I was just wondering how and or why you chose yours.

Mine comes from the time when a bearded dragon jumped out of the garden at a mates place.

none of my mates would play against me on lan when we played quake, i'd keep kicking arses by running amok, so the arrangement was i'd use the axe, they could use any weapon they liked, thats how i got nicknamed axeman.

i was watching saving private ryan and i was looking to change my name from "guardian" because that is a gay name, and i saw that and decided on it. been happy ever since.

I used to be particularly short. The 3 is for individuality.

The 3 is for individuality.

v3rry l337 m4n, 1m 5ur3 n0 0n3 w1ll c0py 7h47 1d34

Nicely put, Scuzzy. Scathing, yet polite.

My name is the same from when I very first started to play online games, which were of course FPSers. Everyone thought my name was a joke :(

For some reason yanks seem to think my name is the funniest thing ever when I play on their servers. Dont get that...

Scuzzy, stay on f***ing topic!

Necromancer from Diablo II, just dropped the last bit. Had to think of somethign quick, cause my first post was this big s***fight on how geeky and pathetic you guys were :D

uh.. i was after a new nickname - at the time i was nearly finished reading the Obernewtyn Cronicles, so i just picked one of the random funny words from the books.
(bit weird when i see in a library 'The Farseekers' by Isobelle Carmody)
only one or two people have picked up where its from.

My last name is Stokes.
i thought i would be adventurous and add a Y, also its a pretty unique name, i have yet to meet anyone else called stokesy

'Jim' was already taken

koopz works for me. it's a shortened version of my last name.

someone already on the Ausgamers network beat me to 'koops'

:/

meh used to be bobafett but everyone called me boba so changed it

I loved the Obernewtyn Chronicles, although i read them when i was in year 7, almost 6 years ago now, but they were great, the last book was my favourite, can't remember the title though.

My name is Latin for wolf, well Lupine is, and Lupin - The castle of Cagliastro was the first Anime movie i ever saw, that was about the same time i started playing mp games on lan... and i needed a name, its been here ever since, and i cant change it due to all the confusion it would cause.

well my name is morgan(i f***ing wonder),.. but i use flying llama as well,.. everyone called me flyinglamer at QGL,.. :P flying llama came from goose laying llama which i dont know where that came from and i opened up winamp
"winamp really wipes the llama's ass" i was gonna call myself winamp llama but i changed the winamp to flying cuz flying is f***ing cool

i'm a teenager go figure

im a wog, so i used to be called wog. but then all my mates in real life call me casa, cos my last name is Casagrande. so yeah. i rock

Casagrande? whoa that's a f***ing cool last name! gj!

i'm a teenager go figure

but doesnt teen = gay'ould ?

means big house in italian / spanish

da·is Pronunciation Key (ds, d-)
n.
A raised platform, as in a lecture hall, for speakers or honored guests.

Well you could misinterpret that as me being conceited, but really it's that I like to help people :]

That's right, I'm just an all round warm fuzzy guy.

Used to go by the nick of x-machina, but decided on changing it due to some people insisting that i mispelt it.
Then went on to play with a series of pointy brackets "<><".
Then went on to call myself fish.

Um.. It's what I do to earn a crust these days.

:)

i can flap my noze

just my first name reversed. most people make the connection straight away but there are a few that don't... :)

Embarrassingly enough, my name goes back to my D&D days. It's the name I made up for a wizard I was playing. I thought it was pretty original back then (about 10 years ago) but when I got into the internet a few years later and did a search, it is everywhere :( theres even a "Metrix Hoses Pty Ltd" registered in Victoria :(

It is commonly confused with "Matrix" and "Metric", both annoy me :-/

<-- Page 37 of the Tekken Tag PS2 Manual.

*sniff* my head is shaped like a box *sniff*

someone already on the Ausgamers network beat me to 'koops'

well you can change the screen name, like you could have koops, but would retain a login name of koopz ("Your 'in-game' nickname or handle")

I think I saw it somewhere, just wanted something original...but now it is bastardised into taco for most stuff and vert for playing q3 (just because there is a clan called tako and there might be confusion :D)

Fade2Black - MetallicA rocks j00

GrannyMay - Fear those withered boobies

Replica - Fear Factory

BOHICA - Bend Over Here It Comes Again (its basically what I think whenever I play CS...)

