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Posted: 24th Jul 2008 23:07
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I wanted to play a MMO game with some of my schoolfriends, but I couldn't think of an username for my account. My dad commented it with sth. like "Just delete the 't' from the word 'Account'. They'll know it's you, so they'll be using your real name rather than username". I used it and it was strange and without any sense, so I started to like it...^^

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 24th Jul 2008 23:59 Edited at: 25th Jul 2008 00:03
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I needed some sort of alias for making games, and after going through Shadow and Bizarre, I arrived at Bizar. I like the look of the work because it has the z in the middle, and it starts with a B just like my real name. So, Bizar Games makes the games (should I ever have a team), and Bizar Guy is me. And it's awesome because everywhere I go the name is open!

My avatar evolved from this one:

I quickly started drawing my own versions to be cool.

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 00:22 Edited at: 25th Jul 2008 00:23
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For my main widely known internet name

<<<<<<<<<<<<<_____SunnyKatt_____>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


I really don't know where I got it. It was... what, 6 or 5 years ago. I don't remember, I've had it forever!

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 00:30
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My first name is Samuel.

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 00:36
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Random name generator.

It used to be Cut_Me_Own_Throat_Dibbler but I felt it was a bit on the long side.

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 00:42
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I was once DBPRo Newbie or something to that effect, but I never bothered to get anywhere with DB so I changed it ages ago. My name on most of the internet however, is Juggalo_5. I picked that one up years ago at some site where 1-4 were taken. It stuck with me


May God have mercy on my enemies, because I sure as hell won't.
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TeamASP
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 06:36
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TeamASP

A high-school game creating team formed from the club Ateneo Society of Programmers. We were three, although we don't see each other anymore since teammate 1 is in Computer Science, teammate 2 is in BS Nursing and I'm in Architecture... Really far from each other...

I've decided to go solo flight but I stll want the name. BTW, this forum doesn't accept "|" so it was supposed to be Team|ASP.

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Outscape
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 12:06
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i chose headchopperz cos im the only headchopperz on the internet and i controll about 13 pages on google that are just about me or people taking my vids from utube and putting on their websites

and outscape was simply the name of my 'company' that i realsied i cant change lol


Creators of Outscape

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bergice
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 13:55
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Mine doesnt mean anything its just a nickname i used first for my xbox live account
Now its like my ID


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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 21:15
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I've always been called CoffeeGrunt, it sorta originates from little cartoon comics me and my mates used to draw and pass around class while the teacher was droning on about the particle theory......

Yeh, my little character was a grunt from Halo, (I used to love those things), that loved coffee, hence The Coffee Grunt, then just CoffeeGrunt.......

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BatVink
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 23:07
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Quote: "Batma- Uh, Vink."

Uh - No

Quote: "Erm, you are, Batfink... Amusing reason why spelt incorrectly?"


Correct, and my surname is Vink. Batfink was in my childhood era.

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Silvester
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Posted: 25th Jul 2008 23:45
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Quote: "Batfink"


Is that a character? Woah, I missed something then.


Could a Moderator rename me to "Silvester"?(without the Quotes)
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Roxas
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 01:27 Edited at: 26th Jul 2008 01:28
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Cuz im squeenix fan boij :o

Also im bad thinking of usernames.. and when i think of them they are always taken so.... Now that im thinking ive should come with username Hotbeibeh81 that would be totally unique hmm....

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 01:58
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Was looking for a net name and mistyped "Next" as "NeX" and thought "hmm...". Now, there's about ten different NeXes internet wide that I know of.


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Dazzag
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 09:56
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Quote: "Batfink was in my childhood era"
Course it was. We rule when it comes to childhood shows (although I think Batfink originally aired in the 60's...). Noobies have Telly tubbies and the like...

Quote: "Is that a character? Woah, I missed something then"
The whole of the 70's and 80's children TV shows probably. This is Batfink (Batvink really should Photoshop it and change the colours or something):-


Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 12:19
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Well my brother told me that your left hand was called your sinister hand and that left handed people were condemned for witchcraft. The word sinister just sounded so awesome and it seems incredibly underused. Also, at the time, 'stuf' was the most popular word at school... So, sinister + stuf = sinisterstuf I think it's cool cos of the alliteration and the symmetry of 'sinis' and how the the first part just misses one letter to spell my name! (The letter: ô) and I'm called this anywhere, it's never taken. If you take my name and I'm forced to call myself stofsuier99 I'll KILL you!!! And thankyou CattleRustler for changing my name. The forum box thing changed it to Sinister Stuff which annoyed me...

