotmail account I signed up with my first and last name but that wasn't available so it added a "141" to the end; firstnamelastname141@hotmail.com. It was a pretty palindrome so I stuck with it and added it to other names. The things I signed up to back then used email entry so I didn't need a handle yet. Later on when I did I was reading Darren Shan's "Hunters of the Dusk" and the UK cover had a shuriken on it. Thus Shuriken was born. But little did I know that it was widely used so when I travelled further along the web I couldn't use it any more. My father grew up in the Moroccan countryside and used to go rabbit hunting. His hunting companions were a ferret and a dog. I was fascinated by these stories and secretly wanted a ferret but weren't allowed animals where we lived. When it came to changing my handle it seemed logical. Now I think about changing again because I can't get it on YT or Twitter but it's been with me for so long I don't know anything else.
Well, less cool than many of the stories above... I originally went by the name of SlimShady2k2 when i ran a few MSN groups in 1999, back in the day when the MSN chatrooms and such were active. I think around 2000 I was listening to Warren G's G Funk Era and came up with the name Hamfunk, a particular brand of Funk which I (Hamish) lay claim to. I recall having hamfunk@madasafish.com back then! I then took up the embarrasing (for a white scottish teenager) title of Tupac18 around 2004 which I ran with until I was slated for it at a lanparty in 2005 and I then reverted to Hamfunk, which doesnt strike the same hatred as west coast gangster rap. I also used Hamfunk : Spitfire for awhile as I was heavily into the prodigy song spitfire at the time (and i liked to think my CS skills were like spitting hot fire! ) Not a particularly exciting story but oh well!
My forum name, lp rob1, originally came from my Runescape days. I was a founding member of a small 'clan', called Longpatrol, which had gives me the prefix 'lp'. 'rob' is part of my name, and the '1' comes from the fact that 'lp rob' was not available on Runescape at the time. However, recently I have been changing my usernames (like on Steam) to 'Xenopathic', and more recently 'Xeno'. The former came about as I decided that I wanted to start using Gmail, since Hotmail was annoying me with their lack of IMAP support. I figured that a username with an 'X' in it would be pretty cool, and 'Xeno' (meaning alien) fit the bill. 'pathic' was put on the end simply because it needed to be unique. Interestingly, people often mistake 'Xenopathic' (meaning talks to aliens/foreigners) with 'Xenophobic' (meaning afraid of aliens/foreigners). From this I decided to drop the 'pathic' suffix where I could, resulting in my Steam name being simply 'Xeno'.
Mines worse. Signed up to Plus.net broadband when it first came out ( circa 2000? ) and wanted Woza, being already taken i just put three numbers at the end of it ( like Blink 182 ) but it became woza890. After a few years and a LOT of spam i changed it to WarrenJ when i joined Bit-Tech. Though i used to frequent irc channels as Woza or [DK]Woza during the Science and Industry days. I was a member of a few clans but I hardly get time to play any more. We came 3rd in the Science and Industry Official League before the team broke up.
Tomatoes suck so I replace them with cucumber; instead of a BLT sandwich - bacon, lettuce and tomato - I instead prefer, and have pioneered, the BLC - bacon, lettuce and cucumber.* *Note: May not be entirely true.
Originally it was TANK (always upper case), given to me by my friend at school. This due to being of a stouter nature when i was younger and my ability to wade through a corridor of fuzzers creating a path for everyone else. Then same as others here, spreading across the nets it was rare to find it available due to it's game connotations, so it changed to TANK T.I.K. (The Iraqi Killer) which was my custom character's full name on WWF No Mercy on N64 (way better than that smackdown malarkey with their awkward rigid arms and feeble control system). Then to uni i went. My appalling sense of humor earned me the moniker Crap Andy, which then got shortened to Crappy. I used that for quite a bit until swear filters started stopping me using it, in particular when signing up for xbox live. My mate dave called me crapman, but i think that was already taken, so The_Crapman was born.
I started out as spike042, back when I first discovered message boards (ezboards anyone...?) and hotmail and the like, cos my hair was spiky and I was proud of that and there was a guy on one of the boards I used who was had 251 in his name, 042 was the first thing that I thought of that was similar but not too similar... October is an assassin in a couple of Daniel Silva books that I enjoyed, can't remember when exactly I started using it for things. I think possibly it was originally my empire or ruler name in Star Fury and it stuck from there. I still have the spike042 hotmail, purely for GFWL. My real email these days is just my name at gmail, professional life takes the fun out of email addresses!
I owned a Thermaltake Xaser 4 back along time ago now. I remember it being the base of my first true "gaming" pc (Barton 2600+ @ 2.3Ghz cooled by Vantec Tornado eeek / FX5900Ultra / Far too many fans etc). Signed up to Guru3D as Xaser04 and never looked back.
Mine came about as a shortening of the name "bullet sponge". Chose the name after I started playing cs 1.6. No prizes for guessing why I chose it.