Timberlake - Well its cause I'm in*sync..

no freaking idea where the name came from.....

just started using it back in the old qgl days.....

Tollaz0r! sprung from Toll, the ! is used as a subtle eye catcher, the az0r bit comes from the internet word j0r, which comes from phw0re..

Then Toll came from Toll Booth Willy. Which is a funny skit from an Admin Sandler soundtrack somewhere. I choose Toll Booth Willy because it was differnt to all the 1 word names that were being used.

Before that I used Yoshimitsu, and a whole bunch of other names. My first nick used for multiplayer games was Wraith used in a 14 hour game of LAN doom.. then used it on Quakeworld Team Fortress untill I played on a server with another Wraith, we talked and found that he used the name first so I looked for another..

I got 'cyph' from 'cypher'. No, not the Matrix cypher at all.

I was actually reading a book and saw the word 'cipher', and thought "hey, that'd be pretty cool if I changed the i to a y", which I did.

People just called me cyph though, so I shortened it to cyph.

*shrugs*

My nickname is just my real name reversed, then reversed again.

I have no idea...


It popped into my head one day and I liked the sound of it so I usedit.

It's also funny to hear people pronounce "Okinoyo" for the first time. :D

ZNMS are my initials. So go figure.

Ecstasy (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)

· A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
· A state of elated bliss

At the time I was talking to a Girlfriend of mine after a school social and telling her how fun it was and how much I enjoyed myself dancing with her and others.

I was after a new nickname and after enjoying myself so much after the school dance I was excited wanted to party more and more. So it came into my mind of the "State Of Elated Bliss" and is also relevant to Ecstasy being the "Party Drug".

So I adapted the name "Ecstasy" but wanted to make it a little different then the normal, so I went with changing the 'T' to a 133+ style making it stand out as ']['.

So It ended up as... Ecs']['asy.

necra.. sifnt your name came from necrophiliac

greydens my real name, i got sick of everyone calling me acrylic, sure it was cool the first few times, then my parents started doing it, and after awhile i just got sick of hearing acrylic acrylic, so i decided to use spud (lame joke) but that got boring, so now i use greyden. and every now and again you will see me as mr.kite, which is from a beatles song "being for the benefit of mr kite" which is from an old poster

http://www.beatlesagain.com/images/kite1.jpg

On January 31, 1967 the Beatles went to Knole Park near Sevenoaks in Kent to make the promotional film for Strawberry Fields Forever. "There was an antique shop close to the hotel we were using in Sevenoaks," remembers former Apple employee Tony Bramwell. "John and I wandered in and John spotted this framed Victorian circus poster and bought it."

im a bit of a huge beatles fan and i didnt want to go call myself lucy, so i went for something that wasnt so popular

I was "Mattaxe" until I realised just how gay that sounded, so I got rid of the "att" and it was "maxe".

And I have always thought of it as "makes", never as "maxi".

Because I like 3d stuff.

because i have a fat head

www.ween.net

go figure.

tom clancy novel's for mine

its spose to be spook as in spy not spook as in person of colour

used to be The Yeti in q2 days coz im big, tall and hairy (well used to be, less big and hairy now)

oh yer, to the imposter "pretending" to be spook playing bf1942 please cease and desist

I though ot this because I likes the song lockdown 187 - Gunman.

uesd to be called zoix, which tung got me to change from XioiX, and before that it was kadachiman (some nick the guys at cadets gave me)

Also changed from zoix when I got my account banz0r|).

surpise surpise.

Suhaib is my real name.

Got it from a song by Monty Python :)

that song homorainbow on teh southpark cd sung by ween f***ing rules!~

i dnot konww wyh i am da tpyodmneon

I dont know where mine comes from... I think it was from the Far Side comics, and i just had a play with the letters.