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

thanks CattleRustler!
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Alucard94
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 12:33 Edited at: 26th Jul 2008 12:33
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On an off topic note, sinister do you really live in Africa? If so, awesome!


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 13:12
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Quote: "Well my brother told me that your left hand was called your sinister hand and that left handed people were condemned for witchcraft."


It's true, don't tell anyone, but I put a spell on you - if I weren't left handed I couldn't work the cauldron properly, hence right handed people can never be witches.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Alucard94
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 13:17
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Quote: "hence right handed people can never be witches."

What if you can use both hands perfectly... Does that mean that you would be able to epic pwnzorZZZ everyone?


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Deathead
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 13:24
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Quote: "What if you can use both hands perfectly... Does that mean that you would be able to epic pwnzorZZZ everyone?"

No that just makes you a freak.lol Joking.


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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 21:40
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Quote: "On an off topic note, sinister do you really live in Africa?
If so, awesome!"

um... Would I lie about my location? Well, yes I do and why is that awesome?
I'm the only person I know here who's heard of darkBASIC. And no, we don't live in mud huts and hunt with spears. Although I actually did used to live in a game park so... you'd get woken up at night by the lions roaring or you'd have to stay indoors cos some leopards have got through the fence into the camp... Now I live in the capital (it's not very big). Strangely enough my mum's from Wales...

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

thanks CattleRustler!
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Alucard94
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 21:51
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Quote: "um... Would I lie about my location? Well, yes I do and why is that awesome?"

Didn't mean anything bad at all if that's how you took it, just thought it was kind of interesting that you lived in Africa, and I by no means believe you live in mud huts and stuff, I've just never spoken (well typed) with anyone from Africa.
Whatever.


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Eddie Zilker
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 22:16
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Deep Eddy - Park with a swimming pool, in my home town.

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Zilker - Park across the river from Deep Eddie.

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Fond childhood memories.

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Eddie Zilker

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Jeff Miller
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 23:16 Edited at: 26th Jul 2008 23:18
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I had briefly thought of complaining that members did not use their actual names. I changed my mind when Rami declared that his actual name was so long that it would blow the buffer, and also because I considered that if everyone used their actual name mine would be taken in a flash, as it always has (I'm a baby-boomer with a common name.) Everywhere I've gone, I run against some other Jeff Miller, and in some cases I have been blamed from whatever some other Jeff Miller did. I'm a laywer by trade, and twice I have almost been sanctioned for some terrible thing some other lawyer with my name has done, or not done when he should have. I have actually spent more time proving who I am not than proving who I am.

Incidentally, I'm dead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Miller

That poor fellow wasn't much younger than I was at the time. I had to grit my teeth and sweat while the tabloids published such entlightening articles as "Who really killed Jeff Miller?"

So... I'm glad that most other folks have taken on a figurative pseudonym. I finally found a place where I can use my actual name without getting bounced as "already taken."
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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 26th Jul 2008 23:27
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I actually think I know a Jeff miller...

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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 16:52
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@Alucard94
I'm sorry. No, I didn't take it in a bad way, I just don't think it's a very awesome place myself and I find it funny how many people I talk to actually think those things about Africa, not that I'm saying you do, I was just joking. I mean it's true to some extent but also somewhat distorted by TV just as my ideas of europe and the US probably are. But I'm glad you've spoken to someone from Africa. Everyone should do it atleast once in their life.

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

thanks CattleRustler!
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Silvester
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 17:11
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Quote: "But I'm glad you've spoken to someone from Africa. Everyone should do it atleast once in their life. "


Definitly, the people over there are nicer then over here... I have an Uncle that came from Africa, He's a nice guy really. And his family does not even have any problems with it when you come there, even though their house is pretty small.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 18:57
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Quote: "Definitly, the people over there are nicer then over here."

Quote: "Location: Netherlands"


There goes my theory that the Dutch are the nicest people in the world then.

Though with Africa, big place - I'm sure some of the people in Sierra Leone and Liberia aren't particularly nice - some of London's gangs contain people from Sierra Leone, I'm sure Africa has just as much 'bad/not so nice' people as we do, though the only Africans I've personally met have been really nice, but then so has every Chinese, Eqyptian, Indian, Iranian, Dutch, German, American (all but 1), Canadian, Portuguese person I've met. Of course I've met many nasty English people

It really depends on who a person is and which part of a country they tend to live - going on this forum will just tell you how inaccurate Americans appear, most people I talk to think of Americans as idiots, (to sum it up in one word) the yanks here as far as I can tell aren't idiots...if they are, then they're good at blagging it.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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CoffeeGrunt
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Ditto, you should hear some of the stereotypes people come up with over here concerning Americans......

It's probably because we always find ourselves on Xbox Live arguing with some ten-year-old who can't talk properly, is stubborn as heck, is also pants-on-head stupid, and is currently scoffing Cheetos.....

Hence that's the image of American's everyone has over here, (except from me of course).....

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Robert F
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Quote: "It's probably because we always find ourselves on Xbox Live arguing with some ten-year-old who can't talk properly, is stubborn as heck, is also pants-on-head stupid, and is currently scoffing Cheetos....."


I sure do...


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CoffeeGrunt
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Lol, realistically they shouldn't be on there, Halo's rated for 16+, yet there's hundreds of the annoying buggers on there.......

I've a feeling that some evil mastermind is cloning them to drive away the good Halo players so that he won't look so bad. It's probably George Bush, he would employ that tactic.......

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Jeff Miller
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Robert F - so why did you choose that user name? Just curious. Your campaign-poster style sig made me do a double take. It takes me back 40 years when JFK's brother RFK was campaigning for President and was assassinated. I remember it all too well.
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zzz
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 21:23 Edited at: 27th Jul 2008 21:23
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If I remember correctly you had to have a minimum of 3 characters in your username. Yeah, that's the only reason.

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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 00:08
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Yeah, how cool would it be to have a username like '@'!?

Apparantly someone in China (if I remember correctly) tried to name their kid that... The authoroties didn't allow it... I think it was dissalowed because they don't officially use that character something.

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

thanks CattleRustler!
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Robert F
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Because my first names Robert, and my last name starts with f!


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Rudolpho
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 02:43 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 02:44
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@BiggAdd: thanks for letting us in on how it all began

Well, I was actually going for Laban at first (a nickname me and some friends used to employ on everybody back in elementary school for reasons I can't actually remember any longer).
Apparently, that was taken though.
However, the same team of buddies had a specific having of singing "Rudolph the red-nosed raindeer" (a christmas carol) at the most inapropriate times (like in May or June) (yep, we sure sung it false, in case you wondered... )
Anyhow, "Rudolph" it was.
But no, taken as well (and still, I've never seen neither Laban, nor Rudolph on these forums during the years).
Well, I had read spanish for two years too... hm... sigñor Rudolpho entrada la... darn, I don't remember anything of that language nowadays

"I kören hörs de brummande busarna Björnligan och Gondolen"
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AndrewT
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Hmm...well, my first name is Andrew, and my last name starts with a T. TBH the only reason I'm posting here is because I'm playing this little forum game where I have to reply to every thread I read.

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Silvester
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 10:13
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Quote: "TBH the only reason I'm posting here is because I'm playing this little forum game where I have to reply to every thread I read."


You can not escape, The Game

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Blobby 101
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Back when i was trying to set up a PS2 online account to get my... Oh wait, that explains the wrong username...

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Blobby 101 - I'm a member on the Neoseeker forums and i went on there to get help with a game once (Before i got the account) and just typed "bloby101" in the account name box - I then Corrected the spelling and used it for every forum i sign up for.
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BatVink
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 11:39
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Quote: "Jeff Miller: I have actually spent more time proving who I am not than proving who I am."


Excellent, you should put that on your gravestone when you die - if in fact it is you who has died.

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kaedroho
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 21:58 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 21:59
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Mine is the first 2 letters of each of my names put together.

KArl EDward ROss HObley

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Scraggle
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You should have chosen different letters from each name:
Lard Rooble is a far superior name!



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sinisterstuf
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 23:49
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Hahaha, that actually made me laugh out loud!

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

thanks CattleRustler!
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SunnyKatt
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That would be sweet... lard rooble... lol

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Slayer222
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Slayer_2 is my nick-name/handle in every serious Internet thing I do. be it forums, gaming, mapping, modding or a clan site. I think of it as my Alias, something I never change.

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Benjamin
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It's a long story.

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ionstream
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My full name is Ion Eugene McStream, the Third, cleverly shortened to ionstream. I was going to go with McStream, but lets just say a certain fast food company had a similar name for their brand of urinals and threatened to sue .

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sinisterstuf
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Hahaha. That's so awesome, why couldn't I have a name like that?!

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CoffeeGrunt
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Quote: "Slayer_2 is my nick-name/handle in every serious Internet thing I do. be it forums, gaming, mapping, modding or a clan site. I think of it as my Alias, something I never change."


Lol, CoffeeGrunt's mine.......

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I'm crazy (so I'm told,) and I like HKs. Yes, I'm a gun nut.
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