Later I find out that some faget rap group has the name Pharcyde also =\

my dad gave me mine when i was around 5

Accept.
http://www.warrenbestobell.co.uk/Compounds/Trefolex.asp

ehehe.

had this nickname since around year 5..everyone knows me by this and not my real name haha. People couldnt prenounce my last name so now i have this, i like it, works well :)

in in same boat as stokesy

last name heard - i've been called heardy for like EVER, in real life by mates etc.. and i am not that imaginative to think of a new nickname for gaming so i stay with this :)

what's scary is my mates parents call me heardy, some don't even know my first name :P

I get introdced to everyone as heardy, mates mates, mates family, at work, sounds funny why a senior manager says oi heardy get over here

my cusin gave me morgion, a god of death and desises.
people who carnt read called me morgan.
so i changed it to morgish.

denny is the nickname i've had from highschool

i used Captain Carnage in TFC for a while but apart from that i'm denny

lame hack on SCSI, also found this pretty nice aswel...
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=scuzzy

I hate Waza but my name is a mouthful so I wanted something short. "Was" just happens to be my initials as well.

Sometimes I use "johnhoppkins" because I have yet to run into another one and some folk want more than 3 letters. He is a not very famous composer/conductor but I came to the name through a less auspicious route basically I misspelled the name of a hospital and it stuck.

no idea where i got jinx from.. my nickname at school and s*** is migoo though...

My nick in high school was Oracle.
I changed it in year 12 to Andraxis, cause I was sick of seeing people with the same nick =]

The actual nick was a variation of a book series that is both rare and brilliant (the Andrakis Trilogy... try finding book 3 nowadays)

After a few weeks my friends shortened it to Draxy. Now about 90% of the people I know online only know me by that nick.

Although on AUS-1 a starcraft australian server, I was known as Lan for the last 2-3 years. This nick was taken from Robert Jordan's series WoT. I don't use this nick alot but in the SC:BW world I have made a few friends under it.

Anyways, thats my story and thats it.

I'm happy playing games. Happiness = Euphoria. Too lazy assed to type the whole thing.. besides, I had to at least *try* have some cool factor! :)

Well, it all happened one day when I was climbing everest. I noticed some taliban (back then we called em all ragheads, but I digress), types looking to plant a bomb in my then supermodel girlfriends backpack. "Look out Cameron" I screamed, inadvertently causing an avalanche to occur.

Now, I'd paid for the trip with sponsors funds from my snowboard deal with Burton, and I needed a break from my part time duties as contract combat flight instructor at the US air force. And I was NOT going to cut my trip short because a couple of ragheadsfundamentalists were trying to spoil my day, so I "Vin Diesel in xXx"-style surfed on a used maccas tray down the treacherous west face of Everest before launching a rodeo 900 off a disintegrating cornice. The last screaming words of those sons of allah before the ice engulfed them were "gooooo!', obviously hooting me on. But because the rotation of the board was so fast, and the atomsphere was so thin, the sound had this wierd doppler effect so it sounded like "gobogobogobogobo".

Anyway, I a bolt of lighting took out the maccas tray as I was about to land, luckily I threw a handy sliver of ice I happened to have grabbed at the DEMON whjo appeared below me, skewering it through the heart and causing it instant death. I then landed on the demon feet first, and skated down everest to safety. His dying words were "god...bother".

So in the end I ended up adopting a shortened version of the death screams of my foes, "Gobo" as my online nick.

Either that or an ex-ex-ex-ex-ex gf and I used to get half pissed and watch fraggle rock together (don't ask) and one time she started poking my mouth with her fingers and saying "Gobo teef gobo teef". And then when I started playing quake online I used it.

But I prefer the first story.

and here's me thinking gobo was slang for blowjob, the internet knows all!

the forst story ams win :D

Gobo never had a girl friend ... Although he did used to dress Tung up in a dress.

Skyhawk is the name for the
Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft,

at one stage i was thinking of becoming a pilot, until I reliased I didn't have $120,000 for the fees/tests


perhaps later

Dictionary.com explains it best. And it isn't lame like Killa or DeathMasta. :)

My old qgl name was Loqgoz which meant "the word of god" Then i got booted off the forums for reviving an old thread about qgl being cancelled

Now im plain old splat cus thats all i do in cs games :P

During my childhood i witnessed a series of childhood rapes.

friends called me greasy arab so i made my name greazy.

I don't recall exactly but I think this is what occurred.

Many many years ago I was reading Revelations and towards the end I read about the Tree of Life, whose fruit, if eaten, grants eternal life. A few days later, sick to death of my previous nickname (which was shockingly bad), I quickly changed my nick to the first thing I thought of, which incidentally was the Tree of Life. It sounded good at the time and it was fairly different so I stuck with it.

Now knowing that it's used in many different religions and countless fantasy tales, (and being accused of copying things in Eva and Warcraft 3, just to name a few) the meaning behind the name is alot richer and deeper and frankly I have no problem with that. :)

Btw i'm not Christian.

my real nickname is spete but ppl on here told me to change it back to EvisceratoR which has been my online name fer ages..

so spete in rl and evis on here. Yay.

hi there all ... My original tag was AOD.Nitro(Army of Darkness) from q1 days but that faggety wrestling started up and people kept asking if thats where i got nitro from...so i changed to RevHead for a while then changed my tag to complete opposite of me as im totally against Religon of any sort fUKEN sHEEP !!Revernd*MOF*myself and The Minister created MInistry of Fear one weekend while PIssed Q2 Q3 .online clan only.(keeping rev see)Now im in AF AusFaction Q3 RA clan never met any of the others but theres a few out there+ im petrol head have raced couple times (Drags nothing serious,12 .84) Rally Masters and V8 supercar and gp4 are sensational?? YOu Asked

Spooon is short for "The Spooon of Truth"

Which came about one day during out lovely Advance Science Class way back in Year 10, where we did nothing more then throw stuff at each other and piss the teacher off.... one day i decided to get creative and flick water with a plastic teaspoon at Hast, Rubba Chikin, Loki and anyone else who was near me... I then carried the spoon around for about a week threating Hast with the wrath of "the spoon of truth" at random occasions... then I think Loki broke the spoon..

the 3 O's came about as a typo when i made a hotmail account which was around the time when AoX was raining as one of the Top TFC clans in the country, after the collapse of AoX, it got reversed into NooopS for no particular reason

I could also be found using various other nics, such as Axiom, CurtainNinja, and Menikmati but i have since stopped using any of those because more people recognise me as spooon.

Well.. my current nick.. if you don't know where its from, I suggest you die a horrible death for being such a sacreligious person.

I have no clue what my nick was when I played quake on netspace aaaggges ago

for a while I was refered to as Torpedoes, this originated from the MDFMK song which I used to just have on repeat when I'd own with my SPACECAR!!!111 in 7.1 cs...
yes anyway... it was simply dropped down to Torps - which I still sometimes use

I honestly can't remember where I got my name from...I think I woke up one morning and decided that's what I wanted. It wasn't until a few weeks later that I realized that heaps of other people had the same name, but by then I cbf changing it.

I'd like to think mine's pretty self explanitory.

But candy for the eye's. My ego was kicking in :)

I know it's probably a little gay, but then i've had it for about 3 1/2 years and i don't really wanna change it now.

My middle name is Evil, so I thought I needed something more. I've always liked kids so I chose Reverend.

Hence, Reverend Evil.

8-)

But seriously folks. Years ago I went by the name Dr Evil and I was in a clan for AQ2 called The Disciples. So I was called Rev.Dr Evil. But when that ended I went to Reverend Evil. All the people that know me as Rev.Dr Evil call me Dwevil. But Reverend Evil is where it's at.

pARODY

i was once told i was a walking joke.. and my reply was "i must be more of a parody than a joke" and i used it from then on...

before that was "insubordinate" or "insub".. which was crap name.. and before that was "busta hymen" which got be kicked from most BBS's.

Psycho! from that great Hitchcock film...Psycho.

:)

when quake 3 came out, me and my mates used snake names to be like sneaky snakes.
cobra, viper etc
cobra - cob - cobs - cobz (the z adds emphasis on the sneekyness)
Years of q3f evolved my name from =CoBrA= to cobz.

cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz cobz.

I let my mum choose my nick, and now she wont let me change it.

Just kdding, I got it from a character in the Kevin Smith movie "Clerks".
The character Randall Graves, I just rearanged a letter or two and dropped some others, and there you have it "Dan".

used to be shrapnel aaggess ago but i noticed a few people started to use this name so i picked up saq from #ausgamers when jim used to be jimsaq or something and added it to shrap to form shrapsaq ! i just like the uniqueness of it but im also just plain on shrap for short and shrapse and shrapoo for fun :)

Kinda lame but i got mine from a Warhammer Race Guide....Torion Fireblood (which i used in Ultima Online and made all my chars with a Fireblood last name) i had Blood Elf for a while.....Guardian.....Elfstone....ive had a few ;)

i still want to nick steves one off him fireblood.. thats gota be the best :)

the z adds emphasis on the sneekyness

so true

:P

and I was in a clan for AQ2 called The Disciples

omg!

dude *why* don't you have an AQ2 server running @ Qgl???

because it probably would only have you 2 on it...

damn you're a bitter young bloke


build a bridge matey...

aq2 = win

Well when I started out online I used Slayer as a nickname and everyone ASSUMED I liked the band....then some retarded little tool came onto a talker I had been using for a couple of years abusing me for taking HIS nickname.....so I told him he could have it if he could get it in the time it took me to nuke the character and get it banned from the talker permanently. He failed.....

At the time I was reading some AD&D books and I was pretty into the AD&D games of the time (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, etc) and took the name Manshoon from a character in there. Since the nickname I had in high school was inherited from my older brother I think making my own up was a better choice. Mainly my nick get shorted to shoonie or shoon by friends.

Oh and as a side note....it had nothing to do with MAN SIZED MUSHROOMS as some people think.

i used to use ribinabj (ribina berry juice) 'cause my name's robin. then, after fast tracker 2 kinda died, i decided i wanted a new name.

i really f***ing love the name romeo, so i called myself darkromeo, or in q3a, ^^0Dark^1Romeo (black+red), but the name is certainly common, and some people thought i was black, because of the word dark.

so then i was a smart ass and called myself unique identifier on icq, but got sick of that real quick (too long).

i wanted a short name, no more than six letters, so i got the initials of DarkRomeo and Unique IDentifier, and got druid. and i added the dots 'cause at the time i was in a programming lesson, and i like to use classes, so when i start a server for a game, i call it "druid.server". ok i digress.

back in year 8 i had great aspirations of playing cricket and captaining a team, being sri lankan, a left handed batsman, and having aspirations of captaincy, the coach at the time called me arjuna, short for arjuna ranatunga, the captain at the time.

that got warped to many different things, arjie, juna, rany, ranatunga, tunga, abunga ranatunga vaasonblaaskyjenkins, and finally, to tung.

in cs i played originally as Ayatollah, which was a mix between an interest in the hebrew and islamic learnings i believe, and the fact that chris jericho was called the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah, which i thought was pretty damn funky.

went through a few nicks like 'The Sisko' and singularity, and s*** like that, NeoCommie is probably what most cs players remember me by, but tung is who i am, my friends call me it, my friends parents call me it, and my parents call me it on occasion :|

acient hebrew texts = win

http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/lemegeton.htm

ReaX : pronounced "Re Axe"- bastardised from plain RX from years of Teamfortress original. RX was shortened from receive (you know Tx and Rx transmit and receive), as i was always an engineer and used to defend, so therefore receive. Go figure. I actually got sick of people asking what RX stood for, most people thought it was short for RX7 and later on becasue i bought a subaru. Anyway here's something for a laugh, found an old telecom manual for exchange equipment.
link

Life in general makes me do it!

It's a crazy world and we're just a bunch of shaved apes looking for a r00t basically!

Im german, so i use the nick german..pretty simple.

hi

started my name in everquest as vashan, a monk.
cut off the an, now its just vash
ive had it for years.

mine came from my histroy class in grade 10 we were doing terrorism and i did my assignment on the blackseptember terrorist group and i got a A+ 4 it cause it was good and i knew so much about them that my friend said 2 use the name on the net so i did and have been using since

My nics pretty lame but come from the fact I used to hide in the bush as lot *shrug*

well i s*** = to defecate --> the defecator --> i hate the e so i changed it to an i = deficator

I got it from Ben Elton's book 'Popcorn'. It was talking about how first there was the tommohawk, then the exocet, the ...(something) was just naturally next.

Before that, I was Sprawler Grunt - taken as the primary unit in DR2 of the sprawlers.

Before that - JTHM, or Johnny The Homicidal Maniac. And then, as it was taken around the place, I appended _777 onto it, as in the comic, 777 was JTHM's street address.

Even earlier, was Gourge. That's going back about 6 years now, when I was just using IRC

umm i used to be called Silent-Bob back when tribes1 came out
time went on, and later i joined a clan called [helpme] and the tradition of the helpme crew was having names of dead famous people, so i, liking the name bob, chose Bob Marley.

umm after helpme broke up most people knew me as bobmarley so i kept the name.
changing it to undefinedhero for a bit but i got bored of that and people didnt really know who i was, then after a while again i changed it to vide.ante (vide ante meaning see before in latin) just for the net CS clan im in, ethereal
still use bobmarley most the time tho.

f*** I hate it when people see my nick and say "That was such a great game"

can anyone guess?????

elroy from the jetsons!

am i right :)

it's from possibly the funniest movie of all time

sheep in the big city

well i only ever used to LAN all the time and I went by the name of Spider, wehn i graduated to the online community I discovered (oh what a surprise) that there were already many people using the name Spider, so i just shortened it to Spidz, there were still people using spidz, so I chucked a * on the end.

very lame I know...

I alos use T-BoNe in game a bit cause thats my nickname in real life, pretty much anything that starts with "T" my mates call me.

testicle head, try hard, that loser batting off in the corner etc

elroy from jetsons - not a bad guess
ut its from the movie Evil Roy Slade, a prequel to movies like Blazing Saddles - comedy western with John Astin (Gomez) playing a bumbling outlaw, with such quotes as: "my idea of a nine to five job is nine men robbing five men"

<-- some kind of ripoff of that s***ty popstar band .. was it scandal'us? Also, i was playing a lot of urban terror at the time, hence the riot bit.

my real name is Kory so some how came up with HardKor pretty simple when u think about it
anyways was in a clan called th3 Fall3N so i became FalleN_HardKor, but then it disbanded
went back 2 HardKor which i use @ LAN, but @ home i watch alot of serial experiments lain and sit on the net, which in lain is called the wired, so on the net i go by the name Wired_HardKor
lately though met an exchange student from japan and have been learning some japanese. one word in particular i've started using as my LAN name is Fuzakeruna, which means "don't f*** with me"
i thought it was appropriate ^_^

ive had 3 names while ive been on these forums.

HAPPY_NEW_YEAR - i joined with htis name at the begging of this year and i couldnt think of anything elst at the time.

AViEEC- that was my orignal name i used adges ago 4 older games i used 2 play, i made it up as a orignal word.

bi-channel subwoofer - yea i have one (aka dual-coil) and its cool.

Threw together a few sylables making sure it had an X on either end to fit my Quake 2 clan [XX]

i was born in nz :( so my mates would give me crap about rooting sheep, which i found pretty funny. when i started using the name about 2-3 years ago i was using it on bnet and for e-mail, i couldnt get sheep_f***er so i went for sheep pimp instead.

Why would you encourage lame ass sheep loving jokes by giving yourself a beastiality name :P

all in good fun i guess :)

yeah it was hell funny :)

Mias well post mine..

I got my nick from a game i was adicted to when all i had for gaming was a 486 DX2 50 @ 66 ¬_¬;

I used to be addicted to a game called Stars! 2, There was a ship in it called a MetaMorph..
And that was my nick.. back as it was with my previous nick and im sure for a bunch of other people here I was just called Meta by everyone else..

Dunno why i got the carrots (^) on it..

Also a few friends have been calling me Metaball of late.. so i ocasionaly use that name.

Cause i like the meaning of mine
From www.dicionary.com

par·a·gon Pronunciation Key (pr-gn, -gn)
n.
A model of excellence or perfection of a kind; a peerless example: a paragon of virtue.

An unflawed diamond weighing at least 100 carats.
A very large spherical pearl.
Printing. A type size of 20 points.

tr.v. par·a·goned, par·a·gon·ing, par·a·gons
To compare; parallel.
To equal; match.

hate it when people see my name and say,"vash the stampede?" wtf is that?

i chose mine from the list of names that had voiceovers in USNF 97 if anyone remembers that game- i used to be a big flight simmer

also i loved the cartoon.

sifnt farscape

claudia black rocks you

Long story cut short

Back in the QWTF days (only a few people around here would remember) i was asked to slut for some noob clan where every1's name had an S at the start. I was just spurting out names when i though of Striker

so i used Striker for a while, but when i hopped into the cs scene, every1 kept on asking me if i was sog striker, so i had to change my name a little bit. Thats where the infamous 3 came from.

Well as for my nickname i got it from a song so.....

...i just picked it :)

Probably chose it when I started playing FPS games ... and they involve blood

so butta-bing-butta-bang-butta-BOOM!

I got my idea off my cousin Cheeseman.....
Meatman, Cheeseman, w00t

My nick pre-dates any gaming or IRC or the internet ! I was loping along through the ever-loving fortitude valley early one morning as was my wont, when i noticed a fiesty derolict shuffling & weaving unsteadily on a street corner. As a keen student of dero-linguistics I decided to prompt him for a reply ! 'chupta moite?' I drawled. He narrowed his already beady eyes, then flared them out wildly & exclaimed 'chaaafugnloognat!@# suunnaffabitch seenbiguhblogzenyugodown!@#' then he rapidly passed his palms over his face & staggered backwards as if in shock. 'demon ... DEEEEEMMMMAAWWWWWNN!!' then keeled over sideways & went to sleep.
The rest is history.
yeh well .. beats gobo's story ! :D

surname

sKryBe is a bastardised version of scribe

scribe Pronunciation Key (skrb)
n.
A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.
A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
A writer or journalist.
See scriber.

Well I am a public servant and an aspiring writer so it seemed natural. It became hackerfied for a couple reasons - one Scribe was taken, and two cos my initials are KB. So with a little hackerfication sKryBe was born.

But when I game I play as Lameness Personified. That's even more simple - people accuse me of being lame all the time so why deny it :)

yeh well.. my old name "cronic" was taken so i was like what could i name myself

and i was thinking of gizmo but that sounds gay... and i liked the word schism so the two words fused to form skizmo....

then most ppl started to call me skiz so now i always use skiz... to be honest i still dont really like my name.

f*** up skiz.

read about wyrms in some book my sister had gotten from the library... read about ice dragons in a different series, i put em together in around '95

as with everyone whos played online i've played under probably 50 or 60+ nicks but mainly icewyrm, or retardman

I would have to say GumbyNoTalent sums up my abilities to play FPS

lol. what games do you play then

Just cause I'm crap at them I still play FPS, just get pissed playing CS (2years ago) whit all the AWP campin whores. Besides much prefer driving games.

all u guys that think u have the gayest nick, make way for BuBBLeZ :S

My favourite nick is AlpehgA from alpha and omega.

I didn't want to put my usual nickname so I thought of the crappiest name I could think of. Happened to be this one

i think sunbird is an alright nick actually
but then, i think bluebird would be a good one too :|

Sunbird was the name of a torana with a 4cyl motor in it.

meh used to me bobafett, every just called me boba so dropped the fett bit

Really?? Thanks guys. Everytime I see it I think pretty birds and sunsets. Blerk!

Bastard friends starting calling me ET as soon as the movie came out (the first time). If you saw me, you'd realise why :)

Boba, you pissed??? You posted the same reply twice in this thread.

ET, did you go to State High?

Well seeing as this thread was started in october of last year. He probably thought it was a new one.

i don't know how, but some stupid morons that I know somehow got heletia outta elizabeth.
Even stranger, they also call me lu-lu!

Ewww sif you would go to State high! What a dump

You can't beat doober! I doubt if it has any real meaning to it, it's so old i've forgotten why i chose it (the second best kind of nick). Kind of around the days of wing commander 2 days i think. It doesn't even list on www.dictionary.com , i think its an abbreviation of dooberwhacky (like thingamajig or whatchamacallit) but some people have told me it's some pot related term (not into it myself) but i don't know.

Hmm, actually i wonder if my post in this old thread is here still but sif be bothered reading through 8 pages of it.

Well.. I was Felix (named because of my dog, felix) but I don't have my dog Felix anymore (long long long story.. I don't have the boyfriend that beat my dog anymore either) so I needed a change, spoke to someone on IRC who said
"Oh, what about Grosby, because you're cool, like the shoes"

So I am Grosby, because I'm cool, like the shoes. (and my new watch)

used to be Shrapnel AGES ago, you all know what shrapnel is, i hope

then i started to see the name pop up everywhere (when cs starting getting real popular) around about the time i took up q3 it turned to shrapsaq for uniqeness now its shrapse cause im related to goatse :P

coz I used to whoop everyone at LAN games

I"m bit confused. Forgive me if i'm wrong, but i'm new here, i thought you weren't allowed to reply to threads that were really old.... ????

hehe thought it was new and didnt know if I had replied to it yet =P

saw the war movie "ZULU" in the shelves where we keep our videos ..i dunno ..just clicked

Smish: I think it's only bad if you don't make a contribution to it. Reviving a news thread about the Voodoo2 and saying "OMG I'VE GOTS TO GET ME ONE OF THEMS!!" is going to get you banned.

my very first nickname was...

|337 H4X0R

im so ashamed :(

then i was mandrake for agggeess

i ditched mandrake due to the f***tards calling me mandy :@

then came variations of matt: mattz0r etc

:)

hihi
girl gone bad

Wow this thread is still going. The story of my nick is the same, cept there's another dude in W.A. who also decided to use a 3 instead of an E for individuality ;)

mine is cuz im german, and of the gay ass clan that was [fella]

:P

long story cut short... my real name with "Ch" added in front of it...

i get called "cheese & chivan" as in cheese & chives chips....people got lazy and dropped the first half... ended up with just "Chivan"

used to play Q2 CTF (f***IN CHAMPION GAME) as "Python" or "Pyth"
but gradually heaps of people used it...so time for change

didnt read the thread, but mine basically came from an admiral Dugalle off starcraft Expansion (first game i played on the net, after i finished the campaigns i decided to play on the net, and they wanted a nic... so after careful deliberation, i chose General Dugalle, not a direct rip, but still... PS. a picture of him is on my sig :P

my name basically means im beautiful

ahahaha kandy

I remember this topic came up, at the first CPL-P in Melbourne a few years ago.

SAS (StreX, Sprinkles, JaX, Mirage and ?) and mP teams 1 and 2 (Predat0r, swat0r, Fade, Toll, Geno, DeePeR, WaR-FaC, DeF-CoN and Nihilst and myself) hung out at some place in Flemington near the event, and drunk copious amounts of alcamahol telling the stories of how we got our nicks.

Man, those were the days.

Log - because playing doom i was so bad it was basically like a log was at the keyboard.
Log[] - cause some other bastard always had log when i played q1

I was trying to think of a good, original nickname (heh).

its my last name with a y added in

heaps original

been called heardy since day blot and used it for games

Im a psycho lol. Ive had this name since start of primary school. This is how im known, by friends, parents, teachers.